Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

Oh good, now we're not just complicit but actively enabling. Fucking A, Starmer.

Skegness probably looking more appealing now www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

THIS.

We're already discussing exit strategies if Reform gets in (my wife's on Indefinite Leave to Remain). What incentive is there for me to vote Labour if they're normalising the same toxic anti-migrant rhetoric? Why do they only borrow thinking from the right? Why not steal some Green policies, FFS?

This is going to be an early challenge for the Board of Peace to deal with.

I know it's not the main issue, but what's the FIFA protocol for when a host nation for a world cup attacks or declares war against a participating nation in the run up to the competition? especially when the head of the host nation is in receipt of your inaugural peace prize?

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Waking up to another war launched by the FIFA Peace Prize winner and the Most Moral Army in the World is such a joy. Great to know the world is a better place, with no innocents dying thanks to corrupt men desperately needing a distraction.

"Let's be blunt. Let's be brutally honest with ourselves. When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to. You don't look at the electorate and ask them, what were you thinking? You look at yourself and ask, what were we doing?" Keir?

Well this confirms my vote for the Greens in the locals. Nice one, Starmer.

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Labour: why don't you all fuck off LOL Labour: no not like that

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

It’s worth returning to Monday here, to remind ourselves that the commentariat seemed genuinely astonished and deeply alarmed to discover the public are more upset about facilitating crimes against humanity than they are about the pundits’ forever war upon transgender people in toilets

Beaten by... a plumber... the Establishment candidate.

Again, fuck Matt Goodwin.

Late to this, I know, but hahahaha! Fuck Matt Goodwin.

I, too, had unfavourable opinions of McSweeney. I, too, fear the rot runs deeper. But at least we've not yet given Farage the kind of landslide the Farage in a frock has just been given in Japan. There's still hope Labour will finally realise why they exist and why they have the majority they do.

“None of us knew the depth and darkness of that relationship.” He was literally nicknamed the Prince of Darkness. For decades. His dodgy relationships with Epstein and various Russian oligarchs were well known and seen as a severe liability when he was appointed to the European Commission. FFS.

These are the kinds of jobs the algorithm's throwing my way these days... I have a very simple strategy to recommend, but it involves having some fucking principles and not being shit, so...

Local election leaflets remind me of the campaign I'd run if I had any energy: Stop tactical voting Start *strategic* voting

Last night I got annoyed at Proust for giving me a spoiler for a Stendhal novel I'm still only halfway through. There's no hope for me.

Amid all the horror of the world, what happened to rocking chairs? I want a rocking chair.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

The worst thing (other than the extrajudicial murders, racism, and sheer inhumanity) of all this ICE viciousness is it's not just been distracting from pressing US concerns (getting rid of the peadophile insurrectionist and his cronies) - it's also been drowning out all other news. Even Iran.

Given what's happening everywhere, rather than ban social media for under-16s, can we ban it for over-60s?

Petition 1: Ban Americans from using the word "socialist", as none of them know what it means Petition 2: Ban everyone on the planet from using the word "liberal", as no one agrees what it means Petition 3: Ban anyone who claims fascism is left wing from playing any part in public life

I too think we should all stop worrying about a quarrel in a faraway land between people of which we know nothing

A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism

My considered position is that Maduro was bad for Venezuela, but Trump is bad for the world. It's unclear exactly what can be done about this, though.

So, how long until Taiwan gets invaded?

FFS. Quisling nonsense here.

This is really something. A bad, racist, unstrategic something.

As if we needed any more proof, the US is barking mad and no longer worth treating as an ally: www.ft.com/content/27e8...

When people like Lucy White thunder the explicit racism of "there should not be a single person born in Pakistan in the UK House of Commons", ask them whether Boris Johnson, who was born in America, should have been permitted to be the Mayor of London, an MP, and the PM.

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I wish he'd apologise for leading the Labour party to parrot far-right talking points.

Again, what is the point of the Labour party? What is the point of a massive fucking landslide victory, only to continue the policies of the party we voted out? FFS. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

…and now she’s in post advocating really racist policies while insisting “Ah no I can’t be racist cos my parents were immigrants” like that’s a novel or persuasive argument, and I just have so much contempt for these people; they’re not just unprincipled, they’re gratuitously out of their depth.

She doesn't like being reminded that she's adopted the polices of Tommy Robinson? Well, tough, facts don't change because of her feelings.

What *is* the point of the Labour party these days?

I've utterly missed the latest BBC scandal - I can only assume that the director general and CEO who've been forced to resign must have spent decades as best mates with a notorious paedophile and sex trafficker, been convicted of sexual assault (among other felonies), and incited an insurrection.

God, fireworks are boring.

Adding to the chorus of people (in my case white British) who have/had multiple "aunts" and "uncles" who aren't blood relatives. How is this a scandal when *Trump* exists, FF?

Not quite sure why the media is presenting the Caerphilly result as a disaster for Labour, rather than as a perfect execution of its electoral strategy. That strategy for *months* now has been to tell everybody who might otherwise be inclined to vote for them to fuck off. And off they have fucked.

I hate literally everyone involved in this horrific, inhuman, ill-considered policy. This thread somehow managed to make me even angrier at the Tories - no means feat after the last decade and a half of their vandalism.

A policy *supported by a smaller % of the population* than it would seek to deport!

Because seriously, fuck this and fuck the Tories. My wife's been paying into the UK state pension the entire time she's been allowed to work in this country. Then they want to kick her out when she finally tries to claim it, leaving her with no ability to claim a pension in *any* country?

To take my mind off the resurgence of mainstream political parties scapegoating foreigners rather than admit that *they* fucked us all over, I'm practicing my French via the excellent Atlas de Paris, by Danielle Chadych and Dominique Leborgne, found in a charity shop for £4 and worth ten times that.