Meanwhile in Switzerland 🇨🇭

As Starmer said in 2003 @iandunt.bsky.social no one shed any tears over the ending of Saddam Hussien’s regime but it still didn’t make the Iraqi invasion legal. As with today no one will shed any tears over Maduro’s removal but it is still illegal www.theguardian.com/politics/200...

This is a very good article by Kier Starmer about the legal use of force @mrjamesob.bsky.social I recommend Kier Starmer needs to read it. www.theguardian.com/politics/200...

Rubio - Maduro is not the legitimate President he clearly didn’t win the election Trump - Machado won’t be the new President because she doesn’t have enough support This is after Machado won the election with lots of support.

Well if there’s one good thing, we’ve learned over the last few decades that people always embrace the US and democracy after their leaders are removed by the US military. So this should work out — hold on, I’m getting an update …

Evening @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Would like to wish everyone En guete Rutsch! Sadly I am down with the flu so will be tucked up in bed come New Year

Is the JD Vance Collection?

One of the main reasons I left in 2019 @mrjamesob.bsky.social being married to an immigrant who is a British citizen I know that living in the UK in this atmosphere would be dreadful for my OH and I am glad she is well out of it.

Antifa extremist suppressing white people and freedom of speech

Paddy Ashdown once cadged a cigarette from me at the Lib Dem Conference. Was more polite to David Cameron than I should have been when I bumped into him at the Lake District before he was leader

#Medsky🧪 #Cellbiology Human cells need to repair #DNA damage to preserve genome integrity. Otherwise, accumulated mutations could alter gene function & lead to cell dysfunction and deleterious physiological effects.

Morning @mrjamesob.bsky.social

He nailed it then, and he nails it now. Support the way back machine @archive.org now more than ever they need our help. It is all there; anything that has ever been on the internet is in the record. They can lie all they want, but there will always be receipts if it was on the internet.

Decided to be Davos Man today

Happy St Stephen’s Day 🇨🇭

Merry Christmas everyone from Switzerland 🇨🇭

The dying embers of Brexit are barely flickering in this laughable opinion piece with all 3 showing a complete lack of any self awareness @mrjamesob.bsky.social apple.news/AlDQgtMyTQ-q...

I’m no economist but if these growth figures are accurate (a big if btw) it reminds me of the Lawson Boom seen in the 80s. The economy grew unsustainably at 4-5%, it seriously overheated and the inevitable crash led to record interest rates, massive inflation and a deep recession all within 2 years

Looks like Mystic @steverichards.bsky.social is being proven right again apple.news/A4L76HlzJTIy...

This is getting tiresome from Labour @mrjamesob.bsky.social For the millionth time Labour MPs, EU hates the🇨🇭 deal and has just agreed a new Treaty abolishing the patchwork of deals. Also for the millionth time🇨🇭 is in Schengen and embraces Freedom of Movement and like U.K. pays to be in EU programs

At Christmas please listen to my very close friend Haydn about drink driving. He was a successful salesman. He enjoyed sailing and travelling. A drunk van driver slammed into back of him 3 years ago and his life has since been ruined. Don’t drink and drive www.lbc.co.uk/article/curr...

Lib Dem’s don’t even get a mention but problems I have is that it says Lab is leaking support to Reform - its not vast majority of leakage is Tory & 2nd it says not much has been made of loss of support to left wing parties & that’s because you haven’t reported it Rob news.sky.com/story/the-be...

@columbopodcast.bsky.social Wonder if the Wade Fowler wearing heels was a nod to Shatner doing this in Star Trek in the brilliant Fade into Murder? That episode has so many other nods after all

Afternoon @mrjamesob.bsky.social

If we're going to have a cult of personality here in the US couldn't we have picked someone with a better personality?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I’m guessing that Kemi Badenoch would ban much of MAGA from entering the U.K. if she believes that all cultures should accept ‘that every woman is equal to men and have personal and sexual autonomy’

There is much confusion in the American media on Trumps angry speech but you have to understand that Narcissists get angry if you do not acknowledge their greatness and get even angrier if you criticise them and their actions. What we saw from Trump is classic Narcissist behaviour

Afternoon @mrjamesob.bsky.social I need someone who’s good with maths. While U.K. rejoining Erasmus and Horizon is welcome news we are now in a position where the U.K gives the EU approximately £6–7.5 bn/year combined with the Brexit Divorce Bill. U.K. contributions were £8–10 bn/year

Morning @mrjamesob.bsky.social

#Brexshit bullshit.

Do we know @sturdyalex.bsky.social if this new enquiry into Russian interference will also cover the Brexit referendum as I recall the last government said there was no evidence because they went out of their way not to actually look for it?

Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket. Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.

“The legacy media’s refusal to recognize Trump’s mental and emotional unraveling cannot conceal a stark reality: Trump has lost it,” writes Jen Rubin in her latest.

You can always rely on Boris Johnson to misread the room @mrjamesob.bsky.social www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic...

The Northumberland Line will be remembered when the Millennium Dome has been forgotten | Mark Corner

Remember when, in the post-Referendum years, Remain had over 50% support in the polls, but the BBC ignored Remainers because the two main parties in Parliament were pro-Brexit. But now the BBC says it has to give massive coverage to Reform UK, because it has 30% in the polls.

Leavers again complaining about what they voted for @mrjamesob.bsky.social @sundersays.bsky.social @jdportes.bsky.social

Morning @mrjamesob.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social

You can almost sense the annoyance and disappointment within the article Sky News had to write this headline that they feel they need add more caveats to the numbers then when the numbers are high news.sky.com/story/uk-has...

Morning @mrjamesob.bsky.social what is happening in Australia about immigration is a sign of things to come if Starmer et al keep on appeasing the far right news.sky.com/story/tensio...

Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.

It’s curious that Sky News has decided to focus on this as opposed to the hundreds of children who have been disappearing from Home Office Hotels in the last few years which still remains largely unreported by the media. apple.news/AAZwEDxpmQEG...

With Bonnie Blue in Farage’s corner @mrjamesob.bsky.social it’s clearer now for everyone to understand that what she does for a living Farage will do the same with the country.

Someone should have told him it wasn’t a golden butt plug

Morning @mrjamesob.bsky.social as I pointed out in my thread yesterday the only way to curb the far right is to fight them and not to buy into their grievance and fake crisis. Do not pander to them. If you pander to them you not only lose your voter base you don’t even pick up the far right voters.

The media seems to have discovered yet another issue they ignored for 14 years and are now blaming the current government for. I don’t seem remember many of these articles under the Tories @skynewsrss.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/the-go...

"If growth was actually your priority, you would not be doing this." (Me, stating the obvious) www.ft.com/content/2b60...

Farage needs to pop up and explain about his flag waving patriotism and how unhappy he is with Trump, interfering and commenting in our country politics - sovereignty and all that jazz ‘2016 quote on Obama UKIP's Nigel Farage said Mr Obama was "talking down Britain", www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...

Morning @mrjamesob.bsky.social as Labour and Tories keep trying to the far right I thought some empirical evidence to show what Starmer is doing is counterproductive and rather than reduce support actually increases support for the far right at the expense of mainstream parties