Boris Johnson on his way back from a party

Kemi Badenoch can't believe Keir Starmer would allow anyone with links to the Kremlin anywhere near government

Why are we talking about Starmer @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Shall we talk about Tice's tax affair instead?
Or Farage's house in Clacton because that went very quiet.

My daughter is flying out of Ho Chi Minh City this evening. Reminds me how the US is entirely capable of losing ill-conceived wars it starts.

Farage urged to act against candidates with racist, misogynistic and homophobic views Exclusive: Despite the pledge to employ the best vetting system in British politics, some Reform UK candidates have been condemned for their ‘grotesque views’ posted online

“Reform plagued by vetting issues”
Candidates found to have “grotesque” views.

Come on. It’s not the vetting, is it.
It’s the party. Whatever they do, they’ll always attract the racists, homophobes, misogynists and haters. Because that’s Farage. That’s Reform.
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Illegitimate concerns.

TACO Tuesday.

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.

249 years later, we have this idiot.

It's almost as if...

It isn't possible to "deligitimise" illegitimate "concerns".

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

This is amazing.

Your regular reminder that Uniserve Ltd got over £1.4 billion in VIP lane COVID contracts without tender.

Their profits increased 500% overnight, and they didn't deliver almost £180m of contracted goods.

They just happened to share an address with Julia Lopez.

Reform boss 'owes £98k in tax' after demanding Rayner sack over smaller mix-up Reform's deputy leader Richard Tice reportedly owes tens of thousands in unpaid tax, after claiming Angela Rayner should be sacked for owing less than half of what he allegedly owes

Richard Tice apparently does not think that Richard Tice should resign over the incredible amount of tax found to be owed, despite calling for Angela Raynor to do just that over something objectively much, much smaller if she had "any moral decency"...

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Oh 👀

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

On the left is the front page of The Guardian when political editor Crerar hates Keir Starmer. On the right is what the front page would look like if she would hate Farage.

Tice ‘happy to put things right’ after ‘he failed to pay £100k in corporation tax’ Mr Tice said last year Angela Rayner would resign if she had “any moral decency” after admitting to underpaying stamp duty

Richard Tice deputy leader of Reform ran four shell companies which did not pay any tax on profits between 2020 and 2022.

He's now offering to "put things right".

Go on then Richard - resign.

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The Tories have completed their journey to the lunatic fringe of political extremism. Utterly mad.

Video of Muslim women calling for Brighton beach to be dog-free is AI – Full Fact A fake video that appears to show two women wearing niqabs saying “the UK has too many dogs” has been viewed over 1.7 million times, with many people seemingly thinking it is genuine.

A video viewed over 1.7 million times appears to show an interview with two Muslim women saying people shouldn’t bring dogs to the beach.

It’s generated a huge amount of negative engagement and comments, but it’s fake. It’s been created with AI.

England fans facing hugely inflated prices to get to New Jersey's MetLife Stadium for World Cup games The cost of getting the train from New York to the venue, where the Three Lions play Panama in their final group game, will be £111 - nearly 12 times the usual fare.

Dear fellow Brits, from this Brit-American:

Please don't come here. It's dangerous. You may be targeted, arrested and unlawfully detained - likely courtesy of ICE - without access to legal representation.

I've told my family to stay away.

Please boycott America. 🇬🇧💙

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Popular opinion with me. Mandy was always a grifting creep and the decision was terrible, but utterly trivial compared with Johnson's almost unremarked parliamentary piss-taking and free-pass industrial scale corruption.

This 👇

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Excellent debunk of, yet more, right wing rage bait.

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.

Rejoining EU more popular with UK voters than any ‘halfway house’, report finds Voters are more likely to support openly advocating for the UK to rejoin the EU than any “halfway house” deal, a report has found. The findings come in response to the planned UK-EU reset legislation ...

Enough with the half measures. Enough tinkering around the edges. Enough with the red lines.
Time to go full throttle back to Brussels.
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I really miss the days when we had a government of integrity, honesty and service.

Here is Robert Jenrick with Aaron Lee Taylor, a Reform activist and former branch Treasurer, who also enjoyed posting on social media in praise of Hitler, including saying "Heil Hitler" and denying the holocaust.
Bobby J will now be known as Robert Jenreich.

Very interesting piece this. Demonstrates the pervasive influence of "shitstalgia" while also highlighting that its some among the 60 pluses who need a social media ban and much more than the kids.