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@simondale11 Nope- she is not Trump, she’ll think he’s a schoolboy & on this she’s half right

Can't stand Burnham but this type of social media response, taking the absolute piss out of her is likely to be very effective. She will implode. It is how newsome dealt with Trump. It works.

@tianran @joshi @JenWilliams_FT 100% correct

worth re-reading @joshi great piece on Burnhamism manchestermill.co.uk/stop-looking-f… in the light of @JenWilliams_FT excellent read ft.com/content/9949d9… because in the light of the CoS appntmnt you have to wonder that the risk is that in Downing St, narration will no longer be enough

@treesey @JenWilliams_FT She is 👏. Most importantly she is balanced- he is good, he has skills but he has been surrounded by people who have massively puffed him up

That is a deadly closing paragraph from @JenWilliams_FT

@timetoshine1234 @KatieCurtis Just to reassure you I’m not a bot, it’s about 34 degrees in Manchester at the moment where I live and I’m an hour into watching Scotland - so if I’m a bot I’m an elaborate 1

@CanalviewM @KatieCurtis 🤖

I can understand why Badenoch was in her element today but I’m not sure how the country will react to such spitefulness #PMQS

@Brumafriend @Juve38Wa98021 @PolitlcsUK Idiot or not - the hierarchy has already been decided

@CanalviewM @Juve38Wa98021 @PolitlcsUK Yep, what an idiot Trump is

🚨 WATCH: Donald Trump says Andy Burnham is "extremely liberal"

Deutschland, Frankreich, Polen, Italien und Großbritannien stehen eng zusammen und übernehmen mehr Verantwortung für die Sicherheit unseres Kontinents. Denn Europas Sicherheit wird nur gemeinsam verteidigt.

@reporterboy This is not game it’s tragic

I’m going to do this just once and we all know he will need to be judged on far bigger and more urgent skills….some that there are mighty doubts he has. ….but he HAS social media ‘game’ - and Starmer doing this? And the “naughty boy” quip….Not even as a backbencher, never.

@AlexDemSoc_161 Yes everyone loves seeing their dad on tik tok 🤣

One of the arguments I made for why Burnham appears to have more potential than Starmer is that he has stronger public relations skills and is seen as more empathetic, approachable, and authentic. This is a good example of that. Moreover, certainly, things like this are also beneficial in the effort to win over young voters, who are one of the pillars of the British left's success.

@DespoticInroad No All those examples use social media to communicate as themselves on leadership issues - not to try to be as lame as Michael mc intyre

First Labour leader to have a grasp of how information is consumed in the year 2026. Farage gets it. Trump gets it. Mamdani gets it. The slow kids are still practicing their adenoidal speech delivery & the shitty lines their SpAd wrote for the World at One. #NormiePopulism

@Juve38Wa98021 @PolitlcsUK ‘Mayor of a town’, the look down & pause……said it all

@PolitlcsUK Burnham is another one who's bad mouthed trump in the past it looks like he might have to do some serious arse licking.

@jameschappers @bmay That’s the 2nd tweet I’ve heard reference to Trump - & second time I’ve thought ‘oh ffs’

@bmay I find it massively refreshing. Trump, like him or loathe him (I am very much in the latter camp), demonstrates the power of direct, unvarnished social media comms. Burnham is clearly much better at it than Starmer.

Expect this sort of thing will start to irritate people fairly quickly.

@Hermes8891 @de_jever The fact that this has to still be repeated to people 7 years later is crazy. It had pretty much died till Burnham surfaced so it’s being rolled out again now

@de_jever The amount of votes means nothing in our electoral system, Corbin couldn't unify various areas of the country so it didn't matter that he was very popular in other seats.

Sure he did. LOL.

@ToryMemo82 Pardon

Fair play.

