James Cuddihy

27 Glasgow

[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.

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

“These children are so malnourished that they’re actually wasting away.”

Don’t sit silent.

Don’t look away.

And, don’t forget that the UK Labour Government continues to arm the Israeli Government.

#Gaza

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Look at the tiny hand reaching for help, buried under rubble… The terror this child must feel, imagine how many more are buried with no one to help them.

Israel destroyed the equipment needed to clear the rubble in Gaza.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

I was absolutely trembling when I spoke with Nick Ferrari this morning on @lbc…

About Gary Lineker and Gaza

One day, I promise you, we’ll all look back with regret

That this was the debate, while a genocide was ongoing.

[David Mitchell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇳 @dm180914]

😮 CEO of Octopus energy on Sky News yesterday morning -

“If we did location pricing, every region would be cheaper

Scotland would go from the most expensive electricity in Europe - to the cheapest.”

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

I’m not sure that’s how it works

[James Cuddihy @cuddy1995]

Hit the nail on the fucking head 🔨

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

It is extraordinary that the USA gets treated to a dismantling of the Tory party orders of magnitude better than the tame efforts anyone dares attempt here.

(And no, it's not the swearing that makes the difference - it's the accuracy of the attacks.)

[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

Scotland are taking over Munich!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[James Cuddihy @cuddy1995]

90% of Scotland was thinking it anyway. I think I like her even more now @NicolaSturgeon

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Nicola Sturgeon used the following descriptors #CovidInquiry @PoliticoForYou #Satire

Matt Hancock - "weaker than a Nun's pis*"
Liz Truss - "about as much use as a Marzipan Dildo"
Suella Braverman - "Shitler"
Boris Johnson - "A fu*king clown"

I haven't heard of a #MarzipanDildo before, have you? 🤔

[Larry & Paul @larryandpaul]

👇🏻 #FridayFeeling: A message to the @Conservatives on behalf of the British people.

#ThankYouTories 🙏🏻

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Hugo Keith KC - "Why are we destroying the economy for people who will die anyway soon"... who said those words?

Imran Shafi - "I can't say for sure, I think it was the former Prime Minister"(Boris Johnson)

#CovidInquiry

[James Cuddihy @cuddy1995]

Battle of the Beasts…… should have called it Robbery in Riyadh 🥊

[David @Zero_4]

Tory MP Michelle Donelan: “We are the Party of facts”

*VT compilation of Tory lies*

Victoria Derbyshire: “There was never a proposal to use 7 bins, we can’t find any council that wants to decide when you can go to the shop & Labour have never proposed taxing meat”

#Newsnight

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

Just a government minister openly spreading a far right conspiracy theory, even after being challenged on it

[James Cuddihy @cuddy1995]

@Douglas4Moray

[Phantom Power @PhantomPower14]

Michelle Mone’s alleged involvement in corrupt PPE contracting could be just the edge of this. She won’t go down alone and this may be a Tory scandal that detonates the party, pulling Sunak in. The next General Election might be closer than we think.

[Anthony Joseph @AnthonyRJoseph]

Perhaps one of the best renditions of Flower of Scotland ever…

It’s been crying out for a lone piper, then just the fans for the second verse.

Goosebumps! 🥺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Robert Peston @Peston]

At the end of 2018 Lord Sugar said he would leave the country if Jeremy Corbyn became PM. Tonight the @thetimes and @TBIJ say he argued to the taxman be wasn’t resident here under a Tory government, in order to avoid a £186m tax payment. Presumably the BBC Apprentice presenter can clear up this apparent inconsistency