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[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.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Yup

[British Indians Voice 🇮🇳🇬🇧 @BritIndianVoice]

One Sikh man committed a murder.

535,000 British Sikhs did not.

They served in our armies.

They built our cities. They fed our homeless.

They sheltered our children after Manchester.

Know your allies. Don’t let hatred win.

#BritainTogether #BritishIndians

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

He hates them being called the #FaragRiots
- can always share widely

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Nigel Farage has NOT been arrested for willingly and deliberately inciting riots in Southampton.

Please RT this until he is.

Thank you.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

I'm confident nobody will share this.

[The London Economic @LondonEconomic]

The last two weeks have seen plenty of positive economic stories, vindicating Labour's plans for the economy.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Our media fixation with Keir Starmer is becoming a literal drag on the country now.

As I write this, I can already see the replies forming below, accusing me of being a Labour shill etc. but, believe it or not, I am not.

Maybe it's worth setting this out — I have no party affiliation. None. I'm not 'on the right' … but that's as far as it goes.

There are policies and people that I admire across the Lib Dems, Greens and Labour. Conversely, there are policies and people I am vehemently against within each of those parties as well.

There are some decent Conservatives left but fewer and fewer in frontline politics and I can have excellent discussions with those moderate Tories that remain.

Where my line in the sand is drawn though, as I'm sure you're all aware, is the far-right. Reform UK and Restore Britain. I have no common ground with their populism — I see through the propaganda.

This doesn't mean that I think every member of Reform UK is a bad person, far from it, but I cannot rationalise their top-line bravado into credible politics.

So, with all that being said, I think the witch-hunt of Keir Starmer is distracting the public from some far more serious crises.

Since the very day Starmer took office, there has been an onslaught from the media; desperation to try and topple him and his principal team. This played out successfully with Angela Rayner, and they have been vicious and relentless pursuing Rachel Reeves.

I listened to Paul Brand on LBC at the weekend continuously comparing Starmer to Boris Johnson in terms of sleaze.

Have we collectively lost our minds? There is no other Prime Minister in history that compares to Johnson for scandal.

The elephant in the room — Peter Mandelson.

But is it really an elephant still? Clearly, Starmer should never have brought the Prince of Darkness into his team, that was a madness and severe failing of judgement. One for which he has accepted responsibility and apologised on multiple occasions.

The vetting process appears to be, pretty much, a non-story, despite what Dan Hodges and GB News are shovelling out.

So … we should be moving on. Shouldn't we?

Kemi Badenoch and her famously robust judgement felt not yesterday, and spent more of her diminishing political currency by pushing Starmer with six questions at PMQs on the subject. She was met with a well briefed lawyer, that, in all honesty, made her look a bit silly for continuing her defeated line of questioning.

While this continues to dominate the headlines, other far more crucial issues are being missed — we're going to run low on fuel soon, the cost of living is about to skyrocket, holidays will be cancelled imminently.

But mainly ... the cost of living is about to skyrocket.

We saw in yesterday's inflation rise that food is already moving upward, if Trump's ludicrous war in Iran continues, then we're all going to suffer the consequences.

Surely, this is a far more pressing matter? One in which the government should be fully engaged in order to help protect the public — it's number one duty.

It is very telling that Reform UK are spending very little time on the Starmer issue. They sent Lee Anderson out to raise this issue, for goodness’ sake. LEE ANDERSON.

Farage is hyper focused on the local elections, safe in the knowledge that the media is obsessing over Keir Starmer, once again. He's making hay while the S*n shines on Labour.

Jeez! This went on a bit, sorry, but it feels critical to me. We are being led around by the nose by the legacy media outlets. They smell blood in the water, but I really don't think the story is there. Not yet.

And while the sharks circle, Reform UK are flying under the radar, ready to swoop on the local elections [sorry for the weird mixed metaphors — it's early!].

Have a lovely sunny day. 🌞

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚩🚩🚩Newly released Bannon–Epstein messages (2017–19) show Epstein was giving daily strategic advice to Steve Bannon while Bannon and Farage were building a transatlantic far-right project.

Epstein wasn’t just a social acquaintance. He was in the room, digitally, for the construction of modern populism.

Farage’s partner, Laure Ferrari, literally co-founded the Brussels organisation (“The Movement”) that Bannon used to build a European nationalist network.

Who helped shape the money structure and the logistics? 👉Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein advised Bannon on:
– how to avoid FARA disclosure
– how to use 501(c)(4) dark-money non-profits
– how to shield political operatives with media shells
– how to keep funding “opaque”
– how to structure a European revolution without legal exposure

This was not small talk.
This was political engineering.

Bannon told Epstein he was working with:
“Nigel, Boris and Rees-Mogg… the guys are trying to move on May today/tomorrow.”

This places Epstein inside the communications chain of the plot to topple Theresa May, while Brexit was at its most volatile.

Epstein also:
– Offered Bannon the use of his island and homes for political strategy
– Arranged accommodation, flights and meetings
– Critiqued Bannon’s media appearances
– Acted as a sounding board on Europe, Salvini, Le Pen’s allies and the gilets jaunes

He was not a spectator.
He was an influencer.

In other words:
🔹 Mandelson: embarrassing proximity.
🔹 Farage: political collaboration through Bannon.

Farage wasn’t merely around the Epstein orbit. He was inside a political machine Epstein helped shape.

