These people aren’t just repugnant, they’re dumb. They think that pulling up the drawbridge will draw no reaction from their own communities and endear them to hard-Right Faragistes, a good number of whom despise them.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour’s picking up where the Tories left off with gratuitous attacks on the civil service. Neither party appears to accept that the failure of poor political decisions upstream isn’t the fault of officials. See also Brexit, PPE procurement and Liz Truss’s budget.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
🏆 CHAMPIONS!
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Extraordinary testimony from Olly Robbins to foreign affairs committee:
- he was subject to “constant pressure” from No 10 when at foreign office to get Peter Mandelson in post asap.
- fcdo was urged to allow Mandelson’s appointment as ambo *without* usual vetting process - but dept pushed back
Diane Abbott, "It's one thing to say as he insists on saying: nobody told me, nobody told me anything"
"The question is, why didn't the Prime Minister ask"
NEW: Simon Case, the former cabinet secretary, advised Keir Starmer to do Mandelson’s security vetting *before*
his appointment as UK ambo to US.
Docs were buried in those released for humble address - but there doesn’t appear to have been a response.
Little idea if Starmer will ride this out or deserves to but what will it look like if the country gets its 7th PM in a decade? And who is strong or smart enough to replace him? Is the circus of instability and incompetence which Brexit triggered now baked in?
Little idea if Starmer will ride this out or deserves to but what will it look like if the country gets its 7th PM in a decade? And who is strong or smart enough to replace him? Is the circus of instability and incompetence which Brexit triggered now baked in?
With Farage making a shed load of money from bitcoin and an assortment of weird companies, we’ve launched a map and live tracker of his income 👇🏻👇🏻
NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.
First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.
The endless flipping between triumphalism and victimhood. Between fetishizing sovereignty and bemoaning it in others. The dishonest, petulant main-character syndrome which makes them think they are the primary consideration when they are, through their own clear choice, irrelevant.
Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service
No fan of this Labour government but both Starmer and Reeves have shown welcome mettle in standing up to Trump. Shudder to think we’re we’d be now if Badenoch or Farage had been in charge.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
No fan of this Labour government but both Starmer and Reeves have shown welcome mettle in standing up to Trump. Shudder to think we’re we’d be now if Badenoch or Farage had been in charge.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“Dear Ms Kuenssberg,
Dear Mr Mason,
It is with deep regret….”
We can at least hope.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Even though these elections aren’t UK-wide, it’s easy to foresee the same wave of misplaced triumphalism that broke over the country in 2016. Followed by the same sense of disillusion and blame-shifting that Farage excels at when he finds he can’t deliver.
Even though these elections aren’t UK-wide, it’s easy to foresee the same wave of misplaced triumphalism that broke over the country in 2016. Followed by the same sense of disillusion and blame-shifting that Farage excels at when he finds he can’t deliver.
72% of Daily Mail Online readers (and their friends…) want to rejoin the EU. Let’s help push the figure over 80% and hope they listen to the will of the people.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
72% of Daily Mail Online readers (and their friends…) want to rejoin the EU. Let’s help push the figure over 80% and hope they listen to the will of the people.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
What does Orban’s departure mean for #Hungary and for the EU? 🇭🇺 🇪🇺
New @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social insight by @zecsaky.bsky.social
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Thought it useful to help the BBC out with one of its headlines.
Unfortunately, where the EU is concerned, this has long been the case, I think. Their dumb, shrill tone on the ‘marmalade’ non-story is another recent case in point.
Thought it useful to help the BBC out with one of its headlines.
The world may be going to the dogs but Marmite has brought back its peanut butter, so there is that.
An uncanny echo of my experience. Also discovered just before lockdown. And one spoonful, however firm the resolve to resist, was never - never - enough.
That too looks horribly tempting…
The world may be going to the dogs but Marmite has brought back its peanut butter, so there is that.
Reform’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice ‘failed to pay £91k in tax’ according to Sunday Times.
He says ‘overall HMRC received the correct amount of tax due’
The abysmal judgement of the man who worshipped Orban, Trump, Putin, Brexit …
It’s Peak Starmer to come up with a solution that will satisfy nobody
Those who are desperate to join again won’t appreciate being placed in a waiting room with no exit, and the charlatans who caused the problem in the first place will continue to claim betrayal while offering no solutions
