Francis

Don't know how to talk to people who voted for people who want me dead and insist they support my transition.

When you go down to the woods today.....

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This is what we’ve come to, and so quickly.

Germany urges Britain to rejoin EU customs union Call is at odds with UK Labour’s own post-Brexit red lines.

Germany’s top diplomat in London has called on Britain to strike a customs union deal with the European Union.

Came out for the second half like the game was already won. Sloppy, passive and so f***ing soft. That’s the season well and truly over there. #ncfc

I note with interest right-wing media's total absence of any concerns about prominent BBC presenter Armstrong expressing his highly political opinions. As was always perfectly clear to many of us, the problem was not that Lineker had views, but the fact they didn't approve of his views.

BREAKING: Kia’s official Instagram account in Norway just posted this..

This is not an untested idea. 2002 Championship play off final, Norwich v Birmingham in Cardiff.
Atomic Kitten appeared at half time, singing some dirge. They were shit, the idea was shit. As were Norwich. I was suffering a massive mdma hangover, as I recall.

Sun's out, so it starts, again.
Fixed the greenhouse after the storms blew out some glass.
Seeds & compost bought.
Tomatoes sown. 🤞

This is great placard work!

Hope the PM gives Zelesnky some of his really good whiskey. Now that it's open and everything.

If you don’t already like Zelenskyy enough:

He said "fuck you bitch (suka, blyat)" to JD Vance during their argument.

Where is Starmer's statement of support for Zelenskyy. No excuses. No equivocation.

to clarify: Trump is refusing to take sides over a war in which North Korea and Iran are backing one side and all of NATO has been backing the other

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

a blue and yellow flag is waving in the wind on a pole ALT: a blue and yellow flag is waving in the wind on a pole

Slava Ukraini

Post from Alex Philips before Starmer’s meeting with Trump. Hopefully, we're about to see how whipped Starmer is by Trump! 🙏 I predict he'll be Told to scrap Chagos scam Told to control borders Told to lay off Net Zero Told to invest in defence Told not to cosy up to EU Told to protect free speech Suddenly grateful to have a weak, witless PM Let's hope Trump can Make Britain Great Again!

Brexiters have national betrayal in their DNA. They hope Trump will bring our govt down, keep us away from the EU and trample all over us on trade. You might not agree with a fair bit that Starmer’s govt is doing but surely you still want what’s best for our country. And it sure as shit isn’t this…

Keir Starmer, "Nigel Farage didn't even turn up to parliament today"

"Nigel Farage is fawning over Putin"

"That's not patriotism"

Can I please commend the stark difference between the Tories and Reform on Ukraine?

MANY of the most senior Tories have condemned Trump explicitly in very clear terms that allow for no ambiguity or nuance.

Reform are shamefully, even treacherously silent.

Never forgive. Never forget.

A scenario where Ukraine can't join NATO paradoxically makes the permanent presence of 10 000s of UK and EU member state troops in Ukraine far more likely

On Ukraine, Europe must step into the void | Virgin

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

30 minute bootycall in Skegness'll do that to a woman

Hegseth says US won’t come to rescue of any nation invaded by Russia from now on. Do you get it yet? Time to shut the door on America. They’re not our ally any more.

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

Extract from article: Labour policy would deny them citizenship in perpetuity. They would be second-class citizens forever. No matter how many decades they stay in this country. No matter how loyally they feel towards it. The policy is a rejection of the concept of equality. It is a rejection of the concept of dignity. It is an affront to any of the values which this Government was supposed to hold: decency, fairness, the rule of law. It is a rejection of the values which Starmer was supposed to hold and which his supporters believed him to hold.

There simply is no justification for denying people citizenship once you’ve granted them refugee status. None.

A brilliant explainer if you were in *any* doubt about that.

George Osborne: There is such an easy trap here for the Labour government to set for the Conservatives, and has the immediate economic benefit of doing something that's going to help your GDP in the next few years: Do some kind of trade deal with the EU. Of the kind that's talked about, for example, making it easier to do agricultural checks, so we're not spending billions of pounds at the border doing that .... So you basically are digging a pit, you're putting the spikes in, and you're inviting Kemi Badenoch to walk into the pit. Because once the deal is done ... Every British business will start to adjust to the new trading relationship that they have with the EU, the new customs arrangements, which will be an improvement on the ones that exist today. Then you get to the general election, and the Conservatives will say, it's outrageous, they betrayed Brexit, you know, they've conceded some power to the European Court of Justice' or whatever. They'll try and rerun the Brexit campaign from 2016 which will be ancient history by then, and every business will go We are not going back to that. We are absolutely not going back into the Brexit chaos.' ... And the Labour Party will win over the business community in that single manoeuvre, and the Tories will be stranded on a kind of ideological argument that really only has resonance with a small portion of the population.

I never thought I’d say this, but here’s a former UK Conservative Chancellor talking sense.

No rewind on Brexit, minister says following reset talks Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the Government intends to make Brexit work in a ‘ruthlessly pragmatic’ way.

OK, that’s very clear, and deserves a clear response. I will no longer urge people to vote Labour as the party to get the Tories out. To put it plainly, you can F**k right off.

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Meant to be taking a break from #r4today but I understand after hearing Farage already this week the latest “news” is that the Tories want to be cruel to migrants, is it?

Groundbreaking.

As ever, anti-migrant, anti-poor, anti-integration utter bullshit from desperate, irrelevant Tory scum.

Ugh. Farage on #r4today to comment on Starmer attending the EU summit. An explosion of prejudiced bilge. The usual crap about needing a “proper” Brexit and a US trade deal. He talks of “submission” and “humiliation” but would be very happy to sell us out to Trump.
The man is such a fucking bore.