The game’s afoot as Burnham wants to be the new Lord Home – politicalbetting.com
The game’s afoot as Burnham wants to be the new Lord Home – politicalbetting.com
EXCL: Secret plot to get Andy Burnham a seat in Parliament so he can challenge Keir Starmer for No10 revealed!Labour rebels dubbed the "Manchester Mafia" want Andrew Gwynne to give up his seat for the King of the North.One insider says: "They are calling it the Etihad coup"
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The Utah shooter joked on Discord with his friends that his doppelganger killed Charlie Kirk when they asked him about it
https://bsky.app/profile/aric.bsky.social/post/3lyr3kglii22h
I think Labour should persist with Starmer, get through the next locals, and Starmer needs to start grooming the next generation and promoting them.
Religion was a recurring theme among the speakers and performers, with the first words said on the PA system praising “the king of kings, lord of lords, Jesus Christ”.
The Met said officers had been “assaulted with kicks and punches. Bottles, flares and other projectiles were thrown”.
Is it just me or do you think the KING should have paid some sort of tribute to Charlie Kirk and his life.
https://x.com/benonwine/status/1966766424942154075
It's very hard indeed to see Burnham as a threat. He's outside Parliament and the barriers to his return are actually pretty formidable. He would have to find a seat Labour could win, and then win it, and resign as Mayor to take it up which would neutralise his power base.
I suspect name recognition, a lack of association with the Cabinet and wishful thinking are driving talk about his return, rather than a realistic assessment of the possibility.
Which is why I say again the one we should be watching is David Lammy. He's consistently underestimated by everyone but he's quietly manoeuvred himself into an extremely powerful position.
(And as you say, he's also a pretty poor politician. Who could forget the infamous time he stood in front of a banner saying 'Defend our NHS' and accidentally blocked out the first three letters - if only because Paul Staines keeps reminding us?)
How would his government be better?
The importation of American problems is so obvious with that rally. The conservative strand of Evangelical Christiani mixed witb extremely aggressive rhetoric, and violence.
It's also simply what you get when your media treats another country's domestic news entirely as your own.
Challenging times.
Still, as he's shortly to host Trump, briefings would be in order.
I hope @TimS made it back from cenral London without running into any of Tommeh's mouth breathers. We didn't see any on our excursion into Fitzrovia, thankfully.
...the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt...
https://x.com/taftermath2020/status/1966642274617479368?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
And Keir Starmer has raised standards in public life !!!!!!
Portugal picks French Rafale over America’s F-35 for NATO fleet modernization.
https://x.com/AlexandruC4/status/1966933040934121841
India considering a huge Rafale purchase. ‘The defence ministry has begun examining a proposal from the Indian Air Force to procure 114 "Made in India" Rafale fighter jets
https://x.com/shashj/status/1966953610111021100
The reasons are likely part political (no one trusts Trump) and partly practical - see our dismal experience with getting any F35 upgrades.
> the shooter is trans
> ok the bullets were trans
> ok the roommate is trans
It is increasingly clear that the guy was a terminally online gamer and shooting Kirk was basically the ultimate shitpost
Everyone saying PM shd condemn far right violence in London yday (Shabana Mahmood already has)/ leave X is right. But same for Kemi Badenoch. No Conservative Party can condone thugs attacking police horses & calls for violent uprising. Even Farage has gone up against Yaxley-Lennon ffs.
https://bsky.app/profile/gabyhinsliff.bsky.social/post/3lyrs7ox2rs2j
https://news.sky.com/story/bella-ciao-to-owo-what-do-the-engravings-on-the-bullets-in-the-charlie-kirk-shooting-mean-13430554
*Arthur's Oon [oven]. Sadly demolished. https://falkirklocalhistory.club/around-the-area/castles/arthurs-oon/
Not sure who advised Peter Kyle to go on the TV this morning and repeatedly talk about Peter Mandelson's "singular and outstanding talents".
Read the room.
@DPJHodges
I suspect it was Peter Mandelson.
That’s just batshit.
Quite a lot of the Musky Right are.
'Andy Burnham's trained killer and will win the deputy leadership'
Vote Leave (iirc) put out a short video mocking him mainly via clips of him in action which went pretty viral, mostly because it was really funny.
