Tim the Raver

Half way through this. Supertanskii is close to the mark and pulling no punches as usual.

This was my first practical response to this nonsense, once I’d picked myself up in disgust at the pandering to the right. Effectively these people will be in limbo. It’s the worst of all worlds and not a place I thought my country would ever go to.

Such performative cruelty and bombastic misrepresentation of their own proposals are just the kind of politics I dared to hope we’d left behind at the last election. How wrong I was. Thanks for all your work exposing and dissecting this nonsense, Sunder.

Home Office claims changes proposed on Monday are "the most significant shift in the treatment of refugees since the second world war"

These changes are unlikely to significantly shift flows or deliver control.

The language used is questionable in principle - and v likely to be untrue in practice

Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit The US president confirmed he intends to sue the broadcaster for at least $1bn over the Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.

He can’t sue in the UK, it’s out of time and the programme wasn‘t broadcast in the US.
Also, it’s impossible to damage the reputation of a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual abuser who is heavily implicated in the Epstein files.
He’s trying to run a protection racket.
Bring it on!

YouTube video by Refugee Council Refugees from 7 decades gather to commemorate 70 years of refugee in protection in the UK

"The era of permanent protection is over"

Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...

A response to Matt Goodwin on small boat refugees (with record of crime in Germany) committing crime (rape) in the UK.

I have the distinct impression that the approaching release of the Epstein files means that a US attack on Venezuela is now highly likely. Note US military moving into preplanned positions. It‘s called deflection.

I was at the Riverside taproom on Wednesday. Big operation there now. Still making some great beers.

Here's the latest data on what Brexit has done to the UK economy ...
GDP down 6% – 8%
INVESTMENT down 12% – 18%
PRODUCTIVITY down 3% – 4%

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: ‘Normalizing our relations with Mexico is a priority’ The leader of Spain’s leftist governing coalition is facing political and legal turmoil, but remains confident that ‘the truth’ will prevail and says he wants to run for re-election in 2027

An excellent interview with the Spanish prime minister who insists on & defends progressive policies, & is rewarded with significant economic success.

Worth a read.
A few quotes below. 🧵

english.elpais.com/spain/2025-1...

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. An act of pure economic sabotage and vandalism.

South Wales Argus: Brexit is an 'act of pure economic sabotage and vandalism'
www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/2562303...

English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care

English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books.

Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.

Social vandalism.

Sitting round the table with candles after school, looking at the time of the power cuts in the Hull Daily Mail. Perhaps Reform will bring back the Black and White Minstrels and Love Thy Neighbour to cheer us all up.

This.

Reform will undoubtedly challenge that position Nige.

This...

I have a lot of time for this.

Well @labouruk.bsky.social ?
When will you speak up for the BBC?
When it’s too late?
When will Keir Starmer say something?
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk has spoken up.
Please will other party leaders too 🙏🏼
@snp.org @plaidcymru.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk

👇🏿🎯👇🏿 T H I S 👇🏿🎯👇🏿

@darrenpjones.bsky.social

There's a certain schizophrenia in Trump's denials about his insurrection. The Nazis were proud of their attempted Munich coup. But Trump can't admit he tried to cling onto power illegally, because that would mean he'd have to admit he lost. And his warped psychology can't do that.

Where on earth did the orange facist get his ideas for this garish decor?

Anyway, here's a picture of Vladimir Putins house.

I see that alleged tax evader Bamford has given £200K to Reform. Does that make them guilty of handling stolen goods?

Shameful Britain.

Revealed: Thousands of elderly people evicted from care homes every year Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people have received eviction notices from their care homes in the last year, the Big Issue has found.

7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.

Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"

Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.

Journalist Aaron Rupar publishes part of an Oval Office press conference yesterday, during which Trump says: "Nobody knows what magnets are." David Ho @davidho.bsky.social retweeted it, saying: "I took an entire semester of physics in college called Electricity and Magnetism."

You gotta laugh.

Serial Felon Freed by Trump Back Behind Bars Jonathan Braun, who was granted a pardon by Trump in 2021 thanks to a family connection to Jared Kushner, is headed back to prison.

Trump pardoned a criminal connected to his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

The drug trafficker and loan shark had been found guilty of a litany of crimes, including physical and sexual assault. He's now back in jail.

Farage is linked to criminality.
www.thedailybeast.com/serial-felon...

Please don't upset Farage by reminding people of his grovelling "Happy Birthday Mr. President" tweet.

I might be wrong, but this stinks of Pharage involvement.

Considering he hates the BBC so much, he likes being on it. He’s a duplicitous bad actor who really doesn’t represent the best interests of anyone but himself and his sponsors.