Excellent piece by the Leader of #Rotherham Council, reflecting on the #FarageRiots at #Manvers I have a few more reflections….1/

If any of you lot still have an account in the other place, please follow @a_libutti

Lowe seeking rapprochement with Farage within a fortnight of Burnham’s coronation is no co-incidence. I suspect Reform, Restore and the Tory rump will join forces, and US and Russian money will back them in order to finish off Burnham the lightweight and the Labour Party. I really hope I’m wrong.

Alexa; show me a post that misses the point entirely.

BOB@thebobster420.bsky.social · 4d ago

lol theyll find money for bombs no problem. kids breakfast clubs tho? yeah good luck with that

Pleased to learn that Manchester still has a Labour Mayor. Somewhat less pleased to discover that the new Labour Prime Minister will have around five million quid less to spend on important things like breakfast clubs for kiddies. Or defence.

Please read..... #BookSky

It’s Yorkshire Day. Enjoy thi’sen.

I reckon the Green Party would be doing a whole lot better after this long, scorching summer, if only they’d ditch that prat Polanski and put Caroline Lucas back at the helm.

As my fella said last night: At least Bill Oddie didn’t see Minsmere burn.

Unite the Union members - it's election time for General Secretary. This is an opportunity to get rid of Sharon Graham. Please vote for Simon Dubbins. Members will have got an email ballot from 'Civica Election Services' and a paper ballot. Voting closes noon on 11th August.

The most pragmatic approach would be to tell Trump to Foreign Office, and leave the remaining puddles of oil and gas under the damn sea. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas

PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’

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Oh bollocks and double bollocks. What a complete bastard! It’s burned RSPB Minsmere.

Hundreds evacuated after ‘apocalyptic’ wildfire near Suffolk nuclear power station

Major incident declared with Sizewell B power station monitoring blaze and RSPB nature reserve badly hit

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Cue the stupid and the wicked screaming: “Only those with pre-existing conditions, and those who were going to die anyway, die because it’s a hot summer”.

England on track for record heat-related deaths this summer, official data shows

UKHSA estimates 2,877 fatalities during heatwaves in May and June, almost twice that recorded in 2025 season

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Which nursing home was surveyed to produce this piece of vacuous piffle?

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 6d ago

Latest YouGov royal family favourability trackers (July 2026) William: 76% positive Catherine: 74% Anne: 70% Charles: 62% Edward: 53% Sophie: 51% Camilla: 43% Harry: 33% Beatrice: 30% Eugenie: 29% Meghan: 22% Andrew: 2% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Oh dear, another one of the good guys gone. RIP Bill Oddie.

If you are a Unite member and want more climate action (not less), look out for the ballot paper which should arrive in the next couple of days. Sharon Graham has argued for more drilling in the North Sea and briefed against Ed Miliband because of his work on net zero. Time to dump Sharon!

“The cavalry is coming”….. “our heritage”…. Burnham will be painting roundabouts next.

Given the nature and execution of Burnham’s take-over and events of this week in terms of policy and appointments, it’s difficult not to reach what for me is a very difficult conclusion: It was not for the country. It was not for the Labour Party. It was not even about the next General Election 1/

The cooing from Burnham’s groupies is nauseating! They are trying to give the impression that Burnham replaced a Tory PM, rather than a Labour PM who put in the graft, took the brickbats from a media briefed by his own Ministers, and laid the foundations on which Burnham could build.

Farage can *never* be PM. His greed and needy vanity make him an enormous national security risk. He has no clue how to behave with dignity or probity. The day he gets booted out of public life for good cannot come soon enough. If Clacton has its wits about it, it could be in less than a month.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2w ago

Larry the cat's commitment to public service remains strong.

It is not a Cabinet to unite the Party. It is not a Cabinet that makes the best use of the talent available. It is a Cabinet that sends all the wrong messages; and will not convince a single voter who thinks ‘they’re all the same’ that it is not the case. 1/

Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges. That must of course include being honest about the fact that Brexit has been a disaster for Britain. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM

Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon

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Ah. I see the news that Wes Streeting is now Defence Secretary has reached Moscow.

Russian warship carries out rare live-fire exercise 45 miles off UK coast

Neustrashimy suddenly announced it intended to fire its guns and conducted 30-minute drill south of Plymouth

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I know it's not the biggest news of the day, but I just spotted this... One of Keir Starmer's last acts in Govt is this: Laying legislation that will legalise 'plug-in solar' (aka balcony solar) panels in Britain It means plug-in solar panels do not (legally) have to be wired in by an electrician.

Timeline - SI 2026/848 - Plugs and Sockets etc. (Safety) Regulations 1994 and Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002 (Amendment) Regulations 2026 - Statutory Instruments - UK Parl...

Timeline for Plugs and Sockets etc. (Safety) Regulations 1994 and Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002 (Amendment) Regulations 2026

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Not every immigrant to Europe is a Kylian Mbappe or Bukayo Saka but the vast majority contribute to society - doctors, cleaners, carers, nurses, teachers etc. A truth that I wish more politicians would acknowledge.

Anyone else think Trump will wind up Milei to invade the Falklands when he’s as high as a kite after Argentina win the dodgiest of World Cups?

I do wish folks would stop posting images of their pets on their deathbeds. I have experienced grief, I do not want to vicariously experience it again. And the same goes for the piles of flowers and tat on park benches. Just stop it.

Calm and dignified to the last. Putting the Party before himself on what must have been a very difficult day. A better man than most, and a better Prime Minister than Burnham can ever even aspire to be. Thank you Sir Keir.

What an honour! And so richly deserved. Félicitations Sir Keir. Shameful that your qualities and skills were not appreciated by the political pygmies who will discover soon enough that it takes more than backroom plots to run a country.

Keir Starmer becomes first UK PM to receive France’s Légion d’honneur

Exclusive: Emmanuel Macron honours outgoing prime minister for leadership role in supporting Ukraine

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Leader of Reform controlled Derbyshire County Council “extremely proud” to be associated with this fantastically generous contribution from a family worth approximately £910 million to allow 8 peasants in for free.

Chatsworth House pilots ‘community membership’ free entry scheme

Initiative with Derbyshire Libraries aims to boost access to cultural experiences and ‘champion reading for pleasure’

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