Shortly there will be an election, in which Labour will increase its majority? politicalbetting.com
Shortly there will be an election in which Labour will increase its majority?, – politicalbetting.com
Assuming Andy Burnham wins the Makerfield by-election I cannot see him risking a snap by-election AND risking a mahoosive majority and potentially becoming a shorter serving Prime Minister than Liz Truss.
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@ydoethur summed it up best below.
Her experience looking at the numbers was 5 minutes of shadow cabinet work experience under Harriet Harman's caretaker role.
Lawyers are polymaths.
Rail services slashed after Thameslink nationalised
Britain’s biggest train operator announced the cuts hours before being taken into state ownership
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/30/thameslink-greenwich-nationalisation-rail-heidi-alexander/
You're simply not old enough for there to be any possible answers. I'm not sure there are any possible answers.
Eberechi Eze should retire now.
My concern going forwards, with regards how GBR is set up, and the formerly franchised operators are re-integrated, is that the current Government could leave the door open to another easy Privatisation, by not fully integrating the Train Operators. After all, by keeping Open Access and track access charging, they are choosing not to fully undo the Tory and EU structure. And if the so called 'Integrated Business Units' are not merged together, and don't achieve the efficiencies we all hope they do, then they can very easily be split up and tendered out again.
Gabriel should retire now.
dancingrioting in the streets of Paris tonight.Ok maybe not. But isn't it pretty to think so?
https://x.com/nigel_farage/status/2060792940285264009
It was a poor final with PSG underperforming and Arsenal playing 11 behind the ball
Anyway Arsenal still looking for their Ist Champion league trophy is quite remarkable when you think about it
Rory & Al say who are the most evil people they've shaken hands with (2 minutes):-
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rmRIhqjib5A
The whole point of wargaming is to explore situations and strategies and possibilities and most importantly - consequences.
What car were you in when you passed in his roller?
It almost sounds like the market in action.
He just generally didn't.
As the polls also show, even if Burnham gets a bounce if he replaced Starmer as PM it would still likely be a hung parliament and about 150 Labour MPs would lose their seats. They would certainly not be happy if he called an early election
A dozen trains per day will be scrapped from Thameslink’s Greenwich line services alone, according to internal briefing notes for staff seen by The Telegraph, and Greenwich council has urged ministers to reconsider cuts which fall at the height of the tourist season.
Calum O’Byrne Mulligan*, the cabinet member for climate action, sustainability and transport, said: “A reliable and regular rail service is vital for residents right across Greenwich, and so any reduction in services – even if just for a period of time – through any part of our borough would be very disappointing.”
He told the local Greenwich Wire news website: “I did not receive a formal notification of the timetable changes, and we have sought clarification from Thameslink, urging them to reconsider any potential timetable changes during the school holidays and busiest tourism season.”
*He's a Labour councillor
No sources
No fact
Bare faced lies
Her interest in Labour is pure mischief, peddling fiction and bile
Clarke
No one else bear bar 2.
One could have been great, another who was on his way to being great
Both sadly taken too young.
Iain McLeid
John Smith
Have you forgotten the scheduled 12 off-peak trains per hour on the DLR?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/30/starmer-makes-easier-stay-on-benefits/
I still think he was wrong. Atherton could play all the shots, but unlike too many players today, he kept them in the locker most of the time. John Crawley could learn a lot from watching how he built an innings in an era with truly great fast bowling attacks.
Burnham can look like a "new" Prime Minister simply by not being Starmer and carrying out a wide ranging reshuffle.
As the "conquering hero" he will reunite Labour and be primus inter pares wihin Cabinet.
There's a time to go to the country after becoming PM outside an election - Eden, Macmillan, Major and Johnson were all successfully elected after becoming PM through internal party manoeuvrings.
Those who failed include Douglas-Hume, Callaghan, Brown and Sunak, all of whom became PM but lost the subsequent election.
Burnham's first hurdle is on June 18th - it's in my view the biggest personal political gamble since Boris Johnson opted to support LEAVE over REMAIN in 2016.
I also think Makerfield will be one of the most significant by-elections of recent times.
Adrian Street, a Welsh professional wrestler, pictured with his father, a coal miner in 1974. Street later became known for ripping out chunks of Jimmy Savile's hair during a wrestling match after Savile had bragged about assaulting underage girls.
More of Adrian in the comments
https://x.com/utterlyinterest/status/2059678442539409511?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
The other options are the DLR or the Thames Clippers riverboat service.
Builders as Tory MPs? I mean no wonder she keeps on getting mullered in elections.
Badenoch: I want teachers and builders to become Tory MPs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/30/badenoch-want-teachers-builders-future-tory-mps/
The full context
Leader of the British Conservative Party Kemi Badenoch speaks to the media outside Westminster Town Hall after winning the Westminster Council from the ruling Labour Party at the local elections, in London, Britain, 08 May 2026
Kemi Badenoch vowed to ‘reverse the culture that has turned legislators into social workers’
Kemi Badenoch has pledged that the next generation of Conservative MPs will “focus on the big decisions” instead of acting as glorified social workers.
The Tory leader also promised that parliamentary business would not be allowed to overwhelm the busy schedules of the professionals she is seeking to attract to the party.
“Britain needs serious people to steer us through serious times,” she said, and believed people working as teachers, engineers, electricians and builders should consider entering political life.
Writing for The Telegraph, she called the current Labour Government the most economically illiterate and the most unserious the country has ever had.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10376096/Sarah-Beeny-interview-Being-a-dictator-would-be-quite-fun.html
Or perhaps arme Blanche would be a better term given the number of heads that would roll.
She says this 'the current Labour Government the most economically illiterate and the most unserious the country has ever had' so why are the Tories going backwards in every election fought under her watch, the Tories should be making net gains.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/map-shows-states-where-trump-s-approval-rating-has-crashed-most/ar-AA24qgA7?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=fa870dbabe884f9be47aee9413538622&ei=12 It is not obvious -- at least to me -- how he can stop, or even slow, the decline in his support.