It was John Prescott who described Andy Burnham best.
He said Andy had “the human touch”. He is genuinely relaxed and at his happiest when he is the company of ordinary people.
Politics needs the human touch back more than ever.
🔴 @AndyBurnhamGM on BBC today:
“I think Britain has been on the wrong path for 40 years.”
👍 It started with de-industrialisation, bus deregulation, and the privatisation of life’s essentials.
👏 We need to… get the basics back under public control so that people can afford their rent, their energy bills, etc.
🙌 He wants Labour to “change and once again [be] the party that people in this borough knew… I don’t blame anybody who has gone away and voted for other parties. I want them to regain their trust… I want Labour solidly to become a working class community.”
WATCH the moment Labour lose Barnsley Council after 50 years in power.
“It’s hard, I’ve given everything to this town” - live reaction from Sir Stephen Houghton, he’s been leader of Barnsley Council for 30 years.
Chelsea telling their keeper to go down so the can have a tactical break during an FA Cup semi final when they are under pressure. The FA needs to do something about this blatant cheating 👍🏼
The anmount of Tax avoided by Jim Ratcliffe's move to Monaco could pay for an extra 120,000 NHS nurses.
It's not immigrants that are the problem. It's billionaires.
If you spend 14yrs stripping away support for the Police, the NHS, Councils, Schools, Community Centres, Libraries, the Fire Service, Social Services etc then you get a society that's broken.
Stop blaming migrants, blame the Tories, they broke Britain & we're all paying for it.
'Instead of £350 million extra for the NHS, winning our sovereignty back is costing us £400 million in lost growth.'
Matthew Wright says Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage 'need to be held to account' for telling 'barefaced lies' about Brexit.
‼️ CHRISTIAN KIST HITS THE FIRST NINE-DARTER OF THE 2025 WORLDS ‼️
Sky Sports have teamed up with Paddy Power to save men’s lives, that nine-darter means Paddy Power will donate £60,000 to the player, £60,000 to Prostate Cancer and £60,000 to a fan in the audience.
That feeling when you wait in a queue for four hours only to be told the price of the ticket has risen from £148 to... £355??? Because they're 'in demand'. How is this not illegal?
@Ticketmaster@TicketmasterUK@oasis#Oasis#Ticketmaster
Gutted about the football but I’ll live as im zen and I’m a practicing parka monk I wish all our teams well in competition be England Ireland Scotland Wales so let’s just all be kind to each other chill the fuck out LG x
Actually astounding how many people my age are still voting for the Tories or even worse (?) Reform tomorrow. My mind boggles at how 75% of your life can have been under this government and you still think ‘yeah mate, great idea to give them another 5 years!’
Anyone who thought we’d turn up this tournament and steam roll everyone’s a clown. Won the group, defended well when we all thought we’d be vulnerable. No one’s set the world alight let’s see what happens. Keep the faith 🏴🏴🏴