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Konstantin Kisin straight up lying on #bbcqt

Douglas Alexander: “When Fraser Nelson put it to you that Rishi Sunak is absolutely english… you said “he’s a brown Hindu, how is he english?”

Kisin: “No, that’s not what I said...”

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

In Nazi Germany they used to throw peaceful protestors on the ground, pepper spray them and then shoot them 9 times.

Oh sorry, I meant the USA.

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.

wapo.st/49Zqv1L

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

Defection of Tory MP Andrew Rosindell to Reform leaves Kemi Badenoch in an uncomfortable position The MP for Romford announced he had decided to resign from his position as a shadow foreign office minister, days after

A reminder that Rosindell claimed more than £125,000 in second home expenses for a flat in London, while designating his childhood home 17 miles away - where his mother lived - as his main address.

https://news.sky.com/story/conservative-mp-andrew-rosindell-defects-to-reform-uk-13496013

YouTube video by Marsh Family "Exodus" - Marsh Family parody of "One of Us" by ABBA - about failed Tories defecting to Reform UK

"One of Us" was ABBA's final parting single - so we've adapted it into a 🎶 parody we're calling "Exodus" to reflect on the urinary trickle of Tory departures to Reform UK, most notably two driplets this week from the very bottom of the last government's barrel.

youtu.be/GRQrQr198to

Every defector Farage unveils, swears up-and-down that they made no deal.

Farage cocked up today and pulled back that curtain. A huge unforced error.

Incredibly, when - rightly - pressed about it, he pretended, to journalists' faces, that he had never said what he said TO THEM an hour earlier.

Robert Jenrick Accepted £25,000 Donation from Firm Controlled by Sanctioned Oligarch The Conservative leadership candidate received the money from a company controlled by billionaire Sir Len Blavatnik - who has been sanctioned by the Ukrainian government

A reminder that when Robert Jenrick was running for Conservative party leader he accepted £25,000 from a firm controlled by a sanctioned Oligarch.

He should fit in well

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I’m delighted to welcome Robert Jenrick to Reform UK - we need more people like him with strongly held principles. The sort of principle that led him to overrule a planning decision to save a billionaire pornographer £45m in exchange for a £12,000 donation.

YouTube video by Femi - F Politics! Farage welcomes Robert Jenrick to Reform UK - Conservatives 2.0

Nigel Farage has welcomed TWO known fraudsters into Reform UK in less than a week!

Robert Jenrick ADMITTED to unlawfully helping a Tory donor avoid paying £45M to a council.

Nadhim Zahawi had to pay £5M to HMRC for not paying his taxes!

IT'S A GANG!

Jenrick "put more people in hotels than even this Labour government!"

Nigel says ... as he totally destroys the "fraud" Robert Jenrick MP....

Who er just defected to Reform

Ishould begin with an apology. Last month, I described Robert Jenrick as “the most shameless man in parliament”. His office complained at the time, but I was stubborn and refused to back down. Well, it’s never too late to say you were wrong. Robert Jenrick is not simply the most shameless man in parliament. He is the most shameless man in Britain, the most shameless man on Earth. Quite possibly the most shameless man in history. It is not simply that Jenrick has no shame. He is like a black hole for shame, sucking in the embarrassment of people around him. Which will be quite handy in his new party, Reform. Nothing became Jenrick’s time in the Conservative Party so much as the leaving of it. For years he had eased his way up the greasy pole, switching positions when necessary, a heating-seeking missile for whichever pose could help him advance, poster boy for the importance of self-belief over ability or integrity. And finally he was undone because he forgot to pick something up off a

Robert Jenrick: an apology. thecritic.co.uk/fran...

“But the enjoyable thing about #Jenrick has always been that he was totally transparent. That enjoyment is only increased by his apparent conviction that his manoeuvrings are completely invisible to the rest of us..Like so many MPs, he thinks he’s Francis Urquhart, when in fact he’s Baldrick.” 👏🏻👏🏻

Yesterday's Scottish Budget had a flagship policy: an increase in income tax thresholds. It's being widely reported as a cut in income tax for low earners.

That isn't really correct.

Four quick thoughts on a very peculiar tax cut.

BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.

Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen,

"Now we are faced with a geopolitical crisis, and if we have to choose between the USA and Denmark here and now, we will choose Denmark"

"We choose NATO"

"We choose the Kingdom of Denmark"

"We choose the EU"

What you didn’t hear today is that the SNP appear to be planning deep cuts to education over the next three years if they are re-elected in May.

