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[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[Sam @SamCKx]

The replies to this post have put absolutely beyond doubt that the hatred for Keir Starmer is 99% based on misinformation. Just read through them, people spouting the same misinformation they have been repeatedly fed over the last year or so, disproven countless times, but still believed and amplified by so many. This is how easy it is to brainwash millions of people if you have the resources. This is how societies are destroyed.

[Dr Luke Craddock @DrLukeCraddock]

The student loan scandal is slowly coming to light. This is a productivity nightmare and must be acted upon urgently. Otherwise it will continue to stifle growth as my generation choose their time over money, as it simply doesn’t pay to work harder or longer.

[Matt Zarb-Cousin @mattzarb]

When the government privatised student loans they gave the purchaser the right to jack up interest rates. Rates were practically 0% when many students borrowed the money. Disgusting usury enabled by a government more concerned with “the public finances” than the public’s finances

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

Still waiting for this story to be run by all the major papers in Britain.

[Ib @aibikay]

I think it’s because the economy is shit, people are unhappy, and scapegoating minorities gives them a false sense of control or relief.

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

Hey - Reform voters!

Last night your party voted against The Employment Rights Bill to ban fire & rehire and zero hours contracts.

They voted against you getting sick pay day one, and against you being protected against unfair dismissal from day one.

This what you want?

[Reen @Reenie___]

I need everyone to reminder, Tube drivers in London have achieved the wages they are on via striking!
They hold their employers feet to fire every contract renewal and ultimately get as close to their desired goal as possible.

And I RESPECT IT EACH AND EVERY-TIME!

[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

[✰🧃 @AddictKE_]

The iPhone alarm is so effective that you wake up before it goes off so you don't have to listen to such an unbearable noise

[Your OG 🐩 @LRNROSE]

doing stuff after work and not just on the weekends is how you can feel life is worth living.

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

Can you become a millionaire?

[8. @8akuaa]

But Adolescence was about race and not issues like this 😃👍🏾

[Madame La Directrice @jenny_gxo]

This why I’m glad scientists are pushing back on the misinformation, I came across this black scientist account yday and it was informative, although people were still arguing with him in the comments

[lil ims @_imogeng]

@GailKir94323570 @gabberchad ‘Schoolboy’ humour is very far from good-natured banter. It creates a rhetoric for inappropriate behaviour towards women and should be challenged. Rather than being a ‘sensitive flower’ many of us are not supporters of the omnipotence of the male gender.

[Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek]

Labour racked up the wins this week.

Lots of new initiatives to make the country fairer and greener in particular. (Though much of it didn’t make the papers.)

What you might have missed:

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

If you are worried about

Benefit Fraud £0.5bn, but not Government Corruption £219bn.

Immigration £2bn, but not Tax Havens £150bn.

Junior Doctors pay rises £1.3bn, but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn.

You‘re buying their lies.

[Asata @AlwaysAsata]

femicide. again.
it's a global crisis that remains background noise/the norm for everyone.
https://t.co/RvKYz1aGJG