Andy ✨

nothing on but the radio • he/him

[Andy ✨ @AndyDO_]

Happy Jane McDonald and Meredith Marks at Mighty Hoopla day to all who celebrate 🏳️‍🌈

[Andy ✨ @AndyDO_]

Arriving into London for Mighty Hoopla 😍🙌🏼🏳️‍🌈🎉

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

@StephenM shut up you ugly fuck

[James @JamesFl]

Yep. Good on her for saying it.

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

Politics isn’t working for places like ours.

I will change that.

#AndyBurnham #ForUs

[Andy ✨ @AndyDO_]

Finally blocked Stats for Lefties

[Andy ✨ @AndyDO_]

looooooooool

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"Britain's future lies with Europe - and one day, back in the European Union."

Former health secretary Wes Streeting says the UK needs a new special relationship with Europe, as he calls Brexit a 'catastrophic mistake'.

https://t.co/SYHV5Ws1Hc

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602

[Andy ✨ @AndyDO_]

Just looked on AXS at K*cey tickets … why are concerts just stupidly expensive now a days 🫩🫩

[Variety @Variety]

Hannah Einbinder at #Cannes: "There’s this myth that you have to be a hard-ass to produce good work, and it’s just not true."

"You can be kind and warm and supportive and create a loving environment and it will pay off and you can have good work and really funny work. It doesn’t need to be toxic or scary."

@KeringGroup

[Andy ✨ @AndyDO_]

The absolute contempt the media class have for working class people. Scumbags the lot of them.

[The Spectator @spectator]

Red alert: Tim Shipman and Noa Hoffman on Wes Streeting’s explosive plan. Subscribe to read more.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham confirms he will seek to run for Parliament in Makerfield

I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election.

I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics.

Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic.

Over the last decade, I have been challenging this from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the country and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures.

However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people.

People are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better in its first two years and, after this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place.

I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that.

Finally, I do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in Makerfield, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again.

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

I welcome HMRC’s conclusion, which has cleared me of any wrongdoing.

I have been exonerated by HMRC of the accusation that I deliberately sought to avoid tax.

When purchasing a home of my own with a mortgage, I did not own any other property and had no personal financial interest in the court-instructed trust set up to manage my son’s financial award. I was advised by experts that I should pay stamp duty at the standard rate.

I set out to pay the correct amount of tax. I took reasonable care and acted in good faith, based on the expert advice I received, and HMRC has accepted this.

I have always sought to act with integrity, and I believe politicians should be held to high standards - that is why I resigned from government and cooperated fully with HMRC. 

I wanted to ensure that I paid every penny that I owed, and have done so. I am relieved that my family can now move on - and that I can get on with my job.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Why I have decided to back Andy Burnham for Labour leadership http://t.co/0rwPLtkxaB

[Matthew @MatthewTorbitt]

I love Gordon, I think he’s been an amazing voice on child poverty for years and is proper Labour.

However I can’t help but feel this lands terribly with the public who view him (wrongly) as the man who broke the economy and now he’s in charge of “Global Finance”

[Andy ✨ @AndyDO_]

Utterly fascinated by how out of depth no.10 is. Whilst Gordon Brown is respected within Labour circles, to the Average Joe he’s ’the Prime Minister who sold all the gold’

[Jack Elsom @JackElsom]

The Gordon Brown/Harriet Harman jobs already showing signs of backfiring.

One Labour MP texts: “Pure gimmick vibe bringing in these former Labour figures into part time unpaid powerless roles.”

Was it really wise of No10 to make this their first response to an historic local elections drubbing?

[nass @nasscrave]

uk: do you think women have penises? are migrants human?

china: *builds 500km of high speed rail*

[Andy ✨ @AndyDO_]

This iteration of a Labour government would never do it because they’re too stubborn. ‘Adult politics’ assumes Labour will continue winning majorities.

[Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn]

There is an escape route for Labour from certain disaster at the general election: use their Commons majority to ram through PR. It’s cynical, + they’d never govern alone again, but it locks Reform out of No10. The left (Lab, Gr, LD) still have a majority over the right in the UK

[Patrick English @PME_Politics]

Latest in “who is Labour losing the most votes to?”

A *50 point swing* from Labour to Green in Manchester Moss Side. 50 points.

[Andy ✨ @AndyDO_]

Don’t think Labour realise how much people detest current Labour leadership - particularly how significant the party’s stance on Israeli genocide is to voters

[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

Yikes, the Greens are destroying Labour in Manchester. They've picked up 14 seats already, including Ancoats, Burnage, Chorlton, Fallowfield, Gorton. Our reporter at the count says 'Greens are jubilant'.

This is worse than Labour expected, and it's in their biggest stronghold.