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Alex Wickham: Exclusive by @ChaplainChloe...

Exclusive by @ChaplainChloe Labour MPs warn Andy Burnham he’ll lose their support if he makes “punitive” welfare cuts. It’s the first warning to the new PM from the party’s left After Burnham’s comments about cutting the welfare bill on Monday, one MP says he has to be careful not to repeat Keir Starmer’s mistake of focusing on savings rather than fairness. Without proper engagement with MPs he risks having cuts blocked by the party, they say Another Labour MP, Kim Johnson, says she’s concerned the appointment of John Healey as chancellor “signals a return to a ‘warfare, not welfare’ approach” “If the new leadership believes it can revive the failed politics of welfare cuts instead of asking the wealthiest to pay their fair share, it will be repeating not only Keir Starmer’s mistakes but fourteen years of Tory austerity,” Johnson said. “If the first instinct of a new leadership is to target disabled people and low-income families rather than challenge the wealth and inequality at the top of society, then nothing has been learned” John McDonnell says welfare reform “must be based upon a strategy of providing positive support to people rather than punitive sanction”

Pat Condell: Yeah, sure...

Yeah, sure. This is the man who said there was no evidence that Muslim rape gangs operated in London. It later emerged that he had read police reports to the contrary. He knew very well that Muslims were raping children in London, yet when repeatedly asked about it in the London Assembly he pretended not to understand the question. In a sane country an elected official who behaved like that would go to prison. The police have now identified more than four thousand historical cases they intend to investigate where the Muslim mayor said there were none, while telling us over and over that we should celebrate diversity - as if there’s any diversity in a Muslim ghetto. The mayor gets chauffeured everywhere in an armour-plated vehicle to protect him from the diversity, while reciting his favourite mantra that diversity is our strength. And a lot of stupid white people believe him, until diversity robs them at knifepoint or rapes their daughter and they find out what it really means. Diversity is such a strength that women can’t go out for an evening without being harassed or molested or worse by diversity with its penis out. If you’re walking in central London, don’t glance at your phone for a second too long or diversity on a bike will snatch it away. Maybe you’ll take the tube, if diversity isn’t urinating on the train. Or catch a bus, if diversity isn’t taking a dump at the bus stop. And then lunch, if diversity isn’t brawling in the food court. And afterwards some shopping, if diversity isn’t rampaging through the store assaulting and looting. In London, and in every other city in Britain we now take immigrant lawlessness for granted. Nobody feels safe on public transport any more, especially not at night. And hardly a day goes by without another stabbing or another rape by another imported tyre-swinger. But crime is falling? No, London is falling. Of course recorded crime will fall if the police, known for their double standards, choose not to record it. The population of London is now barely one third white because white people are moving out to get away from the violent diversity. In a generation or so at this rate London will be indistinguishable from Karachi or Lagos, and this Pakistani Muslim mayor can’t wait to see it happen.

Liz Webster: Labour is not going to win again...

🔴 ✅ “Labour is not going to win again by out-Reforming Reform or out-Greening the Greens. Labour has to have its own agenda.” @campbellclaret is right. Chasing Nigel Farage only keeps the debate on his territory. Labour has to define its own vision for Britain’s future. That means restoring economic growth, rebuilding Britain’s confidence and strengthening our security. 🔥 Brexit has weakened all three. The answer isn’t to refight 2016, wr must build a new relationship with Europe based on security, resilience and shared prosperity. Defence. Energy. Food. Supply chains. AI. Trade. Food security is national security. Britain needs a government prepared to say that cooperation with our European neighbours is common sense/survival strategy in a far more dangerous world. The UK needs a credible plan to make Britain stronger again.

Alex Wickham: Andy Burnham says he’ll make it harder...

NEW: Andy Burnham says he’ll make it harder to claim benefits, vowing to “get really serious” about cutting the welfare bill and setting up a clash with Labour MPs “It's about changing the nature of the support and making some of the support conditional upon people taking opportunities that are presented in front of them,” he tells @BBCLauraK “Let me just say something more though about what you're driving at, which is the welfare bill. I think we've got to get really serious as a country at getting the welfare bill down” There are no details yet on how he intends to do it but it will be a major challenge Keir Starmer’s efforts to reduce the welfare bill by just £5 billion sparked a huge rebellion from Labour MPs - organised by Burnham supporters including Louise Haigh - from which he never recovered
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