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[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Breaking:

Net migration nearly HALVED in the year to December 2025, falling to 171,000

[Josh Simons @joshsimonsmp]

For decades, Westminster has overseen the managed decline of towns like mine. We have talked big, then acted small, stuck in a politics of incrementalism that cannot meet the moment. We have lost the trust of those our party was built to serve.

It is my unwavering belief that nothing short of urgent, radical, courageous reform will make a difference. That must start with a change in leadership.

Today, I am putting the people I represent and the country I love first and will be resigning as MP for Makerfield. I am standing aside so that Andy Burnham can return to his home, fight to re-enter Parliament, and if elected, drive the change our country is crying out for.

This has not been an easy decision. This is my family’s home, where only a few weeks ago, doctors and nurses at Wigan Infirmary saved our newborn son’s life.

But we all must make choices and in recent days I found myself with a difficult one: defend the status quo or step forward and act. I have made my choice.

I am in politics because politics is how you change lives for the better. My party has one last chance to do that: deliver for the people and places I represent, drive economic growth, secure our borders, reform our state and politics, and change a status quo that is not working.

That is the fight. I believe Andy is the one to lead it.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Dear Reform-voting ladies…

Do you know you’re voting for a party that wants to:

❌ Scrap the Equality Act - your legal protection against workplace discrimination & unequal pay

❌ Kill the Online Safety Act - the law protecting you from revenge porn

❌ Vote AGAINST the bill to stop workplace sexual harassment

❌ Stack the party with anti-abortion politicians - some opposing termination even in cases of rape

❌ Push “pro-family” policies that put women back in the home

I guess the question is…

Do you hate immigrants more than you love your rights?

[BA @BAdams177]

@AdverNewsAT Labour on 10?

[Aled Thomas @AdverNewsAT]

Very decent start for Labour holding three seats (it's a new ward, so hard to say they've held it, but that's 3 sitting councillors coming back)

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

I’ve known Zack Polanski over 15 years. Good person. We met through East London’s club scene. When anti-LGBT stickers appeared on my door and around East London, we tracked down who was doing it together with some others, he genuinely cares. That’s how my campaigning started.
I’ve met Nigel Farage. His breath stunk. That’s what I remember most.
He tried talking to me at an event. I wasn’t listening. I did show him a gesture on my arm making clear what I thought of him. Nobody in the room told him what I’d done. I know because he said goodnight politely when he left.
This is the same man who demonises LGBT people publicly but wants our attention in private spaces. Work that out.
Here’s what actually matters: I move in Farage’s circles. Same rooms. Same events. Daily. I know his friends, his funders, his supporters intimately.
They don’t care about you. They laugh about you. They think you’re scum. If you’re not wealthy like them, you’re lower class. Nothing.

Right now I’ll just tell you this: they think you’re stupid.
And honestly? If you vote for them, I’m starting to agree.
Vote tactically May 7. There are more of us than them.
Prove it.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🍪🍰☕️🫖

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

I condemn in the strongest terms the overnight Iranian strike on a Qatari gas facility.

We are working towards a swift resolution to the situation in the Middle East, in the best interests of the British people – because there is no question that ending the war is the quickest way to reduce the cost of living.

[UK in UAE 🇬🇧🇦🇪 @ukinuae]

UK Ambassador to UAE @EdwardHobartUK has issues the following message to British nationals in UAE.

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

In the most unsurprising turn of events, some Labour right apparatchiks care more about settling personal scores than winning elections after all.

Even if it means risking gifting Reform another seat in Parliament.

They’re destroying the only electoral vehicle currently capable of stopping a proto-fascist government in 2029.

Faction before party before country.

[Will @willglloyd]

But it's not just my belief in Burnham that fuels this. It's the political weakness and ineptitude not just displayed here but every day by the clique running both the country and the party.

Nigel Farage is now set to be the Prime Minister in 2029, and when he is, these people have only themselves to blame as he sets about the destruction of this country

[HotspurReports. @hotspurreports]

THE WORST SPURS MANAGER OF MY LIFETIME.

HE HAS TO GO. TONIGHT.

[C. @CoysConf]

I find it ridiculously unselfish how Ange completely sacrificed his job for the better of Tottenham Hotspur.

A lot of managers talk about legacy. Ange acted on it.

He said it himself: finishing third wouldn’t change the football club — winning a trophy would. And that wasn’t a throwaway line. That was a declaration of intent.

