Andy

[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst!

As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s."

The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄

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[Andy @andyofthings]

@laminario @ShaunPinnerUA He probably did know it existed, given he was living there 🤦‍♂️ He moved to Mariupol in 2017/2018.

You can't ignore something that didn't happen 😂

In Russia meanwhile, it does seem to be a national sport to ignore things that *have* happened.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@Vert_Galant @campbellclaret @TeresaC123 Some may try to spin it, but the country is going backwards. Nothing that will change people's voting intentions, and it doesn't matter whether it is storytelling or facts, voters don't feel improvement in their daily lives.

All people see is grey, mealy-mouthed, nothingness.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@Vert_Galant @campbellclaret @TeresaC123 People always whinge about new elections after change of leader, defections etc.

Then nothing happens, because that isn't how our system works.

The whinging (from many who've ignored similar whinging in the past) will be ignored. The existing term of government will continue.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@michaelsavage Brexit. Electoral reform.

These are the truths we must face.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@robinthemint @lindsaymathieso Starmer can't bring himself to be decisive on any of that. That is why he needs to go.

They've wasted two years fiddling around the edges trying not to upset anyone. No principles, no conviction, just gutless, mealy-mouthed waffle.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@DanielZeichner @TeresaC123 Love all those choices.

And if he actually did anything meaningful about any of them, rather than just faff about, there would be a chance of keeping Reform away from power at the next election.

Unfortunately that is not the case. Choices are easy, change is proving difficult.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@MatthewStadlen @PaulBrandITV True, but also by achieving a mealy-mouthed grey mush of nothing, and failing to communicate even that abysmal non-achievement to the public.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@MatthewStadlen @sales_belinda If you don't depose him, Farage becomes PM.

Somewhat of a quandary.

Ps did Starmer mastermind and do all the work to win, or was it a team that included countless people, including the Tories making themselves unelectable? Arguably it was a vote against Tories, not for Labour.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@JackWDart @lindsaymathieso This is a dumb take.

Opposition parties gonna opposition. It is their job to call for the PM to go, for elections to be held, at every available opportunity.

Using this as an excuse not to course correct is just cowardice.

Change your leader, get stuff done, and ignore them.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@Zokko18 @kieren_rees @KrishnanNayar1 @paulmasonnews Round here it has gone from Labour-Lib Dem to Green-Lib Dem, and Labour are tumbleweed. You can't fix that by the next election without radical change.

There is only one candidate who can possibly do that, and even he will have to drive through policies some think radical.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@Vert_Galant @campbellclaret @TeresaC123 Sure, but so far the government hasn't even begun to turn the oil tanker. The idea of presenting a message of hope to the country next GE, without radical change, is not credible.

Call it a hail mary if you like, but it's better than sticking your head in the sand.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@Zokko18 @kieren_rees @KrishnanNayar1 @paulmasonnews They know the next election is as good as lost already. They want to try something new, because they think doing nothing is not an option, and there is no way back from this under Starmer. There may be no way back anyway.

You may disagree, but that's where they're coming from.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@kieren_rees @KrishnanNayar1 @Zokko18 @paulmasonnews Oh god you're one of those bigoted, tribal, bores, unable to ever put themselves in others' shoes or contemplate that there might have been good intentions. I block those fools on sight, sorry, bye.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@MakeVotesMatter @susan_bagheri If only he would do something about it.

But he won't, he's part of the same Labour that forced AV - poor cousin of PR - to be the referendum reform option, then deliberately failed to back it.

He's great at mealy-mouthed, people-pleasing grey mush, but won't get anything done.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@kieren_rees @KrishnanNayar1 @Zokko18 @paulmasonnews The Lib Dems didn't botch it.

The two major parties blocked it.

AV was deliberately chosen in order to get Labour on board. They didn't get on board and the opportunity was lost.

If you want to lay blame, blame Labour. Tories will Tory. At least the Lib Dems tried.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@Vert_Galant @campbellclaret @TeresaC123 Yet carrying on like this is also handing the next election to Reform.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@kieren_rees @KrishnanNayar1 @Zokko18 @paulmasonnews We'll see. That person would have their own mandate from the leadership campaign which will help. Membership will strongly back them.

After the current failed strategy it will be hard not to give a new one a chance.

Beats a counsel of despair, might as well go down fighting.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@kieren_rees @KrishnanNayar1 @Zokko18 @paulmasonnews They would be, there's not enough time to ram them through.

Anything like that should be taken in steps (as Brexit should have been).

Step 1 could be a vote in parliament to plan for electoral reform/negotiate with EU.

Step 2 could be referendum or election to give go ahead.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@Stefi1774 @MosiniElisa @ChillaxBcn I actually think he needs to go because he can't beat Reform, is utterly uninspiring, and can't say anything stronger than 'let's get closer to Europe'. Meaningless.

But saying despised just plays into media narrative and the media is majority right wing.

He's just not popular.

[Andy @andyofthings]

@Stefi1774 @MosiniElisa @ChillaxBcn Sure by some. But my point has always been that more generally he is just viewed as not having made us better off, or having solved any major problems.

That is very different from despised, and all PMs are despised on some doorstep. Plus a lot of this is manufactured by media.