Concern grows for Suella Braverman as she completely forgets she spent nine years as part of the Conservative government, including two periods as Home Secretary, responsible for immigration.
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
Photo of researcher in hat talking to pensioner with baseball cap on… Dave Taylor (left) debates the local elections with John Doult, who says he will vote Reform at the upcoming local elections in Swindon (The Independent)
But on a visit to the former railway town last month, the outlook for Sir Keir and his party was bleak. "I'll be voting for Reform - it can't get any worse," said pensioner John Doult, until now a lifelong Labour voter who was among the thousands employed in the town's once-famous car industry. The 86-year-old bemoaned the "terrible" state of the town centre,
“I’ll be voting for Reform - it can’t get any worse”
Oh it really can.
You put a bunch of corrupt, racist, incompetent, lying Trumpists in charge and things will get very much worse.
Potholes and empty shops will feel unimportant compared to the loss of the NHS, social care and a torched economy.
Indeed—Elect more women!
Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.
But papers like the Times and broadcasters like the BBC just crawl up Farage’s backside instead of asking him the difficult questions and scrutinising his past failures.
Don’t pretend to care about probity with Starmer if you’re willing to red-carpet this piece of utter filth into Number 10.
This is all so bad for our democracy and our country. Farage has lied and grifted his arse off to be where he is today and our media routinely fails to hold him to account on any of it. His Brexit ideology is a ruinous disaster and his mass deportation and leaving the ECHR plan would be even worse.
75 yo male here, who wouldn't even open the door to these RW shits, never mind let them in the house. This little twerp imagines there is something other than commonality of mind (money perhaps?) that should make him and his ilk 'attractive'. How 19thC.
"I also believe there are a lot of things that Britain can learn from countries like Hungary: how to preserve national borders, oppose mass immigration, invest in pro-family policies, and stand up to distant supranational institutions - like the European Union... fundamentally, conservatives need to work together to share best practices on what is working and what is not." - Defeated Reform candidate Matt Goodwin shares his election-losing tips with Orbán supporters at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium's "Reclaiming the West" summit, Hungary Today, 11 March. Goodwin has denied reports in Hungarian media that he receives a €10,000-a-month salary as a visiting fellow of the pro-Orbán MCC "Farage said Reform's plans would rip up what he sees as the orthodoxy of a liberal establishment responsible for 'a progressive, woke ideology' that has left Britons ashamed of their country. He compared himself to his friend Donald Trump, as well as Hungarian leader Viktor Orban and Argentina's Javier Milei, as figures bringing 'very, very big changes' to the world." - Interview with Nigel Farage at Reform Welsh manifesto launch, Reuters, 17 March
MattGPT Goodwin and Farage admit where their loyalties lie.
Don’t ever let these fascist foghorns pretend they’re not fully signed up and paying members of the Putin/Trump/Orban fanclub.
They’re distancing themselves frantically now. Too late.
(Private Eye)
Given the way the IDF is acting—like genocidal savages—shouldn't we be considerably *more* concerned about Israel having nuclear weapons than almost anyone else?
In 47 years, the death toll from Iranian-sponsored terrorism appears to match approximately 3 hours of IDF bombardment
This week, I will be forcing a vote on legislation to block the sale of nearly half a billion dollars worth of bombs and bulldozers to the Israeli military.
The extremist Netanyahu government that has committed genocide in Gaza does not need more military support from American taxpayers.
Incredible reporting here.
Hungary has voted for Remain.
Britain next, please.
Orban is not conceding because he's honourable. He's conceding because his defeat is so comprehensive even he can't pretend he won.
Including many British right-wingers who danced to the Kremlin's tune having heard it played by Orban's orchestra.
“It’s deeply shocking that Reform has developed such close ties with Orbán’s regime, an authoritarian govt with an appalling record of rolling back democracy and civic rights”
Where ‘deeply shocking’ = entirely on brand.
Hungary shows us we must never give them power.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/08/m...
Finally, Hungary we will be sovereign, not a vassal of Russia
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
The problem is that this US administration thinks negotiating means that they can dictate their conditions and then the other side has to take it or leave it. But diplomacy isn’t a real estate deal where wins and losses can be measured in dollars
People are celebrating Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi being fired — rightly so, as they're terrible — but I also fear that the second- and soon to be third-choice picks will be worse. Trump does not have a deep bench for competency and they are all driven by similarly evil values.
you were never going to get an anti-war president from a chauvinistic, jingoistic political party full of people who fantasize about being in a holy war. and yet, despite the US Army raising the enlistment age to 42, not a single one of these pro-war podcasters and pundits have signed up to fight.
Science is good. We should fund it.
Terrorist and former "people's governor of Donbas," Pavel Gubarev, confirmed that the so-called "uprising" in Ukraine's Donbas in 2014 was entirely funded and coordinated by Moscow and carried out with Russia's military involvement.
"It's impossible that he doesn't understand that, but he, he genuinely doesn't."
@timmiller.bsky.social and @anneapplebaum.bsky.social talk Trump's lack of strategy on today's Bulwark Podcast
Today was the day when Europe announced that it is moving on:
The Franco-British agreement to establish a nuclear supervision group, and a permanent headquarters for the Ukraine coalition of the willing can become contours of a new European security architecture - this time without the US.
I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...
A tweet by Joe Walsh criticizing the role of the Attorney General, arguing the AG should serve the American people, not the president. It includes a quoted clip of Acting AG Todd Blanche speaking at a Justice Department podium about executing the president’s agenda.
He said the quiet part out loud. You work for us, not him, Blanche.
Wise words from Spain's Prime Minister: “The momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost. The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket. What is needed now: diplomacy, international law and PEACE.”
In all of this don't forget the use of vast numbers of unbelievably expensive munitions, the sort of stuff a rational country would keep secure in case of a genuinely existential battle for survival (see Ukraine). All wasted on a vanity prject, take years to replenish. Putin grins.
Is Vance's support of Orban, Russia's most important asset in Europe, really in America's national interest?
