David Beech

Honestly, the hacks with their 'could this be the turn around Badenoch was looking for pieces' are just messy bitches. It's pathetic

Gonna be one hell of a come down for those tories creaming themselves over the fantasy policies/ spending cuts announced today when they are still polling sub 20s in a month's time.

The people are more often than not lovely and they still often have pride but it's for a past version of the place they live in. And a pride in the community they have, helping each other, but honestly, they've been let down. Badly. Lots of places like this, and they deserve better.

The kind of place who I could see voting Reform. And tbh who could blame them? Neglected for *decades*, their probably once industrious area left to go to ruin, no investment, no one actually giving a fuck about the state of the place and the lives people are living. 2/

I travel a lot for work and often it's really nice places and then....it's shit holes. Like the place I'm in today. A ghost town of a shopping centre, awful 70s buildings that need knocking down, no decent jobs, no real prospects if you're young and stay 'home', just awful. 1/

If your entire argument for why Jews should be protected is not because they are human beings and deserve respect but that they have been "a model minority," then congratulations, you have actually implied that if they weren't, that would justify a mass expulsion.

1. A thread about the very serious young woman who told me off for allowing my learning disabled eight year old daughter to dance in front of the big screens at a modern art installation.

Lol no I don't think that's on his cv

Nah, I don't think many Tories would agree with you there. I just think his view on the speech is daft. The fact it went down in the hall is meaningless

When/if Jenrick becomes Tory leader, he may not wish to be reminded of his racist statements. He should never stop being reminded of them.

One of the reasons the tories are no longer trusted on *anything* is they spent years getting drunk on fantastical promises to the electorate that they had no way of actually implementing. They got found out. They remain found out.

If you suspend critical thinking, the concept of maths and facts Lewis makes a good point here.

I’m gonna defend Liz Truss, because I like to be blocked by two or so people every day, and say that her plans were 100 times more reasonable than these, in that she thought she would have enough time to bounce Tory MPs into backing spending cuts. Much less daft than anything Badenoch has said.

Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.

It's a premier inn, and I didn’t have high expectations to start with, but.....well.

Back working in Glasgow for a week and just checked into the hotel and the reception was like '7 nights here? Are you sure about that!?'. Sounds like work is spoiling me this time.

What Badenoch doesn't understand is that many so called rip off degrees are proudly displayed on the mantelpieces of parents and grandparents who were denied the opportunity to enjoy HE.
It's known as aspiration.

Good morning. The big story of the final days of Conservative party conference has been provided by Robert Jenrick, who complained of not seeing a single white face while spending an hour and a half in Birmingham.

The poisonous Robert Jenrick absolutely and inarguably nailed by @stephenkb.bsky.social. Shame on all those inside the Tory party and beyond who make excuses for his race-baiting.

Has Labour accused Badenoch of being Liz Truss mark 2 yet? Can't be long and would be entirely accurate after that speech.

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

Once again, I am asking where on earth the Short money *goes* and what they are spending it on. They are not doing meaningful parliamentary scrutiny. They are somehow less credible, spending-wise, than Reform, who are are a shoestring operation!

Honestly I hate Jenrick more than Farage. Far more sinister because of the speed of his transformation from off-the-shelf Tory mediocrity into dead-eyed National Front race-baiter

I think it will be good for Starmer and Labour to have Jenrick as Tory leader. Badenoch is so bad she is basically entirely irrelevant. Jenrick and what he advocates are so disgusting and so poisonous they cannot be ignored.

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.

Yeah, my point really was it doesn't matter whether he *believes* the racist shit he's coming out with or whether he's just saying it to get votes the effect is the same - racism. We are not disagreeing, really!

All the flak Starmer has had about his approach to Trump and basically every Western leader who has not had a direct falling out with him has ended up doing exactly the same.

Did you read my post? I'm not defending him!

Can a reporter please ask him why? Because they never do when politicians say this. *Why* wouldn't you use those words? Because they are racist? If not, what's wrong with them?

I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'