Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialYouGov @yougov.co.uk · 04/06/2025Although Angela Rayner has been touted as Labour's answer to Nigel Farage, Britons are split 28% to 28% on which would make the best prime minister, whereas Starmer beats Farage by 15pts Rayner (28%) vs Farage (28%) Starmer (44%) vs Farage (29%) yougov.co.uk/politics/art... 188615
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialJohn Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Keir Starmer has found Nigel Farage’s weak spot… and it’s Liz Truss www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-... 6418
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialTorsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 29/05/2025What’s better than writing about the disgraceful failure to build any reservoirs over the past three decades? Getting some built. Great stuff from @emmahardymp.bsky.social and Steve Reed today www.gov.uk/government/n... 46012
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialPhysicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 25/05/2025 591515539
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialPolitics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 25/05/2025If you need a reality check 👇 #ukpolitics 46122
mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Andor so good, great to not have all that jedi nonsense in the way. Bureaucracy, petty jealousies, grudges, imperfections, corruption. Excellent. #andor #starwars 000
mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Congrats to Aberdeenmedia.tenor.coma 3d rendering of a gold trophy with the website threedee.design written below itALT: a 3d rendering of a gold trophy with the website threedee.design written below it 010
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialTorsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 22/05/2025You cannot have a failing state and a growing economy. The Tories taxed British businesses by running down the NHS and taking police off the beat - and they're still talking the country down. Labour is backing British business and getting the economy moving again. 88618
mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 22/05/2025So much winning for the people of the US BBC News - Nike to raise prices as firms face tariffs uncertainty - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNike to raise prices as firms face tariffs uncertaintyThe US sportswear giant says its price increases are part of 000
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 21/05/2025NEW: Reform UK’s pledge to remove every low-traffic neighbourhood from the council areas it controls looks to be achieved in record time - as the 10 local authorities all told the Guardian they do not actually have any. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comReform UK fulfils pledge to scrap LTNs in its council areas as none existAll 10 council areas controlled by rightwing party tell the Guardian they have no low-traffic neighbourhoods 1927596
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialPolitics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 21/05/2025When you haven’t shut your gob about ‘surrendering to the EU’ since 2016, but you decide to go on holiday when Starmer’s actually debating it in Parliament. #ukpolitics 35494163
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialAndrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 20/05/2025It was good to have the opportunity to talk about the UK/EU summit on Times Radio yesterday. We covered a lot of ground, from the widespread business support for the deal, to the opportunities for young people that will come from a youth mobility deal & membership of Erasmus+ youtu.be/ZIihvs7nudsyoutu.beSpeaking on Times Radio on the UK-EU Summit & Reset DealYouTube video by Andrew Lewin MP 162
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Ah yes, the “golden age.” 823213985191
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialPolitics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Parliamentary clown Badenoch has been laughed off by Starmer and his ministers. #ukpolitics 4345
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialPaul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 20/05/2025New YouGov poll: - 66% would support the UK having closer relationship with the EU - This includes half of both Leave (52%) and Reform UK (54%) voters - Majority (53%) support Britain rejoining the European Union - Six in ten believe Brexit has been more of a failure than a success 60946328
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/05/2025“Our biggest consumer market, 27 neighbouring countries that we lost, is open again. It is the small producers that lost out from Brexit." “Now we can stop fishing in this small pond and cast our net wider again." Full story: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 13524149
mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 20/05/2025More very positive news. Did we ever see anything like this under the tories? 031
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Matthew Syed, "It's a thin deal" "As somebody who would rather be in the EU, it's quite disappointing" "The psychology is fascinating. One side, saying betrayal this is a disgrace. Then the other side, Labour in particular: utopia, sunlit uplands" "Both of those positions are ridiculous" 2420456
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...theguardian.comDeal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10Agreement reached to ‘slash red tape’ on food products, in exchange for extended EU access to fishing waters 2744484
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialDr Lindsay Maxwell @parisdaguerre.bsky.social · 20/05/2025I’m yelling at my radio again. WHY is Nick Robinson asking whether the small gains forecasted for the new EU agreement was “worth stirring up the hornets nest” of Brexit ? Are we all supposed to cower in the corner, afraid of Farage and his gullible followers for ever? 50563108
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialAndrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Today is a very significant step forward for our UK/EU partnership. In less than 2 minutes, here is my initial reaction. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 093
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/05/2025British Meat Processors Association: Starmer has “managed to achieve what the previous government promised us originally but didn’t deliver”. ~AA 26967343