Because league positions fade. Seasons blur together. But silverware rewires how a club sees itself.

What gets forgotten is that Ange told us exactly where this was going very early in his second season — back in September — when it didn’t look likely.

That’s when he said it.

“I don’t usually win things. I always win things in my second year.”

And when people laughed, mocked, clipped it up, and used it against him — he doubled down.

“People keep mocking me. We’ll see.”

He believed. In the club. In this squad. He instilled BELIEF into EVERYONE.

Because once you say that out loud, there’s no hiding. You either deliver — or you’re finished.

And he knew that.

From that moment on, everything made sense. The risks. The refusal to compromise. The willingness to take short-term pain for long-term meaning.

He wasn’t chasing survival. He was chasing destiny.

Even during the injury crisis — when half the squad was broken, when lineups looked improvised, when results swung — Ange never broke the message.

Same football. Same belief. Same demand.

But the part that made him different, the part that made people ride with him even when it hurt, is that he never threw the players under the bus.

Not once.

When it went wrong, he didn’t go into press conferences blaming players.

He took it.

He wore it.

He made himself the shield.

And that’s leadership, because players know when you’re using them as a ladder to save your own image.

Ange didn’t do that. He protected the group, backed them publicly, and kept the blame where it belongs — on the manager.

And that’s exactly why the players believed him when he asked them to keep going.

Compare that to managers like Conte. Conte’s brilliant, but when things got ugly you could feel the separation — the distance, the public frustration, the one tantrum that basically told everyone “this isn’t my fault. I want to be sacked.”

Ange did the opposite.

He built unity by taking responsibility, even when it meant he was the one getting hammered every week.

And you heard the proof of what he was doing behind the scenes from James Maddison after the Europa League final, when he lifted the curtain on Ange’s mentality work.

Maddison said Ange would take the players around the training ground and show them the walls with Tottenham’s past trophies.

All black and white. Old. Distant. Frozen in time.

And Ange would tell them: how upsetting it is for a great club like Tottenham to not have a recent trophy.

Then he’d say that this group — you — are the ones who will get on that wall.

Not in black and white. Not as a footnote. But as the group that changed something.

That matters more than tactics. More than systems. That’s psychological architecture.

That’s how belief becomes real.

Suddenly it’s not just about winning a game. It’s about becoming the team people point to years later.

And Ange knew focusing fully on the Europa League was a risk. He knew the hierarchy might not forgive league sacrifice. He knew the margins.

But he trusted his understanding of Tottenham more than theirs.

He knew this club didn’t need another “almost.” It needed a scar to heal.

So he put everything on the line — reputation, job security, future — to give the supporters something permanent.

One day. One trophy. One wall that would never be black and white again.

That’s why this isn’t just admiration. It’s loyalty.

Because when it mattered, he chose us over himself.

What a manager.

Put his job on the line to change the football club and deliver for the supporters.

Audere Est Facere.

My manager. Always.

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Reform UK’s first West Northamptonshire Budget

Full Council Tax 5%, free parking scrapped, charities to be charged for using parks and Blue Badged disabled free parking being removed.

Tell us @ZiaYusufUK, is that what you had in mind as DOGE head?

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

British.

[Nilton Rodrigues 🏳️‍🌈 @GreenPrtyNilton]

With a heavy heart, I’ve resigned from the Labour Party.

My commitment to our community remains unshakable. I’ll keep fighting for fairness & social justice – just not within Labour.

Thank you to everyone who’s supported me on this journey. ❤️
#PimlicoMatters

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"People that are working here shouldn't be targeted like that, nobody should be targeted like that."

Social media content creator and “proud Englishman” John Fisher, aka Big John, on the flag debate.

#Newsnight

[Vicky Foxcroft 💙 @vickyfoxcroft]

(1/2) With a heavy heart, I have written to the Prime Minister to tender my resignation as a whip.

Whilst I will continue to support the government in delivering the change the country so desperately needs, I cannot vote in favour of the proposed reforms to disability benefits.

[BA @BAdams177]

The best eurovision song imho

[eurovision archive @30secondESC]

🇧🇪 Belgium 2021
The Wrong Place
Hooverphonic

[BA @BAdams177]

@WWE @AllegiantStadm @Vegas Stupid fucking decision

[Charlie Watts @char1iewatts]

Five years ago today, history was made in Bristol as the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down by protesters and dumped in the docks