Amanda Kettell ✡️🟣

Kinda a stage manager, kinda a bartender. American Jew in the UK. (30, she/her)

[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...

[Principles & Pragmatism🌹🏳️‍⚧️🟣🎗️🟦🇺🇦🐝🪷🇬🇧 @InherentValues]

No words. Atrocious and horrific.

Lowe, Farage, Robinson, and the other purveyors of hate have just as much to answer for as those who encourage and applaud attacks on Jews and others. All extremism, left and right, just sides of the same coin.

[Principles & Pragmatism🌹🏳️‍⚧️🟣🎗️🟦🇺🇦🐝🪷🇬🇧 @InherentValues]

The four genders of Trump supporters:

"I can't process this" *brain hangs*

"He changed! He promised the leopard would never eat my face!"

"Stop crying, he's actually 4D-chessing Iran right now, anyway, your expectations were too high"

*incomprehensible biblical prophecy cope*

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

throwing out a random land acknowledgment mid-paragraph because she realized she's making a blood-and-soil argument is the most cynical deployment of wokeness i've seen since 2024

nature is healing

[Amanda Kettell ✡️🟣 @MandyKettell]

@gubbastronaut @Schoolboy_Hew @BlackFenelon Can you name any of these cheeses that are not available in the US?

[Amanda Kettell ✡️🟣 @MandyKettell]

@jameswnc @InherentValues Cheer up, mayo’s in the same aisle.

[Amanda Kettell ✡️🟣 @MandyKettell]

@OmenofOdin @InherentValues I can only assume you’re a Canadian pedophile who was raped by your uncle, because these seem to be recurring themes for you.

[Amanda Kettell ✡️🟣 @MandyKettell]

@OmenofOdin @InherentValues I wouldn’t say obsessed, just mildly fascinated. I’ve never seen something like this before and I’m really curious what’s going on there psychologically.

[Amanda Kettell ✡️🟣 @MandyKettell]

@OmenofOdin @InherentValues I could more than double these screenshots, but I think the gist is clear enough.

[Amanda Kettell ✡️🟣 @MandyKettell]

@OmenofOdin @InherentValues

[Amanda Kettell ✡️🟣 @MandyKettell]

@InherentValues Which is not particularly relevant to this thread, just felt the need to mention that.

[Amanda Kettell ✡️🟣 @MandyKettell]

@InherentValues Challah French toast is the ideal French toast.

[Anthony @KirbyCheatFurby]

oh boy a food debate? i'm fat, so i'm very good at food debates

see, the thing about food is that there's something for everybody, regardless of the location! british food, american food, you're bound to find something you like! me personally, my favorite dish is white pizza :)

[Amanda Kettell ✡️🟣 @MandyKettell]

@StinkRatsCharms My college dining hall in Iowa had it frequently. Had never encountered or heard of it before that in New York.

[Amanda Kettell ✡️🟣 @MandyKettell]

@LolRheno @tresorkandol123 @mary_pezzulo @Rosehaven13 Why buy mayo instead of making it at home? Why is Heinz in business at all? Your question is kinda baffling to me.

[Amanda Kettell ✡️🟣 @MandyKettell]

The US has lots of good food. The UK has lots of good food. I’ve had crap meals in both and excellent meals in both. The overall stereotypes about bad food in either nation are BS and the sniping over it from people without a clue is getting very old.