Bryan Smith #RejoinEU

...And that's the problem with Primetime TV shows featuring populist politicians giving trite answers to serious problems without having to deal with the real world.🙄

Meanwhile, Labour is getting on with governing the country, solving the massive problems left behind by the last bunch of populists

SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

First illegal migrants returned under new UK-France agreement Under the landmark UK-France migration deal, the first groups of small boats arrivals to the UK have been successfully removed on flights to France.

File this under "More News UK Media all know about but didn't bother telling you":
19 illegal boat arrivals returned this week under the new agreement with France, making 26 in all.
Home Office now issuing >31,000 initial asylum decisions every quarter(3x more than Tories)
www.gov.uk/government/n...

Winter Fuel allowance only removed from the richest, this year - removing it more widely got 10s of thousands of pensioners to sign up for Pension Credit, so much better off.
Labour have no control over TW, will remove 2child limit when possible.
PA are terrorists.
We still have the right to protest

I've been sharing the link for over a year now, every few weeks. It gets a lot of attention, almost always by people who had no idea Labour had delivered anything as they'd heard nothing from UK Media, & a lot of abusive replies from what seem to be almost identical #troll accounts (instant block).

Under the last Tory Govt, elected in 2019, of 42 Manifesto Pledges, only 2 were delivered in 5 years. Under the current Labour Govt, elected in 2024, of 83 Manifesto Pledges, 57 are delivered (18), on track (19), or in process (20). In 1 year. (FullFact Tracker)

I was quite surprised, given the amount of negative press that would have you believe that this government is the worst we’ve had yet.

I’ll put the link in the next post but given we had a complete shit show with the Tories, this is astonishing. Do reshare or bookmark the link, it’s handy.

Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

Good news: fossil fuels have plateaued and solar is growing by leaps and bounds worldwide

apnews.com/article/clim...

I cross reference all my information.
I haven't seen anything that suggests any different outcome.

These are all additional to the previous known impacts of the FTA.

Israel is in favour of it.
Netanyahu is against it.
Netanyahu is going to jail. Israel doesn't support him.

But now it will be even bigger.

Starmer’s had a really productive trip to India. 10,600 jobs secured. Including 200+ for Wales. And huge market opened up for Scotch Whisky. It’s so refreshing to have a PM who consistently delivers for his Country 👏👏👏

No.
Because Labour has a humane position on all those.
And if you are pretending otherwise, you're just either a #troll, or very badly misinformed.

They are a lot closer to being human than Young Tories are, in their approach to every policy.

Yes, absolutely.
Some of the hardest work done by early humans was in the processing of cat-tail & cassava roots, grass seeds, heart of palm etc to produce edible carbohydrate free of toxins.
You can be sure they weren't obese!

No, you can easily tell as soon as they start to speak.

(Plus honey, of course, but most bees don't take kindly to having their stores raided)

Exactly (& some grasses, eg sugarcane & similar)

Last time I looked it said there were over 200 nominees.
I've never heard of any of them, but Im sure they all have a better claim than Trump (who I read had been quietly removed from the list).

this is climate change all over and denial of it @benbarclay.bsky.social and no doubt across europe as places need more water

Yes, we evolved to cling to fats & sugars as a rare & precious resource, you don't see obese apes in the jungle/savannah/woodland where they live! That shows how hard they are to find!

Its a balance, you're perfectly correct.
If the calories eaten balance the exercise done, weight stays stable.
Food is hard to find in the natural world. Animals forage all day to get enough. Humans were the same until we started farming & its only the last 200yrs that gave 10% of us an excess

Millions of households face jump in water bills after watchdog’s ruling Five companies have been granted permission to increase their charges

Steve Reed says he’s going to abolish Ofwat – let’s hope whatever he replaces it with protects the public more than this 📈
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/water-bills-price-ofwat-b2842240.html

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills

This is ridiculous. These companies are howling with laughter at regulator naivety, & cracking open the champagne.
My water bill rose from £250 (2024) to *£392* (2025), a 43% increase!
They said that was for investment.
Now they want 15% more!
We're being played.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Re: Weightloss jabs...

The skeleton doesn't grow inside an obese body.
Thats why joints & back (& heart, lungs etc) suffer so much from the extra work. Thats why there are so many health issues resulting from carrying excess weight around.

The jabs just effectively reduce calorie intake. Eat less.

I often think about the small skeleton inside huge bodies I see waddling around the shops & struggling onto buses...
You don't see many obese apes on wildlife programmes.
Maybe our food needs to be made harder to find.
There was no "JustEats app" in our grandparent's day.
All cooked while you wait

Since there's only one vote, that doesn't really seem worthwhile

Definitely! The alcohol acts as a presevative for all the vitamins, trace nutrients, flavones & antioxidants!

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

Couple of points:
- Its definitely true - UK national security *is* threatened in the next few years by the climate crisis, impacts on food, imports & asylum seekers, & wars.
- Zack's wrong about Labour. We're at the front of the fight to save the world
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Proving once and for all the Labour Government is not Tory lite, nobody will ever agree with every Government policy but ditch Labour and this is what we'll get. The left and centre left majority in the Hoc need to fight against this together.