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[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

but on the 19/06/23 motion to sanction Johnson once the committee of privileges had found him guilty of misleading the House. That’s right. She abstained. But she didn’t abstain on the Owen Paterson Standards report - she followed her master’s bidding and voted to let him off.

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

Badenoch was economical with the truth earlier in her chaotic ‘can I make any mud stick’ speech in the House. She seemed to forget that she abstained not on the motion to refer Johnson to the privileges committee (when there was no vote as the case was obvious)

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

I have a lot of time for Darren Jones… smart, clear.

[Paul Wojtusciszyn @WojtusciszynP]

Darren Jones has just wiped the floor with the opposition in the Commons proving the Tory motion a cheap political stunt+didn’t Kemi Badenoch look sour as did Stephen Flynn who looked like he was going to burst into tears after being reminded of the SNP record in Scotland.

[Chatters @talkmeadow]

@toryboypierce @RachelReevesMP Absolute Rubbish as usual 🙄

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

Needs more than a revived NHS when grotesque inequalities are why Britain's health is going backwards.

Men's healthy life expectancy down to 60.7 years from 62.9 and women's 60.9 from 60.7.

UK 20th in 21-country table with only the US worse.

https://t.co/oj8WT75jng

[Chatters @talkmeadow]

@toryboypierce @DailyMail Absolute Rubbish as usual 🙄

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

Shocked I tell you - shocked!
Reform UK Candidates former BNP members.
It's not like I ever warned you all....

[OFFICIAL MAYE  @MAYEFANSPAGE11]

You know what never seems to make the front pages of the UK media?

Native born British white paedophile gangs. Like this one in Bolton. Just this week.

Who saw this on the front page of Daily Mail ? Who saw this being discussed for seven hours by @GBNEWS ?

Nobody.

[Chatters @talkmeadow]

@reformparty_uk Absolute Rubbish as usual 🙄

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@RichardBurgon Absolute Rubbish

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@toryboypierce Absolute Rubbish as usual 🙄

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@MaggiesMole @toryboypierce @JonathanBrash @Keir_Starmer Absolute Rubbish 🗑

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@toryboypierce @JonathanBrash @Keir_Starmer Absolute Rubbish as usual 🙄

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Oh my goodness I wish I had written this… it’s exactly how I feel… every word…

[Amy @downwithcheese]

@donmcgowan I saw this the other day and it speaks volumes that the media is silent about it. He’s without doubt made some major errors, but compared to his predecessors of at least the last 16 years he’s doing a great job with the $hit show he was left with. (Also not a Labour supporter!)

[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. 🌞

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

Trumpflation.

UK prices up 3.3% in March, a +0.3% rise largely driven by rising fuel prices from Trump's(and Netanyahu's) Iran war.

Reminder that Farage and Badenoch backed that crazy war and Starmer didn't.

[Chatters @talkmeadow]

@toryboypierce @Keir_Starmer Absolute Rubbish as usual 🙄

[mariana Z @mariana057]

You know what I’d love to see???

A reality show where millionaire CEOs are required to live off their lowest paid employees salary for 1 month.