It really doesn’t matter who Reform uses to do their vetting. They can only ever choose dickheads because only dickheads would apply. No one credible or decent would touch this hideous clownshow with a bargepole. Choosing Paul Nuttall is sublime though. (Private Eye)

One of the lessons of the last two years is that Labour urgently needs to stop being afraid of its own shadow. Burnham should appoint whoever he thinks would be the best Chancellor and throw his authority behind them. The Daily Mail will try to kill them anyway. So just govern.

Oh look a proper grownup being sensible and straight with us. What a refreshing change… John Major interviewed by the Independent. He called on govt to be “honest” about the devastating damage of Brexit, saying we should join the Single Market in the next 5yrs. app.independent.co.uk/2026/06/26/3...

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov

Which part of UK has outperformed the rest since Brexit? Northern Ireland of course, as it has effectively stayed in the EU’s single market!

It's just one long stream of BS from these fossil fuel-backed clowns. Adopting their policies would destroy a million jobs (see next post) while creating almost none in return. Total environmental and social vandalism. The absolute state of "conservatism". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We all have a moral responsibility to make damn sure this racist horrorshow never gets a whiff of power and that we boot Farage and all his dullwitted Reform brownshirts out of public life for good. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This man is absolute fucking poison.

NEW: EU nationals in the UK are increasingly alarmed at Reform UK’s plan to target their rights to accommodation and employment, saying this is a betrayal of promises made in the Brexit referendum 10 years ago. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee finds govt’s “earned” settlement proposals will will harm integration, make it impossible for disadvantaged and vulnerable groups to settle, cause child poverty, and increase labour exploitation of sponsored workers www.workrightscentre.org/publications...

Crypto isn’t part of the FCA’s remit so they can’t investigate Farage yet for his corrupt lobbying on behalf of his crypto donors. But come on. These moneymen are so far from well-intentioned, it’s absurd. £5mill Farage is their deregulation-monkey. Their path to profit. At our expense. (iPaper)

Badenoch has no grace. And only arrogance where empathy and social intelligence should be. She is what the Tories have now become. Unelectable. Deeply unpleasant, unprincipled and really very dim.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

I cannot adequately express just how much I despise Kemi Badenoch. I know politicians who fail to read a room and get their tone wrong. I have never come across one with such an unerring ability to adopt the least appropriate stance on every single occasion. She is a twitter troll made flesh. #PMQs

It tells you everything you need to know about Kemi Badneoch and Nigel Farage that as London schools, hospitals and transport networks all buckle under extreme record-breaking temperatures, they gather with fossil fuel lobbyists, climate deniers and the far-right to demand an end to Net Zero

Meanwhile Farage pocketed £5Mill from his crypto mate as a Brexit thankyou and demands power, to do even more catastrophic damage to our national standing, our social cohesion and our economy. So we’re possibly not at rock bottom yet. Ffs. Hold the bastard to account and get some self respect, UK.

“Britain is only going to move on when it starts realising it’s one little cog in a whole load of cogs that make up the EU, that make up global geopolitics, and the UK on its own, not being a cog anywhere, is really unwise” “Independence Day” How bloody stupid. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage is running the bizarre line again on Today that he "wasn't in politics" when he stuffed £5 million down his trousers from a crypto-billionaire. He literally owned a political party.

Whilst the media commemorates 10 years since Brexit, it’s worth recalling that one of the principal causes of Brexit was the abject failure of the media to call out the lies and the liars.

Can't believe it's been 10 years of being told that you mustn't call ignorant bigots ignorant bigots. You just have to politely live with the mess they've made

I have more to say… Not just a goddam waste of time but also resources, influence, security, opportunity, patience… Brexit has firehosed our country’s politics, economy and sanity with bullshit for 10yrs. And on it goes. Ruining our politics, making us tedious and idiotic. I am very much not a fan.

Christ The Times is so up itself with its “warnings” It couldn’t bring itself to endorse a vote for Labour in 2024 despite the absolute shitshow its beloved Tory party inflicted on us all. It then tore into Starmer’s govt at every opportunity and now it warns against Burnham. What a poisonous paper

Brexit unleashed epic levels of political dishonesty and anti-immigrant prejudice which were weaponised by unregulated social media and a rightwing press unwilling to hold their own to account. Until govt deals honestly and robustly with this reality, political and national failure is inevitable.

