Joe Walker

Likes/Retweets ≠ endorsements.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

It has been ten years since our friend and colleague Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right terrorist.

She was a dedicated mother, a fierce campaigner and a deeply committed Member of Parliament. Her conviction that we have more in common than that which divides us lives on beyond her death.

We all wish Jo was still here with us today, and we will continue to honour her legacy by standing by her message of hope and unity in the face of hatred and division.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Elon Musk is set to become a trillionaire within the next few months and a Karl Marx quote comes to mind.

"One day there will be trillionaires, but you will still have nothing."

Amazing powers of prediction.

[The Pink King @DayalSami]

Call me a hater but I think living in a world where both trillionaires and global poverty coexist is a sign humanity has failed as a species

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

Thanks in part to this filthy website, we seem in very recent times to be slipping back towards a place where whole groups of people, sometimes races or ethnicities, are being blamed for the evil-doing of a tiny minority. It is a profoundly backward, poisonous and anti-British ideology that is rooted in the gutter and represents the road to perdition.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Mehdi Hasan on the Belfast attack,

"As far as we know this person was here legally as someone who was approved by the then Conservative government"

"He's from Sudan. Most people would agree people fleeing from Sudan are genuine refugees"

"Whatever your politics we can agree there is a genocide going on in Sudan"

"That doesn't excuse the horrific crime that he committed, obviously"

"But the idea that we suddenly reduce this to illegal immigration"

"And Elon Musk pushing this is absurd, because Musk was an immigrant to the Unites States"

"His own brother claimed that they were both illegal immigrants at one point"

"People exploiting this for political gain.. Making everything about immigration.. Like the murder of Henry Nowak"

"The person who killed Henry Nowak was born in Britain. His father was born in Britain. But that's been made an immigration story as well"

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Turns out Suella Braverman(Reform MP) was Home Secretary & Robert Jenrick(Reform MP) was an immigration minister when the North Belfast attacker was granted a 5-year visa.

[Joe Walker @walkerjoseph_]

Who’s that guy on the left 🫪

[Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale]

I brought along some good security agents at the DCMS select committee.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Henry Nowak’s family have lost their son and brother in the most appalling circumstances.

Nigel Farage is exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division.

It’s completely unforgivable.

[Joe Walker @walkerjoseph_]

It was a former Health Secretary, @sajidjavid, that facilitated the downfall of Boris Johnson. Is it a Health Secretary curse that @wesstreeting could now instigate Keir Starmer's removal from office?

[Joe Walker @walkerjoseph_]

@JohnRentoul Or Lisa Nandy? Similar credentials to them all, stood to be leader before and resonates with large swathes 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️very effective communicator

[Joe Walker @walkerjoseph_]

@DavidTaylor85 @lmharpin I accept you may have policy differences, and these interventions from members aren’t always helpful but hey, you’re part of the same party and working together as a team is paramount for Labour’s revival! Every MP is a teammate, not an enemy.

[Joe Walker @walkerjoseph_]

@DavidTaylor85 @lmharpin I accept you may have policy differences, and these interventions from members aren’t always helpful but hey, you’re part of the same party and working together as a team is paramount for Labour’s revival! Every MP is a teammate, not an enemy.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

I know there is a lot of news around but can someone at the Beeb explain to me how a man they keep telling us might be the next PM getting an undisclosed donation of FIVE MILLION POUNDS from a Thai based crypto dealer (with a BS explanation about it being for lifelong security) is not even a news story when the man he wants to replace led the news for days over some glasses and Arsenal tickets?

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Anyone seen a Chris Mason BBC deep-dive on Richard Tice’s tax affairs yet?

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

🚨 What Has The Labour Government Done?

I didn’t vote for @UKLabour in #GE2024 and have been highly critical of both Labour and Starmer.

Polling shows pretty much everyone is dissapointed, and Labour has faced formidable difficulties in its PR - much of it self-inflicted.

In short, Labour has found it virtually impossible to persuade the public of its achievements and virtually no-one is aware of any of the good things that have happened.

This is partly because of mainstream news media, including a highly critical @BBC, but also because the Government has chosen to foreground measures which indicate that they don’t intend to behave like a Labour Government at all: e.g., abolishing the winter fuel allowance; cutting disability benefits; demonising and taking a hardline on immigration and especially asylum seekers; and reneging on its promises to reinstate welfare payments to couples with more than two children (almost all of them at least partially reversed, but after the damage was done).

So in the interests of balance, here’s a list of things that have been introduced since July 2024 that for some mysterious reason, many voters aren’t even aware of:

1. #NHS and Health

Put an extra £29 billion into the NHS – one of the largest funding boosts in many years.

Delivered over 4–5 million extra NHS appointments in the first year (more than double the original target of 2 million).

NHS waiting lists have fallen by around 230,000–312,000 – the lowest level in two years.

Gave above-inflation pay rises to NHS staff and ended long-running junior doctor strikes.

Recruited around 1,700–2,000 more GPs and introduced the first new GP contract in four years.

