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[MMC321 @Midlandschap]

@suzyquiquero Yes, just not serious. In hours and days when Burnham clashes with reality will people begin to realise. But, it obviously has to happen now.

[MMC321 @Midlandschap]

@suzyquiquero Do you remember Chock A Block….

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

But he & Count Binface should be careful, Tim, as by-election spending limit is £180,000. Farage knows about such limits having accused Jenrick & his campaign of breaking them in 2014 Newark by-election. Electoral Commission later agreed Jenrick & Tories broke Newark limits.

[MMC321 @Midlandschap]

@DavidGauke Not being part of the ECHR isn’t serious, so renders the Badenoch version of the Tory party unelectalble. Massive own goal.

[MMC321 @Midlandschap]

@DavidGauke We’re not just Tory voters, we’re middle of the ground sensible people that want to be heard. We hoped by voting Labour - the grown ups were back in charge, they were for a while all be it, not doing a great job. I want to vote for a serious midddle ground party.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

The world is laughing AT him‼️

[MMC321 @Midlandschap]

@GuidoFawkes Assuming used. You cannot buy a new Jag today and haven’t been able to for over by year now. June YTD - zero new Jags registered. Used Jags then could offer remarkable cost savings to the taxpayer.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Game on, Nige.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house.

Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it.

Leave him to me.

[MMC321 @Midlandschap]

@AndyRejoinEU @willglloyd @ox_anna29 Lost twice, to two losers of GE’s.

[MMC321 @Midlandschap]

@DPJHodges Indeed, could be fatal if he’s recalled for a by-election post outcome of 5 million bung gate!

[MMC321 @Midlandschap]

@JuliaHB1 And because you don’t doubt it, we are to believe it’s accurate. Appalling journalism.

[MMC321 @Midlandschap]

@suzyquiquero Book marking this weekend. How long before we hear the Gov benches begin to utter *why did we do that* I honestly think it’ll come by the end of the year.

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

And the shorter @_SeanOGrady:

If he wants to keep Rachel Reeves’s plans for the public finances, Shabana Mahmood’s strategy for immigration, Ed Miliband’s drive for net zero and, for that matter, Keir Starmer’s defence, foreign and European policies, then what, precisely, is the “change” he promises? Just vibes? More sports casual gear? What’s the point of Burnham?

His more radical ideas include proportional representation, a federalised written constitution, reforming council tax, a local income tax, an assets tax and grandiose transport schemes – all time-consuming, futile and electoral poison. None was in the manifesto.

Burnham reminds me too much of the SNP. He is campaigning as a Northern English nationalist, exploiting grievances about London and the South. This is a poor basis for a national appeal. Labour needs the South as much as it needs the North (and the East, West, the Midlands, Scotland and Wales). Wigan cannot be more important to a PM than, say, Wolverhampton, Winchester or Walthamstow, where you will also discover people struggling to get by.

He’s a fiscal fantasist, Labour’s Truss – and that will be just as uncomfortable as it sounds.

[MMC321 @Midlandschap]

@suzyquiquero Entirely agree, but his ego won’t allow common sense to apply. I’m genuinely worried about reality clashing with his ego aligned with no plan. Feels like back to square one.

[MMC321 @Midlandschap]

@IainDale Weren’t you an advocate of Brexit. You know - the one that’s introduced unparalleled levels of red tape to all Businesses? Again, you know a little about a lot which is dangerous.

[Professor Christopher Painter @PrfChrisPainter]

° an even more unhinged owner of X
° global disorder festering through combination of Netanyahu, Putin and Trump
° domestic disorder engendered by far right, encouraged by likes of Vance and Musk.

A suitable mantra for any potential successor to Starmer: fools rush in...

[Professor Christopher Painter @PrfChrisPainter]

The constraints and challenges under which the Starmer Premiership has had to operate:

° a dire economic and financial inheritance
° a Parliamentary Labour Party unwilling to face up to the hard choices that inheritance presents
° an unhinged second Trump presidency

[MMC321 @Midlandschap]

@DPJHodges @Ystwyth1558 Dan, read that back. It didn’t happen did it. Predicted to get less than 10% of the vote share but people were “coming out of shops shouting their support” joke journalism.

[MMC321 @Midlandschap]

@theipaper @suzyquiquero He’s the left version of Boris. Once reality clashes with this guys ego - we’re all in trouble. They’ll go again within a year.