Queen Lulabelle II

Just let that sink in

@AaronBastani If only the Labour Party put as much effort into looking after the needs of the nation.

If Labour can’t win this - and I believe people who’ve told me robust canvassing returns say they will - then we are looking at single figure MPs in a GE. That’s how badly the Starmer project screwed up.

@DillyHussain88 Am not sure this investigation, verdict and sentence is proving your point.

No riots. No “Uniting The Kingdom”. Why? Because white nonces and rapists are okay.

@AllanJenni9956 @LucyTCWife Well as long as they spend every day terrified like that poor child did , it will be some form of justice.

@LucyTCWife Course it will. They'll be put on VP houseblocks and will be protected. Prison system is as fucked as the rest of the justice system.

Prison won’t be kind to these two scumbags.

@ThePosieParker James O’Brien went to a private school btw.

James O'Brien sends his daughters to a private school.

@iain2ss @KarlTurnerMP Sess isn’t a word so don’t blame predictive text. Is it really Reform’s fault after all ?

@QLulabelle @KarlTurnerMP Oh well predictive text is a bummer eh. Fun police.

Today is the most important by-election probably ever. Vote Andy Burnham in Makerfield. Change the country. It’s that important.

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg This has given more publicity to Tommy Robinson - I suppose at least he’s happy about that.

Please could the Thames Valley Police allow people into the Oxford Union. Protesters are blocking the entrances while law and order is not being upheld.

@LizKershawDJ @UKLabour Interesting to those EU loving Labour politicians that the MEPs have just voted in deportation laws - I wonder how they will feel about that ?

The electorate of #Makerfield is being asked to kindly facilitate the ousting of the current Labour leader. Ostensibly for the greater good. But beware. @UKLabour is treating democracy with contempt and the electorate of #Makerfield like useful idiots. #Starmer, #Streeting  #Burnham et al are all avid fans of reversing the result of the EU Referendum  While they surely know that 65% of the people in the area (who voted in 2016 ) voted #Brexit. And handed 24/25 seats on Wigan council in May to Nigel Farage's @reform And yet…. Keir Starmer is off to Brussels to finalise his Brexit 'reset' deal at a UK-EU summit on 22 July. With no mandate to do so. Lord Hermer, Labour’s Attorney General, in a major pro-EU speech today is set to condemn Brexit and to attack #NigelFarage Former Health Secretary turned would-be Labour PM Wes Streeting  stated last week that leaving the bloc was a "catastrophic mistake". Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, in his bid to become the MP for Makerfield, is currently cynically downplaying the issue “In the long-term there is a case for re-joining the EU. But I'm not advocating that in this by-election". No Andy. You're not daft. And people in Wigan aren't either. Don’t be used Makerfield.

@Left_EU I think you will find it’s called democracy - people voted and were listened to.

The era of resistance begins. Today, the far right, with the help of the conservatives and liberals, pushed through the Deportation Regulation in the European Parliament. This is a shame for Europe. They are ushering in a period of fear, exclusion, raids and deportation.

@iain2ss @KarlTurnerMP It’s cesspits.

@KarlTurnerMP Mean while in nearby Shevington, the vile reform are out of their sess pits.

@KarlTurnerMP Starmer Lite Burnham won’t change a damn thing. Be honest - he will be as bland and useless as Sir Keir. I hope he loses the leadership contest.

