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@SarahCoombesWB They have asked for it to be banned publicly. Why do they need to carry a knife in the street. One dead is too many.

Both the Tories and Reform are now saying the kirpan should be banned. This is totally wrong. The kirpan is a key article of the Sikh faith. An entire community cannot be tarred by the horrendous actions of one person.

@GNGSmethwick Thomas Hamilton was responsible for Dunblane, as a result hand guns are illegal in the UK. Rupert is calling for the Kirpan to be rightly banned in public. Why do you want a knife in the street? One dead is too many.

Fortunately for Britain’s Sikhs, there will never be a Restore government. The Kirpan is a sacred article of faith carried responsibly by Sikhs for centuries. Attacking religious freedoms to chase headlines is not leadership it is ignorance wrapped in division politics.

The Oxford Union. A Hamas Sanctioned Operative. And a Ball Themed Around Islamic Conquest. The Oxford Union was founded in 1823. It has produced prime ministers, Nobel laureates and some of the finest minds in the English speaking world. On Friday evening it hosted a ball themed around Al Andalus, the Muslim ruled territory of medieval Spain and Portugal that fell to the Christian Reconquista in 1492. The entertainment was provided by the Palestinian Forum in Britain. The logo of that organisation appeared prominently on the promotional material. The Palestinian Forum in Britain is associated with Zaher Birawi, a 64 year old British Palestinian who has lived in Barnet, north London for more than thirty years. In January 2026 the United States Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Birawi a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. OFAC stated that his organisation, the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad, does not only work with and in support of Hamas but operates at its direct behest. Israeli authorities designated him a senior Hamas operative in Europe in 2013. Labour MP Christian Wakeford named him in the House of Commons in 2023 as a serious national security risk. HM Treasury is currently assessing whether to impose its own sanctions. Birawi organised the Gaza flotilla that carried Greta Thunberg. Israeli documents recovered in Gaza confirm direct Hamas involvement in funding and executing that flotilla through Birawi's organisation. He has helped organise multiple pro-Palestinian demonstrations in London since October 7th 2023. He previously served as president of the Muslim Association of Britain, an organisation affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, and chaired the Palestinian Return Centre, banned by Israel as Hamas's European organisational arm. The German government has described the Palestinian Forum in Britain as Hamas's most important propaganda event in Europe. The ball was organised by Arwa Elrayess, the first Palestinian and first Arab woman elected president of the Oxford Union. Her election was celebrated by Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian ambassador to the UK, who posted a photograph of himself shaking her hand and described her as championing open debate on human rights, justice and equality. The Oxford Union in 2024 hosted a debate at which a speaker argued that October 7th was not terrorism but acts of heroism. It has a troubled history with antisemitism according to a former Union officer who described the PFB partnership as quite disgraceful. Al Andalus is not a neutral cultural reference. In progressive and Islamist circles it is consistently invoked as a symbol of Islamic civilisation displaced by Christian conquest, a territory to be mourned and by implication restored. Choosing it as the theme for a ball organised by a Palestinian Union president in partnership with a group associated with a US sanctioned Hamas operative while Jewish students raise concerns about their safety on campus is not an oversight. It is a statement. Keir Starmer said after recognising the Palestinian state that he would take action against suspected Hamas operatives in Britain. Birawi has lived in Barnet for thirty years. He has been named in Parliament. He has been sanctioned by the United States. HM Treasury is assessing his case. He organised a ball at the Oxford Union on Friday evening. The long march through the institutions has reached the oldest English speaking university in the world. It arrived with a dance class and a logo on a flyer. That is how it always arrives. Not with a declaration. With a partnership. With a themed evening. With a logo in the top right corner of a promotional leaflet that nobody was supposed to notice. "Birawi has helped organise multiple pro-Palestinian demonstrations in London since October 7th 2023. He previously served as president of the Muslim Association of Britain"

@EssexPR @ezralevant Islam is here to dominate as it has in 50+ other countries. Pattern recognition is not racism. Believing it’s not going to happen is delusional. Realisation is not racism. Islam is a fatal infection that no society has survived.

