🚨 NEW: John Healey will announce pensioners will be protected from paying income tax in the Budget The state pension will rise by £489 to £13,036 with the tax-free allowance rising to match

Merlin is so mean to his kitty:( even though the kitty is so nice to him :c

Andy Burnham is the platonic midwit. No wonder he's popular with a portion of the electorate. He's the personification of representative government, in that he represents the British public in all its idiocy, shallowness and unseriousness - but he can emote, so it's fine.

In British Columbia, the left-leaning NDP, headed by David Eby, has just sacrificed two more years in government by calling an early election only to get blown out by the BC Conservatives #oof

Crazy how English is the only Latin script language that doesn't need to deface its letters with diacritics. More proot that English is the greatest language in history

If this polling lead can survive the upcoming budget, then we're getting a snap election. Very little doubt in my mind at this point.

Germany should be bigger. Greece too

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham and John Healey are set to force the approval of Rosebank despite the Energy Secretary's reluctance Minister: "Both Andy and John have decided Rosebank needs to go ahead. The economic and energy security case is so strong" [@DPJHodges]

'Is that a really good use of his time?' 'Raising money for a cancer charity?' The Green Party's @floschechter brands Andy Burnham going on Gogglebox as 'ridiculous'.

Hated the Lib Dems for going into coalition with the Tories. Friends bought me a membership as a joke. 15 years on I've been a Lib Dem councillor for years. Petrified someone will discover my origin story.

Is there a way to see a list of people I blocked?

It sounds crazy but there was a short time (roughly 2006 to 2008) were both Melenchon and Macron were simultaneously members of the french socialist party.

JUST IN: UK police arrest 15 y/o boy, seize his devices, & collect his DNA after he posted photo of a local politician edited to look like a rabbit.