In the wake of our J.L. Partners The Rest Is Politics poll showing only 13% of Brits trust Rishi Sunak to put up a shelf, Freddie Hayward of the New Statesman has summed up perfectly the public’s current view on the PM and Starmer.

Full piece: newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

Labour: “If the Tories do not remove the whip from Nick Fletcher for endorsing Reform, then they have given up on governing altogether.”

Lib Dems: 'Rishi Sunak needs to find his backbone and kick Fletcher out of the Conservative Party.'

Tories: ' ... '

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Donelan is incredibly lucky there are so many other catastrophes around her in government, because this is a major scandal and if the media had spent another few days pressuring her she would have been forced to pay back the money or resign. Now she should do both.

Allô les Européens?
L’Ukraine a besoin de vos batteries Patriot. Maintenant.

La plus grande centrale thermique au sud de Kiev vient d’être détruite par des missiles balistiques russes.
On ne fait rien?

Johnson, a drunken narcissist, lying about the incendiary mess he’d created - a performance of simplistic, dangerous buffoonery: Brexit was dangerous to peace - the Windsor agreement a sticking plaster. Remaining in the ECHR preserves peace and our rights.

Yes these are exactly the people to believe when they say they will eradicate waiting lists in two years by … er …. Making stuff up ….

BREAKING — Parliament refuses discharge of the Council budget until European Council decided to support Ukraine with additional Patriot anti-missile systems !

So important to register to vote and to understand why it matters and how to do it. Give An X on the case. A great youth movement doing things that shouldn’t need doing but given the state of our politics and the Tories’ desire to suppress the vote, campaigns like this are…

Farmer Henry Ward, 'I literally can't believe it. I stood on the bridge with the Chairman of the Environment Agency, the Minister for Flooding, NFU president, looking at 2,000 acres of land with 2 meters of water on it. It didn't even cross my mind that I wouldn't be eligible for…

If anything is a 'cancer' on British society, it's not an international agreement forged after the horrors of WWII to try & avoid another Holocaust - it's the grotesque sociopathic billionaires who fund divisive right-wing #propaganda organisations like GB 'News' & The Telegraph.

Despite having so much of it himself, he really treats public money as though it was his own. Whether helicopters or private jets or polling, he sees our money as his. All part of the decline in public standards since Johnson and Brexit.

Funny old world

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Has the health secretary just scrapped league tables without realising it?

The Health Secretary just denied on Sky News that the Criminal Justice bill going through parliament could criminalise rough sleepers if they cause a nuisance which includes 'excessive' smells

“it is not what’s in the bill” she says

IT IS! THATS EXACTLY WHAT THE BILL SAYS!!

The pod gets its first Private Eye Magazine cartoon - new The Rest Is Politics Q&A out now - Willygate, Rayner v Ashcroft, Trump VP choice, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 hate bill, Rory Stewart on why he gets so emotional re Union, favourite Embassies, AI warfare,Slovakia election and more alastaircampbell.org/2024/04/236-qu…

Mail going on about anyone with “2 homes!!” rothermere the tax avoider has gaffes all over the planet. Dacre - London mews, Scottish landed gentry estate (helped by EU subsidies), Sussex farm and nice place in British Virgin Islands (I’m sure his accountant is happy about that!)

Impressive

The 'grassroots' protest about Angela Rayner turns out to be from a Conservative Councillor who's previously been called to account for offensive comments about women on his Facebook page!!

Always a pattern isn't there?

I can't wait for this lot to go....they really are the…