Reading @guyshrubsole.bsky.social 'Who Owns England?' It is brilliant, terrifying, fury inducing, and eye opening. (And I can't believe that the FoI act was only introduced in 2005?!) Read it and weep.....

Farage earns more than any other MP for NOT being an MP. He says it’s “obviously sad” that part of his constituency is the most deprived area in England. But everything he’s ever done, said and wanted has made sure of it. This is the whole country if he gets into power. (Private Eye)

Just awful....has hit many homes and businesses not normally anywhere near flooding. Devastated for friends who've been hit hard. Emergency services doing an amazing job, as always.

Actually getting stuff done. #Labour #KeighleyandIlkley #Veterans

These people have zero principles or guts. If they did, they would resign and get the electorate to decide if they want them to stay. Refusing to do so is just about their self interest, political and financial. Zero respect for the voters. The very worst kind of Councillors.

Did you know that our Labour government are delivering the biggest boost to social housing in a generation? £39bn investment committed so far. Isn't that what you all wanted to see? It's the difference a Labour government makes!

Thank you to 2 brave women - Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger- who have been running and winning since 2018. It takes so much courage and strength and sacrifice to run for office — especially for women. As moms and as public servants, they are inspiring and the future of the Democratic party.

She was announcing a major change/achievement to give our kids a better education and a more hopeful future. It was a fucking stupid question designed to generate crap like this 🙄

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans. Nero would be proud.

Thanks Virginia. ❤️

This was brilliant, fascinating, and terrifying. Made me feel a lot more nervous about the future. But also confirmed that @warren.senate.gov is fabulous.

Nigel Farage currently railing against Parliament being full of "professional politicians". He founded UKIP in 1993 and was first elected as an MEP in 1999, twenty-six years ago. Less than 5% of current MPs (31 to be precise) have a longer career in politics than Farage. ~AA

Good to see this. Hope the Lords Select Committee take note.

Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph. Sunak in the Times. Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper. Johnson in the Mail. Gove editing the Spectator. Farage everywhere. All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made. Nauseating.

After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future

Well said.

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...

‼️The morning-after pill will be available free of charge on the NHS from today. This is the biggest change to sexual health services since the 1960s and a major advance in women’s reproductive health.🧑‍🧑‍🧒 The difference a Labour Government makes 🌹 #RenewBritain #PublicHealth #SexualHealth

Some good news... www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“They crashed the economy, inflation went up to 11%, mortgages went through the roof, welfare spending went up £33bn, & they want to give us advice" Keir Starmer #PMQs

complete batshit insanity

The Washington Post thinks the White House Ballroom is a splendid idea and anyone who thinks otherwise is a NIMBY. In other news Post owner Jeff Bezos is helping to pay for the Ballroom

1. Prison and Probation Service (and CJS generally) brought to its knees by cuts, subcontracting, & endless 'efficiency reforms'. 2. Bad consequences follow. 3. Outrage from those who brought the service to its knees.

The reform party nativity scene. No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation. And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this. But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

This is an incredible achievement...

New Green slogan.... 'Real Hope.Real Change. Pretend Money.' A total victory for style over substance. Didn't we learn anything from the last 14 years?!

It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.

Today marks 59 years since the Aberfan disaster. We remember the children, teachers and residents whose lives were lost. Though the years have passed, they will never be forgotten.

Exactly this. I am still amazed that so many people fell for the fraud that was Corbyn. I fear the same thing will happen with Polanski. Corbyn gave us Brexit. Polanski will give us Reform. People need to look at the USA and WTFU.....

It is just incredible how the dignity of the American presidency has been destroyed by the monster that is Trump, facilitated by the hideous self interest of the GOP.

Saturday recap - Ealing ➡️ Hillingdon Change is on the ballot at this election. As your Deputy Leader, I’ll be your campaigner in chief, working side by side with you, our members to make you proud.

For all those who don’t vote wisely. Repercussions can roll on for decades.

American media have utterly failed to convey how degraded and corrupted the office of the presidency has become under Trump.

Wales green energy industry is growing fast. It can add 15,000 jobs over the next 5yrs - a huge boost for South Wales. But the jobs aren’t guaranteed: - Reform say they’ll scrap them - Plaid will in practice do the same. They object to any solar, pylons or wind farms being built

Betting shops, very rich dead people, and private schools. 3 groups that I really find it hard to generate much sympathy for.....

Were Suranne Moore and Jodie Whittaker anywhere nearby...?

Betting firm threatens to end its entire High St presence if it has to pay any more tax bit.ly/4qhaL1j yet another in the too rich and too important to pay tax series

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly." "With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this." "I blame you for that."

Anyone else out there whose CLP is working with Hope not Hate on campaigns? Would be interested to understand a bit more.... @jamesdaustin.bsky.social @csav55.bsky.social @drc1649.bsky.social ??

I don't give a toss about his teeth. I do care that he makes stuff up for a good headline (exactly like Farage in fact). The BBC #MoreorLess exposed him for talking nonsense about tax and wealth. Being great at PR is a huge asset - I just wish he had some others, like knowledge and integrity.

'Home' in Wales, and having some 'interesting' political conversations. Surprised at how many sound people are taken in by Polanski (think I've put them right on that one now!) But a reminder that we have to keep talking politics outside of our member huddle. Including on the doorstep!

Hoping members will focus on uniting not dividing, when they come to cast their votes in the DL election. The time for self indulgent foot stamping is over.....it's shoulders to the wheel time.

Tories will abolish stamp duty to “revive the housing market” First time buyers don’t pay it anyway (up to £300k) & the fact the average UK house price is 10x the average salary is the problem, not £5k stamp duty on a £300k house! And then there’s the £24bn lost tax revenue… Totally deluded 🤦‍♀️

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Maybe the answer to political apathy, trust, and populism is for everyone to be a local councillor for a few weeks.

Love these....

As Deputy Leader I will push our government to be bolder, to go further and be the voice of members at the Cabinet table. Give me a mandate to do more, not give permission for more division and disunity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future