Will Jennings📉🗳️

Good morning Bluesky #greysky

New YouGov poll finds that for the first time, a majority of Americans disapprove of Trump *strongly.* His overall approval is down to 38%, a new second-term low.

When is the last time a majority has disapproved strongly of a president?

That is top notch, Jim Pickard would be proud of that, if it had a puddle.

Good morning Bluesky #greysky

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Row erupts in Southampton over Itchen Bridge being lit up in Pompey colours Civic leaders have been accused of ignoring safety advice over plans to install adaptable lights on the Itchen Bridge.

This is a fantastic local news story...

Big movements in our voting intention this week
Greens hit at our highest vote share, Labour their joint-lowest
Reform lead Tories by 10

➡️ REF UK 29% (+1)
🌳 CON 19% (-1)
🌹 LAB 18% (-4)
🔶 LIB DEM 14% (nc)
🌍 GREEN 14% (+3)
🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
N = 2,010 | 27/2 - 2/3| Change w 23/02

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This is such an important point. Two people gain from this war: one is Netanyahu and the other is Putin.

I see the ‘patriotic’ parts of the press are delighting in a US President having a go at the PM.

NEW: Steve Kornacki breaks down the first incoming votes in the Texas Senate primaries. nbcnews.app.link/YqFnYLBHd1b

Most Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s attempts to appeal to centre-ground voters may cause tension in his party, according to Hope Not Hate

Just over half (54%) of Reform UK members want ethnic minority British citizens born abroad to be encouraged/forced to leave. This drops to 1/5 (22%) for British-born children of migrants. A Survation survey of 629 Reform members, commissioned by Hope Not Hate

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I’m struck by how every day the admin is like “whoever could have foreseen these consequences?!” when the consequences thus far — evacuations, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rise in gas prices, etc. — are all the literal most obvious consequences.

SCOOP: A suspected Iranian drone attack hit the CIA’s station in Saudi Arabia in what would amount to a significant symbolic victory for the Islamic Republic as it lashes out at U.S. targets and personnel across the Middle East, sources tell Ellen Nakashima and me

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

Trump's "strong approval" has hovered between 20-25% since July, but more of the remaining 75% are moving toward "strong disapproval" since then. Although his base support is solid and unwavering, there is still plenty of room for stronger opposition to his agenda.

Amazing and cool observation

Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump all born the same year.

The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.

Maybe it's just me, but someone trying to sell me low price political risk insurance wouldn't fill me without great confidence about sending my ships through the Gulf. Sounds a bit dangerous! If I'm a sailor I like it even less!

this is the sound of panic setting in

Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump

Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?

NEW YouGov poll: Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States 50% support 39% oppose Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE Moderates +6 23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE

NEW YouGov poll:
Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States

50% support
39% oppose

Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE
Moderates +6

23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE

The good news is that this strategy never results in blowback.

The good news is that this strategy never results in blowback.

He quit Reform UK for Restore Britain last week
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Is anyone clear on what, if anything, the US is doing to get Americans out of the Middle East?

Are they seriously just waiting for people to contact an embassy and hope for the best? Because it looks like there was no real evacuation plan before Trump escalated a huge conflict in the region.

Somebody was saying that watching establishment Democrats learn that saying obviously true things about foreign policy is popular is like watching a toddler take its first steps

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

It's a common refrain for ministers to note Nigel Farage's absence from the Commons, but the stats do seem to back it up. So far this year he has spoken five times and voted seven times. As a very rough, smaller-party comparison, Ellie Chowns of the Greens has spoken 46 times and voted 24 times.

This wasn’t a take on being in a war zone that I was expecting and yet…