Srijan

Glad to have helped out in securing this Labour hold, despite various dirty tricks played by certain other parties. Even if polling day was wet, it was very fruitful.

If I totally forgot about being here, the only way I'd return is by pretending nothing of the sort ever happened.

George Galloway rages at Twitter after being labelled as Russian state-affiliated media due to working for Sputnik Radio: Dear @TwitterSupport I am not "Russian State Affiliated Media". I work for NO #Russian media. I have 400,000 followers. I'm the leader of a British political party and spent nearly 30 years in the British parliament. If you do not remove this designation I will take legal action.

Today is by-election day in Rochdale and while there are no "good" candidates I sincerely hope for the sake of our country's wellbeing that George Galloway does not win a seat - and a way to spread his divisive rhetotic.

A screenshot of the website, showing the 1 rating for Manchester United.

A screenshot of the standards found areas, where "Cleanliness and condition of facilities and building" receives a good, but "hygienic food handling" receives improvement necessary and "management of food safety" gets a major improvement necessary.

Manchester United's response: Following the isolated incident in one of our kitchens, MUFC quickly took action to ensure immediate failures were addressed. Kitchen staff were rebriefed on MUFC's food safety requirements, kitchen procedures were reviewed and an external audit of all kitchens was commissioned. Going forwards we have increased the frequency of our audit regime to provide assurance to our valued fans and customers. MUFC serves thousands of meals each month and has an impeccable track record which led to our 5 star food hygiene rating. Following a thorough investigation, it was confirmed a small amount of undercooked meat was inadvertently served during a non match day event. This was an isolated issue and the immediate failures were quickly addressed. MUFC has taken this incident very seriously and wants to reassure our valued fans and customers that we maintain the highest culinary standards.

After raw chicken was served at Old Trafford, Trafford Council have given Manchester United a food hygiene rating of 1 (major improvement necessary), criticising food hygiene and food safety practices

United say this was an "isollated issue" and that they "maintain the highest culinary standards".

The fact that a plastic bag getting stuck on the overhead wires cancelled all trains between London and Crewe/Manchester is a simple but great example of why HS2 is still needed in the north.

Just to be clear, I have not seen anybody who has urged the BBC too unselect Olly Alexander as our Eurovision entrant - in fact, most people are quite happy about it!
At this point we're making up outraged people so we have woke things to write about.

us all seeing twitter down:

quelle suprise

The following is a series of comments on the Downdetector site for Twitter, since Twitter is down Spades Slick: LMFAO HEY FLOWEY tereziHugger: SO WH3N 4RE W3 GONN4 SCR4TCH TH1S S3SSI1ON raptornx01: we'll just move from site to site until we've broken every comment section everywhere and all social media dies. Laika: i am ballin i am faded ETOT: guys let's sing 🎶 UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL - Animation Song Parody ill go first WOAHOHOHOHHOOOOJHHOHOHOHOHHHHHHOOHOOOOHOOOH STORY OF UNDERTALE

The comments under the Downdetector site for Twitter are absolutely giving me life LMAO

Liz Truss Liz Truss Bell GIF Posted from Graysky - get the app to view and post GIFs!

lol @ twitter/x/xitter flopping again

Two protesters set off coloured gas in the Indian parliament building after gaining access to it in a security breach.

Indian opposition MPs sit on the steps of Parliament after being suspended by the government.

🇮🇳India: Opposition INDIA bloc (left-of-centre) MPs will march against the BJP (right-wing) government's decision to suspend 97 lower and 56 upper house MPs.
They asked questions to the union minister about a security breach on 13/12, where two men gained access to the parliament building.

At CPC23, the Conservative Party embraced conspiracy theorists, adopting ideas against net zero and 15-minute cities, both of which are generally popular.
Rishi Sunak sitting down with Elon Musk for an interview proves how far down the rabbit hole they are - and it is bad for democracy in the UK.

I genuinely still can't believe there are people who actually like Flowers, like it sounds incredibly bland and it is serving absolutely nothing
Just like the entire Endless Summer Vacation album, not a single really good song there

The significance of this - if you remember seeing *that* "poll" claiming Muslims were boycotting Labour over Gaza, this shows how wrong you can be.
25% of residents here identify as Muslim. And yet there was basically no change in results. Muslim voters may be unhappy, but stil voting for Labour.

In the safer Trinity ward in Burnley, the Greens lose vote share but continue to comfortably hold on in this three-party battle.

The Greens narrowly hold on to the Lancashire County ward of Burnley Central West despite a three-way battle between them, the Conservatives and Labour.

Labour hold the Earlsdon ward in Coventry on a reduced majority. That leaves Burnley and Lancashire (which is also technically Burnley) to go, both defended by the Greens.

In Herefordshire, Matthew Engel has won the local by-election for the Golden Valley South ward, vacated following the death of the former council. It is effectively a hold, as he is set to serve with the same group of Independent councillors.

In Waltham Forest, Labour hold their councillor in Higham Hill, with 57.3% of the vote. The Conservatives come last and lose their deposit.

Are there any interesting local by-elections tonight? Not really, no.

Am I going to stay up and see the results come in? Absolutely.

Polls are open in Burnley, Herefordshire, Lancashire and Waltham Forest.

No real surprise there.
Wellingborough is pretty safe as a seat last time I checked, will be interesting if Labour can climb the mountain to win here. Of course if they do win it would further prove how zombie the current government is

All of these names sound terrible tbh. But the key issue of course is that the Tories are being deluded by their sphere that there is an appetite for hard-right Trussian economics.

On Sunak's 1 year anniversary as PM, his leadership can only be described as a hot mess. While being generally indecisive, he has allowed himself to be swayed by the most extreme members of the Tories and has firmly rebranded as populist, while at the same time scrapping popular schemes like HS2.