We've got used to the MSM, if someone says it's raining having someone on who'll say it's not, if that suits their political agenda, while refusing to look outside to check. You have to laugh at the US at the moment, re the Good murder, trying to do the same when everyone is standing in a downpour.

Please repost if you want the full restoration of our EU Freedom of Movement.

Farage says leaving the ECHR is the “unfinished business" of Brexit and that the UK is "not sovereign” while we are in it. But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread. Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I can't help wondering why Mr Trump, who previously claimed he could "shoot someone in 5th Avenue" or "grab a woman by the..." well wherever and not lose voters is suddenly so concerned about what voters might think should they learn what the Epstein files have to say about him?

It's so sad, I was talking to someone today who's very angry about a local issue, they're blaming the Government, suggesting if Reform was in charge it would be fixed, completely oblivious to the fact that they only have this issue in the first place as a direct consequence of Brexit!

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Reform UK supporting Matt Goodwin says because we are broke taxes have to go up Brexit costs us £40 billion a year in lost tax income from trade with the EU, this is why we are broke If you vote for Reform you're voting for the same people who made us broke, to fix us being broke 🤷‍♂️ #BBCQT

The thing about the current Royal scandals is when you think it would have only taken a helicopter crash or a slip from the deck of a warship back in the 1970s for it to now be "King Andrew" who was having to deal with them!

Farage: epic grifter

Don't mean to single out Nick Ferrari specifically but this sums up the problem with our mainstream media at the moment. Rather than simply reporting the facts about what's happened the most important thing to them is that whatever they say presents their own political viewpoint in the best light.

Also on @mrjamesob.bsky.social podcast "Everybody knows we have too much debt." Nobody challenged this. All money was originally created by the Gov. "Gov. debt" is another name for the money put into the economy which now exists as private wealth. If there was no Debt there would be no money supply.

I listened to @mrjamesob.bsky.social daily podcast from @lbc.co.uk . The top 1% pay 33% of the tax, that sounds unfair but I'm amazed no one asked "Do the top 1% have 33% of the income" If so 33% of the tax seems quite fair, if they don't not so much, but if they've more than 33% of the income...

Such a relief that Russia lost in Caerphilly.

Sorry @theipaper.com but WHY is this guy talking to us about what will make the UK poorer? He was happy to grenade our economy twice… Brexit and then his batshit budget with Truss. He should be in political oblivion for the mess he made and the price we all have to pay for his party’s failures.

Not surprising at all. 16M people voted against leaving the EU, OK slightly more voted for, but I doubt many of the 'remain voters' have since been persuaded they were wrong and for nearly ten years all the main parties have completely ignored them.

We all condemn Hamas' attacks on Israel but todays headline seems to sum up the war in Gaza.... "terrorists fired on Israeli troops in Rafah, killing two soldiers. Israel responded hitting Hamas targets across Gaza, with hospital sources saying 44 people were killed."

I consider myself politically in the centre. I don't ideologically support any party. I don't like far right or far left views. I'll vote for the least worst option. Parties should be trying to attract my vote. Note to Party leaders, leaving the EHCR is going to make sure you get DON'T get my vote.

Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?

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?

Nigel Farage Broke Britain.

The Tories became irrelevant after Johnson banished the remaining sane party members. Since then, they have continued their journey into the political wilderness. Anyone temped by their latest wheeze to ditch human rights protection for UK citizens must be beyond help.

Every election is a sort of collective entrance exam into the future. It occasionally happens that populations fail the exam. But for the US to fail essentially a resit of its 2016 exam, featuring the same questions, having studied the answers for eight years, is much rarer and pretty unforgivable.

Anyone else get really irritated with letters from TV Licensing? I've not had a TV for 12+ years. They expect me to keep telling them I don't need a licence. So many other things I don't have and don't need which I don't have to justify. But it's their language "You 'claim' you don't need a licence"

21st century Britain where it's illegal to project an image on a wall but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths

Dear Reform voters, These guys are laughing at you. They promise to make your lives better… but they couldn’t give less of a shit. You’re their playthings. Their route to power. When they’ve got it, they’ll be done with you. And they’ll trash the place. Get some self-respect. The rest of the UK.

The problem with our politics: I have friends who plan to vote Reform, I ask why, what do they want? They want funded NHS, potholes fixed, cost of living addressed etc., none of which Reform will deliver but the issue is I can't suggest another party to vote for who I think will.