Look at how diverse Tower Hamlets council is… so diverse in fact, there’s not one white person or even one black person in the photo ! Ridiculous.

@Keir_Starmer You are delusional.

Tony Blair might not like my plan, but he's wrong: it's changing Britain for the better. keirstarmer.substack.com/p/tony-blair-m…

Keir Starmer Published His Rebuttal to Tony Blair Today. He Should Have Checked the Energy Bills First. Tony Blair does not deploy the word "delusional" carelessly. Writing this week, the only Labour leader to have won three consecutive majorities, described his successor's government as suffering from an almost infinite capacity for self-delusion and lacking a coherent plan. It is the sharpest intervention in British politics this year. Starmer responded today with a Substack essay. He should have read his own energy brief before he published it. The essay is accomplished. The structure is disciplined. The personal passage about his late brother is well-judged and clearly sincere. On the deficit between Blair's era and his own inheritance, he makes fair points. But the piece has a problem that no amount of political fluency can paper over. It describes a Britain that does not exist. Starmer claims the British economy is outperforming its G7 peers. He claims that investing in clean energy is strengthening Britain's agency over energy markets and taking control of bills on behalf of working people. He invokes Jensen Huang of Nvidia as evidence that Britain is on the cusp of becoming an AI superpower. He says North Sea oil and gas will remain part of Britain's energy mix for generations. Britain has 1.5 days of gas in reserve. Energy bills rose by £200 before the Iran war started, against Miliband's pre-election promise of bills £300 cheaper. They rise a further 13 percent in July, adding £220 to the average household's annual bill. OpenAI paused a £31 billion data centre investment eight weeks ago, citing his government's energy costs specifically. And on the same evening that Labour MPs were whipped to vote against new North Sea licences, his government quietly issued a trade licence permitting the import of diesel and jet fuel derived from Russian crude oil. That licence, GBSAN0004, is not time-limited as ministers suggested. It is of indefinite duration. Starmer argues that North Sea oil has no discernible impact on the global price of oil and gas and is a depleting resource. Both things are partially true and together they are deployed to justify a policy that has left Britain more exposed to global energy markets than any comparable nation. The argument that domestic production cannot affect the global price is an argument against energy security, not for it. Norway, drawing from the same geology, has built the world's largest sovereign wealth fund on a resource Starmer describes as strategically irrelevant. The most telling passage in the essay is the one on artificial intelligence. Starmer writes that Britain is widely recognised as a growing and sovereign AI player and that investment is flowing into the country. He does not mention OpenAI. He does not mention that Ofgem has warned that the data centres required for AI will demand more energy than the entire country currently consumes. He does not mention that Britain's industrial electricity prices are among the highest in the developed world. He cites the Nvidia chief executive and moves on. Blair's charge was not that Starmer lacks values or effort. It was that the government lacks a coherent plan and that Labour has a historic tendency to mistake activity for strategy. Starmer's rebuttal lists activity. It counts childcare savings and NHS waiting list reductions and interest rate cuts. What it cannot do is explain why, in the middle of the worst energy crisis since 1973, Britain has 1.5 days of gas, the highest wholesale energy prices in Europe and an Energy Secretary who opened the door to Russian oil on the same night he closed the North Sea. Blair called it self-delusion. Today's essay does not refute that charge. It illustrates it.

@lowles_nick Talking of scrutiny who funds HNH? Labour do.

Reform UK’s complaint is a transparent attempt to distract from legitimate scrutiny of its candidate in Makerfield, following an investigation published by HOPE not hate last week, which revealed misogynistic and degrading comments he made about women. Reform may not like being scrutinised, but voters deserve to know who is asking for their support. It’s a shame that Nigel Farage has not put as much effort into vetting his own candidates as he has done making spurious complaints to the charity commission. Farage can complain all he want, but @hopenothate will not shy away from campaigning in Makerfield

@JChimirie66677 Islam is here to dominate as it has in 50+ other countries. We are expected to surrender and allow it to happen. They call us racist for noticing. Pattern recognition is not racism. Islam is a fatal infection that no society has survived.

