Philing Fit

@PCBarnes123 @RestoreBritain_ @reformparty_uk @UKLabour @Nigel_Farage @RupertLowe10 Good on Rupert to get his relative to stand!

.@RestoreBritain_ are the convient excuse. Does not explain why in a Red Wall, pro-Brexit, majority white, working class that is trending @reformparty_uk at local level, against a wildly unpopular @UKLabour Government, @Nigel_Farage is not winning in #Makerfield. @RupertLowe10 is not the reason Reform UK are struggling in Makerfield

🚨 NEW: The Tories and the Greens on Bradford Council have teamed up to block Reform councillors from committees. Will Kemi Badenoch suspend the whip from the Leader as she did in Worcestershire?

@LukeAlsford Where’s the problem here?

EXCL - Robert Kenyon's suspended X account REVEALED... The Reform candidate posted about Asian men 'assaulting white people en masse' and 'an invasion of foreign criminals'. Kenyon also said the far right doesn't exist and demanded King Charles open up his palaces to house asylum seekers, after the monarch called for unity during the Southport riots. Reform has refused to investigate their candidate and said they are proud to have him representing the party.

@LozzaFox @RestoreBritain_ The new reclaim party

Vote @RestoreBritain_ !!

@vicderbyshire There was one of piers morgan on question time on Friday

Wow

Andy Burnham now now says: 1. I will stick to Rachael Reeves’ fiscal rules. 2. I will not seek to rejoin the EU. Two U-turns in one day. What exactly would he do differently?

join.labour.org.uk/join The burnhamling army must grow

The Makerfield by-election is a choice between delivery and division. If Andy proves Labour can win, the populist right’s whole business model crumbles. Grievance politics doesn’t help people get on in life. But capping buses at £2 in Greater Manchester? Very popular! 🌹

@benhoobs @AndyBurnhamGM

WATCH: Andy Burnham Opposed Landmark Ruling to Protect Single-Sex Spaces order-order.com/2026/05/18/wat…

Amen …

@_HenryBolton @TundeMusaED @WilliamClouston lol so your ok your 9th party now!

@TundeMusaED @WilliamClouston I’m no longer in the SDP. And I’m arguing about approach, not the need.

Very serious, urgent and strategic reforms are required in the civil service, there’s absolutely no doubt of that. Indeed very many civil servants are desperate for reforms themselves. But when you don’t even try to understand the range of problems that need to be addressed and your strategy is simply to go to war with the civil service, you shouldn’t be surprised if you feed opposition and make your task far more difficult than it already is. A wise person would work with those who want to work with you, not alienate them before you start.

@SaulStaniforth Good luck nationalising anything back in the EU!

"Tell us one specific thing [Burnham] will do" Simons: ".. one of the things he's really committed to.. energy, water, social housing.. have gotten so expensive.. & one of the reasons why.. is that we've privatised a lot of them" "So with Burnham, nationalise water?" "No" lol

@_HenryBolton @john_carins I’m sure you (now on your 7th or 8th party) if your even still with the SDP will win the seat

@john_carins That’s a much more straight forward description of what’s coming out of Reform HQ than mine was 👍🏻

Nigel Farage and Reform created vote splitting as a political weapon. Whether people think they were right or wrong to do so, and whether people believe, as I do, that the Conservatives had done nothing to deserve anyone’s support, there is no avoiding the fact that Reform deliberately split the centre-right vote in order to try and destroy the Conservative Party. Nigel, Zia and Richard knew full well that in doing so they would hand Labour the General Election and a huge majority. But that was the strategy and so, surely, even if you have to break some eggs to make an omelette, they have to take some ownership and responsibility for this appalling government. Nigel Farage himself openly said he wanted to destroy the Conservative Party and pursued that objective knowing Labour would benefit from it electorally. So there is something deeply inconsistent about Reform now accusing Restore Britain of “splitting the vote” and somehow being responsible for helping Labour or Andy Burnham. Having themselves used vote splitting as a political weapon, Reform cannot now demand that every other patriotic party stand aside and hand them a free run at the electorate. And we don’t even know yet who will be “splitting the vote”. If Reform stood aside, Restore Britain would obviously benefit instead. So, the argument therefore is not really about “splitting the vote” - that’s a logical sounding but artificial argument - it’s about whether Nigel Farage and Reform are entitled to a monopoly over patriotic voters and patriotic politics. They are not. There’s another important point here too. The Makerfield by-election has effectively been triggered by Labour and Andy Burnham to get him back into Westminster and position him for a leadership challenge and potentially Downing Street. It’s being done over the heads of the people who live there. Reform meanwhile sees the by-election as a major opportunity to boost itself nationally. That’s politics, but both Labour and Reform are using this by-election for their own national political purposes and the people of Makerfield are being used. They deserve better than simply being treated as instruments in somebody else’s political strategy. That all said, Reform voters are not the problem. I know many Reform voters personally and well. Most are very decent, good, patriotic people who are thoroughly disillusioned with the old parties and want to see serious change. The issue is not them. It is whether those voters should automatically be expected to fall in behind Nigel Farage and Reform UK without question, regardless of policy depth, credibility, delivery or record. No party owns the patriotic vote and no party should be attempting to build a cartel type political monopoly. The good people of Makerfield are entitled to choice and to choose the party they trust to restore their community and restore Britain.

@anandMenon1 And then do a chicken run at the next election?

So ‘I believe x but won’t talk about it’? Does this mean he will advocate it if he wins?

@kateferguson4 So they plotted to betray the voters in Makerfield for a year?

EXCL: Josh Simons stunned Westminster when he quit as an MP this week to let Andy Burnham return. But I can reveal it was a plan a year in the making. He met Andy for beers last summer & came back saying: "Keir is finished, the next PM has to be Andy." thesun.co.uk/news/39129486/…

For Westminster, this is a good summary of what people are saying on the doors in Makerfield. From a constituent of mine on a Reform page: "I'll probably get slated for this especially in this forum but hear me out. I've spent my whole adult life wishing that someone like me, from a working class background and from the North was leading our country. All I've seen in my lifetime is public school boys telling me how things are and to be honest, coming from a family of little to no wealth, it makes my blood boil. To have the chance of a prime minister who is born and bred in my neck of the woods. Understands the environment I grew up in if nothing else. And, more so, has a chance to take that top job and maybe, just maybe, make decisions that make a difference to people like me. That's what @AndyBurnhamGM represents for me. This feels like a one time in a generation chance to get someone in who isn't part of the establishment and may do things differently than has been done before. If people vote Reform, it won't put them in power. If they won it would merely be something to brag about but wouldn't make any fundamental difference to mine or your way of life. Alteratively, if Andy wins, it's likely he'll become our new prime minister and maybe, just maybe, we'll feel the difference. If not, vote Reform in the next general election and I'll join you. Peace out 📷"

@BasilTheGreat And you’ll be the same as advanced in Gorton

The guilt tripping of Reform fanatics has started. If you compete with us then you are allowing Andy Burnham in and anything he does is on you. No. Reform are lying, weak as piss, pathetic, two faced, backstabbed who betrayed every single one of us They don’t care about vote splitting, they only care about winning It’s our duty to provide the British public with a real alternative. Vote Restore Britain

Yeah ‘us’ the politicians… we know. Should be “ For you “ FAIL