Jenny Baker

@ITVNewsPolitics @DanielHewittITV Life-long Labour voter here. Loathe Reform, but if I lived in Makerfield I'd vote for them this time around to keep Burnham out. I'm ashamed of the Labour MPs, we need stability, not a return to the revolving door of PMs of the recent Tory years.

Andy Burnham on Number 10: I will take my fight 'as high as I can go' Burnham sat down for an exclusive interview with @DanielHewittITV itv.com/news/2026-05-1…

@javierota @SandyofCthulhu Doesn't look like she's Mapuche, Toba or from another indigenous group? In which case she's of Spanish heritage and has no greater right to being a native of the Falklands than the British settlers of the same era.

@SandyofCthulhu This is Matilde Vernet, an Argentinian born on the islands in 1830. Before the Argentine/Provincias Unidas del Rio de la Plata rule, they were controlled by the Viceroyalty for over 50 years.

1) the Falklands were originally illegally seized from Argentina in 1833. BUT they have been British ever since. 2) throughout the 1960s and 70s, Argentina negotiated in good faith to trade ownership. They offered concessions, such as “Falklanders won’t have to serve in rhe army.” The British teams all recommended the transfer. Each UK government punted it to the next. Was Argentina right to invade? Of course not. The Falklanders’ opinion should be taken into account! Plus the major reason for the attack was because the junta was looking for distractions. But I can’t help but think that it would be cheapest for Argentina to pay each Falklander a million dollars (costing about 3.5 billion) to move away.

@SandyofCthulhu I think that once all those of spanish heritage leave Argentina and move to Spain, then all those of british heritage should leave the Falklands and move to the UK.

@MartinSLewis I've said no, but mainly because of the point that I am in my career/life (I've dropped to part time because I'm in the run up to retirement). I wouldn't change jobs for money at this stage. If you'd asked me the question 20 years ago the answer would probably have been yes.

Today's Poll: Would you take a well paid job, say 3x current pay, at a company owned by a country that was unfriendly to, virtually an enemy of, the UK? (It isn't spying).

@archer_rs At what age do you stop falling over and have a fall instead? Asking for a friend.

Had a fall this morning during my run, no damage but head to toe in mud. Dogs found this very exciting for some reason and jumped around excitedly. Cat indifferent.

@MartinSLewis 1. Contribute to a workplace / personal pension from first day you start work. 2. Don't let FOMO get you into credit card debt. 3. Make sure you've got at least 3 months income in easy access cash savings. 4. Be braver about a stocks shares ISA, don't oversave cash long term.

TELL US: What life lessons have you learnt that you’d want to tell an equivalent to your younger self leaving school or university now - whether its money issues, work issues or any others Please reply here. Like your faves, and podcast producer Matt will collate to be read out

@NicClayton @SamRaincock Just let me know and I'll drop them round.

@BeboK80 @SamRaincock Not these furry lunatics, surely?!

One of the great discoveries in life in my 40s has been the fact that it is absolutely fine to stay in the house and not do much. After all I like my house - it is a home. So when it is wet and awful outside I have no inclining to enforce some 'fun' on myself.

@NicClayton @SamRaincock Can lend you a couple if you want.

@SamRaincock 100% when I mentioned to my Mum that I was organising a weekend away in a cute cottage, with a fire, a couple of country pubs and some good walks, she said "don't you always live there?" 🤣 chuck in a couple of good box sets and a book, and I'm all sorted. Just need the dog 🐶🐾

@andyflyfisher She wasn't from South London was she? It's one that my mum used all the time as well.

Just one of my mothers favourite sayings

@TheHandyZionist @QuietSupporter @_HenryBolton @Acyn @PeteHegseth @USMC I thought your initial point was that Europe (and the UK) should feel eternally grateful to the US for their selfless sacrifice in WW2. It wasn't, US got involved out of self-interest - Pearl Harbour and the Germans attempting to get Mexico to join in. No different than the UK.

You seem to have missed my point. The UK fought against the Nazis for their own reasons which had nothing to do with Jews getting murdered. Be it self defense, an alliance with another state or their benevolent efforts to free Europe from tyranny. And TransJordan was formed after the Brits signed off on their commitment to build a Jewish state in that territory. It doesn't matter when Jews managed to liberate our land from British occupation, the Brits already stole half our land and gave it to the Hashemites, despite their prior commitment.

Hegseth: Allies that step up like Israel, South Korea, Poland… will receive our special favor. Allies that do not… will face consequences.

@TheHandyZionist @QuietSupporter @_HenryBolton @Acyn @PeteHegseth @USMC You said it was a reaction to the UK being invaded. It wasn't. What do you mean by 'jewish state'? If you mean Israel, TransJordan was formed in 1921 and became independent in 1946 - before Israel even existed. LoN failed, but US wouldn't even attempt it - refused to join.

