TheBossRoss 🧶

He's reading off the teleprompter until that point.

An interesting conversation. While the journalist was clearly biased, he was also very knowledgeable, so it's worth a listen.

#Farage's work record 2014-2019: participation in roll-call votes: 40% attendance of EP plenary sessions: 63% productivity (questions, motions, reports etc.: 739th out of 750 MEPS (sources: vote watch. eu & mepranking. eu)

I'd be surprised if his record in Westminster is better than that at the European Parliament where I once researched his performance:

A friendly, happy, flat cartoon of a yellow flower with a smiling face, carrying two suitcases, three birds happily chirping. The title: "Spring"

"Spring"

Cartoon: Petros Tsiolakis (Greece)

On a wall, in big letters: THE EPSTEIN FILES In front, Trump. He's trying to cover the writing up with all kinds of posters that say: War with Iran UFO files Tariffs ICE Venezuela The Supreme Court Greenland Board of Peace

Poster Boy.

Cartoon: Bernard Hage (Germany)

On a wall, in big letters: THE EPSTEIN FILES In front, Trump. He's trying to cover the writing up with all kinds of posters that say: War with Iran UFO files Tariffs ICE Venezuela The Supreme Court Greenland Board of Peace

Poster Boy.

Cartoon: Bernard Hage (Germany)

Also nicht Alice Weidel?

Map by populationreview.com showing countries that export the most oil, led by Saudi Arabia, followed by Russia.

The Middle East conflict is driving up oil prices.

Guess who's profiting the most?

#slowclap
#Russia
#SaudiArabia

Map by populationreview.com showing countries that export the most oil, led by Saudi Arabia, followed by Russia.

Marvellous.

Guess who's profiting most?

#slowclap
#Russia
#SaudiArabia

It's that old saying, isn't it? When you point at someone, four fingers point back at you.

I'm not sure people who vote Reform think that far. They often stop at: That Green-voting riff-raff!

Also: Did you plant these next to a nuclear reactor? They are absolutely huge (& beautiful!)

That's exactly what I avoided doing. 😁

"I'm not sure that anyone who voted Green [in Gorton and Denton] works."
- Nigel Farage

Every time Nigel Farage speaks, he tells us who he really is.

[quote via @adambienkov.bsky.social]

Wow. That defeat really stings.

Every time he opens his mouth, Farage tells us who he really is.

Astute observation. 👏

So Starmer, Merz, & Macron are happy to destroy Iran's missiles on the ground before they lift off*, but not Russia's?

*[which is what 'defensive' means: a pre-emptive strike to prevent the enemy from launching its weapons].

Euphemisms are doing heavy lifting in war, don't they? When you destroy missiles on the ground before they lift off, that's an attack (pre-emptive, maybe, but still an attack) not a 'defensive airstrike'. Much like people killed aren't 'casualties' & innocents murdered aren't 'collateral damage'.

"The Israeli-American war on Iran"

ALT-text:
Netanyahu in the cockpit of a war robot designed to look like Trump.

You're probably a better judge than I am over here on the continent. He's already weakened. This decision & against public sentiment won't make it better. Trump said the military action is time-limited. Once the immediate attacks are over, the PLP might make a move.

Iah. Bigger picture. Starmer's statement on UK bases used for Iran action might well be the proverbial straw. Streeting no longer looks like the certain successor with his Mandelson & Palantir ties, but he will try. Burnham would have been an alternative. Alas...

You can tell this is where he veers off the script.

I just saw a reel by Hannah Spencer whose 1st day in parliament it is today.

Now imagine Andy Burnham had been allowed to stand & won. This would be him.

He might have been a real alternative to replace Starmer / Streeting (depending on how seriously unhappy the PPP is with them).

Starmer will know that his decision to cooperate will be deeply unpopular in his own parliamentary political party and with British people. It might actually topple him.

How we can tell whether it will? By looking how Wes Streeting positions himself.

Politics is a nasty business, isn't it?

Was Anderes bleibt mir kaum möglich 😂

Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon posted on X: [Translated from Spanish] One can oppose a hateful regime and, at the same time, oppose an unjustified and dangerous military intervention. I once again call for immediate de-escalation, respect for international law, and the urgency of resuming dialogue. Spain will be there. And Europe must be there. March 1, 2026.

Spain's prime minister Pedro Sánchez again being the exception to the rule. As Starmer, Merz, Macron declare their support for the US & its actions, setting aside reservations about their legality, #Spain demands better. I do have to ask: Why do we all lack Sánchez' courage (of conviction)?

Röttgen (CDU) told Tagesschau that it's a political 'dilemma': violation of int. law vs. action against regimes that oppress its people.

As though our only tool to curtail, correct, fight those regimes is an unlawful, military attack...

You're so very welcome!

Eine Holzkiste auf einer Arbeitsplatte in der Küche, voll mit Paprika, Kürbisse, grünen Bohnen, frisch geerntet aus dem Garten.

'Lecker: Mein Lieblingsgericht' #FotoVorschlag

That's how I see it, too.