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🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says he will support the Labour candidate in Makerfield “one hundred percent” “I want every member, everyone in our movement to support them”

This was bullshit. #DontBelieveDan

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@Ch90202Charlick No idea.

@BenInRushcliffe Is that the reason Andy Burhand friends made their move just now? Did they know that if they left it any longer that people would have started to believe in our PM and the work they are doing for our working class in this country and he would have lost his chance for PM? 🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

To clarify; Yes, I want Labour to win in the by-election. And yes, I'll support Labour whether Keir or Andy leads it. But, we didn't need the by-election. The coup on Starmer has come at exactly the time he is turning things around. What if we lose the by-election?! Mad.

@ToryWipeout It's looking that way right now.

@BenInRushcliffe If Andy unseats Starmer I'm done. Having suffered the Corbyn years and being laughed at on the doorstep to where we are now this snakey shit is unacceptable.

@DyslexicCallum @LeftieStats Good points.

I cannot sit here and watch it, the audio is broken. But the short time I have watched it for, I was Labour member for 4 years; I left Labour and join the green party. I have since left the green party and will be joining back the Labour party, because they're the only party that could stop Reform. I really hope Andy Burnham wins the By-election. Zack the leader of the green party, has paid his council taxes in a while, how can he want people to pay more taxes and the rich to pay when he doesn't pay? That screams hypocrisy to me, also if he isn't redigested to vote and didn't vote in the local election for his own party which he is the leader of it. How does that get people to vote green and entrust their vote with him in a GE in 2029?

🚨 An urgent plea to Green members... 👇👇 Don't fall for Burnham's last-minute pledges. We've been here before with Starmer. He is not the answer. We must seek Labour's destruction, not its friendship.

@pauldaw91 He should now Restore are standing

@BenInRushcliffe I agree. If he pulls it off though I’ll tip my hat, fair play.

@cgdav135 @Iainite_Iain I'm here for the Labour Party. Don't try and twist my words.

@Iainite_Iain It's crazy how the past couple of days have exposed who actually supports the party and who is here for just one man.

He should sack a cabinet minister for... campaigning for the labour party????

@thomasbowell Hey you can tweet me you know. I want Labour to win the seat obvs. But it didn't need to be this way.

Blimey, it’s incredible how many supposed “Labour members” responding to this don’t want their own party to campaign in an election or their candidates to win. Baffling! Almost as if many of these people are little more than online trolls with nothing better to do! Sad.

Anyone been to Valencia? Taking the kids next hear and just wondering if anyone has any tips.

The unemployment rate “unexpectedly” fell from 5.2% to 4.9% this month (1.78 million people) It was expected to rise Growth this quarter was an “unexpected” 0.7% Outpacing US, Germany and France & “huge moment” as NHS hit it’s 18 week target The tanker is turning

@TallyCat8 @UkLab Ok fair enough. I'm not but understand people's frustration

@BenInRushcliffe @UkLab I seriously am walking away from Labour if they chuck it all away with Burnham.

The least Keir deserves is the chance to be reelected as the leader of @uklab

@D__Melb @UkLab I'm not sure about that. We will see.

@BenInRushcliffe @UkLab He will get that chance anyway if he wants it. But if Burnham wins his by-election Starmer obviously isn’t going to bother standing in a race he’d lose heavily in.

Agree with Andy that we need to ban VAR. It's corrupt.

Get Morgan Gibbs-White on the plane, whoever you have to drop from attacking midfield. Player of the Year nominee, form player in the country over the last two months and difference maker with and without the ball. He has to be there.

@ScottishBevan You win from the center

@BenInRushcliffe Because no one gives a shit about multi millionaire scum, they have every other party why can't the working class have their own?

Burnham says he wants the Labour party to become the party of the working class. That's all well and good, but I want a leader (as Blair did) that welcomes and pushes to be a party for all. Why can't we win in Hartlepool and Kensington? We've done it before.

@OJLonTweets And why the green party plan to ignore markets is bonkers

Of the £132 billion Labour borrowed during the fiscal year to March 2026, a jaw-dropping £110 billion went on debt interest payments.

@Tom_Penford @joshsimonsmp I dont mind Andy at all but let's not talk bs lol

@BenInRushcliffe @joshsimonsmp And a career politician from the 90s. He is the opposite of a common bloke

For Westminster, this is a good summary of what people are saying on the doors in Makerfield. From a constituent of mine on a Reform page: "I'll probably get slated for this especially in this forum but hear me out. I've spent my whole adult life wishing that someone like me, from a working class background and from the North was leading our country. All I've seen in my lifetime is public school boys telling me how things are and to be honest, coming from a family of little to no wealth, it makes my blood boil. To have the chance of a prime minister who is born and bred in my neck of the woods. Understands the environment I grew up in if nothing else. And, more so, has a chance to take that top job and maybe, just maybe, make decisions that make a difference to people like me. That's what @AndyBurnhamGM represents for me. This feels like a one time in a generation chance to get someone in who isn't part of the establishment and may do things differently than has been done before. If people vote Reform, it won't put them in power. If they won it would merely be something to brag about but wouldn't make any fundamental difference to mine or your way of life. Alteratively, if Andy wins, it's likely he'll become our new prime minister and maybe, just maybe, we'll feel the difference. If not, vote Reform in the next general election and I'll join you. Peace out 📷"