Simon Lord

@darrenpjones Can you bring me back a Tawny Owl from the sanctuary later please? Thank you.

Just out of Cabinet and then the Middle East Response Committee. The impact of the conflict in Iran will be felt here at home at a time when we know the cost of living has been difficult for many. This Labour government is working hard to protect families and businesses from the economic shocks as much as we can. Serious times call for serious leadership, which is exactly what the Prime Minister is providing.

@SEANLWOODCOCK Another sycophantic tweet from another MP who has got the “Save Keir” memo. Well done.

The Prime Minister is right to get on with the job. That is what the country expects of all of us. The Labour Party has a process to challenge a leader and that has not been triggered.

@SteveReedMP Bankrupt the country?

Let’s get on with the job we were elected to do.

@PreetKGillMP The hierarchy according to the PM: 1. Keir Starmer 2. The Labour Party 3. Fuck the rest of you

The Prime Minister has told Cabinet what the country is thinking- stop the destabilisation, the navel gazing and get on with the job. I am backing him because voters did not elect us to turn inward and obsess over ourselves they elected us to deliver change for working people.

@Keir_Starmer @UKLabour Mawkish, wooden and totally without conviction.

When I say every child should have the opportunity to go as far as their talent takes them, I mean every single child. Children who grew up in poverty, with special educational needs, those who can't get a job. We back them: every young person struggling to find work will get a guaranteed offer of a job, training, or a work placement.

@Peston Ooh, he’s taken his jacket off, he must mean business! 🤣🤣🤣

Starmer promises to “do better and be better”

@IslingtonChap @TrudeauBil63167 I love your comedy posts, they always bring a bit of joy to my life.

The question is no longer ‘who governs Britain?’ It is: ‘Who *can* govern Britain?’ The answer to that question is, Tony Blair.

@helen_spirit1 @YorkshireIFA @AngelaRayner Very well said.

@AngelaRayner You are a lying, fraudulent, tax avoider who lied on your CV & about where you lived, sued the NHS & kept it quiet, lied about Durham, broke lockdown laws by having a affair with a married man & abandoned your constituents. You also have alcohol issues. You are finished.

Our party has suffered a historic defeat. Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more. What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance. The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people. We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it. Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits. Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them. Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that. In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.  We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people. The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.  Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government. For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics. But we have the chance to fix this.  1/2

@otokyo__ @BruceBwkm A celebrant or clergyman to conduct the ceremony at the crematorium ?

Whats missing from this breakfast? 🍳☕️🍽

@ChrisProctor13 @archer_rs It happened in October 2025.

@archer_rs What now ? That on top of the 3 that went Friday ? So 8/9/10 all gone ?

Another five Reform Party councillors forced to resign today.

@GriftReport She looks perfectly normal and healthy.

Cruel trolls mock Stacey Solomon after she posts bikini photos from Miami trip She was joined by her sister, her sons, and fellow stars including Olivia Attwood, Samie Elishi and Rochelle Humes. Some cruel online trolls quickly body-shamed her and left nasty comments under the holiday photos. Stacey has previously spoken openly about her body-confidence struggles after having five children.

@Bbmorg Seems to have been Starmers main tactic so far.

If Farage becomes PM: he will be hostile and dictatorial towards his Cabinet. His Cabinet will be poorly skilled and mostly incompetent so as not present a threat to him. He will make decisions based on his needs and not those of the Country. He will sow hate and mistrust amongst citizens to make them more dependant on him.

@anon_opin Best news ever.

Civil servant here. If Farage wins the next GE, he'll call us all back to the office 5 days a week. The CS will then be on the verge of collapse, as thousands of people will either retire immediately or quit, due to the removal of WFH. Cheap optics will meet reality.

@LeonardBriscoe3 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

How wonderful, there’s no way things can go wrong with Gordon keeping his eye on things… x.com/Keir_Starmer/s…

@Captain34466242 @0Calamity They’re worse than kids, aren’t they?

