A nurse that has served humanity or another career politician who is only using Makerfield as a stepping stone! The choice is clear! Chris will be a fantastic MP for Makerfield!

The speed that Burnham is surrendering to the right, with absolutely no pressure on him, is genuinely a bit shocking. He might be even more lost than Starmer.

Absolutely. ..and the Lib Dems - in a demonstration of just how little they think through policy - want to see the government take 12p off every litre of climate-damaging fossil fuel. Subsidising an unsustainable transport mode that skews towards the wealthy is no fix for a cost of living crisis.

This will only happen if Labour drops its idiotic belief that the best way to beat the far-right is to do exactly what the far-right wants to do, only while making a sad face that they copied from a dog.

Take the power away from billionaires - literally and metaphorically

- Subsidising consumption in the face of a supply shock - reducing incentives to drive less/switch to EVs - using up limited fiscal space to help better-off drivers rather than the most vulnerable. Hard to think of a worse policy right now.

People have to ask "why do a bunch of multi millionaires want to become MP's?" They want to use us to get richer. They will close the NHS and receive millions in donations from insurance co's. They will create division & hatred, remove workers rights and remove our human rights.

"Reform UK would dismantle the NHS. Farage has said it. Tice has said it. Zia Yusuf has said it. They want to reform it and increase private healthcare" via Anne McFarlane

Remember: There's always Ecosia 🌳🌳🌳 www.ecosia.org

One of the biggest problems with green technology is that big businesses can’t make endless money from it. Oil/gas is a consumable that they make money from pumping, transporting, refining etc. LOTS of money year over year The same is not true for wind/solar. That’s the biggest hurdle.

Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. We can't let them. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division. goodlawproject.org/s/4ca10b

Europe will be perfectly fine, thrive even, without US military, US big tech, US politics. It all needs to go. All of it.

Weird that Labour politicians are prepared to allow the disastrous decision to leave the EU to be fetishized People change their minds and have seen through the lies Including people in places like Makerfield Why should the worship of a 10-year old decision be more important than their welfare?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Both Starmer’s and Burnham’s position on rejoining the EU are sickening. The people who didn’t understand what they were voting for - or the implications - are kingmakers yet again. No wonder other countries think we’re uneducated morons.

We can't allow the bond villains to choose our next prime minister or set our economic policy If rich investors run the country then we're in a plutocracy not a democracy share.google/shwMe38TN3NU...

It's kind of wild to me that the only share buttons Gov.uk offers are for X and Facebook. After *everything*. It's even on Govt press releases excoriating Grok and social media abuse

"I will fix this house by relentless focus on dusting the shelves, and not getting distracted by the fire engulfing the basement." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Great British Energy (GBE) has marked its first year as the UK's publicly owned clean energy company, by announcing the location of a further 49 community energy projects "Over the last year, through GBE funding, 225 schools & colleges, & 162 NHS sites in England have completed solar installations"

Vapourware. He got nothing.

Craig Kitts, who says he is fighting to ‘protect our women and children’ from migrants, admitted to assault by beating of a woman bylinetimes.com/2026/05/18/f...

You can set your watch by this stuff.

Labour hopeful Andy Burnham has u-turned on rejoining the EU, Bloomberg reports. “I am not proposing rejoining the EU…I respect the decision that was made at the referendum…The last thing we should do now is re-run those arguments.” Screeching 180 from just 7 months ago.

Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind. 📽: NASA Goddard

One particularly irritating take is that pro-Europeans shouldn't campaign to rejoin because the country isn't ready, or because it's tactically not good now for the Labour Party (though most in LP disagree). If it's not the "right" time now, you keep campaigning until you make it the right time!

#ResistanceEarth This is surprising, said no one. By choosing foods that had minimal contact with plastics, participants in a study saw a significant decrease in their levels of phthalates, bisphenols and other chemicals. Less plastic is good for us and the Earth. www.ehn.org/food-low-pla...

