Simon Walker

@Ryanair If you flew to Bangkok it would be the mean.

average Turkey flight

@DAaronovitch The People’s Front of Judea really can’t stand the Judea Peoples Front.

This game on the New Right won't end well

@mcdermottkc_ @wesstreeting @Keir_Starmer I think Wes’s point is that the local election results are more representative of the voters intention than a random poll quoted by the guido web site.

@wesstreeting That’s not correct is it ? You won your seat in July 2024 … in an election where @Keir_Starmer was the Leader of the Party ( as he still is) …of course local elections may be a guide ….. but your election to Parliament was July 2024

I won my seat two and a half weeks ago - with Labour councillors elected in every ward in Ilford North and only three fewer councillors than we started with (on a shocking day for Labour nationally). Keep up! I'll be standing in Ilford North at the next general election.

@JournalistJill @almurray £525 tin @inchscider. It’s after 4pm somewhere

Find your Peter Murrell item by putting a pound sign against the number of X followers and the last thing you touched in your kitchen. Mine is a £42600 pizza wheel.

@DanNeidle Raise the personal allowance threshold.

Reform UK have announced a plan to make overtime tax-exempt. I'm sceptical this makes sense - more soon. But an interesting question: if you were the Chancellor, and you were making a £5bn tax cut... what tax would you cut? What would have the maximum positive impact?

@Capybarapond @KirstieMAllsopp The price of over borrowing?

@SimonWalker166 @KirstieMAllsopp The profit on rentals isn't really worth the hassle anymore, hence a growing number of LL's are evicting tenants and selling up

Some Facts: Over 50% of tenants rent from a private landlord. The Government cannot afford to buy/build that number of homes. Some people will never be able to, or want to, buy their home. If you attack landlords you will reduce the number of homes available to rent.

@Lexxity I’m not on that many but will now have to count them

@SimonWalker166 I’m on 92 airports so far and honestly Manchester is consistently terrible. I just do not understand why.

Manchester airport an absolute shambles again this morning. It pains me it’s so bad. What happened to my local airport?

@mcdermottkc_ @lukejcr I do think Luke both respects the electors and understands them more than you do. Doesn’t matter how much you tell everyone different.

@lukejcr This is just such nonsense “ a seat with Labour in its bones” …. The Labour MP stood down and involved them in an unnecessary by election. He gave Reform an opportunity …. Do you think we are idiots ?

The people I met in Makerfield weren’t making an ideological statement. They were asking to be listened to. And they were, when given the chance, very willing to have that conversation. Nigel Farage is in for a fight here. This is a seat with Labour in its bones. 🌹

@montie @KarlTurnerMP Appear a bit unhinged for someone who’s “a mate of mine”

@KarlTurnerMP On local election night you were hoping he'd stay! Your media performances are magnetic but never quite add up to a strategy :)

Good. It’s about time. He’s brought this on himself. Tatty bye. Briefed against good people. Disgrace. Absolute disgrace.

@spectator @michaelgove @Madz_Grant They threw the kitchen sink at Denton and Gorton, 50% of the electorate voted.

'Reform and the Greens would throw the kitchen sink at it' Andy Burnham needs a seat in parliament before he can make a bid for Labour leader, but Maddie predicts rival parties would take their gloves off if he stood in a by-election. @michaelgove | @madz_grant

@henrywinter An outfield player takes the 1 min off the pitch. It’s only the keeper that goes down because they won’t be sent to the touchline for a minute, so send a centre half instead.

Various rule changes being suggested to combat trend of goalkeepers feigning injury to allow tactical time-outs. Tim Sheppard spent 20 years as Norwich City’s physio, running on the pitch to deal with injuries, is now retired and observing modern methods with considerable frustration. “Like many watchers of football I have been irritated by goalkeepers, in the majority of cases, taking the mickey,” he says. He has a proposal. “If they sit down, get the stretcher and the spare goalkeeper immediately on the pitch.” If the keeper is genuinely injured, then the stretcher and reserve goalie may be needed anyway. If he’s not, and it’s merely time-wasting to allow outfield players to get instructions from the head coach, it might encourage/shame the allegedly stricken keeper to get up and play on. It would be embarrassing for an uninjured keeper to go off on a stretcher. “They’d then have to wait 2-3 minutes before being allowed back on,” Sheppard says. “It would send out a message. Stop taking the mickey out of the game. Stop taking the mickey out of supporters.”

@montie @reformparty_uk And what it says is all good.

The SNP will happily engage with Sinn Fein but not @reformparty_uk. Says a lot about them. A lot.

@domjoly @BoLoudon Hi might

@BoLoudon He’s not going to shag you

79 is the new 39. President Trump is aging in reverse.

@montie @TiceRichard @bbclaurak Perhaps the questions need to be answered. Just because Nigel hid before the locals doesn’t mean it goes away. Just like the Epstein files, inconvenient questions don’t go away.

That was a waste of an interview of @TiceRichard by @bbclaurak. Questions that were asked before the election and being repeated now about eg the donation to Nigel didn't concern voters who gave us nearly 1,500 gains. The BBC needs to move on.

@DAaronovitch @DPJHodges @RosieDuffield1 According to dans imagination

@DPJHodges @RosieDuffield1 According to who, Dan?

On Andy Burnham: * Allies say seat has "100%" been lined up * Private polling they've conducted reassures them he will win any by-election * Keir Starmer will be told to make statement he can run. If he refuses a leadership challenge, backed by Ministers, will be triggered

@DAaronovitch @FayeBrownSky @Johnmcternan Because they exist in Faye’s head

@FayeBrownSky @Johnmcternan Why don't these people have names?

Another Burnham backer says clique around Starmer has brought Labour to "edge of extinction" and they need to set out a leadership transition. "The irony is that actually I think that the government is beginning to deliver, but that is after too many poor judgement calls and policy mistakes. The leadership is loathed. "Things have got to change. The party has been dominated by a small clique who have brought us to the edge of extinction. "They owe it to our members to make sure that we set aside pride and ambition, get our best players on the pitch, and begin an orderly transition to a change of leader in the next few months."

@Lexxity @Ginger_Tucci Hope not. And hope a leaflet arrived.

@Ginger_Tucci Suspect we’re going reform.

I suspect my historically incredibly Labour area will vote green today. And I’d bet my left tit that the majority of change will be down to the handling of Gaza.

@RhonddaBryant You have to fund it though Chris. The jab for those in danger of strokes and cardiac issues was announced by NICE but there are no funds for it.

As one who has been on immunotherapy I know what good news this is. Cancer jab means ‘blockbuster’ treatment takes one minute, not hours thetimes.com/article/6d1450…