Today the Labour Government has been helping negotiate the release of strategic oil reserves, with 31 other nation states.
The Lib Dems, Reform & Tories are all talking about animals on bank notes.
There is only one serious party of government right now.
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While many are criticising the Bank of England's decision to take historical figures off banknotes, when we asked the public what they most wanted to see on banknotes, 63% picked something other than historical figures - including 59-60% of Tory and Reform voters
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The reason the boob hypnosis thing keeps resurfacing is because it makes Polanski seem like a bit of a con artist.
The fact that various Greens are so very sensitive at the very mention of it is not unusual. Marks will often do whatever they can to deny that *they* are now the mark.
A hotel in Summertown
Hotels, B&Bs, and short-term lets for temporary accommodation are costing Oxford City Council £2.4m this year – a situation it says is causing “significant financial strain”. It is now seeking to buy, or convert, 150 flats or other homes to tackle the problem.
Russia enters Viktor Orban's election campaign, providing consultants who will flood social media with messages designed, ironically, to frame Orbán, a Russia puppet, as "the only candidate who can keep Hungary sovereign"
From @financialtimes.com
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Telling how confident Starmer now feels in owning his Iran decision. His best outing against Badenoch at PMQs in months. KB not alone in shifting her position. Many of those in the press and politics demanding war and condemning Starmer loudest have been far quieter since the inevitable chaos began.
Could please somebody invent a few real problems so British politics can find something to worry about.
*Checks world news*
Oh.
Meanwhile over on Twitter everyone is losing their mind over a change to the design on the banknotes that they haven't used in six years.
Badenoch said if she was prime minister HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. Presumably with its doors hanging off and with no weapons onboard.
Someone is panicking
Just 27% of Britons believe it's clear why the United States began its recent conflict with Iran
Clear: 27%
Unclear: 61%
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Hereditary peers out of the Lords at long long last - delivering the rather simple principle that you don’t deserve a vote in Parliament by virtue of which family your were born into www.gov.uk/government/n...
Farage and Badenoch are absolute clowns: startled by the entirely foreseeable series of events they failed to foresee. A demonstration of their total lack of judgement.
There is no war, but the war will end soon and is just beginning.
it’s imperative these shameless buffoons not be allowed to wriggle out of this www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A lot of people on Bluesky sneering at this. But Russia has no interest in helping Iran, apart from the fact they're a key regional ally, they sell them Shahed drones, and that a prolonged war and with it rising energy costs help the Russian economy.
🆕 🇬🇧 vs🇺🇸 Most Brits now want a Love Actually moment from Keir Starmer.
In Jan 2025, Brits were more likely to say Starmer should prioritise working with Trump than standing up to him.
Today that has flipped 55% think priority is standing up to Trump, just 27% working with him
With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary.
I am genuinely *begging* some of you - well-meaning, left-wing people on BlueSky, some of whom no doubt support the Green Party, to understand exactly where broad stroke "anti-Zionist" policies lead.
We know, because it happened in Poland from 1967-1968
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To those who pay attention to such things this is grim as fuck, actually.
Govt definition of anti-Muslim hostility. Non-statutory definition "focused on protecting individuals rather than religion or belief" with "clearer parameters" to "support a better understanding of when legitimate debate crosses into unacceptable hatred, prejudice or discrimination"
Extraordinary Nigel Farage quote justifying Reform councils putting up tax despite promising not to.
“Cutting taxes could mean not putting them up as much, I suppose."
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Tice says Britain should join the bombing.
Jenrick says Britain shouldn't join the bombing.
Farage has gone silent for the past 72hrs.
This mob couldn't run a bath let alone a country.
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
EXC: Nigel Farage defends Reform-run Kent County Council increasing council tax by 3.99% despite election leaflets last year pledging to “reduce waste and cut your taxes”.
Mr Farage told ITV News Meridian: “Cutting taxes can be not putting them up as much, I suppose.”
The UK government has confirmed there will be closer alignment with EU legislation amid ongoing negotiations for a Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) deal to cut costs for consumers.
Naomi Smith, Chief Executive of Best for Britain:
“This is a hugely welcome step in the right direction."
That's the Kemi effect.
Badenoch, Polanski are very quiet. Davey is making silly juvenile points.
This governing mullarkey is not easy, is it guys?
