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🚨Wow - this will be huge if it bears out. Exit polls show the pro-EU D66 party has WON the Dutch election.

The far-right PVV party of Geeet Wildsrs has lost 12 seats, according to exit polls.

Huge if true.

Someone just mentioned @benstiller.redhour.com and it reminded me, I reckon I think about "while we're young" about once a week. No other film has come anywhere near capturing the digital era. It's an astonishing film if you haven't seen it!

This review of the Forbidden Corner is a utter favourite.

Politico: "Reform UK will hold its third press conference in three days at 10 am. Head of policy Zia Yusuf and welfare spokesperson Lee Anderson will pledge £32 billion of cuts to disability benefit PIP"

Why so many press conferences?

Answer: Because they know the broadcasters will keep showing up

Agreed. Spain has the highest growth of any major economy last couple of years, and it's mostly come from membership of the EU, very cheap energy (due to years of developing green energy), and lots of immigrants. UK has done none of the above.

Vamos como ahora, pero sin coger el teléfono.
En resumen, que están preguntando a sus bases si pueden trabajar menos aún.

They should be calling Farage "Brexit boy" , a nazi, a fascist, every day. They should be going at him and Badenoch hard, every single day. Call them traitors, threaten to lock them up, the whole works. The old rules are gone.

I don't think Labour have grasped that all the old rules are gone. If the Tories and Reform can promise to report millions of legal residents, all bets are off. Labour are free to make outrageous promises, but right now, they're too soft to fight the fascists.

If people like Farage and Badenoch want to make the next UK election existential for legal residents, one of the political parties should make it existential for THEM, i.e. "If we win, Farage and Badenoch are deported to Ascension Island" Make them feel the fear!!

It speaks volumes about the dire state of British politics that an MP can say that she gets mad about seeing Black and Asian people in adverts on TV and she hasn't immediately been expelled from her party - a party that hopes to form the next Govt.

The unwillingness of a great many people to call racism racism because doing so is seen as rude or uncivil is hugely problematic.

El 95% de las personas que aprueban la oposición para acceder a la Carrera Judicial y Fiscal necesitan la ayuda de su familia.

Para que tus oportunidades no dependan de en qué casa has nacido, las becas SERÉ.

Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

To go from "Who is Katie Lam?" to "Everybody hates Katie Lam, the Tory Idi Amin" in less than a week is exemplary "rising star" behaviour

we're going to have a mad US military adventure against either Vzla or Colombia quite soon. I can already see Pete trying to convince the generals and admirals he hasn't fired yet that it'll be piss easy

The official White House website is indistinguishable from a 4chan post at this point.

It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."

I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

People who are generally upset with how their lives are going, and also feel there are too many people around who look different, can never actually be appeased.

Not by Brexit, not by eliminating FoM, not by new taxes or fees, not by ending ILR, not by denaturalizing not by anything.

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

As a Brit who has pre-Art 50 permanent residence in Spain, this is all very worrying. The Tories have clearly gone a bit mad.

I don't think so.

On moral grounds, our relationship is now with them as individuals, and bad behaviour in the UK doesn't justify bad behavious in Europe.

I also suspect that the courts wouldn't allow actions against Britons in our communities.

The risk is of course rabble-rousing by Vox, say

The build-up of rhetoric against Europeans settled in the UK and the attacks on the Brexit deal on residency must be worrying for our citizens there.

This kind of thing tends to start with loose talk by the opposition and finish with been been bundled into vans.

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That never ever happens though. They just sack some junior staff and give themselves a pay rise 🤷

In Pokrovsk, russians are shooting civilians.

The first photo shows man carrying a wounded woman in his arms because her legs had been shot through. She had apparently crawled along the street before he found her.

Yes, but you mean Iraq, no??

It’s absolutely hilarious watching Austrians, in 2025, wake up to the fact that the complete political class of Austria is deeply incompetent and corrupt.

It required 3+ years of inflation and consumer prices skyrocketing for the people to go "Whooahuuuhh?"

Before that it was YOLO all the way.

For many Brits who have made lives abroad, the mere possibility of this becoming UK government policy makes moving back a hugely risky prospect. Who’d want to invest time and effort settling back in Britain while threats of expulsion are dangled over the heads of non-British family members?

Portland has fallen!