What he doesn't buy, his American buddies will shut down. PM Orbán, who is on his way to Washington, has already received his first gift from Trump: the closure of Radio Free Europe in Hungary. The reason? "Undermining staunch allies does not serve the American people." @rferl.org.web.brid.gy

#Ukraine need to use drones that can airlift an infantry soldier to get as many soldiers out of #Pokrosk as this is turning into a failure of military planning of a catastrophic scale. #NATO #NAFO

Once again the governor of the Bank of England has shown himself as a right wing sleeper which he always was. He deliberately didn’t cut rates despite every reason to ahead of budget he knew would be monetary tightening and not inflationary. We lost a titan in Mark Carney who called out #brexit

Many UK convenience stores are run on a franchise basis. This is very costly and #Labour could set up their own ‘franchise’ which would be named ‘British Groceries’ and allow this to be done at very little cost to the taxpayer (say £500m) whilst giving chains time to convert from NISA etc. #budget

The #Labour government could nationalise Iceland for under £2bn in the #budget if they want to produce a rabbit out of the hat moment. Making them non profit could also help push down grocery prices across the sector, although margins are tight. This would help distract the media from tax rises.

The #Labour government needs to be far more radical and communicate better. This means replacing #Starmer and getting it right. I don’t like Wes Streeting for his appointment of an enemy of the #MECFS community (Simon Wessley) but he’s an option. Maybe Angela Rayner could be a good choice. Thoughts?

School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.

🔴Nigel Farage’s Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’ and attacked ‘third world cultures’ in now-deleted posts bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

Watching The Chair Company, I can’t help but think Tim Robinson would make a great Bill Gates in an #epstein drama.

I take a pragmatic independent approach to every issue and use critical thinking and life experiences of running a small business, having had a very well paid job and then having my life destroyed by disease. This makes me centrist on some issues and left on others. But I don’t follow the crowd. 🚫🐑🐑

We need to support #Syria to stabilise the country and return any immigrants that don’t have citizenship. This is about 40,000 of which 6,500 are currently in the application process. We need to keep #Russia out. We should use overseas aid to promote a stable Syria and asylum should be for needy.

Now they are committed to breaking the manifesto, they should do this in the #Labour #Budget It’s a simplified system that will save about £1bn from administration and allow HMRC to focus on tax evasion. We should be looking to lower the amount of workers who aren’t on PAYE. Companies should employ

“Fuck man, we’re about to win. There must be something we can do to stop this.”

🔴The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...

We should be looking at having the #euro across western democracies like Canada and South Korea and hopefully one day in the #UK. Although getting Poland and other #EU hold outs in the Euro will be the priority. It needs to be a true Dollar alternative which means getting the city of London in.

Just send them to the local church or gun range

This *should* end the ridiculous debate about who belongs here / is genuinely British. But it won’t. This country belongs to the people who live here, now. Not 50 years ago, not 500 years ago. And nobody needs to be a hero. But this guy undoubtedly is.

Labour need to appoint @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com to do a report on personal finance reforms. He should be given a wide mandate to allow him to suggest anything he has expertise on. If #Labour announce this at the #budget it could allow them to take some of the sting out of it.

#Labour #Budget should create a new tax to replace income tax, national insurance, capital gains and dividend tax. Then there should be a lower rate for the retired and inflation linked capital gains with more incentives for new investments and a British ISA at £20k and £5k for current going forward

It’s critical Rachel #Reeves brings forward the defence spending uplift by a year in the #Labour #Budget due to #Russia aggression. We also need to confiscate the Russian Assets to pump money into #Ukraine. #NATO Join #NAFO for £85 a month or one off campaign at www.help99.co

Yes and #Belguim still won’t confiscate the assets. How dumb do you have to get? Also Belgium is becoming a crime capital of the #EU. I’m sure the Russian Mafia would be part of this. How weak do you have to be to not act. Just take the assets as that’s what #Russia would do. You need to act equally

#Hamas clearly don’t want peace in #Gaza. They have been trying to regain control of Gaza and people who support #Palestine need to understand when #Isreal end up going back in and breaking the ceasefire. This will cause more problems for #Labour who can’t get a break.

Confiscate #Russia assets now completely so they can never be negotiated away. We can never lift sanctions, but #Trump will never be trusted with this unless he sees it’s in his interest that LNG from the #US is in his interest not to be on the Russian side. But the assets must be done now.

UK government debt is becoming cheaper but this is not in the news. #Labour are likely to double the headroom in the #budget and this will partially pay for itself. It’s a shame the Bank of England are still selling gilts, they should have lowered this more to bring in line with other central banks.

