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wonder what Badenoch's city friends think of her antipathy to Gherkins - as their views clearly differ ? #c4news

Badenoch underestimates the UK's gherkin eating classes #c4news

if its "a metaphorical mortgage" that 8% is less than most people with mortgages spend as a percentage of their income on mortgage interest #bbclaurak

actually freedom of movement paradoxically may well mean less immigration - as #brexit proved - can someone articulate just explain that to people who object on these grounds #bbclaurak

you could say once in a generation but to paraphrase Keynes, in the long run we are all dead #bbclaurak

listening to #bbclaurak ask questions is like listening to AI generated right wing tropes on repeat

£1 in every £10 of mine is going on mortgage interest - why have I not cancelled my summer holiday and moved into the garden shed? #bbclaurak

Biden pulled the plug on Afghanistan but he was only executing Trump's plan, cynically negotiated with the Taliban, with no concerns about the consequences @therestpolitics.bsky.social Donald Trump’s administration negotiated and signed the U.S.–Taliban withdrawal agreement in February 2020

Trump is the disease of a failing neo-liberal model and a stagnating democratic system confounded by plutocracy #newsnight

in the future everyone will be prime minister for 15 minutes Andy Warhol #newsnight

Iran likes nothing more to sticking a series of photos of teenage "martyrs" on every available roadside lamp post - Trump is a real opportunity for the deaths of innocents for political advantage - bring it on they are saying, Mr Trump #newsnight

rug states: Iran, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Axminster #newsnight

perhaps he mean Iran is a "rug state" due to its export of numerous carpets? #newsnight

Trump should employ Obama as special envoy to solve the Iran crisis - he did so before so why not again #newsnight

something reminds me of David Kelly in 2003 who also took his life in face of media frenzy and being thrust into the public limelight involuntarily #c4news

Frankopan presents very right wing arguments when potential income reduction in Europe suggest scope for more welfare and redistribution of wealth, not less, as a way to softening the social impact and consequent unrest #c4news

Permit the frog

one thing will resolve the PM merry-go-round and its EU #bre-entry #bbclaurak without a referendum

Piers spouting right wing platitudes based on little evidence #bbclaurak the North Sea has largely been exhausted of fossil fuels - Green energy is the growth sector of the future that will provide both value for money and jobs - Miliband is right - Piers is just sucking up to Trump

people spouting lies on debt burden with no challenge #bbclaurak

unless Burnham clearly advocated #bre-entry without some ridiculous referendum #bbclaurak

Burnham going to the polls would be electoral suicide for Labour #bbclaurak

Kier was n't that bad - he was getting on with the job, making small changes, improving people's lives, he would have been popular by the next election #bbclaurak

What is this, the end of the Piers show? #bbclaurak

Bring Back Keir Starmer - Rejoin the Ostrich #c4news

the bin and fox was clearly a sly allusion to Isaiah Berlin's seminal essay the Hedgehog and the Fox #gmb

hopefully Burnham will announce a referendum on becoming a republic #gmb

God help us #gmb

John Major did n't give in in similar circumstances #gmb

you get the impression he disagrees with his resignation and thinks its not in the interests of the country - if that is his view he should be resisting his resignation vehemently #gmb

he should stop and say FFS stop that music before I carry on - just demonstrating a lack of ability to command the situation #gmb

he should have said all that before repeatedly #gmb

lets just await lamentations a year on and how we should have stuck with Starmer and that he was a great leader, commanded the world stage, stayed out of Iran war, greatest growth in G7 etc etc #gmb

PM's have to take the rough with the smoothe - Starmer should stick it to them and carry on - hopefully he will come out displaying the V sign like Churchill but the other way round #gmb

Keir Starmer was the greatest PM we never had #gmb

is Ed Balls the right person? #gmb

helping hedgehogs whilst trouncing Starmer #politicslondon Labour should have a five point plan for hedgehogs 1. no slug pellets 2. no milk 3. no to strimmers 4. yes to holes in the wall 5 free veterinary care for animals with spikes .

is the hedgehog a meditation on the Hedgehog and the Fox, Starmer and Burnham, and therefore on contemporary UK politics ? #politicslondon

#brexit migration was much more controlled than it is now as it was for specific job related periods and people were free to come and go, motivated to leave when they needed, and not feeling trapped with the choice of staying or not being able to return to the UK #politicslondon

this Reform woman should do a stand up comedy routine "stop talking about the politics of blame", complaining about depressing wages (when that is exactly what she wants for poor people) - the lack of self-awareness is gargantuan #politicslondon

rejoin the EU - its a no brainer - only Sadiq Khan has courage to say it #politicslondon

without immigration the health and care sectors would collapse overnight - instead of aping Reform Starmer should have launched a positive campaign on the benefits of migration aimed at Reform voters - eg Who is going to look after my nan if we don't have immigration? #politicslondon

great point by Barry Gardiner - if the pie is not diminishing but growing as the Reform woman says, why be against immigrants on the basis there is not enough pie to go round? shrinking pie based politics for the poor and growing pie politics for the rich? #politicslondon

great point by Barry Gardiner - if the pie is not diminishing but growing why be against immigrants on the basis there is not enough pie to go round? those who contribute to the pie #bbclaurak

I wonder if most #Reform voters know they are electing Ayn Rand #politicslondon hardly someone who gels with their communitarian values