This is horrendous, obviously from the US and their new attitude to anyone they consider fair game - but it’s the British embassy shrugging their shoulders here that’s pathetic. If you get no help when there’s no reason for you to be held, imagine if you were really in trouble. Complicit

The Venn diagram of “constitutional conservative” and “knows the constitution” is two completely separate circles

Extraordinary that the man responsible in part for doing so much damage to public services in this country, and the root cause of so many problems we have today - not only faces no consequences, but is never challenged and has maintained MULTIPLE jobs at one time consistently. Ridiculous rewards

What a way to run a country man

They can’t keep up with their own lies, but I’m sure they also don’t care - the truth for the MAGA cultists is whatever Trump says it is today

Abandoned since the mines closed 40 years ago, things just got worse forever so they voted for Brexit. They now get half the funding they did when in the EU. Labour haven’t made anything better so now they’re all in on Reform. We can expect things to get worse www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dug himself a huge hole here. Now every time he criticises someone in politics, he should just be confronted with whether he has ‘got to know’ them yet or not - because if he hasn’t then his view is pointless, by his own admission. What a charlatan - just like they all are at the top of Reform

Not least of which is because when challenged on ‘which EU law’ or whatever the subject of the day is, they can’t come up with anything. It’s not just their bollocks delivered in bad faith, it’s such a thin sheen of bollocks, with nothing underneath at all. If only their own media would challenge

This guy went to Trump’s inauguration as a fan. This is the type of leader and person he supports. That should be the end of it for everyone in the UK

Claims that DEI schemes are keeping white working class boys out of work are of course presented without any evidence or examples. From very rich people with a long history of lying and incompetence. This is who the country choose as their favourites after their media amplifies it all. Incredible

It’s almost like reform goons are all liars making arguments in bad faith. It’s disgraceful how much of their media supports and amplifies them - this is much better from Victoria Derbyshire. I fear she is one of very few - Reform are going to convince millions with this bollocks

The only thing they want to protect is rich people, and over the next few years, how many journalists will be like this? Reform are very dangerous, lying grifters

Brexit will fix that…

Worth remembering Tice is an absolute moron who has no idea about how anything works - or at least that’s the part he’s chosen to play for 10 years

Yeah, but what if 16 year olds see this?

He’s really good with money if there’s a property deal to be done I think?

“…they don’t know why.” It’s a complete fucking mystery isn’t it, bellends.

-… then if you check table 6 it will tell you how many points you get for your age. Add those points to the ones from your Relatives-aboard cards and Family-elsewhere cards… -Um, Eric, the water's getting pretty high. -Then stop interrupting! Next, you'll need your dice and the saving throw chart.

I’m slightly confused here - surely the rise of the anti vax movement is partly contributing to this? The NHS can’t force people to come and take it

After one boat trip lunch to the inland that he’d tried to hide, and that he brought ALL his children and nannies back from? I wonder what his family made of that defence. It really is extraordinary the lengths those in charge are going to in order to protect these men

It feels odd to suggest it, yet there is some evidence that the ‘these are paid agitators stirring up problems’ line seems to work here. Nasty little grifters spreading lies about our capital, egged on by the right (does that exist anymore?) and the far right. They hate our country

I prefer to think of Bank Run Ridley here less as a dangerous lunatic than as a one man argument you should let go of your imposter syndrome.

Decisions taken by Musk, Vought and Trump. They let food rot in warehouses, they shut things down rapidly and left staff and patients stranded. People started dying, and nothing changed. Now look at all these deaths, so many preventable

He's so rich and out of touch, that when walking down the road and meeting another person, he immediately assumes they're going to be violent, and then claims his own son wouldnt be safe. This is just utter, utter bollocks.

What the actual fuck is he talking about here? These people have grown so used to spouting meaningless bollocks or lies, and then the room in front of them is nodding, applauding, whatever - when confronted by the silence that correctly identifies their mumbled nonsense, they dont know what to do.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

In the latest 'we still havent recovered from the pandemic' news...

Surprised they conceded some points here, so that's a positive. Clearly we've all become bored of the BBC anti bias needing to 'both sides' everything when that sometimes makes them look ridiculous, but its up to all of us to adapt to the reality that one side persistently argues in bad faith

Doesnt even acknowledge his massive lie about 12 million migrants coming to the UK in the last 5 years. His 'apology' about choice of language doesnt even entertain that lying about and demonising a group of people is inflammatory, unhelpful and disgusting. Perhaps he could come back and pay UK tax

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

This is a lie, the report says it’s not true but the headline lets him get away with it.

Bondi laughing at the end is the real pièce de résistance. This is all just a big joke to her.

Just bizarre.

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

Failing upwards is a bizarre trait of British politics that has been exhausting in the last 5 years. It's easy to be cynical, and have to accept that no serious consequences will ever occur to these people who betrayed our country, but to see them actually rewarded and promoted is extraordinary

It's hard to imagine that the security services of the UK, and Starmer's whole top team were not aware of this, and chose to look past it.

I’d love to hear more about this 90 year old ‘Mr Toyota’ who promised him money on the phone

More bombings coming soon, he seems pretty clear

Badenoch. I mean, given how obviously awful she is at everything, with no redeeming qualities, least of all empathy or integrity, this is a very bleak place for the country to find itself.

He did the cartoon!

What?! I can’t believe a site with Trump’s name on it is a con… Where does the money go?

It doesn’t really scream “I am in touch with the American people” - who would want this guy in charge of anything?

just a fucking weird statement on it's face but also highlights how filthy rich and completely out of touch trump's whole cabinet is. a private boat for a family vacation? stopping by a billionaire's island for lunch? nannies, plural?? the epstein class, indeed.

But no money for healthcare.

For an administration that claims so loudly to be all about Christian values, they seem remarkably unaware they’re all going to hell

Any argument that says he will alienate the audience is denying that he was the most streamed artist in the world on Spotify last year, and was in the top 5 in the US. These people hate their own country

He says it’s not political. The rest of us will call him a shameless grifter with no soul. You have to be dead inside to do this

A plane of food for the Americans travelling to Italy. Just insane.

Think how evil you have to be to do this.

People who have said ‘who’d have thought Mandelson was a wrong ‘un?!’ and ‘Trump’s not going to have been like that’ will now move onto ‘Nigel couldn’t have been involved’. These people don’t want to know the answers