Why aren’t #Labour forcing the questions on #Farage links to #Russia. Hopefully it’s because there is an active investigation & they are being strategic to not look like a political prosecution. Having Farage in prison would be a bad look for #Reform. He is a traitor @reformexposed.bsky.social

When will the left realise the right don’t play fair and go on the attack with Media Reform and #Labour need a charismatic leader who can hold twice weekly press conferences and not call biased questions (so stick to fair journalists) in the same way Claudia Schaumburg does in #Mexico.

All of these bonuses will be completely unaffordable if Scotland were independent. Just look at #Brexit and its effect. Independence would be much worse as trade and subsidies due to the Barnett formula. I support a federal system but never independence.

All these tax avoidance schemes need to be fully closed down in the #Labour #Budget as the rich will continue to innovate and we need to continue to crack down.

#Ukraine should rig Pokrosk area with explosives do a tactical retreat. Trade land with time. They should have already have strategic areas to retreat to. If not then failure to prepare is preparing to fail. I fully support Ukraine. They need to inflict losses of at least 3-1. #Russia need to lose.

#Labour are voiding sexual and general workplace harassment NDAs as well as private ones that cover up sexual predators. Why are they not shouting about all the good things they are doing. They need to keep talking about this until it’s a meme how much they talk about renters rights etc.

Yes Torsten, but why aren’t you just legislating about headlines reflecting the articles and apologies in the same place and size as articles. If the right get in they will try to fully seize the media. All you need is to get them to play fairer. Plus how is GB News even allowed? You are influential

Yeah shame 41% have no marbles

Council tax should be revalued to 2025, with a long term change to Land Value Tax. Along with other reforms in the next #labour #budget

I got a notification for a sex offender arrest & I live in a multicultural city so was interested in ethnicity. White Male. There will be no news probably even on local news, I’ll see if the BBC local even cover it. There will be no marches or protests or burning of British Flags. #farage where r u?

This is the start and now we need a police investigation and hopefully prosecution. It’s such a such shame Virginia Guifree couldn’t hold on, it makes me want to cry sometimes but there will be others. We know how these people work. #prince #andrew #epstein

If #Labour break their manifesto at the #budget they need to follow the polling & link it to positive messaging and they need to simply the tax system. Merge Income tax with National Insurance. Make all income taxes the same (capital gains, dividend taxes) then allow carve outs for inflation on CGT.

If #Trump wants to run again for President then he would be best running for Senate and trying to become #Senate majority/minority leader. I don’t want to give him ideas but I’m not exactly sharing state secrets here. But his health is so bad I don’t expect him to be with us in 6 years thankfully.

If you decide to go into #university make sure you choose the right #degree. The #Labour government need to do a review and make sure they cut the degrees with very poor outcomes. It’s not good for the #economy or the students mental health and it’s also costly for government finances.

📺 Going to binge the best series on TV at the moment: Slow Horses today. Then probably rewatch the whole thing from the start all the way through in a month. (Retired due to poor health) #tv #slowhorses

If we raise gambling taxes then it should be online and AGCs (slot machine arcades) only. It should be tapered to highest losers to attack problem gambling and is not the right way to go (see my pinned message). But this is least bad. I can go into more detail but my pin explains. #labour #budget

1/ The next tax measure #Labour should do this #budget is after inflation is back to 2% remove all VAT exemptions whilst increasing universal credit to help the poorest afford any increased costs. Why should someone on £150k get tax free food? Again this is all about cutting the tax code by a half.

#Labour should merge income tax and national insurance in the #Budget whilst having a pensioner rate that is consistent so it’s politically acceptable. This would raise money. It’s hard to get an accurate estimate how much. This would simplify the tax code and is widely supported by all experts.

"The first 6 months of 2025 saw wind & solar together pass a historic milestone, generating more power than coal for the 1st time & making renewables the world’s leading source of electricity. The driving force..was the growth of solar" www.newscientist.com/article/2500...

Fascinating that both of these people were considered on the "soft" centre-right of the Tory Party not so long ago.

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white" Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀

Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners." In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures. Maybe Beth is on a diet.

The #EU again go not quite to confiscate #Russia assets. Does anyone not see it’s symmetrical as Russia can have confiscated all western assets including all the European aeroplanes leased to them and western oil investments. Yes they might give some back to #Trump but never to Europe. Beaurocrats 🙄

#Tesla must be the most overvalued company in the world. If people knew the real #Musk (Which they increasingly do thankfully) then it’s only valued on future hopes and promises. Musk is the hype man of this century. Hopefully one day he is completely found out.

We need to get people into investing and should launch a BritISA with 75% British companies and 25% gilts. We could allow £30k allowance of this and only £5k on others. Yes it’s risky for the government if it goes down, but it supports business confidence and UK government debt. #ISA

1/ I would still support #Labour as they have actually done some good things. Renters and Workers rights bill, getting closer to the EU & gradually criticising #Brexit, minimising Trump tariffs, allowing a vote on assisted dying, massive switch to renewables, planning reforms, 30 hours childcare.