Precisely why it is right that this Government gets a grip of the issue, otherwise you will end up with a Government that parrots this absolute crap.

Farage and Zia Yusuf are going to announce tomorrow that a Reform government will strip millions of EU nationals of benefits, more than double the cost of the NHS surcharge and cut foreign aid spending by more than 70%, The Times reports. More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.

So here’s Bannon celebrating Theresa May’s ouster with George Galloway in 2019, and Farage thanking Bannon and Breitbart for making Brexit happen

"I've gotten pulled into the Brexit thing this morning with Nigel, Boris and Rees Mogg." Then, in what appears to be a reference to Theresa May, Bannon tells Epstein "The guys are trying to move on. may today / tomorrow…" 2018. As Gill took the bribes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'What's behind Rachel Reeves's 'hokey cokey' on income tax rises?' The media.

The manifesto tells us what the Labour government is actually for, 58 manifesto pledges have been delivered or are in progress. Not sure what more you expect.

What this Labour Government is for is to save us from Farage. We just need the turkeys to allow Starmer to save them from Christmas.

Or maybe ‘the small subset of pro Starmer ultras’ are all sick of the media who create the ‘need’ for these ‘stories’. Or maybe we support Starmer because we know the alternative is Farage. In my case, it’s both of the above.

Not before time. If the increasing population want and children, the elderly, the ill and the disabled need public services, they’ve got to be adequately funded.

Keir Starmer is right. The death penalty is never the answer for any country. It’s inhumane, costly & doesn’t deter crime. It has no place in the civilised world. Most of Europe abolished the death penalty decades ago & has been better, safer without it: www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

The only reason I'm so supportive of this Government despite their missteps is because I'm terrified of a Farage led government. If we allow this negativity to become the norm it won't usher in the Greens or Lib Dems it'll usher in Reform. Constant criticism isn't helpful or fair.

Me too, and I work for the NHS. I think the striking docs are arrogant, self obsessed, lack 'real-world' awareness and greedy.

Blah blah Blah. I'll just wait for the actual budget. Sick and tired of hacks spouting on about it. Most just guessing and some being mischevious.

So my second List this week. 10 this time. A total of 21 announcements or pieces of positive information by our Labour Government in 1 week. Some big news next week and more info on a better than expected OBR analysis. Well done Labour #FixingBritain

Doctor strike inflicting pain and misery on patients, says health secretary I'm with Wes on this one.

Two stories you may not have seen this week that would be a big deal in a normal country: 1) The ‘dossier’ detailing the BBC’s editing of the Trump speech literally edited Trump’s speech. 2) The NBER calculated that Brexit’s longer term damage to GDP was greater than originally forecast.

This one's a cracker 🤣. Just read Beth Rigby's morning offering, stating that the govt has u-turned on a u-turn that was never made in the first place, all based on media hype & speculation. How to make a journalistic idiot of yourself.

No-fault evictions will be outlawed in England from 1 May. The changes also see the end of fixed-term tenancy contracts, as renters move onto so-called "rolling" agreements, as well as an end to "bidding wars" and clearer rules on having pets. Better with Labour 👍

BBC creates its headline The media know who’s briefing and it’s the media’s encouragement of leaks that creates the news for them. We no longer have news in this country. We have propaganda of the kind in which Amol Rajan and Chris Mason featured themselves in R4Today programme, yesterday morning.

Starmer's chief of staff McSweeney not leaving role over briefing war, BBC told. BBC manufacturing its own headlines. Never have the media been so powerful as they are in the era we’re in now.

Police and Crime Commissioners to be scrapped, good they were never needed. But the army of unnamed sources so beloved by the media seem to have missed this scoop. Maybe the media need to find another way to create content, my suggestion is to rediscover the meaning of journalism.

Labour is fixing our NHS & we are seeing the improvements from waiting lists coming down to Ambulances arriving quicker! #Labour

Starmer's chief of staff McSweeney not leaving role over briefing war, BBC told. Because the BBC and other media don't know who briefed them!? Yeah, right.

