Another poll shows Restore set to hand Burnham victory – politicalbetting.com
Another poll shows Restore set to hand Burnham victory – politicalbetting.com
New Makerfield poll by @OpiniumResearch Lab 46%Reform 41%Restore 7%The Conservatives are on around 2.5 per cent, while the Greens and Lib Dems are each below 2 per cent, meaning they would all lose their deposit.https://t.co/K3sHo2LW7w
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Hopefully a bit less corrupt/law breaking.
If so many of the candidates that Reform puts forward are terrible people, is it because Reform are a terrible party?
Farage somehow escapes the flack he deserves, because some individuals have this weird Teflon quality. But the rest of them?
That Mitchell and Webb sketch about the SS officers ought to apply.
The Tories meanwhile are largely ignoring Makerfield and focusing on Aberdeen South. I donated to a CCHQ by election appeal last week for the Aberdeen South campaign in the final push to try and gain the seat from the SNP
BBC Guest: “Enjoy life and fuck everyone.”
https://x.com/scottygb/status/2065529025229930924
The killer bit about Social media isn't just that it results in people saying more than they would but that social media remembers unless you remember to delete it.
One thing is clear there isn't room for 3 right wing Parties and the tired old one of the 3 is Kemis Tories
Not hard to see more Tory defections.
The Tories have a stark choice become the third choice Fringe right wing Party under Kemi or target the centre ground, sensible One Nation Tory Party under Cleverly or Hunt.
There is a lot of fertile ground there that would not touch the current Tory Leadership with a barge pole
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2065597531644743999
Is the motive here just to mess with Anthropic, which does not have the best relations with this administration ?
Your ad hom notwithstanding.
There is not room for 3 right wing parties, but then there are only 2 right wing parties, Reform and Restore, whilst Kemi is centre right and not only Kemi will lead the party of the centre right over the next 3 years but she will overtake the other 2 and in the process I fear you will combust
Sorry, thought you said "fundable".
Leave aside the personal rivalry/hatred stuff... that only really matters at leadership level. There will be some Reform voters for whom Restore is simply a goose step too far. Same as there are some current Conservatives for whom Reform is unacceptably right-wing, and some exiled wet Conservatives for whom the current iteration of the Conservative party is too much.
What's probably the case is that there are some voters who do want the most right-wing item on the menu. Especially if it's led by a respectable-looking old man with smart shoes, and not a visibly obvious thug in bovver boots. They endured voting Conservative (if they voted at all), tolerated Reform, but will always go for redder meat if it's available.
One of Restore's biggest fans Young Bob, a remigration supporter, and citizen journalist/auditor/social media 'star' has managed to get at least three people convicted for their part in the Southampton riots as the rozzers used his live streams/videos.
I’ll put my hands up and say that I was wrong in the way I covered Southampton, and I definitely needed to be more cautious in how I reported on events.
Knowing what I know now, I would have approached the situation completely differently. Going forward, I will either blur faces of patriots or attend protests without filming at all.
https://x.com/YoungBobRB/status/2065446821292396744
This includes the former first minister Humza Yousef, who of course has failed to apologise. Still waiting on John Swinney and the police to apologise too. The police told people not to post misinformation and then posted misinformation.
Independent European AI development is pretty well essential to its future economic competitiveness - and probably national security.
It would be a huge gamble to assume that definitely won't happen.
I’d hope at least he wouldn’t wibble and reverse ferret over his troubling social media history.
Did you call our ex PM a fat, lying, sack of jizz?
Aye.
Looks like a poor campaign.
1 Thinking about the current shadow cabinet, they've shifted to the right compared with (say) Cameron's shadow cabinet before 2010, or Thatcher's cabinet in 1990, haven't they? I'm not aware of anyone whose politics map onto say Caroline Spelman, George Young or Ken Clarke... let alone John Gummer or Chris Patten. The "centre" in "centre-right" feels like it's in much fainter type than it used to be- isn't it?
2 Why does Kemi Badenoch get three years to turn things around (because her party is not doing well at the moment), when that allowance doesn't seem to be made to anyone else? What's the source of your confidence that she will?
Dabinderjit Singh, chief executive for political engagement at the Sikh Federation, has started a Change.org petition demanding a statutory public inquiry into the death of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, and the institutions that failed him.
The petition argues that multi-agency oversights contributed to Henry’s death; that police conduct at the scene was seriously deficient; and that a criminal trial at Southampton Crown Court not only failed to deliver justice for his family but brought the sacred Kirpan — a Sikh religious symbol — needlessly into disrepute.
do you agree? Sign Dabinderjit Singh’s petition today.
The Sikh community are worried that there will now be pressure to remove the religious exemption that exists for carrying these ceremonial knives in public.
FURY AT CANDIDATE'S VILE INTERNET POSTS. "I'M GLAD THE QUEEN IS DEAD. FUCK HER."
