my personal takeaway from the night's results is that the English can't be trusted

Brexit will reduce UK trade by 15% in the long term, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility

It is moments like this that really bring home how unutterably awful it was to allow events* to create a national mood in which Boris Johnson & Liz Truss could become Prime Minister. Imagine they were in the post right now…

*Brexit

Perhaps we can stop being so parochial about Starmer's trip to Washington now. It was a failure. We are in a battle against fascism. And every decision we make is judged by whether it assisted or opposed it.

Zelenskyy is my hero. A true anti-fascist. A man with more bravery and dignity in his other finger then most of his detractors will encounter in their lifetime

This is who these people are

I used to scratch my head as to how they all allowed the world to go to hell in a handbasket in the 1930s and why not enough was done to prevent it. We all know now.

Isn’t it depressing when a total lunatic is even more batshit than you thought

Trump says he will forge a society that is colour blind and merit-based - a society in which he would have entirely failed to achieve anything. #Trump

If Blue Monday isn't real then why am I watching billionaires line up to celebrate and crown a racist sex offender

Nigel Farage isn't the answer to our problems, Britain. He is the cause of them.

Until my country can work that very simple puzzle out we are doomed.

#bbcqt

“Migrants, illegal or legal, weren’t responsible for austerity. They weren’t responsible for Brexit. They weren’t responsible for Liz Truss’ failure. Because of populist policies in the ‘30s Hitler was elected. If we follow the same blaming of migrants we will go the same way”

#bbcqt

Alastair Campbell to Nigel Farage: “I’ll tell you what you are, you’re somebody who will exploit any problem going for your own political ends. Brexit was a fundamentally damaging thing for this country. It’s made us poorer, weaker & it’s hit our standing in the world”

#bbcqt

Well I thought Alastair Campbell skewered Farage very nicely tonight on the matter of Brexit...

...and the East Midlands audience were in full agreement.

Tides are turning on Brexit.

I wish he’d stop it with the stupid childish jokes. Being PM, or indeed any MP representing constituents, is not a laughing matter. He should be cutting out the jeering & chuckling in the HoC, at PMQs, & in all his public engagements. Be the adult in the room Keir.

A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.

Just catching up on this incredible new form of stupidity. I'm so pleased. It's a delight to watch the right engage in the kind of pointless theatrical bullshit progressives usually get lost in.

All is well. @panchero.bsky.social and @tuftyclub.bsky.social are here