@MPC3675 @0Calamity You have to worry about this one’s mental state to reproduce the inane posting of another lefty lunatic

Hahahahah! Just seen this on FB: ---- Have you found yourself in the hideous position of having a Reform councillor? Here’s how you can help your brand new councillor settle into local government properly: email them this week with an actual council problem to solve. Got rubbish piling up? Email them. Bus vanished from existence? Email them. Streetlights dead? Email them. Care package delayed? Email them. Pavement like the Somme? Email them. Send them in by the hundred. Make sure they’re made very clear on what their job is. Being a councillor is not standing in front of the Union flag shouting about dinghies on GB News. It’s reading committee papers at midnight, attending meetings nobody enjoys, holding surgeries in church halls, and dealing with the endlessly glamorous world of drains, social care budgets and recycling disputes. Welcome to local government. The boats are in Kent. The bins are in your ward. The email address for your ward councillor can be found on your local council website as soon as it’s updated. Feel free to copy and paste to share wider.

@charlotteukcity @RSylvester1 @TeresaC123 @ObserverUK Dear Mrs Starmer, please stop posting utter bollocks under a pseudonym, we all know that it’s you.

@RSylvester1 @TeresaC123 @ObserverUK I want that for him too. 🙏🏼 He has so many incredible leadership traits, many people choose not to see. I’m behind him wholeheartedly.

Keir Starmer says he wants a decade in Downing Street and will fight any challengers - my interview for @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/news/politics/…

@SBarrettBar @VAS6323 And this beauty.

"Bigoted woman" The Gold "End to boom & bust" The financial crash The Pensions raid Paedophile Information Exchange Do Labour think we are too stupid to remember?

@Peston He’s great, isn’t he?

In normal circumstances, Keir Starmer’s appointment of Gordon Brown as his special envoy on global finance and Harriet Harman as his adviser on women and girls would be seen by Labour MPs as sensible. Tapping the wisdom of the party’s elders to solve important problems would be viewed as competent if dull technocratic government. However these are not normal circumstances for the Prime Minister. His MPs see him as responsible for yesterday’s electoral catastrophe. He indeed has insisted he does take full responsibility. And that is why the appointments are in fact incendiary. Because they are seen as - at best - irrelevant to the crisis faced by the government, and for many MPs and ministers they are provocative, an insult, a manifestation - in the words of one minister - “that he simply doesn’t get it.” This is what one senior and influential member of the government told me: “The Harriet and Gordon thing and his Guardian article [in which he said the government should neither move left or right] has annoyed Labour MPs even more. It’s tone deaf. I think people give him until Monday to actually show he gets it or he’s done.” To be clear, this minister would often try and defend the PM. Not any more. And that’s not altogether surprising, given that few Reform voters are likely to say “I was thinking of voting for Nigel Farage but I’ve changed my mind now that Keir has tapped Gordon to create an international off-balance-sheet finance facility for defence spending.” Another minister told me that the preference of MPs and Labour’s members would be for Starmer to stay and turn around the performance of the government, but they were increasingly doubtful he was capable of doing this. This minister’s mood, and that of his colleagues, he said, “was increasingly of despair”. Perhaps the biggest problem was that Starmer “is seemingly unable to give a clear coherent sense of direction for the country.” “Voters will forgive you many of your mistakes if you can tell them where you want to take them. But he has been incapable of doing that, and none of us know whether he ever can.” Even those members of the Cabinet who are genuine loyalists talk about him on the basis of hypothesis and guesswork. None of them seem to actually know what makes him tick or what he wants (one told me he was planning to set out his own policies more publicly in the hope that perhaps the PM would adopt them). In that sense Starmer seems more isolated than any prime minister I’ve ever known. A very big test for him comes on Monday, when he is expected to give a speech that will be billed as his agenda for the rest of the parliament but is in practice a plea to his MPs to give him a last chance. I asked a minister what MPs would need to hear to be clear that he does understand their concerns, that he “gets it”. This was the reply. “I mean god knows because I dont think he does. It’s not anything anyone else can tell him it has to come from him.” And that, in a nutshell, is why Starmer is in so much trouble.

@Keir_Starmer Ah, now come on mun. You’re just taking the piss now.

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