Keir Starmer's political failure comes down to one issue above all others: his unwillingness to put the public interest ahead of the demands of the oligarchs, corporations and foreign governments who lobby him. Whoever replaces him had better be prepared to stand up for us, or Labour's finished.

* Summit with Putin - got nothing out of it. * Summit with Xi - got nothing out of it. * War with Iran - got nothing out of it. Starting to think this whole Art of the Deal might not be true.

Well I guess the good news from the Labour Party psychodrama is that we no longer have a pro privatisation guy in charge of the NHS.

Please retweet.

Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.

Labour pursued the mythical lost red wall voters, whilst ignoring their own core voters in the confident belief that they had nowhere else to go Turns out...........

I think we now have the answer

Happy 100th birthday, #SirDavidAttenborough. 🎉 Thank you for a lifetime spent helping us see, understand and care for this wonderful world we all call home. 🌍

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

Make #FarageCamps trend on every available platform. Nobody wants their name associated with evil crap like that

Dear Labour supporters. If you want to put me off voting Green rather than Labour, the key is *not* to attack the Greens, but to ask yourself why I, a life-long Labour supporter, who has voted Labour at every GE since 1983 (my first), can't support Labour. Look at yourselves. Look at your party.

Fascinating to watch Trump during Charles' speech yesterday. He has no idea how to behave when he is not the centre of attention, either from being the man speaking or by being constantly praised by the person speaking.

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

They've breached the outer wall, retreat to the ballroom!

The system is rigged. An illegal war hikes bills for stuggling families - meanwhile energy giants rake in profits. We don't have to live like this any more. Vote Green on May 7th.

There is no special relationship. There hasn't been one for a very long time, if ever. Instead, there's a parasocial relationship, in which the UK government imagines it's involved in ways the other partner doesn't recognise. States have interests, not preferences. They don't love. They calculate.

Best wishes to Chris Hughton. A good manager and a thoroughly bloody nice bloke. #nufc

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Finally got round to subscribing to @bylinetimes.bsky.social. Received my first hard copy today and thought 'Well I'll just skip the stuff that doesn't interest me. I'm over 20 pages in and the only thing I've skipped is an ad for J P Morgan If you've been thinking about it, I would recommend.

Reform's plans for a new school curriculum sounds like it is essentially designed to put a whole generation of students off learning history.

‘You, boy! Get me a huge St George’s flag so I can hang out of this window looking a bit of a dick…’

Politicians just seem to have given up trying to explain the world as it is to people. It's a huge problem.

Happy St George’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. It’s time to tell more positive stories of England. If progressives don’t try to define an inclusive sense of English identity, then we leave it to the far right to determine who does and doesn’t belong - and that could hardly be more dangerous #AnotherEngland

BBC follows up a documentary about false asylum claims with a programme about drugs being sold in shops featuring people of Asian descent. It's as if the Beeb wants to give Reform ammunition in the lead up to the May elections. Surely not?

I see Taco Bellend has backed down again with the Iran deadline.

This is simply not true. Labour didn’t have to go right. They *chose* to go right. The big majority was a chance to reset everything back to sanity. Starmer chose the mad, bigoted, ignorant and dishonest route instead.

My favorite scene from the Bible

Please repost if you agree that the BBC has been undermining democracy and enabling foreign interference in our politics by promoting and protecting Farage.

My theory on Starbucks: it caters primarily for that not insignificant sector of the market that likes the idea of coffee, but doesn’t actually like coffee.

Orban’s defeat shows that when we stand together against the politics of hate and division, hope wins and the far right friends of Farage can be defeated.

The name fooled a lot of people. For years, the BBC used Claire Fox as its "leftwing" voice on the Moral Maze, though her positions were clearly extreme right. The line-up was typically: hard right (Melanie Phillips etc), right, centrist and far right. Which is more or less the BBC idea of balance.

Soon to be the Party of Yore?

Hungary 🇭🇺

X this evening vs Bsky this evening

Jesus H. Combover

This government had to start with modest plans for repairing the UK-EU relationship because of the depths reached previously, and because UK politics simply wasn't ready for a bigger conversation. It still isn't, but events are starting to demand something greater.

Peter Magyar’s party has soundly defeated Viktor Orban in today’s election. Congrats to the Hungarian people for vanquishing a corrupt Putin puppet, and rejecting Trump, Vance and Rubio’s desperate and foolish attempt to tamper in your democracy.

Excellent

Victor Orbán’s removal sends a timely signal. Corrupt kleptocratic Christian nationalism was on the ballot in Hungary today — just as it will be on the ballots that Americans will cast in November. It was repudiated abroad — may it be repudiated here in November (and beyond).

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage vowed to oppose the legislation "every step of the way" Editor's note: This may not involve him actually bothering to turn up to vote against it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

There is no McTry.

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🚨🎉 The Green Party BEATS Reform!!! 😮 Greens came fourth here last year. 💚 Proving once again that Greens can win anywhere. 🙌🏽 Labour tanking and Greens beating Reform! 👉🏽 Join.greenparty.org.uk

I think sometimes the reason why Trump contradicts himself so much each day is because he forgot what he said yesterday. The other times it’s because he lies so much he can’t keep the lies straight.

I am watching with an odd mixture of amusement and screaming frustration, the sudden epiphanies that members of the right wing are experiencing regarding Trump. From Piers Morgan to Alex Jones, they are collectively exclaiming "Wow! Who could have seen this coming? Except the rest of did of course

History won’t just remember the man; it will remember the silence. It will remember the Senators who wouldn’t convict, the Court that insulated him, and the voters who saw his bigotry as a feature, not a flaw. Everyone who failed to hold him responsible owns a piece of this. ​ #USPolitics #Democracy

Pete Hegseth saying that if Iran do not comply they will find out that the President is "not someone to mess around". 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