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Farage promise to "stop the boats within two weeks of winning gov't" unravelling. Apparently, it means "after passing laws", "as quickly as possible", he "believes", the boats will still cross, but all will be deported "if necessary" and "sensible", "unless we have a duty of care". Bravo, Beth! 👏🏽

When Farage makes such claims people should recall that this is exactly how the Brexiters dismissed the NI border issue pre-referendum. 'Oh it will be easy, nothing will change, don't forget there's a CTA' etc. It then became maybe the central & still enduring problem for delivering Brexit.

Jimmy Raskin, a US Congressman yesterday called my MP a "Putin loving free speech imposter and Trump sycophant" I can't criticise the Congressman because I agree with him! I'd email my MP and ask why he is in the US and not representing me in Parliament today but he never answers my emails.

Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events: "I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians “The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy” eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

I turn the news on this morning BBC leads with some policy announcement by Badenoch, Sky by Farage. WHY? there's no election soon they cannot (fortunately) enact those policies. Concentrate on the mess the elected Government is making, try to influence them, anyone would think our news media biased.

The overall goal here is clear: Trump wants full control of the U.S. economy. That’s reckless no matter who the president is. But it’s a ruinous mission for a president who obviously has no idea what he’s doing. trib.al/VnbR4iD

The Times says Reform “has no track record to weigh it down”… Other than: Islamophobia, racism, inept councillors, MP absenteeism, admiration for Putin, love of Trump, brazen grifting, idiotic manifesto, dodgy donations and Brexit… the single stupidest thing the country has done in our lifetimes.

Isn't it remarkable just how much more of a clear-eyed perspective a little distance, in this case from the Wall Street Journal in the US, can provide?

It would be a thousand times better for Labour and for Britain if the national debate were about whether to rejoin the EU or not, rather than how hard to punch down at immigrants. Instead, Labour chose to propagate Farage's argument for him by accepting it had SOME validity and trying to nuance it.

Nigel Farage and Reform have consistently voted against the Employment Rights Bill which introduces key worker protections like statutory sick pay from day one and a ban on zero-hours contracts - is that a party you would want to trust with your human rights?

Politicians tell us the UK is “borrowing too much” and faces a “debt crisis.” That’s wrong. The government creates the pounds it spends, and what’s called “borrowing” is really just it accepting deposits — or savings. It’s time to stop the scare stories. youtu.be/kdtRJihVVuM?...

The Trump-Putin meeting should make one thing startlingly clear to Europe… …we need to throw in everything to ensure Ukraine wins the war outright. In fact, it’s not even about Ukraine winning anymore - it’s Europe that needs to win this war outright.

Brexit has been a resounding disaster. Starmer must find the courage to change course | Ed Davey https://www.europesays.com/uk/320184/ Brexit isn’t working, and the British people know it. Poll after poll, including that unveiled this weekend by…#uk #news #uknews

“Whatever happens, the damage that has already been done by the constant media indulgence of Farage and his divisive, inflammatory and outright racist views will take many years for this country to recover from.” Yes. A disgraceful, unforgivable failure. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-dog...

Did you know? "As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep. The Government banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe a certain medication" - (GP, Dr Steve Taylor)

Brexit: Our “diplomatic triumphs, be they in the "reset" with the EU or the trade deal with Trump, largely consist in the removal of obstacles that didn't even exist before” Good analysis on the bugger’s muddle that is Brexit and its perma-idiotic aftermath. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wes Streeting has defended only paying for half the population to get an NHS dentist Current £3 billion budget for England is only enough to fund NHS dental care for half the population,just think about that Shocking new data shows nearly 14 MILLION ADULTS unable to access NHS dentistry in England

“With few seats in Parliament, no coherent policy platform beyond his usual outrage machine and no serious political capital in Europe, Farage is not being snubbed. He is simply being treated according to his actual political relevance” 👏 Let’s keep it that way www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/macron-snu...

Britain *is* broken. Brexit broke Britain. And Nigel Farage is benefitting from the wreckage. This was always my greatest fear with Brexit - that it would bring about stagnant conditions that favour extreme populism. Much like drug addiction causes crashes that make the drug more seductive.

My translator tells me "thoughts & prayers" is an American political expression that means "we'd rather have a secret police force than a weather service".

Left: Susanna Reid announces that kwasi Kwarteng will be on GMB again today Right: Carol Vorderman explains why the public are frustrated with the normalisation of politicians who were an absolute disaster for the country