Britain's Next Twenty Years: The Storm Ahead A nation can dodge truth only for so long before truth strikes back. Britain is out of road. For decades, governments have pushed mass immigration while pretending that multiculturalism make us stronger and that order will somehow hold as the state gives up ground. The facts are now set. What comes next isn't fiction. It's consequence. The streets will crack first. Tens of thousands of young men pour in each year from places where force rules and weakness dies. Rootless, idle, and itching for status, they become the spear-point of a demographic shift our leaders are not just tolerating but driving. Wherever these numbers land, the script repeats itself: gangs take shape, tribes harden, confidence grows, and the police pull back because they no longer have the strength or the mandate to hold the line. We already know the neighbourhoods that are buckling. Give it twenty years and those neighbourhoods won't just be trouble spots – they'll be whole cities. Civil unrest won't be an exception; it will be the rhythm of the country. One policing incident. One foreign flare-up. One sectarian march straying into the wrong street. Any spark will do. Riots will come like the seasons: driven by grievance, rumour, and the simple fact that the state now fears the mob more than the mob fears the state. And the disorder we've seen in recent years will look mild compared to what's coming. Britain's Jews will take the hardest blow. Antisemitic attacks rise with every foreign flare-up, and the trend is only upward. Soon synagogues will need guards the police can't provide, families will leave for safety abroad, and our leaders will feign shock as centuries of Jewish life vanish from our cities. Politics will trail the street and bend to the new blocs. Polanski's Green Party is the first clear sign of bloc voting shaped by sectarian identity – not the last. More will follow. Local councils will flip, entire wards will become sect fiefdoms, and parliamentary seats will be traded like turf. MPs will answer to overseas loyalties and grievance politics because that is where their ballots come from. The civic glue that once held us has already begun to harden and crack: expect parallel authority to grow – Sharia councils, neighbourhood courts, and local codes that run beside the law. When politics stops being about the commonwealth and starts being about competing loyalties, the centre gives way. Public order will weaken. Knife crime and assaults on women and young girls will soar. Terror alerts will multiply because the pool of radicalised men grows each year. Police morale will sink. Courts will cut corners. The state will keep the peace by lowering the bar: fewer arrests, fewer reports, fewer truths. The public will see the double standard clearly, and anger will harden into something colder. And then comes the trigger event. Every society built on denial meets one. A large-scale terror attack. A mass stabbing. A riot that spreads from city to city in a single night – the kind we've already watched tear through France. One shock that shows the public not just that the state is weak, but complicit. After that, trust collapses. Politics snaps. The centre buckles. Yet the real danger isn't open conflict. It's the slow death of a shared country. Schools split along cultural lines. Neighbourhoods sort themselves by fear. Public space becomes contested ground. People withdraw because the common life has gone. That is how nations fade – not with borders redrawn, but with bonds cut. This is the path we're on. Not by accident, but by leaders who push demographic engineering under the guise of compassion. They know exactly what they're doing. They choose drift over duty. A nation that refuses to defend its borders and its core will soon find it cannot defend itself at all. "Britain's Jews will take the hardest blow. Antisemitic attacks rise with every foreign flare-up"

