Best to not wear this colour trousers when on TV.

BREAKING: Virginia voters pass measure to eliminate 4 Republican Congressional seats in response to the pedophile’s effort to eliminate Democrat seats in Texas…

Great job, VIRGINIA! 😎✨

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

Republicans, you got no one to blame but yourselves. Trump started this fight, he started this whole mid-decade redistricting bullshit. Democrats are simply fighting back. Cry harder Republicans.

How an earth does Ed Davey think the goverment has a windfall from rising fuel prices that can be used to slash prices?

That’s absurd.

#PMQs

Whether one supports Starmer or not, that was a very strong performance from him there and a very weak one from Badenoch #Pmqs

Has Kemi Badenoch forgotten that she was In the cabinet when the Kremlin crony Evgeny Lebedev was made a member of the house of lords by Boris Johnson against advice of the appointment's commission #pmqs #politicslive #5live

#PMQs I'm not sure Kemi BadEnoch wants to go with Mandelson's Russian links given Johnson's KGB parties, Lebedev enoblement, Russian donations to the Tory Party etc..
@mrjamesob.bsky.social #LBC

Hoping and trusting Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs will lead on the most important question of our times - "have you seen the size of Mars bars these days?"

Badenoch has two functions
- Damage the government
- Be a credible leader of a government in waiting

She's achieved a minor success in the former but is a million miles away from achieving the latter.
#PMQs

At PMQs, Kemi Badenoch seems to be chasing Keir Starmer down a series of rhetorical dead ends. The question feels less about whether “proper process” was followed and more about why the processes themselves were so useless.

Taps sign while Badenoch is speaking...

Badenoch has over egged Mandelson.
She's scored some hits but the obsession, to the exclusion of other issues, is beyond tiresome and means sod all to the passengers on the Arriva 5 travelling into Middlesbrough.
#PMQs

My advice to Labour is don't let Starmer resign as the press will chase out the next one too, and the next one. Just go fuck it.

Maybe I could write that as my big airport inspirational Ted Talk book, "Fuck 'em, they hate you anyway, don't play by their rules, you can't win. Just go fuck it."

There’s something mentally wrong with the President of the United States.

Puts British political scandal into perspective

Ah yes, the last chance to take an offer that will reappear in only slightly different form tomorrow

“Mandelson is a very intelligent man” and an “enormously talented bloke,”

“I’ll work with him in Washington”.

Nigel Farage

Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) * ... @magyarpeterMP Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then - on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office.

Hungary’s Péter Magyar issues an ultimatum.

Farage backed Mandelson’s appointment, called him a “very intelligent man”,“enormously talented bloke,” and even offered to work with him on a Trump trade deal. The moment it backfired, he changed his tune & said Starmer should resign. He is a charlatan.
#JackDart

Why did BBC Breakfast give Reform UK a special graphic? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

NEW | On an odd choice…

WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC?

A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

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The thing about all this Mandelson stuff is that actually dealing with it would require basically disestablishing at least 3 major political parties, banning their members from politics, jailing a lot of people and shutting down at least 4 national newspapers. Don't really see that happening soon.

A lot of people spent days going "OMG OMG OMG popcorn at the ready SiR kEiTh obvs lying; Olly Robbins has the receipts". Now they're like "too clever to get caught, they did it with VIBEZ."

From "Starmer is really bad at politics" straight to "Starmer is Machiavelli reincarnated" - like every week.

So far Olly Robbins has dropped govt in it x 3 - that Cabinet Office suggested Mandelson might not even need vetting, that No 10 pressured him to get on with it, that publicly rejecting M on vetting grounds wd be v awkward - & himself in it on maybe 1 (dsn't sound like he recorded much of this...

Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...

“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves”

It’s so obvious, it hurts.
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Robbins is a highly paid Civil Servant. He is paid to be able to take pressure + push back against it if he feels it is wrong. He is also paid to inform Govt of anything that is a national security concern. He doesn't seem to have kept notes of who put pressure on him or who he told about DV!

Giorgia Meloni hit by backlash over migrant ‘repatriation bonus’ for lawyers Proposal to pay advocates who persuade irregular migrants to leave Italy has provoked outcry

Dearie me.

How long before Farage starts spouting Meloni’s daft proposal - to pay immigration lawyers (who’s rôle is to represent their clients’ interests) a €615 bonus for every irregular immigrant that they can persuade to leave the country

Legally ethics? Pah!

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Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

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