indiethinker73

[Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale]

So the Shadow Education Secretary promises to extend free childcare to couples who earn money re than £100k a year. What kind of utter madness is this? It’s this kind of fiscal incontinence that got us into this mess in the first place.

[Jason Groves @JasonGroves1]

Green Party facing civil war and international condemnation after passing 'Zionism is racism' motion that denies Israel's right to exit. Israel says the Greens 'legitimising terrorism'. The party's five MPs disown policy. Polanski, supposedly the leader, nowhere to be seen

[electionmapsuk @electionmapsuk]

Westminster Voting Intention:

LAB: 30% (+2)
RFM: 25% (+1)
CON: 17% (=)
GRN: 11% (+1)
LDM: 9% (-1)
SNP: 2% (-1)

Via @OpiniumResearch, 30 Sep - 2 Oct.
Changes w/ 23-25 Sep.

[Opinium @OpiniumResearch]

🚨 Latest Opinium @ObserverUK poll 🚨

Labour hits 30% for the first time since November 2024, opening up a 5-point lead over Reform.

🌹 LAB 30% (+2)
➡️ REF 25% (+1)
🌳 CON 17% (n/c)
🌍 GRN 11% (+1)
🔶 LD 9% (-1)

[indiethinker73 @indiethinker73]

@v_j_freeman @JohnRentoul One of the challenges for Kinnock was that people struggled to imagine him as PM. But people are currently experiencing Burnham as PM and therefore if he builds support his chances at an election are much higher as he already passes the “can you imagine him as PM” test

[lee harpin @lmharpin]

Whatever one thinks of Labour’s reset over its stance on the Israeli govt, there needs to be a realisation that is has been at least partly influenced by the constant stream of posts such as the one below from actual ministers in the Israeli govt. They have been a constant feature of the Netanyahu govt. From him, and from ministers in his far-right coalition. They have repeatedly made incendiary slurs against our politicians, and against our country. They also succeed in further whipping up division during dangerous times.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

😆 Misspelling the name of your own country on a document about Artificial Intelligence is an incredible feat worth celebrating.

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Another great story from the parallel woke universe

[Simon French @Frencheconomics]

UK growth upgrade for Q2 26 taking QoQ output growth to 0.5%, and an annualised pace of 2.4% during H1.
Very respectable and the fastest in the G7 during H1, and second fastest on a per capita basis.
The big boost compared to the first estimate was the impact of net trade, but also business investment up 5.2% YoY.

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

UK Q2 GDP growth revised up to 0.5% by ONS.

So top growth in G7 in q1, second in q2 to Canada, overall fastest growth of g7 economies so far in 2026.

GDP per capita also revised up to 0.5% growth.

Definitely defying the suggestion that the Iran war would hit UK hardest.

[Eddie Burfi @EddieBurfi]

Michael Crick is in no mood for Jacob Rees-Mogg’s failed ideas wrapped in a posh accent. Superb. 🔥

[Tim Stanley @timothy_stanley]

The best Labour leader speech since Blair. Reminded me of a Baptist sermon. Now the Right must face the question it long dreaded: “what do you do if the Left isn’t led by an idiot?” https://t.co/SrDKXYGqX1

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

🤡 Eric Schmitt beclowns himself during Jack Smith hearing 🤡

Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atlanta to go to a Hawks game and collude with Fani Willis, and briefly displayed his "evidence" on a poster board before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- Schmitt's facts were totally wrong. Smith was actually in Maryland at a Hawkeyes (not a Hawks) game and never met Willis. As Klobuchar told him, "You have your teams wrong."

Here's the whole deeply embarrassing sequence:

[Sir Michael Take CBE @MichaelTakeMP]

Surely it is time for the authorities to take this Fairford terrorism case out of the hands of the police & pass it over to Nigel Farage, Richard Tice & Isabel Oakeshott etc.
These people have the expertise & skills to have this all solved & explained to the public by tonight.👍

[Sir Michael Take CBE @MichaelTakeMP]

@PatrickChristys https://t.co/4D4fdXqjVi

[indiethinker73 @indiethinker73]

@clivetaylo65495 @JohnRentoul The answer you swerved is that Labour were massacred by Reform, hence the description of bravery. In relation to your question, which had nothing to do with the electoral backdrop, he has been given a plumb job for stepping down. How does that impact the nation?

[indiethinker73 @indiethinker73]

@clivetaylo65495 @JohnRentoul Could you update us all on how the local elections went in Makerfield only a few weeks earlier?

[ClubHein @ClubHein]

Tony Pulis discussing Gillingham's own, er, "issues" relating to the 1999 Division 2 playoff final.

Be careful what you wish for

The Dirtiest Game In History!

[Sir Michael Take CBE @MichaelTakeMP]

Our Danny
Who art in prison
Racist be thy name
Thy balaclava come
Thy will be done
In ports as it is on dinghies
Give us this day
Our daily funding
& forgive us our racism as we intimidate those who speak against us
& lead us all into aggravation
But deliver us from being civil🙏

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Lot of chatter about small boat numbers today. These are the latest figures from Migration Watch. The reality is there has been a major fall - despite the good weather - in the numbers. It doesn't fit the narrative. But it's clear that something the Government is doing is having an impact.