Darren Grayson

Cut benefits, cut minimum wage, raise retirement age, means test pensions, get rid of the NHS.

Why are you voting for Farage?

Productivity 'The money machine is misfiring': City blames Brexit for UK's £20Bn productivity headache Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

However, experts say it is increasingly clear that Brexit has played a significant role, exacerbating the post-2008 slump by hitting sectors with EU ties, and as the political turmoil led businesses to put investments on ice. Erecting tougher trade barriers with the UK's largest partner is expected to cut Britain's long-term productivity by about 4% relative to a remain scenario. The OBR could update this estimate at the 26 November budget. Business investment has flatlined since the Brexit referendum

Farage is due to make a speech today about his new economic policy.. (having been laughed out of the room with his last one)…
Let’s just take a quick look at his ideological track record…
And then put all his ideas straight into the shredder.

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That may well be the case. However Putin won't want it to look that way.

Putin will give them what they want and Trump will take a couple of weeks to think about the implications. Then call a summit.

Hoping Matt Goodwin is asked a question about rice pudding, so we can see what mental gymnastics he uses to bring small boats into his answer.
#bbcqt

No more blatant example of Question Time’s bias than this.

Goodwin is a Reform activist and GB News presenter - you’d have to be intentionally blind to think he’s an academic

Is Matt Goodwin on #bbcqt because it's nearly Halloween? What a ghoul.

Another #bbcqt audience member legend is born.

Man with stubble, "Small boats arrivals are 37,000. There are over 4 million kids in child poverty. And 4.5 million who can't get a dentist appointment" #BBCQT

"We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"

Only 29 asylum appeals have been made to the ECHR in the last 45 years you dimwit. For that non-existent benefit you would sacrifice the right to life, liberty, fair trial, freedom of expression, thought, religion, protection from torture, slavery, etc.
Fucking idiot.

I like the deflector dish on the front, as a nod to starships of the future.

A Volvo print advert with the slogan, "they're boxy but they're good."

Same energy.

Do screenshots count as early skirmishes?

Starmer could get his approval rating back up by simply quote tweeting Musk’s civil war rubbish with the words “Fuck off, mate”.

I'd imagine the true test is asking him to get a round in.

Yet ordinary working people think he's aligned with them. They're deluded.

Farage: epic grifter

A starfield with many small and colorful stars is dominated by comet Lemmon which is oriented diagonally in the frame. The comet has a greenish coma and a diffuse yellowish dust tail is pointing up from the nucleus. Layered with the dust tail is the blueish ion-tail which is much narrower and longer, stretching beyond the top of the image. The ion tail shows some slight undulations from changes in the comets activity over time.

#Comet C/2025 A6 #Lemmon in the constellation Boötes, on the evening of October 24th. Captured from the light polluted outskirts of Munich.

16 minutes integration time with my Fujifilm X-S10 and 135mm f4.5 lens (untracked).

#astrophotography 🔭

Not been for a while but I've read it's picking up now that the job's finished. Old Yorkshire Bank just reopened as a pub with good reviews. Hopefully all noticeably improved on your next visit.

Another 'here too'. In Sheffield they spent 3 years and £15m redeveloping Fargate, a key shopping street about 250 yards long. Doubled the budget because of "inflation", "ground conditions", "supply chain" etc. Feels amateur.

"If you're not paying, you're not the customer, you're the product."

Nothing says power and might like a ragtag army of mobile scrapyards.

I'm probably sharing a bit too much here, but I really can't imagine how worried I would be about all of that if we didn't have the system we have.

UK here. Grifters will tell you the British health system is broken. It's stretched, but it's also brilliant. My dad just got cancer treatment. My kid is having eye surgery next week. My other kid gets immunotherapy for allergies. Total cost per visit: £5 for car park.

Russia just hit a kindergarten in Kharkiv Russia attacked Kharkiv with drones on Oct. 22, damaging a kindergarten and killing one person, injuring at least six, local authorities reported.

⚡️ Russia just hit a kindergarten in Kharkiv.

Officials said it was likely the attack included jet-powered Geran-2 drones.

The authorities:

It is indeed, got one like this.

Figuratively and literally bulldozing the structures of US democracy...
#trump

Not in the US so don't see these. What is the point of the ads? Recruitment? Tip-offs?