Steve Bibbing

Who buys albums anymore? Very different era!

Making Graham Potter do a press conference on Friday to preview a game on Monday he was not going to take charge off because, in between, he was going to get the sack, is staggeringly shithouse behaviour by West Ham’s board.

The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies

The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts

The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies

The best three defences in the Premier League so far this season according to 'xG'....... Liverpool have scored against and beaten all three - scoring 8 goals in the process.
Some start considering we haven't really played well in any of the games = promising
#LFC #FPL #FPLCommunity #YNWA

I think yesterday's Bruno Fernandes performance was the absolute quintessential Bruno game that he will struggle to top all year. In the *same game* he somehow managed to prove right both those who hate him, and those who love him as an FPL asset.

This doesn’t feel very free speech-y

It’s a comparatively small thing, but the total lie about Roshanara Ali evicting her tenants so she could raise the rent on her property is now an accepted fact. If you do not fight back immediately, aggressively and loudly against the liars, this is what happens. Labour has four more years of it.

What exactly did she do?

Why is that a resignation offense?

Compared to the craziness the Tories got up to this really is nothing.

Did she purposely move the tenants out to put the price up or was it just incidental?

What price would you have him at @fpl.page?

Such a great signing for Sunderland

This is a huge achievement for the Labour government in its first year. Number of children accessing funded early education & childcare has increased by 33% in a year, reaching 1.7 million, an increase likely related to government initiatives aimed at expanding access to early education & childcare

The hard part about doing propaganda is that the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday

Tedious to point this out, but:

- When a tongue-tied Biden said "President of Mexico" instead of "Prez of Egypt," it was a several day story.

-Hours after Trump says whoever appointed J Powell made a big mistake (it was him), the episode appears not to merit a story on any national-media sites.

A reminder that an annual salary on minimum wage is now £25,396.80

Yvette Cooper shreds Chris Philp,

"The shadow home secretary Chris Philp just wants to pretend that the last 8 years never happened"

"When he was an immigration minister, overall migration near trebled and small boat crossings increased ten fold"

Chris Mason: Reform's momentum is making the political weather

‘Party given endless airtime and never held to account influencing politics,’ says member of the media who gives that party endless airtime and never holds them to account

“We accept genuine asylum seekers because it is right that we offer a haven to those in most dire need."
Yes, it is right; and I am glad to hear a British Prime Minister say so.

The kicker is, you made all those boxes they are hoarding.

Will Sir Keir Starmer be the UK’s Joe Biden? Part 2 Continuing thoughts on whether we are sleepwalking, or even racing, into a Reform UK government

Will Sir Keir Starmer be the UK’s Joe Biden? Part 2
Continuing thoughts on whether we are sleepwalking, or even racing, into a Reform UK government

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100%

This chart i think is fascinating for where the Govt goes next. Looking just at Labour defectors - e.g. those who voted Labour in 2024 and now say they'd vote elsewhere. The plurality (40%) think they've been more right-wing than expected, 30% the same and 19% more left wing

“When you want to say something rightwing but actually looking at who is eligible to claim benefits is too much like hard work” - this policy is the most Badenoch era policy we’ve yet seen.

What are the two biggest criticisms of politicians as a class you hear from the public?

1. You can’t trust them
2. They can’t/won’t do anything to help people like me

Labour (unintentionally) provided evidence that both of those arguments were correct within less than a month of taking power.

Reform's Darren Grimes Accused of Lying After Police Deny Telling Him Not to Hold Council Surgeries for 'Security' Reasons EXCLUSIVE: Local police have rejected the Reform UK deputy council leader's claim that they advised him not to meet his constituents

Reform UK's Darren Grimes tells constituents he can't hold surgeries with them because he's been advised by the police not to do so for "security reasons".

The only problem? Police spokesperson says this is entirely untrue and they gave no such advice

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Keir Starmer must know that it simply can't go on like this His Labour Party is behaving like a minority government at the tail end of its existence

Or as @iandunt.bsky.social puts it....

No point banging on about the whips or parliamentary authority. Yesterday was much simpler than that. The policy made no sense. It was irrationally conceived, irrationally formulated and irrationally promoted. It made no fucking sense share.google/kiktu2Q96

Exactly this.

Getting lost in all of this, is the fact that this is how parliament (of any majority) should work?

If the government puts forward poor policy, that will make the lives of a group of citizens worse off unjustly, with no decent justification.... that should get voted down/ amended

Remarkable commitment to misjudging every situtation

Absolutely right @andyburnham.bsky.social 👏

All this will do is legitimise Farage as he moves more centre ground in some areas to win votes....