Yes, nothing to do with the Jews. Just as I said in counter to @QuietSupporter Regarding your other comments about abiding by treaties, remember that the UK formed TransJordan and later armed and trained them against the Jewish state. The British also signed the charter of the League of Nations...

@TheHandyZionist @QuietSupporter @_HenryBolton @Acyn @PeteHegseth @USMC The UK declared war on Germany two days after they invaded Poland. It wasn't in reaction to Germany invading the UK. It was because Britain (and France) had guaranteed Polish security. The UK abide by treaties they make. The US can't say the same (Budapest Memo).

@QuietSupporter @_HenryBolton @Acyn @PeteHegseth @USMC What did I say that was incorrect? Did the British not do those things? Yes. Did they work as a nation to save the Jews before Hitler attacked the island? No. How about you say exactly what it is you think I got wrong? Or are you just biased and have nothing concrete to say?

@ArfurSmith Was even better when the newspaper stall was on that corner.

Finest station in the world

@oliinoz @Charis_Canary @implausibleblog In which case, why the fuck does it matter to you who's migrating into Britain, you don't even live here? Are they more accepting of racist misogynistic arseholes over there?

It’s not me that needs perspective love. 90% of those coming on small boats are male. Most are economic migrants. They don’t come by legal measures because they wouldn’t get in. I have migrated to Australia. I did it legally and even then it was exceptionally hard to get in and I share their culture. Why shouldn’t these economic migrants do the same?? If you stop the economic migrants and then we are dealing with just and real asylum claims there would be no issue. Problem is you bleeding heart, left wing idiots can’t see the damage it does. May be everyone that supports it, starting with you should house a refugee or boat person willingly. You won’t because it’s a virtue signalling BS.

Mariella Frostrup, "I just don't know when we started dehumanising people to the extent that we do now" >Huge clap< *In response to Nadine Dorries's long rant on leaving the ECHR and using the Royal Navy to address Farage's Brexit Small Boats Arrivals* "I find it really shocking" "Imagine if nobody wanted to come here then we'd really be depressed by Britain as a nation" "Of course it is an issue. But we've decreased our budget for international development" "We have a completely shambolic asylum system" "You talk about people coming here illegally, but what are the legal routes?" "We still don't have proper legal routes" Nadine Dorries, "We do" Mariella Frostrup, "Explain. I'm a woman in Congo. I'm one of the 80,000 women who has been raped as a result of the conflict going on there. I need to escape. My family has been wiped out. What's my legal way of applying to join my sister who is in the UK?" *Nadine Dorries goes silent* "It is impossible, our system is broken" "The way we talk about people trying to come here, and the way we completely ignore the dilemmas that they face. And the fact that we have been instrumental in a lot of those conflicts" "What happened to Afghanistan? When we were determined that people from Afghanistan could come here because of the way they supported us during that war" "And now we're talking about them as if they're rubbish on the street" "I think it's a shame we're allowing Reform UK to set the tone and the agenda and the way we talk about illegal immigrants" *Nadine Dorries is now biting her lips* >Another huge clap<

@rosemeyer1939 @sammellon4 @MartinSLewis 50 years ago, by the Turks.

@sammellon4 @MartinSLewis Wasn't half the country literally invaded not that long ago? There's military checkpoints in some towns....?

I've had a few replies over my what'd u do if u won £20,000 poll of "Use it to leave this crap country!" I'm genuinely interested where people think's better. Many countries are struggling. Many who aren't, aren't democracies So (bar the weather) where do u feel is better?

@MartinSLewis Brexit - completely down to the last Govt.

Today's Poll: Who do you MOST blame (or credit) for the current state of the UK economy? Which of these is closest to your answer...

@fat_woman You'd think the demonstration of mental stability would be a positive point for being able to own a shotgun.

New gun licence changes - the police will now review your social media and take that into consideration. This is an issue because a lot of the police have been persecuting and prosecuting women who refuse to say that men can become women.

@SamRaincock iwm.org.uk/history/the-pa…

@SamRaincock To encourage more people to join up they created the Pals Battalions, where you they would enlist groups of men that lived or worked together. The first one was formed of stockbrokers from the City of London, but it went on to happen everywhere, particularly in the north.

Doing some history research and found out as a side point, that Tynedale rugby club basically had its whole team (apart from one man) sent to take part in WWI.

@jono_beard @dr_besty @sgathach200bc SERPS stopped in 2002. There is no opting out of paying National Insurance. If you work in a PAYE job it's taken at source. If you are self-employed and don't pay it HMRC will come after you.

Review this: You pay £2,988/year in National Insurance for 35 years on a median salary of £37,430 (£104,580!) expecting a pension. If the Government claims there's "no money," it means they've spent YOUR cash without permission and failed to plan for YOUR future. #PensionScandal