Pat Roberts

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Do please post something today on your X page, in honour of our Allied heroes.

They deserve to be remembered on the 82nd anniversary of D-Day.

[Kathy Gyngell @KathyConWom]

Reform is 3 points behind Burnham in #Makerfield.

The Tories and Restore together are on 9 points.

If you vote for either of them, you are voting for Burnham as PM. Is that really what you want?

https://t.co/nAh31tJzzK

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

It is crystal clear Restore have no idea what they are doing.

They are amateurs who are only helping the Left.

Only Reform has a serious plan for saving this country —including reversing the Boriswave.

I urge you all to get behind it.

Vote Reform.

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

To vote for Restore in Makerfield, a party polling in single digits, is to hand Andy Burnham a free pass into Parliament on a wave of momentum, Labour’s majority rubber-stamped, and years more of a government too spineless to do what a Britain in terminal freefall actually needs.

[spiked @spikedonline]

Rupert Lowe’s vanity is off the charts. His party, Restore Britain, is shaving votes from Reform UK in Makerfield. This could hand a victory to Andy Burnham and let the ‘King of the North’ become PM. Restore is the enemy of populism, says Brendan O’Neill
https://t.co/LGj1YK4nhh

[Hedric Stonefree @HStonefree]

Rupert, unlike many of your current supporters, I was with you from the very beginning. I listened to your first speeches, followed your journey, and genuinely believed you could be the person to make a real difference in British politics.

If you had built your party around helping the right win the next election—whether through your own movement or by working alongside others pursuing similar goals—I would still be supporting you today.

Instead, it seems that too much time and energy has been spent attacking Reform and competing for the same voters rather than focusing on the bigger challenge facing the country.

What disappoints me most is that I once saw you as someone who could unite people behind a common cause. Sadly, the bitterness and constant focus on political rivals has changed that perception.

I will always wish you well, but I could never support that approach. For me, Reform is now the best chance of delivering the change this country needs.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

"The debate about going back into the EU is not so much purposeless as utterly fantastical. The people arguing for some future re-entry know that there is no realistic chance of it. But, for emotional reasons, they cannot let the idea drop," writes @DanielJHannan.

🔗: https://t.co/UmuzmVCSDP

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

But this is what Starmer wants us to get closer to.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Kemi Badenoch should not run a candidate in Makerfield by-election.
Polls have Tories on a puny 10%.
That could be the difference that gives Reform victory.
Farage stood down Brexit candidates in 2019. Time the Tories returned the favour.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Germany is becoming increasingly less German. 🇩🇪

[Gully Foyle #UKTrade @TerraOrBust]

THE REJOIN DELUSION

We're stuck in a loop right now, but at least there is engagement now with the realities of rejoining, and how in reality the British people do not actually want to be an EU member.

[Jack Jewell @JackxJewell]

I checked out Unite the Kingdom - lots of families, races, and normal people… few drunkards here or there but as you’d expect with such crowds. It was strange hearing so many English accents in London. And it’s strange that that’s strange.

Our PM is very afraid of this.

[Ellie Hodges @elliehodges62]

This image being shared across Ashton and Bryn local groups.

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

This is what Starmer wants to "rejoin"... 🤦‍♂️

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

This would have more weight if Labour hadn’t spent much of the last parliament calling their opponents not just wrong but morally inferior. This is a brutal old game

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Bravo, @Keir_Starmer, for getting in an Adviser on Women and Girls who thinks the definition of women and girls includes men and boys. That'll definitely win back people who believe Labour's a party for smug, lanyard-wearing, luxury-belief-espousing cultural elitists. 1/2

[Ralph Blackburn @RalphBlackburn]

In Wakefield, Labour has gone from 57 councillors (out of 63) to just one - absolute decimation. Reform are rampant with 58 councillors. Liberal Democrats are the second largest party with ... two members! Astonishing.

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

The face you pull when you've allowed decades of sex trafficking, sexual slavery, torture and gangrape of hundreds of little girls in return for votes, and you still lose.

[Gully Foyle #UKTrade @TerraOrBust]

Yet again we see the FT having to begrudgingly admit Brexit benefits, though always through gritted teeth.

"Bilateral trade has blossomed under the UK-Australia trade deal" with trade up 14%!

Who knew Percy Pigs would be the trade champion export.

#BrexitBenefits

[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

Shah Wept. McMahon Fled. The Night Labour Lost Oldham.

The results came in across the night. By the time it was over, Labour held 18 seats. Reform 16. The Oldham Group 11, with the Coldhurst Independent folding in to make 12. Lib Dems 6. Conservatives 4. Two Royton Independents, two Shaw Independents, one Failsworth Independent.

Arooj Shah sat alone and wept. She was not the only Labour politician in tears. Jim McMahon had fled.

What collapsed in Oldham last night was not just a vote share. The Muslim bloc vote, the machine Labour has run on for two decades, fractured from the inside. The sectarians pulled one way. The Greens pulled another. And while that was happening, White working-class turnout hit record numbers. Those voters did not just come out for one party. They came out to also bury one.

Shah has already reached for her usual line. Reform are the divisive ones, the dangerous ones, the bad guys. That argument is dead. It will not survive the arithmetic on that results board, and I doubt it survives even amongst her remaining councillors.
McMahon's days are also numbered. The national rape gang inquiry is coming to Oldham. When it arrives, there will be nowhere left to hide behind. Even with a knighthood, Jim can't fix this.

Full analysis of what next for Oldham will follow on Red Wall and the Rabble. There will also be a live Sunday night broadcast over on YouTube.

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I’m Raja Miah MBE. For seven years, I led a campaign that exposed how senior Labour politicians helped protect Pakistani rape gangs. The people of my town helped force the national inquiry.

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