Proud to be Irish

Enough distractions

Be careful what you wish for. Courtesy of @robbie.hood.poetry on Instagram

Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths? Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.

Power to the people!

Exactly!!!

Then what? Army on the streets? Black clad masked private security rounding people up? Concentration camps for the thousands awaiting deportation? Swastikas? No Irish; No Blacks; No Dogs? PUT A STOP TO THIS POPULIST FASCISM NOW!

.@SadiqKhan responds to Farage’s deportation plan “Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

Kirk, Farage & Robinson: The International Far Right Network. The same playbook: Billionaire backers, Kremlin narratives, troll farms. A deep dive into the links and why billionaires bankroll them. Show this to your Reform voting uncle. He’ll fucking hate it. youtu.be/CcIe3lSH0PU

Just in case @liztrussmp.bsky.social needs a bit of assistance with her evening fap:

Disney is no longer associated with magic and innocence in the minds of millions now. There are mistakes - and there is catastrophic cowardice that changes your brand identity. Boycott Disney.

Thanks @worldoflove.bsky.social Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk,

Remember DOGE, Reform’s Department of Government Efficiency Launched with fanfare, gone within months. Meanwhile, their mayor Andrea Jenkyns wants £147k to reply to emails. Efficiency, Reform-style.

🚨 A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

Cardiacs new album, out today. Few better ways to celebrate than this:

You know how the toothbrush tash went out of style (obviously) Do you think in time making yourself orange will go out of style?

Thames Valley Police told @bylinetimes.bsky.social the protest van was taken out of the area for being “at risk” of breaking the Road Traffic Regulations Act, though it’s not clear what part of this act they were referring to. The van was later returned to the activists - and sent away from Windsor

Windsor Castle, this evening. Welcome to Britain, Donny Boy 🇬🇧 #Trump #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

I see the Tories and others up in arms in The Commons today because of the ex US Ambassador’s association and friendship with a convicted paedophile just as that paedophile’s most infamous associate and friend is flying in to dine with The King.

RIP Sundance 😢

Bit like going to a Coldplay concert and claiming that you actually have a great taste in music.

I feel very proud to be British 😂

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

We have to ask ourselves how we respond to a real powerful racist threat now. Do we hope it will go away? Do we allow a deal to be signed behind closed doors to sell off our country to racist-in-chief Donald Trump? I say we show our strength & solidarity #r4today

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

We stand in solidarity with people seeking safety and against acts of violence and intimidation taking place in parts of the country. Times are tough but people fleeing war and persecution are not to blame for Scotland’s problems. Everyone deserves to be safe and feel like they belong.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Cue utter silence from @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social and Starmer.

Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law. These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

Never forget whose side the Media is on. 1m+ marched to stop the Genocide in Palestine. They barely covered it. 2m marched to stop Brexit. They barely covered it. Less than a 1/10th show up for a Far Right Riot, nonstop coverage. The Far Right thugs are their voters.

Brian Kilmeade calls for mass murder and it's ok because the bar is so low for right wing whites.

The people marching in London today are very obviously the ideological descendants of the Mosleyite BUF fascists of the 1930s. The mainstream news and media are too timid to point it out, but that's what they are - and we normalise it at our peril.

Tyler Robinson donated to Trump, he was brought up in a gun worshipping Mormon family, and got high grades at school. His father works for the FBI, and turned his son in to the police.

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To no-ones surprise at all: Nigel Farage doesn't want to share his tax return - despite Starmer, Reeves and Sunak all having done so. What is he hiding? https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/over-50000-sign-petition-urging-nigel-farage-to-release-tax-returns-397837/

I don't think there can be much doubt now that Burnham is preparing for a leadership contest.

I’ve signed the @libdems.org.uk petition to Balance The BBC. Reform only have 4 MPs, yet Nigel Farage accounts for 60% of the BBC website's mentions of opposition leaders. The BBC has a duty to deliver fair, impartial coverage - we need year-round rules to ensure all parties are treated fairly. 📺

All but 2 Republicans can now put “Paedophile Protector” on their CVs

You can't be a leader of a political party and avoid £44,000 pounds' worth of stamp duty. It's just as simple as that.

Mandelson was architect of 2nd State visit for Trump. That visit should not happen. It is sickening to confer special UK honour on Mandelson's fellow Epstein acolyte who is a dangerous autocrat, banning books, militarising police & destroying democratic freedoms.

Daniel Hannan, the country's most egregious liar, now sitting in the House of Lords.

24 hrs after Johnson banned people meeting socially indoors David Brownlow, who provided £58,000 to cover some of the cost of the renovations, which included £2,260 worth of “gold” wallpaper, joined the then prime minister in the small dining room at No 10 on Friday 6 Nov 2020.

As my granny used to say: "To be a good liar, you need a good memory".

‘You, Boy! This is actually NOT my house, It’s my girlfriend’s. I misspoke.’