deeply unfunny premise, horrid response that also happens to be amazingly unfunny, just ? ? ?

Isn't Mahmood 'delegitimising' the concerns of people who disagree with her government's policy? Why should only some groups of voters be classed as valid and real?

A small point from the Mandelson/Robbins saga. Refom and many Tories argue for a civil service than can be more easily bent to the will and whims of their elected political masters.

This is precisely what happened here.

Donald says we would have won the Vietnam War if he'd been president.
Maybe he should have just served.

Mahmood seems to have gone nuts. Fire her now.

I m not one little bit surprised at all . It is just Farage s latest publicity stunt

Shabana Mahmood told “white liberal” hecklers to “fuck right off” after being accused at an on-stage event of copying the policies of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

I am sorry Keir Starmer, but the choice of Darth Vader as Home Sec was yours and reflects very badly on you.

Well let's see how this strategy of telling "white liberals" to "fuck right off" works out in the local elections

Shabana Mahmood swears at ‘white liberal’ hecklers over Reform remarks Home secretary accuses protesters of trying to ‘delegitimise’ concerns people have over immigration

Every single piece of evidence in the UK shows that ethnic minorities are nore pro-migratiion than white British people. Ethnic minorities like white British people have mixed pro, balancer and sceptical views but they are more liberal + softer sceptics.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Shabana Mahmood is telling me to fuck off so I guess I will.
But I've got to say, telling your core voters to fuck off a couple of weeks before elections is an interesting strategy.

First: hilarious.

Second: A core belief of Trump-brand conservativsm is there are and never have been difficult problems, only dumb leaders without the strength to be cruel enough to solve them.

It's why they always look so baffled when pushing the "more cruelty" button doesn't seem to work.

Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.

It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

Are there, perhaps, any recent examples of dubious characters with obvious security risks being appointed to the House of Lords?

Opinion | Trump steps up a campaign against teaching English to immigrant kids The administration plans to dissolve the office that supports English instruction.

Trump steps up a campaign against teaching English to immigrant kids www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

2 years ago today the FA shit their collective pants upon realising they couldn't market Coventry City in a cup final in the Americas and Asia and applied VAR (without a clear and obvious error) to rule out a perfectly legitimate goal, thus exposing themselves as the corrupt outfit they are. #PUSB

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed The "landmark" legislation aims to stop anyone born after 1 January 2009 from taking up smoking to create a smoke-free generation.

With all the other distractions, don’t let this good news pass you by today.

“Children aged 17 or younger will face a lifelong ban on buying cigarettes, as the Tobacco and Vapes Bill clears Parliament.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/a...
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Maybe… I can’t imagine he will ever be leader, though.

Anyway, the UK does produce it's own energy. Solar and wind, with a bit of wave and tidal.

Healthy life expectancy falls in the Tees Valley to the lowest level in England since records began People in the Tees Valley are not only living shorter lives than the national average, they are spending significantly more of those lives in poor health, and the gap between communities is growing

Ben Houchen was elected as mayor 9 years ago.

He said that he'd bring prosperity to Teesside.

Not true.

James Waterson reports for @northeastbylines.co.uk

Healthy life expectancy falls in the Tees Valley to the lowest level in England since records began northeastbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Remember Tory sleaze? This is the Labour version

Of course many more people would be rallying to Starmer's defence if he hadn't been such a godawful PM so far.

You don’t need a vetting process to knownthat Mandelson had ‘something of the night about him‘. It was that of course that led the Gov to irresponsibly think that Trump would relate to him.
It is on Starmer’s poor judgement and legalistic semantics about lines of responsibility are futile here

In Bangkok heat has been reaching 50 deg C for three solid weeks now. Cooling centers have been installed to enable survival.
This is what it looks like when legacy economic interest trumps everything else.
Perhaps the Strait of Hormuz should remain closed.

The idea that you need to send corrupt sociopaths as Ambassadors to DC is so funny, because it's a standard we have never applied anywhere.

We don't appoint corrupt gangsters to embassies in Moscow or religious fanatics to Tehran.

Also, Mamdani is able to handle Trump fine without becoming him.

🔥Oliver Robbins reveals that No 10 tried to get Matthew Doyle, Keir Starmer's former aide, a posting as an ambo in March 25.

He was under "strict instruction" not to discuss with then foreign sec.

Lord Doyle, awarded peerage by Starmer, was suspended after he publicly supported a sex offender.

It gets worse: No 10 also tried to get Matthew Doyle - a close friend of Mandelson - a job working for him in DC.

Remember - Doyle was asked by PM to investigate Mandelson's responses about links to Jeffrey Epstein & concluded he was "satisfied".

A *clear* conflict of interests.

There are different types of lies - Boris Johnson style: say an untruth about past events which you know to be false. But it’s also a lie, albeit v hard to prove, if you say “I would never have done x if I’d known y” when in fact if you’d known y, you would’ve said “just get it done”.

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UK HE, everyone. Will Labour ever acknowledge this crisis?

The idea that being *a member of the House of Lords* in any way means you can be trusted with Top Secret/STRAP material without proper vetting is so beyond absurd that this must surely be a joke?

I checked this too.

*20 seconds* of Reform logo display.

*No other* party logo displayed.

In local election purdah.

This is not normal. At all.