A Charity Whose Trustees Read Like a Labour Honours List Is Trying to Win a By-Election. Hope Not Hate is a registered charitable trust. Charities operating in the political arena are bound by a simple and unambiguous rule. They must stress their independence. They must not encourage support for any particular party or candidate. They must not give funding to political parties or politicians. These are not guidelines. They are legal obligations enforced by the Charity Commission. Nigel Farage has written to the Charity Commission citing what he describes as a clear breach of those obligations in the Makerfield by-election constituency ahead of the June 18th poll. The facts documented in his letter are precise. Hope Not Hate sent leaflets to addresses in Makerfield encouraging voters to join the local fightback against Reform and scan a QR code to participate. The leaflet was promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of Hope Not Hate Limited, a private company. That private company received £787,858 in grants from Hope Unlimited Charitable Trust in 2024, representing almost the entirety of the charitable trust's expenditure for the year. The action apparently changed nothing. The trustees of Hope Unlimited Charitable Trust and the directors and former directors of Hope Not Hate Limited include Frances O'Grady, former TUC General Secretary and Labour Peer. Gurinder Josan CBE, current Chair of HUCT and Labour MP. Jon Cruddas, former Labour MP. Alison Phillips, Chief Executive of LabourTogether, a Labour supporting think tank. Ruth Lauren Anderson, Labour Peer. Anna Turley, former Labour MP and Chair of the Labour Party. A charitable trust whose trustees are overwhelmingly current or former Labour politicians is funding a private company to distribute leaflets in a by-election constituency explicitly targeting Reform and backing the Labour candidate. The Charity Commission's own guidance states that a charity must steer clear of explicitly comparing its views with those of political parties or candidates taking part in an election. The leaflet's footer, to join the local fightback against Reform, does precisely that. This is not the first time the Charity Commission has been required to intervene. It opened a compliance case in July 2025 and concluded it in January 2026, declaring itself satisfied that the charity had taken sufficient steps to distinguish itself from Hope Not Hate Limited. The case was closed. Within months the same funding arrangement appears to have resumed with charitable funds flowing into electoral leaflets in a specific by-election constituency. The Commission closed the case. The behaviour apparently continued. The Makerfield by-election is the vehicle through which Andy Burnham intends to return to Westminster and challenge for the Labour leadership. Reform took every council seat in the area at the May local elections with 46.2 percent of the vote. The stakes could not be higher. And a charity whose trustees read like a Labour Party honours list is spending charitable funds to help deliver the result. The Charity Commission has 22 days to act before the votes are cast on June 18th. It has already investigated this arrangement once and the funding continued unchanged. Charitable money is being spent to influence a by-election that could determine who leads the country. The regulator that failed to stop it in January faces a simple question. Will it act before the result or after it no longer matters? "The leaflet was promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of Hope Not Hate Limited, a private company."

@LeeHurstComic Islam is here to dominate as it has in 50+ other countries.  We are expected to surrender and allow it to happen.  They call us racist for noticing.  Pattern recognition is not racism. Islam is a fatal infection that no society has survived.

Shouldn’t this just say ‘happy holidays’ so as not to offend anyone?

@lukejcr Luke outs himself as a moron post. Real world v faux outrage.

Reform UK appears to have a very, very big problem with misogyny. There are now so many shocking stories and incidents that it’s becoming incredible hard to ignore. Want to know about some of these stories? I’ve collated a few. And there’s LOTS more out there. Read this.👇 Last week, a man was filmed harassing and heckling abuse at Rachel Reeves from a van. Senior Reform figures’ response? Jokes about buying him a pint, about giving him a peerage. No condemnation, just laughs. This week, Reform’s by-election candidate for Makerfield was reported to have said women have abortions for “vanity purposes.” He also allegedly claimed he’d “rank higher” than a female presenter and former footballer because he’s played FIFA. I mean, seriously? But those are recent events. Let’s dig deeper. The former Reform candidate for Gorton and Denton was allegedly caught on video saying young girls and women need a “biological reality” check. Like something straight out of the Handmaid’s Tale. A Reform councillor reportedly told an International Women’s Day event that some women “should never have left the kitchen.” Really? Another Reform candidate before the last General Election allegedly referred to women as “thick tarts.” Outrageous. Another candidate for the last General Election allegedly replied to a post telling girls they could achieve anything they want by reportedly saying: “fertilising eggs and providing Y chromosomes.” Ridiculous. Inside the party itself, some women are walking away. Some councillors have reportedly resigned over what they describe as “misogynistic undertones.” At some point, you have to stop asking about these cases in question. You start asking what it says about the party that keeps being associated with people who show such behaviour. In some cases, apparently defending them, laughing along with them, and promoting them. Culture comes from the top, and this appears to be a deep and pervasive culture of misogyny. And don’t forget, a fish rots from the head down. You may remember Nigel Farage told a female journalist to “write some silly story” and when told he may have upset her, replied: “Good.” You may also remember he told a BBC presenter asking serious questions: “Listen love, you’re trying ever so hard.” Is that an acceptable way to behave? Don’t forget, Reform have also reportedly said they would repeal the Equality Act to protect against sexism. The thing is, if we normalise men shouting abuse at women in the street and the response from our politicians is laughter or mockery, we are in a very dark place. None of this is culture war noise. It’s a signal about what kind of country we become if these people win power. Reform want to run Britain. Think about what that means for your daughter. Your sister. Your mum. Stopping Reform isn’t just politics as usual. It’s a moral mission. The thing is, Reform have admitted before they’ve got a few bad apples. But there’s only so many bad apples you can find until you start to think that the whole orchard is rotten.

