Funnily enough I don't remember Andrew ever expressing these concerns the last four times a Conservative MP became Prime Minister outside of a general election.

This Zahawi? taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/24/c...

“If I drive drunk down the road, I can't then say: Tell you what, instead of appearing before a magistrate, I'll stand for councillor instead and let the people of Bermondsey decide if I am innocent. That's not how any of this f*****g works. You don't get to use popularity as a form of acquittal.”

I don't understand how the country can be taken seriously when people run their business into £1.5m of debt and then restart it under a new legal fiction. "The original company went into voluntary liquidation... taken over by a second company run by the pair." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

What does a wealth tax actually look like? We sent Brighty Buoy and his tiny balls to Wimbledon to chat to fans 🎾

The teenage millionaire hacker from Tower Hamlets who took down TfL from his family’s flat - then was undone when he got hungry and bought a takeaway gift card. www.londoncentric.media/p/thalha-jub...

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Councils too have found outsourcing expensive & inefficient. See both adults' & childrens' residential care if you want to see the worst outcomes imaginable of Thatcher's deliberate error.

Harry Potter shops raided after London Centric investigation…. HMRC officials seize till receipts… ministers treating now central London gift shops as a tax enforcement issue…. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

Yesssss www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...

The new EHRC Code of Practice is not fit for purpose. It does not provide clear guidance or do enough to protect everyone from discrimination, and it is not compatible with longstanding British values. @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk and @MarieCGoldman.bsky.social have written to Bridget Phillipson. ⬇️

I’m very fortunate never to have had to go to hospital for anything substantive for 52 years. But two aged (one now very ill) parents, and now lying on an emergency trolley hooked up to drips, makes you think. And I HAVE VIEWS. (1/several)

Working through Tony Blair’s essay (on the TBI website) on the challenges facing UK/Labour, and the responses from Wes Streeting (Guardian) Keir Starmer (Substack) and Andy Burnham (Times), to produce a TLDR. Only one of these four mentions climate crisis and only in passing.

The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I just don't understand how such an incoherent piece gets published. Out of the three people, two are financially stable and working to avoid boredom. The expert view highlights state pension age rising, but they all receive state pension already?

This isn’t change. This is chasing Reform voters - again - on a promise of continued scapegoating of immigrants. As with Brexit, it’s perpetuating a lie to the British people. And we all pay the price for that lie. In our economy, our social care, our NHS and our communities.

This would be a pointless and vindictive move which would shame those who propose it for the rest of their careers.

Electric-only pay per mile and fuel duty cut. What a policy turd.

Things this Labour government have done that I like: 1. actually boosted NHS spending in a meaningful way that has genuinely helped with things like waiting times, 2. rail nationalisation, 3. made serious pushes on green energy, 4. been better than the Tories re relationship with unions. ...

Now i have your attention (and brilliant ideas), here are five, immediate policies I would focus on. They're not exhaustive but I think they do three key things: acknowledge where things are broken, prioritise fairness, and take the fight to Reform. substack.com/home/post/p-...

There is a battle in Britain to stop the future being built. And one Essex village encapsulates all that’s wrong about British NIMBYism ✏️ Lucy Reade

Quick question: how exactly did these “hero voters” “serve the party so well in 2024?” Only I seem to recall Labour underperformed their polling by 5 percent and only managed a “landslide” because the right wing vote split, so…

In Dunkirk we witnessed French police grab and hold an Eritrean woman's children to stop her boarding a small boat. She already had two children and a husband on board. Another woman was held by police while her 3-year-old was on board alone - the boat left with an unaccompanied toddler. Footage:

She ends by saying we are being stripped of the technological advances that have made life easier - cars, boilers, and tumble dryers! Umm.. we still have cars, boilers, and tumble dryers - all more technologically advanced than they used to be👍🏻 16/

“We found two of the worst men in politics to replace one woman who was competently doing her job”

This is all so bad for our democracy and our country. Farage has lied and grifted his arse off to be where he is today and our media routinely fails to hold him to account on any of it. His Brexit ideology is a ruinous disaster and his mass deportation and leaving the ECHR plan would be even worse.

So we're supposed to pretend that he didn't nominate Amy Coney Barrett to fill Ginsburg's vacancy? And she wasn't rammed through McConnell's Senate in record time because he had less than two months as president? After Mitch stalled Obama's nomination for months for the opposite reason?

“Brexit betrayal” - oh for god’s sake.. Every day, we’re paying to be poorer. We’re paying to be second class citizens on our own continent. We’re paying to queue. We’re paying for more red tape. We’re paying to be less secure and less trusted. Brexit IS the betrayal. And so is defending it.

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A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

It's what they did with trans healthcare. It's what they've done with climate change. Just get a bunch of ideological hacks with institutional credentials to make dumb arguments and then point to their existence as "debate."

New from Free Movement: Earned settlement: retrospective change is wrong but prospective change is even worse | colinyeo

BREAKING: Andrew Milne has been arrested. A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police told The Tribune: "Detectives investigating allegations linked to the purchase and sale of freeholds in Sheffield have arrested a man on suspicion of fraud and blackmail."

There needs to be legislation to stop employers from classing their staff as self-employed contractors when they clearly aren't. They're getting away with some outrageous bullshit.

🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen! It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week. Regular as clockwork... So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread! PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji? This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚 🤣 I digress! 1/19

If you want to get really angry: During our lifetime this is what CEO pay has done:

c.org/QrpzNP4rdW When it's not safe to swim in the most famous lake in the country, it is a failure at every level.

🚨NEW BLOGPOST🚨 Is British politics becoming riven with sectarianism? Are we the next Lebanon? Does dodgy bloc voting dominate our elections? Many are saying "yes" after Gorton & Denton. But it doesn't reflect any of the evidence. www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/sects-on-t...

Their message was clear: loyalty can no longer be assumed. It has to be earned. It’s high time Labour stopped courting right wing voters who are never going to back them, and focus on delivering for the progressive majority.

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Times (and apparently Cabinet Ministers) apparently confusing Labour Party rules with U.K. constitution Labour Party rules set out what happens if LEADER of party is ‘permanently unavailable’. But they dont match up the principles, precedents and expectations about what happens fo replace a PM. 1/

Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "According to the NHS, people can develop an infection called toxocariasis, external through contact with dog poo." Pretty sure we went through all this in the early 90s. Bring back dog licences?

With student loans the UK government has become a loanshark. Trapping poorly paid graduates in decades of “debt” that they can realistically never repay. If it were a commercial deal the govt would be trying to regulate the company out of business.

There is no greater lie than the pedestrian light button. I still press it every time, mind you.

New 'Cash Lab' will explore whether giving people direct financial support - without conditions on how they spend it - can break the cycle of poverty and improve life outcomes. Launched today by King's @schoolforgovt.bsky.social. Read the story 🔗⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-cas...

Full EU membership should be put to the public at the next election. It's time to return home. inews.co.uk/opinion/rejo...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... App owners suggesting it doesn't matter if big brands pretend to be small local store. If it didn't matter, big brands wouldn't do it. They perform the masquerade as it makes their sales go up. As the platform owner you certainly have the data to prove this.