Remember how they said we needed Brexit to save our fishing fleet?
The number of fishing boats operating out of Hastings has decreased from 60 in 2016 to 16 today.
Brilliant!
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
Northumberland Deform councillor Shaun Knowles is accused of being “completely absent” after an FoI request showed him replying to 2 emails (from 948 received), showing up to 1 council meeting since May (to avoid instant sacking for non-attendance) and pocketing £9,340 expenses.
Working for you?
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
My wealth has increased by 25% since June. I have done absolutely nothing to earn this. I just put it in a tracker fund. I will be taxed on that gain at a lower rate than during the Thatcher government.
I’d pay more tax to make this country better and stop Putin in his tracks.
“His main theme was that the country was fucked. Largely because of Brexit. Weirdly, he has no memory of being the main architect behind the Brexit vote. He seems to think it happened in a world in which he played no part.”
Farage - the foghorn of failure.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage says leaving the ECHR is the “unfinished business" of Brexit and that the UK is "not sovereign” while we are in it.
But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread.
Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Just hoping that one day soon, people will tire of targeting and terrifying asylum seekers and instead, they will turn on politicians who whip up hatred and division to grab at power for themselves…
They are the ones who are failing us.
Not these people.
Prejudice can never make anyone’s life better
34 Deform UK Ltd councillors have now quit, been sacked or stripped of the whip since May's local elections.
The “party of the people” can’t even manage itself, collapsing under its own contradictions.
By this trend, if they were ever to win a GE, any majority would evaporate within weeks.
Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense".
Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past
Boris Johnson, "I tried to get the scientists to say that lockdown was a bad idea"
*they all laugh*
There were 26,000 covid deaths because Boris Johnson ignored scientists and delayed the first lockdown by a week
‘angry middle-aged white men'……. I stand with #GaryNeville 👍🏼👊🏼👊🏽👊🏾
Gary Neville, "Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country"
"The messaging is getting dangerous"
"All these idiots out there spreading hate speech in any form, abuse in any form, we must stop promoting them"
"And get back to a country of love, peace and harmony"
"And become a team again"
We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
Yet it's a potentially fruitful line of argument. Many of the UK's current problems stem from something most of us would prefer not to dwell on - Brexit. Depressed investment, low productivity, stagnant economic growth and living standards, the strain on the public finances and thus public services, food prices, the "Boriswave" of more than 2 million (legal) immigrants, increased red tape and border hassles for businesses, farmers and travellers... all can be traced back, to a greater or lesser extent, to 2016 and the EU Referendum. And who, as he reminds us again now, spent 30 years of his life campaigning for Britain to leave the EU? Farage. It is he, Farage, who 'broke Britain' with Brexit and is now capitalising on the vast damage he caused
“Farage “broke Britain" with Brexit and is now, outrageously, capitalising on the vast damage he caused”
Article argues there’s no need to mention Reform’s racism as the Brexit shitshow is failure enough.
But that had its roots in racism too. So let’s do both.
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Keir Starmer: “Think about it- when was the last time Nigel Farage said something positive about Britain’s future? He can’t. He doesn’t like Britain. he wants to turn our proud country into a competition of victims. “
A senior Reform member who was their leader in Wales has pleaded guilty to 8 charges of bribery.
He took money from someone connected with the Russian Secret Service to make positive statements about Russia in the EU Parliament when an MEP.
So it's clear:
Vote Reform. Get Putin. Become a traitor.
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
Watch this.
A wonderful and not at all patronising explanation of how we beat Manchester United it is wonderful to see someone take the time to break down how we completely had their pants down.
youtu.be/bLeup7LMwNc?si…
#GTFC
Can I draw your attention to the running list on @codalmighty.bsky.social of managers who have lost their jobs after playing Grimsby Town FC.
You’re welcome.
codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?...
