Turnipdodger

Your semi-regular reminder that if you’re talking about shoes or baseball caps, you’re not talking about illegal wars, corruption, or Epstein.

Surfeit. Every time!

I’d love to come up with a witty retort, but I simply don’t have the energy.

Same reason Musk was backed to buy Twitter. To shift opinion. To keep people thinking that the problem is the poorest and neediest.

It’s expensive for billionaires, but nowhere near as expensive as the alternative.

Surely this simply where they took the skin graft to repair the ear?

Bombing Iran is the distraction. Or the latest one at least.

OK, Khamenei is dead. And that’s probably not a bad thing for millions of Iranians. But what happens next, Mr Trump?

Or is the West just further destabilising an entire region again without a plan? Because that’s worked so well in the past.

#Iran

Always fun to see the people that most loudly decry Blair as a war criminal for dragging the UK into an illegal war now calling for the UK to support the US in another illegal war.

This is amazing.

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Not sure why it isn’t headline news in a country that still insists on FPTP elections, that the candidate put forward by HM Most Loyal Opposition lost their deposit.

Both our voting system and our media are outdated and, quite frankly, useless.

Trump’s entire presidency is about avoiding jail, with a side helping of personal enrichment.

There literally is nothing more to it than that.

Remember the fuss when Biden was a bit doddery and the subsequent furore about a coverup?

Yeah, that.

First they blame the Immigrants
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Immigrant
Then they blame the Disabled
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Disabled
Then they blame the Gays
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Gay

You know how the rest goes…

The circular firing squad that is the Conservative Party, ReformUK, and Restore Britain is an absolute joy to behold.

Keep it up lads.

Kůp of tee und a slice of kåke please Tante Sålli.

The perfect embodiment of why Brexit was, is, and always will be an act of sheer stupidity.

We are no longer a global empire; we’re a small and increasingly unimportant market that nobody was ever going to increase their cost and complexity just to serve our whims.

Totally impractical because nobody would invest in businesses, and businesses need investment.

But what if the amount that shareholders could earn was capped at, say, 10% more than they could earn by leaving their money in the ‘bank’. That might work.

Hey British Political Media

Be as fucking brutal as you like with Keir Starmer - scrutinise the fuck out of him.

Only do it to everyone else equally too. Or it’s beginning to look like a rather undignified witch hunt.

Frankly, I think the media treatment of Starmer and Labour more broadly IS a massive factor but it’s not the only one.

Starmer’s sole mission seems to be “Let’s just make everything a bit better”; it’s noble and it’s needed, but how do you form a stable government and a comms plan around just that?

THiS mUSt BEE The END OFF KiD STArVer!!!!!

In an ideal world I’d absolutely agree. But in a world where public services are stripped to the bone there have to be some compromises and this feels, as long as the repayments aren’t punitive, like one that can be justified.

Why have the BBC got Jon Kay stationed outside 10 Downing Street this morning? Honestly, it’s pathetic.

Every four years I consider learning the rules of curling but then I just let it slide.

Hardly an 'emergency' is it?!

Does anyone else long for the days when political journalism was about reportage and analysis rather than endless tittle-tattle and trying to shift public opinion?

There’s plenty of people you could levy that criticism at, but Im not sure Peter Jukes is one of them!

Are you stoned?

Student loans need to be interest-free, don’t they?

Pay back only what you borrowed, at a reasonable rate, when you reach an appropriate earnings threshold.

The current system is so counter-productive to the long-term prosperity of the country it’s untrue.

Chocolate bomb?

Theresa May, Margaret Thatcher, and Ghislaine Maxwell in a ménage à trois, perhaps?

It doesn’t say only one was a former PM!