Israel produced forensic evidence, videos, and 1000s of photos documenting the sexual violence of Oct 7. The world stayed silent. A handful of activists get off a boat making up sexual abuse claims against Israel. And it becomes headline news. Make it make sense.

🚨ISLAMIZED BRITAIN’S POINT OF NO RETURN: Muslim Population Hits 4.4 MILLION – Over 6% of the Country This is Demographic conquest.... Here’s what happens when the Muslim population grows (historical pattern repeating across Europe – and now Britain): 1% or less: Peaceful minority image. 2–3%: Recruitment ramps up (prisons, gangs, disaffected youth). 5%: Sharia pressure begins – demands for halal food in schools/supermarkets, prayer rooms, Islamic dress codes, special accommodations, and harassment of politicians. We are now at 6%… and the acceleration is unstoppable without immediate action. At 10%: Increased lawlessness explodes. Complaints turn into riots and threats. Non-Muslim “offenses” (cartoons, free speech, criticism of Islam) trigger violence, car burnings, and street chaos. No-go zones multiply. Politicians start pandering to the Muslim voting bloc. (See France and parts of Sweden today.) At 15%: The tipping point hits hard. Major riots become routine. Jihad militias begin forming. Sporadic attacks on non-Muslims, churches, and institutions spike. Demands for Sharia patrols and parallel societies intensify. Political power shifts – they start winning local councils and influencing national policy. (This is where India’s trouble zones and Lebanon’s collapse began.) At 20%: Frequent riots, organized jihad militias, and direct attacks on non-Muslim institutions. Ethnic tensions erupt into open conflict. Non-Muslims flee areas. Sharia enforcement in Muslim zones becomes de facto law. (Lebanon went from Christian majority to civil war hell at this level.) At 40%: Widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and full militia warfare. Entire regions fall under Islamic control. Non-Muslims face daily persecution. At 60%: Persecution of non-believers, ethnic cleansing, Sharia law fully enforced, and jizya taxes imposed on remaining infidels. At 80%+: State-run ethnic cleansing and genocide. The drive to 100% Muslim is relentless. At 100%: The “peace” of Dar al-Islam – everyone submits or dies. There is NO coming back from these numbers. High birth rates, chain migration, refusal to assimilate, and parallel societies mean Britain is sleepwalking into irreversible Islamization. No-go zones, grooming gangs, riots, and Sharia creep are already here – and it only gets worse at 10%, 15%, 20%, and beyond. The Muslim Council of Britain celebrates this as “cultural and religious diversity” and “significant” contributions while calling for “strengthened peaceful coexistence.” But what does “peaceful coexistence” REALLY mean when THEY say it? In Islamic doctrine, “peace” (salaam) is NOT equality or mutual respect. It means total submission to Islam. Quran 8:39 commands fighting until “the religion, all of it, is for Allah.” Treaties with non-Muslims are temporary hudna (truces), breakable whenever it benefits Muslims, as Muhammad did with the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah. True “peace” only arrives when non-Muslims convert, pay the jizya tax as subjugated dhimmis, or are eliminated. No reciprocal coexistence. Just dominance. Britain – Stop the invasion, enforce assimilation or deportation, or watch your country disappear.

