How Indeed...

GEO Group CEO George Zoley just said that the number of people ICE is tracking with GEO ankle monitors has jumped from 17,000 last year to a whopping 48,000 now.

Clever bastards aren't they ..

Top work from Stewart Lee here. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

All decent governments should do this #Xodus

Prisoners in England are 41 to 67 times more likely to experience avoidable harm linked to poor healthcare than the general public, according to new research based on reviewing medical records from 18 prisons in England socialcare.today/2026/05/08/p...

"I do not like Starmer, so I vote fascist."

Excellent point. We don’t elect an individual to be Prime Minister, we elect a party to be in Government of Parliament. The MSM want this democratically elected Government removed, and the leader is irrelevant to them.

Actually sick pay rules HAVE changed recently. To the benefit of workers. Not that you’d know that because it’s hasn’t really been reported. Strange.

So, reform are already three 'winners' down. Since Friday morning.

Gutted to say The Beautiful Mancs have had to cancel tonight's gig at the Hopetown. Day 3+ of laryngitis, GP this morning, told not to sing - risk of permanent damage. Of all the days. One year since our first gig. @paulheatonsolo.bsky.social birthday.🎂🥳❤️ We'll be back 🎤 & in greater numbers...

The British Electorate: 2024, The Tories were so shit we would have voted for a traffic bollard to knock them out. 2026, let’s vote for a party largely made up of ex Tory cabinet members.

Scottish Reform candidate who backed deporting all Muslims elected MSP

I’ve just listened to Ed Davey on James O’B yesterday. His EU policy is virtually identical to Labours bar a Customs Union. He’s talked about building trust and how rejoin isn’t possible yet? All the Lib Dem’s coming on here giving Labour stick and its identical.

No longer a candidate, Harry Phillips is now a councillor. Reform UK Candidate Accused of Mocking Disabled Residents as ‘Benefit Scroungers’ and ‘Skanks’ bylinetimes.com/2026/05/06/r...

When your ugly car is a beautiful metaphor for your future, eh Elon?

Gilts gain as Keir Starmer clings on after local election losses - www.ft.com/content/3ff8... via @FT

This feels like a fair assessment, one that is a little overlooked in the breathless and hysterical reporting of Reform's performance - and Labour's.

I'm looking forward to Farage's RFK Jr cosplay phase. Sky and BBC and LBC nursing metaphorical semis whilst covering live as he munches his way through a tuberculosis-riddled badger. With the scrolling lower third saying: "Starmer scandal as he admits trying avocado"

LBC - Rewind live radio. @mrjamesob.bsky.social took a call from one of my near-enough neighbours in Salford between 1153 and 1201. That call was a perfect portrayal of why we need to do something very serious about media and social media.

Yep

Fun game: first person to spot a new reform grifter (councillor) who quits or gets fired or arrested for kid stuff...wins a Penguin. Maybe even Penguin Mint, if you nasty.

Amazing. You can chuck billions of pounds in foreign money in & win local council seats in UK local elections, who knew?

Interesting from Sir John Curtice, the UKs top polling expert on Englands council election and the Reform surge

What really pees me off is the people brish aside with whataboutary the Employment and Tenents Rights acts, free breakclubs, extra free childcare hours, rise in minumum wage and UC, millions into health, education and the environment, what more do they want.

However you dice it, it’s been a great night for Thai-based cryptocurrency billionaires & Vladimir Putin - who, incredibly, is currently getting more good news from the UK than Ukraine.

So far results looking bleak for Labour in the North East but overall not quite as bad nationally as some forecasts predicted. Reform gains largely in line with national poll share. Tories doing least badly in London. Greens making significant gains but not yet the big breakthrough some predicted

Six of the morning's 10 London results in so far. Three Lab holds, one Lab loss to NoC (with Tories largest party, by just one) and two resounding Lib Dem holds. Reform in danger of getting none out of two. Tories on course to regain Westminster. Kensington & Chelsea surely safe for them.

There goes the neighbourhood. Hope it was worth it! GE is a long way away. And the spotlight is now on Reform and on the Greens. So far, neither has excelled under scrutiny. Reform is the party of racists, grifters, and wronguns. Expect a flood of scandals. Here's the rope, a-holes...

🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage has accepted £2 million since becoming an MP @desmog.com’s analysis, published by The Guardian, shows that the Reform leader has raked in millions on top of the £5 million handed to him by Harborne

Reform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs Reform UK’s Treasurer and three other donors have handed £1.55 million to Nigel Farage from Britain’s most expensive apartment block which is home to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and massive post-Soviet wealth

In the 'disaster for labour' (no matter the results) aftermath of today, there will be Burnham for leader talk all over the press. Andy B is a superb local politician and GM has benefited massively from his work. The media wants him to disrupt labour, unseat Starmer (to further normalise leader...

Mind you, in my feed, I have slavish devotees of Labour, greens, libdems... But no nutjob Tories or Reform creeps. And I'll accept that. Even the most irrational of our side of the centre are at least motivated by positive things. The right is largely motivated by greed and hatred of various types.

Why are so many people so desperately enthusiastic about finding a cult leader to get behind, all of a sudden? Is reality just now that hard? It wasn't covid, either. This predates covid, but it has become broader and more prevalent. Kinda feels like society is over.

Objectively hilarious.

Just remember: a vote for the Tories or reform is a sure sign that you are an a-hole, an idiot, a dupe, or all of the above. I don't really care if you vote labour, libdem, or green tomorrow. I can see why any rational human might vote for any of those. There are no legit reasons to vote con/ref.

I do wish some of those who constantly appear all over all the media to complain they are being silenced would be, well, a bit more... Silent. They are everywhere.

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

Cette saison des *Traitres* a été bien qqchose ! Axel n’en ressort pas grandi. L'air bête naturel d’Isabelle est mon animal spirituel !

Axel Huet... What a strange, strange man-child he's turning out to be! #LesTraitres

Axel et Victoria... C'est creepy AF. #LesTraitres

It really does confuse and upset the right wing, neopopulists, and the related online dickheads when the rest of us adopt even a tiny bit of their rhetoric. Try it as an experiment. If they say something racist or homophobic or pro-cultist, reply by exceeding it slightly. It breaks their brains.

#ResistanceUnited The U.S. Mint is required by law to use only American gold, but it has flouted the law for years. As gold prices soar, the agency has been laundering gold from illicit sources, funding drug cartels, terrorism, war and environmental destruction. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/w...

These things are usually a bit cringe. The AI sketchwork is deffo a bit eurgh. But people who didn't live this and don't understand why we cannot let this happen again? They need to see this. All the way through. And it's a good reminder for the LGB who are doing this to the T.