It is a shame, because every election now is about stopping the far right (and this splits that effort) - but clearly if you're the Greens you cant trust Labour, and they're never going to put electoral reform in place

The President is telling the IRS to give him $10 billion rn

Like a summer job.

Do Republicans think their main job is to cover up the president's lies, or to lie when he accidentally tells the truth?

Maybe the government should do something about corrupt foreign influence in British politics?

Until very recently, you could pay £75 and make him say whatever you wanted on Cameo.

"I can't be bought by anyone" is actually a hilarious statement by someone who is paid for Cameo statements.

Labour is challenging its leader over whether he’s delivering change fast enough for the public. Reform UK’s leader is engulfed in scandal encompassing potential corruption and financial deceit, and its members don’t care. The difference between a democratic political party and a leadership cult.

HMRC's contrary conclusion will be welcomed by Ms Rayner, but it raises a question of consistency: ordinary taxpayers who ignore explicit advice to consult a specialist routinely receive careless penalties. It is not obvious why this case is different.

A funding model for councils that actually allows them to have enough money for their legal requirements, and doesnt simultaneously force them to raise council tax every year, cut services and still not have enough money.

I really hope Starmer doesn't drag this out too much. These endgames are so undignified and miserable.

Been a while so thought I'd check out the Persimmon costs and operating profit per housing plot data. Big rise in build costs and operating costs since 2022. Current operating profit is effectively just the house price inflation since 2021. Land costs flat for a decade.

Good job Gilead is just fiction. Oh.

Autumn! So nothing really gets done in government for a whole summer, and the whole country just drifts while we await the huge inflation shocks from Trump’s war. This is bad news

That line is not going to hold.

Hypocrisy on the right, and even more so on the far right, is basically baked in. He thinks all his followers are stupid or have no memory

Farage and his media of course hate any and all scrutiny, but the idea that Dan targets investigations to people only on one side politically has never been true, and here’s yet more proof it’s not true. Polanski appears to be accepting the findings and apologising, Rayner was sacked, Tice; nothing

82 vaccines. Sure, tell us more?

We knew the towns that were safe, the ones that were not.We were wary of Northolt. We only knew the name of Welling because that is where the BNP printed its flyers. We lived this and in the coming weeks you will have pundits telling you Reform's rise is all about the cost of living. That is a lie.

The thing about Reform's success is this: whatever their political future, whether they have peaked or not, it is hard to express just how unpleasant the resurgence of their sentiments actually is. I grew up in Greater London in the 1990s, and a lot o that time was very grim. And it's back.

It’s 2022. Joe Biden is on the phone while a golden statue of him is unveiled. Everyone in the press and the democrat party treat this as perfectly normal. How has this been normalised in such a short space of time? Not a cult though…

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, yo find out Seb has made a fuck awful take

We crossed the rubicon on this years ago - which is why the serial failure Farage is now leading the most popular polling party in the country, despite him being a noted liar, grifter and charlatan. The public simply cannot see through what the media and their politicians are telling them is true

The Bible is very clear that we should make and worship golden idols, I support this

Ofcom-regulated (GB News) TV presenter latest

Funding of the far right is out of hand

Free pass for the right now extends to the far right

Remember when we had SOME standards?

But they can get away with anything they want because the vast majority of their supporters dont know anything past their immigration stance.

Come on, guys, please let’s get the word out, and spread these articles around. Media complicity in Reform’s rise is truly shameful.

It’s all about the grift. It’s always only been about the grift. The failure of much of the British press to acknowledge and then amplify and repeat this very simple and obvious truth is why he’s allowed to pretend he’s some sort of man of the people

This is who they are - the pressure isn’t enough, and Farage has to appeal to these people. I wonder what victory looks like tomorrow when a load of people are suddenly councillors who have no idea what they’re doing, can’t do what they promised, but are angry. Everyone will suffer

So, like secret police?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... ok, so 2 arrests - what about the effect the bbc reporting has had on demonising the entire group of all refugees and immigrants and the damage done? Giving the far right the fuel they want while managing 2 arrests doesn’t seem the right balance

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... “close to a deal” - again?! Because Trump says so? You can’t trust either side, but clearly you need a lot of substantial action to happen before you can gain any confidence. He says this all the time and it’s not true - he’s been saying it about Ukraine forever

Trying to convince enough current reform voters, that their intended party of choice are nasty far right extremists and that that’s a bad thing, shows how much trouble we’re in

History won’t look on him as a ‘great’ man, they’ll see him for what he is. The present has a whole lot of people who see him for what he is now, but are there enough of us?

They’d find a whole new set of things to lie about so they can wind up enough people - nothing has changed to stop it since 2016, and a lot more people are radicalised now

‘They also strongly rebutted any suggestion that Reform “are or would ever trade public contracts for political patronage, unlike the Tory or Labour parties”.’ I mean we can definitely believe the lying liars for sure

Getting dodgy money out of politics, enforcing rules and making electoral institutions fit for purpose was a clear warning in 2016. We’ve done nothing, and now we’re all paying the price for Brexit, and it’s about to get a whole lot worse, and more corrupt

The fact that millions think Farage is some sort of man of the people here to fix their problems, and not the rich elite liar and massive grifter that he’s always been is a total failure of media and education, as well as politics

This country, fundamentally, has fixed nothing that caused the problems in 2016 - disinformation, dodgy funding, far right lies getting traction and a weak set of electoral and institutional controls that are not fit for purpose. Farage has run rings around it all for 10 years and look at the price

Nelson has done more than most to amplify hatred and platform the far right in this country, so forgive me if it leaves a bad taste in the mouth having to listen to him realise that Farage and his crew are very dangerous wrong ‘uns. Too late now - millions in this country are radicalised

As @sundersays.bsky.social has exhaustively demonstrated, X repeatedly and systematically refuses to do anything about open Nazis and other extreme antisemites and racists making violent threats. Just pathetic the government/OFCOM refuse to act

In other news, bears shit in woods. Still, a lot of people are going to find out that a reform council run by people who don’t know what they’re doing are going to meet reality pretty hard

The far right are absolutely insane as well as dangerous

That Trump continues to believe acing the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (a 10-minute screening test most commonly used for diagnosing dementia) is a significant accomplishment is damning indictment of his actual intelligence.

Exactly. The DOJ will only charge the people the president perceives as political enemies. Selective prosecution motion GRANTED. So ordered.

It would take someone on the average Clacton salary 200yrs to earn what Nigel Farage was given by a Thai-based crypto billionaire with no apparent strings attached because people just give you £5m for no reason. If you still support him by now you're an irredeemably stupid mark or a fascist or both.