Britain is not “tightening its belt.” Britain has sold the belt, borrowed another one on Klarna, and is now being lectured about financial responsibility by people billing duck houses to the taxpayer. The weekly shop now requires a small bank loan. You walk into Tesco for bread and milk and leave having accidentally financed a Mediterranean yacht. Heating goes on like a military operation.
“One hour only, Margaret. We’re not made of money.” Petrol prices rise every time somebody sneezes near a shipping lane most of us couldn’t point to on a globe if David Attenborough himself was helping. The NHS waiting list is so long your appendix now has a better chance of seeing a doctor than you do. Young people cannot afford houses.
Parents cannot afford food.
Pensioners cannot afford to die because funerals are apparently platinum-tier experiences now. Meanwhile the Government — regardless of colour rosette — stares proudly into the middle distance and announces another “bold package of measures” that somehow never includes fixing anything you actually use. You notice:
£8 million a day on asylum hotels.
£15 billion on foreign aid.
£24 billion borrowed in a single month. And if you politely ask whether this is sustainable, the national conversation immediately transforms into:
“Ah. So you’re literally Hitler then.” Ask once: bigot.
Ask twice: racist.
Ask three times: far-right extremist and possible threat to democracy itself. At this point you half expect Ofcom to cut into Coronation Street with:
“We apologise for Russ from Doncaster asking where his taxes went.” The reality is millions of ordinary British people are not angry because they are hateful. They are angry because for thirty years they have been told:
Wait your turn.
Pay more.
Expect less.
Shut up.
And if possible, feel guilty while doing it. Under Labour.
Under Conservatives.
Under coalitions.
Under whichever assortment of beige management consultants happened to win the election that year. The British public are essentially the bloke at the pub who keeps buying rounds while being told he’s selfish for wondering why his own pint never arrives. This is not racism. It is national exhaustion. And frankly, after this long, you would struggle to find a country on Earth that would not feel exactly the same.

@RichardBurgon How thick are you?

Tony Blair has nothing to offer Labour in 2026. His neoliberalism, backing of endless wars and acceptance of inequality are exactly what Labour must break from if it wants to rebuild support and defeat the far-right.

The Greens used to be kindly old women who knit their own yoghurt. Now half of them think they're in Hamas, and the other half look like they've fallen off a float at Mogadishu Pride. And none of them care about the actual environment any more. One of the new Green politicians brags about driving his Lamborghini, which isn't exactly carbon neutral. Another Greens politician was elected to a five-year position in the Scottish parliament despite being on a student visa. Other Green politicians were arrested under suspicion of committing race hate crimes for their anti-Semitic views. It seems the carbon they want to reduce is a very specific type of carbon that worships in a synagogue. It's pretty obvious that the Greens have abandoned any veneer of caring about the environment. They're communists. They only ever pushed environmental issues as a way to damage Western society and capitalism. Now they've got better tools to do that: Islamism, mass immigration and queer culture. I just wonder how those things are going to sit next to each other as the Green Party grows.

