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@docrussjackson He used to be a really interesting commentator, one that could actually make you think. Sadly since joining the tory party and therefore getting his @thetimes contract (coincidence?) he's gone full on right wing rage baiter.

There are a quarter of a million British academics. Apparently they and all 'western universities' are guilty of 'indoctrinating' students with 'woke ideology'. It's impossible to overstate what a pathetic ill-informed attention-seeking rage-bating hypocrite Matthew Syed can be.

We told you to vote Reform to get Starmer out. And thanks to you, voting for us, Starmer is now gone. This is the victory Reform will now claim. Legitimising this campaign, and their message. Victory will be Farage’s.

@GordonFielden @FredThomasUK Superbly put, I concur with every word.

Fred, with the greatest of respect, you have served as a Member of Parliament for scarcely more than a year and ten months, yet now appear willing to publicly undermine a Prime Minister who devoted years to rescuing the Labour Party from electoral ruin and restoring it to government with a commanding parliamentary majority. You are entirely correct to warn of dangerous political opponents. However, to weaken the leadership publicly at such an early stage of government serves only to strengthen those very forces and project precisely the image of instability and division upon which Reform and the Conservatives depend. You suggest that many people are not yet sufficiently feeling the benefits of change in their daily lives. That may indeed be true. Yet no serious government could reasonably be expected to reverse fourteen years of economic stagnation, austerity, Brexit damage and declining public services within little more than a year in office. The restoration of a country requires patience, discipline, stability and sustained leadership. The British electorate voted decisively for Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, not for another chapter of internal Labour factionalism, briefing and leadership intrigue. We have already witnessed where that road leads. Years of division rendered Labour unelectable and handed victory after victory to the political right, with consequences from which the nation is still attempting to recover. At this moment, the country requires seriousness, discipline and loyalty from Labour MPs, not the vanity of inexperienced backbenchers suddenly imagining themselves kingmakers after scarcely arriving in Westminster. There is a profound difference between serving one’s constituents diligently and presuming to lecture a Prime Minister who rebuilt the party from near political extinction. A sense of perspective, humility and political maturity would serve you far better than attempting to operate far above your station so early in your parliamentary career.

I have nothing but respect for Sir Keir Starmer. He transformed our party and led us to an election victory. But sadly it is clear now that to deliver on our promise of change and to secure Britain’s future, we must look to a new leader.

@FredThomasUK So disappointed with this, I thought you were one of the sensible ones. Never thought you, of all people, lacked a backbone.

@ShippersUnbound Loyalty a problem to you? You were loyal to the Murdoch coin and now the despicable Paul Marshall. You're just a right wing whore and biased "journalist."

Absolutely love how John (surely soon to be ‘Sir John’) Slinger looks down to check the talking points from No. 10 as he spends hour after selfless (sic) hour as the only broadcast defender of Keir Starmer (apart from the post luncheon George Foulkes)

@MikeTappTweets Glad you're holding your nerve Mr. Tapp. Kindly tell your weak-willed colleagues to grow a pair and back our PM.

A polite reminder.

@Imogenlemon02 @JohnSlinger Shipman is a Tory/Reform sycophant, like most in the media.

How X feeds reflect reality. @JohnSlinger rightly calling for some humanity towards the PM and his family, and the worst of the anti Starmer press pack showing there isn’t any. All very depressing.

@charlotteukcity @JohnSlinger Same here 👍

@JohnSlinger THANK YOU, JOHN! Finally a MP with some decency & loyalty! I will never forget you for this. As a Labour member, if Keir is ousted from party, it no longer has my support. We voted him in for a full term, that’s what we want. MPs need to unite or they’ll do more harm than anyone.

I haven't ever equivocated or hedged my bets about whether Keir Starmer should remain Prime Minister. I've always been clear: he must stay. Here's why.

@JohnSlinger Thank you, an MP with balls. Please spread this message to your weak-willed colleagues on the back benches.

Keir Starmer is not an accidental leader. He won a leadership election, reformed Labour, won a historic majority and has stabilised the economy, cut NHS waiting lists and delivered the biggest uplift in workers' rights in a generation. The public would not forgive us for chaos.

@Cherryopenmind @lewis_goodall @ZackPolanski Desperate for drama, trying to create the news rather than just reporting it.