Good piece by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social. There is little difference at times between Reform, Labour or Tories on hostile rhetoric against minorities. Toxic language has become "normalised". The biggest cause of division isn't immigration, it's political rhetoric. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

oh gr8 more months of politicians humming & hawing over whether Brexit has been disastrous for the UK rather than treating the public like adults and saying it’s been a disaster inflicted by Farage

Pakistan: solar just overtook coal as the largest single source of electricity. 21% of power from solar in 2025. Up from 2% in 2019. Coal peaked at 20% in 2020. Want to read more about one of the fastest solar transitions anywhere in the world? Sign up to my Substack janrosenow.substack.com

“Those promoting the rush for hyperscale AI datacentres seem to be living in a parallel reality where the last 50 years of climate science hasn’t happened, and where we aren’t already experiencing the signs of climate breakdown.” #AI www.theguardian.com/business/202...

And requiring 5 times the power and water supplied to surrounding counties.

"Scientists surveying the area found three times more seabed organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters" news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Trump has drawn battle lines on the future of the planet. On one side are most of the world’s people, nature, 99.9% of climate scientists and the fastest-growing, chunk of the global economy - clean energy. On the other is Trump and the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Coloradans voted to reintroduce gray #wolves to their original habitat in 2020. Since then, new wolf packs have formed and pups have been born. The wolves are just beginning to take hold, and already anti-wolf groups want to derail the state's efforts. Hoping that anti-wolf voices will undermine...

Labour hopeful Andy Burnham to C4: “We need a different path completely. Put more things back under public, stronger public control, energy, housing, water, transport. I've done that with the busses in Greater Manchester...so you take that principle and you apply it to energy, water. 1/

CPAC is coming to Britain in July. The Bitcoin Collective is a new partner. All the worst people in one place.

Only 14% of Brits support the Far Right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - who hides behind the name Tommy Robinson - mostly men, a new poll for The Economist reveals. The backbone of his support, and funding, is America.

In other news that's likely to get buried "The cut of more than £800m to the UN’s Green Climate Fund is likely to undermine developing nations’ response to global warming." www.ft.com/content/98dc...

I honestly think banning MPs' second jobs is the single most powerful immediate thing the Govt could do to dent Reform support. It's the right thing to do. It would be a strong move (and message) in cleaning up politics. And it would shine a light on the person hit hardest: Nigel Farage.

Ahead of the Unite the Kingdom rally tomorrow, Kerry Moscogiuri, Chief Executive of Amnesty International UK said: “Once again, we are seeing a march that brings racism, violence and fear to the streets of London with the aim of whipping up hatred towards Muslims, migrants and people of colour.”

Keir Starmer's political failure comes down to one issue above all others: his unwillingness to put the public interest ahead of the demands of the oligarchs, corporations and foreign governments who lobby him. Whoever replaces him had better be prepared to stand up for us, or Labour's finished.

"A new National Programme to Redistribute Surplus Food has been announced today. As part of the programme, a number of UK food charities and social enterprises are committing to triple the amount of surplus food available for redistribution." www.edie.net/uk-governmen...

🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...

Three sectors. One chart. Three very different stories. Buildings: 33% electrified in 1990 → 47% today. Industry: 31% → 33%. Barely moved. Transport: ~1% then, ~1% now. The 23% headline hides three transitions at radically different speeds. Long read coming on Substack: janrosenow.substack.com

Greens literally the only party trying to get you Proportional Representation before the next general election so we can finally be done with FPTP.

Every time a new Reform UK councillor resigns or is sacked, remember it’s £35k of taxpayers money that could have been avoided if Reform UK vetted properly. That’s on Dr David Bull and Jaymey McIvor. £35k every time.

BBC’s Tom Edwards: ‘BREAKING: Reform UK has LOST minority control of Worcestershire County Council - after being overthrown by a shock rainbow coalition. The Conservatives have teamed up with the Greens, Lib Dems and independents to form a power-sharing alliance in the last few minutes’

2017: Nigel Farage in the European Parliament complaining about perceived foreign interference in Brexit 2026: Nigel Farage saying that foreign based crypto billionaire gave him £5,000,000 as a reward for campaigning for Brexit