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@afneil Would you usually raise Ukraine or Iran during a campaign like that in Makerfield? Not sure we know the Reform candidate’s views. It is only relevant if Burnham wins and then stands for leadership.

ANDREW NEIL: War in Ukraine and Gulf. Yet Burnham's got nothing to say mol.im/a/15847463

@dailybritainonx @PJDunleavy Apparently- according to Reform - only ‘polished politicians’ can stop themselves using vile, misogynistic, racist language. I think that shows Reform has a pretty poor view of the rest of us non- politicians.

Kenyon's deleted account: responded to a degrading sexual comment about Carol Vorderman saying "He's only saying what we're all thinking." Was blocked by Sky Sports Rugby League for comments about women's rugby. Reform's defence: "He doesn't speak like a polished politician. That's why he'll be effective." Vorderman also raised Farage photographing with Tate, Reform wanting to abolish the Equality Act, and the undisclosed McMurdock conviction. Full story 👇

@AllisonPearson And would you think it so amusing if he had produced a knife or a gun?

There are very few Brits who don’t want a therapeutic shout at Rachel Reeves. Amusing that the idiot who crashed the economy to the brink of fiscal collapse thinks she merits good manners!

@afneil @AllisonPearson Funny how virtually most of your posts is a rant about how useless Starmar is. Now you’re having a conniption fit because some in Labour taking action to remove him. It’s illogical.

British politics will reach a new reductio ad absurdum in the Makerfield by election: Vote Labour to destroy the sitting Labour Prime Minister. Support Labour PM Starmer but NOT voting Labour. We are having a by-election not because there’s any demand or need in the national interest but entirely to suit the convenience of the byzantine politics of the ruling party and the political pygmies in whose interest it is run. We are no longer a serious nation. No wonder the bond markets are squiffy.

@PhilipProudfoot @owenjonesjourno @AndyBurnhamGM For goodness sake we live in the UK not Gaza. It would be very disturbing if these were the priorities for any PM of the UK.

Questions for @AndyBurnhamGM 1. Will you remove the proscription of Palestine Action? 2. Will you end the abuse of counter-terrorism legislation against activists 3. Will you recognise that Israel has committed genocide? 4. Will you end all UK military engagement with Israel?

@JuliaHB1 @AllisonPearson Pity HMRC actually know what they are talking about rather than base their decisions on blind prejudice.

How on earth has Angela Rayner been "cleared" by HMRC? She didn't pay the extra £40,000 stamp duty that was due. She didn't take the specialist tax advice on her flat purchase that she was advised to take. She failed to pay the extra stamp duty that she, as Housing Secretary, had brought in for second home purchasers. For HMRC not to issue a fine means they judged her decision as "reasonable care" having been taken, or it was possibly "careless", but not a "deliberate" underpayment. She clearly did not take "reasonable care" to ensure her tax was correct. And if it was "careless", it was *deliberate* carelessness. Do you seriously think that if YOU underpaid your taxes by £40,000 as the then Deputy Prime Minister did, that you would get away without a fine? Sorry, but this stinks.

@frank_star88869 @owenjonesjourno That’ll be the day. In his world sexual violence against Jewish women doesn’t count .

Israel is using dogs to rape Palestinians. There are multiple testimonies about this crime. When I first reported on this obscenity, it triggered a firestorm. The New York Times has now, finally, reported on it - and Israel's systematic use of sexual violence.

@PippaCrerar Dodging tax. Fibbing about jobs. Taking £5m and not declaring it. These insurgent party leaders are so much better than dull old Starmer.

Zack Polanski has admitted he may have failed to pay correct council tax while living on London houseboat. Green leader had faced mounting questions over whether the houseboat, moored in east London, was his primary residence. Spox describes situation as “unintentional mistake” - and said Polanski had “immediately taken steps” to pay any tax owed.

@Wolfahontas @AllisonPearson @TiceRichard It is impossible to believe those who seem to stand against one form of racism - anti-semitism - today when they spend every other day pushing another form of racism - all brown men are rapists.

Brought tears to my eyes!! This speech from @TiceRichard from Reform is one of greatest speeches I have seen in the fight against antisemitism! A must watch

@ConspiracyHeroX @AngelaRayner @Peternoyes4 Explain how you reached these figures? There is no published evidence. Conclusion - utter tosh.

@AngelaRayner @Peternoyes4 The party of the working class 😂😂😂

Our party has suffered a historic defeat. Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more. What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance. The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people. We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it. Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits. Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them. Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that. In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.  We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people. The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.  Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government. For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics. But we have the chance to fix this.  1/2

@AllisonPearson Yeah - the great appeal of a party led by millionaires - whose partners live in tax free havens. Where you’re handed £5m - no questions asked. Just like the common people Reform claim to represent.

Labour is the party of the middle-class, state sector, lanyard babble, working from home smugs who are “relaxed” about mass immigration and benefits dependency. On 7 May, normal people who work showed what they think of that parasitic class. No way back for Labour, is there?

