James Celis Jones 🇺🇦

@michael-fox.bsky.social

<hello, mutual appreciation society, how may I direct your call>

Good grief the clarity of this piece hits like ice water. This whole country still feels gripped in a political fight long since over and where most of the original combatants are dead. Worshipping monuments to dead kings. We so desperately need some actual leadership.

A Brexit survival strategy that shows Starmer’s days are numbered Labour will need a different leader if it pursues a policy of rejoining the EU customs union or single market

"In his endorsement of Brexit trade freedoms, Starmer resembles Alec Guinness’s half-mad colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai, defending an edifice he has forgotten was built for the benefit of the other side."

www.ft.com/content/2d00...

If you think about it it’s really the fault of Remainers and the out of touch Euro elites, amirite?

A little bit surprising to hear Keir say “the US says the greatest threat to Europe is uncontrolled migration and out of touch Euro elites and frankly I think that is correct” tbh

Keir Starmer appears to intuit that the British people love to be deferential to American bullying, proving at least he doesn’t know the best bar in Wisconsin to find three hot sisters

That famous story where the Japanese captain killed American soldiers in the water, then after the war the Americans found him and said “fair enough lad”

YouTube video by Max Speedster Trump complains about Scooby Doo

youtu.be/Vk-ZBYyjsko?...

With this kind of content I’m expecting you to be playing a character on SNL shortly

Christmas CANCELLED in London 💔🎄

Like, I voted for her and I voted for Sadiq. And I had high hopes for this government. But boy I dunno, it’s not great.

Saying “the greens are mean about care workers” would be more persuasive if this government wasn’t deliberately making the lives of immigrant care workers (current and future) much worse.

James what is the policy prescription that this article makes that you think will cause anyone to change their mind? Like it seems to me just to be “Polanski said something dumb but we’re going to continue to be hostile to immigrants”

The fact that Labour think this might work makes me think they are probably cooked

The original “antifa” stormed the beaches at Normandy

My lovely Kiwi golf instructor whose partner (also Kiwi) works in the city told me they’re very worried they’re going to be kicked out in 2027 when his visa expires.

Like, what the actual fuck are we doing?

“Hardly anyone does this well on cognitive tests” yeah bro they only give them to people with dementia

Some nations fight to protect human rights — Russia fights to erase them.

Moscow not only strips its own people of basic freedoms but extends that repression to neighboring countries.

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Have you and Michael been having some cheeky beers to share talking points??

Britain cannot rely on the US any more.

Which means we need to be strategically independent. The only way this happens is to start from scratch.

Trade needs to be oriented to Europe.

We need to scoop up all the brilliant scientists being driven out of America.

Mercantilism & anti-immigration policies, but with a human face. Really seems to be working great for center-left parties around the world over the last decade. Let’s do more? 🤷‍♂️😬

The opportunity cost of all the wasted effort that was required to leave the EU, only to find it absolutely didn’t address any of the nation’s ills, when that could’ve been spent fixing real issues, & the cost it will take to one day rejoin. People should be in gaol; instead some are running for PM.

I mean it is what it is. Lots of people aren’t on here yet. Maybe they’ll join? Most of the interesting UK pol people are.

They keep testing my brain because it's working so well. I'm constantly having my brain tested

Well I mean also (as @michael-fox.bsky.social) says, there’s a national security imperative that we decouple ourselves from the US, on the basis that plainly and obviously we cannot rely upon the US in any way whatsoever.

How long Britain could really fight for if war broke out tomorrow In the event of a war, one expert suggests the British Army could be incapable of fighting effectively on land within weeks, once committed - though 'much depends on the form of the conflict'.

In some ways this is a useful reminder that a lot of the talk of European security guarantees to Ukraine have the whole thing backwards. For more than three years Ukraine has been guaranteeing European security by fighting and degrading the Russian armed forces.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Maybe they’re really against the modest one next to the dump and the A road in Newham?

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.

It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.