Matty

#GMB: the chancellor says he wants to give people breathing space, but it can be argued what he's actually done is give the govt breathing space (by not taking any big decisions & just tinkering around the edges)

Mustafa Barghouti: "The fact that Netanyahu and Smotrich and Ben-Gvir got all these votes is an indication that the Israeli public is approving their policies.. policies of settler colonialism, settler terror & fascism"

Ruth Curtice from the @resfoundation: "That £100.. it will barely touch the sides of those energy bill rises.. so in January energy bills are set to be about £600 higher than they were in the year before. So huge rises in energy bills that £100 won't really touch"

'Defeated presidential candidate Bolsonaro flees to US'

Louisa James: "We're not expecting anything big at all, what we've been told to expect is a steady-as-you-go budget, and the other big question then is, how that fits with Andy Burnhams promise to bring about big change" #GMB

Madeley: "Do you think welfare spendings out of control?" Maguire: "I don't think its out of control if you look at the total figure.. its only 10.6% of the economy, which is low by European standards" Singh: "And over half of the welfare budget is pensions, the state pension"

"Delighted to preview [the budget] & what to expect we're joined by the former chancellor Sir Jeremy Hunt" ... who as a Tory cabinet minister exploited a Tory tax loophole to buy 7 luxury flats & then didn't declare what he'd done. But no mention of that, of course.

Fortescue to Chowns on Greens4Palestine: "This group obviously has a big influence over your partys direction... do you think they should be kicked out of the party?" Can you imagine a journalist asking, should Labour Friends of Israel be kicked out of Labour? Of course you cant

Ellie Chowns is right, saying zionism is racism is not antisemitic but conflating Jews with Israel is. And conflating Jews with Israel is exactly what Tory peer Ed Vaizey did. And he did it deliberately to attack & smear political opponents.

"... people were like, f**k that, we do not want the Bolsonaro family coming back to power, recognis[ing] this fascist project not as some high abstract concept but as an existential threat to life & livelihood for them" @davidrkadler on @novaramedia on the result in Brazil

.@davidrkadler: "I have never seen a country rally the way that Brazil did between these 2 rounds. I've worked in countless countries & electoral contests & never once in my life have I seen people wake up to the threat, the menace of the far right & try to do something about it"

"Capital Gains tax, have you won that argument.. you've pushed hard not to see it equalised to income tax" Reynolds, from the party that proclaims iself the party of work, explains why unearned income should be taxed at a lower rate than income earned by people going out to work

Nigel Farage is asked if comments by Raheem Kassam calling Kemi Badenoch a Nigerian scammer are racist. Farage: "... he's Indian, he's of Indian heritage" "Does that mean he can't be racist?" "I don't know. You tell me"

#BBCBreakfast's report on the Israeli election mentions Netanyahu 5 times But you know what isn't mentioned? The fact that he's wanted for using starvation as a method of war, intentionally directing attacks against civilians, & extermination/murder as a crime against humanity

#GMB on the banks: "£45.9bn profit in 2024. They've already generated £21.4bn in the first half of [this] year" "And on a personal level.. executive bankers are earning in 2 days what it takes a lot of people a year to [earn]"

Jon Kay to Reynolds: "You're planning to remove import taxes from products like chocolate, gherkins, marmalade. Your own figures say that will save the average household 40p a week. At a time when [bills] are going up, do you really think people are going to notice 40p a week?"