Kathryn (ObjectiveEd)🎨🌊

With the world looking rather fragile at the moment, I've decided to post a #dailydogwalk pic. I hope they bring just a tiny bit of positivity to your day💙 We have 2x cocker spaniels, so head out twice every day...

Those MPs blaming Keir Starmer I want you to know I blame you. You have failed to keep your constituents informed. I publish lists every week of Labour successes. You need to be sending these out. Here’s the last two. Inform your constituents

@NoshiA100 @martinimarie @Beth_Tastic @MorrisonBeth @Lisa_SEND @pepe_hart @Autismmother1 @senmum05 @sharron_honey @BexHeadTeacher @areyoflight @fidsta77 @RachelH82471802 @suziebooks @BlokeOnWheels @autismtalknd @SuziQCrafts @TraceyM88805313 @cea_forster 💕💕

@ed_objective @martinimarie @Beth_Tastic @MorrisonBeth @Lisa_SEND @pepe_hart @Autismmother1 @senmum05 @sharron_honey @BexHeadTeacher @areyoflight @fidsta77 @RachelH82471802 @suziebooks @BlokeOnWheels @autismtalknd @SuziQCrafts @TraceyM88805313 @cea_forster That’s so kind Kathryn. Thank you for the tag ❤️🤞🏽 Right back at you and everyone mentioned. ❤️xx

It’s #FollowFriday time, here’s a few of mine. Get sharing n add yours @Beth_Tastic @MorrisonBeth @Lisa_SEND @pepe_hart @Autismmother1 @senmum05 @sharron_honey @BexHeadTeacher @areyoflight @fidsta77 @RachelH82471802 @suziebooks @BlokeOnWheels @autismtalknd @SuziQCrafts

Mr Lewis, be very careful what you wish for. The notion that Andy Burnham can simply be returned to Parliament as some form of remedy is not just misplaced, it is politically reckless. There are no safe seats in the present climate. A by election fought on the back of internal manoeuvring would become an open contest from all sides. The Greens would come hard from the left, the centre would not fall neatly into line, and both the Conservatives and Reform would seize the opportunity to turn it into a referendum on Labour’s direction. That is not a managed return, it is a gamble with very real consequences. Worse still, the timing would send entirely the wrong signal. At a point when the public is looking for seriousness and stability, this would look like yet another example of a party absorbed in its own internal theatre. It reinforces the impression that those at the top are more concerned with positioning than with governing. And the wider point is unavoidable. Recycling the same small group of figures is not a path forward. Angela Rayner, Wes Streeting, and Andy Burnham all carry political baggage that the public is already well aware of. Presenting them as the future risks deepening the problem rather than resolving it. If you push for this and it fails, the consequences will not be abstract. A defeat in a by election under these circumstances would be a significant political blow, and one that would sit squarely with those who advocated for it. The best candidate for the role is already in position. Sir Keir Starmer won the mandate and led the party to victory. To undermine that now, through internal plotting and positioning, begins to resemble something more akin to the intrigues of the Roman Senate than a modern democratic movement. It will not strengthen the party, it will weaken it. And it will not go unnoticed. Voters and members alike are already showing signs of frustration with politicians who appear to place personal ambition above collective responsibility. Continue in that direction, and the backlash will be swift and deserved.

Labour MP Jenny Chapman, "I think what's happened is there is so much focus on the person at the top, and there is the sense that if you change the person at the top, all of the problems, um, somehow resolve themselves or... " "And I just think we have to be a bit more honest and adult about some of this. " "There are huge challenges facing our economy. Look at the geopolitical situation, uh, the situation that we inherited. " "There are amazing things that we have done actually in the first two years. I would like to go faster, but we've done renters' rights, employment rights. There are more police. " "We've done work on violence against women and girls. There are things that we are really proud that we have done, breakfast clubs for young kids. " "You know, things that are going to make a real difference in the long run, but you're not feeling it right now, and I think that desire to feel the change is really palpable. " "And if I genuinely thought that changing one person in the entire government, even if that person is the prime minister, would somehow unlock that, that growth or, or make things happen more quickly, then I, I would be absolutely for that. " "But I, I really don't think that that is-- You know, you keep trying the same solution, which is about changing the person and expecting a different outcome. I don't think that that's really what we need to do. " "I think the point about stability is absolutely right. It needs stability, it needs focus, and it needs clarity and determination to do the things that need to be done to get this country back on the right path. "

