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Conservatives done it AGAIN? Today they voted in favour of a Lib Dem leader of Portsmouth city council. As did Labour & Indies. As we keep saying Vote Conservatives and get a left wing parties in power. This is the same conservatives who voted for the Lib Dem budget too. Only Reform UK did not vote for the Lib Dem’s to run the council.

@TomK_Brit1993 No

Would you support Britain rejoining the EU?

Here we are! Your Reform UK Councillors for Portsmouth and myself as Leader of the Opposition at our Mayor Making and Full Council Today Ready to work hard for our local communities and hold the Lib Dem’s to account 🩵🇬🇧🩵

Let’s have a think about what’s happening in Makerfield. This by election is costing taxpayers £226,208. And it’s happening because a Labour MP chose to step aside to make room for Andy Burnham’s leadership ambitions. He admitted that himself. But here’s some more interesting figures. If Burnham wins, he’ll have to resign as Greater Manchester Mayor too. That triggers another election costing taxpayers around £4.7 million. So in total, nearly £5 million of public money could be spent not on improving services, fixing roads, supporting communities or helping struggling families, but on political career ambitions. People are struggling with bills, crime, NHS waiting lists and communities being ignored. Yet Westminster politics still seems focused on who climbs the ladder next. That’s what frustrates people. Not democracy. Political games made to look like democracy.

BIG NEWS UK 🇬🇧 - 🇧🇭🇰🇼🇴🇲🇶🇦🇸🇦🇦🇪 GCC FTA The UK is expected to agree a massive trade deal with the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council later this week. Yet another massive massive Brexit benefit - a deal that the EU are nowhere near getting. archive.is/Nelm5

Today people coming to London for the Unite The Kingdom rally will be monitored with facial recognition cameras by the Metropolitan Police. The pro-Palestinian rally that's taking place right alongside it will not. Keir = Two Tier.

@JamesCleverly And!.

One of the first decisions made by Essex Reform was to remove the Ukrainian flag from County Council HQ. Let that sink in. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@Keir_Starmer Do one you muppet you just don’t get it do you. You are PM in name only. Just go off into the revolving gravy train of the EU. 🤮

I’ll always champion peaceful protest. But the Unite the Kingdom march organisers are peddling hatred and division. We’ve already blocked visas for far-right agitators who want to come here to spew their extremist views. They don't speak for the decent, fair, respectful Britain I know.

‼️I am staggered at this post from a PM who has watched hate filled matches on our streets every week for 2 years. And has never spoken like this. Today, he labels every single person in this country, black, white and all shades in between, who are concerned about social cohesion and cultural erosion, as Racist and thugs. It is unforgivable 🚨

It is hard to see how a taxpayer, undertaking a complex transaction involving a court-ordered trust for a disabled child and the purchase of a second property, and twice told to obtain specialist tax advice, can be said to have taken reasonable care by not doing so.

How on earth has Angela Rayner been "cleared" by HMRC? She didn't pay the extra £40,000 stamp duty that was due. She didn't take the specialist tax advice on her flat purchase that she was advised to take. She failed to pay the extra stamp duty that she, as Housing Secretary, had brought in for second home purchasers. For HMRC not to issue a fine means they judged her decision as "reasonable care" having been taken, or it was possibly "careless", but not a "deliberate" underpayment. She clearly did not take "reasonable care" to ensure her tax was correct. And if it was "careless", it was *deliberate* carelessness. Do you seriously think that if YOU underpaid your taxes by £40,000 as the then Deputy Prime Minister did, that you would get away without a fine? Sorry, but this stinks.

Just two weeks ago, 335 Labour MPs voted against referring Keir Starmer to the Privileges Committee. They chose to back a PM who has misled Parliament, broken the ministerial code and lied to us. Talk about wasting political capital on a PM they’re now telling to resign.

@Keir_Starmer You are a no hoper old chap, the country know it, your party know it. Call a general election.

The hope I'm fighting for.

@Keir_Starmer Resign or call a general election you muppet.

We will block far right agitators from traveling to Britain this weekend for a march designed to confront and provoke our diverse capital city. We will not allow people to come to the UK, threaten our communities and spread hate on our streets.

Keir Starmer has just confirmed he will stop foreigners flying here legally with a passport to speak on a stage but he will do NOTHING to stop random illegals arriving by boat to attack women and children The man is beneath contempt

@AngelaRayner You and every Labour MP has benn banging on about this for the two years you have been in Government for goodness sake. It was so so easy being in opposition wasn’t it, but you can’t manage being in charge and everyone sees the complete failure of your government.

Our party has suffered a historic defeat. Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more. What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance. The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people. We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it. Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits. Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them. Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that. In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.  We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people. The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.  Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government. For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics. But we have the chance to fix this.  1/2

So far Starmer’s efforts to save his skin have been a classic case study in how not to save your skin: The most unpopular Labour PM in history (Starmer) calls in aid the second most unpopular Labour PM in history (Brown). With most Labour MPs despising you and willing to grant you, at most, a civilised stepping down over some months, you say you’ll be in power for a decade. Labour MPs’ worst nightmare. You commission a propaganda film of you, Brown, Rachel Reeves and Harriet Harman looking smug and self-satisfied in the Downing Street garden, complete with meaningful music. How divorced from public opinion can you be? You signal you’re fresh out of new blood (Brown? Harman?) and new ideas (getting close to the EU is the best you can come up with — hardly a game changer). You think a ‘reset’ speech (again!) can turn things round? You’re truly delusional. THE END.

@Keir_Starmer @GordonBrown You muppet, he’s was disastrous as chancellor & cuckoo PM!.

Today I’m pleased to appoint @GordonBrown as my Special Envoy on Global Finance and Cooperation. As Britain’s longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon is well placed to work with our international allies to build a stronger Britain and boost our country’s security and resilience.

@Keir_Starmer You just don’t get it do you, no one believes a word you or your comms team at No10. You just as well whistle in to the wind.

Together, we will build a stronger and fairer Britain.