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As much as I wholeheartedly support this I can't help but imagine Ed Miliband as Gothmog saying that.

That's the same poll. It predicts reform getting one extra seat.

Some polls say Reform gets about 15 less.

An MRP with 2000 people cannot accurately predict the d'hondt method. It's complete guess work.

The polls in Wales are all completely all over the place.

There does not seem to be any correlation from one poll to the next.

I think it's become apparent that three of our last four Prime Ministers were chosen because they are easily steered by their handlers.

Boris the trolley, Truss the empty vessel and Starmer the unquestioning.

I thought Starmer's lack of ideology was good but I was wrong.

It's time for Ed.

We’re in the truly weird position where McSweeney had to go for giving the PM the advice to appoint Mandelson and Robbins had to go for not stopping him.

Brexiteers should be praying to every deity available that KS does not resign.

This was funny. He said it on LBC but much more naturally in response to a direct question.

Clearly a rehearsed line he needed to shoehorn here!

Miliband had a good spin on LBC this morning.

#Chaos

I checked this too.

*20 seconds* of Reform logo display.

*No other* party logo displayed.

In local election purdah.

This is not normal. At all.

I went and watched the segment on iPlayer. This is absolutely wild. It’s basically doing a free micro political broadcast for Reform during BBC Breakfast.

6:05am according to Alex.

We need to overwhelm the BBC with complaints about this. This is the most egregious breach of their own impartiality guidelines I can remember. They’re no longer even trying to hide it.

www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Not something I usually do but I've put in a complaint to BBC News about this. It is utterly unacceptable.

Will we be seeing Labour branding for future announcements? Will we fuck.

British politics are in a depressing state and anybody who feels gleeful about recent events, perhaps because they enjoy the excitement of seeing the world burn, or because they dislike one of the people involved, is a short-sighted moron.

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

This is all happening whilst the middle east burns, Ukraine continues to fight a war and Trump is systematically attacking western institutions.

Starmer has been held to a higher standard than any other Prime Minister in my memory but he's made so many poor choices.

So why is Starmer magically supposed to be the only one who made a bad call here?

The vetting not withstanding, what has actually changed since the last time we went through this?

I think he should go but not at the hands of a bunch of hypocritical vultures. Ho hum.

This is really fucking annoying. The vetting is a distraction, I can fully believe Robbins withheld that information.

Mandelson should never have been appointed, however, we've already been through this multiple times. All of the rightwing though it was a good idea, some even saying its genius.

I never get push notifications from BBC iPlayer. It's strange that this is the one that I get...

@sundersays.bsky.social

This is perfect.

Just spent half an hour arguing with people and realised it was a complete waste of my time and had developed into a pile on from the usual sort.

Mandelson should never have been appointed, Starmer's premiership is pretty much crippled and I think it's time to move on.

It's time for Chaos with Ed Miliband.

Keir Starmer is currently in the House of Commons making a convincing case that he was totally kept in the dark over the security officials refusing vetting approval to Mandelson

I think this is why the tech barons are doubling down on surveillance and drones/robotics. They are terrified that their inventions will result in revolution.

The future is increasingly looking like it might be a Black Mirror episode.

BBC defence against accusations of bias here are quite clearly going to be "but we posted the statistics elsewhere so we have covered both angles."

Exactly, they are going out of their way to paint a false narrative whilst covering their own backs by saying "but we have the bbc verify page that gives the picture and if you follow this maze, defeat the magic wizard and jump through five flaming hoops you can find the most relevant statistics."

Jane Dodds, Welsh Liberal Democrat, points out that lives are being saved, and fewer people in hospital because of the 20mph speed limit in Wales

Dan Thomas, Welsh leader of Reform UK, says "we don't know if that is down to speed" #BBCQT

Lisa Nandy is by quite some margin the most useless Secretary of State in government.

It's at the point now where I wonder if she has some lucrative non exec director roles lined up post politics.

I'm always skeptical of BBC-bashing, but BBC News website hasn't reported on the Tice tax scandal since 12 April, when the headline was "Tice £91,000 tax row is 'minor administrative error', party claims".

Part of the performance is not telling people you are performing. Telling people in advance that you're going to be showing your angry side is just a little pathetic.