Saskia Sabelus

It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis.

It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons.

In the new @privateeyenews.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social

A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”

Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…

The new Private Eye is out now.

And Hannah here now also in the new copy of @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Does anyone remember that during the Brexit campaign, one of Nigel Farage’s arguments for leaving the European Union was to allow the UK to adopt a fairer immigration system for Commonwealth citizens?

Now he’s saying they shouldn’t be allowed to vote proving yet again the sort of country he wants.

Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s recent efforts to woo centre-ground voters may cause tension in party’s right flank, says Hope Not Hate

Do recent recruits not realise that their own voters want to deport them and/or their parents or do they just not care?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Northampton Reform UK councillors resign from the party One of the two women says there have been "misogynistic undertones" in her treatment.

❌ Blythe said that after reflection, she could no longer continue under the current leadership and had concerns about "what I perceive to be misogynistic undertones in the treatment I have received".

Is anyone surprised?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0zy878vy7o

I see the papers which screamed ‘tAKe bACK ConTRol’ now want the UK to be nothing but an obedient servant of the USA

US government resembles a smash and grab raid 🙃

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

Britain's 'patriotic' press cheering on the latest attacks on us by a hostile foreign leader

For now this is just one poll. But if this trend continues the current FPTP voting system makes no sense anymore.

If you add the SNP and Plaid Cymru to the mix we might end up with a completely random result at the next elections. Which will undermine trust in the U.K. democracy even further.

‘Domestic Terrorism’ ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The controversial data firm co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel – which holds UK government contracts – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform to conduct mass deportation. Nafeez Ahmed reports

🟨 Print Edition — ‘Domestic Terrorism’ ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent

The controversial data firm co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel – which holds UK government contracts – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform…

BREAKING: A 4th U.S. service member has been killed in the military operation with Iran.

I want you all to remember that we had a way to stop iran from getting nuclear weapons. It was a nuclear agreement that the international community all agreed was working.

Reform UK has been reported to the Electoral Commission for possible campaign overspend in the Gorton and Denton by election.

Eight prominent Americans have resigned because of the Epstein files, but the man mentioned the most in those files is still operating and waging war in the Middle East.

I’m just repeating Reform’s anti-refugee rhetoric 🤪 “Why don’t they stay in France”; “They should stay in the first safe country” etc (which is not actually in the UN refugee convention).

Is this the first safe country?

"You will smash the unions, and you do not care about unions and workforce either.

"No, do not interact with Reform. Never interact with Reform"

When even the Monster Raving Loony Party can see that you are a grifter, maybe that is a sign?

Reform UK in the past 48hrs.

West valley sushi shop owner released from ICE detention after eight months A federal judge has granted Kelly Yu temporary freedom after she filed a habius corpus petition.

"Her release follows months of advocacy from community members and political leaders of both parties.

Yu has operated her two West Valley restaurants for years, building a reputation for greeting customers with humor and kindness. She has no criminal record."

www.12news.com/article/news...

Absolutely, Julia Hartley-Brewer was caught up in some wild fires on holidays a few years ago. Didn’t stop her spouting her climate change denial nonsense.

You’ll find she is an ex-pat 🙃🤪

Spot on. That’s what I would never go there - even if you paid me. Slave labour etc - watched also the BBC documentary about the missing princess etc

Her and the Reform lot (including Connolly) plus RW grifters like Bernie Spofforth blaming any attacks on foreigners which then turn out not to be true. I suppose we need laws like they have in the UAE #ShakiraLaws 🤪

You’d hope she would also learn a lesson about her spreading misinformation. Turns out it can be punished with 2 years in prison in Dubai. Apparently, she has deleted some tweets reporting about panics etc. Turns out UK has “freedom of speech” 🙃

I don’t think it changes her mind one bit. Ironically, she’d be the one complaining about messages being sent out in different languages (see the alert message). She still calls herself an expat so considers herself better than an immigrant/migrant.

So they have no plan. Got it.