I literally said this at the time. Anyone can get a deal if you just agree to what the other side wants. The Australia and New Zealand trade deals were AWFUL for UK farmers. There was a reason their TV shows were literally laughing at us. Liz Truss the brilliant negotiator ... total muppet she is.

As expected, UK was involved extensively behind the scenes. And Jonathan Powell was Tony Blair's fixer on Northern Ireland. So, for anybody decrying UK involvement in getting us to peace and the hostages home, just because Starmer doesn't shout does not mean he doesn't act. #PeaceSummit #Egypt

I hope we all appreciated the incredible brass neck of the SNP, who routinely demand Scotland has its own immigration policy separated from Westminster and regularly hold up the refugees welcome signs, demanding London stop looking to rehouse migrants in Scotland. Why might that be Mr John Swinney?

Action is being taken, but the UK will not join a hostile & protectionist EU. We've seen this week with steel tarrifs & the ridiculous debate over burgers, plus the capitol levys, that the EU isn't a place for growth or frankly trust. Starmer being in India was far more valuable to the UK.

Doesn't matter. It impacts the UK. The EU proves to be an unfriendly and untrustworthy actor. The tarrif clauses in the TCA are to counter predatory or unfair practises. Where was that in this decision? Nowhere. The UK should drag the EU through arbitration. The defensive tone says it all.

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing. Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing. Choose sanity. Vote Binface. (Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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I sometimes worry I exaggerate the collective madness of our media but the people who cheered Brexit, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss's mini-budget are now applauding Kemi Badenoch's speech. 'Parallell universe' doesn't come close. I suppose her not falling over is a win of sorts for them at the moment.

EU rushed this out yesterday. Claimed its a temporary measure due to “global overcapacity, unfair competition, state aid” etc. Didn't even have the decency to brief London it was coming. 78% of UK steel goes to the EU. We should drag the European Commission through TCA arbitration.

A work of art

if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future

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Oh are they. So to be clear, after all their DOGE nonsense, they're going to increase taxes on working people.

This is beginning to mirror the Blackadder episode "Head", where Edmund notes nobody lasts a week in the Lord High Executioner's job. #France

On Yom Kippur. Just awful.

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Right-wing media fluffs Farage for years, to the point where he now leads the polls, and then start whining about Starmer being 'obsessed' when he starts telling some long overdue home truths. It's actually hilarious.

So New York should stop contributing to the Federal budget. Fair is fair. New York is a net contributor. If they're going to illegally hold back congressionally approved funds, NYC will do it alone.

I think that was Keir Starmer’s best speech as Labour leader, in part because he clearly believed most of it and the argument actually cohered and had some policy substance to it.

"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

This is good (for once). Farage has to stay front & centre for almost 4 more years & I don’t see how he can without edging ever closer to the National Front credo that’s always animated him. For now, Starmer must wait until he’s *blatantly* racist before using the term. Otherwise it loses power 1/2

Think this is absolutely true - so much is written about boys and Andrew Tate - Tate is more popular with grown men than boys!

May I be so bold as to remind you of this, from ten days ago, when most other commentators were hailing Nigel Farage's unmatched political genius?

In amongst the political shitstorm we currently live in, there is still some good news.

#UK should refuse any #EU youth mobility scheme on the grounds of community cohesion. Reform is on 7% of 18-24s per YouGov. But in the EU, 18-24s are voting for the far-right in double digits. VOX is on 25% in Spain, same in France with RN. In Poland its 30%. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

No. 10 spokesperson responding to a far right idea: "lol how will you pay for Dachau?" No. 10 spokesperson three days later: "On reflection, Dachau is bad"

The Labour Party has a tradition of antiracism campaigning. It’s supposed to be in the party’s DNA. That they cannot say it’s just straightforwardly wrong to alarm families who choose Britain to live, work and raise children in is a total moral failure.

So to be clear our "natural allies" or as they would have it "our European family" are trying to brute force access to the UK labour market and access to home fees for EU students Can we just freeze UK-EU discussions till the next millennium? Why do we bother. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

We must unite against those who seek to divide us.

A rally organised by Tommy Robinson should be a slam dunk for a Labour government. Most people will recognise it as being led by the far right (and will not identify themselves as such). Violence is predictable too. The PMs and ministers should have been ready to respond immediately.

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

Nandy staying in post when almost every other cabinet minister has been moved will absolutely infuriate many in the party and in the creative sector. She is all but universally regarded to have failed in the role, and to be completely indifferent to it. Her defenders are virtually non-existent.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Starmer ravages Farage: "The honourable member for Clacton is not here... he's flown to America to badmouth and talkdown our country. And worse than that... he's gone there to lobby the Americans to impose sanctions. You cannot get more unpatriotic than that. It's a disgrace."

Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK. So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...

And to able to say "No" to the automatic entry of EU migrants and control who can and cannot enter the UK. Totally the right decision. And no, sorry, not changing.

Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.

It shows such a basic lack of political understanding that Labour didn't go straight on the attack over this. Just because most people are worried about immigration being too high it doesn't mean they're psychopaths.

Defending human rights is the right thing to do. But it’s also – despite the impression you might have from politicians and the media – the *popular* thing to do: a majority of the public supports human rights and doesn’t want to leave the ECHR.

If mass deportations worked like the charlatans and liars on the right - and especially Brexit Liar in chief Farage - claimed, theyd be standard policy. They do not.

I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up. Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.

Sure. And the result would be a Reform minority government. But its literally 4 years away. So, who cares.

You can say, do or think whatever you want as freely as you want. But that doesn't protect you from the consequences of supporting an organisation that broke into a British military base and damaged millions of pounds of military equipment. And no, being stupid is very clearly not an excuse.

Yes leaving the EU creates barriers to trade. Thats obvious. It also means EU nationals have no automatic right to enter or settle in the UK. That is viewed by the British government and the British people as a good thing. Swings and roundabouts.