Badenoch by name, Badenough by nature!

Equally we need to be mindful of the atrocity of 65,000 civilian deaths perpetrated by Netanyahu’s infantile IDF and the razing of the Gaza Strip. Both heinous but the enormity of Zionist revenge is appalling.

Who ever thought these would be more than purely bureaucratic ‘window dressing’ 🤷‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Chris Philp on R4 yesterday making 3 false statements about the ECHR and the GFA. 1. “The ECHR is mentioned only in the Multi-Party Agreement not the UK/Ireland Agreement.”. Wrong: the latter agreement requires the UK to support the former: they can’t be pulled apart like that.

Save our right to protest! This is sheer fascism: 😡 The Government wants to ban repeated protests & jail those who defy them. Stand up for our democratic right to protest - sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...

Wow

Diane Morton, Reform’s cabinet member for adult social care on Kent CC, told the FT that services were already “down to the bare bones”. “Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said another Reform Cllr.

Darren Grimes: "Durham has lost £288m over 15 years from cuts and cost pressures. Children’s care costs have risen from £24m → £96m since 2018...We’ve told the Govt in a letter today: Fair Funding Review 2.0 is too little, too late." So there is no waste to cut, but a need for more money...

apple.news/AFO4dVZ20Qsu... Good lad. He knows and we know, the flags being put up illegally are for purely divisive and sinister reasons.

*gasp*

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

Starmer’s sycophants seem now to be mastering the double-speak of the Tory years: say one thing but adopt a policy 180° opposite.

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

🚄 Brexit means Britain’s left off the map and cut off. The EU is launching a Europe-wide high-speed rail network: 49,400 km linking every capital and major city at 250–350 km/h. It’s the future of green travel and connection. And we’re not on it 🙏 to #brexit. www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...

Exclusive: Nigel Farage has not updated his register since May, despite continuing to present his GB News show, record Cameo videos and being a verified X user Qus are now being asked about the non-registration of his shareholding in GB parent co All Perspectives observer.co.uk/news/politic...

As well as fulfilling predictions about the Online Safety Act, this should be a warning about the implementation of digital ID…

I would like to hear similar sentiments expressed with as much conviction by leading UK politicians.

Breaking the Link is happening, in Spain. 75% reduction in times when gas sets the price resulting in power prices 30% lower than the EU average. While Britain has prices more like 30% higher than the EU average. The Link is the cause. What are we waiting for, Ed, Keir, Rachel....? buff.ly/aOGXavM

I would add one thing: we are bombarded with two claims: 1) the UK can leave the ECHR without lowering human rights protection and 2) the ECHR significantly limits what the government can do and hence the UK has to leave it. These cannot both be true. /1

The breadth of Jewish disapproval of Netanyahu is significantly under-reported in UK media. Views are never monolithic but the median British Jew feels an attachment to Israel and feels Netanyahu has been a disaster for Israel (Institute for Jewish Policy Research) www.jpr.org.uk/reports/what...

Just heard Chris Philp on BBC’s Today programme explaining why the Tories want to leave the ECHR. He claimed ECHR isn’t mentioned in Belfast Agreement - which is simply untrue. The UK govt agreed to incorporate it into NI law & give direct access to the courts (Strand 3). Why no BBC fact-check?

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill. Farage is still silent. It’s deafening. #ReformRussianBribes

Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Dr David Bull, Paul Nuttall, still haven’t said a word about their MEP colleague from UKIP to Reform UK, the Reform UK Leader in Wales Nathan Gill. 8 charges of Russian bribery, all admitted. Reform UK are on the hook for this.

Same guy who declared bankruptcy 6 times shut down the U.S. government 4 times in 5 years of being President. They wanted him to run the government like his businesses and that’s exactly what he’s doing.

No other country set up a VIP Lane during the pandemic. No other European country came close to spending the £14billion we spent on PPE. £10billion of PPE has been written off. Over 1million pallets of unused PPE have now been incinerated! £billions literally up in smoke.

This woman is so absolutely terrible. Blaming the medical staff for her daughter's completely unnecessary death when it's totally on her. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Kemi Badenoch saying “the last time I checked, Northern Ireland did vote to leave” is so on-brand it hurts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very Trump-era story. 1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum. 2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property! 3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property. 4. The person who did the right thing was fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Labour ‘planning to bring back employment tribunal fees’ UNISON: "The government shouldn’t even be considering bringing fees back. This would completely undermine all that’s in the [Employment Rights] bill and be a victory for unscrupulous bosses.’ www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/labour-...

Quite like this from last evening - Seaford.

“Farage “broke Britain" with Brexit and is now, outrageously, capitalising on the vast damage he caused” Article argues there’s no need to mention Reform’s racism as the Brexit shitshow is failure enough. But that had its roots in racism too. So let’s do both. app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...

I think this is probably true. Yes I still don’t thing there’s much appetite to revisit the arguments.

It’s increasingly clear that convicted Russian influencer Nathan Gill was a senior member of Farage’s entourage. (Banks and Wigmore were also in and out of the Russian embassy sharing FBI files, RT talking points, and discussing gold and diamond privatisation deals)

Ignore the nonsense of a 2% rise in domestic energy bills from today. ELECTRICITY standing charge UP 4.5%, units UP 2.41% GAS standing charge UP 14.12%, units DOWN 0.63% %ages differ for people who pay quarterly. Stand Charge now £16.33/month electricity and £10.35/month - more for quarterly

Michelle Mone’s PPE MEDPRO was a company that was less than 3 weeks old, with zero employee’s, no contracts, no premises, no previous transactions of any kind and with £100 in the bank. Then the Government gave it £203,000,000. Jail, jail, jail.

“As thousands of companies bid for contracts to fill the UK’s depleted PPE stockpile, Boris Johnson’s ‘VIP lane’ gave high priority to people with political connections.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

This must never be allowed to happen again, for there will be other disasters (increasingly) and other greedy unscrupulous people will try to take advantage of the professionalism and generosity of public health workers Enraging thread 👇

My spot cartoon for Wed's Metro.

Surely this is a false premise? GE24 was more non-votes or tactical voters decanting Conservative MPs than a swing to Labour - with a 34% success it was the lowest vote any successful party had had.

It might be cool if Labour under Starmer started to appeal to anyone rather than seeking to trash its ratings at 20% & descending.

What is it with current politicians that they seem to have to outdo other extremists with their vacuous rhetoric, despite some having antecedents of comparable origin? Labour currently needs to engage a collective brain, if one exists, & start embracing Socialism AGAIN.

A derelict pile - of bricks! Former seafront hotel close to Seaford Head, known locally as Splash Point

“anyone of color with half a brain knows this is what’s coming our way if these clowns continue with this. They’re opening a door they won’t be able to close again.”

But he also embraces the basic Brexit paradigm that leaves the Exchequer £40bn a year worse off from being outside the single market and a customs union. £40bn a year that could have been spent on public services and help heal division. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So true! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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