Also, and this is a very serious question, have the UK government & developers done a stress test on the risk of extreme rain showers on infrastructure? The Dutch have & it should be an essential requirement for all governments not just to help prepare, but also help decide where to build houses. 1

"Before and after the bill’s publication the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and housing minister Matthew Pennycook have met dozens of developers in numerous meetings. The body representing professional ecologists, meanwhile, has not met one minister despite requests to do so." Vote Labour get #Change 🙄

New blue plaque for London's Flagship Tesla Store #boycotttesla #boycottX #muskisafascist

This is not good. But no worries, because soon Labour will make Brexit work, and the Sunlit Uplands will be upon us all. 🤬🤬🤬

The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores, which provide service members and their families with access to tax-free consumer goods, have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider.

Nigel #FarageRiots merry band of #FlagShaggers cost the UK money! observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

This morning in 1916 after days of monumental artillery bombardment on the Somme, British and allied troops were going over the top. Well over 100,000 men attacked. It would be the bloodiest day in the history of the British army.

Signs of the economic times across various sectors, smaller landlords withdraw from the market under various pressures, larger ones expand their presence. www.ft.com/content/3c59...

But remember, Russia is on the cusp of victory, and Ukraine is doomed 🤪

"If the BBC is so woke, how come it grovels before Farage?" Piece from me on how, leftish bias at the BBC should never be excused. But nor can we avoid the grim truth that the radical right is now a clear threat to independent journalism in the UK open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

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England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year. Country surrounded by water has water shortages. 2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks. Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours. No new reservoirs. Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend. Record high water bills. People fleeced.

Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I’m fed up with Labour politicians feeling they have to cosplay the far right. By all means, let’s have a serious debate about migration, but without dehumanizing migrants, or uttering facile soundbites. 😡

In Finland, charging fees for school tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids. That means rich families had to make sure the schools their children attended were good, which in turn prompted the wealthy to invest in public education. Finland, take a bow.

Mean spirited Ryanair don’t deserve anyone’s money as they tell train attack hero hard luck. apple.news/AByTi0HwTRj-...

The UK Government is feeding an authoritarian cuckoo. Calling non-violent protesters terrorists, locking them up, then banning them from meeting friends or internet communication after release. These tools of repression will be used by the fascism they’ve fed. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

Man who keeps being caught falling asleep at work boasts he needs very little sleep at night. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Elephants are so much like us. They mourn their dead, have strong family bonds, and are self aware. They are amazing animals🐘💙🐘💙🐘

I was reflecting earlier - having rewatched the Mr Bean section of the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony (which is perfect in many ways) - how Britain really hasn't experienced much of a sustained, unifying feelgood factor since then.

When people & campaign organisations oppose floating bus stops, this is who they are opposing

Nigel Farage wants to turn Britain into a version of Trump's America. The Liberal Democrats won't let him. We will stand up for a decent, tolerant and caring country.

Wow. Now it ALL make sense. It's Forrins releasing Forrins on purpose.

Ah, Labour, you really are spoiling us with this "change".

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

So let me get this right. We had to leave the EU to control immigration, and we are going to control immigration by emulating the stringent immigration system of Denmark, which is a proud and happy member of the EU.

When I first brought this up about 7 years ago in the wake of Brexit - an elderly gentleman rang into the local radio station I was appearing on and said that "while he respected my opinion" I should be shot. That was it for me. After a lifetime of poppy wearing, I stopped.

A small price to pay (yet another one, yes) for controlling arr own borders!

*Again* the top story on BBC 6 music is about immigration How is Shabana Mahmood wanting to introduce a ‘Danish style’ system for refugees the top story this morning?!? The obsession of 6 Music news on immigration and asylum is frankly bizarre

So clever! Best pie chart I’ve ever seen 😁😁😁

Drew this two years ago (!) #artwork #pinocchio

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Have to say.. very tired of this now. We all know Brexit is a shitshow. Nothing is better. No one is happier. No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.

The important thing to remember is that Starmer is such a nice & decent man. And that conditions meant for the worst extremists are put on peaceful climate protesters (and soon elderly PA protesters?) are happening under his watch isn't really his fault or something. Anyway, Starmer, a NICE man.

Everyone, apparently, has questions to answer. Except the people responsible for bringing the system to its knees. Too "complex" to go into that.

The price of 250,000 lives seems to be £150,000,000 for Labour. Must make you proud to be British! I am sure this will lure the Reform voters back to Keir!

This really is a very good thread, and it deserves to be shared a lot more.

only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have “earnings over £125,140” I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?

They are still digging up mass graves of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army, not that the world notices or cares 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔🤬🇮🇱

"If the Greens overtake Labour in the polls, it will become harder for Labour to make the case that a vote for Polanski is a vote for Farage." www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Please put this on the cover of Time magazine.

#GVerse #TLCleanse This is the cutest thing you will see today 😂😆 Pets & babies it don’t get any better!

"Flags. We of Labour love them. Flags flags flags flags flags. We have flags everywhere at home. Big flags. Little flags. England flags. British flags. We even put the flag on our membership cards! And we love them so much, we want to see flags everywhere else too!"

Boom!

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency." New analysis by @lgilbert.co ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

Two donors to Nigel Farage’s partner Laure Ferrari convicted of fraud, money-laundering and forgery. Belgian court rules that Daniel Pawlowiec and Marian Szolucha illegally funnelled over £100,000—largely in public funds—to the think tank she ran.

"Prison is a costly system for worsening the social problem of crime ... but our political and media class are addicted to the bidding war of ever-heavier sentences ...we cannot afford this addiction." davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...