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Your Party went from polling 15% nationwide to winning an average vote share of 5% of the vote in 20 wards out of 3,000

Reform starting as they mean to go on.

10 May 1939 | A French Jewish girl, Monique Cofman, was born in Mont-Saint-Aignan. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 8 November 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 773 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

What the hell?!

And, of course, in the replies to this is someone who claims to know who Sunder is and what he does asking 'Why don't you say the same about anti-Muslim prejudice' when he does, constantly. This is why everybody thinks you are cunts, lads. Utter, utter cunts. #ThePolitics. God I need a beer.

Starmer seems to believe that his problems come from saying the wrong words at the wrong time or possibly the right words but in the wrong order. Like someone who wants to end a family argument by appeasing their loved ones but without changing any of their behaviour.

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There are lots of questions I want to ask Reform people, mostly starting "about that five million quid", but it would be a shame to let this moment from Robert Jenrick slip past unnoticed. thecritic.co.uk/toda...

Important guide for the many new councillors elected this week.

Farage was asked for a Cameo clip to “talk about how the world is going to shit and how secret societies are controlling everything”. He appears to have volunteered several Jewish conspiracy references himself to that request. Wouldn't all hell break out if Corbyn/Polanski did this on camera too?

Thousands of people are expected to attend a 'Standing Strong' rally against antisemitism, which will convene outside Downing Street at 1pm today in London. The Jewish News has published this joint editorial with the Jewish Chronicle ahead of the event. www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...

I suppose "The Sex Tourist Conman Who Bought 8 MPs And 10 Councils" was a bit too wordy for The Observer

Twat in a hat George Galloway at Putin’s victory day parade, standing up for the oppressed people of the world as ever. Someone in the comments has put that they thought it was fancy dress and they’ve come as “Hamas Thunderbird and Albert Steptoe”

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There's a definite problem with many Labour MPs and Ministers sneeering at HE (and every one of them with a RG degree). Universities are often the single biggest driver of economic growth in regional economies. You won't fix your problems without a robust education sector.

Holy shit they did the meme.

A lot has happened, but not much has changed.

How about a criminal investigation and a permanent ban from public life for taking bribes and lying to the electorate? A wrist slap for breaching a code, a suspension and by-election is more prize than punishment for tantrum-prone Farage who’s barely an MP anyway. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

British Steel set for nationalisation in King’s Speech. Entire steel industry needs to be nationalised, relies on public money. Govts own nothing. Privatisation failed in water, energy, rail, mail, elsewhere. People ripped-off, investment not made. Need economic reset. archive.ph/Muohb

Fuck Catherine West. She gave her vote to Corbyn in the leadership election nine years ago. She can shit in her hands and clap, as far as I'm concerned.

Keir Starmer has told @theobserveruk.bsky.social: “There’s a reason that [Farage] is walking away from interviews where questions are being put to him. He doesn’t want to answer the questions because he knows that those answers are not going to be very good for him.” observer.co.uk/news/politic...

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Bluesky: Be more Gordon Brown Keir Starmer: Here is Gordon Brown Bluesky: No. Why have you done that?

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Sad to report that this garage doesn’t have another sign on the way out that says “to see you nice”.

"Back on the streets of the town centre and one young woman, aged 28, literally jumped for joy when she heard Reform had won the council. She then confessed she did not know anything about the party's policies"

Minister Zubir Ahmed, a transplant surgeon, told me that in January he had to decline a kidney for someone because a lack of access to GP records at a weekend meant he couldn't be sure the organ was safe. GPs meanwhile still rely on letters from hospitals to know what happened to their patient.

While there's obviously a chilling edge to Reform's gains, we can at least enjoy the short-term amusement of the bins now being run by exactly the people who shared this meme.

Many leaders from across business, faith, charities, sport and the media orgs in the UK have published a letter of solidarity for Jewish people in Britain, pledging ourselves and our organisations to be part of the whole of society effort needed to fight antisemitism. www.lbc.co.uk/article/jewi...

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Just remarkable how suddenly the newfound interest in Welsh politics of the UK-wide commentariat evaporated the second Reform got beaten.

Your Prez was accused of deleting pro Israel tweets. No posts have been deleted but here is🧵on tweets Prez made which were accused of being "pro Israel" TLDR. Asking for intellectual consistency from some folks causes false accusations. ..

The simple truth is that asking people to hold two thoughts in their head at the same time is just too much for some people. But it doesn't mean they can't be mocked for it.

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Coward and draft dodger pretends he’s on the frontline.

How can he possibly stay safe without a ballroom?

The 1994 World Cup was not considered a resounding success. Football isn't part of the national fabric in the USA like it is in the rest of the world. In 1994, it showed.

PM Starmer hopes to be "full throated" for youth mobility. But No 10, Home Office & Treasury don't have any shared view on some basic policy questions * what is a "sustainable level" of net migration & why? * is net migration still too high now? * what would be a good/ acceptable range in 2027-29?

This is required. But you can't force people to share data if there's no infrastructure in place to share it! Sharing many different formats with completely different structures isn't sharing data. It's cargo cult interoperability. How is the roll out of FHIR in the NHS going? And FHIR is shit.

I found this and it may bring a smile!🙂 This is called the "feather-drying dance of the Great blue Heron"

The evidence that changing prime minister can help win you a majority at the next general election is, shall we say, mixed. Yes: Eden to Macmillan, Thatcher to Major, May to Johnson. No: Macmillan to Home, Wilson to Callaghan, Blair to Brown, Cameron to May, Johnson to Truss, Truss to Sunak.

“Ukraine is no longer just an aid recipient; it is emerging as a security provider for Europe,” writes Andrew Chakhoyan, an academic director at the University of Amsterdam, in this op-ed.

A prime minister, two years in, should be making policy arguments about what he has already done, why those policies will bear fruit, not positional ones about what he said in the past and what he plans to say in the future:

Genuine question to my Scottish followers: There was an interesting contribution on BBCs Scotland election day coverage by a woman, blond with glasses, saying that Scots are less angry than English voters, as with independence there's a future to discuss. Anyone saw that and has the name?

🚨 Hundreds of NHS staff a year are being investigated for sexual misconduct with many allowed back to work even after being found guilty. Now Britain's top surgeon says enough is enough and a radical overhaul is needed to protect staff & patients: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Excellent analysis from my BBC elections team colleague and YouGov data guru @patrick-pme.bsky.social on what the local elections data tells us about whether Labour is losing more to Greens or Reform. Spoiler alert: its the Greens open.substack.com/pub/patricke...