For us. For fairness. Politics isn't working. For far too long. Put big light on. Barm cakes. Putting the heart back into communities. The Smiths. But not Morrissey, obviously. People up and down this country. Decency. Hard working people. Communities. Picky teas. For our city-region. For all city-regions. Everton. Next door but one. Since 2001. Buses. Yellow buses. Hard working buses, up and down this country. Price caps. Price freezes. Giving back. Not taking enough to begin with. People are sick and tired. Wealth tax. Fairness. Tax land, tax money. Tax wealth. Tax growth. Tax growth to make growth. We're all immigrants, aren't we? No more being in hock to the bond markets. Increase borrowing. Increase spending. Doorsteps. What I'm hearing on the doorsteps. Good touch for a big man. We do things differently here. Wherever here might be. Politics of that which we have in common is moreso in common with unity than that which divides us can divide us from us. Chippy tea. Sad smile. Grass. Selfies. Fourteen years of Tory hurt didn't stop me dreaming. Jogging by the motorway. Like my grandad and his grandad before him. Chuckle. Little chuckle. Well, some people might say that. Guitars. Music. Nothing more esoteric than Elbow. I like Oasis, but I don't condone all the fighting and wouldn't like them now. Bricks. Houses. Terraced houses. Council houses. Ordinary people. Ordinary people like you and me, who haven't got embarrassing comments in their past because they've barely said anything of note. Politics, eh, who'd go into that? No, I wouldn't say I'm a saviour exactly. But the Labour Party has to be saved and I'm the only one who can do it. Milquetoast? I'm not really familiar with the term, but I like milk and I love toast, haha. They serve toast in the breakfast clubs, and we should honour Sir Keir's legacy really. Fantastic Prime Minister. Just not for very long. I love this country that I love, I'm very patriotic. But the flag is divisive, and we need to have a debate about that. A debate about whether or not it's divisive, about which I have no opinion. I went to Cambridge, and I'm not afraid to admit that. Ordinary lad done good. I've seen the system from the inside. I've seen the system from the outside. I've seen the system from Merseyside. It's not working. Not for ordinary folk like you and me. I'm a man, and I'm not afraid to admit that. But it is divisive, and we should have a debate about that. The North. People say it's grim up north, hah, maybe that's why we're more realistic up here. We know the problems people are facing, because we're the ones what's facing 'em. Regional inequality is something I'm passionate about. It's not fair that pints are only £7 in Manchester when pub landlords in London are raking in much more. Minimum wage for pints. Get young people earning, so we can tax them. Doe eyes. Glasses. I'm a bit older, a bit wiser, a bit heavier, haha. Ask me mates, they'll tell you. Don't ask them, actually. They're made of cardboard. I've always cared about equality. Sharing is caring, as my kids say. I think my wife taught them that. As PM I will do everything in my power to put every town in this country on the map. Of this country. Manchester feels half the world away. I've been lost, I've been found, but I don't feel down the back of the sofa for loose change. Not a bad idea though, in fairness. Fairness. Barrow-in-Fairness. In fairness, fairness isn't a bad idea to be fair. I'm from Wigan, me. As honest as can be. Uncle Joe's Mint Balls. Change. Believe in change. Believe deeply in unspecified change. And hope. Hope deeply for belief in unspecified change. Keep calm and carry the shopping back from the car in one go. For Andy. For us. Forever.

@BethRigby @IzzyLosseff Can we get Alan Partridge to play him in the movie

I asked in our video on #PMQs what Andy Burnham might have thought of being called ‘a pair of eyelashes & a black t-shirt’. We have our answer @IzzyLosseff

@PippaCrerar Someone tell him to stop it - looks like he’s looking down his pants 🩲

The probable next PM’s comms style is gonna be quite different from what we’re used to…

@tomjc09 Not if it comes at huge expense with little impact

i actually think the decentralisation of power outside of london is a good thing

I think some of Burnhams fan club are going to find the next stage very different to talking to Joan in Makerfield

@LBC @BenKentish Absolutely nailed him- I think Burnham needs tell him keep his head down in York

'Don't you see how this looks!?' @BenKentish confronts Labour's Luke Charters on the 'double standard' of Andy Burnham being 'anointed' after he demanded a general election from the Tories.

@SamCoatesSky - now you know the reason for the pause ‘bus conductor’