Kim Mortimer

@PolitlcsUK He could have said No .

🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham says he wasn’t involved in ousting Keir Starmer

I couldn't believe what I was hearing ! He claims it was the PLP - nothing to do with him. He caused two unnecessary bye-elections - at great cost to the taxpayer - with the publicly declared objective of deposing the incumbent Labour PM. This is way BEYOND denial.

As of 4.00pm today the candidates were confirmed, and the race for the Clacton by-election is officially on between @CountBinface & @Nigel_Farage. Here's our parody of "Englishman in New York" by #Sting - titled "Garbage Can Who Can Talk" - to reflect on the challenger 🎶🚀 #noAI

A question: Nigel Farage has said the £5m was an unconditional gift. If the Guardian's latest story is correct, it was actually conditional on him becoming an MP. And promoting crypto in return? Wouldnt that be a signing on bonus (and taxable?)

@UKLabour We had hope with Sir Keir Starmer. He was doing an incredible job. In two years he had achieved a lot and the country was moving forward. You have trashed that hope. You should have waited and learned the ropes , had a handover two years later .

People have been waiting too long for politics to let them hope again. We’re going to give them that hope back.

Good man brings failing political party together. Good man kicks out racism from party. Good man hoists party up by bootstraps and makes it re-electable. Good man leads the party to great success in a general election. Good man achieves a lot in 2 years. Good man gets kicked out.

We keep waiting for someone to invent a machine that cleans the air, stores carbon, produces oxygen and grows food. We already did. It’s called a tree.

🔴 NEW MPs Bid To End ‘Royal Secrecy’ And Open The Crown Up To Scrutiny By @josiahmortimer Proposed bill would strip the King and his heirs of their blanket Freedom of Information exemptions — as royal biographer describes a decade of blocked requests and redactions Support independent, reader-funded journalism. Subscribe to Byline Times. READ ON: bylinetimes.com/2026/07/17/mps…

Very ironic.

You can be anti-establishment, or you can defend fox hunting. You cannot be both.

Andy Burnham Making Shabana Mahmood Chancellor Would Resurrect the Failed Politics of Morgan McSweeney – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/07/17/and…

So… …IF you are PAID £5m for a service : that is employment (or business income) …IF it is not declared as such (however immoral the income is) there is income (or corporation) tax due on it …IF this has not been declared as such it’s tax evasion #HMRC are you listening? #Clacton theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

He lost. He wasn’t shot. He is on the list. He is a pedophile

@justinmadders @andyburnham I had hope for the first time in 14 years when Keir Starmer delivered a Labour government with 411 seats. I had hope when I saw him start delivering on things that really matter. I had hope when he restored trust in us overseas. And all the time, there was a plot to remove him.

Thames Water will run out of money by the end of the year. However,you'll be pleased to know they will still have money to pay outrageous dividends to shareholders and unjustified bonuses for its CEO Chris Weston. It's time Thames Water were told to f*ck off. Nationalise now.

Donald Trump is trying to interfere in our democracy, and it tells you everything about how desperate these Tory has-beens are that they want to help him.

AT 93 BETTY BROWN IS STILL FIGHTING Betty Brown just turned 93 and picked up an OBE from King Charles at Windsor Castle. Lovely photo. Lovely medal on a lovely jacket. What she still does not have, six months after settling her claim, is a single penny of the compensation she was promised. Betty and her late husband Oswall ran the Annfield Plain Post Office in County Durham from 1985 to 2003. The Horizon accounting system built by Fujitsu @fujitsu_uk told them money was missing from their branch. It was not missing. It was never missing. They spent around 100,000 pounds of their own savings covering shortfalls that did not exist, because that is apparently the correct response when a computer accuses you and nobody in charge believes the human standing in front of it. She is thought to be the oldest surviving victim of the Horizon scandal. She was one of the original 555 claimants who backed Alan Bates in the group legal action against the Post Office @PostOffice. She reached a settlement through the government redress scheme at the end of last year. At her OBE investiture in June she said she still had not received a penny. Meanwhile Fujitsu, the company whose faulty software caused this entire catastrophe, has been criticised by a committee of MPs for contributing nothing financially toward the redress bill, which is running toward 2 billion pounds. The company that broke the till keeps its money. The 93 year old it falsely accused of stealing from that till gets a medal instead of a bank transfer. She dedicated her OBE to the sub-postmasters who never lived to see this day. She has said before that at least 13 people are believed to have taken their own lives because of what Horizon did to them. She said she wears the honour for them because she still feels everything they felt. She also had a message for the Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer, asking him directly to sort this out as quickly as he can. That is a simple sentence. It appears to be an extremely difficult instruction to follow. Britain does love turning its victims into heroes once the damage is done and the bill has gone unpaid long enough to be embarrassing. Medals are cheap. Redress schemes, it turns out, are somehow still cheaper for the people who actually owe the money.

Serious shade thrown by Keir Starmer's spokesperson this morning: "The Prime Minister wishes both teams well for the final, especially Spain"