If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.
@TheNewsAgents@maitlis@Moreincommon_ "Rachel from accounts" is going to cancel the triple lock, says the old man. Except she's not. But never let facts get in the way of your own twisted view of reality.
@griffitha Well done. A clearly photoshopped picture of you with a derogatory comment about a member of the public. No wonder the Tories are fading into insignificance.
My work colleague had his wallet nicked, I asked how much had been taken, he said £250.
Out of sight I counted the money and there was only £85.
I hate it when people lie…..
@DamianLow3 Not to mention the fact that if she was actually "in Makerfield" she'd realise the main town is Ashton-in-Makerfield, which the locals refer to as Ashton.
I’ve decided that I’ll only feature videos of Farage in my content with voice modification, like the BBC did with Sinn Fein in the 90s, to avoid giving them the oxygen of publicity or an illusion of credibility.
I like the message of Richard Tice (Reform) addressing a rally held to combat antisemitism. It seems to say, 'Don't worry, we're not coming for you, it's the other lot we're after.' Upon which, we Jews should be grateful? We should approve? Racism's OK so long as it's not us?
Our party has suffered a historic defeat.
Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more.
What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance.
The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people.
We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it.
Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits.
Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them.
Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that.
In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.
We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people.
The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.
Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government.
For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics.
But we have the chance to fix this.
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