So hold up...
#Mandelson is a red flag because of his links with China and Russia (apparently) but the VERY SAME PEOPLE angry about this will welcome #Farage as their PM with open arms, because "iT's DiFfErEnT fOr eLeCtEd rEpReSeNtaTiVeS!"
I'm sorry, but that is BULLSHIT.
James is right to be going after Starmer, but I know a lot of it is performative so he doesn't appear imbalanced to his Substack buddies. I'd prefer him to go down the "disappointment" route, rather than "he's a bad PM".
The Iran War call is one for the ages - which PM got a call right like that?
BREAKING: “Whatever noise they make nothing is going to distract me from delivering for our country” a defiant Keir Starmer tells MP’s at #PMQs
Jonathan Brash MP, among the most Blue Labour associated voices, is calling for the PM to go, doing so on GB News (on the grounds he won't make it to the general election). The outcome of a future contest may well be somewhat against a more blue labour voice/agenda.
www.gbnews.com/politics/kei...
Choice of tie colour is no coincidence.
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Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.
I went and watched the segment on iPlayer. This is absolutely wild. It’s basically doing a free micro political broadcast for Reform during BBC Breakfast.
Israeli soldier photographed beheading a statue of Jesus with a hammer: IDF immediately posts multiple English-language condemnations and "we will investigate" "this is not who we are" etc
Israeli soldiers videotaped throwing a tied up and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner off a roof: 🦗🦗🦗🦗
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
After Netanyahu's office claimed that Peter Magyar had invited him to visit Hungary, the PM-elected says that he will enforce all ICC arrest warrants once the country re-enters the Rome Statute.
[Hungary will] "have a legal obligation to enforce the ICC rulings and I'm sure [Netanyahu] knows this".
There’s no crying in baseball!!!! 😭
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.
Will Reform deputy leader Richard Tice now resign over fresh allegations about nudging another £100,000 tax after he demanded Angela Rayner quit over £40,000?
Changed his tune.
"A long career with multiple businesses is bound to feature some errors."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
GBBC News
You can watch the moment on iPlayer here. From 6m and 10s into the programme.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
Despite the media desperate to destabilise a Labour govt they have NOTHING on which to do that .Starmer was NOT told, so now they say yea but he should not have appointed him.. except the very SAME media was praising the appointment and opposition parties had no complaints then ! Don’t let them win!
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Two more russian ships just learned what “welcome to Sevastopol” really means.
Ukrainian GUR hit:
— Large landing ship Yamal (Project 775)
— Large landing ship Nikolai Filchenkov (Project 1171)
Both - part of the russian Black Sea Fleet.
Both - damaged right in Sevastopol Bay.
Labour MPs need to realise this isn’t about getting rid of Starmer it’s about destabilising the Labour govt and getting rid of all of you .. for Nigel and his mates ! The media have been on overdrive on this since July 24 .. it’s the latest attempt but not the last !
The Fraud's Prayer:
Our Father, who art in the White House,
hallowed be thy combover;
thy blingdom come;
thy will be dumb;
In Washington as you are in Florida.
Give us this day our daily round of golf.
And forgive us our insider trading,
as we refuse to forgive those who investigate against us...
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Wait a minute, is this the same Richard Tice who repeatedly called for Angela Rayner to resign over her dubious tax shenanigans? Surely not, because that would make him look like a hypocritical wanker. Oh.
The one truly heroic leader around the world (Zelenskyy) still divides public opinion along "footballified" lines. It's telling about the 'myth of America' that, when Putin invaded, Biden offered him a quick escape route.
99% of Western political and thought leaders would have taken that flight.
BBC reports "more than 600 people crossed the Channel on small boats on Saturday, making it second busiest day so far this year".
BBC reports "Over the past three years, crossings have increased" while omitting 33% year on year fall this year
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Your #5OClockInspiration ...
Not much political judgement going on here if Isabel Oakeshott does not realise that Farage & Tice are senior members of the British establishment. Relevant here is that Oakeshott is the partner of Richard Tice jumping to the defence of Tice & his tax evasion.
