WAFC Rob

There's plenty of demand for left-leaning economic populism among the British public.

Trump is no longer concerned about trying to appear remotely "moderate" in any form. Ivanka was used as a prop to show that he was being "reigned in"

Don't jinx us Liz

Where Does Rishi Sunak Rank in the History of British Prime Ministers? With the Conservative Party suffering a disastrous defeat at the 2024 UK general election, bringing to an end a hideously grim and destructive 14 years in Government, here’s how our outgoing …

Made a ranking list of all of Britain's Prime Ministers that served at least 1.5 years a year and a bit ago. Recently looked at it again and tweaked it. Bumped Blair down to D tier and Cameron to the bottom 10 as he deserves.

thecircledsquare.blog/2024/07/13/w...

I reckon most likely outcome would be the Conservatives letting them in as part of a coalition

Reform poised to raise Kent council tax as Musk-inspired attack on costs falters ANNA GROSS - KENT Kent's local authority will probably raise council tax rates next year as Reform UK strugglesto find big savings under an Elon Musk-inspired cost-cutting drive. Kent was one of 10 councils that Nigel Farage's rightwing populist party seized in a swath of local election victories in May. He vowed to save "a lot of money" by abolishing "wasteful" spending. But Diane Morton, Reform's cabinet member for adult social care on Kent county council, told the Financial Times that services were already "down to the bare bones". "We've got more demand than ever before and it's growing." she said, stressing she did not believe access to those services should be limited. "We just want more money." As with many local authorities in England, the bulk of declined to say whether council tax Kent's budget went on adult and chil- would be raised but other Reform coun- dren's social care, as well as on children cillors said they wanted to avoid hitting with special educational needs, which the full 5 percent. together accounted for about 50 per Reform's experience highlights some cent of its £2.5bn annual expenditure. of the obstacles it may face in national All councils have a legal duty to bal- government if it won the next general ance their books and will set next year's election and pursued its pledge to slash budgets in February or March. Ahead of taxes and spending. "Everyone thought that, most councils in England are we d come in and there were going to be expected to increase council tax by 5 per these huge costs we could cut away but cent, the maximum allowed. there just aren't," said a third senior "I think it's going to be 5 per cent," Reform cabinet member in Kent. Morton said of where Kent would land Farage has set up a Reform Depart- on tax rises, adding that every 1 per cent ment of Government Efficiency team - increase equated to an extra E10mn. modelled on Musk's "Doge" i…

Anyone remember Reform promising to go into their new councils with DOGE-style units to slash “waste” and stop taxes from rising? Yeah, it went exactly as you’d expect if you put people in charge who have no idea how anything works.

Unfortunately won't be able to. Not confident about it either lol

It might be time for leftists to reckon with the idea that Jeremy Corbyn killed the left movement in this country

Starmer and Company bending over to defend Mandelson is confusing until you remember they were put in the positions they were in by old egomaniac New Labour hacks like him who wanted one last day in the sun, and otherwise they'd be nowhere near power.

If we had Australia style preference voting and I was ranking my election choices tommorow:

1. Green
2. Lib Dems
3. Your Party
4. Labour
5. Conservative
6. Reform

This is lovely

Israel just targeted and successfully eliminated high level Hamas leadership in Qatar

This is evidence that starving & targeting innocent Gazans was completely unnecessary and likely radicalized millions of Palestinians - very poor strategy unless you need a distraction to stay in power

It depends on which methodology is typically more trustworthy doesn't it? Where does YouGov fall?

For those keeping track, that's France's THIRD Prime Minister in 1 year

If you want to keep #FarageOut you need to help build a strong opposition to defeat him.

Pretending to be him isn't going to work.

Maybe. YouGov polls seem to generally rate Reform lower.

Born in 1998 here, but used to have this on VHS as a gift from my Mum. Gem of a show.

When you first get home and your significant other tells you all of the drama that happened that day.

So now it's basically fully proven that Trump is a nonce and a friend of Epstein, it remains to be seen whether this will cause one of the rare "below 40%" ratings for Trump before it rebounds once everyone forgets about it

Criminal behaviour

Fascinating that back in September 2020 Chomsky predicted Farage emerging as the UK's next PM if Boris didn't live up to the right wings wishes. And people dismissed this as ludicrous at the time saying Farage would never even become an MP lmao

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Elon Musk is a global purveyor of hate and disinformation and governments should treat him and his companies as such.

Far too late but a good precedent from Spain

LMAO France is a total MESS

Mightily impressed by AJ Lee's ability to look exactly the same as she did 10 years ago

CM Punk with two different moods

I love the "in years" as if Barbie didn't come out...um...2 years ago.

You mean where the left-wing bloc are headed for a comfortable win?

1 huge reason why Tories didn't stop the boats. That’s Brexit, you mugs. Tories burned every deal with Europe, turned the Channel into a budget Uber, and left Farage wanking over a Union Jack. #ukpolitics

We are getting a Reform majority government whether the election happens now or in 2029. We are fucked beyond belief.