Also the Trumpification of British politics.
However hard Nigel tries to distance himself from the tangerine tw@t, never forget that he’s just the manager of MAGA’s UK branch office.
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Voices: How Farage and Cameo exposed the monetisation of British politics - The Independent
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Scum
This is what you do to D-List celebs. Ol’ Donny isn’t doing anything in office.
Hilarious that they think “Trump has been planning this war with Iran for 40 years” helps Donald, given the total lack of planning that was obvious to everyone.
Wow sounds like a case for Marc Randazza
Aside from the rights & wrongs of this case, I can't believe that senior figures can initiate vetting on a candidate but there's apparently no system in place to ensure that when someone passes or fails vetting, the result is automatically passed to the person(s) doing the appointing. Seems so basic
No matter how much I read, I just cannot fathom the idea that civil servants should *not* tell ministers that their choice to be US Ambassador has red flags from Security Vetting.
That's *not* a defence of Starmer - and Robbins may have been applying the rules correctly. But the rule seems insane.
So why did we throw away the burger?
Soooo close to getting it!
#BrexitDisaster #RejoinEU
Exit through the grift shop.
Twat by Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsnewEra) Folks, I've got some bad news. The Unite The Kingdom rally on May 16th has had to be cancelled due to a severe lack of funding. We've poured everything into this - blood, sweat and tears - to give the British people a voice against the madness destroying our country, but without the financial backing we needed, we can't make it happen this time. The establishment will be laughing, but this isn't the end. It's a wake-up call. If you want to see real change and take our streets back, we need your support now more than ever. Donate, share, get involved - because the fight for Britain continues. Stay strong, patriots. We'll be back bigger and stronger. #UniteTheKingdom #SaveBritain Link in bio if you can still help the cause.
Is there a chance the cash they did raise gets refunded? Or has it disappeared up a nostril somewhere?
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.
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
Not comfortable with politicians policing which concerns are legitimate & which concerns they can dismiss out of hand.*
They’re supposed to be our representatives, not the gatekeepers of what’s sayable.
*without even using an objective metric like “does the evidence support this or that view?”
The thing is, there are also "legitimate concerns" about her policies pandering to racists. Biden had one job, to stop Trump's second term. He failed. Labour's job is stop a Reform led government. They're doing the opposite.
Please note you're not allowed to have "legitimate concerns" about "legitimate concerns"
Apple announces new CEO, deliberately slows down old one
Watchdogs say the previous CEO model suspiciously started slowing down immediately after the announcement
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🚨🚨New @bestforbritain.org report argues I think convincingly that a push for UK membership of the EU would galvanise support among progressive voters, recognising that other halfway options such as customs union or EEA are would offer to limited benefits. 🧵 www.bestforbritain.org/push_for_eu_...
A local tattoo artist posted a video on Instagram of him asking two blokes in hi-vis not to put up an England flag on the lamp post outside his shop. Consequence: a flood of bad Google reviews including the predictable “paedo” allegations (“he touched my daughter” etc). Truly the shittiest people.
There's a reason why Meta's employee keylogging plans are only being deployed in the US -- per experts we spoke to, this sort of monitoring would be illegal in much of Europe, where such monitoring is a violation of worker privacy.
In the US, most states don't even require notice of surveillance.
Techbros: “Welcome to the hellscape we created where we’re going to spy on you at work & also hoover up all your personal data outside work & steal everything you’ve ever created on line, while we build machines to replace you & throw you out of work.”
Also techbros: “Why do people hate us?”
Meta will begin keystroke logging US employees at work -- complete with mouse movements and periodic screenshots -- to train better AI agents.
This comes after Boz posted about a future in which AI will "primarily do the work" at meta.
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The toxic people who don't think Shabana Mahmood doesn't belong in this country are white racists, not white liberals
But white liberals - like the mixed race, Asian or black liberals - have just as much right to disagree with Shabana Mahmood as they do with Theresa May or Nigel Farage or Zia Yusuf
Abstract-ish !
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An image containing a post from Isabel Oakeshott complaining that the press are reporting on her boyfriend’s tax dodging accompanied by various reports about his tax dodging.
'Richard Tice’s girlfriend is very annoyed that the free press she champions, despite having emigrated to a dictatorship without one, is investigating her boyfriend for stuff she says people who aren’t her boyfriend, like Angela Rayner, should resign over.'
You couldn’t make it up. 🤦🏻♂️
I'm watching the Jimmy Savile documentary on Netflix and it's remarkable how much it's actually about how Thatcherism hollowed out public institutions such as hospitals so that they came to rely on the largesse of private entrepreneurs who, now being indispensable, were able to act with impunity
Mahmood seems to have gone nuts. Fire her now.
"Wondering why there are so many 'experts' in the news talking about expanding oil and gas in response to the Iran War?
According to our new DeSmog analysis, there's a common thread linking all those experts: a little known US group called Atlas Network."
Donald says we would have won the Vietnam War if he'd been president.
Maybe he should have just served.
Maybe he is a man of his word. Maybe when he said “And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the 🐈.” we should take his frank admission that he sexually assaulted women at face value & ask ourselves why he’s in the White House, not in prison where he belongs.
It’s almost as if there’s a coordinated campaign by the fossil fuel industry on both sides of the world.
But renewables are coming and are going to march all over them..
Meanwhile tax their profits hard as a punishment for their bad actions