Need to add backsliding politicians to the cartoon.

"Our fate should not be dictated by those who are now so divorced from reality that, beyond the proverbial ostrich with their head in the sand, have their heads shoved up so far up their own backsides that they can lick their own tonsils."
#nzpol

Reform chaos in Farage's flagship council 'threatens public safety' Reform UK won a majority on Kent County Council in May but have since suspended nine councillors, imposing limits on Kent’s fire and rescue service Chief Executive ability to spend

Reform chaos in Farage's flagship Kent council 'threatens public safety'

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

#KemkaranMustGo

What is is about the insatiable desire of pathetic old men to sacrifice the lives of young men?

Putin is just the last in a long line.

My granddad, who survived 4 years in WWI, saw pretty much all the friends he'd started out with killed.

His anger at the waste never abated.

#Remembranceday2025

The very specific feeling of seeing a video of people putting up flags in your tiny little town, featuring your kids’ former nursery school teacher screaming ‘fuck off’ at the person filming.

These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child & even worse - these changes were introduced by the government without consultation, warning and no evidence base

What he said Part 3: 💯 🎯

Crochet blankets — Oshana - crafts to empower women- London- UK Crochet blankets handmade by Syrian refugee women

I find the pressure to spend around Christmas quite bleak.
But some things are beautiful & do good!
I'm proud to be the chair of the charity Makani, which supports women in Lebanon who make exquisite blankets, bags & cushions.
Perfect presents for people with taste and heart.
oshana.co.uk/blankets

So far as I can tell (and no one has denied it) 10 Jobs Farage has not helped a single constituent in 15 months as MP for Clacton.
Neither is he part of any town improvement/development/work initiatives.
He uses people for his own selfish advantage then dumps them
Not a quality we want in a PM?

I blame Jeremy Corbyn. And Jackie Weaver. 😶

I loved seeing an "Empty Is the Head That Wears the Crown" sign today at No Kings.

Good luck with that! I’ve lost count of how many times I have asked Farage and his people how many constituents he’s helped in Clacton; how many local improvement / development initiatives he’s active in.
I can only assume the reply would be ‘a big fat zero’
Vote in haste, repent at leisure?

Sunday thought for the day:

You don’t need the threat of eternal punishment to be good. True morality comes from empathy, reason, and doing right even when no one’s watching.

However you choose to spend your Sunday, we hope you have a wonderful time 💗

#NoKings Miami!

Libraries in Reform UK run Staffordshire are being forced to close.

They are refusing to hire much needed staff and refusing over time or paying for staff to be covered. This is resulting in libraries closing because of too few staff, despite there being available staff to cover.

#Farageheit411

Exactly.

Globally, people are on the move - because of war, climate change, poverty etc - and the numbers will only increase.

Pulling up the drawbridge is futile.

A solution requires rich countries to confront the causes.

We must find a way to reduce global inequality.

We Are Utterly Reliant on Immigrant Workers – But Who Cares About Reality? Penny Pepper shares her experiences of recruiting migrant care workers, who can find themselves enduring exploitation and abuse for their efforts

🔴 We Are Utterly Reliant on Immigrant Workers – But Who Cares About Reality?

"Politicians in general – and the right-wing ones in particular – rarely have a clue of the realities of frontline work in the broader care industry" @penpep.bsky.social

Several years of Republican investigations over Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Burisma never once turned up anything as clear as this.

I would guess that not a single Republican makes even the mildest criticism of Trump over it.

To be fair to these Reform activists, I don’t believe they are all liars. Some are just arrogant, others are incompetent and many appear downright naive.
But they do know their flags!

Tories had fourteen years to stand up for Britain but let us down so many times:

• Partygate
• Covid contracts
• Constant lies
• Cronyism
• Division
• NHS on its knees
• Prisons at breaking point
• Scapegoating of minorities
• Failure to invest
• Trips to the bookies
• Decimation of public services

The ECHR is much more than a treaty. It’s a quiet promise - a shield against abuse of power, a lifeline for the vulnerable, a declaration of who we are as a nation. In an age of upheaval and division, we must not let it be torn up for political convenience

One picture tells of mass shootings over the weekend.

Another picture is the US president gushing over how much gold he has decorated the oval office with.

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills.

Norway - 0
UK - 0
France - 0
Spain - 0
Portugal - 0
Denmark - 0
Australia - 0
Iceland - 0
Italy - 0
Finland - 0
Ireland - 0
Germany - 0
Netherlands - 0
Sweden - 0
Japan - 0
Canada - 0
United States - 643k

Differing political definitions of patriotism 3 of the 6 letters (4th quoted in the post) criticising Phillips 😊 Sir, Melanie Phillips expresses a very specific and slightly odd definition of patriotism as "love for the Crown, the armed forces and the common law, and attachment to faith, family and flag" ("Sorry Keir, you don't understand patriotism", , comment, Sep 30). Perhaps that is why she concludes that Nigel Farage offers “the only patriotic force on the horizon". Personally, I regard someone who had a very direct hand in diminishing the United Kingdom's GDP by 4 per cent — as a direct result of our leaving the European Union — as confirming Samuel Johnson's much-quoted remark that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". Acts rather than words still count for some of us. Shaun Leavey Sherborne, Dorset Sir, Over thousands of years these islands have been invaded and occupied by various tribes, who, at any given moment, represented some kind of "Englishness". "In 300 years' time there might well be another kind of "Englishness", doubtless defending itself from the incursion of escapees from another foreign disaster, and claiming a threat to its purity". We were never pure, and attempts such as the present one to somehow freeze a manufactured notion of "Englishness" are doomed to failure. Jerry Stuart London SEI Sir, There is a fundamental flaw in Melanie Phillips's article. She talks of British patriotism as "attachment to faith, family and flag". °. She doesn't indicate which faith she is referring to, but presumably means the Christian faith as the traditional faith in Britain. However, the faith of Jesus of Nazareth shares much more common ground with the values she seems to dismiss - decency, reasonableness and compassion - than it does with the militarism and flag-waving she seems to endorse. I surely cannot be the only person getting worried when the Christian faith is conscripted into the support of strident nationalism. The Rev Paul Dowling

“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country”

Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.

"We can’t go on like this": Derbyshire MP holds meeting with 'ignored' SEND families – demanding action from County Council Bolsover MP Natalie Fleet heard first-hand about the desperate fight families are facing to get their children the special educational needs provision they need.

Are Reform UK just ignoring SEND families rather than formally cutting services - just pretending these kids don't exist?

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin was asked about this on TV, saying families were abusing the system. They are just trying to get the basics.

www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/people/...

“You mentioned your grave concern about the Reform policy to deport people who already live here. Do you think that’s an amoral policy?” @bbclaurak.bsky.social

“Yes I do” - Keir Starmer 👏

“They are our neighbors..they are apart of who we are. It will rip this country apart”

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.”

I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt.

And that’s wrong.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

Eating swans eh?
Not happy about that
Nor am I happy with politicians who actively support those who chase other wild animals to exhaustion, to be torn apart in terror. And then they don’t even eat them.
You’re an inconsistent, contradictory, fracking disgraceful excuse for a human being, Farage.