jonathan edwards

I have found the new Russian sanctions law and the PM and trade minister Bryant are correct that the permission to import Russian jet fuel and diesel refined in a third country is a waiver from new sanctions. Tory leader Badenoch was barking up wrong tree, it seems. But maybe that is understandable to a degree because the government’s communication on this was confusing, to put it kindly

Supermarkets are happy enough for taxpayers to subsidise their low-paid workforce with in-work benefits so they can pay their bosses seven-figure salaries. But ask them even to consider voluntary price caps on basic foods and they'll slam the idea as 'preposterous'.

Private Eye gets this spot on - sad to lose Kuenssberg and Mason 😂

@Jeremy_Hunt He still can’t acknowledge the damage Brexit has done!

Britain has grown faster than many large European countries since Brexit so reopening the debate is a pointless distraction from the solving the real problems we face

@TomK_Brit1993 What stupid question!

If you had to choose today, would you take Boris Johnson back as Prime Minister over Keir Starmer?

Labour should not be moving the goal posts on immigration rules - for the 1.7m people who have literally earned their 'earned settlement status’. It’s wrong. And it flies in the face of the actual true picture on immigration - not just the fact that immigrants pay £20 billion a year in tax and make up 20% of the NHS - immigration is good for our country, but quite crucially and against the Reform narrative - it is under control. It’s fallen 80% since the Tory era peak, the post Brexit explosion that key Reform ministers presided over when wearing slightly different colours. Labour have it well under control, they don't need to change the rules after the event and take away the status that so many have worked so hard for. That’s not who we are, surely….?

Uneducated voters are more dangerous than illegal immigrants.

@thederbydigest It’s the only punishment where Southampton don’t win!

I think this is a bit too harsh I can’t lie. #dcfc #dcfcfans

✅ @MarinaPurkiss exactly right! If you bought a boiler and it failed to heat your home, you wouldn’t spend 10 years insisting the boiler was secretly brilliant. You wouldn’t continue to live with it and try make it work!

🚨 James O’Brien just torched the whole “Brexit betrayal” narrative on @LBC: “How can it be a betrayal if every single reason they gave us has turned out to be blatant, barefaced LIES?” Brexit is back at the centre of frontline politics and the Leave camp is already screaming betrayal again. #Brexit #RejoinTheEU #LBC

Expulsion is the only punishment where Southampton don’t win!

Polanski forgot to pay council tax when he lived on a houseboat. But that's nothing; Jeremy Hunt forgot he owned seven flats and Nigel Farage forgot his girlfriend bought him a £900,000 house in Clacton.

@ArchRose90 Troll!

This is hilarious. The Daily Mail has revealed that Andy Burnham was jogging at 12.18pm, then he returned home 45 minutes in his VW Golf. His jog was just a photo op. Why pretend to jog? It just makes him look fake and untrustworthy. Something the public hate about politics.

@GeorgeFoulkes @cymbal_martin @bbclaurak They should report the news not make it!

It’s easy! Sack the overpaid & biased reporters starting with @bbclaurak and Chris Mason

@mabbsy88 @ragefighthouse Pass the shovel!

Did you come here legally ? Did you then proceed to get a job ? Do you pay your taxes and contribute to the country? Do you commit crimes ? Have you tried changing our culture? Does Christmas and dogs offend you ? Racism has nothing to do with it, I don’t care what color you are, what religion you are, or what music you listen to in the shower If you come here legally, are a law abiding citizen, pay your taxes, and accept our culture, I have absolutely no issues with you being here, I actually prefer it. Especially if it has given you a better life. But if my flag offends you, if Christmas offends you, if my pet dog offends you, you don’t work, you claim benefits despite never paying tax in this country, and you try to force your culture onto me, commit crimes, then yes, you can leave, If you arrive on a small boat illegally, and then proceed to commit crimes, yes you can leave It’s not racism, it’s common sense.

I’m an immigrant who’s lived and worked in the UK for 16 years. I have a North American accent and I’m white. I’ve never once been told to ‘go back’ to my ‘shithole country’ or to ‘stop stealing jobs from British people’. You’re not concerned about immigration. You’re racist.

🚨 @Lord_Sugar in Sun Times “Leaving Europe is the worst thing I have experienced in my whole time in business.” “Johnson and Gove should be in jail. As a chairman I am obliged to tell the truth to my shareholders.” “If I lie it’s a criminal offence. Politicians lie to the public — their shareholders — and get away with it.” “All that bullshit about the 350 million quid going to the NHS after Brexit.” #rejoinEU

@LBC @AliMirajUK Nice to have an objective unbiased opinion!

Having to call upon Andy Burnham 'says a lot' about the quality within the Labour party, believes @AliMirajUK.

@EdwardJDavey You’ll be voting for home then?

Wes Streeting's audition for PM must offer something more than the same failed red lines as Keir Starmer. We can’t solve the cost of living crisis without repairing the damage done by the Conservative's botched Brexit deal. Starting by negotiating a customs union with the EU.

At last!