Was over there, now dabbling over here. I guess we'll see how things end up!
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Cross-party MPs publish ‘ready to go’ blueprint for electoral reform commission “We believe the government has a responsibility to urgently address the use of [FPTP] for general elections…” #FPTP #ProportionalRepresentation #getPRdone www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/09...
The kind of thing that happens when the government allow Reform to dictate the conversation, rather than calling them out & condemning. So disappointed in Starmer & the government on this. A total reversal to how they tackled the riots last year - on which they lead strongly & clearly, to confront.
Definitely a compliment 👌
Still on the EHCR are we? British politics is stuck in a post-Brexit doom loop, addicted to spectacle politics and unable to engage with its actual problems: the sclerotic post-GFC economy that has seen real wages stagnate and increasing inability of government to invest in public services.
Sadly also possible, I guess.
Understandable! I’m fairly fresh to it, so not sour yet 🤣
Every time the rhetoric gets ramped up by Farage & their tame mindless thugs, do Labour take it on and call them out? No. Instead they come out with a new ghastly reaction, following the piper. Weak, pathetic & not solving the problem.
Did it not come with any criticism of wanton vandalism at all - surely???
Today’s debacle is arguably worse. I think we should start a petition for Cardle to have some fuzzy logic behind it - ‘I can accept that answer’.
Gosh had missed that and just looked up - thanks. Seems surprising, but the injured party didn’t want to submit a statement? Haven’t seen the footage before the person ended up on the deck, maybe they went at him first?
That sounds like next level drink mixing; type of fruit, by type of coke! (In this instance I just don’t think any fruit has a place in JD and coke/Diet Coke 🤷♂️)
You probably thought I was joking, but sadly no - hope the anticipation worth it!
And today topped it all - got it exactly right on third go, but they can’t spell! 🤦♂️ (Riley Elf and Wolseley Horner same car with badge on the grille the only distinguishing external feature afaik, so arguably get full geek points on second go?) Cardle 2025-09-01 Score: ❌❌❌❌❌ cardle.uk
This one pee’d me off because I got it in one (first guess is at the top) but then we’re into semantics on what name to call it - there was an XJ6 and an XJ12 Series 1 that both looked the same - so it just is an XJ Series 1! Cardle 2025-08-31 Score: ❌❌❌❌❌ cardle.uk
Cardle catch up from the last few days… Annoying - I was so close on my second choice and actually had the name right for third guess, but talked myself out of trying it because I was convinced they were only available as convertibles Cardle 2025-08-30 Score: ❌❌❌❌❌
Thank you, I’m glad you liked :) Just came out the shop and noticed it over my shoulder as I crossed the road, so just a quick snap. Seem to have been sent another one this afternoon!
Hah, hadn’t noticed that!
The US is not bigger than the UN. If the UN is unable to function properly while in the US, then it should no longer be based in the US? Would be a significant reduction in US world standing, but unfortunately that seems not to matter (or even be cheered on!) by many there these days.
The biggest “dangerous diplomatic embarrassment” for the US, is the current occupant of the White House. apple.news/AhZwWFGY0RBG...
Delicately put! 🙂
Part of the reason the Tories & Farage’s of this world wanted to cut us off from it - if people don’t travel and see things are better just off our doorstep, they don’t realise how much they’re being shafted here.
Don’t tempt me to get out my marmite collection.
Devilish charm can be hard to resist for even the most reputedly wholesome. You haven’t heard the worst of it yet though - I even like bastardised marmalade!
I fiendishly kept it quiet until it was too late 😈
I do like Marmalade, too…
I am only just now tucking into mine also, so you’re all good 🙂
Deeply honoured and gratefully received. How can I ever repay you for such an act of kindness? (Gosh now I feel pressure to go out there and be wholesome and good today 👀 )
The top of the list is healthy for competition tbf and it hurts to admit that Trump might actually be winning at something, but…
Meta is having quite the week. It's almost as if the AI industry should be regulated or shouldn't exist at all. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Tough one. On the one hand that may be the undoing, because ‘money can’t buy happiness’ 🤔 But then..?
Really great fun. Scuttle shake is a thing… (Surprisingly so, given the roll-hoop and even with the optional oem strut-brace)
You may have discovered the secret to happiness!
