Badenoch wants to rent prison places. Who from?

PM is on holiday? Boris Johnson was on permanent holiday as PM. Nobody gave a hoot.

£29.2 billion profits in 6 months for the big 4 banks would suggest they could help out with the cost of living. Burnham could call it the ‘Thatcher Tax’, drive the right wing totally nuts.

Your Much Needed Afternoon #TimelineCleanser ... Have fun at work, and if you can, make someone's day.

They did not pay the value when they bought it, they have stolen many times the value. They should be thankful that it is simply Renationalised for nothing, and that they are not thrown in jail and bankrupted.

When #r4today quotes "business" on growth, productivity or the economy, it's quoting one side of a negotiation. The other side (workers, unions, employees) are structurally absent. That's not balance. That's a brief.

Migrant crossings this year are down circa 43% vs 2025 BBC doesn’t mention this until the fifth paragraph of broadcasting Reform saying it’d launch "the largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two" to tackle small boat arrivals Trying to divert attention from Farage..🙄

Reform UK would use Royal Navy to stop small boats

The party's home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says it would be the "largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two”.

bbc.co.uk

The only person who could walk from Ceuta to mainland Europe is Jesus.

Because they don’t stand up for themselves & their unions aren’t very good.

Bring it on Gooners, bring it on.

& once again the Tory performance is the dog that did not bark.

James O’Brien@mrjamesob.bsky.social · 5d ago

Once again, I think we can all agree that the real story here is Kemi Badenoch’s miraculous resurrecting of Tory fortunes.

Helen Whateley is on #BBCR4AQ She’ll be her usual useless self I suspect.

@slduk.bsky.social Howay The Lad indeed. Believe it when I see it though.

Fascists will never let a crisis go to waste.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 5d ago

Italy has suspended the Schengen free movement with Spain following the Ceuta event.

Love the smell of the Reform vote share tanking in the mid afternoon.

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 5d ago

Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 28% (+5) RFM: 23% (-4) CON: 20% (=) LDM: 10% (-1) GRN: 10% (-3) SNP: 3% (=) Via BMG Research, 28-30 Jul. Changes w/ 23-25 Jun.

If Paul Bristow Peterborough Mayor is worried about £ being moved from his area to elsewhere, he obviously hasn’t walked down Bridge Street recently. There is very little left there now.

That Burnham speech has unleashed something, this country is changing.

Grown up politics on Social Care from Burnham. Et tu, Badenoch?

Poor old Philp, ever the fool.

A properly dressed statesman you say?

Luke McGee@lukemcgee.bsky.social · last wk.

Allison Pearson's column criticising Burnham for reviewing pub snacks and making TikTok's is a very odd take for someone who praises Farage and reform so often

Kieran Mullin MP cannot seriously expect us to excuse the Tory record on prison building?

He was going to don khaki & take up arms at one point…

I Am Incorrigible@imincorrigible.bsky.social · last wk.

Farage wants Zack Polanski arrested over a t-shirt joke about a guillotine. Fine, let's hold him to the same standard. His own record on violent rhetoric is far worse, and far less deniable. 🧵 #r4today Source: www.itv.com/news/2026-07...

If only the Tories had been in power from 2010 to 2024. They could’ve built the prisons they are now calling for. If only, if only.

#Radio4 news Allows Dick Tice to spout bollocks about Polanski post without any mention of Lucy Connelly. BBC just a propaganda Chanel now

Yes, but for whom?

Kemi in Wonderland. She is as helpful as ever.

Good, that’ll drive Reform voters to a frenzy.