I know there's still one council to declare. But when was the last time the Lib Dems beat the Conservatives/the Conservatives were 3rd in a local election?
#LocalElection2024
I voted at about 2.30 today (in Wales so only a Police and Crime Commissioner election) and there less than 30 people had already voted.
PCCs are a joke and should be replaced
#localelections2024
According to the BBC, since 2019 we've had:
The second shortest serving chancellor
The third shortest serving chancellor
The forth shortest serving chancellor since WW2
#KwasiKwarteng
As women gathered across UK to mourn the death of Sarah Everard, our Tees Mayor does an event with a man who jokes about hitting your ex to promote his business.
This is a body blow to everyone fighting for a safer world and questions need to be asked.
https://t.co/Bxb05UzEPi
What amazes me most about Boris's position on nurses pay, is how easy and popular it would be to announce a real pay rise
Even forgetting about how much it is deserved, he's just so bad at politics
https://t.co/ZZ9GyIFGkS
Don't forget how the UK blocked a UN inquiry into Saudi war crimes, unfortunately this government appears to view human rights as a secondary concern
https://t.co/WrF1OVkbnV
"Instead of offering restraints on the legal profession, the government is removing constraints on the armed forces"
How can we condemn human rights abuses and war crimes in other countries if there are serious limitations on prosecuting our own?
Normalising war crime - me in the Observer on the slipperiness of Boris Johnson plans to give soldiers immunity from prosecution
https://t.co/w9pN55UdZh
The utterly grotesque sight of John Mann being described as the governmentβs antisemitism tsar aside - Tsarist Russia was one of the worst persecutors of Jews in history - I look forward to him taking action against the Toriesβ support for Hungaryβs repellant antisemitic regime