John Andrew Nield

@labourlewis Instead of plotting alliances against Reform, Labour should be reviewing their policies against public opinion & national interest. After 14yrs of 'planning', you lot were clueless; promising everything on a 'fag-packet' manifesto but delivering nothing but pain to the taxpayer!

I know the news Andy Burnham has a route back to Westminster will divide opinion. So, before anything else, I want to speak plainly – to Labour members and voters, to those who have left us, and to anyone on the centre-left, whether you vote Green, Lib Dem, or are simply looking for a politics that hasn't given up on you. Last week's local election results were, for many of us, existential. Not disappointing. Not a setback. Existential. Look across Europe and beyond at what happens to social democratic parties that refuse to step outside the economic orthodoxy of the last forty years – the one that hollowed out our public services, privatised what was ours, drove inequality to indecent levels, and cleared the ground for the authoritarian right to march into. That is the path we are on. Keir Starmer has refused to see it, and the country cannot afford another general election spent finding out the hard way. So let me be direct. The Prime Minister should set out a timeline for an orderly transition. I have said this before. I say it again now because the stakes have changed. Reform is not a protest – it is a project. And it will not be beaten by a Labour Party that mistakes managerial caution for strategy. As regards Andy, I want to set down here that I do not see him as some kind of messiah. Far from it. As someone who has been around frontline politics for more than twenty years, he has made his fair share of mistakes. But for the last ten years he has been a serious, grounded, and effective Mayor of Greater Manchester. The party and the country need their strongest players on the pitch, and he has a great deal to offer at a moment when the national stage has rarely mattered more. I hope the NEC will listen to the overwhelming view of the Cabinet, the PLP, the membership, and the unions, and let Andy stand. And I hope and believe the people of Makerfield will send him back to Parliament. But that is not a given. We know Reform will throw everything at this by-election. We must do the same and then some. Reform have spent a year being told they are inevitable. Makerfield is where we find out whether that is true. Every advance has a limit. This is where we set it. Millions of people, including my constituents in Norwich South, need this government to succeed. They need housing, working public services, secure jobs, water and energy that serves them rather than extracts from them. That work is not finished. But the honest truth is that stopping Reform and rebuilding the country is bigger than any one party. It will take a progressive politics willing to listen, willing to cooperate where the public interest demands it, and willing to drop the tribal habits that got us here. The country is ahead of us on this. It is time we caught up. Makerfield is one of many places where Labour has lost trust. It is an area Andy knows and has lived in for many years. If selected, he will work hard to win that trust back and make the case for a Labour Party worth voting for again. That case has to be made not only to people who once voted Labour, but to everyone who believes the answer to Reform is a serious, democratic, social alternative – not a paler imitation of the politics that created the problem. This by-election is not about one seat. It is a test of whether Labour understands the moment we are in. No single party is going to stop Reform on its own. The progressive majority in this country is real – but it is scattered across Labour, the Greens, the Lib Dems, nationalists, independents, and millions of people who have stopped voting altogether. Our job is not to demand they all come back to us. It is to earn the right to work with them, on shared ground, for a shared future. To former Labour voters: come and talk to us again. To Green and Lib Dem voters: we are not enemies. To Labour members and MPs: this is the fight. Let's get on with it. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@lindsaypuppyd I had an appointment in 315 days' time to arrange an appointment to have cardiac tests done. The letter also told me it took an average of a further 21 wks to attend the tests. So that's a mere 462 days to have tests to determine an issue with something as minor...as my heart!!

NHS waiting lists go down ... Oh wait, they're just removing people from those lists, and sending letters that aren't being received. Couldn't make it up 😏

@ShabanaMahmood If it's such a privilege to serve the British people then do so, rather than penalising them in favour of those who are not British. If you truly wished to end illegal immigration then you would. Instead you 'make the noises' whilst quietly supporting what's currently ongoing !

A devastating night in Birmingham and across the country. Good public servants, colleagues and friends have lost their seats. This was a verdict on us not them. The PM has rightly said we must do better. It is a privilege to serve the British people and we must live up to it.

@HoodedClaw1974 ' I always vote Labour ' Jeez, that clown doesn't deserve a vote! What sort of plonker votes for the same party, 'year in year out' without reviewing their performance or changing priorities or the damage they are personally experiencing as a result. Blind support, regardless!!

Its voting day. Looks like Lewisham is beyond help.🤦‍♂️

@HoodedClaw1974 Then may they get that for what they wish for ! 😄😄

@benonwine Masochists!!

Be as HONEST as you wish?

@Keir_Starmer ....but they're not though !

Tomorrow vote for a party that’s on your side. Vote Labour.

@shiningfourth Typical Labour tactic.....go for the 'green field' sites now that 'established areas have been acquired by more attractive solutions'. Shameful ....and not really unexpected !!

Lying fucking cow! The headmaster of this school needs sacking straight away, and ban her from talking to kids again.

@hewantswealth If the illegal migrants were certified professionals then they would require their certification with them to find work instead of 'losing' their documentation. This instantly destroys the 'doctors/engineers' fallacy.

I genuinely don’t understand racism in Britain. Walked through a hospital ward last night (11pm) and every single nurse and doctor I saw was from an ethnic minority, mainly black or Asian. Send us back to our country and who exactly will be looking after your elderly relatives? The NHS relies upon us so heavily yet we’re the most underpaid and undervalued.

@YossiBenYakar Yes,that's a good idea!..Let's all open our personal spaces up to a load of undocumented free-loaders with totally different cultural differences and values. That should cause no problems nor outrages once that mass scenario plays out a little, should it now? The crass myopia !!