@lewis_goodall @ZackPolanski My gosh what is wrong with you Lewis?!?

It’s over

@SarahScb @ShippersUnbound @lionelbarber @patrickkmaguire @thetimes Well said Sarah. I despise these "journalists" with a passion. They're pathetic bullies doing the bidding of their mega rich newspaper owners for crumbs from their table. Get rid of Starmer then destroy the next one, rinse and repeat until Farage is in No.10.

@ShippersUnbound @lionelbarber @patrickkmaguire But it’s by @patrickkmaguire in the Murdoch owned, Tony Gallagher edited @thetimes so hardly, in any sense of the word, impartial. Starmer goes, you’ll start on his successor, and rinse and repeat, until you get your man, Farage and his unaccountable “party” elected. We see you.

Devastating Starmer political obit by @patrickkmaguire thetimes.com/article/53cfc8…

@PhilMyers53 @BOREHAM_WOODFC Errr, you're playing Rochdale!!

Today @BOREHAM_WOODFC are on the way to Wembley for a play-off final with Doncaster Rovers Come on, THE WOOD !

@BenGrahamUK You're a vile, sick cunt.

Southport will be Keir Starmer’s legacy. Not the speeches. Not the slogans. Not the media management. People will remember the moment the country was grieving, asking legitimate questions, and the Prime Minister’s instinct was to lecture the public about the “far right”. That was the moment millions realised Keir Starmer no longer understood the people he governs.

@ElizabethBangs @BBCNewsnight He most certainly is bullied and I admire and respect how he stands up to these bullies. If only certain MP's - the usual suspects - had his guts #TenYearKeir

@ccfcwills @BBCNewsnight They can't bear to be outside the gang. That's what bullying works like, so I see this as nothing but bullying.

“The country is becoming ungovernable...” The Times's Matthew Syed says constant leadership speculation is making it harder for Prime Ministers to make tough choices. #Newsnight

@ElizabethBangs @BBCNewsnight So true. Why do they have to preface every statement with an " I don't like him but" comment?

@BBCNewsnight He also said, as if this was the only way he could get a hearing, 'this is not a defence of Starmer, I don't like the man', which as it in fact WAS a defence of Starmer and 'like or dislike' is an irrelevant and infantile metric, showed how far even those resisting, had given up.

@Zokko18 @lewis_goodall Journalism is dead in this country, another victim of Brexit. I thought @lewis_goodall was one of the better ones but clearly I was wrong.

@lewis_goodall You're absolutely obsessed. Full-on Starmer Derangenent Syndrome. You're supposed to report / comment on events not get all frustrated when they don't go according to your pre-determined narrative.

The Labour Party

@Steven_Swinford Please tell the silly bitch that @UKLabour will be in government for at least another three years, with or without her support.

Sharon Graham, the head of the Unite union and a vocal critic of Keir Starmer, says Labour must 'change or die'. She argues that it is existential 'The writing is on the wall for this Labour government and it could be the beginning of the end for the party itself. The working class have been abandoned and have delivered their verdict 'They have painted the ballot boxes of our towns and swathes of the Midlands and North turquoise and even Green. They have done so using the brush of decades of Labour failure 'Labour ministers can loyally read out lists of their achievements but no one is listening. If every one of those achievements were in stereo they wouldn't even touch the sides of the vision that is needed now 'We are stuck in a rigged system where everyday people always, always pay. 'Only fundamental, irreversible change will stem the tide. If the party does not shift decisively towards the working class it is finished. It is change or die. Now or never'

@PaulBrandITV Anyone but not the Reform one. Most of them will at home in England.

Genuine question... when you're fed up in Wales and need help from your MS... which one of the six do you contact?!

@DPJHodges You're sounding a bit manic now Danny boy. Take your medication and have some sleep. Keir ain't going anywhere and certainly never on account of anything you say.

Keir Starmer's latest relaunch has already blown up on the launchpad. The strategy was going to be a clear move to the Left, underpinned by a clear shift back towards Europe. Against this backdrop that would represent political suicide.* (*So he'll probably still do it)

@LBC @lewis_goodall Fucking vile bitch.

‘I've never heard a political party actively say that they intend to punish areas that don’t vote for them… that’s something else.’ @Lewis_Goodall queries Reform’s Suella Braverman on a ‘curious' position from her party.