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@JacquiDeevoy1 @Brace_Bit Look at your hand. You have a palm. That is what we and the 6 great apes started out as. Gradually mutations occurred & some went towards the thumb, some the pinky, some the index etc. We started out as one thing and just went in different directions. Extremely easy to grasp.

@Brace_Bit Many people totally believe we evolved from apes.

If we evolved from apes, how come apes aren’t still morphing into humans? Why don’t we see human/ape hybrids in various stages of evolution in the wild?

@O2 cut off my kid's phone. "You owe us £0." Nearly 2 weeks (10 hours) later, after telling me my account is not in arrears, they can only put her on if I agree to payment plan. This affects my credit rating. I still owe them...£0 but they now owe me for lost service. @Ofcom

@seanonolennon Give peeps a chance, Sean

I've had the pleasure of hanging out with Jakob Dylan a few times, and never ONCE was I ever tempted to quote his father's lyrics to him in conversation! Wtf is with some people?

@afneil Our house looked like this in 1977, true. I travel a lot and interview people around the country. Few setups like this survive. If you're backing this image I suggest you're wildly out of touch and only playing at working class - or simply patronising. One of the two.

I guess this must be how the Greens think ordinary folk still live — stuck in the 1950s. Hard to be more out of touch.

@MaileOnX @ProudSocialist @RobynDaily16 Next administration: this one's going straight to prison.

@ProudSocialist @RobynDaily16

Epstein survivors raised their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as Pam Bondi refuses to even acknowledge them. A picture to sum up the moment we are in and the complicity of the U.S. government in protecting pedophiles.

@majun_kenny Don't be stupid. Obvious AI. And who the flip is Aarturs airline? If people are falling for this stuff, humans are screwed.

@Peston Rayner can't become PM while HMRC still investigating. May election results will be bad. She wants Kier to take responsibility for those. Yesterday was something she just had to deal with, biding her time.

We’ve now got the spectacle of almost every member of the cabinet - chancellor, foreign secretary, deputy pm, et al , and even the ousted deputy leader Angela Rayner - putting out statements or going on TV to tell us how lucky we are to have Keir Starmer as prime minister. Which is never a good look for a prime minister. It smacks of utter panic as the good ship Labour Government heads remorselessly for the eye of the storm. Starmer’s payroll colleagues may well be right that most British people don’t want a new pm. Per contra, MPs who don’t benefit from his patronage are telling me that they have barely ever encountered anger from voters like what they are witnessing and feeling in relation to Peter Mandelson’s too-close relationship with the billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The fury on the doorsteps and in their streets about Starmer’s unwise appointment of Mandelson to the plum job of US ambassador exceeds even what was directed at Boris Johnson during Partygate, they say. And look what happened to Johnson. This is why Labour’s leader in Scotland Anas Sarwar has just done something unique: he has called on Starmer to quit, because he fears his party will be massacred in the May elections to the Scottish parliament if Starmer remains PM. Sarwar felt he had no choice but to detach Scottish Labour from UK Labour, because Scottish voters don’t want to touch Starmer with a several-hundred-mile-long barge poll. It’s quite something for the leader of a party that is committed to Scotland remaining in the UK saying that the UK premier is a recruiting sergeant for the party, the SNP, that wants to take Scotland out of the UK. But Sarwar would say that desperate times require desperate measures. The only people laughing are the leaders of every other party.

@Michelle__Skye @AngelMD1103 So you're saying the current administration will all be in jail in a couple of years time?

If public officials and media figures used their power, platforms, or authority in ways that made chaos worse, misled the public, or failed the people they were sworn to serve, then they should not be shielded from scrutiny. Leadership comes with responsibility, and when that responsibility is abused or neglected, accountability must follow. Americans are sick of double standards. We watch everyday citizens face consequences while powerful figures hide behind titles, talking points, and friendly media coverage. If actions or rhetoric contributed to unrest, confusion, or the breakdown of public order, then those actions deserve full investigation, sworn testimony, and real consequences under the law, not excuses. This isn’t about politics, it’s about standards. It’s about restoring trust in institutions that only work when no one is above the rules. Transparency, accountability, and justice aren’t radical ideas. They’re the bare minimum a functioning society demands.

@NadiaWhittomeMP F all to do with these issues. You guys failed to get Corbyn elected and a coup is your only route to something similar. The barefaced lie and cheek of it is as bad as anything Trump does. If you all just said: "we want a new leader" that would be more respect worthy.

Labour was wrong to block Andy Burnham from standing in Gorton and Denton. It’s undemocratic and shortsighted. If this decision isn’t overturned by an emergency meeting of the NEC, polls are now showing that we could come third place in the by-election.

@Toby_Jugs @bmay What a ridiculous thing to say? The Labour Party set up exactly this process for exactly this situation. Just cos you dont like the result. You guys screaming for a coup are so obvious & shrill - what did you expect the NEC to do? I imagine Starmer will go after May anyway.

@bmay What a ridiculous thing to say. Are you saying that all the people who believe Andy Burnham should have been given the opportunity to enter the selection process are hard left. Gorton and Denton members should have had the right to pick the best candidate whoever that person is

If all the remaining hard left nutters could leave Labour for the Greens in the way the hard right nutters are leaving the Tories for Reform we could watch them all frothing at the mouth at each end of the horseshoe and the adults could run things in the middle. Here’s hoping.

@JuliaHB1 Original quote from Starmer could have been extended to: "Unless the hard left try to mount an obvious coup via a flimsy pretext - say, a demotion from mayor to MP , costing party & electorate a fortune in unnecessary election costs. In which case Ill be grown up & stop them."

Oh

@KarlTurnerMP Outmanoeuvred. Calls for red card.

We needed our best player on the pitch when we’re not doing well in the League tables. It seems that we’ve decided to bench our political equivalent of Messi. I am saddened that that will reflect badly on our leadership and the PLP will probably react adversely.

@mykeljsvt @theamelia__ And half the babies

@theamelia__ The world you live in, society, and infrastructure.

@AedenRooney1 Well, no. A small constituency is just backdoor to him mounting a leadership challenge. He already has a big job for Labour. Leaving might give mayoralty to Reform & cost taxpayers a fortune. These are all really good reasons. Not for hard left gagging for power maybe, but...

Let’s be clear. There is absolutely no valid reason that Andy Burnham should not be allowed to stand for selection. Not one.

@SamCoatesSky Splitters.

This - below - is a quote from an MP on the left. It's punchy. BUT if it's just the left who kick off, Starmer can ignore that. The question is what the soft left and centre of the party do next. Labour MP: "That’s just triggered civil war. The factonalists, the purgers and the control freaks have no idea what they have done. It is not possible to predict where this ends but it is undoubtedly an existential threat to the Labour Party."

Pro-Burnham people today: only one man can win this seat. Everyone else in Britain is useless. Real reason: Corbyn nearly broke PLP with worst result ever but if we change leaders we can sneak Corbyn-lite onto country. Transparent dishonesty.

@the_olliedean @PippaCrerar It would have pissed some people off if he hadnt been blocked. So what?

@PippaCrerar “Yes I helped to block Burnham’s candidacy to protect my leadership.” “No, I did not realise that doing so would actually piss loads of people off and probably make my leadership even weaker.” “How did you know I don’t understand politics?” - Starmer, 2026 (probably)

BREAKING: Andy Burnham *blocked* from standing in the Gorton and Denton byelection. Of nine voting members on NEC group it was 8-1 against him.

@Romi2656 That's a very, very annoying statement. I presume you're fine risking a thumping because you enjoy living vicariously.

No word starts with ' V ends with 'Y Prove me wrong????