Ang Murphy

@imageplotter @Alamy_Editorial Brilliant.

Managed to go out for a short while with a camera to photograph two nearby white stork nests, one with two and one with three juveniles. They were thirsty, but looked well fed and healthy, waiting for dad to bring some juicy worms and insects. Pics @Alamy_Editorial

@MittensOff I shouldn't laugh, but ... 🤣 🤣🤣 How do you explain that in a job interview when asked "Why did you leave your last job?"

Oh dear never mind. Former Tory MP Ross Thomson leaves Reform UK after being snubbed from standing in the upcoming by-election for his old seat. 😂#ReformUK

@GuyLambertUK Rupert v Nigel ???? In Wigan?!!! 🤣🤣 I'd love to know how many Ruperts there are in Platt Wazz. 🤔😂

This is the best thing that could’ve happened to Andy Burnham. Musk is going to split the competition.

@GuyLambertUK It's embarrassing. That's clearly how reform see our area, so it's insulting too. I feel sorry for the poor buggers in his videos. At least it doesn't look like they're dogging this time.

Rob’s been out and about but only meeting people he knows. This is both hilarious and frustrating.

@sales_belinda @annsimpson21 We can rehash the last 16yrs until the cows come home. It's not going to achieve anything. The question is simple... Who's the best candidate - on the ballot paper - to represent Makerfield?

@AngMurphy8 @annsimpson21 You're entitled to your beliefs. But Burnham chose to be mayor. No one pushed him out. His position as GM mayor will be exposed to a Reform takeover & a very costly election. It was right that he was blocked. The Blairite, Brownite, Corbynite shape shifter is an opportunist.

We're not the Tories. We don't do regicide. We don't depose a sitting PM just because of bad local elections. This is grubby. It's undignified. You're making our country look like a joke.

@Hepworthclare @padavii @mariaingramcott The Greek chorus wouldn't get the right to remain under current rules. 😉 My 'Greek chorus' is currently on the sofa mumbling Malaka based obscenities at videos of reform, and fuming that he can't retire to Wigan in 3yrs time.

@padavii @mariaingramcott I take your point - it's well-made! Farcical comedy or Tragedy with members as the Greek chorus in the background. Take your pick Both scenarios fit.🙃

The PM and Cabinet are getting on with the job. In the meantime a bizarre scenario is being played out in Makerfield - a sort of pre written script for a modern "Carry On" movie. Except it's not a comedy it's a dangerous game - stakes are high & there is no saviour - only chaos.

@Hepworthclare Today's FB debate is regarding - "Who does Musk support?" It beggars belief how any working person could honestly think that the winner of Rupert v Nigel 🤢 over the affections of Elon 🤮 could possibly give a damn about their best interests.

@King0243_PJC It would be an entirely different story if Kenyon had made such comments about Kruger's tv presenter mother.

🚨 Danny Kruger just exposed Reform UK rotten moral compass on BBC. He admits his Makerfield candidates vile misogynistic filth graphic sexual abuse about Carol Vorderman and crude tits and arse comments about female rugby players is wrong then shrugs not going to defend it but bigger problems he is just an ordinary man. Give us a F**king break! This is the party that lectures Britain on values while platforming sleazy woman degrading candidates and calling it straight talking. Reform does not rescue Britain it drags it into the gutter. If they cannot condemn this degeneracy they have NO moral authority on anything. #ReformUKExposed #KrugerDodges #MisogynyNotOrdinary

@Hepworthclare @carol_woke @TheNewsAgents @maitlis @lewis_goodall " and his "blokeish" charm" ?!!! How utterly demeaning and condescending. 🤬

@carol_woke @TheNewsAgents @maitlis @lewis_goodall Queasiness doesn't cut it for me - I am downright nauseated & sick to my stomach. I was critical of KS - in the early days - but he's gone up in my estimation. I detest betrayal & those who perpetrate it. If Burnham is so keen to rejoin the HOC -he should have stood in 2024.

Andy Burnham and his "blokeish" charm seems unstoppable in his scheme to oust Keir Starmer... But is there growing "queasiness" about how fast the former Manchester mayor has manoeuvred, in a rise "created from nowhere"? @maitlis | @lewis_goodall thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-and…

@sales_belinda @annsimpson21 I am in my 60s. Wigan born and bred. Was a trade union rep in Wigan in the 1990's-early 2000's, and worked a decade in Manchester city centre. I absolutely stand by my beliefe that blocking Burnham in Gorton was a huge mistake, and I hate that my hometown may pay the price.

@AngMurphy8 @annsimpson21 I lived through that period. I didn't copy and paste. I actually wanted him to stand in 2015 and was very disappointed when he didn't. But guess who I voted for? Andy Burnham. But the following year he walked out & became mayor. I'm in my early 60s. Don't need to copy & paste

@ArchieforReform He didn't have the answers, and you absolutely don't.

Given more time, could Sunak actually have fixed Britain’s mess? 🇬🇧 Tell me your thoughts? 🤔

Listening to this again with a whole new context - youtube.com/watch?v=pBI43N…

@CuriousLuke93x @KayBurley @LancashireFRS @LancsPolice He was setting fires and trying to set himself on fire according to local reports. You've see a glimpse of a 6hr stand-off.

@KayBurley Oh hell no. Hosing a man down mid-mental health crisis while stood on a roof - is completely unacceptable, dangerous and negligent. Who gave this instruction please, @LancashireFRS @LancsPolice?

The northern commentary from bystanders is priceless…

@ChrisM18 @KayBurley In Chorley?

@KayBurley End of my road ..

@reformparty_uk 🤨 I always got paid overtime over 37.5 hrs a week.

Reform UK will scrap tax on overtime. Standing with the workers who keep Britain going.

@MumofFatCassie The point is, his political career path has lately followed the same path as Burnham. Jarvis has been urged by many people to run for leader previously, but he didn't, and I admire him for the reasons why. He backed his good friend Burnham instead.

@AngMurphy8 He hasn't. I'm struggling to see the point you're trying to make here.

Your daily reminder that Burnham left himself out of Westminster. He was in Westminster, didn't get what he craved, so left. Please stop this nonsense. #wato

@sales_belinda @annsimpson21 Which you've just copied and pasted from his profile. Jarvis also left Westminster to become a regional Mayor. Jarvis also returned to Westminster.

@AngMurphy8 @annsimpson21 I honestly don't understand how this has anything to do with my thoughts on Burnham. I like Jarvis. He's not an opportunist. But when people suggested him for the leadership in 2015, he declined to take part citing family priorities.

@sales_belinda @annsimpson21 Then you have some research to do. Should take all of 5mins. He's been my no.1 pick for leader since long before Starmer was elected.

@AngMurphy8 @annsimpson21 Dan Jarvis? I don't know in what way he's comparable.

@TallyCat8 @garytwisted2 Says the person effectively siding against a Labour candidate. 🙄

@garytwisted2 Ashamed of the massive investment up and down the country? Ashamed of the move towards cleaner energy? You really aren't a socialist are you? Wow.

Is Burnham trying to pretend he isn't Labour? That he's just a one man band? He seems very shy about having Labour branding, although he's very keen to take Labour Party members money from them. #NeverBurnham #StandWithStarmer

@MumofFatCassie And if he ran in a Labour leadership election?

@AngMurphy8 Competent minister.