Today, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch called for a retired Royal Navy officer to be prosecuted for treason as sickening posts made on a Internet forum came to light.
"This arsehole is bang out of order," she said before snapping her glasses in anger.
Indeed, I don't think Restore will do as well as shown because I suspect a lot of their support is people who wont be arsed for various reasons on the day itself.
“If I was a prime Minister I would replace Border Control with GPs receptionists, see who is getting in then…”
And how much glory have these defector brought Reform, compared to the numerous awkward questions they now pose? Farage will be far more retiscent about taking in anybody else that detoxifies the Tories.
Immigration and the boats is a toxic part of the problems and decisive action is required to address this and if necessary exciting the ECHR
We are in a period of 5 maybe 7 party politics and I do believe in time labour and the conservatives will regain votes lost to the left and right but also need good leaders, and despite the usual anti Kemi suspects, she is being noticed and tops approval ratings
It could be Burnham does get a honeymoon period and certainly the Andy Kemi show is likely to be very different and even more collegiate
Of course I could be wrong but my instinct is telling me Kemi will continue to shine and it is the first requisite to help recover the conservative brand
The Greens need more spice in their offering.
"Iz only fair, innit?"
Likewise on immigration, we have Burnham saying Labour need to get a grip on the boats and that councils should be able to refuse migrant centres. Kemi is ahead of this because she realised that we need to leave the ECHR, and she now looks prescient.
Both of these things were furiously clucked at by our centrist brigade. You don't want Kemi to go to the centre because you think there are votes there, you want it because you're worried that what was centrism is being abandoned. Well it is.
Preventing a Reform win, and allowing Burnham back into parliament, has a good chance of increasing Farage's chances of himself, or someone from his party, becoming a PM with a majority. All our experiences of Farage are that he continually gets close, before pressure builds and events dictate his cause - at least - triumphs.
It happened with UKIP forcing a referendum, and then Brexit winning. And then forcing through Johnson's Brexit in 2019 after stepping down his candidates in Tory seats.
I see Restore stopping Reform's win leading to a Burnham coronation. But the economics won't change positively. The chances of the bond markets taking fright increase, if anything. And then the chances of needing external influence - i.e. IMF - also increase. I can't see that doing anything BUT good for Reform, finally killing off the last vestiges of Labour support.....
For instance, from a couple of days ago:-
Scientists angered as Anthropic AI shuts them out
US tech giant imposes guardrails to prevent criminals abusing new Fable chatbot for nefarious tasks
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/06/10/anthropic-ai-bioweapons-fable-mythos/ (£££)
Perhaps those proto centrist Dads were the root cause of the Tory failure....
I'd have taken my chances with Portillo, Howard and Redwood persuing a 90s Thatcherism any day.....
Young Bob
@YoungBobRB
This turnout is bigger than Great Yarmouth!!
I’m here in Makerfield for Restore Britain’s national day of action, alongside hundreds of patriots on the ground, ready to offer the people of Makerfield an anti-establishment alternative.
https://x.com/YoungBobRB/status/2065714999880814852
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One hell of a letter in The Times today from General Sir Nick Carter, a former head of the armed forces
He warns that Britain risks becoming ‘Belgium with nuclear weapons’ unless it spends more on defence
https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2065738379694666229
You can only sell off the council houses, on the cheap, once.
You can only sell off the public utility companies, on the cheap, once.
You can only steal Scotland's oil once.
This 'stealing Scotland's oil' is particularly objectionable. The country INCLUDES Scotland; we bailed them out to achieve it, and have been bailing them out consistently since....
Military guy says more should be spent on defence. Let me see if I can find a doctor to say more should be spend on health. Obviously, the real answer is that more should be spend on universities, which I know as a professor.
If someone breaks the law (or falsely claims a safe harbour) the law isn’t a contributing factor
In courts up to 4 inch blade on 6 inch knife.
In schools up to 6 inch blade.
Sports stadia tend to be 5 inch blade.
I'd suggest limiting the exemption everywhere to a 3 inch limit.
That gap... between what Britain has, what Britain thinks it has, what Britain thinks it ought to have and what Britain thinks it ought to be able to do with it feels like a big hole where an important conversation ought to be happening, but isn't.
And I'm not sure that our political/media system is well set up to have that conversation.
Saka is also way too big with bf at 279.
Which begs the question as to why the exemption needs to exist, which is I suspect the motive of the Sikh group behind the petition wanting to keep said exemption in place.
ETA as a separate issue, if your GP is booked up four weeks ahead, that surely is just another sign we need to train (or import) more doctors. One problem aiui is that the NHS subsidises associate clinicians rather than doctors.
If the readiness is merely symbolical, the weapon can be symbolical (ie not a real dagger, or a dagger that cannot be used like a skian du (sp)). If the readiness is real, it's illegal. We should have true equality before the law.
https://x.com/alistaircarns/status/2065754367739805770
This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more.
This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead.
Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards.
What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning.
Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to.
I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.