Sarah Pochin strikes again

Runcorn Reform MP Sarah Pochin slammed for 'shameful' World War II post

The Liverpool City Region MP has been made the subject of a community note for her comments

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Tories next local elections leaflet ‘We want Nazis putting out your bins’

James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 7h ago

This is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning

The modern Conservative Party, where Net Zero gets you out and Neo Nazism gets you in

A Reform UK council candidate's account has posted that 'a vote for Labour is a vote for Muslim rule' as well as bizarre conspiracy theories about Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum She is hoping to win a by-election later this month

Merseyside Reform candidate said 'Bill Gates wants to make us all vegan'

Karen Hatch is aiming to be the latest Reform councillor in St Helens, but concerns have been raised about comments linked to her social media account

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Important investigation by @echoblackburn.bsky.social into the worrying situation at Merseycare's main mental health trust

Mersey Care 'falling apart' as staff face 'daily attacks' from patients

More than 3,000 assaults were recorded in the past year as staff describe the Trust's mental health hospitals as "chaotic and dangerous"

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Andy Burnham correctly points out in an interview that small boat crossings are massively down this year compared with last. The comments in the post are filled with people suggesting he is lying about this very clear, data-evidenced fact. It’s almost as though they don’t want it to he true…

There are communities like Speke in Liverpool all over the country, where the worst ravages of austerity have been felt It’s left families feeling like the place they call home has been left behind, forgotten about and that their community is only useful for meeting housing targets

'We've been boxed in, forgotten about and cut off from Liverpool'

Special report: One woman is on a mission to stop the community she loves being left behind and to provide a new future for the children of the area. The ECHO joined her on a local tour to hear about ...

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Tories would have killed for 16%

James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 4d ago

Just thinking back to this Green leaflet.

Bit late to it but just finished Tip Toe from Russell T Davies. Am I the only one that really struggled with this? Found it really oddly jarring, badly scripted, totally implausible in parts (the ending especially) and just a bit rubbish. Surprised because of how great his other stuff has been

Reform just comfortably losing by-elections that they were supposed to have a good chance at winning. Shame.

Pretty remarkable how often the free speech warriors of Reform are now running to the police to report people for hurty words

Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police after...

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FIFA making UEFA into the heroes shows precisely how corrupt and hated FIFA really are.

I’ve never known anything like the escalators at Moorfields Station in Liverpool. Out of order for literal years, they occasionally reopen before very quickly one breaks again, causing more discomfort for commuters. It’s nuts.

Just embrace it

I’ve said for a while that Burnham is an excellent communicator. He’s also quite a normal person (for a politician), which is why this sort of stuff comes naturally to him.

Ben Phillips@benphillips76.bsky.social · last wk.

Love everything about this conversation between the new Prime Minister and a care home resident who didn’t realise he was.

I am Liam

Liam Thorp@liamthorp.bsky.social · last wk.

I was so proud of my confrontation with a man playing loud music on the train that I wrote about it - grumpy face included

Good. More of this, please.

Liam Thorp@liamthorp.bsky.social · last wk.

I was so proud of my confrontation with a man playing loud music on the train that I wrote about it - grumpy face included

Je suis Liam

Liam Thorp@liamthorp.bsky.social · last wk.

I was so proud of my confrontation with a man playing loud music on the train that I wrote about it - grumpy face included

I was so proud of my confrontation with a man playing loud music on the train that I wrote about it - grumpy face included

I confronted a man on the train over annoying new trend

Liam Thorp has had enough of a common public transport menace

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Wrote this a couple of years ago about how the crisis we see in our hospital A&E departments is borne out of the log jams created by the social care mess Burnham gets that we won’t ever avoid grim scenes like this in our hospitals because until something is done about social care

As corridors fill with patients, hundreds cannot leave hospitals

In some cases, it will be weeks before patients can move on and free up badly needed beds

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False reports about migrant care workers came from Conservative party 'research' The Times was forced to issue a correction after claiming 12 workers from Cameroon brought 180 dependants to UK

False migrant care worker data came from Conservative Party

The Times is forced to issue correction after claiming 12 workers from Cameroon brought 180 family members to UK

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Polanski very stupid for what he shared, but Reform’s pivot from bringing a woman who called for hotels full of asylum seekers to be burned down as their guest of honour at conference, to saying the Green leader should be jailed - is a difficult circle to square

The fact that the right-wing press and its political pals are having to make up policies that Burnham hasn't even proposed yet just so they can feign horror, tells us something They are struggling so far

Proud moment this morning. Confronted a man who was blasting out loud heavy metal music from his phone on the train. His excuse was 'I don't have head phones', to which I asked if this meant we all had to listen to his music as well? He turned it off in the end. I received some nods of approval.

Andy Burnham says he wants to end rough sleeping, how difficult will that be & what approach should he take? It’s a subject I’ve been writing about for years in Liverpool & the city provides a good test case for the scale of the problem and what’s needed A long but hopefully useful thread 🧵

Hard to find the words to describe this film. Best way to explain it is that watching it is a remarkable and almost transcendental experience. It takes the idea of epic to a whole new level. Film-making at its most ambitious and exciting. Going to have a pint and try and compose myself.

The rarest of days off with no children to parent. A date with Mr Nolan.

Reform council leader branded 'weird’ patriot superhero' after greeting protestors wrapped in Union Jack

Reform council leader greets protestors wrapped in Union Jack

Cllr George Woodward said it was "wonderful" to interact with protestors who were angry about his decisions to scrap support for Pride and Refugee events

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RIP Bill Oddie