If you know anything about power generation this is the most terrifying news this year.

When the pills kick in sooner than you expected

I noticed this too, Trump's America is pushing for the Orbanisation of Europe. It's time to go on the attack, Victor should be the first to go.

In for a penny...

🤞🤞🤞🤞 if we're still seeing the political fragmentation then that we're seeing now, IMHO, this will happen.

Just three very wealthy men could soon be calling the shots in Britain. THREE! Some voters will be happy, most will feel pain.

Trump's America now has equal status with Russia as Britain and the EUs biggest adversary

This will please many Reform supporters I suspect, the ones I know live in a world of permanent grievance and blame others for their own failings.

My 'Read of The Day'. All good sensible stuff, and a possible direction for the EU 🤞, however IMO, if the populist far-right take control in France, Germany and GB you can forget the sensible bit.

Wow!

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Beat's watching The Great Escape for the eleventeenth time🤣

Hohoho, what a Christmas treat 😂 as ever for the Marxists , piss up's n breweries....I suspect Corbyn will at this point, walk, probably choose permanent volley firing from the allotment shed!

Will Scarborough be the new Marbella?...

It has taken this country almost 250 years to be $37 trillion in debt! One man alone responsible for 1/3 of 250 years worth of debt! At the same time making the majority of the country poorer, and him and his family raking in billions!

The most famous quote on government fuckups comes from former DfT permanent secretary Sir Richard Mottram: “We're all fucked. I'm fucked. You're fucked. The whole department's fucked. It's been the biggest cock-up ever and we're all completely fucked.” That was *much* smaller than this fuckup.

If I didn't know better I'd call this a conspiracy to abolish the OBR

Surely the maga world can see, Witkoff is corrupt, and they've been had.

That's a massive number 😳

That terrible liberal democracy where there are regular elections, a free economy, imperfect but at least existing social services. A horrible terrible place, compared to, what?

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Over to you Ms Nandy!

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

Terrifying 'Read of The Day '!

In 2010 I first spent an extended period of time in the US on research. And my main takesway from that time was how deluded Europeans in general are if we think of the US as little more than a very powerful extension of Europe on the other side of the Atlantic. This is not an anti-american point.

Lisa Nandy helped out the telegraph by sinking the deal its senior staff *didn’t* want. Now presumably that same team will be hoping she *doesn’t* intervene this time… www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

🚨🚨This is no "peace" plan, it is a recipe for further suffering and #Russian imperialist expansion in the #west. It is difficult to appreciate just how much damage the #trump administration has done to #Ukraine and its war efforts. It is disgusting beyond words. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Weird thing: the UK minimum wage has risen against inflation for years. It's now really high. Millions of people are earning more than they were as a direct result of this policy. And the impact on the vibes of the country is… entirely absent?

Yup...

One reason why I think both AV & STV are better options than first past the post is that I think first past the post means when you get a hung arrangement, the incentive is to drift until 'normal service' resumes - but it is a more unreliable, and less democratic way of getting majorities than AV.

What a joke

The electorate: 🤷‍♂️

Ooooof.

If you're cheering Trump on then you have no right to call yourself a patriot. You absolute moron.

Ooooch

Media propagandists are creating this mood of national chaos. Good thing's, in difficult economic circumstances, are still happening. Can't help thinking, a Dem in the whitehouse, and everything, globally, would look much rosier.

I'd like my government to stop using X.

A very 'snigger' inducing read.🙈

The Trump regime just killed a rule protecting millions of acres of western Arctic lands from fossil fuel drilling. It’s yet another giveaway to Big Oil — which spent $450 million backing Trump and Republicans and lobbying Congress last year. Watch: https://youtu.be/aDQXiNlM5iM?si=nZag1nV9sKC_JStQ

Superb

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Hmm... rather like the non-dom thing here, pretty much everyone knows where their bread is buttered!

So it turns out the dodgy "internal"report from a right-wing PR guy, appointed by a Tory spin doctor, appointed to the BBC by Boris Johnson; itself misquoted Donald Trump's Jan 6th speech - leaving out the bad stuff 🤪 What lessons do we draw from that? 🤷‍♂️ bsky.app/profile/mart...

www.facebook.com/share/v/1N7V... Reform UK...a new kind of politics 🤔

Note that this is for voters in general - I need to redo the graph, but strongly suspect the black line would be even higher for Labour voters... you know, the people that Labour need to win at the next election.

Good.

strongmessagehere.substack.com/p/what-messa... Steve's who I think should be in charge of Downing Street coms. My 'Read of The Day'

“Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.”https://centralbylines.co.uk/politics/a-new-survey-reveals-negative-attitudes-to-reform-uk-ltd/