I find it fascinating so many people's views of individual politicians are created/affirmed by trifling and trivial incidents. Somebody once said about all the world being a stage and politics is often described as theatre but there has to be more to our opinion forming than how someone looks, what they wear, what or who they are standing behind.
A powerful if often incoherent message from "Unite the Kingdom" yesterday - as others have said, what supporters of democracy may need to be concerned about isn't Reform but what might follow them if (or perhaps when) Reform themselves crash and burn. Advance is or seems to be the next stage of that though still struggling to form and develop an identity.
As has often happened with these large scale political marches (though not with the anti-Iraq War or Countryside Alliance marches which were miuch bigger and if memory serves entirely violence-free), a tiny element came looking for trouble and that has to be condemned unequivocally by all sides (including the march organisers).
The British system isn't like the house made of straw especially if you have a party with a large majority in office. All the huffing and puffing in the world won't make it fall down from the outside - it might fall from the inside but that's different. Many might want an election but its' far from the first time there have been calls for "an early election" when a Government has disappointed - it didn't happen then and it won't happen now.
Our local Shouting At Pigeons, vagrant type, who is frequently smoking something from a glass pipe, is frankly an adornment to the community, compared to the rum blossom you have linked to.
https://x.com/lordashcroft/status/1966946429580329415?s=61
He was on drugs. Not sure about the tiger.
Which government is going to license Optimus robots when the owner calls for the violent overthrow of democratic governments?
Even the car business will struggle to get FSD past regulators. He needs to work with governments not call for their violent overthrow.
What a cockwomble.
I wish we wouldn't import these things from America, it's deeply depressing.
If you spread MAGA crap on the fields….
Oops
https://news.sky.com/story/peter-mandelson-returns-as-starmers-new-us-ambassador-13276728
You look at Thatcher’s cabinets - sure, there were one or two clowns. But a good half of them could have been PM.
I don’t endorse this obsession with identity above all, but there’s plenty in the Labour Party who will see the optics of never having had a woman leader, or a leader from an ethnic minority as being very bad. Look at the stuff recently about the deputy vote - it had to be a northern woman for a number of figures.
Not knowing or understanding the question is hardly the monopoly of the Labour Party.
I think you've pointed out before that people of substance mostly don't want to touch public service through government with a bargepole. Partly because there are easier ways of making a better living, but also... why would you? Why go on the stage when a million Waldorfs and Statlers are going to heckle your every action.
And on top of that, the 'sack the manager' syndrome means that what little talent there is get pushed to the top jobs before they are ready and are quickly binned when they inevitably fail. Since World War 2, the supply of people capable of being an effective PM has been... 1 or 2 a decade? In recent years, demand has exceeded supply.
I know it triggers some when I say it, but Starmer and Badenoch are the least rancid options on the shelf. Changing either of them would be another change for the worse. And the idea that 'the public deserves better' is largely tosh as well. We may not have done it deliberately, but the society around us is the consequence of the totality of the choices we have collectively made over decades. We have almost exactly the quality of politicians we deserve.
Burnham can have influence, and has reinvented himself as King of the North, but Labour need and want a fresher face.
The Centrists like Burnham need to let SKS and his Red Tories crash and burn electorally before mounting a challenge. After GE 2029 only gonna need about 10 MP nominations to stand and people like Akehurst,Streeting,Reeves,Cooper will be retired to the Lkrds
(It's why stealthily not-quite forcing Mayors on everywhere, and giving them a decent wodge of responsibilities, is probably a good thing.
"More politicians" is a hard sell. But if it means that each of those politicians has a small enough role that they can actually do it... That will help a lot.)
I think the coming of social media and the 24/7 news cycle and the end of any kind of deference have made an enormous and negative impact to the quality (as distinct from the quantity) of our politics.
If Elon Musk had been an extremist imam making the same speech as that with which Musk addressed the Robinson rally, the demand that he be sanctioned would be overwhelming. But no. The hypocrisy from some erstwhile defenders of British values is stunning.
Which is why leaving the EU was such a problem for Westminister - the buck now stops at No 10 and you can't put the blame on the awkward part from a set of no win options on someone else.
50 years ago this is how it was done. Two heavyweight politicians listening to each other, not interrupting and civil countering each other's arguments.
https://youtu.be/CuZrzwm6CJs?si=DUsc53dtVl-Nf0gH
The sound is not in sync with the speakers mouth movement.
https://www.youtube.com/live/IETxE7VErPA?t=2s