Well that was a shock, not. Labour continuity Tory party/wannabe Reform party were drubbed last night. People can see what they are, they’ve lost their base, mopped up a few tories and precious little reform. Time to change tack of face extinction. But they won’t.

Nigel Farage wants to get rid of the NHS and replace it with US Insurance which would be 4x more expensive and worse in every way. Except for the £600bn a year profit for him and his mates.

And now we go live to Kent County Council for the Reform group meeting.

According to Labour's Sarwar during the Westminster election campaign, GB Energy was going to create 69,000 jobs and reduce power bills. 13 jobs so far - and higher bills.

I’ve never seen Iain Duncan Smith slapped down better than this. Well played Ian Byrne MP. 👏

I will remind people, every single Billionaire in the UK gets an average of £320,000,000 of benefits a year, mostly in tax they allowed to avoid. It ain't that Disabled Person on Motability ripping you.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

For all those who don’t vote wisely. Repercussions can roll on for decades.

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

Big turnout for the No Kings rally in Dayton. Can’t wait to see what they looked like in the rest of this big, beautiful country.

AMAZING, DC! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR SHOWING UP. #NoKings

The real threat. 200 weapons, crossbows, swords, machetes, axes, hunting knives and a 3D-printed assault rifle, which prosecutors say could "have been used to devastating consequences".

"What have we all been saying? These flags are done to intimidate, not show patriotism." via Gays Against Fascism

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“Costs are not spiralling. Projected total welfare payments, at around 11 per cent of national income a year, are lower than when David Cameron was prime minister even though there are more pensioners.”

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly. I wonder how they got to this editorial decision? Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again. join.greenparty.org.uk

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change" "All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern" "I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened" "And I get more scared every single day"

Here's the cover of my new espionage thriller, 'My Last Hope' launching next week on Amazon. A group of millennials set sail on a yachting vacation in the Mediterranean, to find themselves embroiled in a Russian state-sponsored art heist. #BookSky #WritingCommunity

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

Always good to remember while you wait in line—this is something we advocated for non-EU members before Brexit.

If you think Farage and reform will make a good government just look at the basket case of the US.

From diseases to democracies... "An infected mind is a far more dangerous pestilence than any plague." --Marcus Aurelius

Excellent movie. Pretty gruesome portrayal of a gas chamber execution. www.imdb.com/title/tt0051...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Michael Wolff: I've seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein's girls. Here's what's in them.

Riding along in the car with grand children has made one appreciate the finer things in life. Over and over….. youtu.be/ZyhrYis509A

@zackpolanski.bsky.social on #bbcqt: "The immigrants haven't caused austerity." "The same Thatcherite policies that you and your party support and the Conservative are what have caused the devastation in this country."

Very pointedly the Norwegian Nobel committee awarded the prize to Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who has had to go into hiding, for “keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness” Something Trump is decidedly NOT doing. Driving his country to civil war instead.

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50! #FightFireWithFire

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.” Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

Lets make different political choices says Zack Polanski. Like taxing billionaires instead of blaming poor people. #bbcqt

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The regulator Ofwat has ruled that 5 private water companies can raise bills by even more than previously agreed A reminder that despite promising to nationalise the water industry Starmer dumped that pledge &decided to side with the private companies instead. This is the result

Make America Great Again… GTF Out!

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract. The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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According to Keir Starmer’s Labour party, these two elderly men and women in wheelchairs are terrorists because they hold signs that read “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action” This is not satire. At least 1,500 people have been arrested in the past few weeks.

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

So, you don’t have a problem with a digital ID system? www.opendemocracy.net/en/digital-i...

We lost a wonderful human being. I agree with her 100%

Anyone remember Reform promising to go into their new councils with DOGE-style units to slash “waste” and stop taxes from rising? Yeah, it went exactly as you’d expect if you put people in charge who have no idea how anything works.

Ministers appear to be considering further welfare cuts that could deprive hundreds of thousands of disabled people of the support they rely on. They should remember how their last attempt to balance the books in this way went.

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies. Reform says something unhinged ⬇️ Labour counters with their own unhinged policy ⬇️ Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged ⬇️ Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response ⬇️ And repeat...🔁

BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x

It seems those that campaigned to get Starmer in to get the Tories out, are already suggesting a new campaign for GE29. Notice how it isn’t vote Labour to keep Reform out, but a suggested coalition. Are they beginning to realise that Labour is not the lesser evil after all?

They could have just pushed him in his wheelchair when they arrested him. Instead they dragged him away like he was a bag of rubbish. They did this to humiliate him, to diminish him, to hurt him, to dehumanise him. He has a million times the heart and soul of the thugs who did this to him.