Started free breakfast clubs in hundreds of primary schools.

2. Jobs, Wages, and Worker Rights

Raised the National Living Wage – giving over 3 million people a pay rise (a full-time worker aged 21+ gets roughly £900–£1,400 extra per year).

Passed the Employment Rights Act – the biggest upgrade to worker rights in a generation, including:

Day-one protection against unfair dismissal for many workers.

Ending exploitative zero-hour contracts (right to guaranteed hours and notice of shifts).

Sick pay from day one for more low-paid workers.

Better rights to flexible working, paternity leave, and parental leave.

AND attracted £100–120 billion in new private investment, helping create more than 380,000 new jobs.

3. Housing and Renters

Passed the Renters’ Rights Act – banning “no-fault” evictions so tenants have much stronger protection.

Started major planning reforms to help build 1.5 million new homes over this parliament.

4. Energy and Environment

Set up Great British Energy – a new publicly owned company with £8.3 billion to invest in clean sustainable power like wind and solar.

Lifted the ban on new onshore wind farms in England and sped up renewable energy projects.

Aiming to make Britain a “clean energy superpower” with cheaper bills in the long term.

5. Cleaning Up Politics and Tackling Lobbying & Corruption

New Ethics and Integrity Commission launched in October 2025, replacing the old standards committee to oversee ethical behaviour by ministers, MPs, and public officials.

Tightened rules on MPs earning from paid lobbying jobs, removing exemptions that allowed MPs to be paid for giving advice on public policy or how Parliament works.

Stronger rules on political donations: Introduced the Representation of the People Bill (2026) to block foreign interference and hidden donations.

Tackling the “revolving door”: Introduced rules to stop former ministers and officials from immediately taking jobs with companies they used to regulate.

More transparency on lobbying: Reviewing the current lobbying register and publishing more frequent data; the PM asked the Ethics and Integrity Commission to carry out a full review in March 2026.

New Anti-Corruption Strategy (2025): Published December 2025 with 123 commitments to fight bribery and corruption, including appointing a new Anti-Corruption Champion.

Local government reforms: Plans for a mandatory code of conduct for councillors and creation of a Local Audit Office to improve oversight and reduce corruption risks.

6. Tackling Online Harms (including pornography and disinformation)

Rolling out the Online Safety Act: Inherited, but actively implemented and strengthened by Labour.

From March 2025, platforms must remove illegal content, including child sexual abuse material.

From July 2025, new rules to protect children from harmful content (pornography, self-harm, suicide, eating disorder material).

Age verification on major porn sites, ensuring children cannot access adult content.

@Ofcom issued fines (£1 million+) for non-compliant sites.

Extra protections against harmful content include upgraded cyber-flashing and encouragement of serious self-harm to priority offences and rules introduced for non-consensual intimate images, deepfakes, and nudification apps.

Action on disinformation:

Platforms must remove illegal disinformation; Ofcom set up an advisory committee to improve responses.

7. Tackling Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation (including Grooming Gangs)

National Audit by Baroness Casey (June 2025):

Reviewed group-based child sexual exploitation and recommended reforms; all 12 recommendations accepted.

Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs (December 2025, started 2026): Chaired by Baroness Anne Longfield with full legal powers; £65 million budget over three years.

Accelerated police action and reopened cases: National operation reopened over 800 cases; Grooming Gangs Taskforce contributed to hundreds of arrests, including 597 in late 2024.

New national taskforce and local support: Specialist taskforce for councils and police; new centre of expertise for best practices.

Updates to the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy (April 2025):

Better victim support, independent review routes, and stronger multi-agency working.

But anyway, APART from improving the NHS and the nation’s health, making more jobs, improving wages for the low-paid and worker rights, taking measures to improve housing and life for renters, cleaning up politics and tackling lobbying and corruption, tackling online harms including pornography and disinformation, tackling child sexual abuse and exploitation, including grooming gangs, stopping widespread train strikes early and starting to bring rail services back into public ownership, setting up a new Border Security Command to tackle small boat crossings, paying compensation to victims of the infected blood scandal, delivering real-terms wage growth and implementing several interest rate cuts, starting work on lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty including changes to benefits, and, excluding the COVID‑related disruption, cutting net migration to its lowest level since before the UK left the EU in 2016 - APART FROM THAT, WHAT HAS THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT EVER DONE FOR US?

https://t.co/ACeyWJ5o8n

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Moments like this tells you about leadership.

The Tories and Reform would have rushed us into the conflict in the Middle East without thinking through the consequences it would have for British people.

My Labour government will always make decisions in the national interest.

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

If you supported the “colonisation” comments by Sir Jim Ratcliffe, shame on you. It hasn’t suddenly become ok to be racist. And it never will be.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

Donald Trumps name appears more often in the Epstein Files than Harry Potters name appears in all 7 Harry Potter books.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

ReformUK

A retirement home for right wing Tories who f—-ed the country

Led by a grifter who loves nothing more than loving Donald Trump

If we can’t beat this lot we might as well all go home