David
3.8K posts


@AllisonPearson @astro_trader I suspect that the media in general is keeping Starmer in post. They could destroy him in a flash if they want to. GBNEWS is doing a pretty good job on the coverage of this drama.
English

@AVadm1n @Katie_Lam_MP Really don’t understand the opposition to digital id cards 🤷🏼♂️
English

@Katie_Lam_MP Why do Conservatives so rarely include digital ID in their list of griefs against Labour policies?
The fact that they don't is telling.
Nobody voted for it as it wasn't in the Labour manifesto.
English

@UnitedDays99 🤣🤣🤣 You lot are hilarious, it’s all you have to ‘celebrate’ these days. How the mighty have fallen
English

@EAPx413 @susanpow @alexbakerman I think you are right, even when he tries, he comes across as stilted and insincere. I don’t believe he is, but politics for a good few years has been ‘populist’ and driven by media agendas - any weakness highly exaggerated.
There is no natural successor in the Labour Party…
English

That is fair, and I do respect your perspective.
I’m not saying nothing has improved, or that Labour should have fixed everything by now.
My issue is that Starmer has made a lot of people and communities feel isolated, talked down to and politically homeless.
He says he comes from a working-class background, but for me it does not come through in the way he speaks or connects with ordinary people.
That disconnect is a big part of why so many have turned away from him.
English

What is remarkable about this letter is not merely the resignation itself, but the extraordinary political miscalculation that underpins it. At a moment when the Labour Party possesses one of the strongest parliamentary mandates in modern British political history, there are those within its own ranks seemingly prepared to weaken the Government from within rather than recognise the scale of the challenges inherited after fourteen years of Conservative decline.
To suggest that the Prime Minister should now prepare an “orderly transition” barely into government is not an act of strategic wisdom. It is an act of impatience and political self indulgence. Governments are not rebuilt overnight, economies are not repaired by rhetoric, and public services shattered over a decade do not recover within months.
The contradictions within the letter are striking. It speaks of transformational programmes, of meaningful work undertaken in Government, of efforts to tackle hatred and division, yet then abruptly pivots into a demand that the very leadership overseeing those policies should effectively step aside. One cannot simultaneously claim to believe in collective responsibility whilst publicly detonating confidence in the administration one serves within.
Most damaging of all is the timing. At a period where the political right, Reform, hostile media networks, and increasingly aggressive populist movements are seeking to fracture progressive politics across Britain, internal grandstanding of this nature only serves their interests. The electorate does not reward parties that appear consumed by internal ego and permanent instability. History has shown this repeatedly.
The public delivered Labour a mandate to govern, not to descend into another era of factional warfare and theatrical resignations. The country requires seriousness, endurance, and discipline. Those who cannot uphold collective responsibility during difficult periods perhaps misunderstand entirely what government is supposed to demand of them.
Miatta Fahnbulleh@Miatsf
This morning I sent my letter of resignation to the Prime Minister. I urge the Prime Minister to do the right thing for the country and the Party and set a timetable for an orderly transition.
English

@w1llthemarshal @JackWDart Sums up my thoughts exactly
The media are driving this
English

@JackWDart I’m not a Labour supporter or a Starmer fan but I think it’s damaging to the country to swap PMs yet again. And for whom exactly? It’s not like there’s a generational talent waiting in the wings. Destabilising, navel gazing and pointless.
English

If Labour MPs detonate this government, the calls for an early general election will be immediate.
Reform will claim that whoever succeeds Starmer will be illegitimate, because they didn’t win the election.
The media will hound them, as relentlessly as they have Starmer, and the cycle continues.
This all plays into Reform’s hands. It’s exactly what they want.
English

Who would have thought that @RobertJenrick would lie? 🤷🏼♂️
Rogue One@RogueOne18
@RobertJenrick This isn’t quite as your describing is it Bob? Bassetlaw isn’t “charging people for selling a few eggs or cakes”. The rule is an old street‑trading licence policy that accidentally covers home honesty boxes. The council is reviewing it and plans to exempt small‑scale sellers.
English

Talking bollocks all season, 1st it was Arsenal were going to win all four, Then Arsenal had the best squad in football history , now this! 🤣 you can tell he's never probably kicked a ball in his garden never mind on a pitch! 🤣🤷🏼♂️
Piers Morgan@piersmorgan
Not proper football. Way too aggressive. Leakier than sieves. Arteta’s Attritional Arsenal will grind down either of them.
English

@dave43law She’s now looking to score political points from the despicable events in Golders Green - horrid person.
She is either badly advised or has no moral compass, or a Tory!
English

PMQs
You have to question whether she just misled the house - twice - by omission.
Firstly her Universal Credit comment - stated 1.5million more claimants under Labour BUT omitted that half of those are transfers from legacy benefits, a process continuing from the Tory Government.
Then she stated the welfare bill is more than the tax take - with the obvious inference this is benefit claimants - except of course for the fact that the Tories moved pensions under the umbrella of welfare and £177billion or more than half the total amount is pension spend not 'benefit' spend

English

@oIIyjm @ChiOnwurah They are not extra, already on support that now moves to UC, be disingenuous if you want……
English

@ChiOnwurah "At PMQs the Tory leader said that 1.5million extra people are on universal credit - but that's because they are moving off legacy systems...".
So what you're saying is 1.5 million extra people are on universal credit 👍
English

@StevenMcinerney Your club is a stain on English football, so don’t worry we’re not going to forget.
This sport is going to be a hell of a lot better when your dead club is wallowing in the lower leagues where it belongs.
English














