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Adam Brooks: I’ve got lefties bombarding me en...

I’ve got lefties bombarding me en masse… comparing my sign barring Labour MPs, to the intimidation, vile abuse and forced expulsion of Katie Hopkins from an East End pub 🤦🏻‍♂️😂 Can these morons be any more stupid ?!! Labour MPs have enacted policy that is killing pubs, of course I’ve barred them. But to compare that to grown men harassing a woman out of a pub? YOU PEOPLE ARE DERANGED

David Poulden: Let them win. Let Andy Burnham...

Let them win. Let Andy Burnham take his little by-election. Let Labour keep tearing at what’s left of this country its history, its borders, its sense of itself. The British people won’t wake up while they still have something to lose. They’ll only stir once their identity has been stripped, their culture diluted, and their freedom reduced to a memory. And when that day finally comes… they won’t be looking for the ones who warned them. They’ll be looking for the ones who were ready.

Bushra Shaikh: Non-White Brits are fully entitled...

Non-White Brits are fully entitled to criticise their country. Too many people on the right treat any criticism from ethnic minorities as evidence that we're anti-White or somehow don't belong. That attitude often stems from a deeper belief that ethnic minorities are guests in Britain rather than fellow citizens with an equal stake in the country's future. The reality is that most of us were born here. This is our home. We have every right to celebrate what Britain gets right and to speak out about what it gets wrong. Criticising your country isn't a sign that you don't belong; it's often a sign that you care enough to want it to do better.

Liz Webster: Senior Brexit civil servant Philip Rycroft...

🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Senior Brexit civil servant Philip Rycroft: Public opinion is moving towards rejoin (~53% in recent polls). We should have an honest national debate about it. Brexit freedoms have proved less liberating than promised. No sign of major economic outperformance. Geopolitics (Russia, unstable US) make European cooperation more important. “That is the debate we need to have.” Even insiders who delivered Brexit now see the need to rethink our long-term relationship with Europe.

Liz Webster: OMG This is totally vile...

"😮 OMG This is totally vile. Reform councillors in Makerfield posing with a banner saying they’d “rather vote for Jimmy Savile than Labour”. This is gutter politics and shows the desperation. Makerfield voters deserve better than this toxicity. A strong result for @AndyBurnhamGM on Thursday is the antidote: serious, decent leadership focused on communities, high streets, and a proper British food & farming plan. #AndyForMakerfield #SaveBritishFarming"

Alex Wickham: NEW: How would Andy Burnham...

NEW: How would Andy Burnham govern? Labour’s big fear is he can’t live up to his promise of change and he ends up not much different to Keir Starmer. The levers available to him to go big on policy are limited. Binding himself to the manifesto and fiscal rules means he cannot significantly raise taxes, borrow or spend more. Only more incremental fiscal options are possible unless he changes his mind. He will pursue soft-left social justice policies: social care, a long-term investment plan, more public ‘control’ of industry, council houses, bus fares, some small tax rises on the wealthy. All good stuff for a Labour PM, but so far there’s not really a big idea there that can turn around Labour’s fortunes in three years. And there’s no detail yet. Like Starmer, Burnham has judged he needs to be tough on immigration to stop Labour’s traditional working class vote going to Reform. He wants more detention of asylum seekers, backs Shabana Mahmood’s policies and wants to try welfare cuts again. His language around the Henry Nowak case was fascinating: suggesting banning the kirpan and that Britain does have two-tier policing except in Manchester under its ‘no nonsense’ police chief. Soft-left social justice + tough on immigration… trying to appeal to both right and left to prevent votes bleeding both ways… within the confines of the fiscal rules and manifesto… sounds quite a lot like Starmer. There have been some red flags during his campaign. A lot of Starmer-esque u-turns. The Waspi gaffe. And loose talk, saying repeatedly he’ll “look at” various policies that would cost billions, like a pensioner tax cut, with no plan to pay for them. There are signs of tension among his supporters already. Some backers suggest his team has struggled to agree either on a policy platform or a political strategy for how they should approach the days after Makerfield. We have no idea who his chancellor will be. Or his No10 team. Or his top cabinet posts. His political operation is very limited: Louise Haigh, Ed Miliband, Miatta Fahnbulleh, Josh Simons. That’s a huge amount of uncertainty over someone who wants a coronation within weeks. Burnham will want to focus on domestic policy and not as much on foreign policy as Starmer. But that’s easier said than done. He’d be PM in Trump’s world and the Ukraine war endgame would happen on his watch. Foreign policy may well define a Burnham premiership whether he likes it or not - just like Starmer. No doubt Burnham is a better communicator. He seems at ease with working class voters and says all the right things. Maybe that’s enough reason to change. But with the constraints he faces, can he deliver the radical change he’s promising, or is he setting himself up to let voters down like so many PMs before him?
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