James 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦

#FBPE #RejoinEU #MakeVotesMatter #ProportionalRepresentation

[James 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @remain_eu]

The 2024 general election has proven, yet again, that first past the post is not fit for purpose.

We need proportional representation to make every vote count so that we get a government that we vote for.

@MakeVotesMatter

https://t.co/yCCc7ITWDj

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 BREAKING: MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ERUPTS IN BOOS AS DONALD TRUMP IS SHOWN ON SCREEN

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Andy Burnham: ‘I am committed to proportional representation’

https://t.co/cfbydJoftn

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump just posted a full-blown essay melting down over today’s federal court ruling requiring his name to be removed from the Kennedy Center and preventing him from shutting it down. Trump blames Barack Obama and the “Radical Left” while declaring he’s no longer interested in running the institution.

A historic crash out.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

A federal judge just ordered Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center because it honors JFK, not Donald Trump.

America deserves a president, not a narcissist-in-chief who treats public office as a vehicle for self-promotion and personal enrichment.

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP NAME REMOVED FROM KENNEDY CENTER BUILDING

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"if you think AOC... is somehow less progressive, less moral, less worthy of your support than MTG; if you as a leftist think she is better than AOC in any way, then I think you need help."

My deep dive on AOC vs MTG, especially their records on Gaza & Israel. I bring receipts:

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: The Makerfield by-election will take place on Thursday 18 June

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

NEW: Andy Burnham has been granted permission by Labour’s ruling national executive committee to stand in candidate selection process for Makerfield byelection.

[James 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @remain_eu]

@British_4Ever @PolitlcsUK It’ll be even funnier if Reform loses despite being the clear favourites.

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

‼️POLL | Net favourability in North West:

🔴 Burnham +26
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🟠 Davey -9
🟢 Polanski -16
➡️ Farage -22
🔵 Badenoch -24
🔴 Starmer -42

Source: @Ipsos, March – May 2026

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter dire threat of a Reform UK government https://t.co/PNfl5GnB0X

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Kamala Harris calls on Democrats to discuss abolishing the Electoral College, packing the Supreme Court, & making Puerto Rico & D.C. states.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks...

HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless.

Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it

So where's the wall-to-wall coverage?

Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨BREAKING: The Senate just failed to end the Iran war.
49-50.

The one vote that blocked it: John Fetterman.

A Democrat.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Labour members voting intention:

Starmer vs Streeting:
Starmer: 53%
Streeting: 23%

Starmer vs Burnham:
Burnham: 61%
Starmer: 28%

Starmer vs Miliband:
Miliband: 46%
Starmer: 39%

Starmer vs Rayner:
Rayner: 45%
Starmer: 41%

Via @LabourList, 1214 members

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election.

I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics.

Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic.

Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures.

However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people.

Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place.

I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that.

Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again.

ENDS

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

The one million bombs Hitler dropped on London might have indicated something, though.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Nigel Farage is now being investigated by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner for not declaring the £5m gift he received from billionaire Christopher Harborne

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

MARCO RUBIO: “The goal of the war in Iran is now to return it to how it was before Trump started the war.”

Unreal.