Wednesday marks 10 years to the day since Cameron resigned to let Brexit usher in a new era of stable self governance. Since then we've burned through: 5 more prime ministers 8 chancellors 8 home secretaries 9 foreign secretaries 10 education secretaries 10 defence secretaries Masterful work.

Reform stamping their little authoritarian feet demanding a general election is farcical. They’re either unelected themselves or they’ve become a recycling bin for Tory MPs who thought they’d do better with a turquoise rosette, but refused to give their constituents the same choice. Sod off.

The 'ten years' bit is a clue.

I've had 2 journalists today asking if Miliband as Chancellor would be a "Liz Truss moment" and find it difficult not to just respond "are you on crack?".

How conventient for political journalists, to all be gathered in Downing Street once more, so they can interview each other, to ask "how did this happen?", without ever acknowledging that, at least in part, they themselves are how this happened.

“Brexiters blame each other for their cause’s failure” Gove for not deregulating, Johnson for his Irish Sea border and immigration, Farage for losing interest, Frost for his dismal deal and Cummings for lying. But they’re all laughing and binning Brexit is heresy giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The attacks on Ed Miliband, the one truly successful person running a department under Starmer, shows that the lack of seriousness in British politics goes way beyond No.10 to the press, the trade unions, the business sector.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

Brexit “exposed a political class that appears unable to govern, sitting atop a state no longer fit for purpose. We voted to take back control, but discovered our leaders couldn’t handle it” … and that our media was largely unwilling to call it out or hold Brexiters to account. (Sunday Times)

And not a squeak from Farage, Lowe, Robinson or Tice. Nothing. Literally nothing.

Once again, it’s not the vetting that’s the problem. It’s Reform’s DNA that’s the problem. It’s a racist, misogynistic, far right party, led by a corrupt egomaniac funded by crypto/fossil fuel billionaires and christofascists. No one remotely decent would sign up. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Farage is despised. His net approval rating is -37. Loads more people loathe him than like him. And how’s that going to improve when he’s a brexity, crypto-corrupt Trump-boy linked to Putin… as well as being a hateful misogynist who incites racist riots when he wants attention? It’s not. #NeverPM

I wonder what it was about… trousering £5million from a Thailand-based cryptobillionaire then lying about it, selecting a misogynistic arse as a candidate, inciting racist riots despite pleas not to, and chasing Nazi voters with white-supremacist bullshit… that put people off? Real head-scratcher.

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

GOOD MORNING. Andy Burnham has triumphed in Makerfield. Nigel Farage has been brutally humiliated. The sun is shining and the world is a beautiful place iandunt.substack.com/p/triumph-in...

The Farage effect. A losers’ charter. Everything gets worse and costs more when prejudice is turned into policy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bye then to yet another misogynistic Reform dullwit. Seems Farage shouldn’t be anywhere near as cocky as he’s been encouraged to become. Well done, Andy Burnham. Let’s hope this leads to somewhere altogether better. Happy Friday 🥂

No Equality Act. All new family rights in the Employment Rights Act scrapped. But, a “Women and Motherhood Protection Act” From a party of misogynists with links to MAGA christofascists and anti-abortionists. Just call it the Gilead Act and be done with it. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...

Fleeing your home country, and everything you know, because of war, violence or persecution takes incredible courage. To everyone who has recently arrived in London seeking safety: you are welcome here.

Brexit “quietly fetters access to the €18tn continental economy that lies on the UK's doorstep.” “Each year we are outside the EU is another year in which we are poorer than we need to be” Absolutely not the actions of a country that has got its shit together. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...

Reform’s latest idiotic, racist idea: imposing a tax on companies that hire foreign workers And the perfect person to introduce it. A corrupt, opportunistic, nasty little tosser. If you loathe Jenrick, you’ll love this… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

One detail in this fascinating BBC investigation into the Russia-instigated attack on Keir Starmer's home is the way it shows, in passing but very clearly, that Tommy Robinson is to all intents and purposes a Russian asset. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Under 16s to be banned from social media, and a white supremacist who fuels riots on our streets, still allowed to run a whole platform.

It'd be depressing at the best of times, but there is something profoundly inane about it when it comes from a prime minister who can't even drag himself off a social media site used to spread non-consensual porn and coordinate race riots.

So, a list of Brexit winners: customs agents novel food industry migrant workers from outside the EU (if you ignore the racism) Northern Ireland Dutch/EU logistics And of course Farage, Johnson, Gove etc who all got richer but were never held to account. Ffs giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...