Translation: "You lot are almost as batshit as the Americans and there's a good chance you'll install a nicotine-stained Trump in Downing Street, soonish. Why the fuck would we want you anywhere near the EU?"

22 year old Americans converting to Catholicism, and then lecturing 80 year old European cradle Catholics on the 'heresies' of the current Pope and his predecessor, is absurdist comedy at it's best.

Didn't like Blair Didn't like Brown Didn't like Corbyn Don't like Starmer Don't like Streeting Don't like Rayner Don't like Burnham I don't need to like any of them. I need them to work their arses off for the people they're supposed to represent.

American money is behind so much of the UK far right, from little Tommy to anti-abortion activism. It’s not even hidden

The pattern people in the progressive space must break (I include myself): I support Leader A; all teams except A are evil. A has disappointed me. I am transfering wholesale huge expectations overnight to B. I support Leader B; all teams except B, especially A, are evil. B has disappointed me, etc.

As long as I live, I'll never understand stuff like this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

She is so bad at this.

Incredibly dislikable man, largely driven by money and bottomless ambition, makes a play for voters who want to get back to the EU. It's nice to hear, but it's a bit like Francis Urquhart coming out in favour of universal basic income. 😬

-wipes away teard- "Feminism has made it so hard to find women forced to tolerate my being an abominable partner and emotionally stunted manchild because they are completely dependent on me for their basic livelihoods and that of the children I'll immediately abandon if they leave me." Woe. Woe!

One of the biggest mistakes by the government was to tolerate and pander to this group. Far right extremist thugs posing as patriots, who should have been clamped down on from day one www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

London can look forward to the sweet aroma of Stella-scented piss in the air, today...

Starmer's leadership has been marked by trying not to upset Brexit voters – on Brexit itself, on immigration, on nastier manifestations of anti-immigration sentiment... perhaps even on Trump. The next Labour leader needs to stop/reverse all of that. Fire Mahmood as Home Secretary for starters.

Italian poster for "DALEKS' INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D." (1966). #DoctorWho

The CDC is now saying that people exposed to hantavirus aboard the MV Hondius aren’t required to be in isolation or quarantine, despite being in the incubation period for a virus that kills 40% of those infected. My latest: weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/cdc-people...

There wouldn't be an approaching Labour leadership contest, if Starmer wasn't terrible and hadn't relied on appalling people better suited to the Tories or Reform, for policy. Burnham and Streeting are cynical tossers, but that doesn't make Starmer any more capable. He's still shit.

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Only 14% of Brits support the Far Right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - who hides behind the name Tommy Robinson - mostly men, a new poll for The Economist reveals. The backbone of his support, and funding, is America.

Peeps on Bluesky: NOW FARAGE WILL FINALLY FACE CONSEQUENCES Actual likely outcome:

Can you imagine the volume and shrillness of condemnation we would be hearing, if environmental protesters or BLM activists were doing this?

The real issue is the perpetual lack of consequences for him. Can't see this ending up any differently.

Overestimating toothless Parliamentary scrutiny and the attention span of voters who think *all* MPs are on the rob, underestimating a media desperate to see Farage in Downing Street.

Pundits talking about rising UK GDP, while a third of kids are in poverty and families struggle to afford the basics. Biden kept talking about fantastic GDP, while many Americans were in dire poverty. We know where that led. Rising GDP figures do not reflect the reality for most Britons.

Likely outcomes: 1. Nothing to see here 2. This was naughty, so we're issuing Nigel Farage with a £3.50 fine

Starmer entering an 'only I can fix it' phase, is really heartwarming.

it’s such shibboleth of modern politics to blame politicians for failing town centres when the primary driver is - surely - all of us buying more and more stuff online

(He won't) I so wanted him to succeed. I really did. But radicalism was required after the Tory austerity that wrecked the country. Starmer doesn't have the imagination or courage to step beyond the status quo.