When You Can't Beat Reform, Change The Rules. Labour Just Did. There is a line in a democracy that, once crossed, changes everything. When those in power begin adjusting the rules of the game to determine its outcome, the game is no longer democracy. It is managed succession. That line was crossed again on Tuesday night. Two days before the Makerfield by-election, Labour rushed a change to the mayoral voting system through the House of Lords. Regional mayors will now be elected using the supplementary vote system rather than first past the post. The change applies immediately. It will govern whoever replaces Andy Burnham as Mayor of Greater Manchester if he wins on Thursday and stands down. The government's defence is that it is simply restoring the system used before Boris Johnson changed it in 2021. That argument requires the public to believe that a change Labour could have introduced at any point in two years of government became urgent on Tuesday evening, forty eight hours before the vote that triggers the election it is designed to affect. Lord Hayward, a Conservative peer and experienced pollster, was precise in the Lords. There is no other justification for the haste, he said, other than that it solves the Labour Party's problems and prevents Reform winning a mayoralty. Not clumsy. Not rushed. Designed. The mechanics explain why. Under first past the post, Reform could win the Greater Manchester mayoralty on a plurality of votes in a fragmented field, precisely as it won all eight council wards in May's local elections with around fifty percent of the vote. Under the supplementary vote system, voters express a first and second preference. Lib Dem and Green voters, given a second preference, will direct those votes to Labour overwhelmingly. The change does not affect Thursday's by-election. It affects the mayoral contest that follows it, constructing an anti-Reform coalition from the second preferences of smaller parties that Reform itself cannot access. Lord Jackson identified the wider implication. This is potentially a strategy for a progressive alliance being rolled out ahead of a general election, he said, with the aim of locking out the Conservatives and Reform from power. Burnham's allies have already confirmed he would scrap first past the post nationally in favour of proportional representation. The supplementary vote is the local pilot for a national project. Pool second preferences, lock out the right, govern indefinitely on a minority of first preference votes. This is not the first time. Earlier this year Labour delayed local elections after the Electoral Commission stated explicitly that the justification was not legitimate, that extending mandates damages public confidence and creates a conflict of interest by allowing those in power to decide how long they may remain there without consent. The Commission's objection was noted and ignored. Reform demolished Labour anyway. Now the same instinct has been applied to a different mechanism. Not cancellation this time. Electoral system change, deployed with surgical precision forty eight hours before the vote that triggers the election it is designed to affect. Governments confident in their mandate do not need to change the rules two days before the ballot. They face the electorate and take their chances. The timing of Tuesday night's Lords motion is not a coincidence. It is a confession. The voters of Makerfield vote on Thursday. The question of who governs Greater Manchester after that, and under what rules, was settled in the Lords on Tuesday. Nobody voted for that. "Burnham's allies have already confirmed he would scrap first past the post nationally in favour of proportional representation."

@DeborahMeaden I think it’s the attempted beheading, murders, rapes, and small boat crossings that are occupying people’s minds. Fraser graphs don’t show those.

You have to ask yourself why MSM isn’t reporting this… indeed imply the opposite. … I don’t like being played…

In December 2025, illegal migrants in the audience asked questions directed at @ZiaYusufUK. The Telegraph has now revealed that Imix, a charity that works to “build support for migration,” reportedly coached them in advance. They were plants, the BBC is yet again a disgrace.

@KarlTurnerMP He’s a nice man. But deluded about what Labour has done for working people. It’s made working people poorer.

David is absolutely spot on.

@SteveReedMP @AndyBurnhamGM The writing is on the wall. Get Labour out.

It was hard to find space to sign the campaign wall in Makerfield, but I managed it! Well done to the whole team there who have run a brilliant campaign and good luck @andyburnhamgm

@MrHarryCole Everyone he endorses loses don’t they ?

Red flag

@David__Osland I know and because of Labour’s loopy VAT addition to fees, they have probably been able to reclaim the VAT they paid on building stuff in the last 7 years. Fancy that !

Nine out of ten state schools have buildings in need of repair and replacement. Eton has a multipurpose sports complex, an indoor pool, a squash centre, three theatres, two concert halls, two museums and a recording studio.

@tanita_tikaram You did alright though eh ? You might have had more hits if you had gone to a public school and wouldn’t be whinging about a future king on X

Bit surprised by this decision tbh . I was expecting Prince George to attend my old Alma mater Brighton Hill Comprehensive , Basingstoke . Eton probably clinched it because Brighton Hill still hasn’t found the space for a private rowing lake & dedicated fencing hall 😳.

@CamillaTominey This is how far we have fallen as a nation.

Carol Vorderman is now a "national treasure" according to #PMQs