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And like that EU vote, the forces behind it are shady, no friend of the poor and vulnerable in this country, and are self regarding and massively corrupt. The damage unleashed by freeing the forces of conservatism post EU Ref led to the damage evident by July 2024. The next wave will be far worse

We can see from polls that many voters believe the pro Brexit, pro Truss bullshitters who shout that they will stop the boats. I can 100% guarantee they won’t and can’t but at this stage people wee so wound up by the coverage (as they were about the EU) that they’ll press the button anyway.

On channel migrants (as it’s now the only thing the bubble is talking about as if all the other Tory magnified problems have disappeared) there is no possibility of ‘stopping the boats’ because the route is now proven, and that’s an issue for UK democracy.

This

…and 4 of the supreme court justices

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But Starmer’s obsequiousness to Trump is of a piece for a moral jellyfish who’s actions show him to be absolutely terrified of the political (now far) Right.

Seeing the EU prostrate itself in front of the orange slob is rather more confounding.

Agree. The schmoozing of Trump in the Starmer Von der Leyen mould is historically stupid and unforgivable. They should have simply ignored him and got on with prioritising their own jurisdictions. Playing to Trump’s tariff hysteria by running over there and doing awful ‘deals’ vindicated him. Awful

in Epping right now. A feeble retort by Ferrari that it’s not racist to protect women and children’. The caller was having none of that shite. Brave. Right.

prevailing narrative Labour set itself up for all of this: that woeful, feeble, petrified campaign causing daily nightmares for Starmer because he’s now stymied by his own spinelessness.
Update: great to hear a local ringing Ferrari to explain that it is the far right thugs causing all the fear

fantasy nonsense about yet another 3rd country processing claims that Tories still have no idea what the laws are and so what they can do either. Nevertheless the record numbers crossing are political kryptonite for the government.

Labour had to address issue pre election but by accepting the

Ferrari in a harrumph on @lbc.co.uk over the boats again, still wedded to the petrified corpse of the disgusting, unlawful #Rwanda scheme. Opportunist Tory comes on to gloat at the latest numbers, yet when asked what they would do, it is clear from blather about ‘immediate returns’ and

You might be as puzzled as me by today's US Real GDP that came in at 3% annualized growth rate in Q2 2025. The "growth" is a huge drawdown of onhand inventory and reduced imports. We don't expect this to happen in Q3.

This post from Joseph Politano on LinkedIn is better.

#econsky #GDP #economy

Brilliant win! Congratulations to England women!

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I’m on back on twitter, but not posting, and the descent into the criminal far right sewer is so sad for a medium I joined in 2011 which at that point was quite a jovial place for expressing ideas. The US model of IPO-ing ideas so corrupt billionaires can buy it off has been a catastrophe.

Isn’t it: over there is a party with no sensible policies whatsoever, they’re ripe for a thrashing, the ball is bobbling around an open goal and… oh, you’ve thrashed it over the bar!
Again.
Yeah you can attack the atrocious defending, but for missing from there the striker deserves criticism too?

Just been to a Kendrick Lamar concert and… nope, don’t get it.
But loads of people obviously do and really enjoyed themselves tonight, including my boy. Lots of happy chatter from big crowd on walk back to underground, so job done. Fair play Mr Lamar, fair play.

Lionesses following the Gareth Southgate school of getting to international finals: stink out the tournament performance-wise but be effective while doing it!

Oh look: politician fusses about borrowing and borrowing rises anyway. Stop obsessing about borrowing, it doesn’t matter, and focus instead on improving people’s lives

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Donald Trump's refusal to release the Epstein files is not the only thing MAGA is waking up to, I assure you. The average cult member leaves after 5-7 years. We are at 9 years with Trump. The moment was ripe for this.

Historically, once people in these situations can finally recognize and ...

Ah, it’s the old ‘independent pay review commission’ defence.

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’16-year-olds are too easily manipulated to be allowed the vote’, insists man who believes every Daily Mail headline A man who believes pretty much everything he reads on the Internet – including that Britain is a Sharia state, Brexit is going swimmingly, and that the country is currently being ‘invad…

NEWS! '16-year-olds are too easily manipulated to be allowed the vote', insists man who believes every Daily Mail headline

Tories gerrymandering boundaries is fine in Rentoul’s world

I agree with this but - as Giles' post effectively goes on to say - there *is* a way out of this fiscal corner, it's called raising taxes, and I don't think it's as politically impossible as people make out

Hard (by Labour's own doing) but not impossible

First, welfare revolts tells us nothing...

America’s continuing descent into anarchy and lawlessness

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Yep. Cameron and chums did to the BBC what the GOP has done to the US Supreme Court. A wonder Labour didn’t sack the place-men in the state broadcaster like Tusk did in Poland. Although looking on now at all the half assed Reform appeasing it is no wonder Starmer didn’t purge the Right at all.