P.J. Horton (Author)

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📺The last original episode of ‘The Munsters’ aired 60 years ago, May 12, 1966, on CBS

Henry Thomas' astonishing audition to play Elliott in E.T. At the end Spielberg says, "okay, kid, you got the job."

“you boy - how many Reform councillors have gone now?”

‘What were they so scared of?’ Caller Mo believes Keir Starmer failed to ‘take on his enemies head-on’ in a media climate that was never going to allow him or Labour to succeed.

If only there was something we could do to boost the economy by 5%, remove trade barriers & unleash investment #BrexitHasFailed #RejoinEU #FarageOut

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Sorry, Keir, but why should only young people have Freedom of Movement? Why can't British adults also have the freedom to love, live, work, set up business and retire across our continent – just like the half a billion citizens of the EU do? Why do your red lines block that?

And yet it is the future of the Labour Party which is being endlessly discussed.

Tommy Bond, aka"Butch" from "The Little Rascals" causes trouble for The Boys in "Block-Heads"

Keir Starmer, "On Brexit, the reason I reminded everyone of what Nigel Farage said was because that was the promise he put to the country" "That we'd be stronger, we'd be richer, we'd have lots of money for the NHS, immigration will come down" "It all proved to be false" "Farage is not going back to the country now and saying it was a good thing, you've all benefited" "Farage will talk about almost anything else apart from the consequences of the one thing he delivered for the country, Brexit" "Farage doesn't want to talk about it, and there's a reason for that, it didn't help working people" "It turns out what he said wasn't true" "That's why Farage doesn't want to talk about Brexit" "But we have to talk about it now because we have to address the situation we are in" "We have to give this country a stronger economy, a stronger defence and security arrangement given the world we live in" "That's why I said what I said about being closer to Europe" "And this government being defined by bringing Europe back together and the UK at the heart of Europe"

Our party has suffered a historic defeat. Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more. What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance. The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people. We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it. Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits. Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them. Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that. In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.  We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people. The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.  Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government. For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics. But we have the chance to fix this.  1/2

Tory MP James Cleverly suggesting 2 years isn’t long enough to turn the Tory Party around but the exact same duration *is* more than enough for Labour to turn around a country crippled by 14 years of a government he played a role in #bbclaurak

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How’s that working out for you MAGA??

Never mind the UFO files. Release the Epstein files.

What a voice… what a presence… what a legend ❤️ Elvis Presley performing “My Way”

And why was there no such approach on this story until the polls were closed?

A young BBCQT audience member posed a stinging rebuke, asking Jenrick: “How long will this go on for before people realise that grifters like you and your colleagues are the problem?” The MP for Newark seemed rattled by the exchange and immediately resorted to immigration rhetoric in response. The youngster has received a wave of support on social media, with many praising his approach as a blueprint for how the British media should challenge politicians.

Happy Albert Finney Day! #botd After turning down a CBE in 1980 and a knighthood in 2000, “I think the 'Sir' thing slightly perpetuates one of our diseases in England, which is snobbery.”