John Petrie

Those people who didn’t vote are just as responsible as the people who voted for Trump

Not something you will see on the UK media but this resonates with what business leaders are saying.

No wonder they want Starmer out.

Mandelson’s always been shifty, though we didnt know the full extent.
Farage is fully shifty out in the open! Racist, lazy, selects traitors, sexist & racist candidates, umpteen lucrative 2nd jobs, dodges interviews but does cameo videos. Just grotesque, yet there isn’t 1% the furore Starmer faces!

All that stuff in the headlines about Starmer’s days being numbered is just these two far-left leeches from Socialist Group Campaign trying to wreck the party from the inside. Act accordingly. #UKPolitics

This is not a joke. The sitting president audibly defecated... the room reacted... he rushed everyone out of the conference. Imagine what MAGA would say if any other president did this. 😅

Great analogy but who could they be talking about?

Reform UK treasurer named in Epstein files The latest name to surface is billionaire Reform treasurer, Nick Candy, who appears to have been known to individuals within Epstein’s circles

@reformexposed.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

It is normal to redact details of victims to protect their identity.

It is not normal to redact detail of perpetrators. Whoever this is should be prosecuted. Why is he being protected?

Howard Lutnik is the US Secretary for Commerce.

This email to Epstein...just weird. Why would you include children's ages unless.....

Nothing says "guilty" more than Epstein files being downloaded then the Department of Justice blocking access to specific ones. Lucky someone got to them first

Millions of new pages from the Epstein files dropped.

Blanche says "there is a hunger and thirst for information about Trump that he does not think will be satisfied with these documents"

Of course it won't - they are sitting on them

Well Melania's going down a storm in the UK

Following the defections to Reform of Braverman and Jenrick, it is worth remembering what Reform said about them only a few months ago.

Ex-Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK The MP was unveiled as the party's latest recruit by leader Nigel Farage at a rally.

More filling of the Reform sewer with Suerella Braverman defecting.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The only thing to say is who is surprised.

Surely at some point, Republicans in Congress will say enough is enough. Surely.

In a time of international crisis, that speech was exactly what you want from a Prime Minister. Well done Starmer.

Trump was to invoke the Insurrection Law so he can suspend elections. Avoid midterms. Stephen Miller fingerprints all over this.

EU-Mercosur: President Costa to travel to Brazil and Paraguay The President of the European Council, António Costa, together with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will attend the EU-Mercosur signature ceremony in Asunción, Paraguay...

EU/Mercosur free trade agreement to be signed Saturday 17 January - www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

It's such a joy to watch the right and the far right eating each other. Farage now left with the difficult decision of accepting someone who six months ago he called a fraud.

One of the best articles I have read on this subject

A Year of Living Dangerously in Trump's America I no longer feel safe to speak or act freely in a country where people are being arbitrarily detained and killed and where the truth is becoming whatever Donald Trump says it is, reports Alexandra Hal...

This from former British diplomat @alexhh.bsky.social, who now is now based in the US, really hits home about the nightmare currently playing out in Trump's America

bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/a...

A sad day for the UK media. Despite talking down the government daily, there is higher than expected growth. Thoughts and prayers with BBC's Mason, Zeffman and Kuenssberg and Sky's Rigby and of course the Mail, Telegraph and Express.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shabana Mahmood is a real heavy weight compared to lightweight Chris Philp.

Wouldn't be surprised if Badenoch decided she needs someone better than Philp in that brief.

If someone leaked the Epstein files, they would easily be one of the most famous and celebrated people of the decade. 🙌

This is not true - Starmer has strongly supported Greenland and Denmark "Only Greenland and Denmark should decide its future" - can't be more explicit.

Extract: Farage's one-man band adds a disgraced banjo Tom Peck Political Sketch the sketch writers keep saying we're a one-man band," " said Nigel Farage, 48 hours after some idiot sketch writer in The Times had called Reform UK a one-man band. The sketch writers clearly needed to be taught a lesson but what happened next was surely overkill, when out on to the stage and back into the political big time strode Nadhim Zahawi. How would we describe Reform UK now? What part of the one-man band is the party's newest defector? Is there even such a thing as a discredited mouth organ? A disgraced banjo? There was no time to think about that. First there was a pre-roll video of Zahawi, a stirring montage biography of the kind you used to see on the X Factor judges' houses episode, immediately before a painter and decorator from Croydon murders a Michael Buble cover next to Simon Cowell's swimming pool. "l've gone from councillor to chancellor of the exchequer," Zahawi said, looking beyond the camera and into the middle distance, where a brighter future may theoretically lie. Zahawi is extremely proud of his time as chancellor of the exchequer, which lasted exactly two months and was mainly spent paying his own tax bills to HMRC. "Westminster watchers", , as Zahawi called us, may recall the very first thing he did as chancellor, which was to get hold of a piece of HM Treasury notepaper and use it to write a letter to Boris Johnson, who had appointed him fully 48 hours before, to tell him to resign. "Britain is drinking in the last chance saloon," said Zahawi, over soft string music, "and it really does need Nigel Farage as prime minister."

In the questions at the end, someone had the temerity to bring up a social media post, written by Zahawi in 2015, in which he had said of his new best mate: "I would be frightened to live in a country run by you." Zahawi let out a little smile. "If I thought this man next to me had an issue, in any way, with people from my background, I wouldn't be sitting next to him," he said, and then he reached over and placed a loving hand on Nigel's elbow. Smiles can say a lot. This one specifically seemed to be saying, "Come on, guys, if you actually believe a word I say, we're not going to get very far, are we?" Which was just as well, because no one does. As the press conference wore on, Farage did not seem his usual ebullient self. Smiles were forced. Brows were creased. Farage is as canny as they come. It seems unlikely not to have occurred to him that the reason he is so popular, the one reason that towers above all others, is that so many people have had enough not just of people like Zahawi, but in this case, people who literally are Zahawi. Zahawi seemed to think people would be "shocked" to see him defecting to Reform. People were shocked, but not quite for the reasons he thinks. That Zahawi decided to ask Farage out is no surprise at all. What is more surprising is that Farage said yes. The Tory stampede to Reform is now very much in full swing. At some point, Farage will surely have to say no to someone. He must have a limit. It's a remarkable thing to say, but at the moment Farage can't seem to find the bar.

“It seems unlikely not to have occurred to [Farage] that the reason he is so popular… is that so many people have had enough not just of people like Zahawi, but in this case, people who literally are Zahawi”

Here’s to hoping their piss-taking opportunism does for them both.

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It's gone very quiet on the Epstein files. Congress voted for their release and it hasn't yet happened. Pam Bondi could be impeached. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles
@sydesjokes.bsky.social

Nadhim Zahawi MP: In Farage’s Britain, it would be legal to discriminate against me on the grounds of race

conservativehome.com/2015/03/23/n...

Should say, Trump threatens to attack Iran to distract everyone that the Epstein Files should have been released in full.
He is absolutely shitting himself, how popular would someone be if they leaked them.