Sheelagh Davis

Irish by birth, Welsh by marriage, Newportonian by choice. Unashamed Remoaner!

[Andrew Fisher @merman1974]

Two things caused the mess this country is in:

1. Brexit
2. The Tories

So why vote Reform when:
1. Reform want an even harder Brexit
2 Reform is full of ex-Tories

That is why I will #NeverVoteReform

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

On 23 June 2026, Britain marks ten years since the Brexit referendum. We were promised £350 million a week for the NHS. We were promised the easiest trade deals in history. We were promised sunlit uplands.

Research now shows the economy is 6-8% smaller, business investment fell 18% and 63% of us would vote to rejoin.

And you want to vote the man that hurt so many of our pockets and got us here? Vote tactically on the 7th of May. Stop Refrom. We deserve better. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧☕️🫖

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[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: Britain’s Prime Minister Just Delivered a Br— And the Entire World Saw It.

A reporter threw Keir Starmer into the fire with one explosive question: “Tru.m.p is furious with you. Has your relationship completely fallen apart?”

Most politicians would have panicked. Dodged the question. Smiled awkwardly. Tried to calm the headlines.
But not Starmer. He stared straight ahead and said the one thing almost nobody in Washington has dared to say out loud:
“I act in the British national interest. My principles and values are what guide me. Nothing — but nothing — is going to deflect me from that.”

No apology. No fear. No desperate attempt to keep https://t.co/RZ6QpV1mUf happy. Just imagine that for a second.

While American politicians continue walking on eggshells around the man in Mar-a-Lago, Britain’s Prime Minister stood on a military base in Saudi Arabia and made it crystal clear:
“I do not govern for you.”

He refused to drag Britain into a war without legal approval. He demanded proof, legality, and accountability. For 39 days, he held his ground while https://t.co/M0hqPAI5Hc raged, threatened, and unleashed fury online.

And when asked if he regretted standing up to Tr.ump?
Not one second of hesitation.
Not one word of apology.
Not one inch of retreat.
This is what real leadership looks like.

Not angry social media posts before sunrise.
Just a leader who knows exactly who he serves — and refuses to bow.

[Jamie Kay @TheRealJamieKay]

Here’s for next time someone says this government hasn’t achieved anything.

[shirley anne smith @TeslaSpotLightl]

All this witch hunt for Starmer. Have ppl forgotten 14 years of Tory with all the corruption, lies, sexual misdemeanours. Boris with all that he did allowed a Russian into HOC, his affair with Arcuri , Partygate, the Pincher affair.

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

The level of personal hostility directed at Keir Starmer over the last week deserves scrutiny in its own right. Not because he should be immune from criticism, but because the tone and intensity of the attacks tell us something unhealthy about the state of democratic politics.

1. Starmer is a conventional political figure. Cautious, legalistic, incremental. He frustrates people precisely because he is managerial rather than messianic. Yet the reaction to him often goes far beyond disagreement, tipping into visceral hatred more commonly reserved for authoritarians or demagogues.

2. Much of this hostility is disconnected from concrete policy. It is not about specific votes, proposals or outcomes, but about projection. A belief that Starmer embodies betrayal, bad faith or hidden malice. That kind of politics runs on suspicion rather than evidence.

3. This matters because democracy depends on the assumption of good faith among opponents. You can think a leader is wrong, timid, or misguided without believing they are fundamentally illegitimate. Once politics becomes moralised to the point of demonisation, compromise is reframed as treachery and pluralism as weakness.

4. The pattern is familiar. In fragmented, polarised systems, anger concentrates not on extremists, whose intentions are clear, but on moderates, who disappoint maximalists on all sides. The centre becomes the lightning rod precisely because it resists totalising narratives.

5. There is also a media and online dynamic at work. Incentives reward outrage, not proportionality. Algorithms favour contempt over analysis. Over time, this creates a political culture in which relentless personal attack feels normal, even virtuous, rather than disgusting.

6. None of this is a defence of Starmer’s decisions, instincts or record. Those should be argued over robustly as you do in a democracy. The problem is the substitution of critique with hostility and the quiet erosion of democratic norms that follows when political opponents are treated as enemies rather than rivals.

7. A democracy cannot function if every election is framed as an existential struggle against internal evil. At some point, the target may change, but the damage to trust, restraint and culture remains.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Should Nigel Farge resign after being found to have broken the MPs code of conduct - not once - but 17 times?

Please RT after voting - thank you.

[Daniel Davis @Cyflawniad]

Bath. The home of the new Welsh Reform leader is to become the first City in England to adopt a default 20mph speed limit.

[Sheelagh Davis @SheelaghMD]

@Puppieslover Bucketfuls. Frequently.

[Sheelagh Davis @SheelaghMD]

@Matt_Pinner A member of Reform?

[Sheelagh Davis @SheelaghMD]

@Bbmorg Who on earth is this person? For some reason, he seems to think he’s famous - was he on Love Island or something?

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Hunt avoids £100k of Stamp Duty

Sunak wife 'non dom' status

Zahawi underpays millions in tax and pays a fine

Mone PPE - no resolution over millions

Rayner - given wrong advice over £40k of Stamp Duty - loses everything

[Sheelagh Davis @SheelaghMD]

@nightingales2_2 @stuzi_pants Wow - no shadow either I think!

[Paul Vick @PaulVick138203]

Do you think the reason why the billionaire owners of the mainstream media are putting all their efforts behind Nigel Farage's Reform UK is because they know their beloved Conservative party is now a busted flush with no chance at the next election?🤔
Repost after voting please.

[Sheelagh Davis @SheelaghMD]

@AttleeSarah80 @CllrJMcNicholas It never ceases to amaze me how vicious the media is towards Angela Rayner. She is a woman who pulled herself up from a very inauspicious start in life to become a successful senior politician. She is attractive and intelligent, and should be admired not castigated. Misogyny?

[Sheelagh Davis @SheelaghMD]

@OlooneyJohn What a superb example of things that never happened!

[Sheelagh Davis @SheelaghMD]

@A_British_Cause @BGatesIsaPyscho Where on earth did you get that nonsense from?

[Sheelagh Davis @SheelaghMD]

@RupertLowe10 Oh dear, Rupert, you are a bitter and twisted little man! Isn’t it time you forgave your mum for calling you after a bear with check trousers and a best friend who is a badger