Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE

Mark Rutte is either a fantasist or a sycophant. Maybe both. He's certainly not doing Europe any favours at NATO.

His place is in prison for the treachery he's perpetrated on the UK.

Baccalà in umido (salted cod in sauce). One of the great pleasures of Italian cooking which I don't think I would have known about if I didn't live here. Really easy to prepare, and absolutely delicious.

I'm glad I didn't vote for him because I think I'd have spent the last 18 months feeling overwhelming disappointment (which is not to say that I don't feel that anyway).

Well, exactly. He seems to me to have no central philosophy or even a moral compass. Just blows in the wind. I didn't believe those people who said he was playing the long game back in 24. It seems to me he's only making these noises now because reversing Brexit is popular in the polls.

Keir Starmer is reported as saying that aiming to join the single market would be more helpful now than the customs union. But the SM means accepting freedom of movement. I thought that was one of his ridiculous red lines? I mean: good if he believes this, and that is the outcome.

Starmer signals support for Trump’s aggressive approach towards Iran Prime minister says ensuring that Iran does not develop a nuclear programme is a ‘number one priority’

I begin to wonder whether Trump's got something on Starmer. I can't come up with any other reason for him being so ready to be Trump's lickspittle.
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Exactly.

Can't be me. I closed my account there shortly after the drug addict bought it.

Homicides in England and Wales fall to lowest level since records began Killings involving knives or sharp implements dropped by 23% year on year, ONS figures show

What's Farage's response going to be to this news, I wonder?
Will anyone tell Trump, Musk and Vance so that they stop lying about London and the UK??
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Centrist ideas no longer wanted in Conservative party, says Kemi Badenoch Party leader tells MPs that one-nation Tories doubting her rightward direction ‘need to get out of the way’

This is probably the end of the Tory Party as a serious party of government. People have been moving away from them for years because of their rightward drift. I think this will only accelerate if she continues on this direction.
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Sounds like my decision not to take up the offer of some teaching in Ohio was the right one. I won't be coming to the US while the orange man-child is in charge.

The LibDems came second in 2019. There was so much pro-Labour propaganda in 2024 in an effort to get the Tories out that it's difficult to know who's the natural 2nd party there. Anyway, they're both a long way behind Cruella. It's rather a fascist constituency.

🤮 that photo has put me right off my afternoon flapjack.

The problem is that Reform voters aren't sophisticated enough to realise that these are the very people who destroyed everything.

The other parties really need to hammer home the message that these are the very people who fucked everything up over the last 14 years. Their voters are not the sort of people who'll be able to work that out for themselves.

"Lee Anderson-Tory Twat" is my favourite.

It actually stands for London Broadcasting Company, though it went nationwide in 2014.

According to Parliament's website, there are 117 Tory MPs. I don't know whether that includes Braverman. Still, the LibDems aren't far behind on 72 (though, much as I hate them, I'd rather they stay Tory than flip to Reform).

Her constant cackling during that press conference was deeply alarming. "I've done it, hahaha!" She sounded deranged.

In a move which must surprise no-one, Cruella Braverman defects to Reform. Now that it's packed with the very people who broke Britain, why would anyone vote for them?

The entire area is stunning. Did you get to Spello? It's slightly less full of tourists and also has some good hotels. The Cascate del Menotre are nearby, too. Really beautiful.

The Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery is really moving. I find the fact that local Italians keep it so immaculately particularly impressive. Did you notice the graves of the young Italian partisans there, too? Fitting that they're buried with our soldiers.

I don't know where the word "no" came from!

With all the shit going on in the world (mostly Trump inspired) I've been grateful this week to be involved in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Assisi. This view greeted me as I returned to my car this evening. I'm so lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world. No

Trump's claim Nato troops avoided Afghanistan front line sparks outrage in UK The US president says Nato troops stayed

Really? I'm sure we all remember watching those body bags being unloaded at Wootton Bassett.
Time to just ignore this total cunt.
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Only "beginning to think"? This has been the problem all along: he's just not very good at politics.

#peaceboard ##ethniccleansing

You understand how collective cabinet responsibility works?