Give me an ambitious Labour pragmatist any day in preference to an extreme right wing member of Reform.

Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales. So many of them complaining they weren’t consulted. The public weren’t consulted about the invention and imposition of the office. Not sure the police were either. Excellent scrapping of wasted money.

Complete cronyism. Jobs for the boys, typical Tory policy and we can blame the Lib Dem’s too.

Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales Well done government. Absolute waste of space and money

So pleased to see Police and Crime Commissioners go. Well done Labour, whilst Police numbers were decimated by the Tories. It is absolutely typical of them to bring out this nonsense role. Jobs for cronies and failed politicians. Well done 👏👏👏

🔴 Reform Councillor Accused of Flouting Transparency Rules After Refusing to Declare His Company Exclusive: Councillor in flagship Reform council failed to name his firm on his register of interests, or respond to questions about it from his constituent, prompting a formal complaint

Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales 👏

As per Jack Dart: 'Wes Streeting is not the answer to Keir Starmer. But one thing is even more clear. Reform is not the answer to Labour.'

‘Russiagate’ was one thing. The Epstein files are another. Except, actually, they’re not. This email suggests there could be a deal between Trump and Putin, a quid pro quo, facilitated by Epstein and Lavrov. Things make more sense now, like Trump’s red carpet welcome for Putin in Alaska.

Farage says he's "boycotting the BBC" all the time. Here he is last year. Normally lasts until the next invitation comes.

And the winner is the media; as ever; and the BBC breathes a sigh of relief for this manufactured distraction from their troubles which also serve to prove how they dictate the narrative with their 'edits', mistaken or otherwise.

Things gradually slotting into place.

🎥 Watch as Keir Starmer calls Nigel Farage 'utterly spineless' for refusing to condemn a Reform UK councillor who called children in care 'evil'.

The net is closing in.

When all other attacks fail on Starmer and are exposed as lies,what is left? Ah,let’s lie about a leadership challenge and the media will lap it up and do our jobs for us. Only idiots can’t see that’s what’s happening.

Reinvesting in the NHS The next phase of merging NHS England directly into the DHSC has been given the go ahead. This alone is expected to lead to £1bn in savings per year, which will be reinvested into front line health services. This is on top of a record £29bn increase in health funding. 1/2

But *as of now* you’re jumping feet first into the unedifying feeding frenzy. You can hide in plain sight but I can see you’re just another one who is part of the problem. It’s not Starmer who is the problem. It’s you and your fellow drama seekers.

The media have worked hard to make 'Starmer's position perilously close to untenable'. This is evidenced by the ample platform given to Farage, the leader of a political party consisting of 5 MPs. Look at the treatment of Farage and his property vs that of Rayner and Reeves.

They are. There's a massive attempt on all social media platforms to undermine and destroy Labour and they're going after the top people one after another. A quick scan of their timelines is often revealing.

I had a quick scan before blocking, they were no friends of Starmer or Labour. Somebody is behind this and feeding people like Pippa Crerar the story. I cannot believe there are many Labour MP's who want to oust Starmer, they've been in Government for just 15 months, it'd be electoral suicide.

Not just social media. The “official” news programmes are thrashing about like a shoal of piranhas around a small haddock.

I thought we were listening to presentations from Chris Mason and Amol Rajan.

I try to bring some balance to the site. I’m continually confounded by the media & people who fall hook, line & sinker for their spin. Fact: Changing a person does not change how much money we have, improve markets, reduce interest rates/bills or grow a money tree

BBCR4 now is appalling. Two commentators discussing and trying to make the news. Pathetic attempt to distract from the infighting at the BBC and a classic example of the media gifting Reform. The BBC attempting to appease the far right.

'NHS gets go-ahead to make thousands of redundancies' BBC Except the headline forgot to mention they are admin and managerial redundancies. This, correctly headlined, is the news of the day.