When I was a nine-year-old schoolgirl, my teacher asked us to write a news article. She told me, 'All I want to know is Who, What, Where, When, and Why.' It took me two attempts, but I finally produced a piece that she said satisfied exactly what a reader needs to know. So, let us play teacher with Chris Mason today. Let us look at how he manipulates and manufactures drama for the BBC, a service we pay for. Who: He cites 'friends and allies' of Wes Streeting, using anonymous whispers instead of a single official statement from a man who has neither resigned nor told the media he is standing. What: He describes 'jostling on the start line' of a race that does not officially exist, masquerading speculation as a foregone conclusion. Where: He sets the scene in a fictionalised 'expected race for leader', ignoring the reality that governance happens in departments, not in a journalist’s imagination. When: He claims a challenge is 'imminent' to create a false sense of urgency, despite no confirmation of any such move. Why: He does it to feed the 'anger factory' and secure clicks, knowingly trading national stability for media ratings. Journalism is supposed to inform citizens, not project chaos. @ChrisMasonBBC has failed my teacher’s test. He is not reporting the news, he is attempting to invent it. Do we pay the BBC so that journalists can play soap opera directors with our future? #BBC #ChrisMason #Journalism #UKPolitics #Starmer #WesStreeting #Truth #Accountability

@BBCPolitics @ChrisMasonBBC Your top story should be Farage’s 5 Million quid bung.

@GLB_88 @Diane709682 @LidlGB It's rubbish, isn't it?🙄

All the joy and pizzazz of shopping at Lidl has been crushed with the new loyalty scheme. Like a love affair has finished! ☹️@LidlGB

Big up those Year 6 teachers. SATS are over and you made it!! Well done to everyone else too. The change of routine, timetables, break times. What a primary school team effort this week was!

I joined the Labour Party in 1993. I know exactly how rare Labour governments are, and how hard they are to win. What some colleagues seem to forget is that the public voted against chaos, ego and endless internal psychodrama. They wanted seriousness back in government. Keir Starmer rebuilt Labour from electoral ruin into a party trusted enough to govern again. That didn’t happen by accident. It took discipline, resilience and political maturity. Do we need debate? Of course we do. But destabilising a Labour government barely into office after 14 years out of power is not strategy. It is recklessness. Too many people in politics love the theatre of rebellion more than the responsibility of governing. The country is exhausted by that culture. Labour succeeds when it focuses on delivery, stability and improving people’s lives — not when it disappears into factional self-indulgence while Reform and the Tories sit back and laugh. Government is precious. We should start acting like it.

@rebecca5key Yes, good thanks. Got a few days unable to work due to new software installation ... #shame🤭 You?

@ed_objective All well I hope?

Morning cuppa in the garden 👌☀️☀️ Birthday peonies 🤩❤️

@rebecca5key 👋💕

@ed_objective Hi Kathryn!

@mattfoster2010 Aggghhh Matt!😬 Painful! Make sure you DO rest and take the painkillers.

just my luck, I've tweaked ligaments in my right knee i was going to put something in the kitchen and lost my balance and hyper extended my knee, Ended up at the local acute treatment unit, Been told to keep my leg elevated when possible and take pain killers.

The Conservative party’s “Alternative King’s Speech” claims unemployment has risen “every month” that Labour have been in government. We’ve fact checked this claim several times over the past year—it isn’t correct. fullfact.org/economy/conser…

@DHTDurrant @llewelyn20 Yes, things probably did look calm and normal but the time and organisation needed to achieve that takes an enormous effort and military precision but stretches most schools to their limit. To have to manage an inspection on top is utterly insane and so damaging to staff.

@llewelyn20 To be honest when I went in this week it was very relaxed, one class in the hall doing their exam, access arrangements in one classroom, rest of the school running as normal. Ofsted could have been there no problem. Not sure the HT would agree, but still.

If Ofsted are looking for a true understanding of a school, and want to allow leaders to present the school as honestly as possible, why on earth would you inspect in sats week (or indeed the last week of any term). Madness.

Finally!! The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner has decided to begin an inquiry into Nigel Farage for breaching the House of Commons Code of Conduct over accepting a £5 million gift and not declaring it.

@crowmogh ❤️ Beautiful. I love poppies.😊 I remember your pics from previous years.

My first poppy of the season!

The @bbcnews website currently has, as its second headline, a video of Wes Streeting walking up the road, entering No10, and then a cut to West Streeting exiting No10 and walking back down the road again. They've lost their minds. #r4today #wato

A lot of noise about Starmer, but I remain convinced that the majority of the people saying he needs to leave have no idea why they actually feel that way. They just feel that way because a lot of the media tell them to do so. Really quite depressing, to be honest.