Whenever I’m wrestling with complex moral dilemmas—war, justice, the death penalty- I always ask myself: what's Biggins hot take on this? 🤷‍♂️🤣

👍 Agree with @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social A UK-EU customs union isn’t just sensible—it’s vital for growth, jobs, economic and political stability 🛃 Cut red tape. 🛒 Lower food prices. 🚛 Unblock supply chains. Ignore the Brexit zealots. America isn’t the ally it once was.

Everyone should take five minutes to read this on Christmas Day www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two bits of good news from Labour this week: 🐾 A bold new Animal Welfare Bill 🧒 Real support for care leavers These are the policies the public welcomes. This is Labour at our best—principled, compassionate, forward-looking. No need to echo Reform’s division. Lead with hope. More of this 🙌

📉 Reform’s poll slide isn’t just numbers—it’s a warning. You can only run on rage and division for so long before people crave hope. We as Labour must now seize this moment. No more pandering. Set out a bold, believable vision rooted in positivity and purpose. 🌹 #Labour

What does Mainstream's mission mean to me? A Labour Party that speaks to and up for regular people—and those who can’t speak up for themselves. Policies that are bold but believable, radical in impact but rooted in real life, making genuine positive changes for everyone.

Happy Winter Solstice — the shortest day of the year! From here on, the evenings start stretching out again. Bit by bit, the light returns 😊

UPDATE: Employment Rights Bill passed! Labour delivering: ✅ Better Pay ✅ Better Conditions ✅ Better Jobs Labour in action

This is how you take on Reform. Labour will never 'out-Reform' them, and nor should we. Let's tackle soaring rents, profiteering landlords and help fix the housing system that is treating so many people so badly. @labourlist.bsky.social @generationrent.bsky.social labourlist.org/2025/12/labo...

Nasty, misogynistic, chaotic and clueless. Seven months of Reform UK running Lancashire County Council. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Will we see Corbyn set up his own "Me me me" party?

I doubt either Corbyn's or Sultana's egos will cope with not being leader, so could we see splinter parties to add to this already disastrous movement? It's rapidly turning into a Pythonesque Peoples Front of Judea, Judean People's Front moment.

Great Harwood's fantastic Town Crier Rawden Kerr delivering the Lancashire Cry outside Churchfield House for Lancashire Day 🌹 Thanks too to the Civic Society and the volunteers at Churchfield House. 🙏 #lancashire #lancashireday #lancashireday2025 #hyndburn #greatharwood

Happy Lancashire Day 🌹

⬛ Fascism Isn’t Fashion Reform UK is selling black football-style shirts with “Farage No.10” on the back. They call it cheeky. Patriotic. Just a bit of fun. But history isn’t laughing. 🧵

Thank you to the Great Harwood Branch of the Royal British Legion for a very poignant Armistice Day Service today on the Town Gate. An impeccably observed two minutes silence from all who attended. Lest we forget

Basically, we need to be finding Traitor viewers that would rather be Faithfuls than Traitors to get the Labour vote out for the next set of elections. 🤷‍♂️

Lee Anderson boasts about “gaming the system” at Citizens Advice—then uses it to justify slashing support for anxious young people. This isn’t a critique of CAB. It’s a dubious confession from a Reform MP who sees compassion as weakness and lived experience as fraud.

With every single day, it becomes more and more apparent that Brexit was the biggest act of self-sabotage in British history, where we chose to follow a rose-tinted non-existant nostalgia over national interest. Voting Reform just doubles down and accelerates this disaster.

💥 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗖𝗹𝗹𝗿𝘀 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 💥 Ignoring the dangers to: 🫵 YOU 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 YOUR FAMILY 🏠 YOUR HOME 👭 YOUR COMMUNITY 🧵1

Corbyn & Sultana back on speaking terms—cue the Gallagher comparisons. But let’s be honest: we’re not at the 2025 stage of the Oasis journey. We’re still in the early albums era. A couple of bangers, then a messy fallout.

🔷 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗨𝗞 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀... 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗮𝗻-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀. ❌ Both of course mean...CLOSING LIBRARIES 📉 Let’s be clear: this isn’t innovation. It’s austerity. It isn’t modernisation. It’s managed decline. 🧵1

I've just voted for @lucympowell.bsky.social to be Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

This.

NEW: @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social endorses @lucympowell.bsky.social for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. In a special ballot, 82.2% of Mainstream members voted to endorse Lucy. Labour’s Mainstream wants the party and government to be reset in line with pluralist, democratic socialist values.

