Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧

Labour majority of 134. Without tactical voting!

Is anyone, literally anyone, surprised?

8% gap. Maybe he will go for it after all?

Well said. How many of Tommy Robinson’s Sport’s Direct paramilitary division go and help or worship at the churches they claim they want to protect. It’s much easier to don a balaclava and shout at the RNLI. #HopeNotHate

Concluding the meeting with the American delegation in the US two days ago, after receiving a tirade of threats from Trump officials, Ukraine's Budanov turned when leaving and said, "We are now going to burn every last Russian refinery and every last port to hell. All of it, down to the final one."

Trump’s obeisance to Putin has been established beyond even the vaguest scintilla of doubt; the possibility of another January 6-style assault on US democracy after/during the mid-terms is clearly acute and ‘we’ are still wary of calling fascism fascism. These are the moments…

Even a stopped clock…

Badenoch speech: The Tory leader is having an argument with herself and she's losing inews.co.uk/opinion/bade...

Labour reducing VAT on energy bills, cost £200m. Tory press “this is outrageous how will it be paid for?” Tories scrapping inheritance tax, cost £8.5bn. Tory press “this is the most amazing news ever, hurrah”.

More Keminaisance

Keminaisance going well then

But I enjoyed the current Govts comms dept response 😂

New Opinium poll for Westminster. Labour hit 30%. Tories have a dismal start to their conference . LAB: 30% (+2) RFM: 25% (+1) CON: 17% (=) GRN: 11% (+1) LDM: 9% (-1) SNP: 2% (-1) Reform are higher here than other pollsters. Looks like Opinium doesn’t prompt for Restore.

The Keminaissance continues

BURNHAM: COULD GO ALL THE WAY AND PUSH “FIX EVERYTHING” BUTTON

Political suicide said the entire media. I’m beginning to think the media don’t know what they’re talking about.

Update on the ongoing “terrorists that have been tracked by US intelligence for months” Who knew they had the resources for this kind of thing?

“Brexit has done more harm than good” It’s amazing that’s it’s taken this long for a senior policitian to acknowledge that. Not sure what the positive points are though.

Electoral reform. Royal commission but it’s a start.

Sounds like an open and shut case 👇

Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action

Apparently among other things the EU and Canada might be negotiating something that seems familiar, I can’t quite remember, oh yes, it’s FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT.

This is what a public health system delivers. Plus various other lifestyle pluses.

Excellent. Lock him up.

BREAKING: Today, Eurail (established 1959) & Interrail (established 1972) merge into a single European railpass range for EVERYONE regardless of nationality or country of residence, called INTERRAIL. Read why I think this is excellent news here: www.seat61.com/news.htm

Open letter of support for the heroes of the #RNLI. Please sign and share. Show the fascist scum the level of support our very best have. You may want to mention this on air @mrjamesob.bsky.social act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

It’s only one poll, so usual caveats, but this would demolish the received wisdom of left and right blocks with no movement between them. Right lose 4 Left gain 6 Presumably the difference is minor parties?

Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 26% (+3) RFM: 25% (-1) CON: 20% (-3) LDM: 11% (+2) GRN: 11% (+1) SNP: 2% (-1) Via Freshwater Strategy, 4-6 Sep. Changes w/ 7-10 Aug.

A classic piece of TV

New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.

Imagine if #RNLI were to become equivalent to ambulance services or police for example. What if a far right gov gained power? What then? They'd be told NOT to rescue brown people in peril on seas, lakes and rivers of the UK. THAT is why #RNLI remain independent. Some are totally unable to see that.

Not that important, but the UN just voted to have maps updated to show Africa as its correct size (I never knew this was an issue) Anyway, 164 votes in favour, 1 against. Guess which country voted against? What different world maps get right - and what they get wrong www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oops, I seem to have been caught red handed taking illegal foreign donations and being a corrupt sack of shit.

Our undercover reporter @scatatkins.bsky.social posed as a far right journalist at the Reform Conference, and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal.

The prosecuting barrister now has another video to show the jury. How on earth did this idiot ever become a Cabinet minister?

I see the “it was pub talk” defence line is being spun. I don’t think that will stand up in court.

🚨 | Following the Channel 4 News Investigation, the British Polling Council has confirmed that JL Partners were in clear breach of Rule 2.1 and that the matter has been referred to the Market Research Standards Board.

Farage is going to jail.

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

Oh dearie me. This sting is BAD for Reform UK. As in criminal-prosecutions bad.

Sounds like 10.00 LBC and we’re in for an absolute classic @mrjamesob.bsky.social show.

A new YouGov poll on how Brits see Reform is telling: Have clear sense of purpose: +7 net Strong: -6 In touch: -18 Cares about ordinary people: -32 Competent: -35 Trying to do right thing: -38 Moderate: -38 Trustworthy: -46 Tolerant: -46

This is the main item on BBC news right?

So much for the “out of control” welfare budget. It’s been significantly higher than that in the past.

YouGov: Latest UK party leader net favourability ratings. Burnham’s is the highest recorded for a PM since the surge in Boris Johnson's popularity in the initial weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic. Andy Burnham: +13 Ed Davey: -8 Kemi Badenoch: -16 Zack Polanski: -29 Nigel Farage: -44

That’s one hell of an inspired guess! Wordle 1,886 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Well I for one am astonished that a party run by multimillionaires and funded by billionaires wants to slash welfare to the bone and force people on benefits to work for nothing ... so that they can cut taxes for the rich www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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