Paul

That Goodwin would attract like-minded racists, bigots and neo-Nazi adjacent lowlifes was predictable.

That the BBC, Times, etc would entirely ignore this...was also predictable.

I think I have mentioned this before.
If Reform UK Ltd is a limited company can it be sued?
Even if it has MPs and a PM in parliament.

‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions? Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ALSO - if you missed out on your childhood measles vaccine and haven't had measles, you can get *free* MMR vaccination from your GP! (whether as an older child, teenager or adult).

I got my MMR about 10 years ago!

www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

History teaches us that the greatest harms often begin with the quiet acceptance of the unacceptable. I have seen where that road leads, and I will not walk it again without resistance.

Portsmouth Port fears £24m plug-in power system may not be used Grid connection delays and high electricity prices threaten a shore power scheme, a port says.

"...Brittany Ferries has said it will not use it while electricity prices remain high...
Electricity is currently four times more expensive than marine fuel, the Press Association has reported."

They shouldn't be allowed to have a choice.

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

Burrowbridge farm shop 'losing trade' due to flooding in Somerset The co-owner of the shop says flooding has seen his trade cut from 80 customers a day to five.

"Musgrave said he has been going across floodwater in a kayak to deliver boxes of vegetables to customers in surrounding villages who are still cut off."

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

Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate

Claims that #AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing

- Most claims refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

😠🇬🇧😠🇬🇧😠🇬🇧😠🇬🇧
Friend on Threads puts it succinctly

UK shelves £110m frictionless post-Brexit trade border project Programme launched by last Tory government was worked on by Deloitte and IBM but was paused in 2024

⚠️ The shelving of the single trade window project is an important reminder of the ridiculousness of implementing trade barriers with your closest trading partner.

❌ £110 million wasted.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/17/uk-frictionless-post-brexit-trade-border-project

Royal Mail isn't delivering letters to maximise profit.
English water is filled with sewage and is killing people.
UK Energy is the most expensive in the world.

All of these things are privatised and all of them are the worst ever.

UK shelves £110m frictionless post-Brexit trade border project Programme launched by last Tory government was worked on by Deloitte and IBM but was paused in 2024

"The National Audit Office estimated that the government spent at least £4.7bn on post-Brexit border controls in 2024"

plus another £110m on this failed IT project 👇

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"We are at a dangerous moment in our national story. The current voting system routinely produces outcomes that do not reflect the public’s choices," writes @elliechowns.bsky.social.

https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/we-need-an-electoral-revolution

Delisted companies taking on debt to fund $2.7bn dividends Darktrace and Aggreko are among former London Stock Exchange stalwarts to have generated payouts for private equity owners

UK biggest companies rack up debt to pay dividends to private equity owners.

$2.7bn debt-fuelled dividends over the past 5 years.

Darktrace, Aggreko, Homeserve and Signature Aviation facing higher debt.

Courting disaster.

Successive govts failed to reform corporate governance.
archive.ph/0qIvA

Screenshot of tweet by Conor Tomlinson calling out Goodwin

Screenshot of tweet by Conor Tomlinson calling out Goodwin

Screenshot of tweet by Conor Tomlinson calling out Goodwin

😬Not the best look for Reform’s Gorton & Denton candidate Matt Goodwin

White supremacist far right activist says

“you've appeared on our podcasts, had dinner with us, had us write for your Substack, and sought our advice on how to write your social media posts”

Tad awkward😬

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'I was a Reform councillor – no one dares question Nigel but our cuts won't work' Councillor Nick Brown says his former party's money-saving pledges at councils across the country are 'doomed to fail'

Reform UK: a one-man band.

Former Reform UK councillor: “Independence is not something that’s valued within Reform.”

“It all comes to Nigel. Everything flows down from there."

https://inews.co.uk/news/reform-councillor-question-nigel-cuts-wont-work-4237714

Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

#ITVYouthTracker EU referendum voting intention for 16-25 year olds

✅🇪🇺 Join the EU: 83%
❌🇪🇺 Stay out of the EU: 17%

Savanta for ITV Youth Tracker, Sample Size: 1,040 UK based 16-25 year-olds, Fieldwork 4-9 February 2026

Lets see who Reform has said they hate.

The Working Class they have had it too good for too long.
Women they better start having babies or they'll get taxed.
Pensioners, the State Pension is unaffordable.
Anyone who wants NHS Healthcare.

Why would you vote for that

So"Leave ECHR"message paid for by people that benefit from a weakened Europe?

Is that what's happening?

Is it Tory & Reform that spread these stories on behalf of foreign influence or are they all in Reform now?

Mind you Banenoch also says this.

Is Reform just there to open the Overton window.

Sounds like me.
I re-read the books recently, and they did not seem quite as good as I remembered. Particularly the later ones.

A new study warns UK winters are becoming significantly wetter — with rainfall rising 7% for every degree of warming.

Yet Reform dismiss the scientific consensus and want scrap action to stop the climate crisis.

Tony Blair’s thinktank accuses Ed Miliband of driving up energy prices Report by Tony Blair Institute urges government to drop some green policies amid criticism of decarbonisation goal

Villain.

'Blair has criticised the govt’s energy policies before, claiming that the push to phase out fossil fuels was "doomed to fail" and the climate debate was "riven with irrationality". Blair, whose think tank works for petrostates including Saudi Arabia...'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I thought Reform were all about saving money?

They've just cost us all another £63m....as that is what the government has now been forced to give councils undergoing reorganisation so they can afford to do that AND run & staff elections in this May.

The coucils had asked the government...

1/2

Really wanted to see this, but don't think it is on a channel that I can get. How does it compare to the books?

Desert Plant Thrives at Gemini Solar Site, Showing Resilience and Growth - Common Good News Scientists found that the rare threecorner milkvetch thrived at the Gemini Solar site, defying expectations.

Utility solar power landscapes can be beneficial to desert ecosystems when installed with intention.

#OtD 16 Feb 1943 US-born translator, writer and German anti-Nazi resistance activist Mildred Fish-Harnack was beheaded in Berlin: the only US woman executed on Hitler's personal orders. She helped Jews and forced labourers escape. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e63-...

No need to listen to a billionaire who moved to Monaco to save paying £4bn in tax.

Caricature by @bjennings90.bsky.social.

Billy Bragg explains why he's supporting The Green Party

"To get to a place where we have affordable housing, affordable energy, affordable transport - we need a new settlement between the British people and Westminster"

And calls for proportional representation