A ballot box with all the party logos bar reform
If you’re a LibDem, Green, SNP, Plaid, even a Tory supporter you know YOUR party has plenty to say about key issues not least our r’ship with USA. We hear none of it because of our media OBSESSION with REFORM. Make a stand sign now OUR DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Work at root of migrant dignity I read lan Dunt's impassioned piece ("Let asylum seekers work", My View, 21 August) and heartily agreed with every word. Give people back their dignity and let them work; tap into the extraordinary resource of skilled and motivated people, desperate to find safety and a secure life and who will repay the opportunity with an enthusiasm for work which seems to be lacking in this rich entitled country. We depict ourselves via the popular press as willing participators in the malicious, self-interested bile that pours out from political animals of every stripe. Shame on us. Turn the tide and let the world hear the voices of the large numbers of kind, compassionate and principled people who still call themselves British. DIANA PAYNE MARLBOROUGH, two things: that one bad apple shouldn't spoil the whole barrel and that we mustn't rush to condemn every migrant because of the actions of one person; and secondly, that we have forgotten what kindness is. Britain has always been a welcoming land for those in difficulty and in the past we have encouraged those with nothing to make something of themselves, to find sanctuary, to make a life. What has happened to us? BRIAN MOORHOUSE As a volunteer with Herts Welcomes Refugees and teacher of English in one of the hotels, I can only say that all the people it has been my privilege to meet, just want to perfect their language skills so they can be productive members of society and pay their taxes like everyone else. One bad egg at the Bell Hotel does not warrant such an extreme, hateful reaction to perfectly decent individuals. SARAH MARTIN
Readers of the iPaper expressing the views of the real silent majority: those who aren’t frothing with prejudice, those who think decency and responsibility should win out, those who have genuine legitimate concerns about social division and civil unrest…
those who never seem to make the headlines.
A reminder to everyone.
Rich people do not pay income tax.
Of the richest 1% only 22% pay Income Tax, and many of them are not paying it on most of their Income.
Trump brags that no other US President has held a meeting with so many heads of state.
No other US President has needed a mass intervention like this.
No other US President has been so played by Putin.
No other US President has had so little understanding of what peace actually means.
Reform peerages Sir, Your leading article "Fairness in the Lords" (Aug 16; letter, Aug 18) argues that Reform UK deserves to be represented in the House of Lords. Reform is not a serious political party in the traditional sense; it is Nigel Farage's personal brand. Strip away Farage and there is very little left. That alone should disqualify it from being elevated to the second chamber. This is not a party with pedigree, history or any record of governing. Its few minor wins have been overshadowed by internal feuds and candidates whose backgrounds raise more questions than answers. Farage himself has founded, abandoned and rebranded more political parties than most voters can remember and nothing suggests that Reform will prove any different. The House of Lords is meant to be a revising chamber for experienced voices who have been tested in public life, not a platform to prop up Farage's latest political experiment. Until Reform demonstrates staying power and that it can govern responsibly, and proves that it is more than the ego of one man, any talk of representation in the Lords is not only premature but a dangerous lowering of standards. Shabir Mamdani Northwood, Middx Sir, I am surprised that your leading article describes the unelected House of Lords as "an important part of Britain's democracy". I'm also surprised that Nigel Farage, who railed against "unelected bureaucrats" controlling Britain while he was a member of Ukip, should now feel his party should have Reform UK members in the House of Lords. I would have thought the party name "Reform" would automatically preclude it from wanting anything to do with the upper house. Alan Whitney March, Cambs Sir, It would seem perverse to most independent observers were Reform UK given the right to elevate to the Lords people whose very presence within Reform was largely reflective of their failure to achieve meaningful recognition in the mainstream parties. Mark Banham Beechingstoke, Wilts
Glad that, despite the Times’ relentless efforts to flatter Farage’s ego, (rather than ever hold him to account), its readers are far less convinced by his grifting demand for peerages and his sense of entitlement to power without responsibility.
Visited Saltburn on Sea last week for the 1st time. Such a gem of a resort. Certainly lifts you, like going back in time
Capitalism is a disease, a cancer, which must be controlled and allowed to control nothing.
Instead it has raged out of control for 50+ years and everything you see around you in every country from Donald Trump to Gaza to the poverty in your own country is the result.
Tesco makes nearly £4bn profit.
Nearly 50% of its workforce are on Universal Credit, receiving about £600m a year.
Why isn't Tesco paying?
Out Now on NutFucx ….
