Retired journalist. Fighting Tories, Trump and corrupt right-wing populism. EU rejoiner. Reclaiming Labour for centre ground. Change has finally arrived.

Yorkshire and The Humber
As a Labour activist I fought Hezza for years. Challenging 'Tarzan' became an obsession. But on Saturday he almost brought me to tears. One of the most powerful, emotive, pro-Remain speeches I've ever witnessed. A veteran Tory grandee savaging May and the Brexiteers. Devastating!
Michael Helseltine's speech at the #PeoplesVoteMarch shows up Michael Gove & Boris Johnson for the posturing, casually destructive clowns that they are. God help us if either of them becomes PM. #Marr #Ridge
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FFS, we don't have access to them fields because your party sold them off
When the heating is off this winter. Remember we are buying gas & oil from other countries that have access to the same field as we do!
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Cranbrook, Sissinghurst & Frittenden (Tunbridge Wells) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 37.3% (+22.9) 🌳 CON: 31.6% (-14.6) ➡️ RFM: 21.0% (-4.4) 🌍 GRN: 10.1% (-3.9) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Localist. Changes w/ 2026.
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Instead of cancelling the Triple Lock we should cancel the Tax Breaks for billionaires. The Tax Breaks for just 150 people cost more than 10x as much as the Triple Lock. Did you hear that? 15 Billionaires are costing as much as the Triple Lock, but you don't hear the Billionaire Media ranting about that...
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FARAGE 21 WEEKS It's over 21 weeks since the #Clacton MP's SECRET £5m was EXPOSED. #Farage 'RESIGNED as #ClactonMP' to avoid giving HONEST answers. Farage must explain the.. £5m 'GIFT' £1m #Brexit BUNG STILL WAITING FARAGE #FarageTax #FarageLies #FarageRiots #FarageBUNG
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We are nowhere near prepared for the fuckery the Trump administration is going to pull to keep Republicans in power this November.
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NEW: Trump’s approval rating drops to 37% in a WSJ poll, the lowest of any president heading into a midterm election in Journal polls dating back to 1990
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Their president just banned reporters from the White House because he doesn’t like what they’re saying. 😂
God bless America 🇺🇸 the only country left in the world that appreciates free speech . This job has its perks, really grateful to the tailor who offered me this free tailor made suit .
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Would suit me fine.
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Vote Reform, get 10 nurseries closed down Another win for the party of working people
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Hamworthy East By-Election: Labour - 42% (+8.0) Ref UK - 39% (-14) PP - 12% (-0.3) Green - 3% (-0.7) LibDem - 3% (-4.0) IND - 0.5% Labour Gain from Reform UK
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This is no longer merely pressure from pro-EU outside government. The FT reports that Downing Street is actively taking soundings on whether @andyburnham should signal, at Labour conference or in his ten-year plan, that the party’s next manifesto could abandon its prohibitions on rejoining the customs union, single market or eventually the EU itself. That does not mean immediate reentry. But it would mean ending the pretence that Labour’s 2024 Brexit red lines must bind Britain indefinitely. 🔥 The economic pressure is becoming unavoidable. The EU’s “Made in Europe” policy threatens British manufacturing and Burnham’s northern industrial strategy, while remaining outside leaves Britain increasingly required to follow European trade decisions without helping to make them. Burnham has apparently now ruled out a snap election. The real question for conference is therefore whether he will begin preparing the country for the strategic choice ahead: continued managed decline outside our largest market or a route back into Europe.
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Papers, right wingers always going after pensioners triple lock and welfare recipients, NOT SAYING ANYTHING re £13 pound wages by TESCO and others, where to get a LIVING WAGE the TAXPAYER, via BENEFITS pays. The companies should be paying the living wage OUT OF THEIR PROFITS.
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Please keep worrying about hoards of fighting age men and try to forget that small boat crossings are down 44%, deportations are at their highest level in ten years and immigration is 82% lower. I need everyone to be furious, otherwise what is the point of me?
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Lot of chatter about small boat numbers today. These are the latest figures from Migration Watch. The reality is there has been a major fall - despite the good weather - in the numbers. It doesn't fit the narrative. But it's clear that something the Government is doing is having an impact.
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We should come down like a ton of bricks on those who are violent against women – whatever their background. Yet today, you only ever hear women's safety mentioned by right-wing politicians when they are discussing immigration. It's weaponisation. independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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Who the fuck does she think she is? Well off all her life, still claims record expenses - couldn’t be more detached from reality if she tried.
Helen Whateley, daughter of a surgeon (father) and physician (mother), who attended private schools and then Oxford university, "When I was younger, I worked as a waitress, I worked as a cleaner, I did all sorts, being a receptionist, they were not my dream job, but they were a way of earning some money" My view: Whately’s work mattered, but presenting it as a moral lesson for young people is deeply disingenuous. She was the daughter of two doctors, privately educated and Oxford-educated: a young person with a considerable safety net and exceptional access to opportunity. Her experience of taking temporary jobs cannot be used to accuse today’s young people, facing scarce entry-level vacancies, insecure hours, unaffordable rents, ill health and far fewer routes into Europe, of laziness. Anecdotes from a privileged starting point are no substitute for a serious plan to create decent opportunities.
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🚨 BREXIT and TRUMP The @FinancialTimes rightly names the culprits behind our looming food crises. Britain’s food and drink trade deficit has hit £21.1 BILLION in just six months, with export volumes down 11.7%. The FT: “Brexit and Donald Trump’s tariffs push UK’s food and drink trade deficit to £21bn.” This is exactly what I warned about. Make it harder for British food to reach our closest and largest market while opening our own market to increasing global competition, and eventually the consequences appear in the numbers. Food security starts with protecting our ability to produce and sell food.
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