Andy Holland

Every last word of this.

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Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.

Breaking - GOP candidate for Gov of Minnesota drops out. Says he cant support federal “retribution” against Minnesotans… @startribune.com

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Tory MP who quit in gambling row may join Reform Extract: A former Tory MP who was forced to quit after offering to lobby for gambling investors in return for payment of up to £2,000 a day is considering joining Reform UK, The Times has been told. Scott Benton was forced to resign last year after being exposed by a Times in-vestigation. He was filmed telling undercover reporters posing as gambling industry investors that he could lobby ministers and leak a confidential document. Local sources said Benton was now considering standing for Reform in the constituency of Blackpool North & Fleetwood at the next election. Benton declined to comment. A Reform source insisted Benton would be banned from standing as a candidate if he formally applied, while a Tory source said: "We wish Scott Benton well in his new party." His defection could prove controversial and senior figures in Reform are increasingly concerned by the mass recruitment of "Tory retreads". A total of 22 former Conservative MPs have already joined Reform, leading to increasing tensions in Nigel Farage's party. There are concerns within Reform that it will lose its status as an antiestablishment insurgent force if a large chunk of the party consists of former Tory MPs. The latest defector yesterday was Ben Bradley, who will take up a role as the party's "head of local government action". Bradley lost his Mansfield seat at the 2024 election, having first won the constituency in 2017. He was also leader of Nottinghamshire county council from 2021 until last year. Farage said yesterday that Reform "will not become the Conservative Party 2.0" but added that his party's "biggest weakness is a lack of experience". "We need people with experience of politics, experience of life, experience of management, who've been there before," he told a press conference.

"Scott Benton is a dirty rotten scoundrel," says Dale Dodwell, the manager of the tattoo parlour Monsters Ink. "He keeps putting up pictures of him eating loads of food. What about the homeless? All good for you because you have loads of money." Dodwell's words symbolise the feeling that many local people have given up on politics. On 2 May, a byelection will take place to replace Benton, who on Monday evening resigned as the Conservative MP for Blackpool South. It presents another political headache for Rishi Sunak before an election that polls suggest will be won by Labour. Benton was caught last year by undercover reporters for the Times posing on behalf of a fake investment fund saying he would lobby ministers on behalf of the gambling industry and leak a confidential policy for up to £4,000 a month. He was found to be in breach of MPs' standards and he was facing a local vote on whether to remove him after his ban from the House of Commons

Losers Gullis and Ben Bradley, now possibly disgraced Scott Benton will join Reform. Farage admits his party lacks experience. But recruits the morons and the pisstakers to make up for that.

Reform: Loitering around the Tory bins seeing what bits of their stinking rubbish they can recycle.

Surely it’s a joke?

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This is SOME recommendation. Thanks, Ed. 🎤

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On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.

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Catania, maxi sequestro di 1.500 bombe carta spedite tramite corriere - VIDEO I primi controlli hanno confermato l’estrema pericolosità del materiale: 1.042 “bombe carta” e 522 “palloni di Maradona”

Police in Catania seize over 1,500 illegal fireworks discovered by a courier service at their hub. They contained a total of 255kg of explosives. When police detonated just 12 of the "fireworks" in a quarry, the explosion pulverised 300kg of rocks placed over them and left a crater 5 metres wide.

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Whatever your views on the Messina Strait bridge, this highlights the amateurish approach of Meloni’s government in general, and Matteo Salvini in particular, to a highly complex project. I have no doubt they will be arrogant enough to overrule the decision of the court and go ahead regardless.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

I know the Tory party is a rancid rotting carcass of a party but, Christ, surely we’re all beyond sick of them now. This lot won’t get back into power but they can’t even manage to be a responsible opposition.
They’re just so grimly dismal, racist and thick.
They reek of inadequacy.
Just go TF away.

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

This is true, and…

It also reflects the assymetry in media. RW media trumpet every GOP/Trump achievement as a glorious success, because that is their job.

Actual journalists see puffing up those in power as the opposite of their job.

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families. They were no surprise as public discourse in America has broken down By the time Europe finished the job, finally, on Sunday, the golf had the last word. But, until the thrilling denouement, the lasting memory of this Ryder Cup threatened not to be a single swing of the club so much as the ugly backdrop: galleries that drifted from partisan into venomous and the organizers who let the line slide until it snapped. It didn’t happen all at once. For the first day and a half of golf’s most intense rivalry, it was New York-loud without being unruly. Then Saturday afternoon arrived and the tenor shifted. Rory McIlroy, the visiting lightning rod, kept stepping off shots as volleys of abuse landed in the quiet of his pre-shot routine. Shane Lowry played teammate and minder. Justin Thomas, not exactly a shrinking violet, began shushing his own end of the grandstand so his opponents could putt. Continue reading...

US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America

Autism is not a regrettable condition. It is not a disease. Bigotry and ignorance, on the other hand, are.

Just saw this on Threads:

Labour rules against dozens of motions about Palestine being debated at party conference Calls for sanctions on Israel and ban on trade that aids international law violations among snubbed motions

Cunts. You are too stupid to know you are finished. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Independent front page: Trump tells PM: Use the military to stop the boats

The Times front page Immigration is destroying UK, Trump tells Starmer President says to use military to stop crossings

The Guardian Trump tells Britain to 'call out the military' to control its borders

The iPaper Trump urges Starmer: use military to stop migrant boats

Honest to god. I dread to think what the front pages of the tabloids are, given these are the supposedly serious papers.
The immigration ‘debate’ has become a ruinous madness.

(Trump also said he’d settled the war between Azerbaijan and Albania, so why are we listening to *anything* he says?)