Scott Hickman

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Musk as a trillionaire- anyone as a trillionaire- is a grotesque economic, moral and political problem. We cannot have individuals with that level of power, whatever they might have achieved.

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

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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[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Over the long term, we shouldn’t have political gerrymandering in America, just a fair fight between Republicans and Democrats based on who’s got better ideas. But since Texas is taking direction from a partisan White House and gerrymandering in the middle of a decade to try and maintain the House despite their unpopular policies, I have tremendous respect for how Governor Newsom has approached this. He’s put forward a smart, measured approach in California, designed to address a very particular problem at a very particular moment in time.

[Ilan Gabet @Ilangabet]

THREAD Marine Le Pen condamnée à 4 ans de prison et 5 ans d’inéligibilité avec exécution provisoire.

Le FN va lancer une guerre de communication pour manipuler l’opinion.

Je vous fournis donc un décryptage de l’ensemble de leurs mensonges pour que nous jouions à armes égales ⬇️

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Wow! Must watch car crash interview with Nadine Dorries

Nadine Dorries, "I'm a victim of child sexual abuse as well, through the Church of England"

Victoria Derbyshire, "When did you realise you wanted another inquiry?"

ND, "When the call came for one"

VD, "From Elon Musk?"

ND, "I wasn't aware the problem was as widespread as it was... The inquiry was more further reaching than the grooming gangs.. A national inquiry on the grooming gangs and the people who knew"

VD, "So why didn't the Conservatives do that?"

ND, "That's a good question"

VD, "You were in government"

ND, "No, I was Culture Secretary, this didn't go anywhere near my desk"

VD, "You were sat around the cabinet table"

ND, "The entire time I was in cabinet this was never discussed"

VD, "Why?"

ND, "I.. I.."

VD, "Because there are a number of Conservatives who were in government who are calling for it now"

ND, "I can't answer the question.. A good person who can answer the question would be Suella Braverman and Priti Patel"

VD, "There's no record of you speaking in the parliamentary chamber about any of the local inquiries or ever calling for a national inquiry"

ND, "You don't have to stand up in the chamber and speak about something to support something.. I attended meetings in committee rooms"

VD, "Tomorrow the Conservatives are calling for another inquiry.. That's despite the Conservatives setting up that 7 year £200 million independent inquiry on child sexual abuse.. And then the Conservative government didn't implement any of the 20 recommendations.. Isn't calling for another one the very definition of political opportunism?"

ND, "Frequently inquiries take place and none of the recommendations are implemented"

VD, "The same people who didn't implement those recommendations calling for another inquiry, isn't that the definition of political opportunism?"

ND, "Its a definition of what we need to do to fix how government deals with inquiries"

VD, "You had 14 years to do that"

ND, "Dealing with recommendations made from people outside of Westminster, the people who put them in place are civil servants"

VD, "So it's the civil servants fault?"

ND, "No, what I'm saying your dealing with something outside of the normal processes so maybe it can't be delivered by government"

VD, "Well the Conservatives didn't deliver any of the 20 recommendations"

Narrator: Nadine Dorries blames the process for why the Conservatives didn't deliver, while Labour use the process to start delivering, make it make sense

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

We can't let British democracy turn into a plaything for overseas billionaires with short attention spans.

At PMQs, I urged the Prime Minister to work with us to make sure power always sits with the voters, not wealthy foreign oligarchs.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

There are only 50 days left until Election Day. And there's too much at stake to sit this one out.

So get involved in any way you can. Knock on doors or make phone calls for the Harris-Walz campaign. Talk to your friends, family, and neighbors about why it’s important to vote in this election. And make sure you’re registered and ready to vote by going to https://t.co/6XrsHLEGkF.

Because if we work like we’ve never worked before, we will elect @KamalaHarris as our next President and @Tim_Walz as our next Vice President. And together, we will build a better future.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Earlier this week, Michelle and I called our friend @KamalaHarris. We told her we think she’ll make a fantastic President of the United States, and that she has our full support. At this critical moment for our country, we’re going to do everything we can to make sure she wins in November. We hope you’ll join us.

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

MAGA doesn’t like you retweeting this.

[Craig Rozniecki @CraigRozniecki]

Trump v. Biden

Age
Trump: Old
Biden: Old

Average COVID deaths per day
Trump: 1,215
Biden: 455

COVID deaths most recent week in office
Trump: 24,690
Biden: 80

Total jobs added
Trump: -2.720M
Biden: +15.722M

Total jobs added outside COVID
Trump: +6.409M/36 months (178,028 per/)
Biden: +6.290M/24 months (262,083 per/)

Manufacturing jobs added
Trump: -192k
Biden: +733k

Inflation
Trump: +1600% (from May '20 to the end of his term)
Biden: -67.0% (from June '22 to June '24)

Immigration actions
Trump: 472 (over 4 years)
Biden: 535 (over 3 years)

Southern border arrests
Trump: 1.4M (2019-2020, 24 months)
Biden: 5.0M+ (first 26 months)

Lies told
Trump: 30,573 (over 4 years)
Biden: Not even close to that

Approval abroad
Trump: 28%
Biden: 43%

Companies bankrupted
Trump: 6
Biden: 0

Times impeached
Trump: 2
Biden: 0

Felony convictions
Trump: 34
Biden: 0

Felony charges pending
Trump: 54
Biden: 0

Times liable for fraud
Trump: 1
Biden: 0

Times liable for defamation
Trump: 2
Biden: 0

Times liable for rape
Trump: 1
Biden 0

Supporters arrested for actions on 1/6/2021
Trump: 1,265
Biden: 0

On Epstein list?
Trump: Yes
Biden: No

This race should NOT be close!
#VoteBlue #MAGACultMorons

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

@Conservatives @RishiSunak Lawyers are not their clients.

Your failure to understand such a basic fundament of the rule of law makes it clear that you are not a serious political party, and should be nowhere near the levers of government.

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

Hang on.

HS2 money, pledged to ‘level up’ the North.

Cancelled. 🛑

Re-directed to London.

Are they for real?

https://t.co/MS3IbmVuvR

[Scott Hickman @scotthickman02]

@massmiette on a vue pareille (région sud)

[Scott Hickman @scotthickman02]

Just spotted this whilst having dinner. photo taken in the South France

[Scott Hickman @scotthickman02]

@albertopesci south france

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

Nowcast Model + Interactive Map (15/05):

LAB: 403 (+201) - 44.5%
CON: 162 (-203) - 28.4%
LDM: 35 (+24) - 10.5%
SNP: 26 (-22) - 3.4%
PLC: 4 (=) - 0.6%
GRN: 1 (=) - 5.1%
RFM: 0 (=) - 6.2%
Others: 0 (=) - 1.4%

LAB Majority of 156.

Changes w/ GE2019.
https://t.co/Y304WEsKwv

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

The Prime Minister’s boast at #PMQs having been told of a child eating cereal with water because their parents couldn’t afford milk should send the country into outrage. If you share my anger RT this widely

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

The sooner the whole rotten lot are thrown from office the better

https://t.co/Gnigg8YlUZ