Despite making over £20bn in the UK, Starbucks has paid £0 tax in most years. In fact it's total tax paid ever is only about £20m. It pulls this off by paying £40m+ a year to its parent company in the USA so it makes a loss.

We are tired. So tired.

"Are you really expecting us to believe that a senior civil servant, off his own bat.. unilaterally overruled vetting to approve a political appointment?" Starmer: "I was not told.." "Doesn't this just sound like you don't have a grip on your govt" Starmer: "I was not told.. "

Do the lads know what’s happening now? Well, Wes was heir apparent to Sir Keir right up until Mandelson got busted sending insider info to Jeffrey and then instantly, overnight, it was certain that he was fucked, finished and nowhere. Yesterday’s Man. I’d guess: they know more than they’re saying.

There certainly is a sizeable cohort of voters who "passionately dislike this country and the society they live in" but I'm pretty sure they aren't young female Green voters

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"It was clear that Prime Minister Keir Starmer want to make this appointment of Peter Mandelson himself" - Foreign Affairs Committee, 3 November 2025 Oliver Robbins was the Foreign Office's most senior civil servant was he was forced to resign in Keir Starmer's latest Mandelson saga

This is my favorite type of Onion headline

good faith is when you appoint 'the prince of darkness' to the post of ambassador to the united states bcos you know he was besties with the president's chief child trafficker and then lie about it for months on end. gardiner can fuck off. as i keep saying: there are no good labour mps.

Has Starmer EVER acted in good faith…?

'artificial intelligence' is a scam for ppl with no natural intelligence.

A reminder, too, that Mandelson emailed Jeffrey Epstein upon his conviction to reassure him this wouldn't have happened in Britain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relatio...

Okay, we are being asked to believe that the statement from Starmer below is not actually a brazen, conscious lie, but the product of a man who, despite once being one of the UK's foremost legal officers, is as dumb as a coat stand, or a drawer full of spoons.

So, we are supposed to believe that the prime minister & both of his foreign secretaries didn't know that The Lord Mandeslon was not a fit-&-proper person for the nation's highest ambassadorial role? Ooooh maybe they were screwed over by ThE dEeP sTAte? Is that where we are going with this? Really?

LOL omg that's exactly what we are doing. Oh man, wooooaah, horsey.

Remember when the adults were back in the room? Responsible hands were finally on the wheel to right the Ship of State after the listless captaincy of the buffoon Johnson and his crew of brigands? Remember "Change"? Stop pouring, barkeep, my cup runneth over

The UK "condemns" attacks on UN peacekeepers while maintaining military collaboration with an Israeli state attacking UN peacekeepers. Does the Foreign Office think no-one is noticing their rank, daily hypocrisy?

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

so the press are just buying the lie bcos they're all corrupt propagandists.

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And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

keir starmer: i am incompetent. @darrenpjones.bsky.social: perfectly reasonable. how can anyone hold this against the guy?!

How many more people are going to have to resign for Keir Starmer's decision to ignore the advice of every single person who told him not to appoint Peter Mandelson?

I agree but *everyone* knew Peter was a corrupt, utterly self-absorbed lying weasel 20 years ago. So why were all the lads attending his mates’ secret briefings and publishing their shock revelations, why were they quoting him as a Labour Insider, interviewing him, having him on the radio as a guest

Keir Starmer in 2020: "I had 8,000 staff as Director of Public Prosecutions and when they had victories I celebrated on their behalf and when they made mistakes I carried the can. "I never turn on my staff. You should never turn on your staff"

Transphobia (aka holding “gender critical” views) is as disgusting as racism, antisemitism, misogyny, homophobia, ableism, or any other bigotry. History will prove me right.

Diane Abbott, "It's just not possible that No 10 did not know" "And to try and pretend that No 10 did not know when anybody who follows these issues would know that can't be true, is a kind of thing that undermines people's faith in politics" "The denial seems Trumpish"

no they didn't. i mean is this just trolling? you mean mandelson's mates in the press said it was a good idea bcos... he told them to say that it was a good idea. understand how our country works and then get back to me.

Please please please someone ask starmer “mister prime minister which is it, are you corrupt or are you thick?”

i can criticise for the prime minister, and you, for thinking the public are fool enough to buy your bullshit @darrenpjones.bsky.social. i mean... look at him. he's not even a competent liar. none of them are. but they're all so high on their own shit they think they're slick. it's absurd.

[foreign office 2025] CIVIL SERVANT: Prime Minister we have news on Mandelson's vetting, it turns out- STARMER: no don't tell me, I want it to be a surprise when the scandal comes out in 8 months' time CIVIL SERVANT: I really insis- STARMER: god forbid we have any MYSTERY in our lives any more

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Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

A reminder that trans people's 'demands' were 'can we have healthcare that doesn't take 20 years?' and 'can we change our documents easier!?' That's it. And we didn't even ask very loudly. In response, the UK has decided to take all our rights away.

Every single 'extreme' demand that was reported was fabricated or exaggerated by these people. None of this involved trans people.

can you believe this

We could cut through endless weeks and months of this stuff by the right type of person just saying outright that everyone knew Peter was horribly unfit for office, and that Morgan McSweeney (the actual boss, who himself worked for Peter) overruled everyone to ensure Peter got the job.

I'll tell you who does 'rely on benefits'. It's the supermarket chains that pay their bosses millions of pounds a year while driving shopworker wages down to levels that force staff to claim Universal Credit.

The excuses for not funding nice things are still, somehow, getting dumber and more insulting.

Yeah, we can’t afford to do anything ever now because (rolls d6) Russian (rolls d10, consults table) transgender (rolls d100) small boats, will give you (d10) exploding (d100) bum diseases

"Allbirds is pivoting from shoes to AI" feels like an April Fool's Day joke that escaped containment. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/a...

'shares soaring' when a shoe company says it will stop making shoes and get into AI instead has a distinct 'madness before a crash' feel about it.

While people at home are dreading the next energy bill landing in their inbox, fossil fuel bosses are filling their coffers We need a permanent, tightened windfall tax to claw back every penny of excess profit being made on this crisis and put it towards supporting households

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

pretty much as soon as a transphobe opens their mouth it’s obvious their ‘arguments’ are nothing more than a flimsy superstructure over a core of disgust. generations to come will look back on this era with amused horror at how governments and courts took this pea-brained garbage seriously

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

No, that's exactly what Chappelle was doing and it's why trans people criticized him for doing it.

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

looks like they're being processed after getting arrested for trying to steal some super cheap cider from a mini tesco's