Benign Dictator

Starmer,if you want a centre-left majority, PR is the way forward. The UK popular vote is consistently left of centre: first past the post lets the tories in. Had Blair been braver…Imagine this country without the awful Tory policy of austerity, let alone the flawed referendum and what followed.

Two choices for Starmer:

1. Condemn Trump’s unlawful military action
2. Resign

🔥 Might be a good time to drive this over 100,000.

Link —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Starmer, person up FFS. Trump is breaking international law, with Israeli support. This is unacceptable. Condemn it now.

We're involved.
Whether we want to be or not, we're involved.
#51stState
#AirstripOne

We need to get rid of this blatant bias in the right-wing press. Bad actors with ill intent towards their readership , apart from the super- rich.

Good grief! She’s still alive and causing trouble? I think of her as more Slitheen than human, perhaps that accounts for it 🤷‍♀️

Personalised number plates. FFS. Middle managers and narcissists. Banned. Verboten. Get rid forthwith.

Benign as I am, the headline I want to read tomorrow morning is “”Andrew charged…”

Andrew formerly known as Prince to be charged forthwith!
(I am infinitely more benign than the RF.)

Make it happen, people!

Done! Make it happen.

Complicated, since I’m a dictator,but FFS, Starmer, you have a huge majority. Push through PR and rejoin the EU (if they’ll have us) or at least the customs union. Stop blathering about the Greens and get on with it.

Fireworks. Bad for wildlife, bad for the environment, bad for lungs. Time to get rid of them.

Ignore the smears: I was never a close friend of Peter Mandelson. And I fully understand the lessons we must learn | Wes Streeting I knew him but not well, and worry now that he thrived in our political culture. There was a failure of moral seriousness, says health secretary Wes Streeting

Wes isn’t convincing me in this article. He hasn’t got the best interests of the NHS at heart. I’m not sure this is sincere.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Independent. Kate Nash tells MPs post-Brexit rules have made touring financially unviable. 3 February.

The musician told MPs she lost £26,000 on her last European tour, and that paperwork and red tape are making touring there increasingly unviable. This is the cost of Brexit - talented musicians are being priced off the world stage, and the UK risks shrinking its global reputation in music.

Mental health meltdown

Julia HB has some er... fairly distinguished company there

Does this apply to killing protesters in the USA as well?

Those motorbikes without plates are banned. Anyone discovered driving one is banned from driving any vehicle. Antisocial behaviour leads to a driving ban. Get the bus, big boy

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

I have loved and cooked this many times over the years! My FiL gave me How to Eat, when we were all still young. He absolutely loved this cake and we bonded over it x

More than 75% of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters think PM should open talks on joining EU customs union – UK politics live YouGov poll for the Times suggests even 40% of Conservative voters support such a move

And the other 25% 🙋🏻 think we should just rejoin the EU!
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...

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Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism?

Odd that.

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Farage really on the ropes there.