NotSoBigBrother

Welsh. Right of Centre. West Ham
#scraptheBBCtax

[BobbyJ @bobby1955]

@narindertweets

[George Bills @georgebills1984]

@RichardBurgon You seen it here ...

[vic @vickiwi89940300]

@mikegardner_wb Labour are rotten to the core i hope everyone gets put to vote tomorrow

[Jeff Marshalek @JeffMarshalek]

@mikegardner_wb The one thing all leftists share across countries: They're willing to cheat, lie and steal to keep power. The fun part is that they then will tell you how YOU are the evil one for not going along with them.

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

Labour rushes through mayoral voting changes to block Reform

There’s never been such a morally corrupt Government as this one.

Labour tried to postpone local elections to avoid losing. Now they are fiddling the voting system in Manchester.

Shameful https://t.co/YpTCutjurK

[NotSoBigBrother @NotSoBigBrother]

@adam_luxon Youre a bit thick Adam
Starmer is a WEF puppet
The MSM are WEF's propagandists
The puppet masters have lost faith in him
They now need someone who will do a better job of ruining the UK
The MSM don't support Reform.
Reform aren't controlled by WEF
Try again

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

The most hated speaker of all time. The man that tried to stop Brexit.
OF COURSE HE IS FOR BURNHAM…

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

When You Can't Beat Reform, Change The Rules. Labour Just Did.

There is a line in a democracy that, once crossed, changes everything. When those in power begin adjusting the rules of the game to determine its outcome, the game is no longer democracy. It is managed succession. That line was crossed again on Tuesday night.

Two days before the Makerfield by-election, Labour rushed a change to the mayoral voting system through the House of Lords. Regional mayors will now be elected using the supplementary vote system rather than first past the post. The change applies immediately. It will govern whoever replaces Andy Burnham as Mayor of Greater Manchester if he wins on Thursday and stands down.

The government's defence is that it is simply restoring the system used before Boris Johnson changed it in 2021. That argument requires the public to believe that a change Labour could have introduced at any point in two years of government became urgent on Tuesday evening, forty eight hours before the vote that triggers the election it is designed to affect.

Lord Hayward, a Conservative peer and experienced pollster, was precise in the Lords. There is no other justification for the haste, he said, other than that it solves the Labour Party's problems and prevents Reform winning a mayoralty. Not clumsy. Not rushed. Designed.

The mechanics explain why. Under first past the post, Reform could win the Greater Manchester mayoralty on a plurality of votes in a fragmented field, precisely as it won all eight council wards in May's local elections with around fifty percent of the vote. Under the supplementary vote system, voters express a first and second preference. Lib Dem and Green voters, given a second preference, will direct those votes to Labour overwhelmingly. The change does not affect Thursday's by-election. It affects the mayoral contest that follows it, constructing an anti-Reform coalition from the second preferences of smaller parties that Reform itself cannot access.

Lord Jackson identified the wider implication. This is potentially a strategy for a progressive alliance being rolled out ahead of a general election, he said, with the aim of locking out the Conservatives and Reform from power. Burnham's allies have already confirmed he would scrap first past the post nationally in favour of proportional representation. The supplementary vote is the local pilot for a national project. Pool second preferences, lock out the right, govern indefinitely on a minority of first preference votes.

This is not the first time. Earlier this year Labour delayed local elections after the Electoral Commission stated explicitly that the justification was not legitimate, that extending mandates damages public confidence and creates a conflict of interest by allowing those in power to decide how long they may remain there without consent. The Commission's objection was noted and ignored. Reform demolished Labour anyway.

Now the same instinct has been applied to a different mechanism. Not cancellation this time. Electoral system change, deployed with surgical precision forty eight hours before the vote that triggers the election it is designed to affect.

Governments confident in their mandate do not need to change the rules two days before the ballot. They face the electorate and take their chances. The timing of Tuesday night's Lords motion is not a coincidence. It is a confession.

The voters of Makerfield vote on Thursday. The question of who governs Greater Manchester after that, and under what rules, was settled in the Lords on Tuesday. Nobody voted for that.

"Burnham's allies have already confirmed he would scrap first past the post nationally in favour of proportional representation."

[NotSoBigBrother @NotSoBigBrother]

@bottomley50 Holding them to account
It's a strange idea
Look it up
A party who lied to get into power and who have ruined the economy and removed many of our freedoms should be questioned
Stop drinking the Kool Aid

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Just checking: Labour has big moral issues with the Reform candidate's X posts about women. But they're perfectly fine with a man who pays prostitutes for blow jobs supporting their campaign?

[NotSoBigBrother @NotSoBigBrother]

@NatalieFleetMP @AndyBurnhamGM And what do you think a far left government will do for women?

[NotSoBigBrother @NotSoBigBrother]

@BowenBBC is such a smug prick
An American hating terrorist sympathiser
Well suited to the BBC

[Phoebe Truth Ⓐ☮︎ @PhoebeFirefly]

@Bbmorg They didn’t even give the option of “against”

[NotSoBigBrother @NotSoBigBrother]

@David__Osland And?

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

How DARE you fly a British flag on Britain!!!
Lib Dem’s say it ‘causes distress’ and it’s a health and safety issue. And they want a high court to agree! meaning up to 2 years in prison …. For a flag! A British flag, in Britain, and it’s the World Cup.

I have nothing 🤡

[NotSoBigBrother @NotSoBigBrother]

@MatthewStadlen Every time you attack Trump you just remind everyone how inferior you must feel

[NotSoBigBrother @NotSoBigBrother]

@TheRealJamieKay Race baiting
What a sad life you lead

[NotSoBigBrother @NotSoBigBrother]

@StephenMorganMP Strong words from a wet wipe

[Stevil @notStevil]

@TrisOsborneMP

[NotSoBigBrother @NotSoBigBrother]

@andy4makerfield @AndyBurnhamGM Vote hard left