On Elon Musk's firm being approved by Ofgem to supply energy to British homes, Lib Dem leader Ed Davey:
"Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence.
"Elon Musk is a threat to our national security...We can’t have the lights go out because he’s having a strop on X.”
#Twatzis
In sum, the government does not understand its own "argument" for abusing migrants, and is wrong on the facts.
Ploughing on with the feels, though.
Anything to get attention…
A reminder that Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the entire Conservative-supporting press have spent the past week lambasting Keir Starmer for not joining the Iran war.
Here's what has happened since then to public opinion
"No one from Elon Musk's X attended a meeting on violence against women and girls hosted by the UK government, the technology secretary has told LBC."
www.lbc.co.uk/article/musk...
UK has only two days of gas stored, Iran war threatens supplies.
Maximum capacity is 12 days.
Mainland Europe has reserves of several weeks’ worth of gas.
UK storage capacity shrank after privatisation.
The Rough storage facility closed in in 2017. British Gas wanted subsidies.
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A juxtaposition for the ages…
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next.
There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.
It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.
If anything, that rather supports Starmer's position.
If Tony Blair is telling you to get involved in a war because the USA claims a country has weapons of mass destruction, run away, because they almost certainly don't.
I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.
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And pointlessly so
Trump won’t appreciate it. And we should resist leaving him holding his ugly war and its consequences alone.
Here's a link to some info on the falsely attributed quote ...
What we're seeing is the geopolitical equivalent of bankrupting a casino.
#MAGAmerica 🔥
The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Attention! Adults in the room!
Jasmine El-Gamal gives the best explanation of the war I've heard so far. 👏👏👏
The easiest way to counter this, of course, is to rejoin the Single Market and get back EU Freedom of Movement – which would allow skilled workers from Europe to move here for a job.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
It is quite astonishing to remember the Iraq war, the demise of a brutal dictator there, the principled opposition of France and Germany, the chaos and regional instability that followed vindicating French and German opposition - and to see only Sanchez have the courage to take a stance.
If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...
Trump, suffering from dementia, is confused about where his father was born. It was in the Bronx, not in Germany. Trump's grandfather was an immigrant who came here after getting kicked out of Germany for evading the draft.
NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it.
We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."
Moreover, Trump going around pissing off every single ally that doesn’t unquestioningly obey him is a dumb policy, for when the going gets tough in Iran. Eventually, even your best friends lose patience.
They’re now speaking about it openly.
We keep acting as if misinformation can be solved simply by pouring more information into the mess. We add more fact-checks, more warnings, and more awareness campaigns, but that is not enough.
The real damage runs deeper than false content.
lot of love for the guy who thinks it's in Dorset
Badenoch is like a facebook algorithm that has been designed purely to exploit whatever conflict it encounters in pursuit of more heated emotions, without any actual interest in the conflict as such
Says everything about mainstream media in the West.
It’s a bit hard for the people of Iran to rise up while the bombs and missiles rain down. And when the bombardment stops, the men with guns are all too likely to be ready for more repression.
