"Okay, rich people, if you can't be responsible when you're playing with the government, we may have to treat you like children - take away your toys and make you sit in the corner to think about what you did while the adults clean up the mess you've made."

BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

The question that I think of, seeing the masked, anonymised ICE agents is "where does this end?" For them. Don't they get that their names are all over the paperwork documenting each of these raids, ready for the trials?

Seriously, they always point to the relatively small special needs element as the reason to protect all the private schools, rather than maybe improve state provision back to what it was before the Tories trashed it. Stop using SEND kids as a human shield for rich kids www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Socialism is what they called public power.  Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

@mrjamesob.bsky.social This pretty much sums up the world for a whole generation.

Rand Paul: “When McKinley put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50 percent of their seats… When Smoot-Hawley put their tariffs In the early 1930s, we lost the House and Senate for 60 years,” Remember, there's goals to aim for - aim to beat the 1890's and 1930's and put the GOP in a dumpster forever.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Hi James - Florida is literally trying to reinstitute child labor, so you know. And yeah, it's intended to be a hidden version of VAT, a regressive tax that hurts people who spend most of their income, because it's bricked into the price, not added at the end (Weird US quirk)

@mrjamesob.bsky.social - I think the biggest question relates to who is setting the rules the system is being used to enforce. No-one's worried about it being used to catch thieves, but if we ended up with, say, Suella back in charge, the decisions she'd make on what it could be used for are scary

@mrjamesob.bsky.social H i James - it's about making the Lib Dems the second party. If the Lib Dems get results for their former Tory constituencies, that's a help to them grabbing a few more when the Tories and Reform are eating eachother. Imagine the main PMQs being Keir and Ed acting like adults.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I demand we rename Donald Trump's weird dancing his "Hideous Quiver".

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I would not be shocked if Trump had already promised the minerals to billionaires he views as peers or near peers, and instead of being able to crow about delivering them, he was now faced with being told no publicly by someone he views as beneath him, and it humiliated him.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Hi James, It may be Starmer will dangle Europe providing boots on the ground to protect the mines if the US provides the support. I imagine he and others are coordinating closely, both in Europe and with Zalinsky to sort something to survive the next few years.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Hi James - hoping that we're looking at the end of the Tories as the official opposition soon under the Badenoch et al direction, which would be a good way to restore decency by putting Ed Davey front and centre of the opposition benches.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Apparently Farage is planning to arrange an unofficial enquiry, so coming soon to a Twitter poll near you...

The heart of the current Tory issues comes down to one simple fact - their leadership is made up of people with the appeal to centrist voters normally only seen when polling on if people like plague rats or serial killers. They are not a solution to the problem of losing voters to the Lib Dems.