Peter Herbert

So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”.
Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.

David Knopfler, founder & former guitarist of legendary Dire Straits rock group was this months ‘Bremainers Ask’ contributor

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@suewilson91.bsky.social

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

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

Newspapers that told their readers austerity, Brexit, Johnson & Truss would be brilliant are attacking the British Prime Minister for not unquestioningly following a lunatic President into an illegal attack. And on social media, he gets attacked from the other 'side' for doing the precise opposite!

Reform are not the Opposition. They have had fewer MPs elected than the Green Party, which had five elected under their banner in this Parliament alone.

STOP. MAINSTREAMING. REFORM.

If the BBC had given them coverage proportional to their actual significance, we would barely know who Farage is.

🚨 "Nigel, you said that you're convinced your candidate, Matt Goodwin, would have won among British born voters"

⚠️ "With your policy that you've announced to restrict voting to British citizens. Are you not worried that that comes across as trying to cut out voters that wouldn't vote for Reform?"

I don’t think a significant number of Reform councillors registered as having a job either.

Reform UK is in big trouble – which means it will fight dirtier than ever The Gorton and Denton results should encourage the government to seriously look at introducing an alternative vote syste

Accusations of cheating and sectarianism show that Reform UK pose a danger to our democracy, even in defeat.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/green-victory-labour-reform-david-aaronovitch-uk-politics-b2928907.html

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

If Farage ever is in a position to remove the rights of disabled people to vote,get ready to raise hell.

So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?

Amid rising alarm over suspected pollfraud, Reform leader says allowing non-British citizens into ballot booth threatens democracy FOREIGN-BORN VOTERS STOLE BY-ELECTION BLASTS FARAGE that Reform UK was robbed of victory diary assertion in today's Mail on Sunday by foreign-born voters in last week's that 'Reform UK won the Gorton and Denton By Glen Owen Manchester by-election. by-election among British-born voters'. Amid mounting allegations that voter, fraud And he vowed that if he becomes Prime Pages 16-17 POLITICAL EDITOR and sectarianism contributed the Grecn

Truly, truly, truly disgusting.

Keep this Trumpist race baiting out of British politics.

Imagine devoting your entire career to selling the idea that the British public hates wokery and is clamouring for radical right wing populism, only to then be defeated in an actual election by the most left wing possible coalition of politicians and activists in the country.

It's got to hurt

My sister in law, who lives in France and needed to come home urgently because her dad is very poorly, got caught by the new rules dictating that dual nationals produce a valid British passport when entering the country. £180, thank you very much. What a silly rule.

Thanks Brexit

Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron.

10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.

Passport changes prevent British dual national from visiting dying mother New Home Office rules causing ‘stress upon stress’ for British woman living in Netherlands trying to enter UK

"David Davis has called on the home secretary to urgently introduce a grace period to allow hundreds of Britons to continue to travel on their 2nd passport while their British passport is processed."

That's David Davis core Brexiter.

Who caused this catastrophe

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Farage forgets that the receipts are everywhere

This should be enough to trigger the investigation of the Bannon / Epstein connections to Brexit and of course emails exist verifying those connections already

An important reminder

At this very moment both the BBC News and Sky News channels are yet again showing a live speech by Nigel Farage. When will they start showing every speech by @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @eddavey.libdems.org.uk live as well?

Reform Candidate Matthew Goodwin’s MAGA Network Matthew Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election, has ties to influential groups in the orbit of U.S. President Donald Trump. Goodwin, a GB News presenter and forme...

“Reform’s plan to scrap net zero won’t take a penny off your energy bills. it’ll just hand your wallet over to the gas giants and markets controlled by dictators like Putin”

MAGA, Putin, Orbán, Bannon, Farage, Reform. All the v worst people colluding to screw us over.
www.desmog.com/2026/02/13/r...

The big question question for next week will be

“How long can Chris Mason survive paid his BBC’s political editor £270,000 salary, after alienating so many with his overtly anti Starmer ‘reports’ & ‘interviews’❓

We want news not his biased views wrapped up as news, glib comments & tortured pros❗️

The Dublin Agreement was a huge deterrent. People knew if they arrived in UK & had claimed elsewhere, approved or denied, they would immediately be returned. Now that data sharing is no longer an automatic right. The UK lost access to several shared mechanisms when it left the EU

Labour bill would stop ‘dodgy front companies’ making political donations Bill would also give votes to 16-year-olds and pave the way for ‘opt-out’ voter registration

"The government also plans to press ahead with votes for 1.7 million new voters – 16 and 17-year-olds – the biggest expansion of democratic participation in generations, but a move likely to face significant opposition from the Conservatives and Reform UK."

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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" - Robert Peston

“Firmly very much in favour. Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" - Zack Polanski

‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue'

Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"