#starmer: it takes a particular type of asshole to undermine your own party in your thirst for power. I suppose we should not be surprised that having gained power, by any means necessary, you turned out to be an incompetent personality vacuum, scared of your own shadow.

#starmer Politicians don't seem to realize that the electorate doesn't believe Farage, doesn't like Reform, don't want Reform, but faced with the refusal to abandon the failure that is neo-liberalism, burning the system to the ground may be the only hope for renewal. Farage is gasoline and a match!

#starmer Maybe if you condemned the actions of the Israeli government and endorsed the indictment of Netanyahu, and the rest of his jackbooted regime, there wouldn't be a need for people to protest. Servile, Spineless, Simpering, Starmer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's not a monopoly, it's not an oligopoly, so what is it when an entire industry have decided on an entry subscription price, an inevitable increase in price forcing the user to switch providers, and the cycle continues. This is the the UK from insurance to broadband. No real competition.

My goodness Starmer is an insufferable prick, he just can't accept that he made a mistake.

If Trump issues blanket pardons when he scuttles out of office, the states need to prosecute, a cell is a cell. They may not get him but his administration and family are ripe for the plucking.

When right wing talking heads respond to suggestions that we should be taxing the American corporations to the hilt, with 'they'll leave', someone might want to point out that we would thank them for their exit and the hole in the market they have left for a EUROPEAN company to fill. Adieu.

Overjoyed for the Hungarian people, hopefully this is the beginning of the pendulum swinging back to the center and a resurgent EU.

Is there a less convincing hard man than hegseth?

Tony Blair: Come on Keir, don't make me sit in the war criminals who used to have been PM room alone!!

How refreshing would it be if the other world leaders, in a move of unprecedented cooperation, took it in turns to respond to trump's tweets with a simple. "What a twat!"

#iran Either the people who want the son of the late Shah to run the intermediate govt of whatever emerges from this illegal war, are so poorly educated that they don't understand the Shah was a brutal dictator, or, they have a preferred kind of dictator.

HOT TAKE: Any British Citizen living in Dubai or similar to avoid tax should foot the bill for any evacuation by the RAF etc.

If Greenland are saying no to Trump's hospital boat how about they dock in a US port and start providing healthcare to the needy?

It's all gone a bit pear shaped for Starmer The Palestine action decision casts him as a weak, authoritarian, fool. Not a poundland Trump, more a poundland Farage.

Donald, you've destroyed the planet. Yes, but nobody is talking about Epstein anymore!! Swings and roundabouts!!

If Wes Streeting is the best hope for Labour, let me be the first to welcome Farage to downing Street!!

I see that Shabana Mahmood is already resorting to rearranging deck chairs on the titanic. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No matter the spin, #Labour blocking #Burnham is an act of self immolation. Yes, a mayoral election is an unwanted distraction for the people of Manchester, but there are a large number of MPs that will see this move as starting the printing press on their 2028/9 P45. Party not personality.

Has #Trump sealed his own downfall? Like most authoritarians, his response to getting what he wants is to ask for more. But his playbook has no answer to 'everyone is dumping US bonds and we can no longer afford our interest payments.' Removed by 25th amendment by mid 2026?

Listening to #Nadella talk about #AI as a public utility is like listening to a man in the desert praying for rain. Under Nadella MS stock has skyrocketed, but he is just continuity Balmer, his AI FOMO has exposed MS to significant risk on multiple fronts. If the AI bubble bursts he's gone.

Why do people like Carla Sands prostitute their integrity and reputation for someone like Trump. Trump doesn't want peace because of some innate sense of morality, he sees peace as an opportunity for yet another grift. The proof is in every peace 'deal' he proposes, justice is never at the core.

What I read in every crypto coin prospectus. The coin is called RUG Purchasing RUG is described as a CONtribution. Converting between RUG and FIAT currencies is know as a PULL.

If all the attendees of Davos were drowning and you had room for one of them in your boat, what would you and Mark Carney talk about while the world became a better place?

Amazing to see the lengths people will go to to avoid incrimination. Unfortunate for Trump that the more chaos he creates the more he looks fully implicated in the Epstein files.

