Alex Andreou

Hmm. Not sure. A lot of the current good fortune of the far right has been about exploiting Jewish people's legitimate anxiety about an increase in antisemitism. This doesn't play well.

Nice to see Betty a bit Sweaty.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

It was years ago.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not in a hurtful way.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not with intent.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not genuine abuse.

😮🫣😬😱 ~AA

Brexit 'an act of pure economic sabotage and vandalism' FIVE years since Brexit and a British Chancellor has finally called out Brexit for what it is.

Letter: "New polling by Best for Britain shows three in five Brits now see Brexit as a failure with seven in 10 of these voters blaming Nigel Farage. His silence on the subject speaks volumes." ~AA

www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2564170...

CBI chief Rain Newton-Smith tells gov't: "Change course on Employment Rights... The minimum wage, the last Labour govt's defining reform has endured because it was built in partnership with us." Hmm. Was it?

Some of us are old enough to remember it was introduced in the teeth of CBI opposition. ~AA

Busines and Trade Secretary, Peter Kyle: "When you win an election... you start off where the other lot left off, and the extent of challenges that Brexit left us, that some of the other periods of intense instability left us... you can't fix that in one month, in one budget, or in one year." ~AA

Reform UK’s only representative in Welsh parliament suspended over racial slur Laura Anne Jones made the offensive remark about Chinese people in a WhatsApp group in 2023

ICYMI: Reform’s UK only member of the Welsh parliament has been suspended for using a racial slur in a WhatsApp group.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-laura-jones-suspended-racial-slur-senedd-b2869040.html

Badenoch's arrogantly delivered, noxiously apocalyptic assault on employment rights aside, it's quite something to claim that only you understand business, then ask business, instead of adjusting to a new law, to plan on the remotest chance that you will become PM and undo it all in four years.🤣 ~AA

"A cryptocurrency backed by one of Nigel Farage’s biggest donors has been used to help Russia fight its war against Ukraine, British investigators say."

It's not "ancient history" if you're knee-deep in it, Zia... ~AA

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform UK's Zia Yusuf calls Nathan Gill 'ancient history' The party's head of policy says he has never met Nathan Gill, who served as the leader of Reform UK in Wales in 2021.

According to Zia Yusuf, Reform UK's former leader in Wales being convicted of taking money to undermine British national interest in favour of Russia is "ancient history". 😂🤣😂

He was sent down for ten years three days ago. Three. Days. Ago. ~AA

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I see stuff like this and instantly think of one of my favourite H.L. Mencken witticisms:

"Democracy is the theory that voters know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

(Great webinar @luketryl.bsky.social.)

Striking bit of @moreincommonuk.bsky.social's pre-budget briefing (watch in full on their channels). Voters think means-testing winter fuel benefit was *WORSE* that partygate and as bad as profiteering on PPE. And gov't breaking its pledge on tax would be worse than all of the above. 👀👀👀 ~AA

This is how the JD Vance (seemigly Kremlin-drafted) Ukraine "Peace Plan" went down with *Republican* lawmakers. No wonder Trump is distancing himself from it, at a rate of knots.

NB McCaul was Trump's national security adviser during his first campaign. ~AA

It really is so absurd to claim "I get small business because I worked in a MacDonalds once and what business needs is another massive costly upheaval in four years, just as they have absorbed the last change." Even before you add the fact that she is unlikely to be Tory leader by next summer.

Why Tommy Robinson supporters are turning to Christianity The Church of England is grappling with what to do about followers of the far-right figure embracing faith.

Two key differences, I think, have so far saved the UK from full-on MAGA madness: our relationship to religion and our regulation of guns. We should be fully prepared for the far right to start prodding both. ~AA

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The latest bot-talking-point on X and FB, spread via Reform groups, seems to be "Doctors, Nurses, and engineers don't arrive by small boat".

Only problem with that is... some do exactly that. ~AA

‘Reset’ with the EU looks more like ‘upset’ as Brexit damage mounts | The Observer

"One of the terrible ironies is that Reform’s leader, Nigel Farage, is now capitalising on the unpopularity of a government whose laudable aims have been frustrated by the economic damage caused by a Brexit behind which he was the prime mover." ~AA

observer.co.uk/news/busines...

New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer

"Brexit didn’t behave like a normal economic shock. There was no singular collapse or dramatic turning point. Instead, it created a rolling fog of uncertainty that has lasted almost a decade. It made it impossible for thousands of firms to plan." ~AA

eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

a man and a woman are talking to each other and the man is saying `` i 'm a citizen of the world '' ALT: a man and a woman are talking to each other and the man is saying `` i 'm a citizen of the world ''

Good morning, gorgeous BfB fellow travellers. This is @sturdyalex.bsky.social with this week's pre-budget news round-up.

Stay tuned for breaking stories, analysis, (my often wrong) opinion, and the best video - always, with an internationalist flavour. ~AA

A wonderful night and a rare Remainiacs reunion. Love a surprise wedding (well I've never been to one before but I loved this one)

Naomi shattered our minds by holding a party last night and then halfway through announcing that they'd eloped and we were in fact attending a wedding reception. Immense.

Got the band back together at mine and Paul’s surprise wedding reception. I love these people so much 🥰

@sturdyalex.bsky.social @rostaylor.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social and Ingrid Oliver

Just add a little water or wine to loosen it.

"The point of the Inquiry was to learn lessons. Are we learning those lessons? Reports come out, they make headlines, people get very angry, but is any money or resource going into systems' reform and preparedness for the next pandemic or the next whatever?"

The #NathanGill bribery case is one of the clearest documented instances where money, messaging and political access intersect in a way that can be traced from a European politician back to figures in Medvedchuk’s and Medvedev’s circles - and thus to Putin

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...

My darling @pimlicat.bsky.social, sister-in-love, giggling consort, podding compadre, and partner in crime, I was so deeply honoured to share that moment with you.

No man will ever be good enough, of course, but I happily concede that @paulpettinger.bsky.social is as close as any man could get. 💋

No, thank you! x

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