‘l’incroyable fiasco’

"You will burn in eternal hell, but I'm not homophobic"

What is this even doing, honestly? What do you mean saying "same sex sexual activity is sinful" doesn't mean you have negative attitudes towards gay people?

Pub?

"The Heathrow Express runs non-stop to Heathrow Airport", well how the hell are you supposed to jump on it?

Maybe I just hate fun but couldn't £300m be better spent on literally anything that would actually help with the energy supply problem at the heart of the Cost of Living Crisis? We could have another solar farm but the government is juicing demand for tickets to the Mandalorian and Grogu instead.

Cilla Black: So Charlie, have you ever been on a Blind Date before? Charlie: No, Cilla. Cilla Black: Well, you're in a lorra luck tonight! *pushes her thumbs into Charlie's eye sockets*

33 degrees in Paris this weekend, which makes me want to melt before I've even step foot on the Eurostar.

I love these "critics of proportional representation" who have been watching seven years of Governments with sizable majorities under first past the post disintegrate but still stick to the line they learned in A Level Politics. Next level resolution.

London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir

This is good. Like actual fair tax reform. From an MP and recent former minister. Is Streeting touting for the Bluesky vote? All five of us.

Worth saying though when looking at Starmer; none of these had a huge unassailable majority combined with weak opposition and several years prior to prepare for power. Starmer had difficult circumstances but a carte blanche opportunity to govern and has just chosen... not to.

This feels about right, but objectively it's a terrible set if circumstances that undoubtedly the best PM of the past ten years was, by historical comparison, terrible during their premiership and failed spectacularly.

If any party wants to make “all our candidates are DBS checked” as a condition of selecting their candidates they are welcome to do so, but “oh, you didn’t pass your criminal record check: no seat for you” is obviously not a rule we want in law! Come on now.

The idea that MPs should 'be like any other job' is all well and good in theory until anything of the sort comes into practice, and the public cry bedlam when their elected representative can't represent them.

Country caught up in hysteria not in command of the facts.

www.maptap.gg May 21 99🎯 100🎯 98🎯 68😁 97🔥 Final score: 890 Argh, that's annoying.

Nothing less than an attempt to legislate trans people from existence in society.

To every trans person also feeling sick about this - I love you, fuck the noise and please look after yourselves! 🫶

"Lloyd Williams the scrum-half on the wingggg...." The highlight of a great career as Lloyd retires, an iconic moment in the history of Welsh rugby.

Thank god I'm on holiday again tomorrow, today has really bled all the life from me.

We're facing an energy crisis, potential global recession, continued war in Europe, public services still in need of rapid reform/investment. So, naturally, immigration will continue to be the hot topic even as numbers decline to their lowest in years - with all the consequences that comes with it.

Put very simply: my support for any leadership candidate will be conditional on them junking the immigration bullshit, and I would expect that to apply to anyone on the soft left.

Can't say I'm surprised.

I'm liking my new jumper

Holy moly that is the ugliest car I've ever seen.

I have spent the last 4 years being lectured by British colleagues about German weakness towards Russia. Well.

Slow clap for the former human rights lawyer.

Why trust him? He has no principles, no overarching idea of what he wants to do as prime minister. He’ll sell you out if he thinks it’ll be electorally advantageous, and yet it won’t because everyone can see what he’s doing.

Ffs, I should have followed my own advice. Not worth it, lads.

BlueSky - I need your help! For those of you who don't know, I am a social media manager and run other people's accounts for them It's much harder to get traction than it used to be, so I'm thinking about various ways I could help people - maybe a free newsletter, or a training course 1/3

Ed Davey failing to go hard on this when he's consistently brought up support for Ukraine/Trump/defence in the past is a sign of this.

Apropos of nothing but we are still waiting for the Defence Investment Plan whilst we loosen Russian oil and gas sanctions.

The worst thing about all of this is I believe fewer MPs than you think will have the courage to speak out against this sanctions relief because they're frightened to speak against anything that falselsy believes will lower prices.

actually so angry about that Russian oil decision that I can't even really bear to feel my own fury, it's so all-encompassing that I can only glance at it from an angle, once in a while, then think about something else

Everyone blaming each other, no-one taking responsibility, absolute vacant leadership all round. Fucking ridiculous.

Me to the British public on a daily basis:

Rachel Reeves making financial decisions as chancellor:

Emergency timeline cleanse.

We need a campaign where every MP gets cornered in a pub on a sunny day by a middle aged man who keeps checking the app and bragging about how much he's saving/making.

Daphne would like to remind you how beautiful she is

I'd like to think I'm a pretty politically amenable guy. I'm not a member of a political party, I don't subscribe to the idea of 'album politics', open to recognising good work across the political spectrum - but never have I ever felt so disillusioned by the current crop of ineptness and populism.

If you really want to make me froth at the mouth then remember the last fuel crisis lead to mass adoption of solar power in poorer countries out of desperation and despite having 4 years, the UK has done...nothing

I’ve made this point before but the developed world approach to Covid vaccines is instructive here

Actions by Western governments to squeeze demand has a direct impact on poorer nations much more dependent and exposed to energy shocks. As well as aiding Russia and China in expanding their influence.

If only there was an opposition with a half-decent and popular track record of supporting Ukraine from their last stint in government, to criticise and pressure for our Ukrainian allies. Alas, Kemi Badenoch.

I'm so fucked off and tired of being so fucked off.