Tom Foster SDP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Afuera!

@benhabib6 I keep repeating a very telling statistic: 4 million graduates are working in non graduate roles. 4 million degrees that have not provided the outcomes that were promised. 30 years of debt that could have been a mortgage for 4 million people.

@JohnHealey_MP Absence of a flag promotes someone else? So if you don't fly a flag you're in support of every dictator that ever lived?

I’m proud of UK leadership on Ukraine - under the last Government, and stepped up with this Labour Government. But there is nothing to be proud of by removing Ukrainian flags and promoting Putin as a leader - like Reform does. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@LabourBerry @DaleVince Btw, it's attitudes like that which lost the 500,000 votes in the first place. Keep it up 👍

@tompfoster @DaleVince Ignorant view

I just don’t think there should be a leadership challenge. Keir Starmer has a massive mandate given to him by the British people at the general election. I don’t think anybody in the Cabinet has a right to try to overturn that. I still hope there won’t be a leadership contest. If there is, it’s probable that Keir will stand himself and in which case, I’d be in his camp. What we need now is continuity. We need Labour to deliver on their manifesto. We haven’t even been two years into this government. telegraph.co.uk/gift/d0332ac86…

@LabourBerry @DaleVince It's a fact.

@RealWitan That's why they say "openly" 😂

I doubt he will really be the first anyway.

@SpockResists Nobody pays me to despise what net zero has done to the country. Exporting the environmental costs and pretending we're not producing pollution? We need resources like oil. It's not a desire. We NEED them for the very basics of society.

Do you understand why Nigel is so anti Net Zero? He gets paid to be. He puts foreign oil interests over the UK’s stability of being energy self-sufficient. desmog.com/2026/04/30/ref…

@JohnCrookes7 10 likes is astounding?

I put something complementary about Keir Starmer on TikTok and the number of likes received was astounding. Clearly he continues to have a lot of support.

@spikedonline Only the openly gay prime minister. For everyone else it doesn't mean anything.

Who cares if we have an openly gay prime minister? buff.ly/ugAHqAE

@Stanley2022UK1 @Sargon_of_Akkad I'm leaning in that direction. Use it as a measure of public voting intent. If Burnham wins then he inherits a zombie government. If Burnham loses we still have a zombie government.

@tompfoster @Sargon_of_Akkad The approach should be, all parties stand and let the voters decide. If Burnham wins then Starmer goes which it what Farage wanted, wasn't it?

Be careful what you wish for.

@DaleVince 10 year project? They had 14 years to develop a plan (which they didn't) and it has taken 2 years to come up with a 10 year plan that is failing already.

I think it’s the worst thing Labour could do right now, there’s no reason to panic over some adverse polling less than two years into a ten year project - and some of what we’re seeing is more opportunism than panic - but if there is to be a leadership contest my first choice for the job would be Keir, that’s who I’ll back. The NHS has been battered for 14 years by Tory neglect and underfunding. Just as things are starting to turn a corner, Wes decides to walk away from a job he’s actually good at. Because he’s lost confidence apparently. Hard to square that with his talk of being proud to fight in the trenches with Keir at the general election. When the going gets tough and all that…... People around Ed Miliband have been briefing that he’s urged Keir to set a timetable to walk away - unhelpful enough to say it - worse to leak it to the press. Ed is seen as a potential contender, I’m not convinced. A few weeks ago,  he told the country he would finally break the link, the market mechanism that drives our energy bills sky-high in a crisis - the following week he announced the details and he did not break the link or even weaken it. Ed misled the country in my view and the Prime minister. Keir's top team should be standing behind him right now - and not with knives in their hands. How about some policy ideas? This whole leadership circus is a massive distraction from the job, not just at a time of global crisis but at a time when the people of Britain are making clear they want more change, they want to feel the change in their lives. The answer to that, some seem to think - is to have a new leader. That’s a delusion and often enough a conceit, sold to us on the premise it’s in the national interest or the party’s interest - when the truth is much closer to home. Labour has a job to do and a mandate to do it. Let’s get on with it.

@LabourfutureUK Wait a minute. Immigration went down and GDP went up? Are you going to acknowledge that phenomenon? That's assuming that anything Labour claims is actually true.

Despite enormous global pressures, UK GDP Growth was fastest in the first quarter. Under Labour, the economy is getting back on track after 14 years of Tory chaos. We must continue to focus on delivering our manifesto commitments. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

@BobBlackman @Dringcarol Where he will do the complete opposite.

James Murray was the architect and chief defender of the disastrous family farm tax, refusing every compromise offered by the NFU and farming unions while British farms were forced to plan for closure. Now he is in charge of the NHS.

@LucyRigby Another lawyer. Just what we need 😐

First day in the new job. Good to get cracking.

@daibach23 He can play the baddie who is intent on destroying the country to bring about his new world order. It would be the peak of method acting.

Hello, I’ve come to audition for the James Bond job. NEXT!!!

We don't want the changes he is making. It's a blessing for us all that he hasn't been able to achieve his goals as quickly as he would've liked. More two tier policing? More intersectionality? More anti-English racism? More Islamists? I won't miss him even though I know his immediate successor will likely be worse.

You’ll miss Keir Starmer when he’s gone spectator.com/article/youll-… I couldn’t agree more. Change, after 14 years of Tory austerity, is bound to take time before people begin to feel the benefits.

I don't have a tumble dryer. I had one once that came with a rental property. I'm not a fan but I don't begrudge other people wanting one. There's no doubt about their convenience so I have no problem if people choose to have one. I have a massive problem with the government dictating what people should and shouldn't be allowed to own.

American often joke that Brits do not have dryers. We do. But our government is attempting to take them away from us. “Net zero” is a political agenda that needs abolishing.

@RaymondSnoddy You haven't worked out why there is a revolving door, have you? They keep getting the boot because they do not work in the best interests of the people they govern. And they'll keep getting kicked out until they do.

Also thinking of joining the Labour Party not because I agree with all Labour policies - they are too timid on rejoining the EU- but because we can't have a revolving door in Downing Street every two years

@Keir_Starmer They will be loud. Not loud enough to penetrate your tin ear, though. Nothing ever is.

Today the voices of division will be loud. They don't speak for the country I know, one that belongs to all of us. That's our Britain. A Britain worth fighting for. lbc.co.uk/article/keir-s…

@DaleVince Shares in deodorant manufacturers just hit the roof as Dale's gravy train nears the buffers. How will your "free" energy businesses compete without government subsidy?

Is Farage the only person in Britain that gained from Brexit - he might be. This secret £5m bung, which was first claimed as security money - is now described as a reward for Brexit, the economic Tsunami that stripped £150 billion from our economy and cost all us over £2k every single year since. He gets a reward for that, if we can believe this latest excuse for the secret £5m bung by the overseas Crypto man. We need to clean up our politics - latest edition of Babelfish, out next week, shows how.