While all eyes are on Farage, we're overlooking something even worse: the building of the very tight and truly vile operation that is Restore Britain. This excellent essay/report by Simon Pearson should wake us up to the threat - and to what exactly it is. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/tory-30

In 1988 my wife and I bought our first flat on a 3+1 salary joint mortgage. No savings, no deposit, fees included, 100% loan. That was normal then. We also got income tax relief on the mortgage interest. People need to know what things used to be like, and what changed them. It was capitalism…

E.ON to buy Ovo to create biggest UK energy supplier. Fewer suppliers means less choice, higher prices. More profits going abroad (Germany). Replace energy retailers with not-for-profit organisations, no shareholders, lower prices. Even better, nationalise energy.

Top tip for Starmer; Sort out ONE thing that is f***ing annoying everyone: Water. Stop the water companies paying their shareholders ever more and charging the rest of us ever more while filling our rivers and sea with shit. And do it quickly.

Fun fact about UK politics: the current health secretary has taken more money from private healthcare interests than any other MP, and everyone has decided that that's fine.

BBC News saying Reform have "come out of nowhere". No, they haven't. First they were UKIP, and then they were The Brexit Party, and with every incarnation, they've been amplified and boosted by the BBC, with Farage given record appearances on Question Time and other panel shows. #Reform #BBCqt

Despite the UK media telling us the SNP 'failed' to win a majority, the SNP won 58 seats, 2 more than the combined total 56 seats won by the 4 anti-indy parties. The Greens won 15 seats taking the pro-indy MSP total to 73, a record pro-indy result, a double mandate for this Scottish Parliament.

Private equity owned Morrisons supermarket fined £750k for dirty bakery. Council environmental health officers found poor cleanliness, dirty equipment, inadequate staff supervision, food safety and management failures. Yet corporations demand deregulation. What would happens if govts acceded?

Reform is a protest party. A protest against decency, integrity, kindness, expertise, and progress. It's a party of pettiness and hate, and it is made up of petty and hateful people from the grassroots to the very top. What it doesn't have is competence. So good luck with the bins and potholes.

Will Govts wage war on poverty and exploitation? The UK has high rate of infant mortality compared with peer countries. 5-year-olds are up to 7cm shorter than Eurpean counterparts. 1 in 4 young people have a mental health condition. 3m people are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition.

This should not be normalized. Market forces and capitalism were sold to us as a means to prevent profiteering and cartel pricing, through competition. This is on us, for disengaging and sleep walking into it. But hey, blame brown people and migration for all our problems…

Never forget that, while the arrival of fascism is always blamed on 'the people', it is clear that it is those who had most power to stop it who refused to act decisively The enabling of fascism takes many shapes and forms but it is predominantly and unsurprisingly a top down process

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

The deadline for registering to vote in the Scottish election is midnight tomorrow (20 April). Many 16 & 17 year olds are not registered. Anyone over 16 resident in Scotland can vote in Scottish elections, you don't have to be a UK citizen. You can register online here www.gov.uk/register-to-...

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

20 minutes before Trump announced the Strait of Hormuz was open someone dumped 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures -$760 million bet that oil prices would drop. Orders far larger than anything else in the market at that moment.They made a fortune.Somebody knew the announcement was coming. #corruption

9th anniversary of the Grenfell fire is approaching. 72 people died, thousands more scarred. Main causes remain unaddressed. Lust for higher profits Unaccountable corporate power Performance related executive pay Failure of regulators Indifference of govts to the cry of the people Nothing changed.

In 2018 David Frum saw the world more clearly than I did. He wrote, “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” this part should be repeated daily.

I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!" but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question

Slashing the welfare budget to boost defence spending is asking the poorest people to pay to protect the interests, assets and wealth of the (tax avoiding) elite. We got the NHS and welfare state after WW2 to repay those who gave their fucking lives for this country. How quickly we forget…

Just read a thing saying doctors worked harder in 2008 than they do now. As someone who qualified in 2010, I can’t speak for 2008. But there’s no way I worked harder back then than resident doctors are working now. Who do you think absorbs NHS pressure at the moment? The staff.

