UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation. In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills. Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors. No end to nightmare without public ownership.

A footnote to domestic tasks: when OH was learning Spanish, she came across the phrase “quehaceres domésticos.” She reckoned it was because you looked at everything piling up and exclaimed “¿qué hacer, qué hacer?”

🇵🇱 The Polish government announces to the US that it no longer gives a damn about them. And we admire their panache.

#Caturday. Ideally, I should like to sit on a comfy chair, preferably the one by the radiator. But it’s raining outside.

Reform UK have accepted £9 million from foreign-based businessman Christopher Harborne. Here's what Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice thought in 2018 about George Soros donating to UK groups: "He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"

I’m trying to reply to a chat but when I tap on it, I only get the option to leave. What am I doing wrong, please?

Nigel Farage pockets £140k from up to 2,000 Cameo videos as constituents 'furious' www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

💥German Chancellor Friedrich Merz confirmed that Viktor Orbán travelled to Vladimir Putin without an EU mandate or consulting European leaders. He added that Orbán’s last trip in 2024 wasn’t just a failure — it was followed by one of Russia’s most intense strikes.

#Caturday. Darius. He’s 17, and no longer knows which way’s up. He smells a bit. All our cats were abandoned as kittens. But he still gets on my lap, and sometimes has the sense to settle down comfortably. If he makes it till the spring, he’ll probably enjoy being outdoors again.

She’s still free. Why?

But think of all the astonishing things he's selflessly done for this country and look at all those medals which he won during his four months in the Royal Marines.

People donate money to our politicians because they think it’s a good investment. Either for their business interests or to further their idea of what the country should be like. Those are not things you should be able to buy in a democracy.

The richest 150 people in the UK get £120,000,000 richer every single day, and that's not share value. That's profit stolen from you through the Banks, Energy Companies, and Supermarkets they own. But the problem is someone getting £10 on Universal Credit?

🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏 LET’S KEEP GOING! If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Somehow this got missed off the "Benefit Street" front pages today

Ha’penny stayed outside in the rain till he was nice and wet. Then, after the manner of his kind, he’s got on my lap to clean and to dry himself off on me. When he’s done, he’ll get off, leaving me with wet cold patches on my clothes.

Quite right too. Look how much the Tories alone will be costing the nation.

I see all the headlines today refer to ‘Benefit Street’ What they don’t tell you is 60% of those on benefits are in work. No outcry on those employers not paying enough or concocting hours to enable people to claim UC. First it was immigrants. Now it’s those on benefits.

It’s at 68,000+ Please sign (if you haven’t) and if you have please repost!!!

Up to 60k, go on, give it a share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share. Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

🇷🇺 From 2019 - isn't that odd?!? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/10/brexit-party-meps-vote-against-measure-to-combat-russian-propaganda

via Anti-Reform

Not only did Brexit not provide any extra money for the NHS - as liar-in-chief Boris Johnson promised - but Brexit is impoverishing the UK each year by an amount of money not far off the annual NHS budget. Thanks Farage.

Brexit has cost each and every one of us £3,700 a year. But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes. My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!

Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums

23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today: 38d.gs/clhk

Brexit: “The most dishonest campaign in our history said it would save us £350m a week, but Brexit actually cost us £250m a day in 2025. That is why we have the highest taxes ever, that is why we have sky-high bills, that is why we have a cost of living crisis” @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests. Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn

I told him he wouldn’t be impressed, but had to hold him off till I’d finished. He wasn’t impressed.

Woah.

Reminder that In the 1990s Farage sought the backing of the disgraced former Conservative MP and notorious racist Enoch Powell and twice asked him to stand as a candidate for UKIP. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

I’ve been blackmailed into giving Ollie a cuddle. It was that or have him walking over the keyboard.

Can anyone explain why Farage gets wall-to-wall news coverage for announcing policies that he may or may not do in four years time, but when his long-term colleague & Brexit partner is jailed for spouting EXACTLY the same pro-Kremlin propaganda as him....

NATHAN GILL, JAILED FOR WORKING FOR PUTIN, WAS ONE OF FARAGE’S BREXIT LIEUTENANTS! JOIN UP THE DOTS, FFS!! And what of Farage? The man who had cosy chats with the Russian ambassador and yet said he’d never met him. The man who said Putin’s the leader he admires most?

“All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it’s up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences.”

70 years ago UK was conducting a brutal colonial intervention in Malaya. British forces herded hundreds of thousands of people into fortified camps, heavily bombed rural areas and resorted to extensive propaganda to win the conflict. www.declassifieduk.org/britains-for...

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

Please repost and share this petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy. We must do everything in our power to keep the spotlight on Farage's links to Russia and work for Putin. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

From the CWS ARCHIVE. 22nd March 2022.

We will struggle to explain to future generations how something so transparent and stupid was able to take place youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

And we now know that Epstein and Bannon were involved with Farage. It sounds like a massive treasonous fraud was perpetrated on the British people. @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Signed.

The United States of Afghanistan. The Taliban could do no better. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...