Captain Botseye

How financialisation is corroding education in the UK www.opendemocracy.net/en/private-e...

Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who correctly remembers that contrary to trump's post, Joe Biden was NOT the President on January 6, 2021 -- trump was.

His delusional episodes are increasing, it's time for the 25th Amendment.

HE IS UNFIT TO SERVE.

Nigel Farage on Russia Today.

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

A digital poster features two Palestinian doctors, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and Dr. Marwan Al-Hams, against a blurred background of destruction and smoke. Text at the top reads in bold yellow letters: “They are not coming home.” Below, in white and yellow text, it says: “Israel denies release of abducted Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and Dr. Marwan Al-Hams in deal.” Both men appear serious—Dr. Abu Safiya in a white medical coat, and Dr. Al-Hams in dark clothing with a stethoscope around his neck.

CNN reports that Israel has refused to release two abducted Palestinian doctors, renowned pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and Dr. Marwan Al Hams, deliberately excluding them from the ceasefire and prisoner swap agreement.

Alice Kisiya is a Palestinian Christian activist living in the West Bank, a woman striving to protect her land against Israeli settlers.

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

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Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

Farage/Reform and the Trump playbook.

Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants
Promise to reduce workers's rights
Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled

Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education.

Power grab by dividing society.

Seems @Nigel_Farage is trying damage limitation on the Reform Russian Bribes scandal.

He’s known Nathan Gill for 20 years, and claims he knew nothing.

No one believes you, Nigel.

Keep the story moving. Questions must be answered.

Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe Ineos owner urges policymakers to reform net zero taxes or risk ‘irreversible decline’

Why does this tax exile 'foreigner' think our government should discuss policy with him? He should feck off back to Monaco. Made his choice based on his own interest, to avoid tax. Anything he has to say will be only in his own interests, again.

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I’m afraid that if you emigrate to Dubai for the tax breaks and 24-hour security, you really should give up your citizenship here for someone who wants it.

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

No surprise from the man who sold his country down the river just to become PM - a corrupt, useless, self serving lying one at that

Johnson secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture, amid plans to use an influential contact & senior contacts in the Saudi gov he met as PM

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Been reading Bob Woodward's book on Clinton's first year. . 1993. Where a government elected on a social democratic mandate was first instructed by market leaders to forget about democracy. They obeyed, and so has every "progressive" since. Which is why voters world wide have turned to demagogues.

Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that if it hadn't been for Brexit this type of downgrade would not have been needed - and cite official figures suggesting that if Britain had not left the European Union the economy would be about £120 billion greater by 2035 than current forecasts suggest. The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame, as the man who delivered Brexit with "easy sloganeering" then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards. Or to put it another way: Farage, not us, is responsible for putting up your taxes. The theme will tie to the main thrust of Starmer's argument at conference, that the Reform leader is selling easy solutions that are just a fantasy.

Good to blame Farage for the dull-arsed, ruinous, tedious failure of Brexit.
Not that good to keep punishing us for that failure, rather than looking to swiftly boost our prosperity by asking to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union.
But yes. It’s a start.

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Told my German wife about this today. Depressingly she said that she can't see Scotland breaking free from Westminster whilst our oil, renewables and whisky tax revenue, play such a huge part in subsidising England's coffer.

Comrades & friends, Expect the Holyrood elections in 2026 to be the nastiest election ever. The unionists know that they are on a hiding to nothing, So they will conflate, obfuscate & damn well lie to promise you that the empire is still #BetterTogether What they won't do is recognise any of this.👇

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

Peter Thiel illustrates how most Silicon Valley tech billionaires inevitably become delusional, power mad menaces. They may think they have big ideas, but all they have is a lot of money and access to power. They need to be regulated and kept in check. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

From Netanyahu to Trump to Biden to Starmer to Mandelson, Epstein connection runs through it. This is a transnational criminal racketeering enterprise.

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

Vicious authoritarianism built on a pretext of shameless lies under the cover of scolding Christianity.

Yet more whinging from the self-preservation elite. A mere 7% of the UK population go to private schools & refuse to 'integrate' with the remaining 93%.

Yet this minority comprise the vast majority of senior journalists & media, judiciary, senior legal profession & more. Very off-putting.

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

I genuinely believe that if the Greens remain consistent with their messaging and politics, a sizeable percentage of people who are disillusioned with Labour or who vote Reform as a protest vote or who simply don't think voting is worth it (etc) would be persuaded to join the Greens.

Instead of paying attention to how most people actually live in this country, Labour's leadership have wasted months following what the most toxic people on Musk's fascist website are saying, and respond to those trends instead. It would be comical were it not so reckless and dangerous.

Starmer went from winning a sizeable majority to becoming one of the most unpopular PMs in history in just 15 months. Instead of learning anything in that time period, all the Labour leadership has done is double down on cruel, unnecessary and - again - deeply unpopular policies.

They chose instead to go after trans ppl, to cut benefits, to demonise migrants, to appease the Far Right - things that no one who voted Labour voted for.

Labour decided that what they had to do is (fail to) defeat Reform when they actually had to reward the anti-Tory vote with non-Tory policies.

Labour had the easiest job in front of them after winning with a strong majority as the we-are-not-the-Tories party last year. They could have rendered Reform irrelevant in a matter of months by pushing for popular, pro-welfare policies.

There is a reason the Far Right relies on lies and racist AI images/videos when talking about immigration in this country. It's the only way for them to distract from the fact that there is an actual labour shortage, that immigrants are the only reason there is an NHS in the first place etc