I didn’t vote for war against Venezuela. How about you? 😡

It was bad enough to endure the weeks of run up to it & ideas just thrown out there. But lower wage earners subject to fiscal drag because tax thresholds not increased, hurts the youngest in particular, who already struggle to rent/buy somewhere to live.

Such valour - does anyone EVER get a P45 from the Civil List?

*GARGANTUAN* 💥 Economist for Brexit admits 🟥 Brexit made Britain poorer 🟥 Biz investment collapsed 🟥 Productivity weakened 🟥 EU-facing firms cut jobs & spending 🟥 Trade barriers drag economy down 🟥 Brexit deepened fiscal crisis 🟥 No meaningful upsides 🟥 The damage undeniable in data 🧵

Has a single day gone by when this ignorant, crude, undignified, crass, lying and undoubtedly stupid lump of lard has not disgraced the office of the President of the USA?

Anyway who believes AI-generated material is original or of value is a fool.

On Facebook it’s full of people making excuses for him. They weren’t doing that when the false rumours about the driver being Muslim were flying around.

Tapo all the way.

Brexit has cost each and every one of us £3,700 a year. But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes. My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!

Lammy of the elastic neck - able to face all directions near simultaneously.

Farage put Banks up as Reform Candidate for West Country Mayor. Oakeshott is Dubai Dickies partner now but she was in no doubt that Banks was under the influence of the Russian State, begs the question what has Banks got on Farage ?

So the guy who claims to KNOW what the people in Britain want, that guy didn’t KNOW his right hand man for many years was taking bribes from Putin for political activities?

Farage cited Enoch Powell as his political hero in an interview in Total Politics magazine in 2008. In 2014 he cited Vladimir Putin as the world leader he most admired. You want this guy as your next prime minister???

If multiple people can remember someone being horribly racist, even by the appalling low bar of the racist 1970s, that is entirely noteworthy. As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero. And that's noteworthy too.

More AI bullshit. It’s a snake-oil delusion.

Yes, this is the Great Barrington Declaration. Infect everyone under 70 so that the economy is not harmed. Except that ill consumers and workers cannot support the economy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

In the unlikely event that Farage arrived by train he will have gone to Llandudno station - renovated courtesy of the £21.5 million contributed by the EU to the Wales Station Improvement Programme started in 2005. If he drove then he'd have gone on the coastal stretch of the A55 ...guess what folks

Farage is speaking at Venue Cymru tonight. Last revamped in 2018 with £1.8 million of EU development money and another £1 million in business development cash. Original development also received significant EU funding. Farage, by contrast, will give Llandudno nothing but hot air and lies.

Coruscatingly incisive & accurate piece by Nesrine Malik @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This article is quietly and forensically furious at the bluster and the lies. Lord knows I'd love to forget about covid but we mustn't - the lessons from this are too important for next time - and there will be a next time.

Some people are going to be forced underground. Others will be cheated and robbed because it’s now “open season” on migrants. Thanks to Starmer and his awful leadership

See this thread here for a compilation of our reporting & why it matters. We are still seeing the press & politicians minimising the importance of this case even while a police investigation is ongoing & there are so many qs outstanding. bsky.app/profile/then...

How impractical is this? Making hospitals smaller to deliver care in or nearer their homes. 🤷‍♂️ The essence of a hospital is to concentrate resources at a centre so that the ill/needy can be treated by a range of specialisms. Dispersing the care results in it being disjointed, expensive & patchy. …

the keyword being IF .... most people will use it carelessly and unethically bc it's fast, it's easy and they have to think less to get whatever they want. It's just outsourcing your brain and giving access to private information like never before to spineless people. The perfect trojan horse.

Quite. Pity I’ve ditched my 90s Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Jonathan Freedland nails it impeccably. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pawn or mouthpiece more like.

I’m particularly angry today with all those people who attacked us for daring to challenge Laura Kuenssberg, implying we were misogynistic and unfair. No. She, together with Peston et al, played a key role in Boris Johnson’s ‘success’.

Headline still there this morning. Some newspapers will be chuffed. Won't stop them waging war on the Beeb, of course.

NEW: The judge has begun her sentencing remarks in Nathan Gill hearing. She notes the behaviour expected of MEPs "members are to act solely in the public interest". 1/

This was an IQ test.

My 7 measures netted £37.5bn, so YES.

The three branches of government. Bullying, Complicity and Spinelessness.

The 750-page document also has stinging criticism of “toxic and chaotic” culture inside Boris Johnson’s Downing Street – which it said the then PM. actively embraced – in which loudest voices held sway and women were sidelined.

BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry. Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.

BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.

That is a consequence of trying to hide millions while declaring bankruptcy.

Give me strength… the Covid enquiry gives them a chance to bash Johnson & the Tories, stick the boot into conspiracy idiots & act like a responsible government by saying what they’ll do to prepare for another pandemic. So they go and make yet another migrant-bashing announcement…

The PM's, and the UK Government's, dithering, cost tens of thousands of lives. Clinicians in Lombardy gave us plenty of warning of what was about to hit us. Will Johnson apologise? And are we better prepared for the next pandemic?

240,000 too many. 😢🤬

This is what happens when you put a preening, lazy, populist, dilettante in charge of a country. Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

And yet aping Reform seemed like such a great idea to Mahmood.. until Reform mocked her for it and made her part of their merchandise

The out of control privately owned networks, pushing their charges up to cover the investment needed in ‘their own’ networks - while shovelling £10s of billions abroad in dividends. Monday we publish an expose of the Great British Energy Market Rip Off. In a new media outlet.

Unworkable, cruel policy designed to win over far right voters. It won't.

Can anyone name a country where the far right were attacking minorities and those minorities felt safer after the far right were appeased by the government? Because I can’t. news.sky.com/story/politi...

If only it was "completely fuckwit free".

KCIII not short of small change having the riches of the Duchy of Lancaster & a super boost in the Civil List to fall back on in his time of need for new helicopters.

Maybe a contest of whose gold appendage is bigger. 🤷‍♂️

Liz Truss due to her brief stint as PM receives a lifetime pension worth £100,000 annually and £1 million in 24 hour year round security. Funded by the taxpayer to spend all her time talking down the UK.

This is what I have been saying since August 2024. Starmer is useless, dithering & disconnected. How he ever became DPP is a mystery, as his skills as the senior politician in Government are non-existent. For those Labour zealots who have attempted to pillory me with their stupidity, eat this👇