Pol comms officer. Formerly reporter at South Wales Argus and MA News student at Cardiff Jomec. Views mine own and likes ≠ endorsements!
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Sam Portillo retweeted
So.... £2,485 on glasses for a PM was "sleaze rotting our politics to the core" but £72,000,000 in a single day for Nigel Farage is celebrated as hitting "the jackpot" and a "war chest..."
Whatever is happening here is happening in plain sight. You decide!
Sam Portillo retweeted
People like Zia Yusuf often say they don’t have a problem with immigrants, providing they integrate and contribute to the UK. Well here’s an asylum seeker who volunteers for local charities, served as a trustee of local schools, became a councillor in her local area and rose to lead that council, and is now seeking to become an MP for her home area - and that’s still not enough integration or contribution. It never will be because whatever she does, her real sin in the eyes of people like Yusuf is simply being from Somalia.
Sam Portillo retweeted
Robert Jenrick says Nigel Farage’s “sole involvement” in the donation investigation was to “have lunch.”
“You can't criticise a leader for saying thank you over lunch to someone … being polite is not a crime these days.”
@rosiewright99
Sam Portillo retweeted
Reform also have the highest number who would vote against them if they could. Under Starmer Labour actually topped this measure but since Burnham came in the number of “vote against” Labour has dropped, and by a much greater margin than their VI has risen: Burnham has both made Labour more popular and less hated.
Sam Portillo retweeted
Trust the BBC to kick off their bulletins tonight with Farage’s denial of wrongdoing. Once it would have been the corporation that would have broken the story of Farage’s wrongdoing, not reduced to putting out his version of events.
Sam Portillo retweeted
As far as I can tell Reform's Leader in Wales has been bumped off the list of speakers on the main stage at the conference.
They started late to let people into the venue, but Dan Thomas did not speak in the allotted slot in-between Lee Anderson and Zia Yusuf around 90 mins ago.
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Sam Portillo retweeted
Plaid cannot spend every day attacking Labour and then complain about “destructive opposition” when Labour refuses to support them.
At this stage, it really is not clear how they expect to govern Wales.
Sam Portillo retweeted
If true that @andyburnham not taking media questions after speech today then good move. Speeches matter and when important should speak for themselves. A problem with Keir S communications was that he would make a speech, then take Qs and the broadcast journalists in particular would make it more about them and their “take” than him. If and when he becomes PM Burnham will be answerable to Parliament, not the showbiz style media coverage of politics. The blah factory will go into overdrive today with journalists interviewing each other about how they ought to be allowed to ask Qs. The speech itself is more important than anything they say before during or after. Setting the agenda vital from the off.
Sam Portillo retweeted
Blair putting on full display what is in many ways his special ability - to lay out a political argument grounded in his own view of global trends (globalisation in the 2000s, tech in the 2020s). But…
Sam Portillo retweeted
I’m hearing that Andy Burnham has purchased a meal deal at WH Smith in Euston station. Beth, Sam and Sophy are en route to ask the checkout assistant what flavour crisps he chose.
Meanwhile Nigel Farage trousered a £5m bung and didn’t declare it.
Back to the crisps story.
