Sian Mair Duffy 💙

[Sian Mair Duffy 💙 @SianDuffy1]

@ghost_wales @100_overproof @AnnmarieBrodie3 Look up the Dublin accord and what happened when brexit happened. You may be in for a surprise.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

I was with him yesterday amongst so many who he has supported by challenging the system and introducing laws to prevent and protect…I observed total respect and a sense of loss and I observed his humanity, dedication, and grace in Departure. I believe my eyes, ears and those who actually know above the Tittle Tattle and name calling of foreign influence and those who simply serve to bring down. We have lost a good man with good intent, We will know that too soon,

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

This kind of statement👇from an EU leader would have been unthinkable about all the other PMs the UK's flitted through since "taking back control"

It doesn't get much mention in the UK, but boring Starmer made 🇬🇧 look reliable and serious again after the clown show before him

[Sam @SamCKx]

The first major wave of online misinformation resulted in Brexit, a decision that the majority of economists regard as the most damaging economic choice Britain has made in modern times, making millions of working families poorer.

Now it appears a second wave may succeed in forcing out a democratically elected Prime Minister who in a short timeframe has a track record of delivering policy designed to help millions of working families. Not a perfect man, but certainly one of the better PMs of the last 30 years or so.

A wave of gross & obvious misinformation, spread and amplified by foreign-owned social media platforms, in a deliberate campaign designed to indoctrinate UK citizens, may have toppled a British Prime Minister.

We are going down a very dark path here.

[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.

[Sam @SamCKx]

A democratically elected British Prime Minister has been driven from office by a relentless campaign of propaganda and misinformation; funded, amplified and perpetuated by foreign billionaires and elites whose interests bear zero resemblance to those of ordinary working people.

A noble gesture from an emotional Keir Starmer, entirely consistent with his conduct in office.

A truly sad day for British democracy.

His full resignation speech:

[Sian Mair Duffy 💙 @SianDuffy1]

@dkatie9 @jlippincott Exactly this ☝️. I once saw a mother spank her child for bad behaviour. The child just turned around and hit her back, then carried on with what they were doing. My own kids couldn’t believe their ears when I told them that some people hit their children to get them to behave.

[Dave Hibbert, BA(Hons), ACTUS, Cert.Ed. Rejoin EU. @Cpass12David]

The Guardian: “Net migration down by three-quarters, the biggest fall in NHS waiting lists for 17 years, knife crime cut by 10%, the economy growing the fastest in the G7, rising wages, energy bills and petrol prices held down, the biggest sustained rise in defence spending since the cold war, a massive expansion of free childcare …
If Keir Starmer did tub-thumping lists of Labour’s achievements in the style of Gordon Brown, he would not actually have a shortage of things to talk about.”
During the two years of Labour government, following fourteen years of Tory mismanagement, there have actually been significant improvements in Britain. Why does the Tory media not report them?

[Sian Mair Duffy 💙 @SianDuffy1]

@batcountry1980 I’ve laughed a lot at Romesh, David and Alan. I am absolutely baffled by Bob, I just don’t get his humour at all.

[Sian Mair Duffy 💙 @SianDuffy1]

@Dizzycharly70 He’s not saying liking sponge and custard is racist. He says ‘people are going back to old school British values aren’t they. … like old treats….. and low level racism.’ It made me chuckle anyway.

[Sian Mair Duffy 💙 @SianDuffy1]

@TaintedSaint2 @dissproportion @drpepluver Just came here to say that. He’s bunching it at the back and does it really fast so she doesn’t notice. There’s no way she has a 36 inch waist. Mine is 29 inches and she is smaller than me.

[Jake 🌹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ToryWipeout]

Labour passed a bill to protect children, reduced the NHS waiting list and have restarted migrant processing.

Let's get this trending 🤭🤭

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

Before you join the Meghan Markle pile-on, stop and ask yourself what forces might have created the global Markle hate machine, which is a wildly lucrative business generating countless millions for various media outlets and authors.

Are you this machine’s unwitting accomplice?

[Sian Mair Duffy 💙 @SianDuffy1]

@chaptertweets

[Nina @ShakeLS]

The lawyers of the Daily Mirror just confirmed that Charles spin doctor Mark Bolland was giving information about Harry to Piers Morgan. They also admitted they used unlawful tactics. They want to settle with compensation. Harry take Piers Morgan to court.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The bravery of these women...

[Alexis is sowing discord in the West @ArchewellBaby]

Prince Harry is taking on the powerful UK press that even the Royal Family is scared of.

Hugh grand said "These big newspaper owners are living above the law....No one dares to take them on in Britain because they're so scared of them, especially politicians."

[Sian Mair Duffy 💙 @SianDuffy1]

@MaskedSingerUK John Barrowman?

[Sian Mair Duffy 💙 @SianDuffy1]

@MaskedSingerUK Amanda Holden