Surely with an MP that never shows up in Parliament or listens to you there should be a better choice... right????

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Who knew.... the Queen is an Angine de Poitrine fan..... (I see your hands there missy!)

I've had to buy pile cream in quite a few countries now and it is fair to say that, even allowing for translations, the UK has hands down the worst/most embarrassingly named. I mean, who the hell ever thought Anusol was a good idea?

Farmers everywhere angry, but as long as I can remember Farmers have been subsidised for things like milk... and in the Netherlands when I was a kid we were already talking about the ever expanding 'milk lake'. People need to be fed - but not all food is equal. Especially not in all places.

Seems like it wasn't that crazy to think this way after all: I was in the booth thinking how odd it was that the top 3 Candidates were all Reform. Then I understood it was an alphabet thing (hey... gimme a break... I'm a Foreigneer) www.theguardian.com/politics/202... (cc @steveprior.bsky.social)

So let me get this straight... The deputy Financial Times Editor doesn't understand legislation, or tax (evasion) - I can literally name a dozen things that would make buying online less attractive OR buying in a town centre cheaper. That he can't just shows how our journalism is crumbling.

Advertising works Also complicit much?

share.google/FXxDbxlPbL4K... They say there are 2 options: full decant, £15bn, 24yrs; partial decant, £39bn, 61yrs. I want a 3rd option - a purpose built new parliament in Coventry with a round chamber & social housing for MPs so they don't need housing expenses, designed for 21st century politics.

Fuck this guy (Jamie Simon, not David Henig).... Now I want another PM. Or at least Rachel Reeves fired so we can put in a lefty Treasurer. I wonder how many Reform people find this foreign meddling a problem...

I'm old enough to remember the PM saying that there would be no War Profiteering.... (and Rachel Reeves making very clear there would be no windfall tax on the extra profits by oil companies.... now you know why so many ordinary people hate Labour)

"I don't want to be Prime Minister but we can't let Wes Streeting be Prime Minister" is a message I can back.

I feel like Wes Streeting would be the current politician most likely to work with the Daleks then get exterminated ten minutes before the end of the episode.

This is how you make people happy. Don't just do things - make sure people know what you do, how you do it and then wrap it up in a good looking wrapper. It's not rocket science... but damn is it important. This is what Rory Sutherland keeps talking about.

I'm getting this kind of energy

PR at the top of the list. Nationalising water Palentir or any large Non-UK (or EU) based company getting access to our health data. Taxing war profiteering (Yes Shell - with your 5B 1st quarter profits... I AM looking at you). Restructuring how energy costs are calculated. 1/2

Labour with 403 seats in a 650 seat legislature with no effective veto points or written constitution:

What people don't seem to understand is that the Data Centres that the Govt is so eager to bring in need potable water. Lots of it. up to 5M gallons a day. that is 22.7 M Litres. a day. (650+ M Litres a month) And they WILL get it before you or I do. Droughts will happen more frequently.

Massive water fights in the park

I see that all journo's are wagging their tails at the news of the leadership contest. It's being portrayed on Sky as if this is the mini elections.... FFS.... No one actually wants anything stable - they all want intrigue and back stabbing.... and what the journo's want they will get

Slightly increase a band Constantly Recurring Fred.

Slightly Increase a band Boys Cacophony

Missed it was the 20th anniversary of the Guy Goma interview. We are all, at various points in our lives, this person.

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

I just don't understand why we would nationalise Port Talbot's Steel production... which apparently no one seems able to make into a profit and benefits few people, while simultaneously not wanting to nationalise water which can be done relatively easy at low cost which benefits everybody

Not doing any whataboutery - but I do think that @zackpolanski.bsky.social should look up if this is true, and if so have a nice chat with the media about why they went into a frenzy over the fired Lewisham councillors, but were absolutely totally silent about this: www.youtube.com/shorts/xO96r...

What REALLY thanks my chain is when Starmerites say that people dislike Starmer and Labour but have no idea why. Just look at this. We are all being sold to business by this government. It is more than appalling. Leadership challenge NOW please

Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres. Just 3 will generate emissions equivalent to those of a city such as Bristol. Impact on humans and living things? Datacentres consume excessive amount of water/electricity, generate few permanent jobs.

I'd say yes & no to this..... Its a great analysis, but it misses one crucial point. The base of UK politics has always been Conservatives with now and then a Labour wobble if the public couldn't stand it anymore. This base has been destroyed. 1/2

Suddenly realising why NL is less elitist than the UK: in the UK you call the rich Posh. Sounds nice. We call it Kak, or better even: Kouwe Kak. Which means respectively Turd and Cold Turd. We don't I still a want to be a part of thát

Hahaha Too close to the truth to be really funny (what the elections were actually like) www.instagram.com/reel/DYEYPCP...

My old place just down the road (Lewisham) just voted in a Green Mayor. It had always been fully Labour. They chose to take us (the left) for granted and only appeal to right. This changes now. Left get this movement rolling!

I'm let down by the people in the North. If ever again someone says Northerners are more friendly and welcoming I'll flip them dos dedos.

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

You have got to wonder what kind of electoral genius you have when there are local elections all over the country and very much also in the heart of Brexit heavy country (the North) to put out a message like this. Is this a rip the band Aid off? Rather have Reform than the Greens? What?

Still the best film adaptation of The Odyssey

Voted! Let's see the outcome. Had anyone ever thought about/ researched how important it is to have a candidate with an A, B or C as a first letter in their last name? We are conditioned to think first on the list must be the best....

I have decided on my positioning as a human being: "I am your Frenemaissance Man"

Probably also the time he was most engrossed in his own performance. It is AMAZING.

HA! Classic Starmer! Not only is he getting those that hate 'Remain' to hate him. He's also getting those that hate Brexit to hate him (because this is again the literal posturing without ANY actual change that we're so used to by now)

Jesus wept..... The real Q then is why they wanted Mandelson so much, no?

People like this forget that she literally helped him evade taxes while becoming the richest man on the planet. She has no qualms about him making his workers piss in bottles to keep up productivity. She is NOT good people

Someone forgets here that the electoral bill this shit bird (DJT) was voted in on WAS I can do ANYTHING I want.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

To challenge the Greens, Labour attacks the Greens. To challenge Reform, Labour copies Reform.

Weird- not a single word about. A) Jeff Bezos whitewashing B) How it is invite only - thereby very much about a certain power being used (again see Jeff Bezos as chair) C) How something can be multiple things at the same time D) just because its at doesn't make it worthy...

Reinstate windfall tax on banks after surge in profits, TUC urges. Banks will make bigger profits from interest rate hikes, without any additional effort. Claw them back. Energy companies are profiteering too, and must pay windfall taxes.

Hilarious.... got known because he was Anti-Breixt (later we found out it was somewhat performative). Gets voted as JC follow-up... Throws Brexit stuff out to appease non-Brexiters. When everyone else turns against him, he comes back to try out some Brexity stuff. What a strategist.

Yeah - the free market aint free.... who knew?