Nice one, Sadiq www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I’ve written about Lisa Nandy’s response to the rejoin argument. She said, “If rejoining the EU is the answer, then essentially what we’re saying to people is life was fine in 2015, we just need to go back there”. But that’s not the point pro-EU folks are making 👇 open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...

Also, the government is manifestly *not* 'defying the results of the referendum', given that we have left the EU. 'Leave without any reset treaties' was not the option on the ballot paper. On the other hand, a reset *was* in the manifesto of the government elected in the last general election.

What THE EVER LOVING HELL is this? A 16 year old girl getting married with the Daily Mail salivating over her age and her honeymoon is obscene

Woke at 2.30am and stayed awake. Argh. Today is going to be loooonng.

. This is completely unacceptable and has got to stop. #r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #NHS #PoliticsLive #C4News #Newsnight #toriesgone683 .

Those bold moves suddenly not quite so easy when you've got to put your money where your mouth is www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

One of the interesting tangential aspects of Trump's visit to China is that he can't control the media output. Some of the photos are UNREAL. Had to check this carefully suspecting it was altered or AI gen, but I have found it on three known press outlets with credit to a global photo agency. 😱

Htfg Closer alignment was happening. Slowly slowly. No fucking drama. Or very little. NOW look at them 🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Under a mechanism known as the Dublin Convention, the British government could previously ask fellow EU nations to take people back if they had passed through safe countries en route to the UK -that ended with Brexit & no alternative was agreed making it far more difficult to return any new arrivals

If you see this, post a tree

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

So, still no challenge. But a lot of bluster, big claims and bold pronouncements. Which are pretty easy to make when there's no actual skin in the actual game of government.

Anyway me and 17 are raising caterpillars 🐛🐛🐛

Alliums coming up among the raspberry plants

The political analysis hitting the nail right on the head in this house today: "This is the problem. We're surrounded by arseholes." 🤷‍♀️

Farage says in a free Op-Ed in Murdoch's Scum 'newspaper' today that "Britain is broken on every level". It isn't but Farage & his companies Thorn In The Side Ltd, Reform2025 Ltd & employees have done their best to break it. Farage is a traitor to the UK. He should be treated as such by Parliament

When BlueSky doesn't like my posts

Self-serving Labour MPs trying to explain away this absolute bloody chaos with disingenuous good-of-the-country bollocks even as they drag us closer to Reform is making my veins ping

Andy Burnham will force Keir Starmer to quit as PM by standing in by-election after by-election until Labour loses its majority.

The Farage Fandango over the £5m seems to me to be a golden opportunity for a Labour Prime Minister with a massive majority to say "Right. Now we are going to put a stop to all foreign donations to British political parties". Hugely popular with his base and more widely and spikes their guns.

Andy Burnham is not going to walk it in Makerfield, where last week Reform won seven wards with 50% to Labour’s 26% it’s not inconceivable that he will end up with a humiliating defeat his best hope is tactical voting from supporters of other progressive parties but this could go either way

Mmmm Josh Simons of Labour Together fame who resigned from Government over this 👇👇👇 Wonder what he’s been offered instead?

Right. So Reform are now mobilising to throw absolutely everything at Makerfield and Greater Manchester. It will be brutal and Labour will probably lose because who in their right minds would vote for this chaos now Shameful all round

Peony opening ❤️

The Conservative party’s “Alternative King’s Speech” claims unemployment has risen “every month” that Labour have been in government. We’ve fact checked this claim several times over the past year—it isn’t correct.

A huge announcement in the King's Speech - what a pity it’s getting little media attention due to all the reporting on a possible leadership challenge. The government have pledged to introduce a new bill to abolish right-to-buy for new social homes.

So another interminable day of manoeuvring from MPs who either didn’t know, or didn’t understand, the rules for a leadership challenge; can’t mobilise or organise the PLP; yet expect us to believe one unnamed figure who is too timid to declare themselves would lead party & country better. Ok.

I've just ventured onto twitter to see who that councillor person outside the HoP is, and the whole place is abuzz with Starmer support and bashing the media. It's quite remarkable.

To me, these small moments are more revealing than any long essay on impartiality. Every gov't has released official PM photos for decades. Since 2010 there's been a dedicated 10DS photographer. Several Tory PMs controversially employed personal ones on top. Only a Lab PM would be treated this way.

Might have to post this annually until we do something.

Outside No.10, the ridiculous hog that is our media is rolling in its favourite muck. And it's hard for such apparent enjoyment of this setting not to add to a suspicion that it is now a default and deliberate destination. That in this clip we see Patient Zero in the UK's chronic contagion of chaos.

Most days I wish Toby Ziegler and Sam Seaborn were real people. Today, especially. Would be nice to borrow them so they could teach certain people HOW TO COMMUNICATE

good www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Incredible. They've learned NOTHING from very very recent history. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Just when Reform has taken thousands of council seats seems an excellent moment for Labour to trigger a mayoral election in Manchester. Quality strategic move that

Admire the chutzpah of Labour MPs who apparently can’t exert internal influence over a leader they insist is weak, yet seem entirely confident marching about the world stage exerting influence over Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Iran, Xi Jinping, etc. Go lads 🥳

Labour backbenchers turning up on TV and radio to declare Starmer must go because “clear direction is needed” while being unable to articulate what that direction actually is, or being challenged hard on it by interviewers, is an ominous portent of the shitshow awaiting us

The one thing that would reset the whole political debate would be if Keir Starmer announced on Monday that he wanted to rejoin the EU. Reform would have a field day, but he would unite the left and make politics a binary choice between the two.

Not much good news for Labour in London since the overnight results but they have comprehensively defeated Reform in Barking & Dagenham. They were increasingly confident as the campaign wore on and it appears with good reason.

Reform UK were rejected by more than 70% of voters yesterday, and the media is treating the result as terminal for Labour while almost entirely ignoring the fact that most people said no to the hatred, the division and the bigotry. That is the actual story.

Don't put bloody Farage on the radio. This wasn't a vote for him, no matter what the nitwits think. Put the councillors on. Quiz THEM. And weep when you realise they are now in charge of multi-million pound budgets and crucial services without having a fucking scooby about any of it.

Good luck to anyone with a Reform-led council or increased number of Reform seats. Shit show incoming

"what it would look like if it was a general election" is the most pointless exercise ever

Share this with any dumbasses you know.

Wet grey day in the dales? Big long boozy lunch with besties. Sorted 😁

Tonight’s short 🧵 of Trump bullshit from the White House: Trump: “Iran is dying to make a deal. I can only tell you that.”

"the idea might sound ridiculous" Not ridiculous, fella. Downright psychopathic. And you have been fully radicalised www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

9 bills from our Labour government have become law this week. Has ANY of the media covered the impact ANY will have on our lives? Or have they just reported on gossip, rumour and speculation? Each and everyone has an important impact but the media will not tell you about them! 1/3