@tlrailuk.bsky.social had the extreme displeasure of paying 29 pounds for a day return to London from Redhill. first train cancelled, 2nd train held at Merstham because of fare dodgers. oh, and i’m having to stand the whole journey. #ripOffBritain

it is a crowded field.

#Starmer promised he’d clean up #no10. maybe this was all McSweeney but maybe not. #KeirStarmern has presided over the same kind of corrupt boys club as #borisJohnson

@uklabour.bsky.social get rid of #Starmer now. Get #Rayner in as deputy and you will lose less votes in the #localElections than if #KeirStarmer stays. He is just not smart enough to deal with the politics or the job

This week I’ve been challenging the Govt’s sinister attempts to abolish the right to choose a jury trial.

Here is the Minister confirming that the right to elect a jury trial IS being completely abolished with this Bill!

A fundamental cornerstone of our justice system established in 1670: gone.

But he needs to get control of his team, who keep doing things in #Starmer’s name that come back to bite him in the arse. He needs a very skilled politically savvy Chief of staff to have his back and be brutally honest and up front with the #PM.
so far he’s been a manager not a leader.

could be, but you’d think a serial bullshitter would be better at it. 😀

Quite possibly, but in Feb, Starmer spoke in the #HOC like he'd been thoroughly briefed on the security vetting and that Mandelson had passed. The #PM was either bullshitting then, or he's bullshitting now. How is it possible for him to have been telling the truth then and now? it isn't.

@thenewsagents.co.uk Excoriating analysis of #KeirStarmet from @lewisgoodall.com today. Doubly effective due to the sotto-voce hotel voice today.
If next year's podcast awards have a "political death by podcast' award, then this is surely a contender.

I don't think #Starmer is a liar, I don't think he's particularly right wing or malicious, I think he's trying to do the best job he can with an economy that has been f****d by the Tories and now Trump.
I do think he is just not competent enough to be #PrimeMinister.
The talent cupboard is bare.

Do you think the electorate care about Mandelson revelations? I don’t, beyond the media’s extraordinary need to hurt Starmer I don’t see the story. Who was hurt? What was lost? What laws were broken? No one cared about the appointment when it happened remember.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social

I didn’t realise there was anyone else on here, aside from me of course. 😜

There are two difficult economic decisions the #UK should take to make a serious attempt to fix the public finances.
1) raise the basic level of income tax by 2%, and simultaneously reduce the student loan repayment from 9% to 7%. and 2. make the 3x pension lock only for those renting. #rachelReeves

sadly it’s because they’re in purdah period before the election, i’m sure the normal fawning service will resume after May 7th

#Starmer could and should say something like this.

give it time.

The Tories basically spent North Sea Oil income on unemployment Giros!

am I the only person in the world who hates the stink of cannibis? Even on a train. Utterly vile.

That’s pretty lazy. Farage seeks to divide people by othering, and Polanski is trying explain why its not others who are at fault, but a system built to reward those who already have wealth and power

#Trump and #Vance are just incompetent babies compared to #Iran and #israel They have absolutely no idea what they are doing. Total morons.

not quite a handbrake turn but not far off. A tough flight for some folk.

I’m by no means a Corbyn fan but this was just not appropriate or funny. #HIGNFY

This is because of the complete failure to articulate a vision, set within a narrative, and linked to delivery/policy success.

The “vision stuff” that Starmer reportedly thinks is all bullshit compared to delivery, but is actually *critical to leadership and public understanding of delivery*

gas: opening Rosebank might provide 0.6% of our gas reserves, Jackdaw a little more. Oil: N sea oil is heavy crude, useless for transportation needs, and we can’t refine it. both sold on open market by private companies over which we have no control because #Tory’s pissed #UK’s wealth up the wall.

Inevitably #US will have to reign in #Israel or go back to war, and #Trump doesn’t have the stomach for that. Israel know this which is why they are massacring #lebanon today. But hey what’s an extra day or two of killing civilians to #netanyahu

it’s about time #PresidentZelenskyy posted a video explaining to #Trump that the #US has no cards to play. #iranWar

#whiteHousePressBriefing is for an audience of one. #karolineLeavitt knows with every breath #Trump will judge her. just another part of the senile orange madman’s echo chamber. why do networks even bother carrying it.

Today #Israel will be looking through the ceasefire deal, and searching for any get out they can leverage to carry on their war in #Lebanon. Israel’s allies must lean very hard on Tel Aviv to back off.

Completely right Zack. #Starmer is #mia as usual, when the hard things have to be done. I don’t fins #Streeting particularly impressive but his clarity on the #wireless festival this morning was refreshing

I feel much more anger towards the British pundits & politicians who failed to understand the depravity & derangement of Donald Trump than I do the ones who failed to understand the idiocy of Brexit. But it doesn’t really matter because they’re exactly the same bloody people.