Ok, so as of this morning, 72 backbench Labour MPs have publicly called for Starmer to resign, 6 ministerial aides have quit and the cabinet is now split between those who support him and those who have advised him to step down. They cannot govern like this, Starmer has no choice - he must resign.

#NightmareInDowningStreet #AlbionAwake It's time for Albion to awake. #WilliamBlake #HenryFuseli #StarmerOut #VoteGreen

@martinrowson.bsky.social 😉

#NightmareInDowningStreet The Nightmare squatting in Downing Street. [after #Fuseli] Incubi, demons who seduce humans in their sleep to drain energy, represent nightmares & sleep paralysis, with the #Incubus (Latin "to Lie upon") causing heavy chest pressure. #Incumbant #StarmerOut #Mandelson

😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 I gather WAITROSE is advertising on GB News now Ah well ~ other retail outlets are always available

Meanwhile, back in the #USSA.

🇨🇦🇨🇦

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services. Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you. Please do keep sharing! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

A group of hotel housekeepers went on strike for the first time in 40 years. And won! Organising works. Trade unions work. This is the story of @uvwunion.bsky.social & the amazing Doris. youtu.be/MyEH6W83kLI?...

#DownTheRabbitHole ‪ The #EpsteinFiles are very reminiscent of the #RedPill in #TheMatrix. The real workings of the World are hidden from you. A fake facade is presented instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE7P...

"Green Party leader Zack Polanski joined public ownership advocates today in demanding the government withdraw the water company’s licence after an investigation was launched into breaches of standards." www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/camp...

Finally a Brexit benefit !

Keir Starmer says he wants to establish facts by *watching Donald Trumps press conference.* People said giving him a second state visit was a genius move of strategy - really seems to have paid off. Special relationship - alive and kicking.

Trump claiming on Fox News that Venezuela emptied out its jails and mental institutions into the United States as justification.

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

NEW: A mass propaganda event is about to engulf the US news cycle and what, if anything, survives it will be a lesson for our times. But it’s what the rest of the world does now that’s key. When someone tells you who they are, believe them. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...

The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela. This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources. It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

"So Mr Trump, what was it that first attracted you to the country with the world's largest oil reserves?"

Previously on Bylines Scotland...

Has Starmer made a statement yet about Trump’s act of war?

#WagTheDog There must be some pretty bad #Epstein shit about to break. #Venezuela

#Article5 What does NATO do if Trump invades Canada or Greenland?

Purely coincidentally Nigeria, Greenland and Venezuela all either have lots of oil or valuable mineral resources or both.

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

Yes please Universe 🙏

🚨 #GE2029 poll points to Scottish Labour WIPEOUT: 🟡 SNP: 32% (+2) ➡️ REF: 24% (+1) 🔴 LAB: 13% (-2) 🟢 GRN: 10% (+4) 🔵 CON: 10% (=) 🟠 LD: 8% (-1) 🟥 YRP: 1% (+1) Via @FindoutnowUK, 11-19 Dec (+/- vs 21 Sep)

"New True Edition" via Trevor Martin

Who saw that coming?

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous. People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border. We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

• 8 UK prisoners are on Hunger Strike and in some cases have been so for 42 days. Please do not let them die.

“Trump May Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter” Freeeeee speech!

People are choosing a politics of decency, courage and imagination. They’re choosing a politics that doesn’t scapegoat the vulnerable or remain quiet on injustice. People are choosing to make hope normal again. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Starmer has called on European leaders to ‘curb human rights laws’ of the ECHR so that countries are free to take tougher action to ‘protect their borders’. You don’t improve the world by putting up walls and copying the racist far right, quite the opposite in fact.

The conflation of "foreign criminals" and "illegal migrants" is disgusting. Vile when some people don't have a safe route to flee from the utter detestation & brutality of war. It's all grim enough without the Labour Government pushing further misinformation.

Labours pathetic attacks on the Green Party. And how they've backfired. youtu.be/dsJA7cdAFFQ?...

"Labour has just betrayed its 2024 manifesto completely" 'I checked Labour’s 2024 general election manifesto on immigration. “We have a proud tradition of welcoming people fleeing persecution and abuse,” it says' www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

.....and Green Party membership is rising yet again! If you want to lower bills and tax billionaires: Join.greenparty.org.uk #BBCLauraK

Public transport should be free.

Prescriptions should be free.

The Mayor of London has told me in public just now he supports scrapping the two child benefit cap - when the Chancellor can afford to do so. I asked him if he'd support a wealth tax on assets - and he refused to answer the question. Labour always supporting the 1%.

The taking jewellery is not akin to painting over a mural, is so far worse. I can think of several places that have removed jewellery from human beings before they were ‘processed’ and every single one of those governments were evil beyond belief. Visit a holocaust museum and see the parallels

The government has misled the public - and it has been caught out. www.middleeasteye.net/news/corbyn-...

The government and the media have been lying to you over the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban. We will not let these lies and smears go unchallenged.

People are being shut out of politics. Your Party has a radical plan to change that: by forging a mass, democratic party from the ground up. Read my piece for @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If the police arrest me for this, it's a direct attack on the expression of opinion: ie on free speech. But the Terrorism Act is so madly oppressive and loosely framed that I have no idea which side of it I'm on. And I suspect it's the same for them.

Bear in mind that if you held up a sign saying "I support genocide", you would not be arrested under the Terrorism Act.

If we don't contest this full-frontal assault on our freedom, far worse will come. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...