🇷🇺 "MEPs of UKIP opposed a resolution in 2008 condemning Putin’s invasion of Georgia. Farage also opposed a resolution in 2011 which criticised the conduct of elections in Russia that were widely regarded as rigged." Farage has always had a soft touch to Putin. https://econ.st/3Nm9yXA

A lot of posts about David Bowie this week.. has anyone considered that he was the Anchor Being for our universe? Just like in Deadpool & Wolverine, the loss of the anchor being endangers that reality...

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.

❓The OBR underestimated a predicted 4% dent to the UK’s GDP by as much as half. 📈 Implying a more-than £200 billion ($267 billion) cost to the economy, according to a new paper authored by economists including Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn and Paul Mizen. https://bloom.bg/3Y6IePj

Well I guess FIFA had to pay for that lovely Trump trophy somehow.. $4k a ticket should do it.

Blackburn need some drainage it seems.. 1 game being called off due to rain is bad luck, 2 in a season is bad facilities.

And that our "democracy" is a sham..

Farage accused of ‘persistent’ racial abuse by schoolmate who rejects ‘banter’ claims

Ok.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd... Now do all the Reform and ex-Leave accounts..

Dear Bluesky, www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners. We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!

And UK media are similarly only thinking about Russian influence on UK politics now and not in the period before and soon after the Brexit vote..

Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat: “We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time” Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.

So much winning... "By 2025, the UK economy is 6%–8% smaller than it would have been had we stayed in the EU" "Business investment is down 12%–18%" "Fewer tax receipts mean less money for public services, less for investment" Brexit impact study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

I wonder if there are any more to come..? BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8... Reform UK's former Wales leader Nathan Gill is being sentenced over pro-Russia bribes - BBC News

They'll be cutting the price of diesel next... First it's more tax on EVs and now this. Rachel Reeves to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy bikes | Cycle hire schemes | The Guardian share.google/q5CaE7wP7gYq...

I'm sadly underwhelmed by this picture.. it looks like it lacks detail on the underside of the saucer. Let's hope the top is better and there's a detailed bridge internally.

"The Inquiry, in its final module, must be able to look the bereaved in the eyes...to ask the most searching questions." In the last module examining the impact of Covid on people, the Inquiry plans to call only ONE bereaved witness. Bereaved families have been sidelined again.

Damn. So close... BBC News - Conservative Party nearly ran out of money, says Badenoch - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tax raid on pension contributions? Great. Let's just hand our whole salaries to government and work till we drop. Or we could rejoin the EU and the economy would grow again??

The Goonies Lego is lovely and all... But where is the Star Trek Lego already?!?!!?! Hurry up and take my money!!

Well of course the Trump Putin meeting was shelved as soon as Trump removed the threat of Tomahawks. Played like a fiddle.

BBC News - Rachel Reeves blames Brexit deal for long-term damage to economy - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... So what's the plan? SM and CU membership will help.. anything else is just tinkering.

Labour want this on the streets of Birmingham? BBC News - Tel Aviv derby called off by police after 'violent riots' www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

The president of the USA has posted a video of himself, dressed as a king, taking an actual, literal crap on Americans. No interpretation required.

I really think the government should listen to the safety advice given.. BBC News - Government 'doing everything' to overturn Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban www.bbc.com/news/article... If they ignore it and there are any issues, it's on them, not the police.

IMF says the UK economy will grow by 1.3% but inflation will be between 2% & 3%. So working people won't feel the benefit. Billionaires will.

At what point do people refuse to pay? Or do we just "work for free" and have no money left for food or leisure? BBC News - Water bills to rise further for millions after appeal - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#ITFC please find the cretins throwing things onto the pitch and ban them. Our club is better than that.

Hey, if they're going to tax education then they should tax healthcare too. BBC News - Streeting rules out VAT on private healthcare - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh dear. Star Trek: SNW just committed a terrible crime. 3 armed bar tender poured the 2 worst pints of Guinness ever seen in the galaxy. And then Wham appear.. mad.. 😂

One of Farage's mates has been outed as a Russian shill, so naturally the BBC are saying Keir Starmer is using inflammatory language.

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's former leader in Wales has admitted taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia while being a Member of the European Parliament. Yet this is the party of patriotism apparently?

So being close to the EU is good for our economy? Really? BBC News - Reeves pushes for EU youth migration scheme ahead of Budget www.bbc.com/news/article... So why don't we just join it if it's the best way of growing the economy?

So I think we've solved the Man Utd problem. They just need to make sure the other team only has 10 players and then they'll be fine.

Are #ITFC being hard done by today? Man sent off and a penalty against.. or are they just being rubbish?

Idiots. BBC News - Council rescinds climate change emergency declaration www.bbc.com/news/article...

Channel 4 should be offering these sacked US talk show hosts a job and let them use food old fashioned British free speech to hold power to account.

Have the UK government made any comment yet about being complicit in genocide?

If only our Prime Minister was this eloquent. www.facebook.com/share/r/14LB...

Lovely to see the EU flags out in force at the Proms last night. Despite the voices that the media choose to give credence to, the vast majority of the UK remains an open, outward looking and tolerant society. Our place will be back with our European friends again. It is just a matter of time.

1 week into the school year and if the WhatsApp is to be believed, nearly every child has swapped their PE kit with someone else. Or lost it completely. Oh the joys of this until July.

I wonder when we'll hear about the Man City charges? #chelsea

Anyone else remember Google Play Music and how it used to be a great place to upload your MP3s? Since Google moved everything to YouTube music my entire library has disappeared. Almost as if they want me to pay for YouTube Music.. Thank goodness I have a hard drive back up.

VAR is ruining football. Fulham player had the ball, stood on a guy's foot by mistake. Awful decision.

Nick Thomas-Symonds on the News Agents trying his best to avoid saying the blatant truth that F*rage is trying to ferment civil disorder. Call a spade a spade man. @newsagents.bsky.social

So how much will the Ref*rm plans to send migrants home cost? What's to stop them coming back again and taxpayers paying for a merry go round forever?