Bartleby. (I prefer not to)

@Keir_Starmer @ASK_des No it won't. You're fuc***. We hate you. Go away.

My government will end the status quo that has failed working people. We will build a stronger, fairer Britain.

@ret_ward @epaleezeldin Amazing Bob. The whole climate scam encapsulated in one sentence. You really are the most entertaining proponent of this rubbish.

Most Americans can tell that this is pure nonsense from @epaleezeldin. They can see the increase in wildfires, the heavier rainfall, the more intense heatwaves, the rise in sea level. No amount of climate change denial can change what Americans can see for themselves.

Not a dickiebird from the BBC or Attenborough as the IPCC states its climate forecasts have been wildly wrong. There is no climate disaster.

@DPJHodges When we're perhaps thinking that Streeting would be sort of OK for P.M. it merely serves to show how truly stuffed we are.

Wes Streeting on the pitch now. Rayner preparing to release statement.

🚨 BREAKING: The Labour civil war just reached Keir Starmer's absolute inner circle. Josh Simons, a previously loyal MP who literally helped engineer Starmer's rise to power, has just publicly demanded the Prime Minister resign. The house of cards is completely collapsing. 🧵👇

🚨HUGE: Sharon Graham, the general secretary of Unite, Labour’s biggest union donor has joined calls for Sir Keir Starmer to resign. Keir Starmer can't recover from this. Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman are not going to save him. This is terminal.

@benonwine Nope.

Just curious…does anyone actually give a shit that Nigel Farage was gifted £5million for his Sercurity and protection?

One reason why Catherine West is gaining momentum. She's isn't just speaking passionately, she's speaking clearly. She's not using code. She's not dropping hints that her colleagues are supposed to interpret, but are ultimately deniable. She's talking in human.

@OhNoezzz @DPJHodges An astonishing lack of knowledge about political history. The new Labour intake appear not to be familiar with the history and rôle of the 'stalking horse' in politics.

@DPJHodges It actually astounds me the amount of Labour members who are Starmer loyalists on X who don't understand that. They're posting indignantly "who does she think she is, never heard of her, she's got no chance, how dare she rock the boat!".

Another thing to understand. West is not viewed by anyone as a viable alternative to Starmer. It's simply about triggering a contest for others.

@PreetKGillMP You mistakenly think we're as stupid as you. Roll on 2029.

With respect to Catherine West, leadership contests and public ultimatums are not what the country needs right now. The public expects government to govern, not endless internal theatrics. The priority should be getting on with the job the British people elected Labour to do.

@JChimirie66677 @Humpomop59 Blair set Harman to work with Frank Field. It didn't work. He said she was 'no good'.

Humphrey, the roles are part time and unpaid but the cost to the country is real and has nothing to do with pay. The cost is credibility. A Prime Minister so bereft of ideas that he reaches back fifteen years for answers has just told the country that his own Cabinet, the people he appointed, the ministers he chose to surround himself with, are not equal to the crisis he faces. That is a devastating admission. Brown left office in 2010 with the country deeper in debt than at any point since the Second World War. The country rejected him then. Harman's association with the PIE controversy has never been satisfactorily resolved in the public mind. The country has not forgotten that either. Bringing them back does not strengthen the government. It exposes its weakness. And the cost of that weakness is being paid not in salaries but in the continued failure to address the issues that drove millions of voters to Reform on Thursday. Every day this government remains paralysed by its own internal contradictions is another day the boats keep coming, the hotels stay full and the bills keep rising. That is the real cost. And it is considerable.

