Still my favourite Swedish chocolate

The only answer to this is ha ha ha ha etc Messy, combative and intoxicatingly fierce – don’t write off Your Party just yet | Andy Beckett www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One can only conclude that the great minds and strategists in Number 10 are fucking imbeciles #Newsnight #Brexit

The only question is, why is the Government only "considering" this?

Hi @emmahardymp.bsky.social Six days without water for my friends. That's worthy of heads rolling www.kentlive.news/news/kent-ne...

In my judgement #ChrisMason is pisspoor political editor BBC News - Chris Mason: Why, in my judgement, Reeves was misleading on one specific point - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hi every single #Labour MP

This deserves a lot more scrutiny than it’s getting. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/b...

Dear @mrjamesob.bsky.social Justice delayed is justice denied. David Lammy is right www.lawsociety.org.uk/contact-or-v...

#DavidLammy is right. Justice delayed is justice denied. Waiting for 6 months and more for a court date does not serve anybody criminal-justice-delivery-data-dashboards.justice.gov.uk/improving-ti...

Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.

Another privatisation scandal that is was made far, far worse by the then Tory government. May a plague of toads land on Michael Howard's head. "Will no one think of the fucking profits"? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee. Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.” If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Hi again @lewisgoodall.com

Morning @lewisgoodall.com @lbc.co.uk Your lack of interest in what the Budget was actually about, rather than cheap, irrelevant and inaccurate right wing talking points, demeans you.

It's the satirists I feel sorriest for.

The tide is turning. Even the Telegraph is now admitting the damage the Brexit deal has done to the economy.

Good morning wulferhampton have a terrific Thursday you talented tambourine twatters

This was sent to me this morning. #WatfordFC #LiverpoolFC

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 65,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 70,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Not surprised to hear that @tomswarbrick.bsky.social is rather credulous about the myth of the Laffer curve www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

Anyway, it's good to be at Vicarage Road on a chilly evening #WatfordFC

So, the Government is likely to introduce a #touristtax Here is a very useful briefing on what they are and what the benefits (and disbenefits) are www.etoa.org/wp-content/u...

Devastating article from @eastangliabylines.co.uk Leaving Europe was, and remains, a very bad idea. Let's hope the UK is returning to rationality. @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social @peterthurlow.bsky.social @annadamski.bsky.social eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

Summing #Trump up youtu.be/nnFtSVg2yt4?...

France, Italy, Greece, Belgium, Germany the States and several other countries have a tourist tax @tomswarbrick.bsky.social. It is not at all exceptional. It is a very sensible choice by major tourist destinations. www.responsibletravel.com/copy/tourist...

Good lord. I think we need to rename AI - from Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Idiot.

Spot on from Simon here. I suspect he speaks for the vast majority of the PLP. The truly toxic Blue Labour faction of wannabe brownshirts are not representative of Labour or the country

We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel. Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵

There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel. Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children. These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

Donald Trump destroyed public service broadcasting in the US - it's little surprise Nigel Farage wants to do the same thing here. Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.

#KeirStarmer's advisors are beyond toxic and useless. If he doesn't remove them he will not be PM for much longer

How have Labour watched the Tories spend 2-3 years parroting Farage then lose an election badly and conclude a similar strategy is the best course of action? I. Really. Genuinely. Do Not. Get. It.

You should read this @iaindale.bsky.social and challenge Chris Philps' glib lies and ignorance davidallengreen.com/2023/07/why-...

This is Keir Starmer’s moment to stand up for Britain and call on Trump to drop his ludicrous lawsuit against the BBC. The Prime Minister has spent months cosying up to Trump. If he can’t stop him from attacking one of our most precious institutions, what was it all for?

At some point we have to ask why British politics keeps producing leaders who struggle to do the job. That's partly about the pressures of the role itself, but it's also about the "pipeline": how likely are our procedures to generate leaders with the skill-set to manage those pressures? [THREAD] 🧵

It's real, and it's mind-blowing. A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.

Has a government with a large majority ever *tried* less to impose itself and change the terms of debate?

Another excoriating blog from Chris Grey. If, as I understand it, many #Labour MPs read the blog, one does wonder why on earth they haven't recognise the depth of the mess they have created through their inaction

Stasis, sanctimony and the liberal paradox. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog with such Brexit news as there is, but mainly analysis of what 'responsible Farage' tells us about the tensions in Reform and what the BBC row tells us about Brexitism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/stas...

What Sarah said

Brexit detonated our economy and our politics. Since then, our country seems to have lost its mind, veering off to the right, reawakening the racism genie, ruining itself to try to hide the dishonesty and snowballing damage of it all. And now Farage could be PM ffs. Mindblowing self-inflicted idiocy

Keir Starmer has effectively started a leadership challenge against himself. To have entered into this kind of madhouse Westminster squabbling so soon after an election is simply unforgivable. inews.co.uk/opinion/back...

Dear #Labour MPs. There are 2 manifesto commitments to break to stand a chance of winning the next election and renewing Britain. Put up income tax (you shouldn't have promised not to). You could have done it in Jan and blamed Trump. Rejoin as far as we can, the Single Market and Customs Union

Tragic to see Maurice Glasman, the brownshirt cowboy, on #Newsnight this evening. The less role he plays in the Labour Party, the better

Not resiling from this one iota in spite of the feeding frenzy, the resignations, and the talk of a billion dollar law suit of the last few days. If those on the right in this country seriously think that lining up with Donald Trump against the BBC is a good call, then I say good luck with that.

I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3

Hi @essexpoliceuk.bsky.social