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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

Germany's AfD is up to 26% in the latest polls from 20% in the election in February. The CDU has repeatedly tried to shift to a tougher stance on immigration - in an effort to stop the rise of the AfD - but every time it does that it gets called racist and worse. So the AfD will keep rising...

Cheers!

We don't have to agree on absolutely everything.

But want lower bills? Think billionaires should pay more tax?

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HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK

I’m old enough to remember when I got scolded on this here website by people who claimed a 3% false positive rate was good actually and well now it turns out to be an order of magnitude bigger! Still good guys?

Farage was at this one.

Electricity bills increased 163 per cent since 2008 as energy price cap rises - research - Insider Media New analysis of UK energy costs showed that the average annual household electricity bill increased by 163 per cent between 2008 and 2024, reflecting a steep rise in household energy costs…

UK electricity bills up 163% since 2008. Wages haven't.

6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt

Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%.

Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty.

No govt checks profiteering.

When Green party critics call our thoroughly researched policies that are often worked through for years "simplistic" "undeliverable" etc, they are never specific about which policies or why.

That's because it would reveal that what they really mean is "our donors don't like them"

They could tap into the carbon capture budget, it would surely be a better use of the money and would actually work.

Last reservoir built in 1991. What a country.

England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades

All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.

Squirrel carved out of orange cheese

My sister sent me this picture of a squirrel carved out of cheese at a new Giant Eagle in Pittsburgh 😄🏆 #sqrlpix

#WeekendSingles starring Anna Domino, Heaven 17, Sindecut, The Cure, The Out, Mikey Dread, Lloyd Cole, Happy Mondays, The Church, Cabaret Voltaire, Guns For Hire, and Virginia Astley

I'm creating a government petition. All public sector employees including the BBC are banned from mentioning migration or boats for a whole year. You'd think there was cruise ship volumes of people arriving every day, the amount of moaning they do about it.

It still seems like tinkering around the edges to me. Still, nice to finally have a definition for "working people". Those earning less than 50k. Over 50k and you're in the idle rich bracket I'm afraid.

This is not the country we should be.

We're taking on Reform.

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Something that is never factored into the published cost of nuclear energy, a near century long clean up. We pay for this. Current bill, £120 billion and climbing. Sizewell C will be just more of the same. Expensive power and a toxic legacy for thousands of years.

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Make Keir Starmer step up on climate The government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action

The Government needs to get serious about climate change. And it hasn't so we're suing. But this is the longest and most expensive legal letter Good Law Project has ever sent - and it involves a huge team of specialist lawyers. And we really could use your help. goodlaw.social/4cqi

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

And it comes back to my point from the other day. If Labour want to benefit from bloc-based voting, they do actually have to signal they are in one of the blocs.

A reminder of what happened last time a UK govt tried to reduce bills by "cutting the green crap"

Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015

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The Z factor: Why New York Zohran and Green Zack need to be taken seriously Progressive Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayoral election is not just ‘Trump’s worst nightmare’, it’s a wake-up call for Labour and Reform – they need to watch out for Zack Polanski and hi...

The Z Factor! 💚🙌🏼

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Dan is right. This is extremely good from @geoffmulgan.bsky.social

How Zack Polanksi And Zohran Mamdani Transformed What It Means To Be A Left-Wing Politician Newly elected leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanksi, has taken British politics by storm. The self-proclaimed ‘eco-populist’ has resurrected the Green Party’s reputation amongst voters and driven t...

"What binds Polanski and Mamdani is not only their left-wing credentials, but their rejection of political cynicism."

Let's go! 🎉

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COMMENT The joke's over: Farage plays it straight in bid to be PM Nick Robinson Extract: I t is the surest sign - although blink, and you just might have missed it. The man who can hardly start a sentence without adding a gag, or a grin, or a chortle, gave a speech about his approach to the economy in which he barely produced any. Nigel is trying to get serious. What that tells me is that Mr Farage really does want power: He senses it is within his grasp. He smells it and, most importantly of all, he wants it. Badly. The leader of Reform UK declared that "above all we will be responsible and realistic". In so doing he seemed to admit that the policies he ran on at the last election were something of a joke. No one remotely serious believed they remotely serious because, as the Institute for Fiscal Studies said, the sums in Reform UK's manifesto did "not add up". Back then - scarcely more than a year ago - Farage said you could have pretty much everything you wanted from a government whilst actually paying less for it - much less. Taxes would be cut, and cut big time. It was going to be happy hour all day long. Every day. All year: Yet now what he wants us to hear is very different. Now the man who really does want to be our next prime minister is saying, in eftect: I'm awfully sorry, but we can't cut your taxes until we get our nationa! debt back under control. Trust me, he's saying, I can be the straight man as well as the funny guy. . . . . Now he does have to show us all that he knows how to turn his words into reality, just as his lieutenants who are running councils up and down the land are discovering. We know Farage really does want to be our next prime minister. It is time we all took that prospect seriously, and stopped treating him as a come turn or a pantomime villain in the national soap opera. Serious times deserve serious answers. Let's see if Farage can provide them.

Once again, this isn’t journalism. It’s stroking the ego of a politician who’s done great national harm.
WhyTF should we take Farage seriously? Just because he wants power? Even more reason for ruthless scrutiny.
His track record is racist and ruinous. Any serious journalist would say so.
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Fuck. Me. Backwards.

The USA is a rogue state.

UK energy companies made £30bn profit.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn

£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.

Direct cause of inflation and poverty.

128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.

These countries are leading the way to 100% renewable electricity Explore the countries making strides toward 100% renewable electricity with innovative solutions and sustainable energy systems.

These countries are leading the way to 100% renewable electricity

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So a weird thing happened to me in Aldi that I cdn't quite place until I was listening to Gabby Bertin talking about choking in porn on the radio this am. (NB: this is 100% not a sex thing). Having the usual polite chitchat with the cashier who is tired from working extra shifts to make £ for xmas..

The same day as the attack, the FBI agents who signed the paperwork for the Mar-a-Lago search warrant were evacuated temporarily from their homes for their own safety. Documents with their names had begun to circulate online. The agents' identities had been redacted from filings on the court's website, but a copy of the original paperwork was left at Mar-a-Lago. FBI officials surmised that Trump's team had leaked their names, endangering the agents and their families.

The whole thing is mind-blowing, but this part at the end…