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[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The captain of Iran’s National Team, Mehdi Taremi, calls out FIFA and the U.S.:

“This is a disaster World Cup. We can’t stay in the country and have to travel every time we play without any recovery. Now we can’t stay in Seattle and have to return to Tijuana. This is not fair.”

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Elon Musk hard at work.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Unluckiest” is a weird way to say deliberately targeted and mistreated by the host country with FIFA’s consent.

[𝐬 🇬🇧⸆⸉ @redelitist]

Uses the word “raped” to describe someone who’s standing up to racism, but will claim to care about women and children

Nazi scum need to be shamed into hiding once more.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Respect to @DjedSpence for being the only England player to show contempt to an accused multiple rapist.

Fuck FIFA, fuck America, fuck the Ghana manager and fuck Arsenal for letting Partey compete.

What a fucking insult to the multiple survivors, and all women.

#ENGGHA

[Adrian Gosling @digitalsunshine]

Dear Chris Mason, Henry Zeffman, Laura Kuenssberg, Nick Robinson, and all you other shit-stirring, truth twisting, agenda bending, masters of news manipulation and misinformation

FUCK - and I can't stress this enough - OFF

#politicslive

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

At least the British people now know where they stand. Even if they vote in a PM with a massive majority he or she will be forced from office if the UK media decide they don't like them.

They will push and undermine until Farage is in Number 10. It's what their owners want.

[Ali T. @Ali3Mctavish]

I am no Starmer fan, but he must be the most unfairly treated PM in history. The billionaire owned press set their sights on him the moment he won the General Election and will now do the same with Burnham.

[Samantha Asumadu @SamanthaAsumadu]

This is very... stark

[Sam @SamCKx]

A democratically elected British Prime Minister has been driven from office by a relentless campaign of propaganda and misinformation; funded, amplified and perpetuated by foreign billionaires and elites whose interests bear zero resemblance to those of ordinary working people.

A noble gesture from an emotional Keir Starmer, entirely consistent with his conduct in office.

A truly sad day for British democracy.

His full resignation speech:

[Adrian Gosling @digitalsunshine]

"How on earth have have we ended up in this position?" asks Laura Kuenssberg, who along with Chris Mason, Henry Zeffman and co, have pushed long and hard for us to wind up in exactly this position

#bbclaurak
#BBCBreakfast

[Hold The Line @LabHoldtheline]

A statment from us.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Where is the COBRA meeting, @Keir_Starmer?

Or does that not apply when Muslims are attacked?

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

He isn’t … there are plenty of vested interests who want us to believe he is…

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Let's be very clear that vicious anti Muslim hatred by politicians and their trillionaire mate @elonmusk create the conditions for this kind of vile attack.

Sending huge solidarity to the Muslim community in Edinburgh and beyond.

[Joseph Gellman - it’s coming home 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @joseph_gellman]

I give it three months before we get the “well in hindsight was Starmer really that bad?” analysis from our world-class journalists who have spent the past two years desperate for more psychodrama

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[Sam @SamCKx]

If Keir Starmer does resign, history will look back on his reign and scratch its head as to why the hell he was so hated.

On paper, he's probably delivered more to working British people in such a short time than any PM for decades.

After inheriting an absolute mess: NHS waiting lists fallen. Worker's rights improved. Rail operators nationalised. Improved relations with EU and improved UK's global reputation. Removed non-dom tax status. Halved childcare costs. Boosted state pensions. Lowest homicide rate in 50 years. Lifted 550k children out of poverty. Immigration vastly reduced.

We are in the age of billionaire funded misinformation, whose sole purpose is to topple democratically elected leaders, and insert leadership that favours the wealthy elites over the working people. Looks like the game plan is working...

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

Ten years ago next week, the Labour MP Jo Cox was stabbed and killed by a white supremacist born in Scotland who hated her support for remaining in the European Union.
Farage and his far-right supporters didn’t give a damn.