Keir Starmer: 'I think it's relevant for the voters to know what did the 2 candidates for PM do before they came into politics... I was working for the Crown Prosecution Service... & Rishi Sunak was making money, betting against the country, in the financial crisis..'

Why I’m voting Labour and promoting tactical voting at the General Election.

It’s logical not ideological.

Putting the Tories in third place and making the Lib Dem’s the opposition is achievable, if we vote tactically.

It’s time to end the party.

stopthetories.vote

A colonoscopy, is a camera test into the bowel, for both men & women

Patients are offered sedation for it

But when it comes to a hysteroscopy, a camera into the womb

Patients are usually not offered sedation at all

& I absolutely object!

#SexismInMedicine

So right. And in such sharp contrast to the many spineless men who legitimised and excused behaviour in Trump they knew was abhorrent.

He’s an odd one, is Piers. Probably belongs in jail for phone hacking (& insider trading) & makes a complete fool of himself over Meghan, but here & during Covid he shows he can be quite magnificent.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨

Conservative Deputy Chair Jonathan Gullis Took £10,000 From JCB – Then Stayed Silent Over Company’s Job Loss Announcement

MP for Stoke-on-Trent North faces claims his “silence was bought” over factory closure, reports Tom Latchem and Dan Evans

Friday with Byline Times is back for the Election Campaign

Join me Hardeep Matharu Adam Bienkov and Josiah Mortimer at 4pm to talk about the first full week of the campaigns - purges, resignations, Tunbridge Wells - lots to discuss
youtu.be/9aPWqnaTb4Y

FOUND - a Tory with a sense of morality

Former Tory MP Nick Boles letter to The Times slamming the rank hypocrisy of Ashcroft (non dom billionaire) and Sunak (formerly non dom super rich wife avoiding taxes until discovered) haranguing Angela Rayner.

He sees it as we see it 👀

BREAKING: Iain Dale tells LBC he has now abandoned his bid to become the Conservative candidate for Tunbridge Wells, after this clip of him telling listeners he 'never liked the place’ and ‘would happily live somewhere else’ was revealed
bylinetimes.com/2024/05/29/iai…

The Public Accounts Committee report on Rwanda won't get much airtime, but it's a devastating read.

'little to show for the money spent…continually failed to be transparent with Parliament…fell woefully short of reality...does not have a credible plan'.
committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…

Italy owns our railway operators, China our nuclear power stations, Canadian pensioners our water utilities, India our steel industry and now a Czech billionaire is buying Royal Mail. This is what the Tories call 'taking back control'.

Sat people spotting & notice a group of hijab wearing girls (assume British & college age) & they were using vapes. Struck me as I’ve never seen a Muslim women smoke (I’ve known many). Cheeky drink yes. As someone wary of vapes just as much as fags found it interesting

Jez, Hamas is a thing of evil. But it is not going to disappear and Israel cannot destroy it without killing far too many innocent people. As a schoolkid, I remember the horrors of the IRA in the 1970s. But then the British government sat down and talked with the IRA and,

When I need to call out a plumber I’m grateful to pay £40/h because I don’t have the first clue how to fix my boiler, or the skills to fix a burst pipe

Doctors are asking for half of that, to fix your kids

In life we get the health services we pay for

BREAK: Angela Rayner says Diane Abbott should be able to stand to be a Labour MP.

She tells ITV's Anushka Asthana:
“I don’t see any reason why Diane Abbott can’t stand as a Labour MP going forward… I am saying that as the deputy leader of the Labour Party”.

Interesting Liberal Democrats policy of trembling the digital tax. It’s currently only 2% so they’d raise it to 6% to pay for a mental health professional in every school. I’m sure the likes of Amazon/Google etc will moan but it won’t be enough to stop them selling here.

Pretty much guaranteed that Royal Mail will now be asset stripped, loaded with debt which will be used to pay dividends, then it will become non viable financially and have to be bailed out by the taxpayer.

When you decide to quit eating food with any added sugar for a while, only to find yourself an hour later practically inhaling dried cranberries in yogurt coating, you have to admit you might have an addiction to the stuff 😬

Today is #NationalBiscuitDay so you're probably wondering what biscuits our politicians are most similar to...

Rishi Sunak = Rich tea - rich but disintegrates when in hot water

Keir Starmer = Viennese whirl - people think they're posh but they're not

Jeremy Hunt = McVitie's

This morning's YouGov for people under 50 only:

Labour 59%
Greens 12%
Cons 8%
Reform 8%
LD 6%

That's the worst result amongst this age group I've see yet. Equal third with Reform.