And look at the substance:

– Bannon called Farage “the face” of the European far-right project
– Farage’s partner built the Brussels shell
– Farage brokered the meeting that handed it to Bannon
– Epstein provided the dark-money blueprint

This is not gossip.
This is architecture.

Farage sells himself as a man who “took on the elites”. Yet the newly revealed truth is far darker:

His Brexit project was intertwined with 👉Bannon, Epstein, US dark-money networks, Salvini, Le Pen’s bloc, and the hardest edge of the global far right.

Brexit was never anti-establishment.
It was never grassroots. It was never patriotic.

It was a transnational authoritarian project, backed by billionaires, extremists, and a convicted sex offender with global influence.

And Farage was right at the centre of it.

If Mandelson had emails showing Epstein advising him on political strategy, funding routes and foreign influence operations, the country would erupt.

Farage has exactly that except worse.
Because the stakes were Brexit and the reshaping of Europe.

And that truth is finally out 💥

https://t.co/PUZZQlY30S

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Can we get this story about Farage and his dodgy tax Retweeted 10,000 times?

#NoTaxNigel #FarageOut
#FarageTheFraud

https://t.co/2bwATYQRPS

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

In other news today the United Kingdom has regained its position as the fifth largest economy in the world, according to the latest figures
https://t.co/SeYCBjPdP1

[Bryan Smith #RejoinEU same handle on BlueSky @BpsmithUk]

You probably won't see this BBC correction unless a lot of people amplify it.
Nick Robinson allowed Farage to claim net migration under Labour had only come down because of "an exodus of people leaving" (implying British people fleeing).
In fact, it was due to fewer immigrants.

[Viviane: Members need a say @LaindonFEMINIST]

We cannot rely on our media to tell us what Labour are doing. Here’s 11 positive announcements from the last 5 days that are unreported. It’s our job to make these known far and wide. #DoingTheMediasJob #LabourAchievements #FixingBritain

[Felix @hfc_felix]

Prefer my Prime Minister to be having a kick about with his pals than blowing up schools in the Middle East tbh.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see.

This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

.@KemiBadenoch displays her total lack of understanding of the energy sector. She argues for more drilling in the North Sea to protect us from this energy crisis - seemingly oblivious to two very important facts. The first is we don't set the price of our north sea oil and gas - we let global markets do that. So in a crisis where global prices sky rocket, how can the answer can be to produce more globally priced oil here - it’s (energy market) illiterate to say so. The answer is to take control of our own energy pricing, starting with our own North Sea, as we have already with retail energy bills. Impose a price and profit cap. If we do this as part of an entire sector move - capping all wholesale prices, then we can combat this crisis and those that are coming next.

The second very important fact Kemi seems unaware of is that it will take up to five years to produce anything new from our North Sea. So even if that could help us, it can’t help us with anything soon. And it won’t help us for long because our North Sea is all but empty, there’s 10% left. Our North Sea has been in decline for 30 years, shedding jobs and production capacity - because it’s running out - this has been going on for far longer than green energy has been a thing - to blame green energy for the decline of the North Sea is ignorant (of the facts). And Global markets have been filling the gap between what we make and what we use for decades now - Kemi seems not to know this either. As for energy bills, Badenoch seems unaware that the ‘green taxes’ we have on our energy bills were added by previous Tory governments. She seems also unaware that we spend vast sums subsiding fossils fuels - £17 billion a year at the last count. She operates in a fantasy environment, or would have us do - where green taxes have ruined the country and our oil and gas industry and all we need to do is drill more - it’s delusional.

It’s straight out of the mouth of Trump.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan at the ramadan Tent Projects Iftar in Trafalgar square on March 16th 2026,

"One of the reasons why we are the greatest city in teh world"

"I want to say to my non-Muslim friends who are here tonight"

"To my Jewish friends, to my Christian friends, to my Hindu friends, to my Sikh friends, thank you"

"This is what allyship looks like"

Your reminder that the Ramadan Tent project have held iftars - the evening meal during the month of ramadan for many years, including under four Conservative Prime Ministers with absolutely no issue whatsoever:

➡️ 2015 under David Cameron
➡️ 2019 under Theresa May
➡️ 2022 under Boris Johnson
➡️ 2024 under Rishi Sunak

Trafalgar square is a hub of universal events. For example on April 3rd, The Passion of Jesus, a free annual open-air play, will take place between 12:00 PM and 3:15 PM

There are 50+ events in Trafalgar square every year, the main religious cultural ones include:

➡️ Diwali on the Square (Hindu, Sikh, Jain)
➡️ Eid in the Square (Islamic celebration)
➡️ Jewish Heritage Month and Hanukkah events
➡️ Chinese New Year (East Asian cultural festival)
➡️ St Patrick’s Day Festival (Irish culture)
➡️ Black on the Square (Black culture & heritage)
➡️ Pride in London (LGBTQ+ culture, often ending there)

In addition to which there are multiple cultural showcases too

Everyone is entitled to disagree with whatever they wish from other people's chosen way of life, but Kemi Badenoch's suggestion that one faith should be singled out and not allowed to hold an event at Trafalgar square is sad

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

The media has convinced you that Keir Starmer is the worst Prime Minister in history. They're lying to you.

[The New World: New ideas. New magazine @TheNewWorldmag]

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