Water is good test of a bigger question for this Government: when continuity becomes the greater risk than rupture, are we prepared to face it? The great promise at the heart of this Government’s project is to give people and places back the power and agency they rightly feel they have lost. 1/2

Kiran Stacey@kiranstacey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Don’t abandon your promises on public control of water companies, warn Burnham allies, as details begin to emerge about the PM’s 10-year-plan. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Whether Burnham's centre can hold political and economic strategy together is the whole ballgame. @louisehaighmp.bsky.social is right to call for a 'beefed up' economic function in No.10, while @futuregovforum.bsky.social's redesign puts strategy at its heart. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Forget Burnham's pick for chancellor – No 10's grip on strategy will be far more important

Who Andy Burnham will send to the Treasury has become the consuming question of Westminster’s frenzied speculation.

politicshome.com

An Honest Day and Manchesterism have been cast as two competing political and economic visions for the country. Matt Lawrence of @cmmonwealth.bsky.social and I have written in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social saying the future will be shaped by both: www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

Two visions for Labour's future

Labour is being told to pick a side in a battle of economic arguments. We say the future will be built from both

newstatesman.com

This week we released An Honest Day - written by @markmcvitie.bsky.social with @chriscurtis94.bsky.social - to outline a new economic settlement for Britain. Written about today in @theguardian.com by both @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social and Andy Beckett. Read it in full - www.labourgrowth.co.uk

We can spend the next days and weeks gnashing our teeth and running in circles, or we can get serious about what voters are actually telling us. Let’s get to work.

Labour Growth Group@labourgrowth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

@chriscurtis94.bsky.social speaks to the Today programme: Last night should tell us voters aren’t simply moving left or right. They’re moving away from a broken system that punishes grafters and rewards grifters. We’ve been working on what this party needs: a plan to change that.

Wooo

Labour Growth Group@labourgrowth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What country are we trying to build? Are we for those putting in the graft - innovating, working, training, investing for the future? Will we take on the grifters - skimming, ripping-off, gaming the broken system? This is what we’re building. More soon. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

For this weekend’s read, I’ve take a step back from the leadership drama to ask - what would a change actually look like? Many MPs are deeply dissatisfied with the government‘s record. What’s the alternative - and who are the Labour factions who will shape it? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Left or right, Keir? Labour factions jostle for influence in post-McSweeney No 10

Soft left senses chance to push Starmer into progressive pivot, but leftward turn would be fiercely resisted by some

theguardian.com

“No wonder the public are sick of us all." Superb from @markmcvitie.bsky.social on Peter Mandelson and the moral decay of Westminster.

Mandelson isn’t an aberration, but the relational logic of the machine working as intended. Moral conviction has been devalued in both our people and our arguments. This is the inevitable result. We must start saying what for too long we have been ready to think. open.substack.com/pub/futureof...

The Things We Think and Do Not Say

What Mandelson tells us about the death of the old politics

open.substack.com

@pollybillington.bsky.social Just spoken powerfully in HoC to something that I've felt deeply throughout my years working in and around politics - far, far too often absolute lack of character or moral deficiency is excused in the name of either alleged talent or personal loyalty.

"The status quo is economically and morally bankrupt. So, we’re changing it.” - @torstenbell.bsky.social We seek a country where police can respond properly to crime and pensioners don't sit for hours in hospital corridors. That's the Britain we're building. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Investment in UK’s crumbling public services is pro-growth, says pensions minister

Exclusive: Torsten Bell defends Labour’s spending plans, saying ‘the status quo is economically and morally bankrupt’

theguardian.com

New nuclear has a key role to play in delivering the transformative economic potential of the AI revolution while reaching Net Zero. SMRs should be able to go where demand is greatest so that growth is shared across every part of the country. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Go nuclear in search for growth, Labour MPs urge Starmer

Backbenchers tell the prime minister to approve the proposed Sizewell C plant and build mini-reactors around the country

thetimes.com

I’ve only seen the trailers and i already know my position in the Brutalist discourse is ‘this is fucking amazing’

Very much feels like the vibe in the last 24 hrs of geo-politics

In 2025 we are cancelling endless decline

Labour Growth Group@labourgrowth.bsky.social · 2y ago

Co-chair @chriscurtis94.bsky.social told @skynewss.bsky.social the PM was absolutely right to call on regulators to join the effort to bring growth back to the UK.

Prancer Dancer Dasher Vix.. Wait that’s not what we’re doing here is it?

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 2y ago

Greene Harris Le Carre Dickens Wodehouse

Our new Chairs @chriscurtis94.bsky.social and Lola McEvoy spoke to @geraldinescott.co.uk at @thetimes.com about why its crucial that voters feel the effects of growth and the need for bold solutions to cut through a tangled web of broken systems in the UK. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Make voters feel richer or lose like the Democrats, Keir Starmer told

An influential group of Labour backbenchers has warned the prime minister that his focus on growth is not enough to avoid an electoral wipeout in five years

thetimes.com

Man #1: ‘The dumbest, most asinine take on something complicated ever commited to words’ Man #2: *One hundred* percent brother

We wrote to Rachel Reeves urging her to make this ambitious decision. Leaving behind the failed Tory fiscal framework and boldly investing in Britain’s future is crucial to growing our economy. We’re proud to back a Labour Chancellor bringing growth back to the UK 👇

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2y ago

Rachel Reeves confirms change to UK fiscal rules to help fund £20bn investment https://www.ft.com/content/091ca9be-e18b-4fd4-8311-f586b8aaa936

We're urging the Chancellor to adopt a fiscal framework that recognises the value of investment at the coming Budget. It is time to break with the failure of the past and invest in Britain's future. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour MPs urge Reeves to spend tens of billions more on ailing public services

About 70 colleagues have written to chancellor ahead of budget pleading for her to commit to rewriting fiscal rules

theguardian.com

Genuinely feeling very proud to be helping @chriscurtis94.bsky.social bang the drum for MPs to do their bit to build the homes this country desperately needs. And we are very much just getting warmed up. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Labour 'Yimbys' urge MPs not to be Nimbys over housing

Members of the new Labour Yimby group have said MPs should 'loudly and proudly' support housing projects in their areas

inews.co.uk

Gonna need verification on this sight in a hurry. Perhaps some sort of check or mark in a calmingly official colour scheme...

a close up of a person holding a gun with the words `` it 's '' written on the bottom .

ALT: a close up of a person holding a gun with the words `` it 's '' written on the bottom .

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Bluesky@bsky.app · 2y ago

Oh hello Britain 😳 That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now. Welcome, and invite a friend to join us! bsky.app/download

God I hope this thing works.