soapboxsue

Terminally disappointed.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

On my way, Clacton.

[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.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I seem to have upset the @Nigel_Farage fan club - so let me be clear.

This man sows hate, lies and division.

He is a grifter and a conman.

He does not represent the vast majority of Britons.

RT if you agree

P.s. multiculturalism is great.

[soapboxsue @LaverySue]

@grok @Jare37157459 @elonmusk L

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Must watch: Kevin Hollinrake trashes himself and the Conservative party on Newsnight

- Robert Jenrick accuses Labour of a cover up over Southport

- Kemi Badenoch joins him

- Nicholas Watt explains how they are both wrong

- Kevin Hollinrake joins Jenrick and Badenoch

- Thangam Debbonaire can't believe that Hollinrake ignored Watt's explanation and doubled down on what Jenrick and Badenoch have said

- Victoria Derbyshire challenges Hollinrake

- Hollinrake doubles down, again

- Debbonaire calls him out

- Hollinrake repeats the false claim again

- It's so bad Watt jumps in and explains to Hollinrake that he is wrong

- Hollinrake ignores the explanation by Watt and doubles down again

- It's so bad that Victoria Derbyshire has to step in, break up the disagreement and change the subject

Your reminder that Hollinrake is the Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade of the UK - no wonder the Conservative party tanked the economy, with stupidity and arrogance like this

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🎶 Oh this is just sooooo good!🤘Marc Bolan and T Rex being awesome back in 1973 - Buick Mackane 🎶

[Jayne McCubbin @JayneMcCubbinTV]

Happy tears incoming!
Grant sat on the @BBCBreakfast red sofa in the hope of finding 2 off duty docs who miraculously appeared when he went into cardiac arrest while running with pals
Those pals + 2 mystery medics brought him back to life
TWICE
0815 watch their emosh reunion❤️

[soapboxsue @LaverySue]

Poor Dermot! #ThisMorning

[emily m @maitlis]

It is astonishing really what E Jean Carroll was prepared to go through to bring this about. And is utterly to her credit that the sum is off the charts huge - big enough , you’d hope , to be a future deterrent. What a woman.

[Gina Miller @thatginamiller]

On behalf of my brothers, sister, son, nephew, in laws, aunts and uncles working in the NHS - thank you @DrHilaryJones for this clear explanation #DoctorsStrike -

But also the daily abuse they have to put up with. Vocation always comes before money but things have become so stressful that as you say, many #NHS staff, at all levels are thinking of leaving

Politicians must wake up to this crisis
@gmb

[RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa]

Cowards and racists.

[soapboxsue @LaverySue]

@tomhunt1988 @NickyAACampbell
What a vile human being you are Tom Hunt.

[soapboxsue @LaverySue]

@thismorning ASMR is so annoying it makes me want to kill someone. Definitely not for me.😬😬😬

[soapboxsue @LaverySue]

Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal didn't do himself any favours on TV this am. Ugh!

[Nicholas Shakespeare @dolphinsands]

I just signed the petition calling on Boris Johnson's resignation honours to be blocked. Will you sign too? https://t.co/uxgW0OVQFJ via @38degrees

[soapboxsue @LaverySue]

@GMB I have PTSD listening to that. Shut them up ffs

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Johnson is a morally and intellectually corrupt individual who corrupts all who believe in him or support him or rely on him. Until he is out of our politics for good the stench will grow. And Sunak should take the lead on this. But he won’t. We saw it with Zahawi. Now with 1/2

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

We are being cooked , choked and taken to the cleaners . . . if we ever become anyone’s ancestors they will ask ‘what the hell were those mugs doing ? They stood by and let them burn the world’ . . . Shell reports highest profits in 115 years https://t.co/lPtOatd875

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Shell's obscene £32,200,000,000 profits reminds us it's not a cost-of-living crisis because there's not enough wealth.

It's a cost-of-living crisis because the super-rich have hoarded all the wealth.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

No carol. He is not ‘our’ Foreign Secretary. He is ‘the’ Foreign Secretary. I think we are seeing more clearly each day that they are there for themselves ahead of the people who, sadly, elected them.