One minute Reform UK are promising £350 cuts to council tax for everyone... next minute they're RAISING it. They over promised and are now under delivering, under the spotlight and under pressure.

Great show of support for @lucympowell.bsky.social for Deputy Leader at Rochdale AFC Angela Rayner gave the North West a powerful voice—Lucy’s ready to carry that torch and reconnect Labour with its membership. Huge thanks to @elsieblundellmp.bsky.social for hosting such a brilliant event.

This is the person the Tories voted to be their leader. Their very best. And they wonder why they're in freefall. 🤦‍♂️😬

🟢💚 Think the Green Party is solidly left-wing? Think again. In Hyndburn, the Greens enabled a Tory takeover. Their councillors didn’t just abstain—they struck a grubby backroom deal that handed control of the council to the Conservatives. #GreenPartyConference #shytories

This is brilliant news. But let's get it right first time. Only lifting the cap completely will suffice. Raising it to 3 or 4 children still condemns 000s into poverty, and limiting it to working parents to drive more people into employment will not be acceptable. tinyurl.com/2f9wfykn

Got to say, Rachel Reeves handed that interruption brilliantly 👏👏👏

100% agree with this from Bella Sankey and @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social The Green Party are absolutely ruthless in their pursuit of power and are not our friends. Here in Hyndburn, they formed a coalition with the Tories. Green by name, chameleon by nature. labourlist.org/2025/09/labo...

Great to meet up with my fellow @labourhousinggroup.bsky.social colleague Andy Bates today before the Accrington Stanley vs Walsall game. As members of the social housing working group, it was good to meet up in real life and discuss all things social housing.

Wherever you stand on the issue, your phone is a bigger risk to your privacy than an ID card.

Great to see @andyburnham.bsky.social and Lisa Nandy join Ed Miliband coming out in support of @lucympowell.bsky.social for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party 👏👏👏

Here in Hyndburn we overwhelmingly voted for @lucympowell.bsky.social to be Labour Deputy Leader at last night's CLP. A good friend of Hyndburn and a strong voice for the NW and genuine progressive change, she'll be getting my vote too 🙌

Just sums up Reform doesn't it? 🤷‍♂️

Sultana: It's called "Your Party". Corbyn: Yes, my party.

Mason Humberstone, ex- Lib Dem, ex-Labour, now the latest of the Reformaneers – Pirates of the political system, sailing under whatever flag gets them elected. @reformexposed.bsky.social

Any Labor Councillor who defects to Reform UK was never really a Labour Councillor.

To transform the country and take on the populist right, Labour must heed the voices of its radical realists - and build a principled, practical, popular left alternative. Join @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social and together we can bring that alternative to life. www.mainstreamlabour.org/get-involved

Reform say they are the future, but it’s being staffed by the same faces who spent the last decade setting the house on fire. Now they’re selling fire extinguishers.

Lancashire Country Council's Reform leader wants fracking back in Lancashire. That means earthquakes, polluted water & plummeting house prices. They're coming for our land, our safety, and our future. All so fossil fuel giants can pocket the £££-while Lancashire gets the fallout.

I'm no fan of the Green Party but this nasty personal attack on Zack Polanski really is disgusting.

🟥 As Labour, we must not contort ourselves to chase Reform UK voters by echoing Reform's rhetoric. Our strength lies in our values—centre-left, compassionate and progressive. We need to make a compelling case for those values, not dilute them to complete in a race to the bottom.

Reform call Connolly "Britain's favourite political prisoner" Soft on crime, soft on racism We don't have political prisoners. The woman who posted "“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care” is not a national treasure, ouside their conference.

Lembit Opik, former Lib Dem and now Reform UK. "I go where the money is". He'll fit in well with Farage and his cronies then.

Lucy Connolly, a woman who admitted inciting racial hatred after using social media to post about setting fire to hotels housing asylum seekers is to speak at the Reform UK Conference today. That spells out all you need to know about Reform UK and their dangerous, hateful agenda.

𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗥𝗮𝘆𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱. A working-class woman from Stockport.A teenage mum.A care worker.A trade unionist.A council estate kid who climbed to the highest levels of government—not by privilege, but by grit.🧵1

Genuinely sad to see Angela Rayner go. There aren't really any upsides to the whole situation, apart from the fact it takes the limelight off Reform UK's conference.