Cllr Richard Wilson🔶

Trump’s attack on Iran has me seriously questioning the legitimacy and value of the FIFA Peace Prize

Lib Dems set out plans to stop SEND services being 'cash cows' Council spending on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities has soared in recent years.

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This sums up a lot of today's podcasts.

YouTube video by sargant The Day Today - Crisis Correspondent Spartacus Mills

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Am told Eluned Morgan, First Minister of Wales, is going to follow Anas Sarwar in calling for the PM to stand down;

Also that there will be "Scottish MP ministerial resignations" afterwards

Ministers saying it's the end game...

Work and Pensions Secretary, Pat McFadden has claimed there would be “no point” in removing Morgan McSweeney “if the Prime Minister stays”.

“In fact, I think if the Prime Minister stays there, I don’t think that would make any difference at all,” he said.

BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal

That horrible feeling when you get caught trying to pull a fast one.

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No fireworks. No parties. No flags. No celebrations.

No comments from the Brexit leaders. No "wasn't that a great idea."

Six years after we left the EU - everyone knows it was a disaster.

But....

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...

Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit

Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.

If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing

imagine being the father or mother or son or daughter or sibling of one of those brave British troops who died in Afghanistan, and having to listen to this crass ignorance

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

Great speech by a great leader.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Reform: The Seven Dwarfs if all of them were Dopey

Despite him pulling a sickie today?

“Trump announces plan to hit UK, Denmark and other European countries with extra tariffs over Greenland”.

Starmer’s US policy lies in tatters. Trump is now punishing the UK and NATO allies just for doing the right thing.

Time for the PM to stand firm against the bully in the White House, and work with European and Commonwealth allies to make him back down from this reckless plan.

interesting to see if Jenrick still believes this

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

there’s always a tweet

HMICFRS found that Surrey Police had a severe vetting backlog too with thousands of employees working with the wrong vetting. Uplift caused a panic to recruit and huge churn of officers and staff due to potential £ penalties.

Stranger Things The 1980s Nostalgia of Trump's Foreign Policy is probably going to end up, like Stranger Things, as a horror show.

Trump is probably focused on the money he wrongly thinks he'll make from Venezuelan oil. But he's not a details guy and nobody has thought through the details. Essentially, the US has taken over Venezuela by mistake. Stranger things have happened, but not many.
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Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela.

Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.

Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.