So Trump tells Iran they have no cards and then Vance warns Iran not to play them? That's coherent...

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

Oh, fuck off you total twat.

Trump is "a Bugsy Malone style gangster who's really a child" - Josh Babarinde from the Lib dems. Great line

I do understand this view. Austerity as implemented was a disaster (as I said very publicly for a decade) But we are not seeing/have not seen a huge increase in inequality and the idea that there's some soak-the-rich get-out-of-jail-free card just doesn't add up

Analysis by the House of Commons library estimates that Brexit is costing the Treasury up to £90bn a year!

Applies only to Palestinians; not Israelis. The Israel I grew up admiring is gone.

No one denys that the grooming gangs scandal is awful. A 'inquiry' run by a bloke who wants a racialised immigration policy is not legitimate.

This is pure Alan Partridge.

👏 🚨 This is how to interview Nigel Farage - confront him with his own words and expose his hypocrisy.

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Only Trump could be stupid enough to have formed an alliance with his own enemies.

The two people most enraged by the Rycroft report into crypto currency donations to political parties appear to be Nigel Farage and Sam Coates.

Coutinho (Nov 2023): 'Extra drilling in the North Sea wouldn't bring bills down.' This is the epitome of Tory cuntery.

I think he's become a bit of a reactionary who sees most immigration as a bad thing as resulting in changes is uncomfortable with (not that uncommon a view as preference- even among minority groups) and views lots through that prism, which often leads to absurd contortions and claims to 'justify' it

More drilling will make zero difference to energy costs and the tax take for years and would almost certainly have only a negligible difference down the line.

“Keir Starmer has U-Turned” Honestly the people peddling this shit are just as disingenuous and in many cases as vile as those on the right. The response is to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Agreed alongside all of our allies in Europe and places like Korea and Japan.

I mean that’s mainly because you’ve spent the last two weeks hallucinating u turns and changes

Polanski has been very clear in his mind that Labour is dragging us into another war… So the question he has to answer is that if 50 of his allies said to him “we need the strait open for our economies” and his own team of advisors said the same… Would he just ignore it?

Polanski putting us against the following allies… France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Netherlands, Denmark, Latvia, Canada etc The policy of reality with our allies on a strong footing. Or The policy of the coffee shops and student dorms with Polanski

Tricky one this. Reopening the Straits is something that any reasonable person would regard as a priority. I'm less nervous about this than the US using our bases for things they claim are "defensive" ops which turn out not to be.

In case you need it, the UK allowing the US to use UK bases to target Iranian missile sites targeting international commercial shipping is based on a joint statement by the UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Denmark, Latvia, Slovenia...

So when he bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, you were cool with that? When he made fun of a handicapped reporter, you were cool with that? When he had a mob attack the capital to steal the election, you were cool with that? But now gas is expensive so you regret your vote? Yeah?

It's not our job to police the Straits of Hormuz, and we don't need any help to police it, and NATO should be doing it, and we might send ground troops, and we've already won anyway so it's too late to help us, and we don't need any help, and repeat but on shuffle this time.

Trump is asking for UK war ships to help secure the Hormuz Strait I refer him to last weeks rant telling us the war is won and he doesn’t need us He doesn’t want allies to help, he just wants others to blame. So, Nope. Fuck off Trump Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!

So very apt

The PM made a bad decision on Mandelson, we all know that now. Some of us on social media said it at the time. But every single PM has made bad decisions without having their entire judgment called into question - even when the decisions were so shit (e.g. Blair and Johnson) that people died.

At the most basic level of 'have some self-respect', Conservative MPs should not put forward someone who visibly is not intellectually equipped to be prime minister as their candidate to be prime minister.

Seriously America you put these idiots in charge and won’t remove them even though they are doing this. We got Liz truss out quicker than a lettuce can wilt a tiny bit . Muppets

Badenoch says Labour MPs are "orcs and goons" with "no idea" Starmer: "Moments like this define the Leader of the Opposition. They can either step up, act in the national interest... or they can expose their utter irrelevance. She has chosen the second" #UKPolitics

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

One of the things I miss about pre July 2024 is having a fucking adult as leader of the opposition

"Polling experts we have consulted have told us they are not aware of any reliable polling data from Gorton and Denton that can be used to definitively show either Labour or the Greens are Reform UK’s closest challengers." And yet they are all claiming the advantage.

In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator... stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

5 The allegations: Reform sent a letter to all households that looked like a citizen's but was party-sponsored, the Greens quoted endorsement from a Poli Sci professor who denies it, & Labour cites a voting recommendation from an organisation that doesn't exist. I'll append my sources below.

🧵 In the Gorton & Denton by-election all three parties in line for the seat are now alleged to have used false quotes & sources on election leaflets. (Details below) This has led to investigations & public mudslinging on social media & in open letters. And there's been another worrying aspect:

Ed Davey: it's "SPECIFIC" NOT "PACIFIC" FFS

badenoch could start a fight in an empty room bsky.app/profile/adam...

An 80 year-old Brendan O'Neill shuffles onstage & asks a volunteer to name something that is bad. They nominate dying in a fire. "Dying in a fire isn't a bad thing, like you think, but is actually good," wheezes O'Neill. A man coughs as he exits in silence. No-one knows why he still tours this act.

Turns out “Rachel from accounts” might know what she’s doing

Kemi Badenoch : if I was Prime Minister we would definitely be the only country in the world with no tariffs imposed on us by America and you just need to take my word on that.

It’s unlikely we’ll ever see a more emphatic demonstration of the OBR’s value than what happened when she bypassed it completely in 2022. But here she is. Trussing away…

There’s obvious potential upside if the data keeps coming good for a few months in a row. Household savings ratio is still at elevated levels compared to quite recent history. Good data - rising confidence - more spending, is a self-reinforcing loop. www.ons.gov.uk/economy/gros... 3/3

Just waiting for Dan Hodges in the Mail's take : "in a funny sort of way Starmer is to blame for Andrew's behaviour."

We go live to The MET as they interview Andrew

'Being detained at your brother's pleasure' will never not be funny

Prisoner cell block HRH.

Given that Jenrick is again spouting his clickbait tabloid headline bollocks about getting a free car because of tennis elbow again, you can't: monkdebunks.substack.com/p/no-the-gov...

Robert Jenrick is such a terrible public speaker. Like the very worst village amdram performer