Simon Edmonds

If only Trump would divert his air and sea power to getting Putin and Russia out of Ukraine. He could easily do so.

Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up Adults and accompanied children claiming asylum will only receive refugee status for 30 months under the changes.

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are.
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15 US military aircraft have left the Rota and Morón air bases after Spain refused to allow them to be used for operations related to Iran, Reuters reports.

Nigel Farage's Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party's election defeats on "cheating" by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found

Every time Nigel Farage's parties have lost an election he has blamed it on "cheating" by ethnic minorities and every time he receives huge amounts of media attention for doing so.

The only problem? No evidence of cheating is ever found
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Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

It’s highly & horribly likely that the Leader of the Opposition doesn’t or can’t understand this.

Why the legislation on party finance and governance is too little and way too late. Soon we will have super PAC language in our politics.

Lucky Germans, looks great to me!

Keir Starmer criticised over stance on US-Israel strikes on Iran UK prime minister has adopted a much more ambivalent approach than other western allies

Lord Peter Ricketts, former head of the Foreign Office:

“If you’re going to attack a country you have to show it is in self-defence and that there is some kind of imminent threat. You can’t make that case here…An indifference to international law is dangerous.”

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"Dear Diary,
After getting a sound thrashing in the by-election, I decided to blame the loss on Muslim women not being allowed to vote for the racists who have spent the last few years demonising them."

Nigel Farage 'trying to rig' election rules in Trumpian 'sore loser' move Nigel Farage is accused of trying to 'rig the rules' in elections with Trumpian plans to restrict who can vote and ban postal votes after defeat at the Gorton and Denton by-election

Nigel Farage accused of 'trying to rig' election rules in Trumpian 'sore loser' move.

Who would have guessed

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Well this is definitely compelling viewing, love a bit of Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Noir detective.
Sky Atlantic in the UK

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

The fate of the Iranian people has never been of great concern to American administrations, and this one is no exception

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

He has no original policy thinking at all, it’s becoming clearer and it’s incumbent on our media to start challenging him rather than platforming him.

Trump has no realistic plan for Iran’s future The US president has not understood the lessons of past wars for regime change in Iraq and Afghanistan

Very good article from @gideonrachman.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

Personally I doubt Trump has realistic plans for anything if his first year is anything to judge.

www.ft.com/content/4371... Trump has no realistic plan for Iran’s future

Just caught a Priti Patel interview on Sky News and all she seemed able to do is criticise the Govt without any real basis, evidence or knowledge. How low the Tories are. Surely a candidate for Reform Ltd.

Putin says the killing of Khamenei is 'cynical' murder Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family was "cynical" murder that violated all the norms of human mo...

Trump won’t be happy at his friend Putin’s stance here, Putin also says this breaches international law which is off the scale ironic from a wanted war criminal !

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Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat

You know that your policy is completely wrong if Lord Dubs speaks out against it.
There is an another almighty U-turn coming and Mahmood should get ahead of it quickly.?

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“Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton”
Sadiq Khan

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Friedhof's being the very best tended gardens I have ever seen, compared to UK graveyards.
And obviously not far to travel 🧳 when the time comes is another positive feature.

#boardofpeace #trump #rubio #iran #israel #usa #middleeast #nuclear

The "Board Of Peace" at work. 😎

©️Led by Donkeys

Still, it wasn't all bad news for Matt. At least he no longer had to pretend he was looking forward to settling permanently in the constituency. Just imagine the kind of people he might have had as neighbours. Either a load of Islamists who wanted to blow up the town, or progressives handing out smack on street corners on a first come, first served basis. Far better to go back to the sanctuary of the south of England. Far more civilised. And yes, he might find himself with time on his hands until his GB News work picked up again. But there were still plenty of Andrew Tate videos for him to catch up on.

Made me laugh out loud

Keir Starmer’s response to the Gorton and Denton debacle should be a government that truly, finally, reflects him | Tom Baldwin In the past he has been urged to follow strategies that don’t really match his core beliefs. That’s changing, as it must, because he knows the clock is ticking, says the prime minister’s biographer, T...

Meet the new Keir, same as the old Keir www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just imagine what all the Tech Bros could do with the money they are never ever going to spend in annone's lifetime.
But then we would have places called Musk or Zuckerberg or Bezos absolutely everywhere.
Trump of course puts his name up without any donation cos he can.

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan

There are far better leaders than Starmer, unfortunately not in Parliament.

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

"Trying to compete with Reform not only feels inauthentic... but a betrayal of what Labour is supposed to represent. We must address the concerns and fears of voters, not play on them."

Damning stuff from Sadiq Khan

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Inevitable this would happen, surprised it's only 80 MPs

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs

Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat

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

Daffodils on St David's Day

Daffodils in the garden St David's Day

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus
Happy St David's Day 🌼