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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 09/09/2026

Waiting for this panel discussion, organised by @londonermag.bsky.social

Populist or pragmatist? Who is the real Andy Burnham?

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 17/08/2026

See point 5 of his '6 point plan'

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 08/07/2026

Final sentence is perfect. *chef's kiss*

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 25/06/2026

Wish I could say it was out of character, but the leader of #Newham's largest opposition party gets it wrong (again). Salam Patel was not the previous chair of the Local Development Committee. That was James Beckles. The kind of mistake you make if you don't actually turn up for meetings.

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 03/06/2026

Chris Mason and the entire BBC Politics team need to put on a rocket and fired in to the Sun.

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 28/05/2026

For Trump and his cronies in the US, read Johnson, Farage and co here in the UK.

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 24/05/2026

Another one for the Things That Never Happened file.

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 11/05/2026

Thursday's turnout of 34.9% was an uptick, reversing a downward trend since 2010. #Newham

Table and graph showing the size of the electorate and the turnout percentage in Newham from 1964 to now.

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 08/05/2026

Well, who on Earth could have predicted that? 🤔

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 14/04/2026

Playing a sad song on the world's smallest violin 🎻

"I voted for Brexit. Now I face a red tape nightmare to retire in Spain.

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 05/04/2026

“You couldn’t make it up,” says Jenrick. But he just has. Marmalade made from oranges can be labelled as orange marmalade - which the vast majority of commercially produced marmalades already are.

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 03/04/2026

This won’t be affected.

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 31/03/2026

Reform UK - Britain’s most popular party, if the polls are to be believed - are so desperate for candidates they are cold calling people begging them to stand.

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 21/03/2026

Disinhibition: a reduced ability to control urges, leading to actions like public outbursts, sexual advances, or poor social judgment, often resulting from neurological damage, dementia, or psychiatric conditions.

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 18/03/2026

Private Bonespurs reporting for duty…

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 14/03/2026

Didn’t he say last week he didn’t want our help and we only ever join in wars when the US has already won?

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 13/03/2026

This picture says it more eloquently than words ever could.

Small child crossing the road in front of a Range Rover. The top of the child’s head
Is below the level of the car bonnet.

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 13/03/2026

Amazing what you can do with a bit of political will.

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 08/03/2026

Good news for Starmer. If Dan ‘Always Wrong About Everything’ Hannan is attacking him he must be on the right track.

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Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 04/03/2026

Pretty robust response from Labour, though one has to wonder why, given the reasons Wales was removed in #Newham, the party endorsed him as its candidate for police and crime commissioner in Suffolk just a couple of years ago.