Mayor of West Yorks

Can Farage actually win the next election? Labour and Tories are just the same 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

I predict President of USA will be Trump & the polls are wrong again - feels like GE 2015 & Brexit again,Bookies never want favourite to win

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

@DPJHodges Call an election then

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

@jon_trickett @politicshome Good article Jon

And it’s political suicide in the 422 Brexit voting seats in England and Wales that would almost guarantee Leave supporting Reform a huge majority

[Jon Trickett MP @jon_trickett]

Brexit didn't cause the structural hollowing out of our economy; the 2008 crash did. The EU isn't a progressive haven, rejoining won't fix our problems. It's a distraction from the real task: a rupture with neoliberal orthodoxy. My piece for @politicshome https://t.co/cKsmRteiGp

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

No they show it’s become so common place, no one bothers to report it

[Home Office @ukhomeoffice]

🚨 New figures show that knife crime is down by 11% and overall homicides are down by 7%, since July 2024.

Fatal knife attacks are also at their lowest level in 35 years.

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

The problem is Rod that most of the Lib Dem seats are actually Tory and would probably return to the Tories - Labour could only win the 2020 Remain voting seats and 25 of them are SNP

I cannot see how appealing to the 220 Remain voting seats can win an election when 422 Seats in England and Wales voted leave - it’s not rocket science to see leave is the only path to a majority

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

@BethRigby @IzzyLosseff You’ve deliberately interviewed fake leavers

This is no poll that supports joining the EU run by Le Pen and the AfD

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

“With tactical voting” - the problem is the “tactic” in this poll is to vote against Reform when in reality all “tactical voting” under FPTP is against the incumbent government (that’s what happened to the Sunak government in 2024 and in the Makerfield by-election to bring down the Starmer government)

In my opinion “with tactical voting” this poll would show a Reform clear lead

@DPJHodges

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: Westminster Electoral Calculus MRP, with tactical voting:

🌹 LAB: 27%
➡️ REF: 22%
🌳 CON: 19%
🔶 LDM: 9%
🌍 GRN: 8%
🦁 RES: 8%

Polling via @FindoutnowUK

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

@Leeaafly So what was the criminal offence the investigation exposed?

That’s ITVs problem - a bunch of unpleasant people saying horrible things is not an offence and doesn’t justify law breaking on this scale

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

Dan - ITV CEO appears to have done what Nat West did to Reform politicians - break our laws

Nat West CEO was sacked by her Board

Forging a passport carries a jail sentence and so does interfering in a democratic election

ITV “investigation” found no more than unpleasant pub talk that no one should defend but breaking our laws does not justify a fishing expedition

(ITV clearly had no prior information to investigate as the more serious criminal offences were committed in a constituency where they found nothing to broadcast but they appear to have affected the result of a democratic election)

I predict the ITV CEO will now be in big trouble

I think you are wrong to defend law breaking Dan - especially interfering in elections - imagine the Greens did this to Labour to lose them seats?

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

@HFalconerMP @MarieBell626390 So everything will be more expensive like it is in the EU?

You are a TRAITOR mate

Farage will terminate all of these when he gets in and Le Pen won’t ratify it

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

@PaulKohlerSW19 No one cares what you think

We had a referendum and you
Lost

If you don’t like it, leave the UK and go and live in the EU

No one is forcing you to stay here against your wishes

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

Le Pen has already said “no deal” without cross party support

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

The fullest plan yet for Britain to rejoin the European Union has been published in the wake of the Prime Minister’s call for a closer relationship with the bloc. Today the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), an influential centre-left think tank, publishes two substantial reports laying out the most serious approach yet to rejoining the EU, as Andy Burnham’s pro-European tilt begins to take on a life of its own.

Read @EthanCroft98's report: https://t.co/copsEMzfey

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

@Mather_Keir You lot are on the wrong side - your P45 is imminent

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

No replies - only an idiot is going to reopen the debate about Scottish independence - Scots have no interest in devolution - all this does is force another independence referendum which they will probably win as the average age of a Scots voter is over 60 - and they all support independence

[Douglas Alexander @D_G_Alexander]

Devolution was never meant to stop at Holyrood’s door. We have one of the strongest devolved Parliaments in Europe and yet we’re still one of its most centralised nations. We want to change that & want to work with the Scottish Government to empower Scotland’s regions.

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

@faisalislam They are using a too low inflation figure of 3% which is why they are overestimating GDP

Unemployment is the real measure of a growing economy - and Labour are a job destroying machine

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

@cookjul Yes - it’s a bad idea to reopen any of these referendum debates

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

He’s an idiot / he’s opening the door to a second independence referendum

I think yes would win due to the older population of Scots who support independence

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Prime Minister Andy Burnham says the "time has come" for deeper devolution in Scotland and to unlock a feeling of positivity for young people, who he says are missing out on opportunities.

https://t.co/jnk2mxuqqD

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

[Mayor of West Yorks @Colin00007]

@anandMenon1 There is no choice - referendum was clear - no EU laws, Money or people

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

ANDREW NEIL: I fear Bumbling Burnham is a dud who's not up to being PM https://t.co/JchApQfLgO via @DailyMail

[Henry Cooke @CookeHenry2387]

He talks bollocks. Meaningless drivel call a general election!! https://t.co/FJS7mJTJwD