@clim8resistance Hopefully that'll put Ed back in his box. Too many briefings suggesting he fancied a tilt at the leadership.
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Patrick Russell
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Patrick Russell
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Am Yisrael Chai.
Scottish Borders Katılım Şubat 2009
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Poor Milly no mates.
But a dire picture all round.
An absolute dearth of talent. Beyond even the wilderness.
Sam Coates Sky@SamCoatesSky
NEW - YouGov Labour members polling If there is a leadership contest, your first preference: Burnham 47% Starmer 31% Rayner 8% Streeting 4% Miliband 3% Cooper 3% Mahmood 1% Carns 0% Head to heads: Burnham 59% v Starmer 37% Burnham 80% v Streeting 10% Miliband 58% v Streeting 28% Rayner 70% v Streeting 19% On Keir Starmer, should he: Take party into next election 28% Remain as leader until closer to GE 33% Step down no / in months 33% YouGov polled 706 Labour members, May 14-18
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My opinion piece based on my personal experiences with @AndyBurnhamGM in my work fighting for change, and justice for survivors and victims of sexual abuse written for today’s @DailyMail ….
Burnham wasted the chance to give a voice to grooming gang victims dailymail.com/debate/article…
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Re #Makerfield
Burnham is not local. He was neither born, raised or educated in Wigan or Makerfield. He was born in Liverpool and went to school in Warrington and St Helens. That's just a fact.
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The BBC somehow frames this story of Afghan fathers selling their young daughters into sex slavery as a hardship for them.
BBC News (World)@BBCWorld
Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices bbc.in/49UQzLU
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[GB-wide Poll, Excluding Don't Knows]
Assuming Andy Burnham is selected as Labour's candidate in Makerfield, who would you most like to see win the By-Election:
LAB: 38%
RFM: 27%
GRN: 13%
CON: 8%
LDM: 6%
Other: 6%
Via @YouGov, 17-18 May.
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@DPJHodges Is it on the same level as Wes Streeting threatening to hit people with baseball bats and pushing journalists under trains?
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Massively hiking the fines for companies that leave street scars would be a very good private members bill idea.
Emily.@emilybcfc_
What is the point in doing something so beautiful if you’re just gonna ruin it with tarmac? Pisses me off so much.
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You wouldn’t know it from Dorset Police’s post but Mohammed Abdullah is actually a Syrian asylum seeker who arrived in Britain in 2023.
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@HelenWebberley You are a straight woman. How dare you lecture a young lesbian that she shouldn't get to choose only same-sex partners? You may believe that men with penises who wear dresses magically transform, but telling lesbians they are wrong if they disagree is pure homophobia.
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MAGGIE OLIVER: Burnham had a chance to give a voice to grooming gang victims, and he wasted it trib.al/s3jhOqr
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it is objectively bonkers that the deputy Labour leader is posting about sending Reform packing in a seat held by Labour which would face no threat from Reform if there wasn’t to be a by-election caused by Labour.
Lucy Powell MP@LucyMPowell
Great to be out in Makerfield today speaking with voters. This is a huge by-election and we must all come together as one Labour team to win it, and send Reform packing. *our candidate will be selected v soon!
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@DavidGHFrost @MrLeeCain And the Tory leader insisting she will put up a candidate in Makerfield (when the Tories have no chance of winning) is a losing strategy that might help Burnham win. "Doesn't matter, they're all the same," says Badenoch to Camilla Tominey.
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Many don't seem to want to hear it but @MrLeeCain is right about where the Tory party currently stands (sadly).
His piece does not call for a change to the leader (despite what many replies say). He is calling for honesty about the fact that the current strategy is failing.
Lee Cain@MrLeeCain
Most people in the @Conservatives are not yet willing to admit this publicly but it is time to face reality - @KemiBadenoch is failing as leader. The party is in a worse position than when she took over and there are no signs of recovery. My piece for @ConHome on why it is time the Tories followed Labour and confronted its own failing leadership. 🔗 conservativehome.com/2026/05/18/lee…
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‘Listen without questioning’
Gay Not Queer@Gaynotqueer1
No, IKEA, I'm not going to 'listen without questioning.'
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It's no good complaining now. Rishi Sunak had every chance to set out a vision during his two years as Prime Minister.
The Tory Party would absolutely have got behind a properly conservative view.
Instead we got nothing for a year, & then A-level reform and the smoking ban.
Rishi Sunak@RishiSunak
Labour’s leadership contenders should treat this as a chance to win a policy mandate, not as a personal popularity contest. One of my regrets about becoming PM without a vote among party members was not having that chance. Today’s @thetimes column 👇 thetimes.com/article/76a4c9…
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Have you ever gone for a run, had the national press show up totally out of the blue, then picked up your car up somewhere on the route and drove home?
Definitely not all planned 😆
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@Fox_Claire @tomhfh I believe this was very much the intended consequence.
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@tomhfh A few of us, tbf, warned this is exactly what could happen. Concerns were dismissed as scaremongering.
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Those who wrote, voted for, and supported the Online Safety Act won't have imagined it would lead to this.
But that's because they misunderstand how seriously platforms take threats of billion pound fines, or executive imprisonment.
In any wavering case, they will now *always* fall on the side of censorship. The risk of leaning on the side of free speech is just too great.
This is what regulators never understand about their rules. Market participants are overwhelmingly likely to *over-interpret* them, because compliance costs are high. No one can afford to have a lawyer look at every single case. So the default becomes to block.
I see this every day with how we have to respond to election period broadcasting restrictions. But it's pervasive across the entire economy.
It's a feature of regulation, not a bug.
Zia Yusuf@ZiaYusufUK
🚨 Labour is using the “Online Safety Act” to silence political opponents, and TikTok is doing their dirty work. First, TikTok removed my video announcing Reform UK’s new policy to place secure illegal migrant detention centres in non-Reform constituencies, prioritising Green ones. TikTok explicitly cited the Online Safety Act as the reason for its removal. This is hard evidence of this draconian legislation being weaponised to silence political opponents. That same video has 6.2 million views on other platforms. Today, the censorship escalated. TikTok has now removed my video outlining the key policies I would implement as Home Secretary, claiming it is “Hate Speech and Hateful Behaviour.” They warned me that any further "violations" will result in a strike, potentially leading to being de-platformed altogether. This is all the more staggering given TikTok happily hosts hundreds of videos of people calling for the assassination of Nigel Farage. My TikTok videos had received 18 million views over the previous 28 days. This is a chilling attempt to silence one of the biggest and fastest-growing UK political accounts on the platform. TikTok is engaging in direct political interference in the midst of the most pivotal elections in our country’s history. All under the auspice of the “Online Safety Act” that the Tories and Labour claimed to be about protecting children. It is, and always will be about silencing voices the open-borders political establishment don’t like. @TikTokComms have decided to try and suppress Reform. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
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Given the ridiculous volume of Prime Ministers that Britain’s endured in recent years, I think it should now be law that if a PM quits or is forced out during his/her term, it automatically triggers a new general election. That might concentrate their minds to do a better job.
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Let me get this straight, Andy Burnham’s great achievement is £2 bus fares at a cost of £135m to the public and £200m a year ongoing.
LMAO, he is going to be a disaster.
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