Naomi Smith

Who will rid us of this flatulent beast?

Here’s a graph of my pension. It’s a relatively risk adverse, & divested from fossil fuels etc. You can’t predict fluctuations in the market, but it’s a good illustration how much damage is being done to people’s savings for the future by one man repeatedly doing stupid things.

It never rains... Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 5 March · 1h 13m

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Reeves (and the rest of the world) tries to plot an economic course, while Trump tries to blow her (and the rest of the world) off it.

When chaos reigns is there any point to having a plan?

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Yes, Keir Starmer must do better and go faster in bringing Britain closer to Europe. Here’s how to reset his reset | Naomi Smith MPs warn the plan so far lacks direction and drive, but there are four clear ways to really move on from our disastrous Brexit, says Naomi Smith of Best for Britain

“Four ways to a better, happier, more successful You” - no, not a pre-beach diet, but some really good advice for the Labour gov’t.

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Yes, Keir Starmer must do better and go faster in bringing Britain closer to Europe. Here’s how to reset his reset | Naomi Smith MPs warn the plan so far lacks direction and drive, but there are four clear ways to really move on from our disastrous

👏 Best for Britain CEO Naomi Smith (@pimlicat.bsky.social) lays out exactly how Starmer can go further and faster in the UK and EU relationship.

🇬🇧🇪🇺 A closer UK and EU is a stronger and more united Europe.

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May 2026 elections: Weekend voting to be piloted in the UK Findings from the experiment will be published later this year and inform future electoral reform.

Voting on a Thursday, when many people are at work, has some pretty obvious downsides – so it's great to see the government trialling early voting in Tunbridge Wells, Cambridge, and North Hertfordshire in the coming elections. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If it's not bone spurs...

The baseless innuendo of “family voting” The extraordinary decision by Democracy Volunteers to shroudwave about “family voting” for the Gorton and Denton by-election has damaged both trust in the political system and harmed ra…

Next time anyone you speak to says, 'yeah but family voting', make sure you've read this and have it up your sleeve.

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Loving the work of the South Park gang here www.draftbarrontrump.com

The new head of policy for Reform UK James Orr has been an outspoken critic of abortion rights.

How can we possibly trust Reform UK to protect women's rights?

Only eight days to go! Meanwhile, there’s been a lovely review in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/book...

The baseless innuendo of “family voting” The extraordinary decision by Democracy Volunteers to shroudwave about “family voting” for the Gorton and Denton by-election has damaged both trust in the political system and harmed ra…

Next time anyone you speak to says, 'yeah but family voting', make sure you've read this and have it up your sleeve.

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Closer alignment with Europe is best economic insurance policy Campaigners have stressed that closer alignment with Europe is the "best insurance policy" for the UK economy, after Cha

Naomi Smith, Best for Britain CEO:

“The best insurance policy for our economy is closer alignment with our partners in Europe for all industrial and service sectors which will not only help ease the cost of living for UK consumers, but also shield the EU from the worst of Trump induced volatility.”

Three weeks of mass exposure to Matthew Goodwin’s worldview have not done the Reform brand much good

Very good speech, very well delivered.

Mahmood staring at Reeves like the ghost of death sitting uninvited at a family feast.

RefUK 23% (-1)
GRN 21% (+4)
LAB 16%(-2)
CON 16%(-2)
LDEM 14%(nc)

Greens overtake Labour to take second place in latest YouGov poll. Two years ago I predicted they’d regularly overtake the LDs in national vote share but this is quite something

(What's rather odd about the news is that govt buried it part way through a speech and doesn't look to have done a press release about it.)

Excellent news with very welcome u-turn by government in House of Commons this evening, pledging to restore the Electoral Commission's independence. Democracy is strengthened by having an independent regulator.

(Labour had previously omitted from its legislative plans acting on this.)

This is an excellent discussion between two people who really seem to know their subjects. Highly recommended.

Labour must include PR in its new Bill, otherwise it's only representation for SOME of the people - West Country Voices The government’s Representation of the People Bill, introduced on 12 February, has been hailed as the biggest expansion of democratic participation in a generation. Cleaner political finance rules and...

"While votes at 16 is a genuinely historic step, how motivated will young voters feel when, for so many, their vote will almost certainly change nothing?

The most powerful thing we could do to engage all voters is to give them a system in which their votes actually matter."

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Whilst 1 in 5 trust Reform UK most to deliver the kind of change they think Britain needs, twice as many (2 in 5) think they would be most likely to deliver the kind of change the country does not need.

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

Reform UK is in big trouble – which means it will fight dirtier than ever The Gorton and Denton results should encourage the government to seriously look at introducing an alternative vote syste

Accusations of cheating and sectarianism show that Reform UK pose a danger to our democracy, even in defeat.

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Clip from BBC Politics North:

A GP describes how #LongCovid ended her career after she needed a wheelchair within a year of contracting the virus.

She says patients are being forgotten by politicians and the NHS as the last dedicated clinic in the area prepares to close.

One of the best foreign policy podcasts around - do subscribe if you want proper insight from experts rather than just political commentators about what's happening in the world and how it might affect us.

I do struggle to understand Shabana Mahmood: if this was what she came into politics to do, why was it the Labour Party that attracted her? Throughout most of the last 20 years, the Conservatives would've been a much more obvious fit.

If it's not, why's she doing it so zealously?

But it's not permission for intercepting missiles - which we were already doing - it's permission for blowing up launch sites. The offensive/defensive distinction is very blurry.

We know how this plays out. Mass demonstrations, increased terrorist activity, inflation, interest rate freezes/hikes, and a total failure to plan properly for regime change.