Nick

I felt compelled to write this piece yesterday. There are few things that make me angrier than patients being blamed for problems in the NHS: jujuliagrace.substack.com

Zack Polanski, "Look how rattled they are about The Green Party because what I'm talking about is something very pragmatic"

*interruption*

"Am I going to be allowed to talk?"

"We have an aging population, a declining birth rate, and we have pensions to pay"

Very telling tonight on Question Time how much the Labour minister absolutely did not want me to talk.

Every time I even began a sentence he started to try and distract me.

It's not going to work on anyone.

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Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion' The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms

Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.

He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors

Claims he's a defender of free speech but can't abide being questioned

Thai citizen Chakrit Sakunkrit donated £9m to Reform UK.

He lives in Thailand but sells cryptocoins in the UK, he will be purchasing his own way to rip people in the UK off.

Well. This is absurd.

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

Exactly Who is 'Weaponizing Antisemitism'? ... And when did being a neo-Nazi become okay as long as you don't criticise the Israeli government?

New Substack - everyone’s being accused of antisemitism apart from the people who *checks notes* love H*tler.

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It's such a mixed blessing. It's good to know that at least some of our military commanders are not willing to accept criminal orders or commit blatant war crimes. However, for everyone that resigns their potentially replaced by an incompetent fascist war criminal in waiting.

“The claim that this is a recent invention born of political bias is categorically untrue.”

@mrjamesob.bsky.social reveals that Peter Ettedgui made identical accusations against Nigel Farage in private six years ago.

Rather than apologising for his antisemitism, Farage demands the BBC apologise for the antisemitism of Alf Garnett, a fictional character created to satirise antisemitism, who was portrayed by a Jewish man.

Text of graphic in Shabana Mahmood's tweet: NEW POWERS TO TACKLE ILLEGAL MIGRATION Illegal migrants to have their phones seized and mouths searched for SIM cards to help secure intel and arrest smugglers Ban on deadly makeshift and modified vehicle compartments used to smuggle migrants into the UK Up to five year prison sentences for those who view, access or download material on building small boats, sourcing engine parts or obtaining documents to plan illegal migrant journeys

The UK has gone quite, quite mad.

It's ridiculous that we (just about) survived 14 years of the Tories, only for Labour to allow the madness to take hold and spread.

Some of the stuff in those bullets is just breath-takingly evil.

And it's not winning Labour ANY votes. Just helping Reform.

The government’s budget is simply managing decline The budget does little to improve living standards or facilitate sustained economic growth

UK budget Effects:

Economy to grow by 1.5% this year, down from 1.9%.
Productivity to rise by 1%, down from 1.3%.
Disposable income could rise by 0.5% a year.

Can't get economic growth when 24m people can't attain minimum living standard.

1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.

Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.

Who might capture Londoners interests at the ballot box? We offered the name of one party leader and 40% said they'd consider voting for him as mayor. Green Party leader Zack Polanski

This is exciting polling - not just for London, though.

Right across England and Wales - people are ready to vote Green for the very first time.

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Please add "puppy killers" to your proposed travel ban.

WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.

Hundreds of millions?!
It's cocaine, not VX gas ffs!

Rain dancing for the worms...

Leavitt: "I'll tell you what doesn't add to our nation's character is refugees who come here under the alleged plight of asylum and then come to the US to abuse our system ... Somali immigrants in Minnesota have been ripping off American taxpayers"

Q: Was the initial order from Hegseth to kill everyone and did that come from President Trump?

LEAVITT: I would reject that Hegseth ever said that. However, the president has made it quite clear that if narcoterrorists are trafficking illegal drugs toward the US he has the authority to kill them

FOX: Does it undercut the administration's messaging when Republicans are defending strikes on narcoterrorists and then Trump pardons a convicted drug trafficker?


LEAVITT: I don't think so

REPORTER: Does the administration deny that that second strike happened, or did it happen and the administration denies that Hegseth gave the order?

LEAVITT: The latter. Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. He worked well within his authority and the law.

FOX: You said the follow up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors?

LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans

Leavitt: "The people of Honduras have highlighted to him how the former President Hernandez was set up. This was a clear Biden over prosecution."