#openai hires George Osborne, cock wombles are forming packs now.

#MAGA at this time of year

I'm just going to leave this prediction here. When Trump's actions cause Obama care premiums to spike, they will try and shift the narrative to how disastrous the scheme has been. Trump can't stand that a black fella is cleverer, better looking, better father, just better.

#bbcqt Why not just tell the truth. Trump and Putin are aligned and the USA is an unreliable ally. The US has proved its institutions are weak and its politics entirely corrupted -- left and right. They want this same chaos for Europe and we must resist.

Apparently the Whitehouse briefing re the Venezuelan tanker is being given by the new spokesman for the Department of War...

How long is it going to take for #Musk and #Zuckerberg to scuttle from under theirrespective rocks and start lobbying the administration to cancel it's social media visa entry requirement? If there's anything that will curtail social media use it's the perceived loss of anonymity.

It seems that the Chinese have a new ally in seeking hegemony over the US, and that would be the US.

#FIFA Is there anything that could makes FIFA seem more corrupt? Well they could cosy up to Trump!

Clucking bell, Star Trek, Into Darkness, is a pre-written script for the US press corp. "[Oy, Leavitt, NO] your 'mission' could start a war with the [Venezuelans] and it is, by its very definition, immoral. Perhaps you should take the requisite time to arrive at this conclusion for yourself."

So when will people start to feel the collateral costs of the AI grift. Building or buying a computer is going is becoming more expensive. Your electricity bill will go up. Net Zero will be sacrificed on the pyre of AI Hey, but text prediction is better, so we got that goin for us.

#carolemalone Talking about Farage's overt racism and antisemitism when at Dulwich. She's not wrong when she says there are things each of us have said in the past that we wouldn't say today. That being said, in her case, the past is as far back as yesterday.

How is YouTube allowed to continue to run known AI generated scams using the likeness of the PM and Martin Lewis?

We seems to be charging headlong toward more and more automation. I am watching the UK budget via LBC on youtube, you'd think the platform would realize the importance of the event and not schedule ads throughout. I can announce tod.. $$$$$$ ..and I commend this statement to the house.

#RachelReeves Oooh that was a zinger Rachel, admitting in parliament that you are circumventing the devolved government of Scotland. Backroom deals with Sarwar are not the flex you think it is. Nearly as bad a look as attacking a person unable to respond.

Hope is an endless torture for those who can't escape their fate. -- Kafka For the reform voter that hope is Farage and that fate is of their own making. I'm sorry the job your dad did can no longer earn a decent wage, but that's not the fault of immigrants.

This shouldn't be a surprise. Populists thrive on convincing people there are simple solutions to their imagined problems. What's simpler than a magical sky daddy that will fix EVERYTHING. Democracy is not doomed by grifters but by simpletons that believe them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's infuriating to see tech leaders trying to get in front of the coming AI crash as if they aren't entirely culpable for, and personally profiting from, the bubble.

#TRUMP For a man who claims any decision against him is rigged, he sure is hoping his base don't believe he's rigging the Epstein evidence.

Glad to see the 'Stolen Valor' admiral has been arrested. I found another one...

Starting to think the film Idiocracy represents the 'best case' for the world imagined by the likes of Altman, Zuckerberg, and Musk.

If Wes Streeting is Labour's answer to the moral and personality vacuum that is Starmer, let me be the first to welcome or new, nicotine stained, overlord to Downing Street.

Hey, if teachers are so lazy and they get soooo much time off, maybe we should pay them like babysitters? I am fairly confident that every teacher would jump at that opportunity. About as confident that most parents would be horrified about how much that would actually cost.

At what point do mainstream politicians admit that it is their policies that have hollowed out the education system, creating a vacuum in literacy and critical thinking skills, that have allowed the lies 'vomited' spewed by the likes of Farage to cut through.

#BBCQT We need to stop the right wing from conflating the 'wealthy' and the 'super rich'. People earning high salaries are not the problem. Tax income, capital gains, dividends etc, at the same rate and classify loans secured against unrealized gains as income.

Who is Morgan McSweeney? Someone who I could not have a lower opinion of, even if he was on Epstein's list.