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"Steal a little & they throw you in jail, steal a lot & they make you a King"......Bob Dylan

'great memory...I was skirting this world - fr a "Fleet St" perspective - at the time (Conferences etc). I remember many details, but forgot the Maxwell link....I'm finding it gobsmacking how these things all link (esp transatlantic),beyond the maddest conspiracy theory.

Same in NZ....I'd say a solid 20% would be happy with a Authoritarian Fascist Dictatorship, a further 5-10% open to idea. Polls reflect similar in UK & Aust.

The New Hard Rights political hack.....get a Brown Face to present racist policies....you can get away with anything.

I rate Major, until I remember 2 words..."Privatised Rail".

Boris Johnson sees himself as Churchill but his actions are far closer to Lord Haw Haw.
Like Farage and Rees Mogg, Johnson's loyalties lie with the American right wing. They ain't patriots.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Let the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor be a reminder that it's not just Immigrants coming here,breaking laws & causing problems.....it's also the Children of Immigrants.

A great day for UK(& world), but this madness isn't on the wane 'til it plays out in USA...which will either end in mass arrests or (more likely) a scramble into Saudi exile....if it's to end peacefully?
But it does feel a weight has been lifted.

So just what form will this cleansing of "Left Elites" take...'sounds ominous?

What cheers me is the belief that we will one day see Trump & his enablers on Trial. I'm opposed to the Death Penalty, but the magnitude of this, as with Nuremburg, will require it to be on the table. If the prick dies before this is possible the "Oliver Cromwell" procedure should be followed.

4am???
Why the actual F did this shite go on at 4am?

TBH, I think they wanted to shuffle her out...she's too "old school" for the current zealots dominating the Party, possibly even to the "Left" of most of them, which is rather a worry?

Christ on a bike....if u want a clue of how Nats would've handled COVID just look at Boris Js UK Tories... corrupt contracts to cronies for piss poor PPE supplies, billions spaffed up the wall, death toll one of the highest. The only positive is they would've killed tons of their(& Winstons) voters.

NZ Labour Party needs to rename the CGT the Capital Gains Levy....then Nats won't be able to touch them over "Tax".
#nzpol

It's damn fool idiocy, but the Pricks will probably have it half built before an incoming Lab Govt can nix it.....'shame Lab couldn't have got LightRail to the sunk cost point of no return in 6 (fecking) years.

Are you paying ATTENTION, yet? 👇

Well, are you?!

Labs current strategy is... Progressives have nowhere else to go but Lab...so f'k 'em, f'k hard...that'll win us the "we love anyone who f'ks over Progressives vote",then well have a winning Coalition.... Genius!

The Prime Ministers brain is missing.

Trump's eventual comupence will also unsettle Europe's (& World's) Political elite. Those seen to have collaborated with Trump's misrule will pay a very heavy price.

'Opposed,aware of issues that need addressing, but on balance I've seen Soc Media as net good for (only child)14yr old daughter...she's informed across an astonishing range of social, cultural & political issues as well as connected with friends around world. If ban applied I will help her subvert.

...& Israel, the files clearly show Epstein links there. I'm wondering when people link the evil Trinity... Russia - Israel - US...Russians (emigres in Israels case, bought by Kompromat in US's) at the rotten heart of all of it!

I predict that 50 years from now, & forever hence, Thomas Crooks, the Butler attempted assassin, will be historically viewed as a would-be hero.

It's as if the DoJ (Trumpists) have weaponised the Epstein Files to cause maximum damage (instability) abroad...which kinda fits with Trump's whole agenda.

The destruction of the Western European Social Democratic model is Trump's/Project2025 side gig.

I thought it was "Shooting Someone on 7th Avenue" that Trump could do & have no repercussions, not Fingering a 7yr old at Maralago....???

'Nasty bit of work.....but one of the last of the grown ups.

Marks is absolute class...LBC is doing what the BBC is shit scared to even try.

MMP was supposed to protect us...Lab need to really be framing this as what it is, which will become more extreme as election approaches.
Hateful that this is, Winston says anything to get his vote and I don't think he believes half of his crap, unlike ACT(& Nats) who really are on a mission.

It's bleak...NZF are pitching to be Kiwi "MAGA", which will revolt most NZers but could well deliver a solid 20%...the hard-wired bigot vote. ACT are aiming at the "Project2025"(TechBro) economic side of MAGA, & likely to get nearer 10%...Nats along for the ride.