Graham Smith

Work in planning 🏗🏘 | Labour 🌹 | Scottish | Social democrat | Keir Starmer and Anthony Albanese fan | Love the UK 🇬🇧 and Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🏳️‍🌈 |

[Graham Smith @PoliGraham]

Nigel Farage called for "pure, cold rage". He got his wish.
https://t.co/hreae4WVpl

[Luke Charters MP @lukejcr]

I’m pushing for a Great Northern Oyster Card with @GoodGrowthFdn and for a Youth Triple Lock, too.

Cheaper public transport. Better opportunities. A fair start for every young person.

Time to transform the North and give the next generation the hope they deserve.

[Graham Smith @PoliGraham]

It's almost as if Reform UK candidates aren't committed to public service...

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated

James Sidlow has resigned as a councillor.

That’s 30 in 3 weeks.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Tony Blair might not like my plan, but he's wrong: it's changing Britain for the better.

https://t.co/jbDwObZZFr

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

1/ Something very important is being missed in the Peter Murrell coverage. And it explains why Murrell was able to carry on the embezzlement long after he should have been stopped. And why John Swinney cannot hide behind the “victim of criminality” defence.🧵

[Graham Smith @PoliGraham]

Is this really what the founders of the Scottish Parliament envisaged for Scottish devolution? 2/2

[Graham Smith @PoliGraham]

It's hard to convey to those of you in England, Wales, N.I., and internationally just how bored, sick and weary many of us Scots feel about independence being discussed over and over again. The SNP and Greens have been talking about it for 15 years now. 1/2

[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

The Scottish Parliament has spoken. A significant majority of MSPs has voted to affirm the right of people in Scotland to decide their constitutional future.

This is democracy and it must be respected. Scotland’s future must be in Scotland’s hands. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Reform-led Durham council cut off funding to the annual Pride celebrations.

So trade unions launched a fundraiser to save it, eventually raising more money than was cut.

Which means this year's Pride will be bigger than ever.

In the 1980s, the LGBT+ community raised thousands of pounds to help striking miners and their families.

When we stick up for each other, we can achieve anything.

[Graham Smith @PoliGraham]

Not content with copying Trump's policies, Reform are now copying Trump's phrases. No-one in the UK talks about 'locker rooms'. We call them changing rooms.

To the men who voted Reform earlier this month: is this really the future you want for your daughter/niece/female friends?

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

Update: A Reform UK spokesman says Kenyon's comments about women driving were "locker room banter made more than a decade ago"

"We simply don't care about establishment hit jobs. We fully back Rob and are confident he will be an excellent MP for Makerfield"

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Former SNP chief executive, Peter Murrell, has been remanded into custody after pleading guilty to embezzling £400,310.65 from the party.

Sky's @ShingiMararike is live at the Edinburgh High Court, and has the latest

https://t.co/VLMtgiImoA

📺 Sky 501 and YT

[Trevor McArdle @McardleTrevor]

Inflation “unexpectedly” fell by 0.5% to 2.8%

Growth was an “unexpected” 0.7% - the highest in the G7

Net immigration “unexpectedly” fell by 82%

NHS “unexpectedly” met it’s interim 18 week target

Our media have so deceived the public that all positive news is now “unexpected”

[Graham Smith @PoliGraham]

I agree, Deborah. It's almost as if the MSM/ring-wing press want us to be miserable and angry. And they certainly don't want us to recognise when we're onto a good thing.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

And little or no sign of it in the MSM it’s almost as if we want to be miserable…

[Duke of Preston @DOPreston]

The most recent headlines show exactly why the main stream media want Starmer gone. He’s fixing all the issues they use to divide and conquer.

[John Slinger MP @JohnSlinger]

Some good news you might have missed this week:

Net migration at a 13-year low. UK the fastest-growing G7 economy. NHS waiting lists down half a million. Borrowing at a three-year low. Fuel duty cut extended. Inflation back to 2.8%.

The country is moving in the right direction.

[Peter Kyle @peterkyle]

None of this happened by accident.

Strong growth figures show that this government has the right economic plan. And now, the IMF has upgraded the UK’s growth forecast.

This growth is driven by an activist, interventionist government that believes in backing British business.

[John Slinger MP @JohnSlinger]

…meanwhile in the real world…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has upgraded its forecast for the UK's growth this year from 0.8% to 1%.

Labour…delivering with @Keir_Starmer

https://t.co/e5F96BDzdg

[Steve Reed @SteveReedMP]

We must stop talking to ourselves and get on with delivering our manifesto. Country first, party second.

[Jack Elsom @JackElsom]

EXCL: Keir Starmer told ministers tonight that Wes can't win because it would "destroy our party and country".

He invited all ministers into his study in the Commons.

Ministers of state in one batch, followed by parliamentary under secretarties.

One tells me the response was overwhelmingly positive re backing Starmer.

"He was there doing the hard yards. There was something in his eyes I haven't seen before. And I liked it."

[Professor Christopher Painter @PrfChrisPainter]

This has become as much a crisis over the ethos of political journalism in this country as a trauma for the UK's political system.

[George Foulkes @GeorgeFoulkes]

The media go on about the “unpopularity “ of Keir Starmer
They fail to admit this is because the same media have relentlessly attacked him with fake news & failed to cover the Government’s achievements