UK: “About 8 million people live alone many could welcome a refugee into their home.” Government think tanks and the radical Left are now openly pushing to house asylum seekers inside private British homes. This was always the next step. They opened the borders. They filled the streets. Now they want them in your living room.

@benonwine Roller Skates!!

Get Creative Guys?

@RachelD1892 How is it possible that our 'loose cannon' of a Government can recklessly waste away taxpayers' hard-earned contributions without any accountability to the country? Are there no measures in place to prevent this lunacy? There should be!!

I just watched Starmer proudly announcing the UK will join a £78 billion loan to Ukraine. WTF!!?? We're broke, highest ever levels of debt, highest ever levels of tax, economy a total mess. Where is that money coming from when we simply haven't got it!? Something is very wrong!

@oJARDINEo @rachelmillward Again, the Green mantra-drivel is trotted out to questions, whether it refers to them or not. In 2024 the general public bought the rubbish that Labour peddled, to 'protest-vote' the Tories out - & look what that got us? The Greens are hoping this happens for them this time!

BASED AF man on #bbcqt asks Green Party’s @rachelmillward to specify the racial hatred she’s seen & exactly where it’s coming from. Watch her squirm. 👀

@GBPolitcs How the Hell can a someone whip members to vote for them when they are personally the subject of the vote? This, surely cannot be democratic? Having said that, 54 Labour MPs will now face the whip, according to these rules so that outcome should be 'interesting'!

🚨BREAKING: Keir Starmer imposes a three-line whip on Labour MPs to oppose the motion referring him to the Privileges Committee for misleading the Commons A three-line whip means attendance is mandatory, MPs who abstain or vote for will face losing the Labour party whip

@HoodedClaw1974 'Transparency' is a policy and not an amount. What a pillock!!

🚨Breaking News Keir Starmer has told Cathy Newman he will order his MPs to vote against the parliamentary inquiry into whether he misled the house over Peter Mandelson, calling it a stunt. He also said we have huge amounts of transparency already going on.🤣🤣

@GBNEWS If successive Governments had wisely invested workers' pensions contributions rather than lazily and simply adding them to their spending pots then they would have had extra funds to adequately cover their pension payments responsibilities today. They're not benefits FGS !!

'The biggest amount of money that goes into benefits is pensions... Politicians are terrified that older people won't vote for them.' Former Labour adviser Matthew Torbitt reacts as Reform leader Nigel Farage wages 'war' on benefits culture.

@ukJ0N @fahimaM100 @orlaminihane @danwootton I suspect that Fahima has no 'rooted' investment in this country and therefore sees no problem at all in the erosion of its national traditional identification by being diluted and ultimately washed away by concentrated third world importation.

Green Party candidate Fahima Mahomed was absolutely destroyed on her party’s open borders policy which she clearly does not understand. Painful to watch and a total car crash. @fahimaM100 @orlaminihane @danwootton

@alexburghart So who ultimately rules on whether or not Starmer misled the House? And if it is decided that he did so, what are the repercussions?

The Prime Minister’s people couldn’t defend him in the Commons yesterday At Prime Minister’s Questions he lied about what Olly Robbins said He misled the House He has broken the rules He must resign

@HazelAppleyard I think it's C as it represents a cube, thus inferring that all faces are of equal area. With the other 2 examples there is no proof that the 'thirds' are of equal areas within the 2 rectangles or circles whereas the cube's faces are constrained as equal to produce a true cube.

How is that wrong? What am I missing?!

@britmatters So the UK imports these folk without vetting them for this type of behaviour to then witness them randomly attacking and murdering members of the indigenous population before putting them indefinitely into mental prisons. All at the taxpayers' expense! Marvellous! 😬

Somali Knifeman Admits Killing Pensioner on Remembrance Sunday. A Somali national has admitted killing a 77 year old pensioner in a frenzied knife attack at a south London market on Remembrance Sunday. Musse Ali, 68, launched the savage assault at East Street Market in Walworth, southeast London, around 10:40am on November 10, 2024. Shoppers screamed and scattered in panic as the blade wielding attacker struck without warning. Hilkiah McLeggan, known affectionately as Mac or Lloyd to friends and family, was stabbed to death at the scene. The 77 year old grandfather, a familiar face at the historic market where he had worked and shopped for decades was pronounced dead at the scene. Two other men, Ho Man Yau and Baheru Nadew Bartura, were left seriously injured and rushed to hospital. At the Old Bailey yesterday, Ali, of no fixed address, entered guilty pleas to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, possession of a knife, and two counts of wounding with intent. He continues to deny murder and attempted murder. The Somali national, who required an interpreter in court, has been held at Broadmoor high security psychiatric hospital. He reportedly suffers from schizoaffective disorder and was too unwell to appear in person. Sentencing is expected to follow a hearing on May 1. This isn't an isolated incident. In Derby last year, failed asylum seeker and small boat migrant Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, 47, calmly walked into a Lloyds Bank branch and stabbed father of three Gurvinder Singh, 37, through the heart in a completely unprovoked random attack. Nur, also a Somali national, was jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years. Time and again, the British public is experiencing the same horrific pattern of violence caused by dangerous individuals slipping through the net, free to roam our streets and free to kill, while law abiding citizens go about their daily lives in constant danger. This is the direct and predictable result of failed policies that have failed to control immigration, vet arrivals properly, or deport foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers quickly. Instead of protecting our people, governments have prioritised open door ideology over public safety. Britain needs leadership. Not more victims, more excuses and more meaningless inquiries. #UKNews #CrimeNews #London #Walworth