Lisa B

Kind of incredible. I was just sitting down to write about how Starmer should be given credit for keeping us out of this mess when he does this. Unutterably foolish and obsequious. Why in God's name should we have anything to do with this shortsighted madness.

Starmer has accepted a US request to useUK airbases. His statement;

“Iran is striking British interests and putting British people at huge risk.

“The only way to stop the threat is to destroy the missiles at source in their storage depots or the launchers which are used to fire the missiles.

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US-Israeli-led bombing hit a girls school…

Death toll now at 150

A war launched illegally by two depraved men desperate to cling to power and stay out of jail

…and they call others terrorists.

A useful record of Farage’s failure and his inability to cope with it. A cheat and a very bad loser who would happily trash democracy to get the result he wants. And then remove our rights to stop us holding him to account.
Such a corrupt, egomaniacal liar should have no hope of getting power.

Having considered for 48 hours the best way to protect the autonomy, the equal voice and the equal right to cast a secret ballot of south Asian women at the polling station, Nigel Farage has concluded it is important to "go further" and to disenfranchise as many Asian women [+ men] as possible

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.

Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The next Big Lie is to taking shape right in front of us. Donald Trump will try to use this to assert illegal and unconstitutional powers over the 2026 elections.

Why Attack Iran? Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

I’ll just leave this here…

Trump being awarded the FIFA war prize

Oh.

CNN reporting that the strikes on Iran tonight are joint US and Israeli strikes.

Which means Donald Trump should be impeached for a third time.

What he has done tonight is illegal under the US constitution and the UN charter.

This is crazy. Surely by now the government must realise it will not achieve decency over division by trying to be Reform Lite?

Reform Attacks Byline Times For ‘Attempting to Derail a Democratic Election’ – Before Blaming ‘Family Voting’ and ‘Muslim Sectarianism’ for Gorton and Denton Defeat Having imported its own ideas for a DOGE and ICE from the US, Farage’s party now appears to be copying the Trumpian tactics of alleging vote-rigging in elections

🔴 Reform Attacks Byline Times For 'Attempting to Derail a Democratic Election' – Before Blaming "Family Voting" and "Muslim Sectarianism" for Gorton and Denton Defeat

After DOGE and ICE, Nigel Farage's party now appears to be copying the Trumpian tactics of alleging vote-rigging in elections

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.

Hmmmmmm.

Nobody here needs to be told that Reform's claims of cheating are utterly absurd but it's worth noting that the anti-Reform vote was so large that even if the Greens and Labour had split it 50/50 Reform would still have lost — in fact they would have come third. They only value democracy if they win

Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

In a battle between hope and hate, hope won out.

Why voters rejected the hateful politics of Reform and instead embraced the "Green Menace" in Gorton and Denton

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

“I don’t think the progressives beat us,” he added. “I think the progressives were told how to vote and I think what you saw was a coalition of Islamists and woke progressives that came together to dominate the constituency.”

Or, as some would call it Matt, democracy.

Has there ever been a more graceless and divisive concession?

Showing exactly why voters in Gorton and Denton rejected him tonight

BREAKING: It seems we have arrived at the We Told You So part of the program

Given than Farage admires everything Trump does — climate change denial, vaccine scepticism, DOGE data theft, ICE repression — don’t be surprised to see Reform trying out some voter suppression

Last day in Washington DC and I finally got to meet @JackPosobiec Family man, veteran, patriot and friend, always had my back from across the pond I had the honour of receiving one of @charliekirk11 47 hats from the day he was taken from us Next stop Florida

Weird little insecure man joins weird little cargo cult made up of weird little insecure men who worship weird man.

Tommy Robinson visited the US State Department today at the invite of the Trump administration.

He's Britain's most prominent far-right street thug with criminal convictions for assault, violence, fraud, stalking & harassment.

He was jailed in 2012 for trying to enter the US with a false passport.

No sanctions over Reform's by-election rule breach

Reform UK Reform UK's Matt Goodwin faced GB News complaint over colleague's claim of 'inappropriate comments'

Members of Reform's campaign team shared racist content online and aligned themselves with far-right groups

We have found that five of Matt Goodwin's campaign team have made antisemitic or Islamophobic comments. Most alarming is one of Goodwin's campaign managers, Adam Mitula. "I wouldn't touch a Jewish woman," Mitula has posted on X. Elsewhere, he has posted the n-word and engaged in Holocaust revisionism, questioning the number of Jewish dead. Mitula has also said that "60-70%" of trans people are paedophiles. Photo of the two of them grinning and Matt doing a thumbs up Hope not Hate donation tab

So, Matt Goodwin cheated, he had a Nazi-sympathising campaign manager, a team of racist campaigners aligned to far right hate groups and he himself was accused of sexual harassment by a colleague at GBNews.

Please god don’t inflict this foul piece of shit on the rest of us, #GortonandDenton

Fascist Failure The State of Trump

What is the state of Trump? He is failing at fascism. For Trump to succeed in his fascist transition, he needs a bloody, popular, victorious war. And that is out of his reach. The State of the Union was full of fascist atmospherics. It was also blowhard exhaustion
snyder.substack.com/p/fascist-fa...