Anyone want to bet that the UK passengers will be down Sainsburys and the pub within a few days time? Also, why is a disease with a 40% mortality rate being called 'mild' by some?

He's so done. But won't shift, regardless. The tedious grind of having yet another deeply unpopular, 'I'm right, everybody else is wrong' PM squatting in Downing Street, when most people want him gone.

After 14 years of Tory austerity, radicalism was required from Labour to repair the damage. What we got was the bare minimum you would expect from a Labour government, a 'the status quo is pretty cool, actually' vibe and weird attempts to court pensionable fascists.

Chances of him actually taking responsibility: small Chances of him misinterpreting the results as 'Britain is largely fascist now, and Labour needs more fascism or we'll be left behind': hefty

Keir Starmer is demonstrably crap, but masses of people doing a protest vote via Trumpian nincompoops who will remove all their local services while raising council tax and keeping the 'flags on everything' budget intact, says more about the electorate than the Labour leader.

Elderly people in my area have a serious Farage fetish. Many of them aren't well off and depend on their state pension and pension credit. How large amounts of people vote to make their own lives even worse, never ceases to amaze me.

Being an adult doesn’t mean you have to outgrow joy. Play the game. Buy the console. Get excited about the trailer. Spend your night saving a fictional kingdom if that’s what gets you through. Life takes enough from people. Don’t hand it the things that still make you feel like yourself.

Reform-leaning voters now: "Can't wait to kick out all those woke, lefty councillors and enjoy the crestfallen looks on their smug faces lol" Reform-leaning voters in about 8 weeks: "What do you mean the bins are only going to be collected once a month? And why has my council tax tripled?"

Sensible Left on Bluesky, up to yesterday: "Trump, his cronies and the media that has overwhelmingly fallen in behind him, are all inherently untrustworthy." Sensible Left on Bluesky, today: "Trump, his cronies and the media are all telling the truth."

Spanish air traffic controller here (civilian, but military ATCs coordinate with us). No plane is gonna enter our airspace without clearance to do so, less so land on Spanish airports (at least not peacefully). Cutting trade with Spain only pushes us toward other global markets, not good for the US.

Labour doubling down on everything that's collapsing their vote, is quite the sight to see.

Not really, but at least they made the effort to bullshit the UN into submission.

Not so long ago, situations like this were eased by professional US diplomats, armed with proficiency in the local languages and vast amounts of knowledge on the region. Now, if Trump sends anybody at all, it'll likely be a 24yr old Reddit troll, who got a job with Trump by complimenting his hair.

I wish Starmer had been different. I wanted him to succeed. 14yrs of Tory rule (the latter half dominated by absolute chaos) wrecked the country. Radical solutions were required. A vision. A continuation of the status-quo with minor tweaks, accompanied by bizarre attempts to court fascists? Nope.

As discussed in here the problem with Labour attacking Reform and Greens as two sides of extremism is that Labour and Green voters are very similar in their views. And the big majority of Labour voters would be willing to join a coalition with Greens, when almost none would with Reform.

BREAKING: “It’s a very disappointing result. Incumbent governments quite often get results like that mid term” says Keir Starmer

The results: Greens win big. Farage/ Goodwin sorest losers in party sore losers. Starmer gone into hiding. Telegraph/Mail etc spin into "end of liberal democracy" wank fest. Tories lose their deposit. Party Elon Musk backed, Advance UK, beaten by Sir Oink A Lot.

Has Starmer said something about getting on with delivering for the people, yet?

Wheeeeeeeeeee

Great news in Gorton and Denton, slightly overshadowed by the fact that Farage's orange mentor may unleash a hellstorm in the Middle East this weekend, to try and stop Americans talking about his place in the Epstein files and his catastrophic presidency.

It's grim to contemplate, but part of Reform's vote will definitely have been made up of working class renters, who heard the 'we're going to shaft working people and renters' announcement from Reform, but still voted Reform regardless, because Farage promises to make the people they hate suffer.

No shit, John