Fertiliser prices are rising dramatically as Middle East supplies blocked 👇
Global implications if sustained:
1) Life less affordable everywhere
2) More conflict in Sub Saharan Africa
3) Greater migration movements
I've done my car on a pothole – it's not fun.
This Labour Government is investing £7.3 billion into local road maintenance.
Now the Reform Leicestershire County Council needs to act, and stop promoting division.
Is life harder for young people today than it was for Baby Boomers?
The answer is yes. Here’s why.👇🏾
Get off fossil fuels. Keep us safe from mad dictators. 👇🏾
This 👇 is what happens when we're stuck in a fossil fuel based economy.
Middle East War -> Higher oil and gas prices -> higher inflation and lower GDP.
This is why we need to get off fossil fuels and onto clean energy.
Members opposite promised us that by torching our relationship with Europe, it would make us richer and stronger.
They were wrong on both counts.
This 👇 is the key chart for understanding British politics atm
We face the reverse-Blair problem. We are holding comfortable centre-ground voters.
But we're losing financially struggling voters to radical parties.
My colleague @chriscurtis94.bsky.social has written a great piece on who we won in 2024 *and* who we need to win in 2029
chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/who-actual...
Have been a bit frustrated by some of the conversation about Labour's voter coalition.
I've written about who the "Hero Voters" actually were, how we won them, and what we need to do to earn their support next time.
chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/who-actual...
The idea the North Sea is some great goldmine waiting to be tapped is entirely at odds with reality.
Exactly this. ⬇️
@jeevunsandher.bsky.social: "Members opposite promised us that by torching our relationship with Europe, it would make us richer and it would make us stronger.
"They were wrong on both counts."
Life is unaffordable for too many.
That is what we are changing.
Gas, oil, and fertiliser prices are rising.
All at a time when record numbers can’t afford a decent life.
Democracies must make life affordable or they won’t endure
We must remember the horrors of Iraq.
We must not repeat them.
Oil price is spiking this morning. Three major implications:
1) Makes life less affordable here. Bad news for democracy.
2) Russia will get more revenue from oil sales
3) Time for us to get off these fossil fuels
The Conservatives don’t want to build solar or wind, but they want to bring back fracking. Shocking.
Good luck Angeliki and @McrLabour.
A vote for Labour is a vote for unity, not division.
Going to be on GB News between 6 and 7
Making a coffee just got cheaper ☕
Sorry, pal
10000000% this 👇
Election betting markets are too thin and the participants are too motivated. It is not a signal of an outcome in the way a share price is.
There's a reason this is in an Urdu advert.
My family grew up in the shadow of partition, miles from the border. We were one of the lucky families - millions more were not.
So no, I won't be accepting dog whistle sectarianism that aims to divide communities in the UK.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social why has your Urdu election advert got pictures of Keir shaking hands with the Indian PM?
Doesn't feel relevant to Gorton and Denton.
I can hear the dog whistle.
Thank you for sharing
For me, the most moving narrative experiences I’ve had has been playing video games.
The Last Of Us and Clair Obscur real standouts. Deeply moving and profound.
Reindustrialising Britain will not bring back the good non-graduate jobs of the post-war era.
Modern, advanced manufacturing is about graduates working with robots 👇 . Not good jobs for school leavers.
Do you remember where you were exactly four years ago?
The Ukrainians cannot forget.
I think they sometimes do this really well!
But I do think that, when it comes to "making life affordable so democracy can survive", they also argue against the means that *can* make life affordable.
The Economist believes in classical liberal democracy. But too often argues against the redistribution needed to make both democracy and liberalism viable.
Life needs to be affordable for liberal democracy to endure.
That's kind of you to say - thank you
