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This was inevitable – I wrote in January that it would happen if Burnham returned to Westminster – but it's happening *quite fast* given he hasn't actually returned yet.
Or even just someone with a regular job who wants to have opinions (or maybe even a kink, or whatever) on the Internet!
"Clearly, we must have misunderstood Trump’s objection to the Obama deal: maybe he just didn’t think it was generous enough to Iran. He certainly seems to have fixed that."
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“Travel south to Westminster” really does have “Prince over the water” vibes. I know that the WCML isn’t great but it’s some way from the Jacobite’s long march to Derby.
Sorry, but: she would have simultaneously been livid at the default bluesky image crop here, and also found it very funny given how inappropriate it is for what is a truly moving tribute post.
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Labour politicians are absolutely obsessed with doing speeches about ignoring their core voters that ironically are *deeply* in denial about who the party's core voters actually are. It's a particularly weird form of gaslighting.
David Higham
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The honest response to the agreement is that it is among the worst ever signed by a US president
'Force everyone to use their real name on social media' my guy please talk to a member of a marginalized or otherwise oppressed group as to why that's a bad idea
badly drawn bee 🐝
Andy Burnham's net favourability rating has slumped to -11, having slipped significantly in mid-late May as Labour leadership rows have intensified
12-13 May
Favourable: 34%
Unfavourable: 30%
Net: +4
14-15 June
Favourable: 30%
Unfavourable: 41%
Net: -11
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Three years now since the last time I saw her.
The problem is I genuinely can't think of a single frontbench labour politician who dares actually say that, or advocate for the party's real core.
Perhaps that's why they're polling so badly and haemorrhaging members, of course.