They Still Don't Get It. And They Never Will. The local election results are barely counted and the Labour messaging machine has already told you what to think. Chris Bryant says Labour must deliver the change the country desperately wants. Heidi Alexander says people voted for change in 2024 and want it delivered faster. David Lammy says the last thing Britain needs is Labour turning inward. They have misread the results so completely that the misreading itself is the story. Sunderland fell to Reform after fifty years. Gateshead fell. Blackburn fell. Tameside fell after forty seven years. Wales, governed by Labour since devolution began in 1999, now has a Plaid Cymru administration for the first time. These communities and this nation did not vote the way they did because Labour was delivering its agenda too slowly. They rejected that agenda entirely. The small boats still coming. The dispersal of unvetted men into communities that were never consulted. The energy bills driven up by net zero dogma. The two-tier policing that jailed people for expressing views on immigration while sectarian marches went unchallenged. The grooming gang inquiry that victims say has been managed to minimise accountability rather than deliver it. The taxation of working people and family farms while billions flow in foreign aid to Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan, regimes that stone women, ban girls from education and sentence apostates to death. The country that funds gender apartheid abroad while failing to protect its own women and girls at home has now delivered its verdict at the ballot box. These are not policies the country wants faster. These are policies the country has rejected. The distinction is fundamental and Labour's entire leadership class has missed it. Starmer's response to the worst local election result in Labour's history is to bring back Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman. Gordon Brown was Chancellor when he sold 395 tonnes of Britain's gold reserves between 1999 and 2002 at near a twenty year low, a decision that cost the Treasury an estimated £7 billion at subsequent prices. He became Prime Minister and presided over the worst financial crisis since the 1930s before losing the 2010 general election. He is now being brought back as Special Envoy on Global Finance to advise a government that has just suffered its worst ever local election defeat. Nigel Farage's assessment was characteristically blunt. An unpopular Prime Minister who lost a general election is now seen by Starmer as the saviour. He meant Labour are doomed. Harriet Harman has been appointed adviser on violence against women and girls. Between 1978 and 1982 Harman served as legal officer of the National Council for Civil Liberties at a time when the Paedophile Information Exchange held affiliated status within the organisation. In 2014 Harman expressed regret after this connection was reported. She denied supporting PIE or campaigning to lower the age of consent below sixteen. Those denials are on the record. What is also on the record is that a Prime Minister whose government lost the local elections in part because of failures to protect vulnerable girls from organised sexual exploitation has chosen as his safeguarding adviser someone whose name has been permanently associated with that controversy. The optics alone represent a judgment so poor it defies explanation. This is the reset. Two figures from Labour's past, one associated with one of the most costly financial decisions in modern British history, one with one of the most toxic controversies in the party's recent record, brought back the morning after the worst local election result in the party's history. The ministers and the Prime Minister are operating in the same closed loop. Same assumptions. Same conclusions. More of the same, delivered faster, by older faces with worse records. The country was clear on Thursday. This government cannot hear it.

@DPJHodges I fear that he'll go, but only after a one-man period of scorched Earth, including his own 're-set' with the EU.

We are 12 hours into Keir Starmer's post election reset. And it's already dead on arrival. The man truly has the Medusa touch.

@Keir_Starmer Blair appointed Harman to work alongside Frank Field. It never worked: Blair concluded she was 'no good'.

Together, we will build a stronger and fairer Britain.

@JChimirie66677 Hilary Benn for interim PM? Knocking on but experienced and sane.

Labour Is Looking For A Saviour. Its Candidates Cannot Even Save Themselves The results are in and the succession speculation has begun. Andy Burnham is the answer. Angela Rayner must return. Wes Streeting has 80 MPs. The political class that produced the worst local election result in Labour's history is now debating which of its members should be trusted to reverse it. The results themselves suggest a different conclusion. Burnham's target seats around Manchester saw Labour fall by twenty percentage points overnight. The eight councils surrounding the city went into Thursday with Labour holding sixty four percent of seats. They woke up to forty four percent. Tameside, which Burnham would need to win over as part of any northern coalition, fell after forty seven years of Labour control. The data journalist at the Telegraph put it plainly. Burnham may want to cast his net wider than Manchester for a seat. Based on what happened on Thursday, considerably wider. Rayner's Ashton-under-Lyne seat is projected by Electoral Calculus to fall to Reform at the next general election by nine points. The woman being positioned as Labour's answer to the North represents a constituency the Labour electorate has already abandoned. Her HMRC investigation has not been formally closed. The question of whether a Cabinet return contingent on a favourable tax investigation conclusion represents a conflict of interest has never been satisfactorily answered. There is also the matter of a leaked 2024 recording in which Rayner pleaded with Muslim voters in her constituency, acknowledging she could not have held her seat in 2019 without their support and promising Labour would do everything in its power on Gaza. A candidate whose electoral survival depends on bloc vote cultivation is not positioned to address the two-tier policing and rising sectarianism that drove voters to Reform across the North. Streeting clung to Ilford North in 2024 with a majority of 528 votes over a pro-Palestine independent candidate. The forces that nearly unseated him then have strengthened since. He accepted over £370,000 in donations from individuals and companies with connections to the private healthcare sector, according to the Good Law Project, while overseeing the dismantling of NHS England and the expansion of private provision. Global Counsel, Mandelson's lobbying firm, worked for Palantir, which holds NHS contracts that expanded significantly during his tenure. He has been asked to publish his communications with private health donors. He has declined. Three candidates. Three sets of vulnerabilities. And not one of them has addressed the questions that produced Thursday's results. Not the small boats that keep coming. Not the dispersal of unvetted men into communities that were never consulted. Not the two-tier policing that jailed ordinary people for expressing views on immigration while sectarian marches through British streets went unchallenged. Not the energy bills driven up by net zero dogma while working people and family farms paid the price. Not the China pattern. Not the network of private arrangements and financial relationships that has shaped this government's decisions from Washington to the NHS. Sunderland fell to Reform after fifty years. Gateshead fell. Blackburn fell. Tameside fell. These are the communities Labour was built to represent. They did not vote for a different version of the same arrangement. They voted for a party that did not exist four years ago. Changing the name on the door does not change what happens inside. The voters of the North and Midlands have delivered a verdict not just on Starmer but on the political culture he represents. The candidates queuing to replace him are products of that culture. None of them has said so. None of them has proposed dismantling it. The country does not need a rebranded version of the same arrangement. The results of May 7 make that unmistakably clear.

