Looks like I picked the wrong day to try and reduce my screen time.

Racist politicians whip up racist outrage. Widespread disorder ensues. The courts treat widespread disorder with the severity that they have always treated widespread disorder. Racist politicians cry “two-tier justice”, whipping up racist outrage. Rinse. Repeat. It’s so fucking tedious.

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

So according to Tice: Farage got £5m for security ‘to keep him safe’ without acknowledging that security became much more if an issue when he chose to ‘go back in to politics’. There’s the link Laura, do your job.

I hold in contempt every enabler of the Starmer project; those at every level in the Labour Party, from local constituencies to Westminster. Those who made many of us feel unwelcome in our own party, poured scorn on our views and dismissed our reservations. You know who you are. This is on you.

I guess Starmer’s USP of being a forensic examiner of the detail turns out not to be the case then.

Just when you think Keir Starmer is getting something right for a change, he invariably manages to fuck it up.

We need to remember that our ‘special relationship’ is with a nation, and not a narcissistic psychopath that is temporarily its leader.

Adverts that start off with a spoof apology for some spurious misdemeanour piss me off so much that I will actively boycott your product. Just sayin’.

Two possibilities when Starmer appointed Mandelson: 1. He knew and took a calculated risk knowing there could be consequences. 2. He didn’t know what pretty much everyone knew, which makes him even more incompetent than we thought. Either way, he doesn’t come out of this well.

The scandal of appointment of Mandelson presents the big chance to get rid of the useless leader that the Labour Party has saddled itself with. Poor judgement on this level hasn’t just led to u-turns, it’s destroying any faith in the administration. He’s got to go.

No one other than Keir Starmer is surprised by any of the new information about Mandelson. We all knew what he was all about. You’d think an experienced barrister would be better at sniffing out lies and contradictions in someone’s backstory than the rest of us. 🤷‍♀️

Of all the many mistakes and poor decisions made as Prime Minister by Keir Starmer, appointing Mandelson as US ambassador is probably the very worst. Before this latest Epstein release, everyone could already see what a dodgy charlatan he was and is.

Keep the receipts. And when all this is over hold to account every fucker who was complicit in this shitshow.

Kemi Badenoch is a really unpleasant person isn’t she? Utterly dislikable and nasty. A bullying shit of a politician with absolutely no moral high ground to stand on.

If Wes Streeting is the answer to the Labour Party’s problems, then we’re even more fucked than I thought.

The same people who told you Elon Musk didn’t do a nazi salute are the ones telling you Donald J Trump didn’t try to encourage an insurrection. Go figure.

Marina Hyde hitting the nail squarely on the head here.

Hey journalists, maybe just call out these fucking mad bastards for what they are? Just a thought.

So Keir Starmer's strategy on welfare cuts has essentially been to: 1) Fail to engage with Labour MPs before launching the policy 2) Ignore all warnings about a rebellion 3) U-Turn at the very last minute after the damage is done 4) Promise a new approach 5) Suspend the MPs anyway

Remember when Liz Kendall’s leadership bid failed as the first hurdle because she was generally seen as a lightweight nonentity? Yeah, that. #welfarereforms

Starmer doesn't need any smart new ideas. He doesn't need to chase Farage or offer a running commentary on the Glastonbury line-up. He simply needs to return to the promise of his first weeks in power: competence, determination and public service.

It’s a tell that senior Labour politicians use ‘me’ and ‘I,’ rather than ‘we’ and ‘us’ when talking about their department policies and objectives.

I guess it would be too much for them to ask whether it would improve the country rather than whether it will win votes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just cancelled my Guardian subscription. I’ve tolerated the fact we pay for Simon Jenkins’ moronic takes on everything and the vacuous ramblings of the nepo-husband, but the disgraceful destruction of The Observer is not something I’m prepared to be even remotely associated with.

Everyone is going to learn to be less dependent on the United States, and the US will become much poorer in many ways because of it.

14 years in opposition to a clowns’ convention, 14 years to develop a clear programme with principles and vision, and the best that Labour came up with is this shitshow. No wonder that so many of us are so disappointed.

Every day the Labour Party’s domestic policy sinks lower into the mire. Just turning into a bunch of despicables defending the indefensible to please their corporate funding stream and wealthy backers. Or to put it another way, sell-out c***s.

Lots if people on here I usually respect made arses of themselves tonight by their demands for instant action and government by social media, rather than waiting for an hour or so for a measured and considered response.

Have now read the full transcript. Not a single passing mention of Ukraine. Not a sole mention of NATO. But she found time to praise Katharine Birbalsingh and attack Starmer for taking the knee 5 years ago - during George Floyd's funeral. Finger on the pulse. www.conservatives.com/news/kemi-al...

What a complete shitshow Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has turned out to be. Glad I left it when I did, but I never imagined they would be this awful. Incompetent, lacking in any vision, direction or principles and just making it up as they go along based on opinion polls. A joke that’s not funny.

BBC giving failed politician, proven tax avoider and failed trigger-happy litigant Nadhim Zahawi a platform is top level trolling of the British electorate. #bbclaurak #bbcpolitics

…but I saw that salute for what it was…

Any last drops of benefit of the doubt I had left for Keir Starmer ended today. The guy is a complete plantpot. A man without any semblance of a plan. (If I was still posting on X there would be more expletives.)

Farage pours poison into the ear of the uber-toad Musk. The toad amps it, garbles it, and then spews it forth. Cue outcry. Farage shrugs. Spread his palms helplessly. Says “free speech”and “What can I do?” And happily watches the poison spread. Rinse and repeat.

Claiming that politicians of other parties are ‘friends of terrorists’ and ‘not on the side of the British people’ etc have to be the very lowest for of political attack. Yet the keep coming from the same divisive grifters who are only on your side when they gain something from it.

Road to the next UK financial crash. Bank stress tests to be run every 2 yrs, not yearly. No regulation of shadow banks. Capital adequacy of banks, insurance companies reduced. No cap on bankers' bonuses. Regulators to promote growth and competitiveness of finance industry What could go wrong?

Allison Pearson isn’t very bright is she? She’s contradicted herself several times in the PM interview. Shame Evan Davies didn’t point out how weak her arguments were, but then not a surprise.

Nothing says ‘two tier Britain’ like a load of people with massive wealth and assets getting away with a road blocking protest accompanied by blanket sympathetic media coverage.

On what seems like day 462 of the debate about who Labour define as ‘working people’, in what is just the latest inept distraction of their own making, isn’t it about time they got a grown up to take charge of their comms? #LabourParty #Budget

All my adult life, the Labour Party have not only failed, but never even attempted to win the argument that higher overall taxes are necessary and justifiable in order to deliver the level of public services we expect. Fighting an election without addressing this is why we are where we are.

Robert Jenrick attacking Ed Miliband’s personality and character is top level delusion from the nonentity’s nonentity.

Cleaning up politics and bringing back trust in the system? A really good policy would have been a massive purge on expenses, donations, second jobs, subsidised food etc. it would have shown the public that they’re ‘not all the same.’ Another reason to be disappointed with this Labour government.

Labour seems to have a massive problem with presentation. It’s not so much what they are trying to do, but the way they go about doing it. Who’s advising them on comms and strategy?

Republicans sounding really desperate today. I’m hoping as the vote gets nearer there will be a tidal shift towards Harris. What kind of sane person could consider voting for Trump? Scary.

Really sorry I don’t have a credit for whoever created this marvellous piece.