Labour's Bev Craig to be announced as Greater Manchester mayor in next 15 mins or so.
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Love a great many things … wife, kids, my dogs, my campervan, hip hop, Everton, LA Lakers, Greek mythology, craft beer & cider, running, vegetarianism. Dislike racists and cauliflower. Indifferent towards Marmite.
I am old enough to remember when everything they didn’t like was “woke”. Now everything they don’t like is the “Establishment”. It’s hard to keep up.
"This is a genuine first in UK politics. Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket." bylinetimes.com/2026/07/08/n....
Nigel Farage’s 'Pro-Sleaze' By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness
The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam Bienkov
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Now they have introduced PAR (Presidentially Assisted Refereeing) will Everton be doubly shafted next season? VAR has not served us well and now this!
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.President Trump defended that he had asked the head of world soccer’s governing body for the review that ultimately led to the remarkable reversal of a U.S. player’s one-game suspension at the World Cup, saying there “wasn’t a foul.”
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals. It was great to team up with the Insight gang for this one! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
thetimes.com
The Social Media ban for children doesn’t go far enough. It should be extended to those who behave like children online too. X would become a ghost town in no time.
Rob Kenyon announced that Reform will ban ALL knives. This is the apocalyptic future Alanis Morissette was warning us about.
Is tonight the first time most people actually want the Reform candidate to turn up for Question Time? Having seen the Chris Mason interview, the self-proclaimed sexist is out of his depth in a puddle.
So I am half Irish and half English and an atheist. Do I get deported back to Sligo or can I live in some Eire/Nord border town? Only about 1 in 10 Brits would fit the going church, white, all grandparents Brits. So the same volume of the population who believe they have seen a Ghost.
Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com · 2mo ago'A Restore spokesperson has said that people without “indigenous British ancestry and Christian faith” cannot be considered British.' I'm an atheist so LMK where to self-deport to I guess anyway, good piece here on the right-wing online aura harvesters - as.ft.com/r/7beb9e3c-f...
Nine of the more repellent things that Reform UK candidate in the Makerfield by-election Robert Kenyon has posted on social media in recent years.
9 Of The Most Shocking Unearthed Comments From Reform's Makerfield Candidate
Robert Kenyon has faced accusations of misogyny and homophobia as a result of his past social media posts.
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Well that was going out with a whimper. Onwards and upwards Blues!
I may not hold many politicians in high regard but the phrase “they’re all as bad as each other” really annoys me. Nope. Some are wrong ‘uns and objectively worse People are actually going to vote for this guy over Andy Burnham - or splurge their vote on principle rather than stop this horror show
If UK net immigration has dropped by 82% where do the jackboot populists go next? The angry roundabout painters will be requiring fresh meat or more likely a further nudge of their opinions beyond the reach of evidence.
Reform’s Makerfield candidate said King should open up Buckingham Palace for asylum seekers
Reform's Makerfield candidate said King should open palaces for asylum seekers
Robert F Kenyon wrote about Asian men 'assaulting white people en masse'
metro.co.uk
For the “Unite” the Kingdom thing - did the Government ban Foreign agitators or the general public? Could have fit them all in a single Spoons! Have we now moved on from shouting at hotels and painting roundabouts as acceptable? Hope so.
What an absolute legend. All good things and all that. Hope he sticks around as he has been the heart of the club for 17 years … or in other words 7 UK Prime Ministers. 60 Grand ….
County Road Bobblers@cbobblers1878.bsky.social · 3mo agoThank you Seamus 💚
And we are off. Although already seen Reform Councillor runs over Pedestrian when leaving the count. UK’s Florida Man!
Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 3mo agoReform UK Councillors Gone: Updated Jay Cooper has been sacked following his election for holocaust denial.
On the bright side after yesterday. At least we now have the UK’s answer to those “Florida Man” headlines and memes. Expect a constant stream of baffling and troubling headlines starting with … “Reform Councillor …”
A new level of Post Truth Politics. We have reached the point of maths-denial!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoRFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"
OpenAI training only gets their models so far. Sometimes you have to take their training of LLMs into your own hands…
Sacked repeatedly for sleeze. Has close friendship with history’s highest profile human trafficking nonce. Shares Government secrets with said Billionaire nonce whilst a Minister … surely there are no more scandals … Mandelson faces £300 fine for urinating in street www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This weekend ChatGPT told my wife she was washing her hair wrong and informed me I was wearing socks incorrectly. I think we may have reached the “surrender to our robot overlords” phase.
Makes me pretty nostalgic to see Super Mario taking on Bowser again. Let’s-a-go!
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 5mo agoNintendo filed a lawsuit in the US Court of International Trade on Friday, seeking a refund for duties it paid to the US government as a result of President Donald Trump’s tariffs
43 points and it’s barely March. Who even are we anymore? COYBs
Great game this afternoon. Proper back and to stuff. Pickford save at the death though!!!! Great three points! COYBs!!!!
Movie Pitch: Iranian Turkey Bacon. Reboot of the John Candy classic ‘Canadian Bacon’. Plot. US President comes under pressure as allegations that he is a child sex offender surface. So he distracts the world by launching a military action against Iran. Too far fetched for a movie?
First of all be lying if I said I wasn’t joyful Reform were rejected. Despite online noise it’s true that #BotsCantVote Secondly, Starmer is going to struggle to not let this spiral to a May hammering and his own end. Only Labour winner is Burnham - next by-election, blocking him will be harder.
Britain Elects@britainelects.com · 5mo agoGorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.