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Steven Fielding retweeted
Cold War Steve
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Are you any more likely to be kicked out of Parliament in the last 100 days?
Nigel Farage
@Nigel_FarageOct 27
Has your life improved in the last 100 days? In any way? Have your bills gone down? Do you feel richer? Safer? Has your local community improved at all? For the average person, the answer is a resounding NO. Burnham is making tweaks as broken Britain slides further into terminal decline. He’s a talker, not a doer. He hasn’t changed the country one bit so far, and isn’t going to. We need fundamental change - and that's what I will bring. In our first 100 days, we will: Put the Royal Navy in the Channel and stop the boats forever. Begin the mass exit of over 1 million people who illegally entered Britain. We will make it impossible to live here illegally, so many will leave voluntarily. But, make no mistake, the deportation of those who don’t will be enforced. We will increase your tax-free personal allowance from £12,570 to £15,000 to keep money in your pocket. We’ll reduce your annual energy bills by £250. We’ll charge NO interest on loans for nursing students, lift the cap on medical school places and cut student loan issuance by 20%. If my ministers fail to deliver, I'll sack them. Simple as. The stakes have never been higher. It's time we have a government that acts like it.
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Just like every tax cut is an election bribe.
Ben Bradley
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An election bribe?
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Steven Fielding retweeted
Zoë Paramour@ZoeParamourOct 27
Oxford Street pedestrianised yesterday and, inevitably, 24 hours later, huge queues at the ferry port on the Isle of Wight. Thanks a lot, Sadiq.
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Electoral reform junkies will be laying low for a while from today. Full list PR such as that used in Israel is the purest form of their fix and it’s the most embarrassing. Fetishising proportionality over accountability is hard to defend.
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I do wonder if the popularity of Burnham is partly a response to the unpopularity of Starmer: I’m not saying Burnham is Jesus but was the latter a kind of shit John the Baptist?
Ben Walker@BNHWalkerOct 27
New post: that more people have paid attention to Burnham's announcement on the banning of loudspeaker music on public transport than any of the conference speeches Keir Starmer gave tells you a lot about how receptive voters have been to our new PM: newstatesman.com/politics/po…

Britain is giving Andy Burnham a chance

Will he waste it?

newstatesman.com
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No shit.
BBC News (UK)
@BBCNewsOct 27
Chris Mason: Budget needs to go some way towards delivering PM's promises bbc.in/3Wv08gQ

Chris Mason: Budget needs to go some way towards delivering PM's promises

Support on the cost of living, and in particular energy bills, as well as announcments on devolution will be central to John Healey's first Budget.

bbc.com
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A Chorlton-cum-Hardy chimney.
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‘And I should know’, continued Simon, ‘because most of mine are pretty terrible too’.
Simon Clarke
@SirSimonClarkeOct 27
It’s almost like this is an absolutely terrible idea👇
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A truly nauseating American story of Christianity (sic), about four divorces, and two rather convenient redemptions. nytimes.com/2026/10/27/us/ke…

The Christian Influencer at the Center of Ken Paxton’s New Life (Gift Article)

The Texas attorney general has been silent about his relationship with Tracy Duhon, a New Orleans woman who has built a personal brand around faith and redemption.

nytimes.com
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There are so many things I like about the United States but the fact that this story can exist makes me wonder what on earth are we doing having anything to do with this car crash country.
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Cheapskate Farage has bought one of those enamel poppers which you only need to buy one and then you don’t need to buy any more ever again. It’s a national disgrace.
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Poppers! Now that would be interesting.
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He isn’t distancing himself, at the end of the interview he just about says that he doesn’t think it’s racist.
Fraser Nelson
@FraserNelsonOct 27
The problem with racial politics is that deniability is not always plausible. Raheem Kassam's "Nigeria" strategy is already rebounding; Farage is struggling to distance himself from him...
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This is a bogus talking point that only political parties indulge in and even then only for rhetorical purposes; that journalists echo it just shows their superficiality or partisanship or both.
Christopher Hope📝
@christopherhopeOct 27
More of this now on @GBNEWS now on Good Afternoon Britain with me and the great @CarverEmily 👇
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This is an argument for not doing anything about anything.
BBC Radio 4 Today
@BBCr4todayOct 27
"It would throw up a huge dust cloud of uncertainty." Former chief economist at the Bank of England Andy Haldane says reopening a debate about Brexit ‘would be a damaging thing'.
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The logic of this is no govt can explore different policies to the ones in their manifesto, even if they’re not going to enact until they’ve been endorsed by another election victory. It’s quite pathetic rhetoric from a political party but from a journalist it’s rather sad.
Christopher Hope📝
@christopherhopeOct 27
This is extraordinary. Where is the mandate? The PM was elected by 25,000 voters in Makerfield 100 days ago today - and now this in the @Telegraph. 👇 Britain in talks with EU over free movement Officials discuss options including rejoining bloc or single market as PM seeks to reset relations with Brussels telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…

Burnham in retreat over EU freedom of movement

No 10 insists Prime Minister not proposing a return to bloc despite his earlier comments asking for ‘evidence-based debate’ on issue

telegraph.co.uk
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Him losing his cool no longer constitutes news.
Mirror Politics
@MirrorPoliticsOct 27
Nigel Farage loses his cool in clash over 'racist remark' on BBC Breakfast mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/nige…

Nigel Farage clashes with Sally Nugent on BBC Breakfast over 'racist remark'

Nigel Farage was grilled by BBC Breakfast presenter Sally Nugent over comments made by his former chief of staff Raheem Kassam about Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch

mirror.co.uk
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She is very good by simply not letting it go and moving onto something else.
BBC Breakfast
@BBCBreakfastOct 27
'Do you think it's racist' Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was questioned on #BBCBreakfast after his former senior aide Raheem Kassam called Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch as a 'Nigerian scammer' bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cp07jz…
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Driving is free? I’d better get in touch with the car manufacturers and the oil companies and demand a refund.
JJ Charlesworth@jjcharlesworth_Oct 26
Replying to @parr_craig61423 @MayorofLondon
Driving everywhere is free private mobility. Public mobility makes people dependent on public provision. And why then is decent public transport now banned from Oxford Street?
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