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‘Suck it up’: leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council Exclusive: Footage reveals Kent leader berating councillors amid rows over budgets and bullying claims

😂😂 What a shambles.

Bitter divisions in Reform UK’s flagship county council have been laid bare in a leaked video of a chaotic internal meeting where members were told to “fucking suck it up” if they did not agree with decisions.

Tories give ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe seat on top Commons committee The Tories say Rupert Lowe - who is set to join the public accounts committee - shares their "values on cutting waste".

Two sides of one coin…
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Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn

Caerphilly apparently. I honestly, honestly despise this stuff. They have nothing to offer, nothing to say, nothing to hope for, nothing to aspire to, no solutions, nothing. Just hate and lies.

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense".

Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past

It’s moronic.

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

I'm sure we'll now get 6 months of pearl clutching roundtables about how the voters are sacrosanct angels above any criticism the way we did after Hillary Clinton accurately diagnosed a certain basket of deplorables.

Nothing should surprise us, but Putin’s ability to manipulate Trump remains one of the great disasters of the modern age.

EU entry-exit questions dropped for Eurostar passengers over fears of long delays Initial passengers through EES channels at London St Pancras have taken only 50 seconds through digital border check

Brexit only ever "works" when it is not fully done.

EU entry-exit questions dropped for Eurostar passengers over fears of long delays | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

“Kids”

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid" We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

Nothing new, just the vice president of the United States making excuses for Nazis.

Of all the stupid things they’ve said, this is the stupidest. And the most dangerous.

We are living in one of the stupidest times in history.

Reform’s Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife 'Tice and Oakeshott stayed at the Chernukhins’ “turreted villa” with “a stunning view of the Mediterranean” and had supper with them at a Michelin-starred restaurant'

"Another Reform MP has been accused of being in breach of Parliamentary rules, after its deputy leader Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality he received from Lubov Chernukhin – wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister"
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It's Roger Moore's birthday...
I love this quote.
It's like Mr Benn - Hunter.
Shoot animals with a camera.
Never a gun.

Or maybe the much simpler explanation is that ordinary working people who aren't CEOs have realised that current AI is a busted flush ...

Labour's Rachel Reeves thinks we're all stupid

After admitting that Brexit is costing us 4% of GDP

She suggested the UK-EU reset is mitigating that

It's not

0.13% GDP gain from UK–India deal
0.05% GDP gain from UK–US deal
0.3% GDP gain from UK–EU reset

Left: Boris Johnson telling lies about freedom of movement saying the UK had no control of our borders

Right: Aside from being able to remove any criminals coming from the EU, for a longer term stay, EU citizens had to meet certain criteria, if they didn't they could be removed

Labour are about to upend a bucket of petrol onto the Reform immigration binfire.

The assertion that we've "lost control of Britain's borders" is an absolute godsend for Reform, because that's what they have been bleating about all along.

Grim, grim, grim.

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What is ridiculous is to conclude correctly that Brexit is the source of economic pain and then do nothing to reverse it.

Well, it's certainly *artificial* intelligence.

Translation: British coach drivers routinely overstay unlawfully in Schengen.

Boris Johnson, "I tried to get the scientists to say that lockdown was a bad idea"

*they all laugh*

There were 26,000 covid deaths because Boris Johnson ignored scientists and delayed the first lockdown by a week

Extraordinary nonsense. The Trump administration's *stated aim* is to force production onshore.

Liz Truss got one thing right.

(Every single trade deal we have signed on our own has a sting in the tail.)

We go live to the Labour party and Brexit...

(Their idea to blame forthcoming tax rises on Farage and Brexit is bonkers while they simultaneously continue to maintain their Brexit red lines and to claim that they can Make Brexit Work.)