Gavin Lewis #FBPE

Permission to laugh

Rosalie Chapman, "You will hear from Baroness Claire Fox, a former Brexit party member of the European Parliament and a founder of Academy of Ideas"

"I can only hope that one day she can come up with a good one herself"

She then tears into Fox in the most spectacular way

Thought experiment for Labour…
With over 4yrs and a huge majority, why not stir it up? Pitch your tent defiantly on the liberal lawn, loudly reject the epic failures of Brexit and rightwing immigration ideology and see how many liberal votes you gain instead of chasing Reform into a toxic dead end?

Good character guidance amended to block refugees from naturalisation - Free Movement There have been some important additions to pages 50 and 51 of the Good Character guidance (a comparison of the new and old versions is here) that have the

This should be changed asap.

If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

A picture of Trump with the words NO CLUE, NO CLASS, NO INTELLECT, NO DIGNITY, NO VOCABULARY, NO TASTE, NO PATIENCE, NO INTEGRITY, NO COMPASSION, NO EMPATHY, NO CONSCIENCE, NO COURAGE, NO MANNERS, NO RESPECT, NO CHARACTER, NO MORALITY, NO VALUES, NO HONOR, NO SHAME, NO BUISNESS BEING PRESIDENT

Orange Turd is a dangerous, cruel, stupid shameless embarrassment.
He is pissing off the world. No country can be completely independent, allies
are necessary.

a cat is standing on its hind legs on a table . ALT: a cat is standing on its hind legs on a table .

Happy #Caturday

With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.

Hard to reconcile the nation that put a man on the moon is the same nation that put a moron in the White House.

Liz Truss sends legal letter ordering Starmer to stop saying she crashed economy ‘Cease and desist’ letter accuses PM of harming her reputation and contributing to her losing her seat

Bear sends legal letter ordering people to stop saying that bears shit in the woods.

Lawyers delighted to be able to bill ££££ for this wildly delusional nonsense.

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

Musk discussed ways to oust British PM Starmer before next election, FT reports Billionaire Elon Musk has held private discussions with allies about removing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer from his position before the next general election, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

All the pro-Trump Brexit sovereignty-fetishists being exposed again for the lying two-faced pieces of shit that they really are.

No way anyone remotely sane, decent or patriotic tolerates this anti-democratic fuckery from Musk.

www.reuters.com/world/musk-e...

Independent front page 5th jan 2025 Five years on, the true cost of Brexit £30.2bn Cost of Britain's divorce settlement from the EU (HM Treasury) - not counting any ongoing impacts to the economy £27bn Drop in goods exports to EU in 2022 alone due to the introduction of trade barriers since Brexit (LSE) with food, agriculture and fishing among worst-hit sectors 15% Long-term hit to UK trade (OBR) as revealed in Budget forecast £2.8bn Annual decrease in UK food exports to the EU (Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy) 6 in 10 Britons think Brexit has gone badly (YouGov) 118,000 Tonnes drop in seafood exports (Marine Management Organisation) 3.6M+ Number of immigrants into UK since the end of EU free movement (ONS) despite claims it would reduce the flow 1,227,800 EU nationals who left the UK between 2016 and 2021 56% Proportion of dairy producers struggling to find workers (Arla) EU nationals who left the UK between 2016-21 (ONS) 16,400 Number of businesses that stopped exporting to EU due to Brexit trade rules (LSE) 1/3 Drop in EU students at UK universities 2.3m Net migration since end of free movement

Weaker, poorer, unhappier, more divided and with an emboldened and radicalised loud minority who champion overt racism and selling out to Musk and Trump…
This is where Brexit has led us. Over and above these dismal numbers. That is the true cost.

I strongly suspect that Liz Truss's attempts to stop people claiming she crashed the economy, will only result in her being hounded to the end of her long days with people telling her she crashed the economy.

Facts are dead. Cooool.

And you thought the tabloid press was bad? Get ready for a biblical flood of moronic rubbish in 2025… courtesy of an imploding America.

So, the Tory manifesto did not include an inquiry into grooming gangs and the Tories ignored ALL recommendations from the 2022 report, but they attack Starmer for smearing “those concerned” as “far right”. Which he didn’t.
They’re just the most repulsive bunch of arseholes.
And far right apologists.

Happy new year everyone. You’re all great, in some way. Each one of you has a weirdness - a superpower if you want to see it that way - that no-one else has. There’s no perfect, archetypal human. A species is the sum of its parts. And yet, as just one human, you are: special.

Mail front page: PM'S 'REWARD FOR FAILURE' AS SADIQ KHAN IS KNIGHTED

sports quiz of the year - Howto de-age your brain w The Daily Eelegraphy INSIDE Swing into action Ten biopics that monkeyed around ArtH The Secret Prisoner Life inside is turning me into a criminal Features Save your skin How to fix 'wine face', 'sugar face' and 'cheese face' Features PM knights Southgate wins a title Khan in 'reward for failure'

this kind of obviously biased headline is so frustrating when MSM is fighting for credibility

1) New Year’s Honours list is nominated by public not by political leaders

2) Khan has won three elections so the average Londoner clearly doesn’t think he’s a failure

Our friends over at @nebylines.bsky.social are nearing the 10k follower mark. Can we get them there by New Years Day ?
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The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley

🔴The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks

The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley

bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...

The more the tabloids froth now about nothingness…

…the more people will be utterly uninterested in them when they froth complaints about real pro-EU developments later.

So let them froth their gnashing jaws and swivel their wild eyes now.

‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed...

This is what the Observer team & I were doing between strikes. Please read it because it couldn’t be more relevant. I interview @asifkapadia.bsky.social
about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us..

www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...

Something to brighten up the dark evenings in the New Year! Brand new #DiggingForBritain - packed full of incredible new discoveries!

Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future

“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”

Front page headline: PM accused of betraying historic 2016 vote to leave EU as 100-strong Whitehall unit is launched to tie Britain back to Brussels STARMER'S 'SURRENDER SQUAD' TO UNDO BREXIT

Oh god. The inevitable Daily Mail tantrum at a Labour govt edging towards a slightly less ruinous relationship with our own continent.
What do these idiotic nationalists want? Permanent hostility? Endless cost and loss?
‘Betraying’ Brexit is an act of patriotic necessity now, you howling clowns.

Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future

Fascism always starts subtly—until it doesn’t. Billionaires funding radical politics aren’t just a threat; they’re an attack on democracy itself | Natacha Kennedy

Easily the best description of him I’ve ever read.

Bluesky Hits 25M Users As Exodus From X Continues The social media platform has added over 10 million users since U.S. Election Day.

Whilst X drowns in bots, extreme content, misinformation & its own vomit Bluesky Hits 25 Million Users👏

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Ouch

Top NHS officials do not have to go into the office at all Work-from-home culture comes as productivity significantly falls

The public sector's working from home obsession is crippling the British economy

Work from home is bad for both youngsters and grumpy' old people, peer says

Does anyone else get the feeling that The Telegraph might have a wee bit of an obsession with people working from home?

What could be driving this?