#runcorn — Public Fediverse posts

It's #BandcampFriday, so today I will be mostly singing "Runcorn, everybody loves Runcorn, that's where your chemicals come from, and everybody loves chemicals..."

https://thingumajigs.bandcamp.com/track/runcorn-feat-andy-yates-2

#Runcorn #chemicals

Police hunt for Superlambanana stolen from garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1711531/police-hunt-for-superlambanana-stolen-from-garden/ #Cheshire #CheshireConstabulary #garden #Liverpool #Runcorn #SentimentalValue

The Council winning a bid to block #AsylumSeekers staying at Bell Hotel in #Epping creates an extremely dangerous precedent as rent-a-mob will now move onto to another hotel or perhaps many

I predict #Runcorn will be in uproar within 48 hours

Are we moving toward civil war?

#Runcorn's #Reform SarahPochin said she'd CCTV footage of "late-night knife & drug crime" & had crime ref nos

In her maiden speech, Pochin said there were a number of "illegal immigrants" in Runcorn & HMOs were "breeding grounds for organised crime gangs

Cheshire Police said it was "not aware of any issues or concerns relating to homes of multiple occupation in the Runcorn area"

It said it received 8 reports of incidents at 1 HMO between May & Nov. 5 were burglaries: 3 were no crime occurred

Here's a great analysis of the Runcorn by-election from @CherylMorgan which seeks to correct various misapprehensions about why Reform won, whose votes they gained, and why Labour (and the media) are drawing the wrong conclusions.

And its admirably concise for a busy Saturday morning.

#politics #runcorn

h/t @Naich

https://www.cheryl-morgan.com/lies-damned-lies-and-the-british-press/

@Geri

#Labour will deduce that they aren't fascist enough to compete with #Reform

#Runcorn #ukpolitics

Oh, great, Reform won Runcorn. By a sliver but still, the government's going to learn the wrong lessons from that. I was fearing worse but this is still bad.

Also Lincolnshire now has a Reform metro mayor. But that's Lincolnshire. I feel bad for Lincoln, reportedly a fairly normal place, but the county is ground zero for the far right. So this was priced in.

#RuncornAndHelsby #Runcorn #LocalElections #LocalElections2025 #UKPolitics #UKPol

The number of votes by which #Labour lost the #Runcorn by election to Reform ltd was almost certainly lower than the number of #trans voters who switched their vote from Labour to another party. And that's not to mention all the allies who hopefully also switched to a more progressive party.

I hate Reform ltd, but there is some poetic justice here.

Also, you can't appease fascists. Will they ever learn this?

Andrea Jenkyns "we are going to have Britain where we put Britain and British people first, a Britain where put British people at the front of the queue"

Nationalism is a scorge

#Runcorn
#NaziParty

“#Labour need to understand that if people want #Reform’s policies then they will vote for Reform - and if they can close the gap this much in 11 months, imagine what it might be in five years.

What should terrify Labour strategists in #Runcorn is that the #Green vote went up – even though Green voters knew this might let Reform in. Labour is simply not progressive enough to win even tactical support.”

Neal Lawson, Compass

#Runcorn didn't fall to Reform by a handful of people choose to vote Green/elsewhere but due to disillusionment. A turnout of just ~46% (-~14%) speaks volumes, that people have lost engagement. We must repair our voting system so that people have a voice. FPTP is at fault.

#UKPolitics #RuncornByElection #ProportionalRepresentation #UKLabour

General impressions are that the ##GreenParty is outperforming the #Liberals

For example #runcorn

GREENS 2314
LD 942

Nazi Party win in #Runcorn by just 6 votes!

I see Runcorn have voted for the Facscist Grifters Party.

That's disappointing.

#Runcorn #UKPolitics

##localelections

The #Conservatives are anticipating that they will lose control of ALL the councils they are defending in today's local elections.

A confidential memo to #Badenoch, seen by the Telegraph, predicts that the Tories will lose up to 770 seats and all the mayoral elections that are taking place.

The document said that the Conservatives expect that the Nazi Party will pick up 500 seats and win the #Runcorn by-election, with the Tories slumping to third

BBC currently reporting The Nazi Party might take #Runcorn

Oh dear

The Speaker allowed #Frogface to spew hateful xenophobic bile on the eve of the #localelections and, more importantly, on the eve of the by-election at today's #PMQs

"In #Runcorn alone there 750 of these young men. Is it not time to admit that smashing the gangs was nothing more than an election slogan, not a policy. Isn't it time to declare a national emergency and act accordingly?" NF

I can't imagine Bercow letting him do that 😔

Also please please keep them out at #runcorn byelection and give this TodayInFocus a listen
"I have seen what happen in America and Trump..I don't Reform to get in.."
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/apr/29/labour-v-reform-uk-on-the-road-in-runcorn-podcast

Macbeth. Norton Priory and Gardens. #tickets #runcorn #uktheatre #play #theatre https://www.uktw.co.uk/L1975320020/

Too late desperate Labour pander to the RW #Reform voters in a shameful way

#Labour candidate calls for #asylum hotel to be closed down | #Runcorn and Widnes World
https://www.runcornandwidnesworld.co.uk/news/25026406.labour-candidate-calls-asylum-hotel-closed/

Ppl in #Runcorn believe #Reform are the only prt serious about resolving what they see as UK’s single biggest issue: immigration. Unfortunately, instead of reasonable discourse around this, they're repeating Reform bs about ‘illegals’ arriving on ‘small boats’ & being brought ashore–where they’re being given better living conditions than UK citizens. There're no discussions of legal immigration or labour markets. It’s a PERCEPTION of a problem, one that begins in the Channel & ends in their town

Sarah Pochin exposes ReformUK for being the racist party (again) by forgetting to put the word illegal into her announcement speech & says immigrants, the party line is illegal immigration. Mistake or the truth?

#Runcorn #ReformUK #nigelfarage #lbc #UKPolitics #politics #Pochin

"Whether it is resigning or through recall, everyone's clear - the people of #Runcorn deserve better representation, and that would come by having a newly elected MP."

#UKPolitics #Labour

https://news.sky.com/story/yvette-cooper-calls-for-new-runcorn-mp-after-amesbury-jailed-but-will-keep-his-91-000-salary-13316646

"A new video showed the MP for #Runcorn and Helsby punching a man, who fell to the floor, before then hitting him repeatedly."

Oof. Carrying on hitting them after they're down is not a good look. Doesn't really matter who started it at that point.

#UKpolitics #Labour

https://news.sky.com/story/flatplan-13242763