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“The far-right opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has triggered security fears in Berlin after officially requesting information on vulnerabilities in NATO defenses — insight that would prove useful to the Kremlin.”

Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters Shabana Mahmood will press on with hardline immigration policies despite calls for a reversal from unions and left-leaning Labour MPs after the Green party’s byelection victory. Senior Labour sources insisted that the home secretary would continue to roll out changes to asylum policy, dismissing as “plain wrong” claims that it would further alienate Muslim voters. Continue reading...

Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat

Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again.

Liver tastes like shit.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Labour lost in Gorton & Denton so "Starmer is on the way out" says Nigel 'Hitler was right' Farage

Reform UK lost in Gorton & Denton but Farage is not 'on the way out', because Reform LTD is a limited company owned by Farage, effectively its dictator

FFS.

Nothing to see here: Ex-Amazon UK boss to lead competition watchdog Experts described the decision to appoint Doug Gurr as the head of the CMA as “very positive” if you are Big Tech

Nothing to see here: Ex-Amazon UK boss to lead competition watchdog

Adam hills, josh widdicome and Alex Brooker. Jason manford, Lou Sanders, Bella hull and Zack Polanski. The last leg.

Imagine your party has won a historic byelection.

You've had election day, a loads of interviews, held a press conference with your new MP and welcomed lots of new members.

Sleep? Nah. It's time for The Last Leg!

#isitok

The most hilarious thing about today is Reform blaming their loss on Islamists…

…who famously always vote in their masses for women and gay Jewish men.

Reform, which spent its by-election campaign warning about the UK's "Christian heritage" being under threat, while proposing a ban on visas from predominantly Muslim countries, now accuses their opponents of engaging in "sectarian politics"

Lmao

It’s going to be his Prince Andrew moment unless he has an ace up his sleeve.

Badenoch statement: “If you stir up grievance politics between groups based on religion or race, as Labour have done for decades, as Reform are seeking to do, and as the Greens have done successfully in this by-election, you are pitting neighbours against each other and you start to unravel the culture of tolerance that makes Britain great. Our country is not broken, but this by-election showed that Labour, Reform and the Greens are trying very hard to break it. Labour trying to buy people off with more and more benefits spending. Reform telling people you can't be British if you aren't white. The Greens running a nasty, sectarian campaign while simultaneously wanting to legalise crack-cocaine. Clearly this election was not about who would be the best MP. But there was only one sensible candidate standing in Gorton and Denton, and it was Charlotte Cadden - a former Deputy Chief Inspector, a mother, a woman who fought for single sex spaces and dignity for women and girls. While the other parties race to the bottom, Charlotte embodies the new Conservative Party. This result shows Keir Starmer's premiership is finished. He lost authority a long time ago, a mere hostage at the mercy of a divided Labour Party that cannot decide who to replace him with. He has lost the support of his voters, his MPs and the country. He is in office but not in power. If he had any integrity he would go.”

Possibly the most weird statement from a political leaders whose party just got 2% of the vote I've ever seen. And, when people are fed up with the cost of living and billionaire leeches, focusing on "single sex spaces" is just bizarre. She really does get her ideas of life off Twitter, doesn't she?

Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.

Reform: Stop the boats! Deport people!
Starmer: OMG we have to beat the Reform Party! STOP MORE BOATS! DEPORT MORE PEOPLE! ISLAND OF STRANGERS!
Hannah Spencer: Everybody deserves a nice life.
Starmer: Hannah Spencer is more interested in dividing people than uniting them.

“I don’t think the progressives beat us,” he added. “I think the progressives were told how to vote and I think what you saw was a coalition of Islamists and woke progressives that came together to dominate the constituency.”

Or, as some would call it Matt, democracy.

So Starmer thinks a properly funded NHS, lower rent, a focus on cost of living, taxing wealth and an evidenced based way to tackle drug abuse are “extremes of the left”?

FFS. It just shows how far Labour have tracked to the right, and they wonder why they were 3rd…

Labour's ugliest-ever political strategy has utterly failed The Gorton and Denton by-election must be a wake-up call for the party – or it is doomed

The Gorton and Denton by-election must be a wake-up call for the party – or it is doomed inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...

Farage has been dictating the Labour Party’s direction since they got into power. The so called Blue Labour movement have been happy to follow that direction. A large number of Labour voters are clearly disappointed, disgusted and disillusioned with that direction. This is the end result.

Gorton result: Labour tried to become the nasty party. Big mistake Labour’s failure in the Gorton and Denton by-election is down to Morgan McSweeney – but he’s already been sacked. Either the party changes course, or it faces wipe-out at the general election

"Labour comprehensively failed to rally the “stop Reform” vote here. That means it cannot rely on doing so anywhere else, and its MPs will know that. Even worse for McSweeney’s theory of the case, the party didn’t see it coming – its voter tracking systems did not work as they should."

Just watched that extremely combative Sky interview with Zack Polanski and, my word, the billionaires are not happy.

I wonder what their Plan B is if 'worst ghoul we can find to spread racist rhetoric' didn't work this time.

Doubling down seems like the way to go, judging by past history

Epstein files contain explicit but unsubstantiated claim that Trump abused minor Department of Justice did not release FBI memos when it uploaded millions of pages of files beginning in December

I wonder why the rest of the Epstein files haven’t been released…?

interesting that new Green MP Hannah Spencer talks almost entirely about public services, cost of living, NHS, the grind of making ends meet....

and hardly ever mentions ecological/environmental issues....

this is the pivot that scares Labour the most

The bit about the MSM constantly repeating Farage’s lies, is key. It’s been happening since the whole Brexit mess. Farage and his vile, divisive, messaging has been constantly platformed with virtually zero pushback. That needs to end. Reform offer nothing, they’re not builders, they’re wreckers.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Once again Reform are spreading misinformation & smears, and the press & the media seem to repeat them.. its really important that the media.. take responsibility so when Reform or Farage says something they don't just keep repeating it"👏👏👏

I’m not happy with Labour but your last sentence is pure bollocks