@DPJHodges And this differs from the behaviour of any other Party in the circs?? It’s logical when no obvious successor. Don’t think voters are so stupid that they don’t understand this. We are however going to be driven mad by YOUR obsession with seeing him gone.

In a few months Starmer will be gone. At which point all those Ministers and MPs currently saying "We can't change leader, it will be a disaster" will all suddenly say "He's done the right thing. It's best for the party and the country". And they think the voters will forget.

@owenjonesjourno Now seems that all Greens care about is an argument with the police. Absolutely no mention by supporters of fact that two innocent people were nearly killed because their race. Wonder why 🤔🤔

The main difference? Nigel Farage has waged an incessant campaign against “two tier policing”. Zack Polanski retweeted someone. Who got the angry sarcastic public letter a week before an election?

My O2. app have just spent all afternoon trying to view account on My O2 app. For the life of me can’t find how to link to it. It seems just to be Sales site. Tried website - hopeless. No Help available on My O2 so can anyone help me here.

I am no fan of the IRGC. I am a big fan of the average Iranian citizen who just wants to live their life. But good god, the latest regime-produced Lego rap has no right to go this hard and nail the current American experience so precisely.

Israel and the US are intentionally targeting medical facilities in Iran. This has become clear and is no surprise after what Israel has done in Gaza and Lebanon: 1) The WHO has verified over 20 attacks on healthcare facilities in Iran since March 1, resulting in at least nine deaths, including a health worker and a Red Crescent member. 2) On April 3, U.S.-Israeli strikes hit the Pasteur Institute of Iran: the oldest and most prestigious public health and research center in the Middle East. It produces vaccines for tetanus, hepatitis B, measles, and supports Iran's national immunization program. 3) A Red Crescent relief warehouse in Bushehr province was drone-struck, destroying emergency vehicles and relief containers. 4) Tofigh Daru, one of Iran's largest pharmaceutical companies (producing cancer, cardiovascular, and immunology drugs), was hit on March 31. 5) A newly built psychiatric hospital in Tehran was significantly damaged on March 29, with roughly 30 patients inside at the time. 6) Ali Hospital in Khuzestan province was struck on March 21 and forced to evacuate and cease services. Gandhi Hospital in Tehran was damaged on March 2 during a strike on a nearby communications tower. This is, of course, a war crime of the worst magnitude. International humanitarian law explicitly prohibits attacks on healthcare facilities, staff, and medical transport. But this has become the new international norm.

I might be overoptimistic, but it does appear as if Trump has just lost it: 1. His war of choice against Iran is an obvious disaster. 2. Trump does not know how to get out of this war, so he is stupidly escalating without chance of victory. 3. Trump has alienated all countries in the world with the exception of Israel. 4. Trump has blown up NATO & other US alliances & even with Saudi Arabia. 5. By prompting Iran to block the Strait of Hormuz, Trump has caused tremendous damage to the global economy. 6. Trump has nothing to offer the US, just cutting benefits. We are waiting for the recession caused by his war on iran. 7. He has started sacking his most loyal appointees because they are also the most incompetent. This is likely to continue. 8. Trump has put the US army in an Iranian quagmire that is likely to get much worse as competent generals protest and resign. Trump = an incompetent & despicable US alone.

Keir Starmer is quietly turning into quite an impressive PM for an international global crisis. Calm, astute and strong when he needs to be. Not that he’ll get any praise for it in the media or on here of course, but he has shown real leadership in an extremely challenging situation.

💀💰 $4.5 Trillion Twenty-seven days. One man’s war. $4.5 trillion erased from the S&P 500. More than the GDP of Germany. Gone. From 401ks in Ohio, pension funds in Tokyo, retirement accounts in London, sovereign wealth in Abu Dhabi. He is breaking the American economy and taking the world down with him. And while the world bled, someone made $60 million in fourteen minutes. $1.5 billion in S&P futures bought, $580 million in oil futures sold, fourteen minutes before Trump posted “productive discussions” that Iran says never happened. Financial Times documented it. Bloomberg confirmed it. Murphy: “mind-blowing corruption.” The world lost $4.5 trillion. The insiders gained millions. Same war. Same month. Same president. This is not a correction. It is a heist. The largest wealth transfer in modern history, executed in broad daylight by a man who started a war he cannot finish, closed a strait he cannot open, broke an economy he cannot fix, and shattered alliances he cannot rebuild. Every escalation vaporizes savings across six continents. Every fake “peace talk” creates a buying window for those next to the man with the match. Every soldier who dies is a price movement on a screen in a trading floor that will never know his name. He is not governing. He is demolishing. The nation. The global economy. The savings of hundreds of millions of human beings. So that a handful of men can profit from the wreckage. Iran does not have a number. But the world does. $4.5 trillion in 27 days. That is the price of Donald Trump. Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.

🇺🇸 | How the Trump family turned the last presidency into their personal ATM. Five minutes before Trump announced a halt to attacks on Iran, someone in his circle bought $1.5 billion in stocks and sold $192 million in oil. Five minutes. Not hours. Not days. Five minutes. They knew what the President would say before he even said it - and made a fortune. And they don’t even have to hide anymore. Today, they answer to no one.