When Robert Jenrick was Housing Minister, he rolled out a “Green Housing Revolution”: www.gov.uk/government/n... It includes Heat Pumps, reducing fossil fuels, solar, preventing climate change etc. He’s now pretending he’s Mr Reform anti-Net Zero. #BullshitBobby

This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

Impressed that Kemi Badenoch now seems to be calling for an ... independent British war on Iran?

The Greens want NIMBY votes and they want votes from people who want massive renewables investment and they want votes from people who want cheaper housing and lower rents. They can dodge the obvious contradictions of this for a while - luxury of insurgent opposition - but not forever.

New More in Common poll finds that 55% of British voters want Keir Starmer to prioritise "standing up to Trump", compared to just 27% who say he should prioritise working with him. 74% say they want British forces to have either no involvement in the Iran war or to just offer defensive cooperation.

🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms "I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"

With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary.

EXC: Nigel Farage defends Reform-run Kent County Council increasing council tax by 3.99% despite election leaflets last year pledging to “reduce waste and cut your taxes”. Mr Farage told ITV News Meridian: “Cutting taxes can be not putting them up as much, I suppose.”

If true that Trump is signalling an end in sight, then what we’ve learned from this fiasco is that the Iranian regime does not collapse even under intense pressure & the rest of the world can’t endure closure of the straits of Hormuz for very long at all www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Sign of where things are going that in a shockingly competent move Labour's social media team are actually straight up promoting the fact that he had this falling out with Trump re the Iran war. The British right wing press and party establishments may have fucked up here methinks.

Tice says Britain should join the bombing. Jenrick says Britain shouldn't join the bombing. Farage has gone silent for the past 72hrs. This mob couldn't run a bath let alone a country.

🇬🇧 Starmer: "This really sad feature, in many ways, of a conflict like this, which is some people will try to use it to divide communities in this country, and tear people apart." "And we mustn't let that happen."

Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC: "Working people are now facing a Donald Trump-made cost of living crisis."

A reminder that Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the entire Conservative-supporting press have spent the past week lambasting Keir Starmer for not joining the Iran war. Here's what has happened since then to public opinion

Good.

🧵/ 70% of Britons see Reform UK as pro-Trump, while also tending to see the Tories as being in favour of the US president Reform UK: 70% see as pro-Trump / 2% anti-Trump Conservatives: 35% / 13% Labour: 21% / 36% Lib Dems: 3% / 48% Greens: 1% / 56% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD… Can we STOP with this ‘special relationship’ BS And also…can we wake up to the treachery of our right wing press?!

Financial market participants dragging themselves to the office:

Gilt yields surging, oil and gas prices soaring, wider systemic impact transmitted through food prices and everything else. Iran didn't need a nuclear weapon to create mayhem. It just needed an idiot US President. And as for those who backed him- eyes open yet?

So much winning

I suspect Reform Ltd are funded by arms manufacturing lobbyists and policies suiting their profiteering come way before the interests of voters struggling with energy bills “We're for cutting people's energy bills, not faraway wars.” 👀 Does your boss know, Bobby?" via Reform Are Not Your Friends

"Badenoch has ranked MPs based on how well they are performing on X..."

Richard Tice says that Reform UK would instruct the RAF to join the US and Israel to bomb Iran

Just when there were signs the UK economy was turning a corner, Trump does something else to absolutely fuck it. And then he has the gall to question whether we're a good ally.

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

This directly contradicts Trump and Hegseth’s claims that Iran bombed the area where the Iranian school was hit. We knew it, but it’s good to have the video.

Britain is in a deep structural economic hole thanks to austerity, Brexit and global shocks that is nearly impossible to get out of. It is rather unfair to expect government to reverse those long-term drags on national prosperity, but it needs to start explaining to voters why we are where we are.

The clubs should just leave X, it's beyond fixing.

Worth reading by @chriscurtis94.bsky.social. Abundantly clear to anyone that spends a cursory amount of time on public opinion that economic insecurity, exacerbated 10x by cost of living crisis is driving political force of our time, fuelling Labour’s woes chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/who-actual...

Yep. The idea that the cabinet actually debating ideas, policies and difficult decisions is bad is *quite* the take. Yet another regular criticism that takes not much thought at all to unpick, and yet very little unpicking seems to happen in much of the Westminster press.

Put Trump’s criticism of Starmer and other democratic leaders against his consistent syrupy praise for authoritarian, brutal leaders. Starmer is in good company. Just remind yourself how Trump praises authoritarian antidemocratic leaders in this thread. It’s an eye opener 🧵 1/

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

Good to see the Observer’s political editor correcting the nonsense in the right wing press and BBC this week that Keir was browbeaten by Cabinet colleagues over #Iran. “The PM, contrary to some reports, had never been willing to allow UK bases to be used for the first wave of air strikes”.

Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.

NEW: Foreign Secretary @YvetteCooperMP tells me that Keir Starmer has acted in the UK national interest and rejects Donald Trump and Tony Blair’s criticism Says UK/US relationship remains strong. But confirms she hasn’t spoken to Marco Rubio since last weekend. More on LBC from 10…

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next. There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.

Exactly. And Trump can’t cope with Starmer’s probity because it makes it harder to hide his own culpability re the war in Iran.

"Wherever we are on social issues, whichever flank we worry about, unless we are obsessing over economic insecurity, we’re not on the pitch" - very good piece this:

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

Take back control, they said. Free us from the tyranny of the EU, they said. And now they are calling for us to be shackled to the Trump regime; else we’ll be a piffling irrelevance.

It really is something to see politicians, commentators and media outlets whose whole identity is based on being so-called ‘patriots’ frothing with excitement as they line up to back a deranged megalomaniac who consistently attempts to belittle and bully the country they claim to love

Fascinating to watch 🇫🇷, then 🇬🇧, then 🇮🇹, now 🇩🇪 start to acknowledge what 🇪🇸's government recognised from the very start: the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is a reckless intervention conducted without regard for rules of war and without a strategy for what comes next. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...

The Prime Minister has got a modest bounce in reduced overall disapproval, from his position on the US attack on Iran. (His position on the crisis more popular than his govt) Despite gap in approval, still in a near tie (+1 on Badenoch, -2 to Farage) on PM choices www.opinium.com/resource-cen...

Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

“Already won” 🧐