Henry Porter

check out this pathetic piece of shit monster....

@SangitaMyska he's just fucked up someone's boiler too.

This one of Tommy Robinson’s key henchmen, Danny Tommo, making it sounds as if he’s mustering up a group of men to march down London’s streets like vigilantes on 16th May. So, why aren’t Badenoch, Mahmood, Westminster council & The Met moving to ban it?

@JuliaHB1 @jamesmurray_ldn well you do...do you call yourself a woman?

Do some women have penises @jamesmurray_ldn ?

This 👇abhorrent monster would stop the provision of expensive life saving treatments to disabled people as part of its 'welfare' cuts.

@LouiseMensch @UKLabour @AlistairCarns Although.... as @RoryStewartUK teased... say Burnham defeats Reform in this Byelection...he will have demonstrated Reform can be beaten... gets in as PM...appoints Sir Keir to Foreign Secretary... could this be Labour's best chance...?

@LouiseMensch @UKLabour @AlistairCarns I think you're right Louise! If Labour lean to the Left with Burnham or Rayner... it'll most likely end in disaster for @UKLabour and the country. It always does when Labour have been in power and drifted Left.

If @UKLabour PLP do not vote for @AlistairCarns for Prime Minister they need their heads examined. He could actually win another GE. Straight up badass. Operator. MC. No two ways about it. Imagine going from Keir Starmer to Al Carns.

@DamianLow3 2/2 and Labour MPs should be cautious of heading Left because every time they've done that in power, its ended in disaster for both the Labour Party and the country. Check Wilson and Callaghan governments.

@DamianLow3 I'm not sure of Streeting's credentials. Or indeed Burnham's (his performance as Mayor of Manc shouldn't be used to justify the push to make him PM). Using a football analogy its like appointing a successful Championship manager to a Premier League title winning team...1/2

Wes Streeting could either become Labour’s answer to the age of Reform or the final triumph of performance politics in Britain. 1. The argument for Wes Streeting is relatively obvious. He is seen as one of Labour’s strongest communicators, media savvy and more culturally combative than much of the modern centre-left. 2. Unlike some, Streeting appears to understand that politics is no longer just about policy competence. It is also about narrative, emotional connection and cultural positioning. 3. Rightly or wrongly, that matters in an environment where Nigel Farage and Reform increasingly dominate attention not because of policy, but because they understand political mood and media dynamics. 4. Streeting also grasps something many progressives still resist. Voters can simultaneously support public services and want tougher rhetoric on issues like migration, welfare dependency and state inefficiency. 5. In that sense, he begins to look like a politician shaped by the post-2016 landscape rather than the pre-Brexit assumptions that still dominate parts of Westminster. 6. But there are also major risks. Streeting’s politics can sometimes feel excessively managerial and transactional with too much focus on positioning and not enough on ideology. 7. That can create a credibility problem. Voters increasingly punish politicians they think are overly polished, calculating or too triangulating between different voter groups. Look at what has happened to Macron's ratings in France. 8. There is also a danger that Labour mistakes communication strength for political settlement. Britain’s problems are structural. Housing, productivity, infrastructure and energy costs. Messaging alone cannot resolve that. 9. Streeting’s NHS reform agenda illustrates both sides of this tension. He has been willing to challenge views inside Labour and confront difficult questions around productivity and reform. But critics increasingly see parts of his approach as too comfortable with privatisation. 10. Culturally, Streeting is interesting because he sits between political eras. He is not a Corbynite activist-politician, but nor is he entirely a Blairite restoration figure. He represents a more media-native, post-ideological form of Labour politics shaped heavily by the fragmentation and volatility of the digital age. 11. That may ultimately be both his greatest strength and greatest weakness. He arguably understands modern politics better than many of his colleagues. But understanding the media environment is not the same as building a durable governing project. The bigger question is not whether Streeting could communicate Labour’s case more effectively. It is whether Britain is entering a period where communication itself has become overvalued. Because if politics becomes entirely about performance, everyone eventually ends up trapped inside the same cycle of volatility.

