Péter Magyar victory speech:
"We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others."
He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.
Hungary has chosen Europe.
Europe has always chosen Hungary.
A country reclaims its European path.
The Union grows stronger.
If we gave even a tenth of the attention to the solutions as we give to the problems of FPTP, we would’ve secured PR a decade ago.
End the madness Labour, and back equal votes for all.
@makevotesmatter.bsky.social
Wall-to-wall coverage of a defection from one party to another, neither of which are in government.
The lobby is addicted to drama. Reform and the Tories serve up drama. And then this forms the majority of the day's news.
Infuriating.
Our information environment is in such a mess.
WHY is this a news alert?
No wonder everyone's morale is low.
The nonsense opinion, of a deliberately-inflammatory man, being pushed to thousands of people. For what purpose?
The incoming Home Secretary must end the dangerous misuse of terrorism legislation, but it may already be too late, writes Cal Roscow, Director of Campaigns at Best for Britain.
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I can't begin to describe how much I loathe this attitude in people
“Yet when it is one of their own in the dock, the language changes. Suddenly trauma matters. Suddenly ADHD is real and relevant”, writes @pimlicat.bsky.social of @bestforbritain.bsky.social
🗣️ Selective empathy: why compassion can’t be reserved for the politically convenient
Gosh who could have predicted this.
Quite galling for IDS to comment seeing as when he was in govt control of our nuclear power stations was being sold to 🇨🇳 companies.
Some things just need to be under national control. (Not confident seeing as we are still not ending 💧privatisation)
Now that’s a split-screen. ⛳️
@wsj.com
A point not made enough: the UK runs a trade goods deficit with the US so shouldn’t be paying any tariffs at all based on the White House formula (10% is not a “win”).
When Project 2025 The Musical opens on Broadway in 2053, Newsmax ringing the opening bell at the exchange on 4/3/25 will be the song and dance number just before curtains for intermission.
Old Compton St on 29th March with not a single pedestrian or car.
Old Compton St on 29th March with not a single pedestrian or c
Four years ago I took these photos of deserted Soho.
Which also serve as an artist's impression of what the new residents trying to close all the decades-old nightlife venues down would like it to be like permanently.
Ridiculous
Okay fair; that sort of humiliation would send you mad
When exactly was this mythical time when you couldn't? He never seemed to hold back and has been on TV constantly?
Fr3eDoM oF sPeEcH
The Russell Brand bit is [chef's kiss]
Do you have any idea how difficult it has just been to explain, to my colleagues who didn't grow up in the UK, why Penelope Keith is trending with JFK?!
Obviously I am glad that she is home.
But if you think it was unacceptable for a white woman from Wales to be chained up and treated like this, why is it acceptable for anyone to be treated like this?
Seriously lacking aspect of the conversation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today let's remember that austerity kills. 🧵
Researchers at the University of Glasgow, found that an additional 335,000 deaths occurred in Scotland, England, and Wales between 2012 and 2019 compared to what was expected based on previous trends.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump-putin peace talks update
If he believes this then he should be arguing against cutting benefits and spending on services. Fairly obviously.
The way Thames Water has been run should be a criminal offence.
While I am pleased to see the minimum wage (I am not calling it the "National Living Wage" when it is clearly not) has increased...
...this means that everyone working full time will start repaying student loans from Plan 5 immediately.
Something needs to be adjusted...!
You boy, which far-right splinter group is it?
Everything is going wrong much faster than I expected.
