One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…

The Guardian view on Morgan McSweeney’s resignation: Sir Keir’s premiership is on the road to nowhere | Editorial Editorial: The departure of the prime minister’s chief of staff signals the demise of the political project which put him in No 10. All bets are off now.

Of course it was going to implode, it's a carbon-copy of the shit-mill the Tories have inflicted for the past 14 years. People are sick of it! Extending austerity fascism has to be the most idiotic move in British political history.
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There is no Scottish Labour Thinking about Scottish football and the similarities to the way Scottish politics is viewed from down south

Thinking about Scottish football and the similarities to the way Scottish politics is viewed from down south | Alec Ross

I love policies like this. Well done the SNP!

#ScottishIndependence

We are sleep walking into a nightmare with Palantir being so embedd in our national infrastructure . Questions have to be asked about this company and people made aware of its CEO and its connections to Trump and Israel

Blue-toned BBC building background; red map of Scotland with BBC logo. Text reads: “The BBC is taking more while spending less in Scotland.” Believe in Scotland branding.

🟥 BBC Scotland is taking MORE in licence fee from Scottish households - while spending LESS in Scotland.

📺 Here are a few issues Scots have with the BBC: www.believeinscotland.org/bbc_scotland...

🟥 No Scot should go cold in our energy rich nation.

🙌 6500+ signatures already - including most pro-independence MSPs.

📣 Take action today and tell Westminster, that Scotland wont accept being ripped-off any more: www.believeinscotland.org/end_scotland...

🟥 Scandal after scandal... yet nothing changes. When power isn’t elected, it isn’t accountable.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 An independent Scotland will put democracy back in the hands of the people.

Research reveals Scotland’s free bus travel has positive impacts on health and mental wellbeing beyond schemes in the rest of the UK but it’s not getting media attention Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. From Why buses matter for health and reducing transport poverty, research published today: Bus use has positive impacts on health and mental wel…

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Robert Jenrick is lying.

Reform UK have spent, to date, almost £1.5 MILLION with Harding Print Solutions.

They are NOT a local Manchester printer.

They are Reform's go-to print company and have been for a long time.

Douglas Alexander gags MPs as Scottish Labour in turmoil over Anas Sarwar split

Douglas Alexander deployed his aides to guard a meeting of Scottish Labour MPs in an apparent attempt to prevent media briefings as his party sought to resolve a schism over the Prime Minister’s position

This Nigel Farage?

The Nigel Farage who loves Putin?

The Nigel Farage who voted against EU plans to tackle Russian propaganda?

The Nigel Farage who was a regular contributor to Russia’s RT News?

The Nigel Farage who cosied up to very wealthy Russian oligarchs and high up Russian politicians?

My money is on Sarwar’s dissent being pre-approved by Starmer to fake a decoupling of the failing Scottish Labour Party from the failing UK Labour Party, to try and boost Sarwar’s flagging popularity in Scotland.

Much in the same way as Brian Leishman was permitted to dissent on Grangemouth.

Anas Sarwar backtracks on 'old friend' Mandelson after new Epstein files released Anas Sarwar has backtracked on his support for his 'old friend' Peter Mandelson following the latest release of the Epstein Files

Further context in this @scotnational.bsky.social report:

www.thenational.scot/news/2582493...

A tweet from Anas Sarwar on his Xitter account at 18:07 on April the 4th, 2025. He is smiling and shaking Mandelson's hand, in a closely posed shot. Sarwar writes: It was great to catch up with my old friend and the UK’s (relatively!) new Ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson

Hard not to see this as political cynicism and naked ambition, given Sarwar celebrated his 'old friend' Mandelson's appointment less than a year ago.

🥬 Hopefully this is belted out tonight at full-time... 💔

Scotland just made history by passing a world-first Community Wealth Building Bill.

It will ensure public money works harder to benefit local jobs, local businesses and local communities.

Here’s why it matters. 👇

Hi @lewisgoodall.com
Scottish Labour are NOT in effect, in reality, in trousers or in bloom an independent political party.

Scottish Labour are an optional identity mark of The Labour Party.

There's no independence, real, imagined or in effect.

It's nonsense and you are better than this.

Anas Sarwar suspends Pam Duncan-Glancy over convicted paedophile ties

BREAKING: Anas Sarwar has suspended MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy following mounting pressure on the Scottish Labour leader after Keir Starmer’s former media chief had the whip removed due to his links with the same convicted paedophile

In 2024 Anas Sarwar told voters that Keir Starmer as PM and a Labour government would deliver “change” for Scotland.

Now he says Starmer and Labour aren’t good for Scotland but somehow he alone would be as First Minister.

You can’t promise change then run from the consequences when it falls apart.

Wetherspoon boss urges pubs to back Reform By Henry Saker-Clark The founder of Wetherspoon has urged other pubs to back Reform UK. Sir Tim Martin, chairman of JD Wetherspoon, said Reform's plans to slash beer duty would help the sector move towards "tax parity with supermarkets". Nigel Farage's party announced a series of proposals to support pubs last week. They included pledges to cut VAT in the hospitality sector by 10 per cent, cut beer duty by the same fraction. Reform also said it would reverse the recent rise in employers' national insurance contributions (NICs) for the sector and gradually remove business rates for all pubs. The party has said it would fund this package with around 23on, which it plans to secure through reinstating the two-child benefit cap, except for families with two British-born parents. In a lengthy stock exchange filing yesterday, Martin (inset) told industry leaders "there's no question that this initiative would utterly transform the competitiveness of pubs" He said: "By eliminating the tax differential between supermarkets and the hospitality industry, and restoring margins to devastated businesses, these changes would enable pubs to regain some, or all, of their lost trade. "You would think that this offer from Reform would have been greeted by a crescendo of enthusiasm, ecstasy and support from the licensed trade and its supporters. "However, surpris-ingly, initial support has been underwhelming, at least from the great and the good in the hospitality industry" Last month, Labour announced additional business rates support for pubs. The announcement was a U-turn following complaints from pubs about rates changes in November's Budget.

Multimillionaire Brexiter, Tim Martin, urges pubs to back Reform. Just like he urged the country to vote for Brexit. Too bad if it makes you poorer. Too bad for the children he’ll push back into poverty. Tim wants more money. And he couldn’t give a shit about the cost for everybody else.
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Chris Mason: Labour sticks with Starmer for now but this is not over The prime minister has come through a political near-death experience, the BBC's political editor writes.

Labour sticks with Starmer for now but this is not over.

Last night PLP meeting was stage-managed, packed with loyalists, new MPs worried about their jobs.

Starmer purged dissent, reneged on pledges, chose wrong policies/judgements.

What will change?

Challengers will wait until the May elections

Also proves how utterly impotent him being FM would be.

They laughed, pointed at him and called him idiotic.

it's Westminster rule that should end. END OF

#r4today
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If Starmer looked away over Mandelson so did Parliament. So did most of the media. And yet Starmer finds himself almost forced to resign? Why? Part of the answer is a weak Labour Party, from top to bottom. Part of the answer is an increasingly unhinged political culture.

Lewis does make some good points here, but look: Mandelson is not just some guy here. He has been at the core of the Labour right for decades; he was clearly right in the middle of McSweeney’s project all along, both the secret wrecking campaign and after; he was *literally picking candidates*.

1 month ago. There is no such party as Scottish Labour, he's the manager of a branch office.

I would have expected nothing less! How can the BBC justify allowing Sarwar to avoid questions and protect him? ‘Without fear or favour’ it is not!

The Sunday Show invited labour to talk about the Mandleson situation, quelle surprise Anas Sarwar is in hiding.