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Isabel Oakeshott: Starmer is “stuck in psychodramas,” Mandelson is “baggage,” government lacks “grip.” Coming from the woman who leaked private WhatsApps, spun McSweeney’s stolen phone story, and helped derail the public health response during Covid. #r4today

Lewis Goodall doesn't examine how immediately after the biggest landslide in UK history, the media launched the biggest, most virulent attack on a newly-elected government in UK history.

For God's sake @Keir_Starmer is a great PM why do you want to peddle this incessant BS, nobody and I mean nobody would have stood up to Trump, I look forward to 2029 voting him into power again #VoteLabour 🌹

A survey of 2,000 individuals by @c4Dispatches purports to show that a majority of the British public believe Keir Starmer should stand down, scarcely two years after securing a decisive electoral mandate. Such a conclusion rests less upon settled public conviction than upon the framing of the question itself. A Prime Minister, elected with clarity of purpose and authority, is not displaced by selective polling, but through the constitutional mechanisms of Parliament and the confidence of his party. To present such findings without context is not to inform, but to shape perception. A more serious and considered assessment must begin with the circumstances in which this government assumed office. Within a matter of months, the global economic order was unsettled by the return to power of Donald Trump, whose imposition of sweeping tariffs disrupted international trade and placed considerable strain upon allied economies. At the same time, his administration’s rhetoric concerning Greenland introduced an altogether new and disquieting dimension to transatlantic relations, testing the stability of alliances upon which the United Kingdom has long relied. That strain was further compounded by the escalation of conflict involving Iran, initiated without meaningful consultation with key allies. In the face of such developments, the United Kingdom, under Starmer’s leadership, declined to participate as an attacking force alongside the United States and Israel. It was a position marked by restraint, fidelity to international norms, and a clear sense of national judgement, and one that drew measured approval rather than reproach. Domestically, the government inherited structural imbalances of a kind not susceptible to swift remedy. Decisions taken in previous years, including significant alterations to National Insurance contributions, left a discernible gap in the public finances which has required careful stewardship. Yet there have been signs of quiet progress, with stronger than anticipated tax receipts contributing to an improved fiscal position, and inflation settling at approximately three per cent after a prolonged period of instability. These are not the conditions of a government in disarray, but of one engaged in the sober task of restoring balance amid inherited fragility, external economic disruption, and heightened geopolitical uncertainty. To disregard that context is to misunderstand the nature of the challenge. Beyond the clamour of daily commentary, there exists a quieter majority whose views seldom command the same attention. Many recognise the complexity of the moment and adopt a more measured view of the government’s performance than is commonly portrayed. If public opinion is to be invoked with seriousness, it must be approached with balance, depth, and intellectual honesty. One is therefore bound to ask: where are the questions that reflect the full weight of these realities?

Did you watch? "Where did it all go wrong?" Contributions from the utterly contemptible Kim Johnson + John Mcdonald. Yup, WFA was a disaster, and? Oh, "I don't know what he stands for" 𝘿𝙀𝘾𝙀𝙉𝘾𝙔! "What's he doing?" #𝙁𝙄𝙓𝙄𝙉𝙂𝘽𝙍𝙄𝙏𝘼𝙄𝙉 #𝙏𝙚𝙣𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙆𝙚𝙞𝙧

Vigeland: Mike Johnson terrified that if he moves an inch away from the president—who's absolutely out of control, his dementia rantings are insane—he's going to lose his job.  That means that everybody who is experiencing all these horrible incidents with their travel, that's because Mike Johnson's afraid to lose his job. And all those TSA agents that have to work without pay as ICE stands over their shoulder. That's Mike Johnson.

TRUMP FUCKING ADMITTED SEVERAL TIMES THAT THE ONLY REASON HE WAS BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE WAS BECAUSE OF ELON'S TECH SKILLS 🤷 REMOVE THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊

Ryan: It’s a disgrace that Republicans are leaving Congress in the middle of what is an unlawful and dangerous war. We have a brigade of combat soldiers going there, and I am very worried those troops are being put at grave risk by a president who has no frickin’ clue what he is doing and a secretary of defense who’s a joke.

I have never hated one individual so much

Not one under seventy! Disgruntled nationalists. Reform is the political wing of SAGA sponsored by Stannah Stairlifts.

That channel 4 pile on against our PM was the most disgusting stitch up I have ever witnessed- I can no longer stand to watch channel 4 news - truly Orwellian - it’s the sort of thing Putin does daily to his opponents .

Your ridiculous channel 4 programme anti @Keir_Starmer is an embarrassment to you and a disgrace to journalism. You have dropped in credibility you have gone too far this time

Whatever you do, make sure that you don’t repost this No Kings ad, produced by @senecaprojectus Donald Trump will lose it!

He needs to be impeached removed and arrested and the fact that hasn't already happened is fucking pathetic. Shame on all the do nothing politicians letting modern day Hitler crusade through the world on a murder spree to create the 4th reich.

Farage calls Starmer a “pigeon in Trafalgar Square.” Meanwhile, Reform’s backers want to slash foreign aid, gut workers’ rights, and spend billions on defence contracts while your bills go up. If that’s the alternative, I’ll take the pigeon.

Sorry my friend, but you must have been in a coma for 10yrs or so ........

@GeorgiaMaeCole1 Keir is the best PM we’ve had in years. He inherited the worst economy, broken public services, has had to deal with a negative and aggressive media, is dealing with two wars and a toddler in the White House. Best PM.

Johnson was the biggest cunt, Truss was the most incompetent and Cameron was the most entitled. None of them were qualified to lace Starmer’s boots, and I’m not really a fan.

Distinguished Columbia Univ. Prof. Jeff Sachs on President Trump: "[Trump] lives in a delusional world... The guy's a megalomaniac, the guy is a narcissist, the guy is a psychopath. And that's been true his whole life. But now in addition to that, he's losing it."

The congenitally stupid maybe. No-one else.