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It’s really something. The greatest country in the history of the world twice elected the most stupid, most ignorant, biggest idiot in the history of the world.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @deadder.bsky.social )

@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼

Challenged on whether he questioned Gill over the statements, Farage said: "I didn't know anything about it; all I knew was that he'd been to Ukraine. I told him not to go, he defied me and went, I was completely unaware of any statements that he made." However, multiple sources who worked with Farage and Gill in Brussels and Strasbourg said the two men had been close. (Photo of Farage and, behind him, Gill after a historic vote for the Brexit agreement at a session of the European parliament on 29 January 2020. Photograph: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images) Gill was described variously as Farage's "enforcer" and "right-hand man" by some who recalled they had adjoining offices. One former Ukip MEP from that time told the Guardian: "Gill was in the thick of organising. He was the right-hand version of Farage. His office was right beside Farage's."

Can we please not have Farage wriggle out of this one. His denial is not where this should end. He’s up to his grubby neck in dodgy shite. Beyond time our media stopped handing him free passes and started to properly scrutinise him.

I didn't see this until this morning 😂🔥🫳
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What a f'ing embarrassment this regime is.
Mike Waltz United States Ambassador to the United Nations
cut off in middle of UN speech: ‘This is the UN General Assembly, it is not a Signal chat’

Farage: epic grifter

Kwasi Kwarteng Wealth taxes will make the UK poorer Labour's logic appears sensible but it defies economic reality

Sorry @theipaper.com but WHY is this guy talking to us about what will make the UK poorer? He was happy to grenade our economy twice…
Brexit and then his batshit budget with Truss.
He should be in political oblivion for the mess he made and the price we all have to pay for his party’s failures.

SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.

And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

Don't be fooled - Farage doesn't actually want to stop the boats Flanked by the Emmanuel Macron, President of France, Sir Keir Starmer boasted that the Government was taking action while others were "taking pictures". No prizes for he was referring to. That very day, Nigel Farage was out on the briny with a GB News film crew, fishing for mackerel while observing French coastguards shepherding the handover of 78 migrants from their "rib" inflatable to the safety of Dover-bound UK Border Force. "We are witnessing a crime yet everyone seems happy," Farage almost chortled. Yet the leader of Reform UK seemed happiest of all. Far from stopping the boats, Farage needs them to keep coming if he is to achieve his ambition of becoming the next British Prime Minister. Waterborne migrants have been his most spectacular political recruiting sergeants ever since he began taking videos off the south coast back in May 2020. In their various manifestations - Ukip, Brexit, Reform UK - the parties Farage leads are always been negative, destructively focussed. They aim to exploit widespread dissatisfaction with the state of the world. The solutions they offer are sketchy and impractical. For once the Prime Minister slotted one past Farage at Prime Minister's Questions this week: "He has no interest in fixing the problem because he wants to milk it and exploit it. That's the truth about him and his party." Farage's strategy is to blame anyone he can….. Reform UK's interests are best served by denouncing and stuffing up any productive collaboration with allies in Europe or more broadly. Reform UK has yet to produce its definitive policy on immigration. This side of a general election Farage knows that Reform UK's best option is to sabotage the Government's gradualist, co-operative efforts to turn the tables, helping to ensure that the boats keep coming. (Abridged because of word limit)

This is spot on.
Farage doesn’t want to stop the boats… yet…
They’re his daily ‘Breaking Point’ poster made flesh… His political strength relies on the hatred, prejudice and disinformation he can whip up on beach watch.
Humane solutions scare the hell out of him.
@adamboulton.bsky.social
The iPaper

Has Lord Hannan forgotten his 2016 vision of post-Brexit Britain? 24 June 2025 was to be Britain’s Independence Day, celebrating the “reinvigoration of our economy, our democracy and our liberty”

“The date that Daniel Hannan chose for his now infamous Newsnight video and Reaction Life article, published two days before voters went to the polls in the 2016 referendum, has finally arrived. Yes, it’s 24 June 2025”

Anyone else remember this exercise in purest Brexit fantasy? 🌈🦄

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YouTube video by European Movement UK David Steel on the 50th Anniversary of the 1975 Referendum on Europe

50 years ago today, Britain voted to stay in the Common Market. Lord Steel reflects on the 1975 referendum, its legacy, and why closer ties with Europe still matter today. Watch his story now.

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DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas?

LUTNICK: Generally 10%

DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%

LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff

DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

It's a good thing President Obama had Osama Bin Laden killed before Trump could become best friends with him.

Billy Connolly and Robin Williams at the finish of the hill race at Lonach Highland Games in Strathdon. (2000) Pic: Jeff J Mitchell.

IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.”

*Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall* 👏🏽

Archway of light and shade. The sun was rising almost directly behind me casting a shadow of the hill on the land below. Photo taken this morning in St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK:

“.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration."

@variety.com
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Nigel Farage’s economic plans are a disaster Three choices: fiscal implosion, deep austerity or a hasty U-turn

The Economist estimates that the annual costs of Reform UK’s manifesto would be around £200bn and savings around £100bn. The gap would amount to a colossal fiscal shock, blowing up the deficit and straining the gilt market to its limit

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Got round to reading Farage two page “manifesto” in yesterday’s Mail. Populist slogans/unfunded promises strung together in a piece designed to portray 🇬🇧 as third world. But how about this for nerve from Mr Brexit? “The casual lies and careless attitudes of our political class have let people down”.

Rock on my sister.

The man Britain cannot ignore Nigel Farage’s return means a new, more volatile era in British politics

“With Brexit, Farage helped embed the poor growth and state dysfunction that are even now providing fuel for his return.Britain has already spent one decade struggling to get by in the world Farage created. It can ill afford a second”

Ffs. How much failure can we take?
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Walz: An hour by hour day by day basis, the President has chosen, chosen to throw our economy into turmoil.

We are talking about a guy that slapped a 10% tariff on an island populated only by penguins. It would be funny as hell if it wasn't true and stupid.

Walz: "This is how government is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be one old man in the Oval Office sending out middle of the night tweets that shock markets into free fall. It's not supposed to be a bunch of 20 somethings unelected and firing everyone. It's not supposed to be chaos."

Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!

Trump believes he has beaten democracy and is unstoppable.

This Is What The Agreement States And
We Should Honor It!