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Alex Wickham: New: Lisa Nandy criticises Andy Burnham…

New: Lisa Nandy criticises Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting for saying the UK should rejoin the EU Nandy says Labour should resist “reopening the Brexit wars” and that she finds Streeting’s call to rejoin yesterday “a bit odd” She tells Sky: “If rejoining the EU is the answer, then essentially what we're saying to people is life was fine in 2015” Burnham confirmed to ITV yesterday his position at last year’s conference that he wants to rejoin in future. Though he said he wouldn’t advocate that in the pro-Leave Makerfield by-election

Liz Webster: @Lord_Sugar in Sun Times…

🚨 @Lord_Sugar in Sun Times “Leaving Europe is the worst thing I have experienced in my whole time in business.” “Johnson and Gove should be in jail. As a chairman I am obliged to tell the truth to my shareholders.” “If I lie it’s a criminal offence. Politicians lie to the public — their shareholders — and get away with it.” “All that bullshit about the 350 million quid going to the NHS after Brexit.” #rejoinEU

Lee Hurst: It does no cause any good whatsoever…

It does no cause any good whatsoever to make a claim like this ‘millions’. Plural. That means Tommy Robinson believes at least 2 million attended the march. The police reckon 50,000. I invite anyone to use AI to calculate how many people could fit in the full route of any protest. All protest organisers overestimate their numbers. Tommy has and the Lefturds today have. It’s childish of both of them.

Carl Benjamin: Read what he's saying here…

Read what he's saying here and take it seriously. To him, you are not British if you don't worship the NHS and BBC: it's purely the institutions of society that matter, which is why the people are fungible and can be replaced as long as the institutions survive. This is a kind of wet fascism, where the state is the god that exists eternally and crafts the people in its image. The irony is, of course, that legacy 20th Century institutions are not eternal, they are temporal, fallible, and unfit for purpose now. It also ludicrously implies that Nelson and Wellington were not British as they didn't sacrifice their firstborn to the holy NHS or BBC. Torsten won't engage with these critiques because he can't, indeed, he will likely block me because he's Swedish.

Lee Hurst: Police estimates of today’s UTK march…

Police estimates of today’s UTK march are about half the previous one last year. Anyone following me will note that I consider protests to be a day out, nothing more. Protests achieve nothing therefore it’s hardly unsurprising that the numbers are down as the last one achieved nothing. The Lefturds achieved nothing with their Nakba Jew hate fest either. The ballot box is where the power is, nowhere else, but walking around on your own putting leaflets through doors is boring compared to a get together in London. However it has far more effect. The amount of money spent today by the people involved, maybe £25 per head x 50,000 would amount to circa £1.5 million. This could pay Royal Mail to distribute a political leaflet for an election, door to door, to over 20 million homes.

Liz Webster: MSNBC today…

🆘 ⚠️ MSNBC today: “Why the Strait of Hormuz closure could trigger a global food crisis” Fertiliser supplies choked 🔥 skyrocketing prices 🔥 farmers worldwide cutting back on planting. This is exactly what I’ve been warning about! In Britain we’re especially exposed post-Brexit: self-sufficiency plummeting, no domestic fertiliser, farmers skipping sowing, farm gate prices falling. We desperately need 1947 Agriculture Act principles restored - food as a public good. Food security is national security. #FoodCrisis #Hormuz #BritishFarming @GordonBrown @ProfSteveKeen

Ben Judah: What’s happening now is not just a crisis…

What’s happening now is not just a crisis of leadership in the Labour Party — it’s a crisis of ideas, a crisis of policy and a crisis of faith — what is the program to turn the country around? The Prime Minister’s challenges are right to call out this lack of a project has been his great failing. But I don’t see any of them presenting more than competing poll numbers for now. This is, in a way, even more concerning.
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