Consider the headline, followed by the subheading, add in the fact that the House of Lords is a paid job for life merely based on attendance, and then proceed to tell me that the UK isn't one of the most corrupt countries on God's green Earth.

The wheel spins as it should.

Fourth in the polls after a 174 -seat landslide 18 months ago.

Problem with assertions like this from simple-minded bigots like the "King of Panto", is that while longing for the punitive past, they are oblivious to mission creep. I'm sure he'd be absolutely fine with the future recriminalisation of gross indecency between men as a punishable offense, right?

One of the amusements of this time of year is watching the Americans immediately returning to work and instantly dissolving into a fit of rage whilst we all wander around in a sort of cheese based calenderless fugue

Yes it did, and I think you know exactly what comes next, Andy.

Choosing to do the monarch's annual Christmas message from a national, historical monument rather than a gilt and mahoganied chamber in one of the many residences dripping with the opulence of a thousand years of hereditary privilege? Let's just say that's calculated.

Merry Xmas, everyone! 🎄🎁 Except this shithouse govt and its stans, all Tories and anyone lovingly involved with Reform UK 🙃.

Personally think this is a massive underestimation of where societal discourse is. Many people wouldn't be asking if their mate felt okay, they'd be laughing with them, and probably round off with "the military's so woke and DEI now anyway they'd just give the nukes up willingly."

This guy is an arse, and also wrong: Sensible Centrism was dead as fuck as any kind of popular phenomenon in the 2000s and it will continue to plague and damage us next year because - like the Tories 2016-21 - it’s rotted corpse was propped up and walked around by the press, like Weekend At Bernie’s

What does it do? Fuck kids and fall asleep on TV?

If there are people studying our era in the future, they will be amazed that all that is unfolding was entirely predictable Every post on my wall is like: - how fascism is being enabled - how it could easily be countered - how the people in power do the opposite while pretending to care

Oh fucking lol. They're actually just gonna follow the exact same method that made Starmer leader and it'll work: bullshit the membership that Thumb Wes is a liberal at heart, fart out some progressive platitudes for the members, and the dupes and gulls will buy it. AGAIN. Sensational.

People in the UK often avoid engaging with politics because they’re conditioned to believe it happens *around* them, and not *to* them. But you can see another reason for detachment in the below, where everyone involved—bar the audience—is compelled to lie, because that’s the nature of the game.

Ah, it all makes sense now.

At least the last six years of American politics have been characterized by both sides denying that their senile, degenerating, septuagenarian leader is any of the above, while the country goes to the shithouse around them. This is a perfect environment to foster trust in politics, I’m sure.

In film and literature, I believe this is what they call "foreshadowing".

If you have to reset your computer five times in 18 months, that's normal. If you have to do the same thing for your government, it's fucked.

You won't find better evidence of the Monoparty system than this—just the other guys waiting patiently for their turn in the control room. The wheel spins as it should.

The grand plan of the Labour Right was to take power, show everyone they were 'ard as nails by stomping the correct people into the ground, & sew up the bigot vote for decades. What they've done is destroy their own base, made Tory voters hate them 2% more, & Reform 1% less. Your forensic govt.

For decades, rightists have been complaining about immigrants from "low-trust societies" invading the West. What those same bigots have failed to realise is that economic inequality, polarization & the deliberate weakening of institutions means they've been living in low-trust societies all along.

Deeply unpopular administration with authoritarian tendencies does what governments like that tend to do: shut the doors to anybody but the in-group.

I mean, I am far from a biographer of the contemporary Labour Party, but I can tell you that this is a journalist attempting to create a compelling narrative where none exists, because the reality is bleakly mundane, and writers are in the business of storytelling.

This is a map of public transport in my favourite city, Cologne. A mixture of multiple tram, light rail and links to other cities/towns. It is absolutely incredible when you go there. Cologne has a population of 1.1m. The Leeds/W Yorkshire metro area is 1.9m and can't even get 1 fucking tram line.

The wheel spins as it should.

What makes Ridge's barking, dystopian question even more tasteless, is that she's asking it seated next to the Eton-educated son of Sir David Frost and Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard, daughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk.

A lot's changed since 2003— primarily people at the top of the world's most powerful military deciding not only that the gloves are off, but laughing at the fact they ever had gloves at all.

Of course, had there been a deadly attack on people celebrating Eid, Diwali, or Vaisakhi 11,000 miles away, the police and politicians in the UK would also be advocating for the suspension of the established norms of law enforcement, right? RIGHT?

A reminder that the perfectly sane ethnonationalists & christofascists of Reform UK have already said that they'd end the operational independence of the police if they came to power, so this move by the Met to ignore legal advice will come as an early Christmas present to our imminent overlords.

Just the United Kingdom's largest police force telling the body that ensures criminal cases are handled impartially and fairly, that it's going to ignore its legal advice. Which seems fine, just fine, really.

One of those posts where your hand just reflexively starts to make a wanking motion in the air.

Never wanted the AI bubble to violently explode until now.

Not to downplay the influence of Russia, but for my entire adult life, the most harmful sociopolitical interference in British politics has come from the United States of America. So perhaps we should start there.

Here we are again, Pemberley of the Mind. This shit is so tiresome.

Honestly, give everyone in the Online Shitposting Left a politics professorship, because they could've got at least 7 of these if you gave them a pen and 5 minutes to think about it.

I see the country's most disgusting nativists are smashing the shit out of the They Hate Our Way Of Life button again. Because it's the only button they have.

Only a true artist could distil a life of privilege into a single coin toss

Much of the "patriotic fervour" that got nativists their blessèd Brexit, was galvanised by the desire to deport Eastern Europeans, & then, eventually, our own "home-grown" ethnics. And now they've got half way to Nirvana, are they happy? Are they fuck. They never will be. It'll never be enough.

It's like every prominent member of this govt is vying for the title of Worst Person To Have Ever Held The Job.

This is the reporting Britannia deserves.

If the Epstein motherlode is set to drop on December 19th, I wouldn't be surprised if the US is at war with Venezuela by then.

It's notable that Swinford headlines this tweet on his feature of Wes Streeting's tilt at the Labour leadership by referencing a book about a kid whose actions destroy his family.

Everything is America Now latest

Far be it from me to underestimate the threat of the Russian Bear, but I suspect that many EU leaders might well be banging the drum of war to distract from the fact we're in the twilight of neoliberalism, and they are wildly unpopular at home. Take the UK's last four prime ministers, for example.

The very same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...

This bellicose trash makes perfect sense when you think that the UK's last FOUR crazily unpopular PMs have used Zelenskyy and the war in Ukraine as a shield to deflect from domestic woes, and that a new, unwanted, unelected PM is probably just a few months away.

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Your regular reminder that a corgi crossed with any other breed just ends up looking like a corgi disguised as the other dog. Dalmatian

Ah, government departments are still blatantly doing "Christian name good, Islamic name bad", then. In 2025. Splendid. Sensational.

With every passing day, it becomes more obvious this guy will be a Reform UK MP by the time of the next election.