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If only there was another war I could think of in recent memory involving the US in the Middle East, where regime change was promised, didn’t happen, victory was declared and then the whole thing was repeated catastrophically badly at a later date. 🤔
“You just suggested that Iran got its hands on a U.S. Tomahawk and BOMBED ITS OWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL on the first day of the war.
You are the only person in your government saying this.
WHY ARE YOU THE ONLY PERSON SAYING THIS?”
PEDOrump’s answer:
“Because I just don’t know enough about it.” 😲🙄🤬
No surprises, surely?
Candidate is arrogant charmless TV presenter & hates everything: lose.
Campaign is entitled technocracy + smearing left-liberalism: lose.
Candidate is local & can make OK speech about how a good job should lead to a good life: win.
Normal politics is trying to be born.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/th...
I can't be bullied. I can't be bought. I've stood for the same principles for many decades.
"I can't be bought"
Says man who sells video birthday greetings for £70 a time.
Not a story you will see many MSM national newspapers leading on. Their owners would never approve.
Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.
According to NatureScot, banning the estate from killing crows is going to stop wildlife crime. We don’t agree…
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Dear UK media,
If you’re going to fall for Farage’s every cry for attention, FFS, be ready with the facts that show that, not only is he peddling anti-immigrant sentiment/racism for votes, but he’s lying about the stats too.
It’s dangerous and dishonest.
Please say so.
Thanks
A v tired-of-this, UK
Ash Sarkar, "Jim Ratcliffe is a stinking hypocrite"
"He became a tax resident of Monaco to save £4 billion that could have gone towards British schools, the British NHS, towards British defence, instead he decided he wanted that money for his own pocket"
Times Extracts: Closer ties with EU are Britain's biggest prize Ben Clatworthy Whitehall Editor Closer integration with the European Union is the "biggest prize" for Britain, Rachel Reeves has said. The chancellor said closer alignment with the EU "is a political argument Labour can win" and closer ties with the bloc would boost trade and make things easier for businesses and cheaper for consumers. Speaking at the London School of Economics, Reeves said: "The biggest prize is clearly with the EU. The truth is, economic gravity is reality. Almost half of our trade is with the European Union. We trade almost as much with the EU as the whole of the rest of the world combined. There are three big trading blocs in the world -there's the US, there's China and there is Europe. "We want to make Europe as strong as possible, and that means not putting up the drawbridge." Sir Keir Starmer has maintained that rejoining the customs union was a red line, although he is open to closer ties on specific issues, such as food stan-dards, animal welfare and pesticide use. Reeves added she believes that the UK rejoining the EUs Erasmus scheme, which was announced late last year, is "one of the most popular things that we've done as a government". The comments will raise hopes on the soft left of the Labour party, which is feeling emboldened after Starmer was forced to head off a challenge to his premiership on Monday, the leadership plans a change in its stance on the EU. They also mark a shift in Reeves's language on Europe. Last month in Davos, she urged Cabinet ministers to stop floating the idea of a closer union, insisting Britain could not "go back in time". Her comments were seen as aimed at Wes Streeting, the health secretary, who said in December: "The best way for us to get more growth into our economy is a deeper trading relationship with the EU."
“We want to make Europe as strong as possible and that means not putting up the drawbridge”
Didn’t Brexit detonate that drawbridge?
Great if you want to rebuild it though. Not that great if your red lines mean your pace is glacially slow and has Farage standing by with more explosives.
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It's almost like being fabulously rich doesn't make you happy or well adjusted. It's almost like it makes you sad and lonely. And leaves you forever casting about for scapegoats to offset your deep self-loathing. Thank you Jim Ratcliffe and Elon Musk for these important life lessons.
‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue'
Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"
Jim Radcliffe pissed me off, so I wrote this about the inconvenient truth of migration.
tl:dr - no, just fucking read it. Some basic mathematics - you know, COUNTING THINGS - might make you reconsider, you stupid twats.
(I'm not trying to make friends)
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I was born and raised in Gorton and Denton, and I absolutely guarantee you Reform won't put it first.
They won't even put Britain first.
They'll put Russia first. We LITERALLY jailed one of them for doing that.
It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious
Why is this?
REP. BALINT: “This is not a game, Secretary!”
BONDI: “I’m Attorney General.”
REP. BALINT: “My apologies. I couldn’t tell.” 🔥
Congratulations to 1 million mention Epstein Don and his Black lung award!
It's like they watched The Simpsons and thought the Mr Burns episodes were policy initiatives.
The arrogance of a man who emigrated to another country. He would be appalled if they called him an unwelcome immigrant, which he most certainly is.
I've never known anyone who was obsessed with immigration who wasn't an out and out loser and an absolute racist bigot.
I'm saying it because it's simply not said enough.
Maybe it’s because large swaths of the media are devoted to protecting him in order to protect their owners? Could it be that?
DEFRA, where is the consultation you promised earlier this year?
Despite the fox hunting ban, foxes are still being hunted behind the smokescreen of so-called trail hunting.
While the government delays, wildlife continues to suffer and die.
Jeremy knows the truth. End the Badger blame game: protectthewild.org.uk/end-the-badg...
Four former defence civil servants hired by Palantir in a single year. A £240m MoD contract awarded without competition.
Defence, health, policing – Palantir is embedded across the government. Read the analysis on the issues this presents ⤵️
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Just a reminder to report all dead birds - to Defra in England, Wales and Scotland for possible testing. Also add the record to BirdTrack if you can for monitoring purposes
#ukbirding
I'm no political strategist but has anyone in Labour considered *not* alienating any huge chunk of their base? I just feel like they tried alienating the left and the centre left and the public sector workers and the academics, and none of those things worked great, so maybe give my idea a whirl?
