Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺

Shadow Home Secretary. Technology communications. UK-based; client-side & agency experience. Daddy of gorgeous twin boys.

[Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺 @SmartCircleComm]

@davidschneider "He never yet considered whether any proposition were true or false, but whether it were convenient for the present minute or company to affirm or deny it...the only remedy is to suppose, that you have heard some inarticulate sounds, without any meaning at all.." Jonathan Swift

[Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺 @SmartCircleComm]

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing"

Anyway, here's Mr Hunt...

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Sir Jeremy Hunt - a former Tory chancellor who campaigned for Remain - says returning to free movement would be a 'hammer-blow' to trying to get people off welfare and into work

He says that there is a risk that it paralyses the government because the issue is so divisive, and that there is an unwritten rule that major constitutional issues should only be returned to once a generation

He tells @bbclaurak: 'We have 1million people not in employment, education or training. The government says it is serious about getting them back into work. To suddenly say you are prepared to negotiate allowing people from all over Europe to come and take those jobs would be a hammer blow to those plans to get people off welfare and into work.

'Whatever your views are on the European issue - and I voted Remain - going back to that old model where employers were giving jobs to people from all over Europe and we were parking people on welfare here must be a step back.

'When you have to have these big, constitutional debates you have to have an unwritten agreement that you are only going to come back to them once in a generation. Otherwise it is so divisive.

'I was at the top of a government that was paralysed for several years while we were trying to wrestle with the implications of that vote. I think that having made a decision we should stick with it.'

[BrexistentialCrisis @BrexistentialC]

The EU fee was about £12.6bn a year, whereas the estimated Brexit loss of output is now roughly £170bn–£230bn a year, with an associated loss of tax revenue of roughly £65bn–£85bn a year. That makes the fee equivalent to only about 5–7% of the estimated annual GDP loss. #BrexSHIT

[Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺 @SmartCircleComm]

The fixed expression of realisation on Farage's face as he enters the autumn years of his politics.

[Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico]

What is it that people imagine they would get out of rejoining the EU that they don't already have?

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

It's because they have teeth and are willing to mock power.

[Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺 @SmartCircleComm]

@davidyelland @Telegraph It's easy to rip up a fool like Truss. She's out of power and out of her mind. US journalists are scared of Trump. Easier to pussyfoot around Trump and fascist power, than to do your duty as a member of the fourth estate, when the motivation isn't truth telling but cowardice.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 BREAKING: Lula is projected to WIN reelection as president of Brazil, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro and an ally of Donald Trump.

The projection comes just ONE DAY after Reuters exposed a Trump administration effort to help return the Bolsonaro family to power.

A major political upset in Brazil.

[David @Zero_4]

‘Very wealthy man abandons country that gave him opportunity to make millions for fear of being asked to pay fractionally more tax to improve things for everyone’

[Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺 @SmartCircleComm]

For a peculiar demographic, Reform is a 'mainstream' party. For other sentient beings with basic observational skill it is a passing wind in the body politic.

[Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 @montie]

This shouldn't be difficult. @RaheemKassam is a poisonous, nasty piece of work. He shouldn't be within one hundred miles of a mainstream political party.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Is JD Vance seriously suggesting that immigrants have brought a culture of revolution and protest TO FRANCE? @jonstewart

[Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺 @SmartCircleComm]

@Enviro_Technol Over the last year the trajectory is clear. Reform are becoming less popular. The mounting self-inflicted crises and debilitating ineptitude on policy give the clear impression to voters that Farage's Reform is a clown show for the die hards only. Great viewing for the neutrals.

[Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺 @SmartCircleComm]

Don't worry, Reform will be back on track with the big issues. Lee Anderson is going to show he's a Cabinet-member-in-waiting with another clip of his bacon sarnie.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

The Budget is in three days time. What have Reform spent the last week doing. Attacking Andy Burnham for not stopping riots in France, and calling the police on ITN. And they wonder why Labour and the Tories are surging in the polls, while they’re tanking…

[Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺 @SmartCircleComm]

Brent Hoberman casually explains why riots in Paris, and elsewhere, will continue for some time.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Terri White: "I'd quite like people to stop spitting their dummies out because they've been asked to pay their fair share"

Super rich Brent Hoberman: "Fairness is for kids.."

[Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺 @SmartCircleComm]

Honest Bob campaigned and voted to stay in the EU. Can't understand why he's called Honest Bob.

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

“It’s completely mad”

Reform UK Treasury Spokesman Robert Jenrick says it would be wrong to re-join EU freedom of movement and that it would lead to wages being “undercut”

#BBCLauraK

https://t.co/CkTHGctZ4k

[Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺 @SmartCircleComm]

Jeremy Hunt campaigned and voted for the UK to stay in the EU. And he's not even the most unprincipled Tory.

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

“If I had any Cornflakes this morning, I would have choked on them”

Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt says Andy Burnham’s suggestion the UK could accept freedom of movement with the EU again is a “hammer blow” to getting people into work

#BBCLauraK

https://t.co/CkTHGctZ4k

[Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺 @SmartCircleComm]

1,000 days is very precise. That takes us up to July. I might be on holiday.

[LBC @LBC]

Britain must be ready for war within 1,000 days, Defence Secretary warns
https://t.co/vldTeHaNG7

[Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺 @SmartCircleComm]

The right split (and downright crookedness plus extremism) should ensure a Labour majority at the next general election.

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

This is moment of maximum danger for Reform. You can broadly split current Reform voters into 2 groups - true believers & 'just want a right wing govt'. The second are much more transactional & if the Tories start to look like the vehicle to defeat Labour they'll go back to them

[Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺 @SmartCircleComm]

Difficult to see now a Reform Ltd government under a spiv Prime Minister making life hell for immigrants, Muslims and the poor.

[electionmapsuk @electionmapsuk]

Westminster Voting Intention:

LAB: 32% (+5)
CON: 24% (+3)
RFM: 20% (-3)
LDM: 9% (+1)
GRN: 8% (-5)
SNP: 3% (-1)
RES: 3% (=)

Via @Ipsos_in_the_UK, 15-22 Oct.
Changes w/ 10-15 Sep.

[Opinium @OpiniumResearch]

🚨Latest Opinium @ObserverUK poll🚨

Labour continues to lead in the polls, 8 points ahead of Reform in second place.

🌹LAB 30% (+1)
➡️REF 22% (-2)
🌳CON 20% (n/c)
🌍GRN 10% (+1)
🔶LD 9% (n/c)

#Budget2026

[Find Out Now @FindoutnowUK]

The lowest vote share for Reform that we have ever recorded

🔴 Labour: 26% (+1)
🔵 Conservatives: 21% (-1)
🟦 Reform UK: 20% (-2)
🟢 Greens: 13% (+2)
🟠 Lib Dems: 9% (-1)

Implied turnout: 54%

Changes from 14th October
[Find Out Now, 21-22nd October, N=2,381]

[Amjad Khan 💙 🇪🇺 @SmartCircleComm]

Let's call the whole thing off.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage is booed by Reform UK members as he accidentally says he’s in Portsmouth not Plymouth