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Any news on this??? Is the police investigating yet Electoral Commission investigation?? Any interest in trying to save the uk democracy Or are we now a third world country??

British voters have high expectations of politicians, who are afforded virtually no time to fix problems that have been decades in the making. 📝 New piece on the perils of chronic impatience 👇🏻

‘The Speech I Wish Keir Starmer Had Given’ Alexandra Hall Hall delivers the big reset speech she wishes the Prime Minister actually had made after Labour's local elections defeats

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 Letter to the Guardian ~ which they won’t print

If you like data, here is something interesting for you: Bridget Phillipson interview on LK: 9m 40" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 31 Richard Tice interview on LK: 8m 23" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 9

Very interesting

In Sunderland, Reform stood David Barker. Who beat his girlfriend “black and blue”. He also neglected and burnt his child with cigarettes. He was handed a suspended sentence. It comes up when you Google him. He won in the council election. A vicious domestic abuser is now a Reform Councillor.

 It definitely isn't the disaster that I think many people predicted. It could be a sign that Labour are turning the corner.

Reminder that the actual Conservative Party put out a press release suggesting that this theft was actually part of a government "cover up". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In a nutshell:

Stewart Jackson: "The fundamental thing about the Labour Party is its dishonesty." In other news. 'Stewart Jackson, a shadow minister, claimed £66,000 for his family home, including hundreds of pounds on refurbishing his swimming pool.' (May 2009) #politicslive www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop...

it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson

#Sweden is electrifying everything that moves — trucks, buses, ferries, and mining vehicles — building the world's most complete 0-emission transport system. While most countries are focused on getting private EVs onto roads, Sweden has been electrifying every category of transport #ActOnClimate

BREAKING: “Apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world” Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley writes to Zack Polanski.

Oh my god. Did they not do even basic vetting? The real Anne Frank, seriously?

Decoding the King’s speech… Plenty of well placed jibes in this one!

This explanation makes the most sense so far.

⚠️The UK media are in the process of staging an illegal putsch against a democratically elected prime minister. #UKMedia

How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.

This is excellent, and certainly not only because of the reference to the incredible shrinking man (whose fight with the spider gave me nightmares as a child).

BOOM! Health researchers at the University of Auckland have suggested a tax on utes in response to high emissions and more deadly accidents. Totally agree. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Yup, here it is, knew this would come in handy again.

Washington Hilton, where Trump will soon be arriving for the White House correspondents’ dinner. End the cover-up.

As Michael Sandel explained in The Tyranny of Merit, as the promise of meritocracy reveals its emptiness, those raised in the system who do work hard but fail to advance feel a sense of meritocratic humiliation, fuelling the rise of populists like Farage www.theguardian.com/books/2020/s...

Pay attention, this is important 👇👇👇👇

The number in the post is complete fiction - the estimate is about one fifth of that. The actual clip from @zackpolanski.bsky.social also includes equalising CGT and income tax. (Very) optimistically, this might raise the same again. So he's out by a factor of (at least) two, probably more.

A review of a film, made secretly, which gives a chilling insight into how Putin imposes Russian militarism on school children | Charlotte Mbali

Fanatical Brexiter and key Brexit negotiator, Lord David Frost, was, in 2024-5, a senior fellow of the Danube Institute which was funded by Orban and promoted his far-right ideology.

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

Is this why we went to WAR??? #Iran #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

We all need to lodge an official complaint. It takes no time at all, and I've dropped a link to BBC Complaints in the comments. This is shocking.

Always a grown up pragmatic position on rejoining the EU. I couldn't agree with @pimlicat.bsky.social and @sturdyalex.bsky.social more. The EU is our future and we should play a part in driving it forward as a force for good in the world.

Fun fact that lying UK journalistic hacks won’t tell you because they hate Labour: Boris Johnson did not pass vetting when Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary. #UKPolitics

We’ve spotted several almost identically-worded social media posts claiming 460 masked rioters recently stormed migrant hotels in Rotherham and Tamworth. But this isn’t true. South Yorkshire and Staffordshire police forces confirmed this didn’t happen.

The Guardian have published the truth now. Their 'scoop' was bogus. Poor journalism by Crerar. "Starmer was kept in dark about Mandelson’s vetting by two top civil servants"

Very incisive from Alex Wickham, UK political editor for Bloomberg “Sources say Olly Robbins felt bound by the rules of the security vetting process NOT to tell the PM, No10 or the foreign secretary about the concerns raised about Mandelson”

Very much in keeping with the obsessive secrecy Robbins employed to destroy any chance of his negotiated Brexit being accepted by Parliament.

Chief secretary to the PM Darren Jones tells #BBCbreakfast that in his opinion the Prime Minister has neither knowingly or unknowingly misled Parliament

For info and reposting .

Please repost if you agree that the BBC has been undermining democracy and enabling foreign interference in our politics by promoting and protecting Farage.

Our NHS is not safe in Nigel Farage’s hands.

Pretty terrible that heavily-indebted Sotheby's has donated to Reform UK. Via Private Eye

I also missed this. My apologies. Follow Adam!

Iran claiming the moral high ground.

This is excellent! Labour are to cancel the debts of 25,000 unpaid cares impacted by unclear government guidance between 2015 and 2025. The move comes as part of the government's response in accepting 38 of 40 recommendations from the independent Sayce Review into Carer’s Allowance overpayments.