Is Wes Streeting running a psyop with the country? "You think Starmer is shit? Well I'm going to challenge him and you'll think differently!"

Reposting this old article, because it seems to me that this phenomenon still sits at the heart of the western world’s problems, and has, if anything, got worse since the time of first publication. @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

If Streeting or Burnham or Rayner fancy a shot they need to stop sneaking around. They need to be bold. Because that’s the complaint over Starmer. Must be bolder. Well secret meetings, conspiracy and silence is not bold. Pathetic is what it is.

@tomswarbrick.bsky.social Self indulgent politicians? No. Self indulgent journalist whipping up a lot of fuss ? YES Talk about something relevant like Kier Starmer wanting to renew links with the EU etc. Support him. Let him do his job. I've turned you OFF!

Well said Damian - am horrified by the behaviour of some. Absolutely shameful 😞 & so unprofessional.

"I do not like Starmer, so I vote fascist."

I’ve become a Senedd member by accident !

Live Updates: Early U.K. Election Results Point to Big Losses for Starmer’s Party www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Labour had two things to do: Not screw things up as bad as the Tories. Reform the media from day one. They are handing it to the nazties. #Elections

Every single question to ‘grifter in chief’ Farage should be about the £5m bribe from his foreign crypto billionaire buddy. Every single one.

2 councils have gone Reform, from the Tories in Newcastle-under-Lyme and from a no majority Tory & RA council in Havering. Quite the racist protest vote going on but not enough to win a general election.

Looks like the Tory vote is just dissolving itself, the right-wing bit going to Reform and the others going to Lib Dems.

In Hull the Lib Dems lost 2 seats hardly a reform "surge" #r4today #LE24

Never thought I would be happy that the Tories held Broxbourne, but here we are!

Well a friend of mine stood for the Lib Dems in her local council and won a seat so that’s something. She’ll be a force for good.

Of course Farage won't do interviews today, just a victory rally. The BBC should refuse to record it. #r4today

If Reform surpass projections of 1200 to 1400 seat gains, this will be on Labour and the MSM focusing on their whipped up, relentless smearing of Zack and the Green Party in the lead up to the elections instead of exposing the truly awful Reform Party.

Conservatives here just straight up ignoring the fact they lost all 20 of the seats they held in Sutton, almost all to the Lib Dems

I think there's a secondary factor to this which is that this is what Labour want to be true, to circle back to Starmer's respond to Hannah Spencer winning: voting Reform is an understandable act from a disappointed Labour voter, voting for the Greens is the choice of a cad and an idiot.

Good morning, what I have seen so far, it is the Greens mostly that have taken seats from Labour. Reform have mostly taken seats from Tories, the Tory councils deserve a Reform council if they are mostly voting for another fraudulent arsewipe. They deserve him. Curious about Scotland & Wales.

This is a really awful account of what English currently looks like in some schools - imposed on teachers who feel anxious & demoralised by being required to do things they feel are against the grain of the subject & harmful to their students' development. How common is this? EMC would like to know.

It’s wild that the UK media are doing daily stormer type cartoons about Polanski but handling Farage, a literal goblin, with kid gloves

If this was in the UK... Starmer's Police would be on overtime arresting everyone. Where has the UK gone so wrong? 👇👇👇👇

Everyone wants us back but Starmer! #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Yet again, Kemi Badenoch has managed to dig her way into an entire new dimension of stupid:

Always amazes me that Farage and Lowe criticise the establishment, the so-called uniparty, but if either had been selected and given a plum job with the Tories there would be no Reform and no Restore Britain. Working class people are falling for it anyway.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Farage says Angela Rayner would take the economy over a cliff. He may be right. But we know for certain his Brexit has caused insurmountable damage to the UK economy and nation. There are only Brexit negatives. This is the track record we need to judge Farage on. And his love of Putin & crypto

Apart from anything else, traditionally the selling point of a proper right winger to the Labour membership was always "we've just lost an election and need someone who can win over normies" and ... that's what Starmer's pitch was.

What I don’t understand is how MAGA can condemn the UK for ‘quashing free speech’ by prosecuting a woman for posting incitement to burn other people alive, yet apparently supports the prosecution of a man for posting a picture of seashells. That’s cognitive dissonance on steroids.

British MP: Starmer calls for emergency committee meeting regarding stabbing incidents in London

A remarkable number of British MPs going on record here in defense of drinking on the job. How many workplace cafeterias do you know that have bars in them? (Though this is not the first thing I have found inexplicable about the House of Lords) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel farage is a pussy

Does Badenoch ever do 1 PMQs without mentioning the welfare cost? #PMQs

Every single subject Badenoch attacks Starmer on, is a subject that is currently in the process of being fixed after 14 years of Tory destruction & devastation. Maybe she should launch the attacks on her own party? #PMQs

Watching PMQs, i think those Labour MPs who imagine Starmer is going to sort of magically melt away and agree to give way to someone else after the local elections are in for a shock

“In this session of Parliament this Labour government has delivered the biggest upgrade in workers rights in a generation, the biggest improvement in renters rights in a generation and more action than any other government to tackle child poverty” - Keir Starmer #PMQs

High on the list when Starmer finally goes is to defenestrate, and ideally abolish, the ridiculous Tory "office for students" org that has somehow been allowed to operate uninhibited for the last 2 years.

Cheltenham Liberal Democrats - delivering a strong local economy 💪 Vote Lib Dem on the 7th May 🗳️

Just seems grim and out of touch for Kemi Badenoch to essentially say "stop spending money on welfare so we can spend money on war" every week at PMQs.

Here we go again, BadEnoch’s tiresome ‘welfare Vs warfare’ schtick…and the cherry on top is her attacking rent controls now… 🤷🏽‍♂️ #PMQs

I wonder what changed Farage's mind to run for election in 2024 ... 5 million reasons ...

No we're sick of your opportunistic bandwagon jumping Mrs Badenoch #pmqs #politicslive #5live

Kemi Badenoch is disgusting. Where is the Speaker? #PMQs

Kemi talks about how Labour haven't grown the economy like they promised to. Has Badenoch missed the war that's going on in the Middle East? Empty statements from a woman who would plunge this country further into the depths of hell. I'm not fan of Labour or Starmer, but fuck off Kemi #PMQs

I received a personalised letter about the 7th May elections today from Nigel Farage. It now lines the cat litter tray.

Alcohol in the House of Commons is like pay rises for MPs. It’s completely impossible to make the case for either without sounding out of touch.

UK - the sick man of Europe. Frankly, I’m not surprised www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...