AN INCREDIBLE RESULT IN HACKNEY! 🎉 We have gone from 4 to 42 councillors! And now have overall control of the council led by our new Mayor of Hackney Zoë Garbett! 💚

Liberal Democrats GAIN East Surrey 🔶 40 Councillors 💪 34 gains

Liberal Democrats GAIN West Surrey 🔶 56 Councillors 💪 34 gains

10 GAINS in Huntingdonshire make the Lib Dems the largest party, winning 20 Councillors. 🔶

🔶 Lib Dems HOLD South Cambridgeshire, winning 43 out of 45 councillors.

BREAKING: Second Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Liam Shrivastava has been elected Mayor of Lewisham – huge congratulations!

BREAKING: First Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Zoë Garbett has been elected Mayor of Hackney – huge congratulations!

Liberal Democrats' best ever result in Sutton! 🔶51 of 55 councillors 💪 22 gains 0️⃣ The Conservatives? -20 seats - no councillors left

💪 Liberal Democrats have GAINED control of Portsmouth City Council.

🎉 Liberal Democrats have GAINED control of Stockport Council.

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

The world is changing at great speed, as oligarchs grab powers that once belonged to the people. Starmer not only has no answer to this, but he doesn’t even register it as an issue. He promised “Change”, but the change is happening without us. And without him.

He has prostrated himself before the far right in a futile attempt to attract its voters, as if the vast body of evidence which shows that this NEVER works - and only legitimises hate and racism - did not exist. In doing so he has lost his real voters, alienating his base in spectacular fashion.

In doing so, he's handing this country on a plate to Reform UK. Of course the 2029 election is not a done deal, and we can still prevent disaster from happening. But to do so, we now not only have to fight Farage, but also Starmer and the toxic legacy he leaves (and please God, he will now leave).

He has further enraged his former voters with his morally supine response to the genocide in Gaza, even more restrictions on protest rights, his grovelling to corporate lobbyists, attacks on disability benefits, continued austerity and ripping down of environmental protections. I could go on.

We voted out the Tories, only to find that, after a long 14 years of waiting, a Labour government adopts and extends some of their worst policies, while entirely failing to excite or inspire. Now Labour and its supporters on this platform blame us for turning away. What aren’t they seeing here?

'Skive Minister' Nigel Farage is getting away with the equivalent of only working 7 days a month while earning millions from side hustles By @willem-moore.bsky.social

People who vote for Reform may believe they are giving the establishment a kicking but in fact they are backing the establishment! Farage and his cronies are backed by overseas millionaires and billionaires who wouldn’t dream of paying their taxes in the UK. He’s on their side not yours!

Nigel Farage's band of 'racists, rogues and misfits' exposes Reform's truth www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

I know this guy. He's genuine. Please help him if you can. Don't forget the people of Palestine.

Starmer is working on a plan to further restrict Palestinian marches. Trying to make out it's full of jew haters Chief rabbi who fund raises for idf getting full coverage calling for a ban No mention of Israel blowing up hospitals, UK staff, or board of deputies sacking deputies for criticising

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "The world is threatened by a 'suicidal' model of capitalism that is leading to war, fascism and the potential extinction of humanity..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Nigel Farage received £5m gift from cryptocurrency billionaire' share.google/TiIlB1sO4a1c...

'Nigel Farage’s £9m Donor Profits From Putin Propaganda Platform While Holding MoD Stake – Byline Times' share.google/7GEmXd3o4UJp...

‼️‼️Apr 28 Rana update 2: ❌💌 HELP RANA & HER MOTHER BREATHE ⚠️ STALLED 8 DAYS: $181/$300 USD for cooking gas gofund.me/046b328a0 Verified: ✅ Me ✅ Molly Shah ✅ GFM ✅ Gazavetters 164 #SaveRana

‼️‼️Apr 28 Fidaa update 2: ❌💌 Fidaa is a single mom with psoriatic arthritis in Gaza who fights with her kids every day under genocide & with broken systems in her body Nothing in her life is accessible HELP $163/$300 USD bit.ly/save-fidaa Verified: ✅ Me ✅ Molly Shah ✅ Chuffed #SaveFidaa

