Maybe someone could remind Donald Trump how long it took the US to make the decision to help us fight the Nazis after Churchill first asked!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm increasingly concluding that we'll never know how ancient traditions like morris dancing are because it just wasn't written down ... but at the same time that's the point ... it goes back beyond memory as if it's always happened. What's important is the community and seasonality it serves.

Now we're in to March it's properly time to get allotmenting again. Spent most of the day clearing up the greenhouse to make room for the first sowings in earnest. Beetroot, chard, leeks, peas, lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, kohl rabi, parsley, turnips all in modules in the greenhouse now.

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

I'm sure it's been mentioned before but the fact that a man called Goodwin has proven to be such a bad loser must come from the same branch of anti-nominative determinism as James Cleverly! Very funny!

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Well, that explains the erratic delivery times.

Wonderful slip by Rachel Reeves in her statement to the Commons. The ‘changes we promised’ morphed into the ‘promises we changed’.

The fact that someone who was until recently so senior in Starmer's administration is now writing this dreck tells you everything you need to know about how they got themselves into this mess

If polling continues like this … might it be the first time we see an incumbent party with a big majority with an actual incentive to introduce Proportional Representation at the next election? It was voted for at a Labour conference a year two ago.

Wow! Starmer must really have something absolutely amazing up his sleeve for the last year before the next general election!!! I wonder what it could be? For this level of complacency in the face of dreadful polling … it’s going to have to be better than filling a few potholes!!!

Do you remember back in 2016 when Labour’s polling dropped to 26% and all the Labour MPs declared Corbyn unelectable triggering a leadership challenge? Starmer is polling at 16% in 3rd place … how low does it have to go for them???

"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again". Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means. Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down. news.sky.com/story/greens...

Good lord. What an abject failure the Blue Labour strategy has been.

Slagging off their own core voters while apeing the cruel rhetoric and policies of Reform going well for Labour I see! 👏👏👏

Just watching a Japanese person copying exactly how I played something on the anglo-concertina back in 2005 (very well might I say) and chuckling to myself on the absolute absurdity of life and the concept of fame. It really is absolutely ridiculous.

Dubai

Let them eat Ozempic! NO REPATRIATION WITHOUT TAXATION

NO REPATRIATION WITHOUT RETRO-TAXATION These parasites ran away to the UAE with the express intention of not paying their fair share of taxes … it should be a prerequisite that they do before we take them back.

NO EVACUATION WITHOUT TAXATION

Remember that in the UK, in space year 2026, it is *still* illegal to rip a CD you bought with your own money to play the resulting MP3s (or whatever) on your computer. That is not considered fair use. But AI companies eating all of our creative work for free soon will be. Fuck off, Labour.

Pete Hegseth sounds like a teenage gamer with no friends who has just had a particularly good run in Fortnite.

I don’t want a single penny from British taxpayers to pay for wealthy tax-dodgers in Dubai to safely come home. They thought they didn’t need us because they greedily refused to pay their fair share … let Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott come crawling back with their own money.

Such a disappointment of a man.

Kind of incredible. I was just sitting down to write about how Starmer should be given credit for keeping us out of this mess when he does this. Unutterably foolish and obsequious. Why in God's name should we have anything to do with this shortsighted madness.

Had to go out earlier than usual to rescue my family who couldn’t get to school on time because the underinvested in bus had broken down … again. On the way back hit a pothole so bad that I’m now about to change the spare tyre and report it to the council. And they wonder why we’re not productive?

This article brilliant sums up Keir Starmer’s tin-eared response to losing a by-election to the Green Party … … ”The tone of a letter he wrote to Labour parliamentarians was self-righteous, arrogant, and deluded” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And THEY WILL NOT ACT AS A DETERRENT. I didn’t vote Labour to get an even stupider migration policy than we had under the Tories.

Hang on Wesley!! In the wake of the Runcorn by-election, the Labour government shifted to the right and tried to out-reform Reform!!! We all saw it.

Americans: it is entirely in your power to do something about the Epstein files. Blaming them whenever your president does a war or threatens to invade an ally is wearying and trivialising of the fact that you are a huge unreliable nuclear-armed doomsday device.

As Nigel Farage is now so concerned about the influence of "foreign-born voters" can he finally explain why a Kazakhstan-born billionaire appears to be bankrolling his own political party?

Hmmmm? I wonder if they mean foreign born voters like Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley, Boris Johnson, Richard E Grant, Eddie Izzard or the late Duke of Edinburgh? Or maybe they mean people with brown skin like the disgusting racist rag they are?

I went to college with a guy called Farhad who was a Prince of Iran before the revolution. He went to Charterhouse and then Kings .... he was more quintessentially English than I was ... he was also a public school entitled arsehole ... I also quite liked him. He might be in charge tomorrow.

I'm at the point where I can see several Labour MPs who could conceivably defect to the Green Party ... but I can see an equal number who would be just as at home defecting to Reform.

Can anyone tell me why second hand car prices have gone up about 100% since 2021 when inflation has only gone up around 25% ??? It won't change anything ... but I'd love to know the actual reason.

If the leaders of extremist regimes who don't follow international law can just be killed on the whim of another leader I guess Trump and Netenyahu are both fair game now?

Well thank you very much! Ddisenfranchise all those who have to travel around the country to work then? Salesmen, reps, actors, musicians, construction workers, fishermen?? Poetic justice would be seeing Farage lose his seat by one vote because he couldn't get to Clacton while grifting in the US.

The tragic awfulness of this government is that it has extended a factional war against the left of the Labour Party into a war against almost all the good things we might have expected of it. It cannot respond to the crisis it faces, because its hatred of the Labour left is definitional.

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

Oh dear … I sense a government falling apart at the seams … what a shame.

They might as well call it Operation Tiny Penis. Pathetic.

Trying to equate the Green parties message of hope, community and social values with Reform is quite frankly disgusting.

I have spent 18 months trying to defend them, hoping they would realise their approach was failing. I thought I saw positive signals post McSweeney. I was wrong. I no longer believe Keir Starmer is capable of leading this country to a better place. There are no more people left to blame.

Watching Keir Starmer and his government’s insane response to losing the Gorton & Denton by-election it’s hard to believe anything other than the fact that they want to lose the next election to Reform. Could Blue Labour and their other RW think-tanks actually be actively working against Labour?

According to Shabana Mahmood, the bourgeoisie now includes nurses, primary school teachers, bin men, folk musicians and pensioners voting for a female plumber!! She’s mad if she thinks there are any votes in this nonsense. Reform voters are NEVER going to switch to voting for her. They hate her.

Fuck the USA … worst country in the world! A cowardly cancer sitting in its own isolation causing death, destruction and instability remotely elsewhere.

Shabana Mahmood will continue to pitch-roll for Reform and to try and ban legitimate protest against Israeli genocide. Wes Streeting will continue his war on trans youth whilst lying about it. Bridget Phillipson will continue with her new section 28. And Labour will continue to haemorrhage votes.

Wouldn’t it be great if Andy Burnham defected to the Green Party.

Hopefully this is just the start of Keir Starmer’s attempt to win back progressive green voters … next up he’ll get Yvette Cooper to announce a hardline puppy-killing programme followed by Ed Miliband announcing a bold new scheme to save money by pumping industrial waste directly in to our rivers.