Smacks of a piece written up against a deadline - 'I heard a former MP say 'vibes' and I got a whole [flimsy] article from it!' What a weird fluff piece, though, suggesting Labour are the only serious ones, poor things, making their 'tough decisions' while the rest of us just don't understand 🙄.

"...even patted me on the head - they do that there apparently, but nobody's ever seen him pat someone on the head quite like that - he said 'You're doing great, Sir, so much better than the last one' - he didn't even know Sleepy Joe's name..."

I think if the Labour government were trying to make any constructive argument as to why the public is wrong in their misapprehension about asylum seekers living in hotel luxury, the Tory media would be having a field day with it. Labour just amplify the Reform narrative on this.

He might also try to develop a spine and explain that 'hotel' in this context doesn't mean room service and all-you-can-eat buffet. Conditions aren't great. I have seen no attempt by Labour to actually correct the mis-information that persists from the right, painting these places as luxury stays.

'Speaking a different language' is just code for those things. They know what they're saying, they're just playing at finding ways to say the silent part out loud without saying it out loud. It's actually just as loud.

That would be my preference too. In Vance's circles it may be 'acceptable' to feel that way, but by no measure does it seem 'reasonable'.

@zarahsultana.bsky.social's expression there is all of us looking at that man.

I can't tell whether they're trolling Trump or trolling the USA with the crown/King thing.

And no one asks, 'To quote you, you just said 'We didn't win' - can you tell us more about how that felt?' They just hear him say these things and they let them slide. It's crazy.

You're absolutely right. There's such an unpleasant snideness in even a lot of the less bad media. They show themselves up in all their ugliness, at once pretending to be better than the Daily Mail, while at the same time cribbing off their playbook. 'The state of journalism' indeed :(

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He's devoid of class, taste, decency, cultural or historical awareness or care. He's a shell, and he has form. The only things that make him tick are self-aggrandisement and money. The latter I guess because it's the only 'worth' that man has ever had. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

To be fair to Clarkson, it must be exhausting for him to represent the peak of human physical perfection and have to endure the sheer ugliness of all around him.

Nicely done. She's never been the sharpest pencil.

I'm intrigued to know where he's 'exhibiting strong (...) neurological and physical performance'.

I mean, even with the mask he's pretty unpalatable!

I disagree with you. 'Worst' may be subjective, but I certainly don't have a short memory. And I consider there's a particular cruelty in Labour having convinced voters that they would protect them from the worst of what the Tories had planned, but to instead take those plans and run with them.

This government is one of the cruellest - of any party - I've seen in my lifetime, because they seem so shockingly comfortable using people as collateral in chasing the far right. The devastation and distress their casual knee-jerk pandering is causing is unforgiveable.

Full Fact seems particularly important right now - there's so much plausible misinformation being put out, it seems an almost impossible task to counter it.

Whenever I think I've seen the worst of what Labour has to show, me, they have something worse. They demonstrate the same level of callousness, cruelty and disregard for people that we saw for 14 years under the Tories. It feels worse from Labour, because they pretend they're something else.

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The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

She wouldn't know how to cope with him being the only leader who has stated that it is possible to condemn both the Manchester attack and the genocide in Gaza. It doesn't fit with the narrative.

I imagine they wouldn't be able to register a leaderless party with the Electoral Commission without stating a leader (though stand to be corrected)? Not sure naming him in that process is the same as 'appointing' him leader? Nonetheless, little about Your Party has given good vibes for some time.

I mean, it does sound as though the batteries are wearing out, so he'll probably stop at some point.

I'm sure it's the news the UN General Assembly came for. 'Congrats Pres. Chump!"

"I realised that they did not know"...he talks as though he's thinks he's quoting from the Bible. But I do like that these days he pronounces his surname 'Chump'.

Pretty sure we ALL want to pretend he doesn't exist, don't we? Rare I find myself on common ground with Starmer.

Keir Starmer won't protect nature.

He won't protect the NHS.

But he'll do anything to protect the wealth of the super rich.