Thank you dearly to the anonymous donor who sent $100 today! It has been a hard week on Ziyad, and this kindness will give him some much needed relief. ❤️ $200/300 for May rent! Due on the 5th of May. If you'd like to join in and help the Salem family stay housed... 🏠 tinyurl.com/SalemFamily 🏠

The government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/29a3b6

I thought the government were going to punish companies profiting from the war in Iran? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #Labour #Starmer

observer.co.uk/opinion-and-... The Observer view: Keir Starmer must find the courage to rejoin the EU “Privately, officials admit this represents the only hope of repairing the economic damage done by #Brexit” “Britain’s natural place is its geographical place: in Europe” #Rejoin

Any attack on the freedom of the press must be condemned? I look forward to his condemnation of the targeted assassination of journalists reporting on the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. He is actively assisting it with surveillance flights.

Big oil saw profits of $30m every hour in the first month of the Iran war. All while households face rising bills and insecurity. I wrote for @lbc.co.uk on why govt must stop big oil cashing in on conflict and invest in a cheaper future for all 👇 🧵... www.lbc.co.uk/article/cost...

Energy bill support must go beyond emergency measures – we need to undo an unjust transfer of wealth from billpayers to polluters. Sign my petition to end tax breaks for fossil fuel companies and fund a jobs guarantee for workers currently in oil & gas: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

As 60 countries meet this week to discuss transition away from fossil fuels, the UK must be bold. We can keep paying for energy crises until there's no money left – or we can make polluters pay and use the cash to scale up renewables, bring down bills & protect jobs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department Philip Rycroft, who oversaw the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to 2019, said none of Leave’s ‘heady promises’ had materialised www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Reform councillors being far better at sowing division, spewing hatred, and lying through their teeth than being municipal administrators is the least surprising thing ever. Electing ignorant and wholly unqualified dregs of society like Nigel Farage to public office will always backfire.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=80Qr... The obscene regime of Netanyahu and its US enablers opening the gates of hell to people being treated like animals. That UK government condones this. Starmer should be forced to respond to this video. Anyone who isn’t moved beyond anger by these scenes is not human

I wish the Greens and Lib Dems would do a backroom deal about which seats they're going to fight seriously and keep off each others turf. Polanski used to be a Lib Dem, surely he still has some of that realpolitik nous. Maybe they're using the locals as a testbed to see which seats are winnable.

Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s potential breaches of international law closes due to cuts. This is interesting. Why now? GB ensuring it won’t have to give evidence against Israel, at some point the future? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a hedge fund that stood to profit from Israel’s war in Gaza, openDemocracy can reveal. www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-star...

A Reform gain - but the total centre-left vote (LAB/GRN/LD) was 57%, the combined right wing vote (REF/CON) 41%. Another example, this time at local level, of how failure to have a fairer voting system risks letting in a hard-right govt on a minority vote.

Guardian coverage. Targetting journalists as Israel have done on an industrial scale is a war crime. Our news/politics media suppress that FACT. bsky.app/profile/theg...

I'm proud to support @TaxJusticeUK's campaigning to un‑rig our tax system & build a fairer economy. Will you join me in powering our movement: a People's Lobby taking on the lobbyists of the mega-corporations, the mega-rich and the mega-corrupt? taxjustice.uk/power-the-pe...

🚨 NEW: Inside Big Oil's campaign to push Labour to drill the North Sea Oil & gas lobbyists have met UK and Scottish ministers more than once a week since Labour took office MPs have asked questions in Parliament after meeting lobbyists, and more 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...

Nigel Farage wants to replace our NHS with a US-style privatised healthcare system which treats the superrich bankrupts the well-off leaves the rest of us to die ... via The Daily Scar

No war crimes in Gaza, says Nigel Farage’s Israel tsar Jason Pearlman is among several pro-Israel figures behind the party predicted to win big in May elections www.declassifieduk.org/no-war-crime...

Please listen to Dorothy so that the #Reform Party does not get the power to remove our rights on so many levels and impact people’s lives. There are 000s of Dorothy's. Thank you ✊🏽

Telling a core constituency of your party to "fuck right off" is a bold strategy, let's see if it pays off lol

If Farage does this, he'll have no candidates left

Spot on, starting with the headline. The other part of Starmer's ethical void, of course, is the corruption of taking huge amounts of money from the Israelis. I'll never vote for Labour so long as he and the vile Shabana Mahmood remain in place. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...