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Thinking of #USAElection2024 tonight: If #Harris wins, it’s because of women voters. #Harris_Walz2024 #HarrisForPOTUS #HarrisWalzBringHope #RememberTheLadies Abigail Adams, 2nd FLOTUS & wife of John Adams, said it better than I could: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

This is a gross betrayal of the electorate, fraud of the highest order and gross misconduct in a public office. People in Britain suffered Johnson sold himselm to the highest bidder. Johnson should answer for these crimes in a court of law. RT if you agree.

I seem to have upset the @Nigel_Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. RT if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.

Tragic truth

9. Third, in my own experience, people do not understand Long Covid. They have a fixed view of it that can be summed up as 'severe symptoms that do not resolve'. It is also seen as rare, which is why I know people with Long Covid who don't know they have Long Covid.

100% the decision of the UK government.

There are nearly 70,000,000 people in the UK. Around 200 are rioting, that means 69,999,800 people are not rioting. They keep saying everyone is rioting, pathetic. #LockUpTheNewBatchOfConnollys

Can the BBC do wall to wall coverage of the Lib Dem’s win from Reform because if it was the other way round it would be reported as a seismic shift & an excuse to invite Tice & Farage on to everything 😵‍💫…

The underlying discontent among rebellious and even loyal Labour MPs stems from what many would say is a pathetically late discovery: that what’s driving so much government policy is Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules and the absolute power of the Office for Budget Responsibility in determining whether she is breaching those rules or not. Any illusion that this isn’t the single most important driver of government decision-making was shattered today by the revealed contradiction between its establishment of a supposedly fundamental review led by disabilities minister Stephen Timms to shape new criteria for awarding Personal Independence Payments, while nonetheless sticking with the contradictory stipulation that from November next year no one will be eligible for PIP if they don’t score four points on one of PIP’s existing criteria. It is absurd and illogical to characterise Timms’s review as the face of humane reform while simultaneously saying that this new four-point rule based on existing criteria will willy-nilly come into effect next year. So what’s really going on? The work and pensions secretary’s unspoken reason for sticking to the four-point reform is that without it, and under the OBR-assessed fiscal rules, Reeves would have to fill a £5bn hole in her finances in the autumn’s budget, and not the £2.5bn hole created by Kendall’s partial welfare-reform climb down. That is a big difference when it comes to any taxes Reeves may have to raise or any spending she may have to cut. So a growing number of Labour MPs see this subservience to the OBR and the fiscal rules as just the stupidest motivation for making today’s decisions that affect the lives of the most fragile of UK citizens - decisions that will, on the government’s own calculations, shift 150,000 vulnerable people into poverty. These MPs were bitten once by the OBR dog when Reeves chose to means-test the winter fuel allowance as proof of her fealty to the OBR’s jurisdiction over her own fiscal rules. With the disability reforms, many of them now feel twice shy. They don’t ask why a Labour government respects the OBR, especially after the Truss/Kwarteng fiscal debacle caused by their disrespect for the OBR. But they do question why the Chancellor and Treasury endow the OBR with an almost mystical ability to determine which policies are sensible and why Reeves has seemingly abdicated responsibility for trying to sell the government’s initiatives to the country’s creditors independently of the OBR and fiscal rules straitjacket. So whatever the outcome of the vote tomorrow on the welfare reforms, Reeves and Starmer are now under enormous pressure - probably irresistible pressure - to lose their OBR religion.

You all under stand that this is a Concentration Camp, right? RIGHT?!

Oh Dan for heaven’s sake stop doing serious analysis … Nigel has made a nice easy headline for his pals in the media to celebrate the ninth anniversary of the Brexit referendum that he never talks about any more… just let Nigel play and stop ruining his game. It’s not meant to be seriously analysed. It’s meant to give the media another excuse to say the words “rise” and “Reform” a lot.

Dear Brexiters, You voted Leave. Gibraltar voted remain. This new deal is the consequence of what you voted for. Complaining about it now, just makes you look like the irrational uninformed children you've always been.

Why on earth do @BBCNews so relentlessly pander to people who want to destroy them? Their love affair with @reformparty_uk and the lack of actual scrutiny is beyond weird … of all the things happening in the world tonight is the return of someone most viewers have never heard of really the most important, meriting one of @ChrisMasonBBC ‘s essays after an overlong news report. Beyond weird

Populism is a form of politics which exploits problems rather than seriously seeks to resolve them. So when @Nigel_Farage says the winter fuel and two child benefit cap can be reversed by by shutting asylum hotels and scrapping net zero projects it is a classic eg. Needless to say the BBC giving it big play.

Michelle Mone can be expelled from the House of Lords by a simple majority vote in the Commons, and then in the House of Lords. Like if she needs to go. RT if she has to go.

Any politician who wants to ban migration for care homes should be forced to wait 9 hours for the toilet. I imagine pandering to anti-immigration groups would feel as painful and illogical as it does to disabled and older people left without care workers. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m…

Holy moly. Check out this tweet from the new American pope. I’m sure MAGA would hate it if you reposted this right this minute.

If I do lose my PIP I will insist on being able to live like a nondisabled person. I will expect accessibility everywhere & to face no exclusion ever. I will also expect NHS staff to carry out any support I need. That'll cost more than my PIP but that's the price of yesterday.

Labour MP Dawn Butler calls on the Government to impose a wealth tax of 2% on assets over 10 million, rather than cutting benefits. "That's a better way to bring money in to help fill the black hole that we found ourselves in," she says.