Kathy T

I don't want to hear "we can't afford it" one more time from Labour.

Not while they continue to reinforce their Brexit red lines.

The amount of money being left on the table by not seeking to rejoin the EU is eye-watering.

The tax lost to Brexit would have paid for everything Labour needed.

Starmer apologises for ‘island of strangers’ remark Climbdown over comments that echoed language of Enoch Powell is latest reversal from PM

I don't want his apologies. I want him to remember he's the leader of Labour and not a Reform tribute act. on.ft.com/3Gnr8Hn

Greenham Common women urge new generation to ‘rise up’ against nuclear threat Those who set up protest camp in 1980s hope its spirit can be revived to oppose UK’s plan to buy nuclear-carrying jets

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Did Donald Trump steal the 2024 election? A legal challenge in New York could reveal the truth behind allegations that last year’s election result was “consistent with vote manipulation”

✍️ Did Donald Trump steal the 2024 election?

A legal challenge in New York could reveal the truth behind allegations that last year’s election result was “consistent with vote manipulation”

Boost to mental health services from thousands of extra staff Latest data shows 6,700 more mental health workers have been recruited towards government’s 8,500 target.

The latest data shows a 6,700 increase of mental health workers, which marks significant progress towards the government's target of 8,500.

We are also told the 10 Year Health Plan will have ambition plans to boost mental health support.

This will include

1) support services on the NHS app.

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The extraordinary moment at the NATO press conference when Trump admits he gave a foreign enemy (Iran) permission to attack a US military base.

“They said is one o’clock ok? I said it’s fine.”

He even says soldiers were still on site.

I’m not a constitutional lawyer, but that’s treason, right?

A warning I think many need to listen to!

Are UK workers over-taxed? The answer in three infographics Explore OECD data on wage taxes: how UK workers rank internationally, how the tax wedge has shifted since 1979, and why many still feel over-taxed.

Full explainer here, with interactive charts for the bored, and footnotes for the truly committed:

buff.ly/AUgCtc9

EU leaders try to out-bully Trump, floating world trade club without US Ursula von der Leyen suggests EU could join forces with the Asian-Pacific trade bloc as Europe tries to up its game.

🚨🚨 Late at night, the European Union’s leadership excitedly revealed a new plan to combat the hell-raising American president’s #tradewar: Take him on at his own wild game. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...

I’ve never understood it. Always thought it very weird, and horribly nationalistic.

Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.

If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.

Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.

White House drops 'Daddy's Home' meme after viral NATO summit moment The White House created a viral meme video set to Usher's "Daddy's Home" after NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte's comment calling President Trump "daddy" during the summit.

Aargh! There’s a video too… I mean WTF? www.foxnews.com/politics/whi...

Oh my god….. That’s actually real???? Sending love and friendship to all sane Americans.

Pam Bondi is denying she knows ICE agents wore masks during raids despite copious video evidence.

If she truly didn't know, she should be fired for incompetence. If she does know (she absolutely does) then she should be fired for ordering or allowing it on her watch.

Why do UK media outlets- in particular the Times, Mail and Telegraph - let Trump get away with appalling loutish behaviour which they’d condemn in anyone else? Like trying to get a journalist sacked for writing the truth or calling them scum or dropping the F-bomb in public

This is a level of control freakery to which even the Blair government didn’t aspire. And it’s clearly terrible for good governance – connection is vital, and this severs that at all but ministerial levels.

Watching Truth Social posts by Trump every hour, each more insane & unhinged than the previous one as he circles the drain of a malignant narcissist’s descent into dementia, makes it that much more ridiculous that media just spent a month on Biden while pretending Trump is sane.

I see no real difference between ICE and the early SA/SS in Nazi Germany. A secret police force implementing the mass incarceration of social and political “enemies” in centers and camps. Maybe only a matter of time before they get confident enough in their power to impose actual genocide.

A U.S. citizen on their way to work abducted by ICE then locked in a basement, with federal government employees refusing to consider indisputable proof of citizenship.

Congress endorses it. SCOTUS keeps thwarting judges from even slowing it.

What more is there to say? We live under fascism now.

Daniel Hannan celebrates his chronicle of Brexit idiocy foretold | John Crace Back in 2016, Dan prophesied about what the post-EU sunlit uplands would be like on this very day – no spoiler alert needed

An absolute scorcher from @johnjcrace. Do read!

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be Dan was very heaven! O wondrous day. One of which dreams are made. Especially if you’ve been taking large quantities of hallucinogenics.”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thanks for sharing this Fiona. Hilarious, and also enough to make you weep.

Friendly reminder that under Morgan McSweeney's direction, Labour have lost the public's support in record time yielding a 10pt lead to the party he claims he's trying to "head off".

By any metric his appointment in-Govt has been a total fucking disaster for Keir Starmer.

Why is he still there?

IF there was a god.. America is the very last place on earth he would bless,no offence,but you are absolutely nuts

I can imagine the testimony in traffic court:

Cop: He was threatening us.
Court: In what way?
Cop: He crossed the street at an angle.
Court: How was that threatening?
Cop: His skin was dark.
Court: Guilty.

Brexit was a disaster. Most people know it now.

We gave up frictionless trade, freedom of movement, and economic stability, all for lies sold by snake oil salesmen.

Leaving didn’t free us, it cost us. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

For those with a hangover from yesterday's Hannan Day celebrations.

Good Morning.

NO. All kinds of bloody hell NO! What on earth is Starmer thinking?

UK to expand nuclear deterrent with jets carrying tactical weapons Starmer announces Britain will purchase a new squadron of nuclear-capable fighters as Trump joins leaders at Nato summit in the Hague

UK - a founding member of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty - buys jets that can carry nuclear bombs. We buy the jets - estimated £60m each just to buy the basics - the USA provides the bombs and tells us what we can do with them bit.ly/3GdJPNF

“In 2018, Elon Musk … paid no federal income taxes.”