Steve. #FBPE

Artist with an interest in books and records. More anti Tory than pro anyone else. Lemainer-Civis Europa sum.#FBPE. IFB

[Steve. #FBPE @Stevemasterson8]

1) This from, Hannah Arendt, ' the origins of totalitarianism'
In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.

[Alistair Strathern MP @alistrathern]

Whatever happens next, I will always be grateful to the people who took their time in the last three months to talk to me about the issues that affect their lives.

Mid Bedfordshire is our home. If I am lucky enough to be your MP, I will not let you down.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: Rishi Sunak’s controversial fund to support startups during the Covid pandemic invested nearly £2m in companies linked to his wife - @rowenamason reveals
https://t.co/6ReVOGKAny

[Britain Elects @BritainElects]

Tamworth parliamentary by-election, result:

LAB: 45.8% (+22.1)
CON: 40.7% (-25.7)
REF: 5.4% (+5.4)
UKIP: 1.7% (-0.1)

Labour GAIN from Conservative.

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Every Tory MP and candidate should watch this and start prepping now. How to run away, breaking all common traditions of decency. This is Sunak's morality in practice: sad men in dark suits running for their limo when the ppl of Britain tell them to eff off 👇🏽

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

Labour GAIN Tamworth 🌹

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Yesterday’s results show that voters across Mid Bedfordshire, Tamworth and Britain overwhelmingly want change.

Labour will deliver for working people, with a proper plan to rebuild our country.

Labour will give Britain its future back.

[Adam Payne @adampayne26]

There's "astonishment" among Consevative MPs waking up to the stunning by-election results in Tamworth and Mid Beds, I'm told. Particularly over the latter, where they felt their candidate (Festus Akinbusoye) was strong. A bit of a smell-the-coffee moment for some of them.

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

Rishi Sunak's Covid fund paid nearly £2million into four startup companies linked to his wife, three of which later went into administration.

None of the investments have been publicly declared by Sunak in his register of interests.

https://t.co/Z5IrHKAJKz

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

We’ve lost our minds.

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

Turns out Keir and Angie were right all along!

Ministers abandon plan to end pollution rules for England housebuilders | Housing | The Guardian https://t.co/jvFhDS1wTH

[Brighton & Hove Albion @OfficialBHAFC]

Looking forward to LOTS more of this! 🤩💫

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Still reeling from this horrific evidence from Prof John Edmunds at the Covid Inquiry yesterday.

In refusing to lockdown in autumn 2020, Boris Johnson was responsible for up to 25,000 Covid deaths by ignoring the experts & evidence.

It’s sickening 😔

[Roland Smith @rolandmcs]

"Non-divergence [from the EU] is the new consensus in British politics" – @UKandEU

https://t.co/OiHUEk2cxu

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Hugo Keith, "Were you concerned about Eat Out To Help Out?"

Prof John Edmunds, "It made me angry and I'm still angry about it.. Yes, pub and restaurant sector needed support, I wasn't against that at all. They could just have given them the money. This was a scheme to encourage people to take an epidemiological risk as it only applied to dining in, and not take out" #CovidInquiry

[Steve. #FBPE @Stevemasterson8]

@KEdge23 Try crying harder and see if that helps?

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

The Education Secretary Gillian Keegan says the Tamworth and Mid Beds by-elections "did not show a swing to Labour".

They were two of the biggest swings to Labour ever seen in by-election history

[Steve. #FBPE @Stevemasterson8]

Given he's been a cheerleader for the disaster that's the Conservative Party, so is Matt.

Maybe they should have banged on about small boats, immigration, the benefits of Brexit and what a great PM Boris Johnson was a bit more like Matt suggested?

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

1996. 22 point swing from Tories to Labour in Tamworth.

2023. 24 point swing from Tories to Labour.

Tories are stuffed.

[Steve. #FBPE @Stevemasterson8]

@GoodwinMJ The voters are giving their verdict on the party and policies that you're a cheerleader for.

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

These by-election results are seismic. Mid-Beds is a Tory heartland and Lab held off a Lib-Dem challenge (mounted as usual using polling disinfo) - biggest Tory loss since 1945 ... Tamworth also looked hard to do given voter alienation... what it means? 1/ Sunak needs to resign now ...