JA Smith

Go on, I'll bite. Given the trend for defeated leadership candidates to get cabinet roles, I'll go... DPM/CDoL: Rayner 🏦: Miliband ✈️: Starmer 🏠: Streeting ⚡: Powell ⚕️: Mahmood 🎖️: Carns 🚌: Haigh 🎭: Kim Johnson Yes, I'm putting Starmer in the cabinet. I'm crazy, me. 🫪

So Makerfield Reform Candidate Robert Kenyon wanted to smell and lick Carol Vorderman's ar$ehole. All they had to do was pick someone who is not a massive weirdo

There is absolutely no doubt that, on every main measure, this Labour government is running the country better than the Tories did over the last 14 years. Unfortunately, that just seems to not be enough for people.

If this is all true, then Robert Kenyon, the Reform candidate in Makerfield, in clearly bonkers & deeply unpleasant, and it's no wonder he was Facebook friends with the self-declared fascist Gary Raikes. Reform's vetting processes seem about as effective as a chocolate teapot.

Reform have ordered a broadcast media blackout except GBNews. I wonder why? Sounds like 1933 Germany.

During the Covid pandemic, Kenyon claimed media were “complicit” in “global tyranny” in a reply to a far-right Holocaust denier. He also called the idea that vaccines help “a load of crap” and compared Australia’s vaccine policies to Nazism.

Kenyon also said he loved how female rugby players "handle their knockers." And wrote: "If it's not tits and arse or rugby its politics."

Rob Kenyon’s second account featured posts objectifying women, peddling conspiracy theories and calling for violence. In one post, Kenyon suggested that he’d "love to smell & lick" Carole Vorderman's "arsehole."

This is exactly the kind of rebuttal to disinformation that needs to happen every day of the week 💥🇬🇧

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate, Rob Kenyon, had a SECOND deleted social media account, and the archived posts are damning. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/21/ref…

❤️ Andy Burnham reaffirms his support for Proportional Representation ahead of the Makerfield byelection. @AndyBurnhamGM @guardian 🌹 #Labour4PR #ElectoralReform theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

We are a tolerant country. But if you come here and break our laws, there is no place for you here.

We're getting on with the job.

Interesting stat from today’s immigration figures. Number of asylum seekers in down by a third to 20,885 Creating a controlled migration system that is fit for purpose was never about quick fixes and gimmicks; this was always about sustained policy interventions 👇

Andy explains why he’s standing in Makerfield on @BBCRadioManc 👇

NEW: There are now 35,000 fewer illegal migrants in asylum hotels – a 63% decrease since September 2023. At its peak, 400 asylum hotels were in use, costing the taxpayer £9 million a day. All asylum hotels will close their doors to illegal migrants for good.

@vicderbyshire Virtually every reply to this a lie. Non EU immigration now falling fast following earlier falls in EU inflows. Emigration of non EU also rising as a direct lag effect of the Boris wave. Emigration of Brits in 2025 actually lower than in the year before the election

Net migration to the UK fell to 171,000 in 2025, new figures show - the lowest level since 2012, excluding Covid 
It hit a peak of 944,000 in the year to March 2023 
The 2025 figure is nearly half the total for 2024, which was 331,000 
The ONS says the main reason for the fall last year was a drop in non-EU nationals arriving for ‘work-related reasons’, which was down 47% 
In 2025, total long-term immigration was 813,000 - while emigration was 642,000, leading to the net number of 171,000 
The figures show 246,000 Brits left the UK, although 110,000 arrived

Removals are 41% higher under this Labour Government. There is no place in our country for those who come here illegally or break our laws.

Labour should be absolutely hammering both Reform and the Tories with these figures today. Net migration has fallen to 171,000 in 2025- lowest level since 2021 and covid pandemic. Down from 944,000 peak in 2022-23. Use of asylum hotels down by a third since peak.

@Bart91452028 @Dan4Barnet You idiots make me laugh. You invent something completely untrue and then get outraged about it.

@Dan4Barnet But free entry for illegals no doubt.

We're slashing VAT this summer on kids meals and family leisure activities. More detail here: gov.uk/government/new…