🚨 | THIRTEEN Councillors (8 Green & 5 Reform) who were elected in the May 2026 Local Elections have already triggered by-elections.

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.

The hidden cost of populism.

Farage "I can't be bought" Also Farage -

Democracy in Kent is under attack from a Reform administration that is clearly terrified of scrutiny. They are moving to quiet the opposition while prioritising songs and prayers over policy discussion. It is a bizarre and anti-democratic shift for our county. 🧵 1/6

What is “odd” is that a cabinet minister in a government that claims to want economic growth seems incapable of seeing the greatest obstacle to achieving it. And the idea that Brexit is “settled” is just weird. Why does this government take us for fools?

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Social media giants should not be allowed to pay politicians for extreme posts that maximise engagement. Foreign funding of unregulated digital ads must cease. And those who promote political violence should not be allow to fund campaigns.

Though smaller than last year, the Unite the Kingdom march over the weekend was still sickening. The resurgence of out-and-out racism in the UK, from demands for remigration of British Asians to Antisemitic slurs on placards at both demonstrations, demands we meet this moment.

We are right behind this statement. Where is the outrage? #StopALLRaceHate #RuleOfLaw #UniversalHumanRights @libdems.org.uk

Petrol prices remain high as a result of the Iran crisis. Apart from measures such as reducing speed limits, walking and cycling help here - most car journeys remain under 3 miles, a distance that can easily be cycled #ActiveTravel #OilShock

Inside the Reform-run seaside town with ‘potholes everywhere’ as tax goes up

S4C is a member of the EBU so therefore Wales wins again by boycotting Eurovision for the 43rd year

The trans girl, should she even exist at this school, has done nothing. Nothing at all. We are way past this being acceptable. This person needs to told to fuck off. No niceties, no placation, just fuck off.

"Day 092, orbit 1425 — One of the everyday challenges of life in microgravity: carrying things around without losing them!" says esa.int Sophie Adenot. #εpsilon 🎥 ESA / NASA

We cannot let anyone forget this.

The people behind this are openly neo-Nazi. Reminder that the Conservatives argued this march was fine as it did not directly target any particular groups, beyond “criticism of religion”.

Another for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...

🚨 "Lack of conditionality makes no difference to the main Code of Conduct issue, which is whether a reasonable observer would think that an MP in receipt of £5 million gift might be influenced by the prospect of a further gift" Farage is in trouble...

Well exactly. Brexit is a shitshow but, more than that, it’s an epic lie-fest. Farage squats at the epicentre of that political dishonesty and voting for that is voting to be conned, voting for prejudice as policy. It wouldn’t be any old disaster, it’d be a Farage disaster. Ruinous, racist chaos.

We won every seat on Richmond upon Thames Council last week. But that doesn’t mean we’ve changed our mind on electoral reform. It’s time the Government stopped defending a broken system out of self-interest and backed proportional representation.

Labour should pay the £5 million it will cost to run by-elections in Makerfield and Greater Manchester.

I am honoured to be ranked among the top three most active new MPs in the country. With over 1,500 contributions in Parliament last year, I am working hard to hold the Government to account. There is still much to do, but I am proud to be standing up for you. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

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👏 This is a fantastic report from @makevotesmatter.bsky.social. Britain needs electoral reform now, or we risk a Reform UK government at the next election. ⚠️ At the local elections Reform won 300 councillors because of FPTP. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J1XBQhrOfLbkWT9S6NYylVQ4LBYQjJJ4/view

Big green energy news: The Dogger Bank South Offshore Wind Farms DCO application has today been granted development consent by DESNZ At 3GW, it's one of the largest single consenting decisions in UK offshore wind history. If/when it's built, it will provide enough energy to power ~3 million homes.

Hardly the major news story, but Labour managing to literally have a by election to elect a man so they can elect him leader instead of considering any of the 180 odd women already in office is going to become a great topic for a politics of gender seminar one day.

Another approx £20K of taxpayers' money wasted by Reform because they don't care about vetting their candidates

A £90 billion Brexit black hole. An out-of-date manifesto. A government too timid to act. Chris Fox makes the case in the Lords for bolder leadership on Europe.

CALL TO ACTION!!! Please support the decent journalists actually holding Farage to account. Please share far and wide! 👊💥👍

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

Wes Streeting, Angela Raynor, and Andy Burham prepare for Labour leadership fight.

So we're not ungovernable, but our system makes the kind of government we may get, incredibly dangerous. I've written more here substack.com/@pimlicat81/...

The Farage Fandango over the £5m seems to me to be a golden opportunity for a Labour Prime Minister with a massive majority to say "Right. Now we are going to put a stop to all foreign donations to British political parties". Hugely popular with his base and more widely and spikes their guns.

On his watch cancer patients have been left in traumatic ambiguity as they wait weeks for life-saving treatment. Wes Streeting's ambition has outpaced his ability. His replacement must treat this as the national emergency it is, and the Liberal Democrat plan to rescue the NHS is ready & waiting.

Reform UK councillor's vile two words as Asian man attacked on video - council statement Stephan Dransfield is one of three newly-elected Reform UK councillors to the Colne Valley West ward www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-n...

Good old Europe, keeping us safe bylinetimes.com/2026/05/14/t...

Luckily there's a solution: let's join the single market and regain our place as a global trading nation.

So the 17 breaches of the MP code of conduct that Nigel Farage was called out on in January was just a drop in an ocean.

Please enjoy this picture of Nigel Farage putting something into his pocket while looking shifty, also there is a story attached www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Vote Reform, get absolute chaos! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #ReformChaos

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

Must we keep holding our politicians to such impossible standards?

Nigel Farage’s partner, a former waitress not known to have any private money, bought a £1 million house for cash shortly after he secretly received £5 million from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire - the same house that he claimed, months previously, that he was about to pay for himself.

All the "is Miliband popular/competent/acceptable after losing 11 years ago" is missing the most crucial point: that the most dramatically satisfying ending is that the guy who lost the election after which everything went wrong comes back and fixes it all. Ask Chekov. Ask Aristotle

We don't have time for all this Starmer Drama when bills are soaring and conflicts are raging around the world. We should be focussed on our food, energy and national security.

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

Actually sick pay rules HAVE changed recently. To the benefit of workers. Not that you’d know that because it’s hasn’t really been reported. Strange.

Reform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs Reform UK’s Treasurer and three other donors have handed £1.55 million to Nigel Farage from Britain’s most expensive apartment block which is home to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and massive post-Soviet wealth