I've noticed a few people quote Yeats recently on here - in the context of the boris johnson, brexit & trump phenomenon, which are, for me, all related & intertwined. No harm in quoting Yeats, of course. Any excuse, for that, is a good excuse and I am going to do the same. A short 🧵 1/9

corp tax? that's part of a wider EU plan to curb the casino culture of investment banks gambling other people's money and tax payers bailing them out when it goes tits up. And you're right, that did contribute to anti EU views. I've clients in that space and brexit is hurting the CoL a lot👇

ECHR - rights of the individual are sacrosanct and protect against illegal actions of their governments (and others of course). UK law - ANY gov can make, remove or amend ANY law on the basis of a single majority vote. Now, why would anyone give up rights under ECHR for promises from UK gov? Anyone?

Farage, in his bubble of media-shielded hate, has been made to feel invincible. This is a rare breach of that bubble exposing his crybaby weakness. If he loses from here, it’ll eat him up. If he wins, he’ll have to govern and be held to account. He’ll be shit at it and end his career in disgrace.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNights #EastCoastKin #photography #Ireland The moon hangs, a copper coin, pressed against the night’s wet palm. Sea mutters its psalms in the dark, stone and salt keeping their secrets.

The Mail seems to be competing with the Express now for screaming-wettie-headline of the day. A snot, tears and soiled underpants of a far right rag totally incapable of coping with a Labour govt in power.

"Combs his hair with a balloon" Excellent 😂😂

When Doherty won World championship in '97 he happened to sit beside me in a Dublin bar for a few hours. He spent the whole night taking punters congrats, signing beer mats, shaking hands. Annoyed me more than him. At closing, I told him I could never be world champion... I'd tell' em all to f'off😜

👇🏼 Sad state of affairs, and I'm disappointed at MPs and even ministers that I once had confidence in (but never the top leadership)

Jaysus!

I repeat... He will burn it a all down, just to be king of the ashes!

Honestly, I watched Cruise and Kidman in that bath clip just now and instantly thought of Wayne clobbering Maureen O'Hara in both The Quiet Man and McLintock! O'Hara was injured in both. Cruise obviously thought that was the way to be. (Irish American comments on QM clips tend to be cringeworthy)

I said previously over on “That Place,” that there’s a very good chance the first moves to trigger a Border Poll will happen not in Belfast or even in Dublin, but in London, and it will start on the Right.

I sat through the DUPs HoC debate to scrap the NI protocol, back in jan 2021, when Osborne wrote that piece. It was extraordinary. Notes from a NI retailers association meet was leaked prior to the debate and a junior tory minister, no less, was wheeled out at the end, to say "London Says NO!".

Oh, I meant London discarding NI.... brexit unleashed a toxic form of english nationalism that has grown in confidence since 2016, with (mainly) english voters electing pro brexit parties in 2017, 2019 and 2024. no fan of his but osborne put it well 👇

He will burn it all, just to be king of the ashes!

“Motherfucking wind farms. Loud, ugly, harmful to nature,” the Pulp Fiction actor says. Then, shaking his head knowingly and shifting his tone, he adds, “Who says that?"

Excellent opinion piece in this weekend's Financial Times #Ukraine

Brilliant, eloquent, succinct. The truth about farage and his entire movement. Should be shared widely.

Curse of private equity. After US hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency depts rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals. PE cut staffing, wages, investment; hiked profits. People killed for profit. Yet UK handing healthcare to PE.

The new Tylenol ad just dropped. Sound up!

Simple, eloquent, correct!

How about, 'Farage Ferries'?

It all started with just one man who had a dream. Attain the highest office in the land, put sycophantic, nodding dogs in charge of gov depths and voila, state capture. If this is real - and these people are actually saluting - America has hit the slippery slope.

Farage isn't saying this to win votes, this is all performative bollocks to convince the foreign billionaires, media billionaires and foreign powers that got Trump back into the White House that he's equally as foul and fascist so is worth their money. Uk media is already playing its part.

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

It's going to come down to the generals, isn't it...

Stewart better watch himself... The regime has eyes and ears everywhere!

Is Hegseth getting his Kirks mixed up? Which Kirk would be a good face for a military recruitment campaign?

Well, that's that then! (as anyone with intelligence enough to dress themselves says).

Quick splainer for Europeans who are wondering how the whole "stop the boats" & "more brexit please" thing is going in the UK. Here's Labour & the new Reform Party Limited (on the right in this clip, coincidentally) battling it out. The tories are watching from pool side and not really involved.

A few thoughts on the #MigrantHotelProtests in #Hull and #NorthernIreland and across #England and on the way we commemorate #RemembranceDay

Prime example of exceptionalism which is hampering a realistic examination of Brexit. It seems the UK haulage industry has been dependent on illegal working in our jurisdiction to keep going. With EES and Etias, that will end. 🧵 H/t @orynski.eu

Printing your own money is about the only useful purpose of having your own central bank (and the main objection to adopting the Euro). Why then will UK government not print money to invest in the UK? The torys took national debt from £750b to £3t just to line door's pockets. Explain it, please.

If you needed another illustration of just how far the USA was down the rabbit hole........................

Opening food banks was a photo op for the torys. Not a sign of failure and source of shame.

Funny… I remember when they promised Brexit would do that.

The best explanation for the MAGA I have ever heard.

Social media needs flooding with this new mural. 🙌🏻 New Banksy mural appears at Royal Courts of Justice www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on £400,000 GB News earnings. Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses. Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven. Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.

And that psychological block is not being broken by the people best places to do it, the quasi-parental figures, most especially the UK PM Anyhow, spellbinding return from Chris 👇 Do read. It's a treat. Ends chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/p/defining-b...

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“Well I guess that settles it.” RFK Jr is in the Epstein files and the public deserves to know everyone and everything in the entire file. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Keep going!