Declan Fegan 🇨🇮 🇪🇺

The UK press in full cry demanding entry into a war with no aims, no strategy and no legality is quite a sight.

Ooooh yes

GB News has lost £131.5m to date Cumulative losses in £

Keep not watching GB News guys... it's lost £131.5m to date but I'm sure it can do a lot worse than that.

GB News loses £22m, taking their total losses to over £130m. Except it's not a 'loss', it's an investment by Paul Marshall in providing a propaganda service to platform right wing grifters, gobshites, conspiracy nutters and contrarian fuckwits.

This is one of the reasons 40% of British people who could vote do not vote. Not voting is often called “apathy.” When I have talked to non-voters they are NOT apathetic. They are pissed off!

"One should not give a poisoner medicine,
A conjurer fine apparatus, nor
A rifle to a melancholic bore."
WH Auden

Not to mention the biggest arsenal in the world to a narcissistic attention-seeker.

Starmer might not float everyone's boat but thank God he's Prime Minister not Kemi Badenoch.
Badenoch as PM would be catastrophic for the country. Overwhelming self confidence is irrelevant if you have the judgement of a house brick.
#PMQs

Farage and Badenoch are in favour of placing UK interests and the lives of our servicemen and servicewomen in the hands of a nutter. Starmer isn't.
Yet Starmer is the one getting vilified.
2026 is very strange.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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Daily Mail headline: IRAN WAR: DAY FOUR U.S. lambasts 'hand-wringing, pearl-clutching' Starmer as Kemi says he's 'scared' of his own voters

The Sun: INACTION THIS DAY PM wont hit Iran back Rift grows with US Prez

Have we woken up in America? The deeply unpatriotic Daily Mail and Sun seem to now be supporting a menace of a foreign leader over our own govt and national security. They are really only loyal to their own vested interests. Which are a direct threat to our own. The routine betrayal is sickening.

Newspapers that told their readers austerity, Brexit, Johnson & Truss would be brilliant are attacking the British Prime Minister for not unquestioningly following a lunatic President into an illegal attack. And on social media, he gets attacked from the other 'side' for doing the precise opposite!

Let me guess, wealthy people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying taxes now want the countries they moved from to protect them?

“Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton”
Sadiq Khan

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Multimillionaire and billionaire US/Israeli and UK tax dodgers getting attacked in Dubai really isn't going to bring sympathy from anyone.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Quite something that the fact 70% of voters seem to have rejected insular nationalism, out and out racism and the removal of workers rights doesn’t even seem to have occurred to Reform.

Long way to go, but still think I’m right in thinking the chances of Farage in No 10 remain non-existent.

British public want deeper economic ties with EU, business secretary says Peter Kyle signs cooperation deal on competition and says it is not a case of being nostalgic for pre-Brexit past

Wrong…..The majority of the public want to rejoin.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I beg you, Gorton and Denton..

Do not let that ghastly idiot into parliament.

He's already got enough planet shaped chips on his shoulders, and one more won't hurt.

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

BREAKING: Richard Tice is to announce Reform UK's plans to introduce a "Great Repeal Bill" that will scrap Labour's Employment Rights' Act and rent reforms

JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM

Photo of Yusuf at a lectern saying “shadow Home Secretary” (Wot?) Reform's plan for a 'British ICE' combines cruelty with stupidity

Project forward to 2036 under a majority Reform government and the picture darkens further. Britain would be smaller, older and whiter; more isolated from Europe; paradoxically, more vulnerable to foreign interterence and less able to fund its own defence. The welfare state would shrink to a skeleton. Charity would fill the gaps. Flags would proliferate; rights would not. The police and courts would be politicised. The BBC could disappear. The NHS would survive only as a minimal safety net. Protections against discrimination would erode - you might indeed be sacked for being disabled. Migrants and even their British-born children could find their rights curtailed unless they were deemed to "contribute" sufficiently. Meanwhile, the wealthiest would enjoy a generous, low-tax regime.

“Rarely has a British political party unveiled a programme that combines cruelty with impracticality on such an extravagant scale.”

Chilling on Reform’s increasingly confident fascism. High on viciousness and greed. Very low on wisdom. A ruinous combination.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/zia-y...

Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search

If you want concentration camps in the UK, people being grabbed off the streets, or murdered on them, five year olds being separated from their parents and locked up #VoteReform

The Day We Argued About Roman Numerals
 
Even now in my mind,
that row remains VIVID –
I tried to stay CIVIL
but you ended up LIVID.

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

We need to go back to a situation where racism is shameful rather than electorally advantageous.

Classless.

An important reminder

a blue flag with yellow stars on it is waving in the wind ALT: a blue flag with yellow stars on it is waving in the wind

Brexiters promised us "sunlit uplands", "prosperity", "holding all the card“, “no downsides“, “easiest deal ever”.

They got exactly what they asked for and now reality has shown what an utter disaster it is, they (and cowardly politicians) are silent.

We must never be silent.
Brexit must end.

Trump feels invincible at the moment but so did Nicolae Ceausescu while doing his last minute Christmas shopping in 1989.
One day, Trump will be gone.