Remember they were going to close the attainment gap, complete a schools recovery from COVID and give kids free bikes and iPads…

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen:

"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."

"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

In which Zahawi blames the problems of the country on everyone except himself. https://thecritic.co.uk/zahawi-can-anybody-take-this-seriously/

In an amazing coup, Reform have a star defector, the self-described most popular politician in Britain! It's... hang on, have I got this right... Nadhim Zahawi?

thecritic.co.uk/zaha...

Extract: Farage's one-man band adds a disgraced banjo Tom Peck Political Sketch the sketch writers keep saying we're a one-man band," " said Nigel Farage, 48 hours after some idiot sketch writer in The Times had called Reform UK a one-man band. The sketch writers clearly needed to be taught a lesson but what happened next was surely overkill, when out on to the stage and back into the political big time strode Nadhim Zahawi. How would we describe Reform UK now? What part of the one-man band is the party's newest defector? Is there even such a thing as a discredited mouth organ? A disgraced banjo? There was no time to think about that. First there was a pre-roll video of Zahawi, a stirring montage biography of the kind you used to see on the X Factor judges' houses episode, immediately before a painter and decorator from Croydon murders a Michael Buble cover next to Simon Cowell's swimming pool. "l've gone from councillor to chancellor of the exchequer," Zahawi said, looking beyond the camera and into the middle distance, where a brighter future may theoretically lie. Zahawi is extremely proud of his time as chancellor of the exchequer, which lasted exactly two months and was mainly spent paying his own tax bills to HMRC. "Westminster watchers", , as Zahawi called us, may recall the very first thing he did as chancellor, which was to get hold of a piece of HM Treasury notepaper and use it to write a letter to Boris Johnson, who had appointed him fully 48 hours before, to tell him to resign. "Britain is drinking in the last chance saloon," said Zahawi, over soft string music, "and it really does need Nigel Farage as prime minister."

In the questions at the end, someone had the temerity to bring up a social media post, written by Zahawi in 2015, in which he had said of his new best mate: "I would be frightened to live in a country run by you." Zahawi let out a little smile. "If I thought this man next to me had an issue, in any way, with people from my background, I wouldn't be sitting next to him," he said, and then he reached over and placed a loving hand on Nigel's elbow. Smiles can say a lot. This one specifically seemed to be saying, "Come on, guys, if you actually believe a word I say, we're not going to get very far, are we?" Which was just as well, because no one does. As the press conference wore on, Farage did not seem his usual ebullient self. Smiles were forced. Brows were creased. Farage is as canny as they come. It seems unlikely not to have occurred to him that the reason he is so popular, the one reason that towers above all others, is that so many people have had enough not just of people like Zahawi, but in this case, people who literally are Zahawi. Zahawi seemed to think people would be "shocked" to see him defecting to Reform. People were shocked, but not quite for the reasons he thinks. That Zahawi decided to ask Farage out is no surprise at all. What is more surprising is that Farage said yes. The Tory stampede to Reform is now very much in full swing. At some point, Farage will surely have to say no to someone. He must have a limit. It's a remarkable thing to say, but at the moment Farage can't seem to find the bar.

“It seems unlikely not to have occurred to [Farage] that the reason he is so popular… is that so many people have had enough not just of people like Zahawi, but in this case, people who literally are Zahawi”

Here’s to hoping their piss-taking opportunism does for them both.

(Times sketch)

Left: Nigel Farage's Reform UK announcing Nadhim Zahawi has joined them

Right: Conservatives posting tweets of Nadhim Zahawi say he would be die a Conservative, and that he would be frightened to live in a country run by Nigel Farage

UK politics is imploding

Left: Karoline Leavitt says that Renee Nicole Good was a lunatic

Right: Renee Nicole Good after the first ICE car drove past, greeting the second ICE officer who stepped out of his car towards her, "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you"

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

ReTories are telling voters, really quite directly, that this is now a rebranding exercise, a quick change of costume.

Zahawi on why Badenoch won't be the next PM: "She's got the baggage of a defunct brand; a brand that the nation has decided it can no longer trust." ~AA

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Translation: "I would like a job please"

"More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise."

A rebranding exercise of the most established party masquerading as anti-establishment that shows total contempt for voters. ~AA

Quite the journey for new Reform UK man Nadhim Zahawi