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/05/2025The idea that, in four years' time, with both business and consumers used to less friction, UK winning EU defence contracts, Erasmus+ exchanges in full flow, pet passports, easier travel, etc. voters will yearn for a repeat of last decade's trauma is such terrible politics, even for Badenoch. ~AA 38388100
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/05/2025There's an argument that because Starmer is going to get the full force of the bullshit 'betrayal' narrative for relatively tiny improvements, he may as well go much further. But I don't think the EU would be up for that at this - or any easily foreseeable - point. 1151062135
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/05/2025All confirmed. Dan has won. Whew. 🇷🇴 616811
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18/05/2025A victory for common sense is just around the corner... www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/wha...thelondoneconomic.comBrexit reset deal predicted to boost UK economy 'by £25 billion per year'As Keir Starmer prepares to announce his third international trade agreement of the month, the Brexit reset deal looks like a gamechanger. 691379278
mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Ignore the right wing rags, this is what people actually think #eudeal 010
mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 18/05/2025BBC News - 'You start to go crazy': The Australian who survived five years in a Chinese prison www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comAustralian Matthew Radalj tells of life in China prisonMatthew Radalj tells the BBC of his time in a Beijing prison, revealing what goes on behind bars. 000
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialAndrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 16/05/2025We did it! 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Thank you again to every Labour Parliamentarian who signed our letter just three weeks ago. A bespoke youth mobility scheme will extend opportunity for thousands of young people across the UK and Europe. New experiences, bonds and opportunities. A big step forward. 2212925
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Thames Water on collision course with govt over exec bonuses. TW with £21bn debt, history of abuses & criminal convictions insists that it will pay bonuses, now calls them “retention payments”. Govt must cancel it's licence, let it go bankrupt, prosecute execs, nationalise. archive.ph/FpLe0ft.comThames Water on collision course with government over bonusesUtility claims new legislation to block bonuses will not capture ‘retention payments’ 31624254
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialmimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Whilst I’m wrestling with my support for Labour and acknowledging that they are doing some good things. You can always rely on the Corbin cult, now mostly ensconced in the Green Party to make me realise there isn’t necessarily a lot of choice out there. They are absolutely insufferable 🙄. 166810
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialCat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 16/05/2025This is the government's line in the sand - Thames Water bosses not allowed to pay themselves bonuses from the bailout ££ 16 million "customers" gave them This wouldn't even be a question if Steve Reed had already brought the company into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comMinisters to block Thames Water paying bosses bonuses out of emergency loanExclusive: Firm close to insolvency says using £3bn loan to pay ‘substantial’ bonuses is vital to retain senior managers 34513
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025An improved trade deal with the European Union would hand UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves £10 billion in the Autumn Budget and limit the need for further tax increases, according to economists Sounds like a plan www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comEU Deal Would Give Reeves £10 Billion and Cut Risk of Tax HikesAn improved trade deal with the European Union would hand UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves £10 billion ($13.3 billion) in the Autumn Budget and limit the need for further tax increases, according to econom... 38542151
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialHumanity and Kindness @humanityposts.bsky.social · 26/04/2025It’s heartbreaking seeing men on the streets. The very people who are the masculinity of the world. May rehabilitation find them 💔 1136552
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialLeft Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Reform MP struggles to give answer simple question about party's small boats policy leftfootforward.org/2025/05/refo...leftfootforward.orgReform’s newest MP struggles to answer questions on party’s immigration policy in car crash interview“Runcorn MP Sarah Pochin beautifully shown up for the clueless content of the empty paper bag party that is Reform.” 44827
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialLaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Here’s a photo to save. To use in replies to those doom and gloom commentators who seem to know absolutely nothing. Let’s get some new, young, fresh economists who know how to work with a Labour government. 65622
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Keir Starmer says Tory attacks on the US/India trade are a sign of a “one great party sliding into brain dead oblivion”. Very interesting how much the government is taking head on the protectionist rhetoric which has taken a bit of a hold on the right. 65811
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Emma Reynolds, "We're the fastest growing economy in the G7" "Wages are increasing faster than prices" "BoE cut mortgage rates, sorry interest rates last year for the fourth time" "These growth figures feed into better living standards for people are more money in people's pockets" 10213
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/05/2025Keir Starmer says Kemi Badenoch must be "the only former trade minister who's against all trade deals which boost our economy." Next up, a better deal with the EU - which could deliver 8X more growth than the India, Japan, Australia & NZ deals combined. #PMQs 410724
Reposted by @mattski99.bsky.socialLuke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 14/05/2025This week’s most important issues. Falls in people selecting NHS mean it's at lowest since 2022 💷 Cost of Living 63% 🏥NHS 38% 🛃 Levels of immigration 31% 🛥️ Channel crossings 24% 🚓Crime 18% 🌍Climate change & environment 17% 🏘️Affordable housing 17% 3238