@darrenpjones @Keir_Starmer Starmer's poodle. You must be so proud. Get some dignity, man.

The election results today have clearly been tough for Labour. I’m sorry that we’ve lost so many brilliant Labour colleagues across the country, and thank them for their service. And I’m sorry that so many voters felt unable to vote Labour at these elections. @Keir_Starmer has taken responsibility and committed all of us to delivering on the mandate the country gave us at the last election. The Labour Party shouldn’t waste a minute of the time we’ve been given to get on with that job. If we turn inwards the public will think we’re walking away from that challenge. The next election will have unity or division on the ballot. A Britain built for all, or a Britain for the few. Britain is at its best when we come together and rise to the challenges of our time. And Labour is at its best when our values of equality, collectivism and unity power our project for the British people. We can deliver a better Britain in the years ahead and beat the prospect of division at the next election, but only if we come together, get on with the job and face the future.

Keir Starmer, 2020: “When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to. You don’t look at the electorate and ask them: what were you thinking? You look at yourself, and ask what were we doing?” Indeed @Keir_Starmer what are you doing? Just resign.

@PaulFosterMP Well said in so far as your statement goes.. Yet another speech on Monday from Starmer will not cut it. Time for him to think of the country. The respected MP, Barry Gardner, has just said Starmer should go.

Congratulations to Cllr Arjun Singh (AJ!) on his hard-fought victory in Eccleston, Heskin and Charnock Richard ward of Chorley Borough Council. He is a fantastic councillor who works tirelessly for his residents, and this result shows that hard work, visibility and dedication still matter in politics. But it would be wrong not to acknowledge the wider picture. Across the country, Labour has suffered deeply disappointing and sobering results, with hardworking Labour councillors losing their seats after years of dedicated public service to their communities. On the doorstep, I've found it increasingly difficult to have meaningful conversations about Labour policies, local issues or the positive changes many of us want to deliver for the country, because almost every conversation quickly returns to the Prime Minister. Fairly or unfairly, leadership has become the dominant issue overshadowing everything else. We must accept this reality. I am a loyal person by nature. I value stability, seriousness and avoiding the constant cycle of political infighting and leadership speculation that has damaged parties and the country in the past. But there also comes a point where refusing to confront political reality becomes more damaging than managing change responsibly. One thing is absolutely clear: we cannot and must not ignore the message voters are sending us. People voted for change and they want to see change. If the public no longer believes the current leadership can deliver that, then it is not disloyal to acknowledge that fact, it is simply pragmatic. These results undoubtedly require serious reflection. Serious questions are being asked about whether Labour truly heard the concerns voters have been expressing for some time. But any discussion about the future leadership of the Labour Party must be approached calmly, orderly and in the national interest, not through chaos or personal attacks. Because if we fail to listen now, the consequences for the country could be profound. The prospect of handing power to Reform UK would not only reshape our politics for a generation, it would cause huge damage to us all and our way of life. The results are still coming in and I'll continue reflecting on them over the weekend, but the message from the electorate is already impossible to ignore.

@Nigel_Farage Did I just hear on GB News Barry Gardner saying Starmer should stand aside!?

I will speak live from Essex within the hour to celebrate our big election win. 👏

@SteveReedMP The last thing we need is an over-promoted town councillor telling us what we want.

The last thing the country wants is the Labour Party to talk about the Labour Party. The British public don’t want to hear about timelines, backroom deals and navel-gazing. Let’s get on with the job.

@DPJHodges Starmer's stand is genuinely political madness.

Growing backlash within the Cabinet to Starmer's statement this morning. Sense that by digging in he's going to provoke a major backlash from within the PLP. Especially given the sort of results we're going to be seeing later in the day.