@vikinick_ @firebornnn Definitely not. Kamala has underperformed in California during every election she’s run in.
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@firebornnn Also if Kamala runs as 3rd party she very likely wins California.
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@MobyDickSpoiler 59% of voters agree with the ruling, with only 18% opposing that.
Even a plurality of labour voters support the ruling.
A green surge is not going to happen in Makerfield. 88% of reform inclined voters support the decision.
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It's like he's courting a green surge in a seat where he desperately needs their numbers to win
Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️⚧️@LeftieStats
🚨BREAKING | Burnham has abandoned his support for trans rights in his latest u-turn, backing EHRC guidance and the 2025 Supreme Court ruling. At a campaign launch, he said: "The time has come to take the Supreme Court ruling and the guidance and implement it" (Via @Telegraph)
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@IrishPatri0t Mark Carney is more like David Cameron than Davey.
15% cuts to government departments
Cutting 40k civil servants
Halve legal immigration
Build new oil pipeline
Etc etc
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@TSKAnalyst @corncobanalysis AIPAC literally spent 2.4mn dollars opposing Malinowski…
How is he a pro-Israel candidate according to your logic?
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Bro, come on, what is this
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@technopopulist He over-performed by 10 points in that Mayoral Election.
Andy Street got 37% of the vote in the Mayoral Contest, compared to the General Election where the Conservatives got 27% in the West Midlands.
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You lost your mayorship, Andy. The voters made it brutally clear what they think of One Nation Toryism. It’s also rich how you toss around the word “pro-business” while belonging to a party that championed NIMBYism and industry‑killing Net Zero policies. And what do you mean by “pragmatic” when you presided over the Boriswave and refused to scrap the HRA and ECHR?
Andy Street@andy4wm
I am committed to the Conservative Party and want it to succeed. But my view is simple: the Party is strongest when it is pragmatic, pro-business and focused on growth, not distracted by populism and the fringes. That’s how we renew the Party.
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@Reformisneeded @tesssummers98 @MarwanData It’s Conservative Party policy to stand a candidate in every possible election
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@tesssummers98 @MarwanData Considering its a very left wing seat, i imagine it wouldnt be worth the campaigning costs for the Tories to attempt to contest the seat.
I'd be quite surprised if they chose to stand a candidate here.
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If the rumours are right, then this might be the highest profile by-election in modern political history.
Candidates who are rumoured to run in Gorton and Denton:
LAB🌹: Andy Burnham
RFM➡️: Zia Yusuf
WPB⚙️: George Galloway
GRN🟢: Zack Polanski
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@redditchrache When did you stop being Director of Strategy? Wikipedia (shows how reliable this is) states you are still in that position
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I’ve no special knowledge of this scenario and I don’t work for Kemi now.
But the reason I backed her for party leader in 2022 and ran her campaign in 2024 is because of the qualities she displays in this clip.
It takes enormous courage to put yourself forward for leadership roles in politics and she has that with knobs on.
But anyone who ever worked with her or knows her discovers that she takes her role as steward of our party seriously because she cares about it as a treasured institution.
It is not about getting a position for herself. It is about building up a historic party again to serve the nation.
That’s the difference between her and this sorry parade of selfish snakes and liars.
Good riddance to the lot of them.
Kemi Badenoch@KemiBadenoch
I have sacked Robert Jenrick from the Shadow Cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership with immediate effect. I was presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect in a way designed to be as damaging as possible to his Shadow Cabinet colleagues and the wider Conservative Party. The British public are tired of political psychodrama and so am I. They saw too much of it in the last government, they’re seeing too much of it in THIS government. I will not repeat those mistakes.
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@FastForward2029 @SteveBakerFRSA @KemiBadenoch @RobertJenrick In fairness, Steve was always public about his disapproval of leaders or policies
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@SteveBakerFRSA @KemiBadenoch @RobertJenrick It's terrible when MPs are disloyal to their leader Steve.
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💯 Absolutely right from @KemiBadenoch - this is intolerable from @RobertJenrick
🙄Robert of course broke the cardinal rule of planning political operations: don’t get caught!
Kemi Badenoch@KemiBadenoch
I have sacked Robert Jenrick from the Shadow Cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership with immediate effect. I was presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect in a way designed to be as damaging as possible to his Shadow Cabinet colleagues and the wider Conservative Party. The British public are tired of political psychodrama and so am I. They saw too much of it in the last government, they’re seeing too much of it in THIS government. I will not repeat those mistakes.
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@theguardianfeed Just for the record, Zahawi did NOT resign as Chancellor due to his unpaid tax bill, he was the caretaker Chancellor and was not reappointed to the position when Truss became PM.
He was instead sacked by Sunak as Chair of the Conservative Party.
Accuracy is important.
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Show some gratitude, people – Nadhim Zahawi has joined Reform for our benefit, apparently | Marina Hyde
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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@Just_a_b1oke @an0n_Nic @peterrhague Singapore has a quasi-sovereign wealth fund, with zero natural resources.