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵

a Pakistani diplomat says, "In essence, the United States can not conduct serious diplomacy; their arrogance and maximalist approach make it extremely difficult for them to show minimum care and flexibility for the interests and concerns of other nations." Their ignorant racism blinds them.

There is no excuse for USA giving Trump to the world. Democracy is supposed to come with checks and balances to prevent monsters like him taking, or remaining, in high office. Democracy has failed. It was broken by capitalism.

I'm in a chat with a bunch of wind and solar industry insiders and they're telling me they expect the price of sun and wind to climb to at least $0 per babbrel in the coming weeks

Imagine it was the other way around? Imagine Iran had attacked the US or Israel out of nowhere then broken an agreed ceasefire. The world allowed Gaza and now more murder and expansionism into Lebanon. 1.2 MILLION displaced. Where’s the condemnation? The sanctions? The outrage? The disgust?

Angus: This is a president who says the only constraint on his actions is not Congress, not the courts, not international law, but, quote, “my own morality, my own mind.” There is no morality in a man accused of being a rapist…

Just delicious that the war in Iran may indeed bring about a regime change, In America

It’s hellish. Waking up every day witnessing hell. While fully understanding we’re ‘just’ witnessing it. Unbearable that millions of people are suffering it, losing their loved ones, experiencing trauma, pain, seeing their homes and lives obliterated. 2026 & evil men still rule the world.

This is so well done. 👌

He summarized the whole situation.

Shining a light on Amerikkkan logic

MSM MONITOR - Worth keeping an eye on this folks. BBC Scotland is pushing issues helpful to the Unionist parties in daily election campaign coverage. Yesterday the station claimed ferries dominated, yet only two parties campaigned on the issue. Today Sarwar's nuclear power gets top billing.👇

If you need a break from the war-heavy news… Perhaps some Reform piss-taking after their terrible week is just what you need. …plus a little laugh at the Brexit marmalade fiasco too. New episode of The Trawl podcast out today 🎙️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Global regime change priority: 1 Israel 2 USA 3 Russia 4 Iran Make it make sense.

Global super-rich may have hidden $3.55tn from tax officials. 0.1% of households have more wealth than the poorest half of the global population. Govts funded by the super rich, don't shut down tax havens and the tax abuse industry or levy wealth tax. HMRC goes easy on wealthy individuals.

Two weeks to shout from the roof tops about the Epstein Files…

Just up. What happened? Did Iran get into discussions? Did Trump chicken out? Or did US military legitimately refuse to carry out war crimes…?

While the world looks at Trump in ever increasing horror, the truth is, he’s just the stooge. Israel started this war. Israel are driving this war. Trump may have no plan, but Netanyahu has. The middle east will have a whole new set of borders before this ever ends…

Has anyone checked latest trading trends in stocks and oil to see if Trump and his pals are buying or selling? Its a big clue to whether or not we wake up to Armageddon in the morning…

Has anyone checked latest trading trends in stocks and oil to see if Trump and his pals are buying or selling? Its a big clue to whether or not we wake up to Armageddon in the morning…

I swear too much. In my defence I use c-bombs and f-bombs as honest descriptors to demonstrate my anger and frustration at injustice. But I’m aware of my lack of class and rein myself in a lot of the time. But by fuck, there are no words adequate to describe that deranged cunt in the White House…

“Drill baby drill” is like making holes in the hull of the Titanic to let the water out..

I’ve been radicalised. You should too. Get woke. Get radicalised. Get radicalised woke. Get Trawled!!! Caring about shit is the normal human condition…

You wouldn't know it from much of the coverage but Reform are now seven points lower in the polls, on average, than they were six months ago

If you haven’t ever listened to The Trawl you should give these ladies a listen. If everyone listened the world would be significantly less fucked up… Until then its cathartic to at least listen to people who care!

Privatisation is robbery! Pass it on. Thank you @labourlewis.bsky.social.bsky.social for standing up for public services that work for us, not private shareholders.