Tom Tyson

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

New Truth Social post by the Orange One.

Correction to the recently launched Board of Peace. Now to be known as Bored of Peace.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

🇺🇸😠🇬🇧🇺🇸😠🇬🇧🇺🇸😠🇬🇧
So have I got this straight?

Trump and his henchvipers launch an illegal attack on a sovereign state.
The US congress can’t do anything coz ‘ it’s the weekend and they don’t meet till Monday’

Here, SKS holds a COBRA meeting, coz illegal wars don’t have a timetable. #iran

No half-sentient person would trust Trump with a barbecue, and here we are watching him start a war to distract from his weapons grade depravity & incompetence.

BREAKING: The UK, France and Germany have issued a joint statement

Spring? In February? I'm so jealous! That is a "California poppy" to us in the UK and we treat it as a hardy annual: sow in April, get flowers from June onwards. Plants might survive a mild winter here if you're lucky, will self-seed otherwise.

GB News host compared to Nazi appeasers for defence of Trump on Question Time A GB News host who advocated for Donald Trump on the BBC’s Question Time was compared to the fascist appeasers of the 1930s ...

A year ago, I was up against Matt Goodwin - now Reform UK's candidate in the crucial by-election this week - on Question Time. Here's what happened. www.thenational.scot/news/2493544...

Yeeaaahhhhhhh

Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search

🇺🇸 Even after all of the chaos caused by ICE in the US, Reform UK still seem desperate to impersonate Trump.

ICE has divided America and led to violence in the streets.

⚠️ Reform UK are no friends of the British people.

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

This is wonderful!

Brilliant! Thank you.

Photo of group of five students walking through a sunny university campus. Overlayed across the top of the image is the text; "Lib Dems announce plan to urgently cut student loan repayments amid cost of living crisis." Liberal Democrat logo in left bottom corner.

The student finance system isn't working.

Graduates are paying more, for longer, on terms that keep changing. That’s not fair and we have the plan to fix it.

Does Nigel Farage have a problem with women? Critics link Farage’s ‘Trump-lite’ condescension to female journalists to Reform’s moves against women’s rights

Farage “wants to distract people into thinking their problems are because of women or equality and diversity policies, or immigrants. Like Trump, it shifts the discourse and that’s v dangerous”

Women must turn Farage’s problem with women into a problem for him.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So faced with a winnable election in a previously safe Labour seat Nigel Farage picked:

- A Tommy Robinson-backed oddball, with a history of racism and alleged sexual harassment

- A holocaust-denying campaign manager who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman"

Reform is not a serious operation

This recess, I’ve been out and about across the constituency, meeting with brilliant local organisations, business owners and constituents. Here are just some of the things I’ve been up to - and you can read more in my latest newsletter: www.wendychamberlain.scot/so/36PnsXRNH...

Another stunning win, congrats to the team in Redcar! 🔶

As the Labour vote collapses, Liberal Democrats are the ones beating Reform.

Labour lost three council seats last night. 1 each to the Greens, Lib dems and Plaid. Reform were 2nd or 3rd in each.
The Greens also won and beat Reform in another local election.
So when they say vote Labour to stop Reform, they couldn't be more wrong. Vote almost anyone but Labour to beat Reform.

BBC bosses don't seem to care
their right-wing bias is getting
dangerously close to election criminality

"The Green Party have slated the BBC after it handed Reform UK their third Question Time slot in a row the week before a crucial by-election in England"
via The National Newspaper

Grim. One can only imagine what passes for ‘banter’ or ‘locker room talk’ when these ghouls converse in private.

We had a hummingbird moth visit us as well last July. I had to look up what it was! Luckily the camera was to hand and I had time for a quick snap. #HummmingbirdMoth #Hawk-Moth #Hertfordshire

As #BirdOfTheDay is the #Robin and the alt theme is #BranchBirds here is my Christmas card robin, taken in my garden a couple of years ago.

I see #birdoftheday is the #robin and the alt theme is #birdonabranch so here we have a cute robin on a branch checking me out before getting on with a tasty snack.

It's an excellent piece. The answer to how the likes of Ridley thrive is very simple.

He's an Eton educated Oxford graduate who is also a hereditary peer. He may be exceptionally stupid, but that is enough in this country to cover you in armour plating and propel you onwards in your career.

With tactical voting ever more common, who do voters back when only two parties have a chance in their seat?

LD 41% v Ref 29%
LD 34% v Con 26%
LD 29% v Lab 21%
LD 26% v Grn 25%

The Lib Dems are the only party likely to beat all of the opposition in a two-way seat where they feature.
#LibDems 🔶🔶🔶

This cartoon shows five prominent Reform politicians, Farage among them, side-by-side at lectern. The spotlights throw their shadows behind them. Every shadow is that of a spewing Farage.

An epic @mortenmorland.bsky.social cartoon.

"Shadow cabinet"

"So will it be the same act but with a different label?"

Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷‍♂️

Not sure why Reform announcing they’ll scrap the Equality Act 2010 hasn’t provoked widespread alarm.
They want to torch our human rights framework AND repeal our right to protection from discrimination.
A smile and a shrug on BBC News.
What the hell?
FFS, media. Tell people what this really means.