Look, if we just accept that this government and everyone who supports it are despicable shits, it’s so much easier to understand everything they say and do. Brexit did this, politically, but the foulness has always been there.

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X theguardian.com/media/2024/n…

My four favourite Labour policies so far are VAT on private schools, IHT on land owning farms, the Renters' Rights bill and the Employment Rights bill. They get to the nub of things. How do I know? The wailing and catastrophising on here from all the people they're aimed at.

For a brief moment today, I felt as if we were back in the EU, with Starmer and Macron together in Paris for Armistice Day 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇪🇺 Given the re election of Trump, should the UK forge closer ties with the EU, pursue better trade with the US, or focus on trade with CPTPP?

When I think of good examples of ‘Prime Minister’ it’s tended to be of those long gone from the role. Now I think of Keir Starmer.

Shame on Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson, who refused to provide 10,000 extra NHS beds to help manage covid and to bring down waiting lists. Instead, they wanted more use of the private sector. Absolutely disgraceful and disgusting decision making at the start of the pandemic #CovidInquiry Jacqueline Carey, "In July 2020 NHS England sought 10,000 non temporary beds, to deal with recovery and future surges" "You go on to say the request for the funding was not approved by Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson" "Why did you need 10,000 extra beds in the NHS?" Amanda Pritchard, CEO NHS England, "We wanted to do both covid and non-covid work" Jacqueline Carey, "And the Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office was involved in the decision to refuse, they wanted more use of Nightingales and the independent sector" "What were the consequences of Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson refusing those 10,000 beds?" Amanda Pritchard, "It was disappointing.. We could have been in a different position.. We could have treated thousands of more patients as well as being more resilient going into the second wave.. We would be in a very different position now"

This “Starmer spends too much time abroad” thing is risible. He’s a new PM, establishing relationships, in a world which is on fire- all of which affecting voters at home.

A biased ‘journalist’ tweets. Starmer’s job involves forming positive relationships with world leaders. He’s doing is superbly (unlike his predecessors over the past 15 years).

Not banned. Just don’t meet the requirement of having 6 English MPs.

If Liz truss lives to 96 she will have spent more days at the cenotaph than in Downing Street

Imagine a politician in Parliament in the 1940’s saying Hitler should have a right to take parts of Europe. That’s effectively what this dangerous little fascist is doing. He is a traitor and fascist scum.

Reply with 🇺🇦 if you continue to support Ukraine and our brave defenders.

We’re trying to get as many followers as Nigel Farage so we can show those who want to privatise the NHS just how many people are prepared to fight against it. Please take a few seconds to help by following us and reposting this.

Immigration is not the reason that you can’t get a hospital appointment, it’s the reason you can get one. Please repost for all the people who can’t seem to grasp that.

We have to accept that millions of Americans are misogynistic, climate change denying, racist fucking lunatics who don't give a single fuck about anything apart from the price of gas in their tanks. Having done that we need to stop caring about America and build a better Europe.

Trump's apparent victory has 5 big implications for the UK: 🧵 1️⃣ It can happen here. He will back Farage, the Musk propaganda machine will crank up against Labour; the Tories will remould themselves into Trump-lite Islamophobes ...

Richard Hughes(OBR): "There was about £9.5b worth of net pressure on department budgets, which they(Tories) did not disclose to us as part of our usual budget preparation... which under the law & under the act they should have done.."

Nice to hear a mention of Wilfred Owen on @BBCRadio4 this morning on the anniversary of his death in 1918. Timely, as I’m heading to his grave today on an @OldFrontLinePod trip.

The £80m promised by the Tories to support workers and businesses in #PortTalbot was unfunded - a shocking dereliction of duty. I have fought tooth and nail for that money on behalf of our steel communities. The @UKLabour budget has fully funded it. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5w…

If charging VAT on private school fees is a war on aspiration What’s a 4-6 year wait for an ADHD diagnosis? Or closing down libraries? Next rich broadcasters and posh journalists will be complaining taxing private jets is a war on mobility…

Laura Trott: another one who could be kept amused for hours by a piece of paper with 'PTO' on both sides.