The first thing authoritarians do is bully and control the media. Remember that.

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So true

2 things. 1 this is what a real leader does for his people. 2 It will have pissed off Trump gigantically which is a massive bonus.

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Thank you all for your service, except for the guy with bone spurs. He’s a cowardly little dick.

Mainstream politics will always lose to noisy populists so long as they try and stand on the moral high ground. You fight populists toe to toe with the same level of vicious brutality and take absolutely no prisoners, because the truth is, populists cannot stand scrutiny.

There will now follow a protracted period of BBC navel gazing, while Farage, Trump and the rest of the right wing goon squad get to say and do what they like without criticism

The Satanic Temple has launched a nationwide food drive (called the Devil's Pantry) to help those affected by the loss of SNAP benefits and rising good costs. Okay ... so now we live in a world where Satanists are more Christ-like than Christians?! Someone tell me how we ended up in Bizarro World!!

Farage is such a twat.

Donald J Trump is the enemy of democracy disguised as its champion.

This is always the best post on here.

Has Trump blamed aliens from Mars yet?

Powerful words and a very strong message.

Good luck USA and I hope the elections today are fair, transparent and not tampered with

A thread of things paid for with taxes

After today’s Farage rant, I have changed my mind and hope that broadcasters start to cover everything Reform and Farage say, ad nauseum.

’honest’ John by name, but Dishonest John by nature

This, but I still won’t watch Sky news again until it stops platforming the fag ash fuhrer

The media in the UK has turned from being a trustworthy source of information into a scandal mining, disinformation spreading parody that cannot be trusted. Stop watching, stop reading and stop buying

Apparently Corbyn is doing panto this year.

A genuinely brilliant album

Today on X, I had to mute 24 Reform bots but only 3 pro SNP bots in order to get my feed back to some kind of balance. Misuse of algorithms to amplify hate is real.

Dozy Donald

Custom made double breasted uniform great coat not alluding to any historical period in particular surely

“The wealth gap is choking off growth, funnelling resources into property and financial assets rather than productive investment. It is worsening the housing crisis, which now stands as both a symptom and a driver of broader inequality” @fairness.bsky.social fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025

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That’s a lot

There will now follow the long and tiresome over analysis of the Caerphilly election by all the usual suspects until either the next election or Christmas - whichever comes first.

Putting Dorries onto Question Time to answer immigration questions provided the expected - the scream of a plane going into a nose dive from 50k feet followed by the fireball on impact.

Is Labour in Wales about to have its SNP moment in Wales as it did in Scotland when the Labour vote collapsed at Holyrood.

If Trump has a hissy fit over a TV advert, can anyone describe him as competent to govern?

This would be the moment for Labour to recognise that trying to out Reform Reform is the wrong plan and it’s time to get back to being more Labour.

Has Farage blamed the EU or immigrants for the Caerphilly result yet?

Jess Phillips is far and away the best person for this job. In terms of lifetime involvement with the victims of domestic violence and abuse and empathy with the victims you couldn't get a better candidate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Not a conspiracy theorist, but this is suspicious...1/

Brilliant

Farage choosing to sulk like a spoiled child in the public gallery at PMQs because he doesn’t get special treatment is exactly why the little prick should never be allowed near power

This is great news, except in Scotland where the law won’t change as I seem to remember the SNP govt uses NDAs to cover up its corruption, failure and incompetence

In the UK, we own nothing and we are not happy! Thanks Thatcherism.

The UK has become a nation of self obsessed non contributors, whether it’s earning money and avoiding tax, not earning money and demanding more benefits, demanding more services but expecting them to be free. It’s not a good look

Geissler interview of Green co leader is proof that the Greens remain the lunatic fringe of the SNP, which is the lunatic fringe of politics in Scotland.

Australia fighting to save society from the crazies. Bravo Aussies.

Discovered Richard the idiot Murphy is on Bluesky and immediately muted his account. Bluesky will not be allowed to turn into idiot central

Interestingly. I just discovered that you can join the Reform party from anywhere including the Kremlin. Be very cautious about believing the massive membership numbers I would expect them to be fictitious.

The SNP conference this year was essentially a remake of the last ten SNP conferences but with really poor casting and a badly reworked script.

Just watched ‘The Post’ a story of honest, principled journalists outing a US administration's Vietnam coverup. The west could do with an army of honest, principled journalists instead of the poodles we have at the moment.

Listened to ’honest’ John Swinney on the BBC this morning. Never heard so many lies in a single interview about Scotland’s govt and economy since the dark days of the Sturgeon disinformation machine.

People from ‘the city’ claiming to understand big picture economics is laughable. ‘City’ people understand roughly 5% of the overall economic picture and it’s a big part of the reason why the UK is in such a bad way - politicians listen to the City and not the grown ups.

Nailed it