Their version of NI contributions, which admittedly is a lot higher than ours, goes into individual pots to pay for healthcare, housing, and pensions.
It can be done, just needs long term thinking
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@an0n_Nic @peterrhague Had your chance with North Sea Oil revenue.
Instead your Thatcher tory capitalist government sold off and privatised it for buttons 😂
Cope harder.
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What people have not figured out is that if you want a kitchen porter to be paid £45k you need people on average to be earning x4 that so they can consume the service. The problem now is that the UK is a low-pay economy and the state is pushing up the bottom end, but the top end will not consume it because they don’t have the disposable income. Vicious cycle.
ChefDeanBanks@banks_chef
New Kitchen Porter wage breakdown 12.71 per hour 45 hours per week =29.7k + 8k service charge (taxed) 37,740 +15% NI Contributions = 5661 +5% Pension = 1887 Paid by company £37,289 Total wage £45,289 People still question why a burger is over £20
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Jonathan Reynolds is right. A wealth tax is "daft". Here's why:
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle
A UK wealth tax sounds simple: "tax the super‑rich, fund public services" But it's not. Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029. Here’s the evidence:
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@IainDale I did not realise you had started another podcast since Jacqui departed.
Definitely scratches the For the Many itch. Although, Tessa is right, there is some second wife energy 😂
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If you've not tried out the podcast yet, maybe this episode is for you!
Iain Dale 🏴🇬🇧 ⚒️@IainDale
New episode of the WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY podcast 24. I Marijuana be with you. @TessaDunlop and I discuss the King in Canada, drugs reform, Trump v the Judges & Mme Macron's slapping. Allegedly. Or was it 'goofing'? Listen podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/24-…
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@British_Enjoyer @BenedictSpence Andrea Jenkyns was not a cabinet minister, she was barely a minister.
She served as a junior education minister in a caretaker government
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I think Reform… are not actually having a very good day.
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@trumpetadagreat @punishedcler @Liam_Holman99 @TrueSlazac Appeasement wasn’t a choice, it was the only option.
Britain wasn’t ready for war in 1936-1938, so delaying it was the only option. And not least because the British people wouldn’t have accepted it.
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@TanBerkAki @OnyxAurelius @nikicaga @1783329a Ross Perot was not far right.
He supported gun control, supported gay rights, was pro-choice and wanted Medicare for all. He was also against the Gulf War.
If you think that is far right, you’re insane.
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Iowa after Republicans ban corn syrup
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna@RepLuna
❌ BAN FLUORIDE ❌ BAN PARABENS ❌ BAN FOOD DYES ❌ BAN HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP It’s time to Make America Healthy Again!
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@HenryLD_ @rollo75 @romneynation Hoover won in 1928
But since then, only Republican tickets with one of those names have won the White House
No Republican from 1932 to 1952
Nixon VP in 52&56
Nixon Pres in 68&72
Bush VP in 80&84
Bush Pres in 88
Bush Jr Pres in 2000&04
Trump in 2016&24
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@rollo75 @romneynation who of these three was on the ballot in 28? genuinely so confused by this
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2000: No Biden, 🟥
2004: No Biden, 🟥
2008: Biden on ticket, 🟦
2012: Biden on ticket, 🟦
2016: No Biden, 🟥
2020: Biden on ticket, 🟦
2024: No Biden, 🟥
NOTICE A PATTERN????????
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@meIisactu I wouldn’t be completely surprised if Dominic Cummings turns up working for Elon at some point.
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This is poor man's 'misfits and weirdos' spadjobs.uk moment. Where Britain leads America stumbles as it follows on nearly a decade later once again
Department of Government Efficiency@DOGE
We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE. We don’t need more part-time idea generators. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting. If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.
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@thomasforth You’re just inviting another pile on about how they’d be cheaper if we had cheaper energy
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@SteveDavies365 @unes33501870 It would be an incredibly difficult system to transition to. You’d have to run our current system (or a variation of it) simultaneously with the new compulsory savings scheme until enough of a cushion is built up.
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@unes33501870 I like that system. It's not strictly libertarian because of the compulsive aspect but I think that's inevitable. I would prefer several provident institutions rather than one. Interesting argument of as to whether that saving & spending private or 'public but non governmental'.
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Public spending as % of GDP :
Singapore : 15%
US : 38.5%
Norway : 38.5%
Sweden : 46%
This guy lives on another planet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c…
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@NYRangersss @geoffreyvs Quite simply that the Wisconsin Democratic Party has actually invested a lot in their ground game and get out the vote approach which you’d expect to lead to higher turnout (not just this year, but in off cycle elections as well)
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Love the unfounded takes about vote fraud on the right even in THIS election because Rosen has taken the lead in Nevada — when Trump is all but certain to carry NV at the top of the ticket. Seems like if you're gonna do fraud, you'd wanna make sure you win the presidency.
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