@SkyNews @AliFortescue @KamaliMelbourne Every time Labour has moved from the centre to the left...its meant a disaster for Labour and the country. See the Wilson and Callaghan governments. When Labour (in power) stays in the centre ie Blair Governments it works / is very good for the country.

Andy Burnham is set to stand as an MP in the Makerfield by-election, should he be approved by Labour’s National Executive Committee. @AliFortescue and @KamaliMelbourne consider that if he wins and becomes an MP, it would lead to him challenging Sir Keir Starmer to be prime minister. Listen to Cheat Sheet wherever you get your podcasts: trib.al/tBi4LjO

@StickToCricket Is being close to Ben Stokes a good thing? Stoke's position as captain must surely be in doubt? He's hardly been very good (to put it politely) has he?!

@sharrond62 @KemiBadenoch Says a lot about Badenoch if she seriously would consider putting you in the House of Lords. I mean wtf for?

When @KemiBadenoch asked me if I would go into the House of Lords I asked 2 things of her, 1st I wouldn’t lie (she said great that’s ok with me) & 2nd I needed to still find time to be grandma every week. I trust this woman to bring back the Conservative Party to be trusted too

@IsabelOakeshott @Nigel_Farage Putting up with journalists wanting to ask him questions...? That's odd.

🛑 Listen everyone. THIS is what @Nigel_Farage is putting up with. Much of it from The Guardian, which will stop at pretty much nothing to damage him. It is ALL the time! 🙄🤬

@NICKIMINAJ In this instance I agree with Badenoch's mockery / consternation of Mandelson's rent boy.

😩 The UK is truly one of a kind. They will portray her in film & TV one day…just like they did with Margaret Thatcher.

@emilyhewertson no need to... the far right racist mongs demonise yourselves / themselves as it is.

I see Wes Streeting has used his resignation to demonise Reform voters. Labour just don’t get it, do they?

@piersmorgan He says he can't / has never been bought. 1. Arron Banks 2. Harborne 3. Russia These are just the ones out there we know about.

Whoa… WHAT?!! Farage told us it was all for security - where did he suddenly get £1.4m in cash to buy a property if it wasn’t from Harborne’s £5m ‘gift’ ? This stinks more every day.

@SamCoatesSky @MrHarryCole He is often bought. By the Russians and of course Harbonne. And lets not forget @Arron_banks

Nigel Farage tells @MrHarryCole the £5m gift is a "reward" for Brexit Says it's "nothing to do with the Electoral Commission" and "I'm not in the least bit concerned"

@DavidVance Let everyone see. Farage gets a pass for taking a bribe / bung in the media again. Rayner gets castigated in the media for making a mistake which she has since made up for.

Let me see. Nigel Farage gets investigated. Angela Rayner is cleared. The UK establishment is corrupt

@rj_abel By the law / rules? Obviously Rayner cleared. By the media? Obviously Farage not even questioned but Rayner guilty as sin.

Well who’d have guessed? 🤨

@wesstreeting Good riddance to Mandelson's rent boy.

@Steven_Swinford The simple answer is for Streeting to get back in his box.

Totally surreal situation now: 1) Wes Streeting was preparing to launch today but may now delay because he is said to be struggling to get the numbers. His people deny this - they say he has the numbers - but say that things have changed and more cabinet ministers are going over the top and pressing for Starmer to go. But... 2) Keir Starmer insists he is going nowhere. The number calling for him to go remains at 92 - where it's been for the last 24 hours - equivalent to nearly a third of backbenchers. His allies say that good news on economy and NHS makes his case for him. He is going fo fight on 3) Enter Angela Rayner. The former Deputy PM says she has been cleared by HMRC and doesn't rule out a challenge is Streeting succeeds in triggering a contest 3) None of this is remotely sustainable. How can you have a senior Cabinet minister publicly positioning himself for a run at Number 10? How can you have a third of backbenchers publicly calling for the PM to go. 4) Someone - either Streeting or Starmer - will have to give. Otherwise the government is going to be paralysed for the forseeable future, with Starmer in office but fighting for his life and Streeting ready to go but refraining from firing the starting gun.