One Million Young People. No Jobs. Labour Blames the Paper Round. Pat McFadden has identified the cause of Britain's youth unemployment crisis. Writing in the Telegraph this morning, the Work and Pensions Secretary explains that young people cannot find work because the paper round has disappeared. News is online now. Retail is in decline. The Saturday job has gone the way of the high street. This, he tells us, is why nearly one million young people are not in education, employment or training, with sixty percent of them having never held a job at all. The National Insurance rise announced in last October's budget is not mentioned. The near twenty percent jump in the youth minimum wage rate is not mentioned. The consequent collapse in entry-level hiring across retail, hospitality and service industries is not mentioned. The government that hammered the sectors where young people get their first foothold from every direction simultaneously has commissioned a review to find out what went wrong and concluded, apparently in good faith, that the answer is the internet. The Milburn review finding published alongside McFadden's column deserves to be read slowly. The government currently spends twenty-five times more paying unemployed young people than finding them jobs. Twenty-five times. That is not a funding gap. It is a system designed around managing failure rather than ending it. And it is a system that McFadden's party has been operating, expanding and now proposing to reset while affecting surprise at what it contains. In February I argued that Labour had priced a generation out of work. The employer National Insurance rise, the surge in minimum wages and the resulting collapse in entry-level hiring were the mechanism. The warning lights were not coming from political opponents alone. The Office for Budget Responsibility, the Bank of England and economists from think tanks close to Labour's own orbit were all pointing in the same direction. Employment costs rose sharply. Entry-level jobs shrank. Youth unemployment climbed. The link was obvious to anyone willing to see it. McFadden is not willing to see it. His solution is 300,000 work experience placements over three years. The Youth Guarantee will give every unemployed young person a shot at work after eighteen months of unemployment. Eighteen months. A young person who left school in the summer of 2025 will be eligible for a work experience placement in early 2027. A government that had not made entry-level employment more expensive would have got them working within weeks of leaving school. Meanwhile welfare costs the taxpayer £322 billion a year, twenty-three percent of total government spending, and is set to rise by a further £74 billion over the next five years. Starmer was forced to abandon his own benefits reform last year after Labour MPs said it would drive families into poverty. The system reset Milburn is now proposing is the third attempt to address a benefits bill that grows regardless of which party is in office because the structural incentives have never been reformed. The paper round is a convenient villain. It requires no policy reversal. It offends nobody in the Cabinet. It places the blame on technological change and shifting consumer habits rather than on decisions made in the Treasury last October. It allows a government that made youth employment more expensive to present itself as the champion of youth opportunity. Youth unemployment stands at 16.2 percent. 729,000 young people are out of work. The ladder into employment was kicked away by this government's own budget. Pat McFadden has written a nostalgic column about delivering newspapers. The connection between those two facts is the story he will not tell.

@The_TUC Tax payers no longer have to pay for LGBTQ. Win win. If they want a parade they can pay for it.

Reform-led Durham council cut off funding to the annual Pride celebrations. So trade unions launched a fundraiser to save it, eventually raising more money than was cut. Which means this year's Pride will be bigger than ever. In the 1980s, the LGBT+ community raised thousands of pounds to help striking miners and their families. When we stick up for each other, we can achieve anything.

Britain is broke. Not a recession broke. Not a bad year broke. Properly broke. The shop costs twice as much for half a trolley. The heating clicks off at nine. The petrol is creeping up again because of a war you did not vote for, in a strait you cannot find on a map. The NHS has seven million people waiting. The streets are not safe. The kids cannot leave home. The pensioners cannot pay their bills. Meanwhile. £8 million a day on asylum hotels. £15 billion a year on foreign aid. £24 billion borrowed in April alone, the worst since Covid. Ask why and you are a bigot. Ask again and you are a racist. Ask a third time and you are a fascist, a far right hate monger, a danger to society. Millions of decent British people are not angry because they are bad. They are angry because they have not been put first in their own country, in their own lifetime. Not once. Not under Tories. Not under Labour. Not under Lib Dems. Not under coalitions. Thirty years of being told the queue starts behind everyone else, including the people who only arrived yesterday. This is not racism. This is exhaustion. And it is justified.

@darrengrimes How thick are you? Labour thick? People are voting for Burnham! Think about that instead of who thinks Farage was a cunt to Lowe?

To vote for Restore in Makerfield, a party polling in single digits, is to hand Andy Burnham a free pass into Parliament on a wave of momentum, Labour’s majority rubber-stamped, and years more of a government too spineless to do what a Britain in terminal freefall actually needs.