"Hands up if you didn't want Robert Jenrick to join Reform because that would mean you were no longer the biggest gobshite in the party"

The real Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t hating Trump. It’s defending his lies no matter how obvious, bending reality to fit his words, and calling anyone who points it out “obsessed”. That’s how delusion becomes power, and it's only going to get worse from here.

When you have a government for 14 years is natural to fall in to the mind set of 'why should I care?'. But now we have a grown up government who IS improving the country, it's time for us to wake up (become 'woke' so to speak) and do our bit to help our country recover. 1/2

Jenrick’s incredible journey – from self-centred halfwit to self-centred halfwit. Reform’s latest defector from the Tories is a politician whose eye has only ever been on his own ambition. #JohnCrace www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"I frankly wouldn’t pay any attention to anything that Elon Musk puts on that cesspit of his called X. He was the guy who advocated getting Donald Trump elected," says Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary. "He's an idiot. Very wealthy, but he's still an idiot."

Will Britain walk the Trumpian path? As with Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2024, few in the media are actually taking Nigel Farage and his party to task. But with your support, Byline Times' Reform UK investigations unit can fill that scrutiny gap. 👉 subscribe.bylinetimes.com/reformscruti...

If the Conservative party were in government and if Farage was genuinely in reach of Downing Street then this would all be significant. As it is, he's scooping up failures and sacked MPs and in the process undermining his entire USP. It's actually spectacularly stupid.

Brilliant questions. 🚨 "And finally, to Nigel, isn't it embarrassing that last year you said that Robert Jenrick is a fraud?"

This hasn’t aged well...

Reforms key message is now you absolutely can get exactly the same politics as the last losing Tory government only under the auspices of the somewhat invisible MP for Clacton. Some real strong positioning here

Jenrick describing the decline of Britain that he helped oversee is not the gotcha he thinks it is 🤦‍♀️

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I'll say it again: watching Robert Jenrick do "cunning politics" is like watching a toddler hide behind a cushion. "Where's Robert gone? THERE HE IS! Oh no! Where is he? THERE HE IS!"

I'm shocked that this isn't all over the news....perhaps that's why Badenough chose today to sack Honest Bob? #LabourIsWorking www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Latest on 'Honest' Bob Jenrick joining Reform.

Top trolling from the TUC! 👏

If Jenrick does join Reform, it even more underlines that Reform are the Tory rejects party.

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

I've highlighted in red 18 countries who've qualified for the World Cup finals (or are still in contention with a few play-off places still to be decided). If the fans (and the players?) can no longer get US visas, how can FIFA continue to justify proceeding with the tournament in the US?

“It seems unlikely not to have occurred to [Farage] that the reason he is so popular… is that so many people have had enough not just of people like Zahawi, but in this case, people who literally are Zahawi” Here’s to hoping their piss-taking opportunism does for them both. (Times sketch)

Well this all looks fine

All of Reform's 12 councils will raise council tax this year despite pledging not to in campaigns. Some of the planned rises include: Worcestershire - 10% Derbyshire - 4.99% West Northamptonshire - 4.99% Kent - 3.99% Staffordshire - 3.99% #NeverVoteReform

Today, a federal judge ruled that a major offshore wind farm off of RI and CT Trump sought to shut down can resume work towards completion. Revolution Wind is 90% ready to provide power for the two states. How stupid would it be to shut the project down at this point? Trump stupid is the answer.

'Some inside Reform are worried Nadhim Zahawi's high-profile defection to the party looks like "naked opportunism"' While opportunism fits well, the word "naked" is not one that anyone ever wants to hear juxtaposed with Zahawi.

👇👇 is the message the left needs to be pushing out at every opportunity. But a Reform gov won’t just be more of the same Tory governance we had for 14 years, it will be much worse. Not only have the Tories & these defectors moved further right, but they are now in bed with Farage etc

➡️ Lowest Reform % in Any Poll since April 2025.

As the former pandemic vaccines minister, wasn’t Nadhim Zahawi “at all bothered that Reform had given a platform to a medic who said the king’s cancer had been caused by the Covid vaccine?” Apparently not. Savagely brilliant piece @mrjohncrace.bsky.social 🔥 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It’s not ‘fantasy’: I know Nigel Farage abused people for their nationality – because I was one of them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ReTories are telling voters, really quite directly, that this is now a rebranding exercise, a quick change of costume. Zahawi on why Badenoch won't be the next PM: "She's got the baggage of a defunct brand; a brand that the nation has decided it can no longer trust." ~AA

This really matters. Even if you don’t have x weeks service you should get paternity leave to spend time with your newborn - and now all dads will.

The number of homicides of young people in London continues to fall. When I set up the Violence Reduction Unit in 2019, the capital’s homicide rate of under-25s was three times higher than it is today.

NOEM: “We can’t trust the government anymore.” BASH: “You are the government.” NOEM: “Yes, that’s what I’m saying.”🤔 The only honest thing @KristiNoem said today

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Zahawi is very much part of that ‘defunct brand’. He doesn’t get to saunter off to another party and claim his Tory grubbiness gets left behind. Oh no, Mr Zahawi, the stink of corruption and political failure follows you wherever you go. Reform already reeks of it.

“Zahawi's defection strengthens the argument that Reform is increasingly functioning as a refuge for Conservative flotsam and jetsam.” www.politics.co.uk/news-feature...

If people were fed up with 14 years of the Tories, why would they want to vote for the #Refuk party which is now populated almost entirely by those Tories?

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

But.. but… but.. Farage didn’t want any washed-up Tories in his party.

So what's on the bingo card for this? They got another huge donation? An endorsement by Trump? They're planning a British ICE? They're going to legalise paedophilia? Can't wait to find out.

So biggest peddlers of lies (let’s call it what it is), are Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage & Katie Hopkins- the trifecta of evil far right fascism in the UK. How are there people out there who still believe a single word any of them say?? 🤯

However unlikely a Tory win may be they need to include a ‘Badenoch Clause’ too.

Senior Labour MPs urge government to ban cryptocurrency political donations

It’s almost a RefUk tradition ReFuk mayor candidate has had 2 companies struck off by the Companies House regulator in 2023/24 for failing to file legally required documents. In true ReFuk style she says she did nothing wrong despite having been a prosecutor. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

100% this!👇

Robert Reich: Donald Trump poses a threat to civilization Who: Robert Reich is a former 🇺🇸 US secretary of labor www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I currently use Bluesky on web browser as it's a decent experience Have been away for a few months Are there any decent apps out there yet - full screen for starters - which mirror the good standard twitter ones on iOS and android?

Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds. Net migration to the UK fell by more than two-thirds to a post-pandemic low in the year ending June 2025, but 67% of the people polled thought it had increased www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?