Reform need to understand they are not above the law and two-tier policing does not, in fact, exist.
I love your optimism/delusion 😁
Taken yesterday. First time the conditions for one of these have existed, for months! So was extra welcome 🙂🌈
A deliberate ongoing attempt to undermine the independence of the judicial system - claiming that it’s politicised when it isn’t - precisely so that they can politicise it & curtail it’s ability to hold politicians to account. A ‘stooge’ system like in US, is the aim of Reform & current Tory parties
“Nigel Farage pretends to champion free speech: I’m calling on him to take some responsibility for once in his political career and demand that Nottinghamshire County Council Leader Mick Barton reverses this decision.” Max Wilkinson MP has written to Nigel Farage 🔽
Reform’s move to block local journalists from reporting on their work is straight out of Donald Trump's playbook. It's a cornerstone of our democracy that politicians of all stripes are held to account — but for some reason Farage's cronies think they can make themselves exempt.
Depends how easy to catch - if bell-end enough to film themselves doing it & post online, then yep for easy pickings… www.bbc.com/news/article...
Let us hope not?
Saw that pop up yesterday. Won’t watch Boiler Room stuff now though. Regret not going to AVA Festival earlier this year.
Something has gone very wrong with the world. Out to a few pubs round town last night, two of them stuck a lemon in JD & Diet Coke orders… Since when has that *ever* been a thing?
A very small step. Israeli arms companies should also be blocked from attending. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Acceptable. Cardle 2025-08-29 Score: ❌✔️➖➖➖ cardle.uk
I don’t know if anyone’s noticed, but, in no particular order, there still isn’t really a plan for dealing with the economic damage done by Brexit, there’s a war going on in Europe, there’s global warming, etc.
The British political and media class out of intellectual ordinariness and laziness will spend the next few years ‘debating’ the ECHR rather than deal with things like structural economic issues, Britain’s place in the world, and environmental destruction. I’m sorry, but not a serious country.
Of course it’s a free will choice. There’s nothing forcing to believe, or not believe.
Oh good, all the shit people are coming out against the ECHR. They can't offer anything meaningful, so hope to create a new Brexit type issue. Our political class is utterly bereft of intellectual thinking.
Difficult to see America ever doing it tbh, no matter who is in power?
The desperate measures local residents must resort to when they don’t have a @libdems.org.uk councillor?
“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.” - Eleanor Roosevelt #RadioFreeAmerica
Respect to her. Unfortunately, sticking to principles and the scientific evidence doesn’t wash with that administration - only bowing to the glorious leader, does.
‘Rigorous’ vetting worked so well [see many examples, including the one below] that they’re going to simplify it and let people who previously failed, re-apply. Competence personified.
Impressive work by the Spectator there, tracking down a photo of a train that was only a prototype, from approx 20 years before the end of BR. Stunning relevance 👌
Except it isn’t journalists who said that - it was he and Trice who said it.
What do you mean by that question?
The lies have always been whatever comes from Moylan - who I recall blocked me on twitter, for repeatedly (politely and with no offence that I recall) calling him out on them, such is the lack of scrutiny he is prepared to have his claims stand up against.
Just a ghastly monstrosity: destroying, enveloping, and dwarfing an existing building of architectural merit, while dooming the entire station to perpetual artificial light and constraint — treating the station as an inconvenience that must be accommodated, begrudgingly.
What gives it away, exactly?
DJ would actually have a legit reason to wear shades indoors, if playing these! 🌟😂 ebay.us/m/QBJkba
They want it, but not in their back yard, of course. Better to force it on areas that don’t vote Reform - that’ll learn em.
Better Cardle 2025-08-28 Score: ❌❌❌✔️➖ cardle.uk
Not a bad way to start the day!
Orban can get in the bin.
That’s ridiculously incredible framing!
Strong words, but much of it true.
Also showing the utter farcical ridiculousness of reporting on Reform. Article 1: “No going back Nigel Farage’s…” Article 2: “Nigel Farage rolls back…”
Worth a read even if you’re not Science Bluesky, but are at all interested in Bluesky v legacy SM [childish snigger] comparison. (And no, it’s not just a ‘Bluesky is wonderful’ bubble piece, either.)
To the shock of us all… Reform’s flagship policies stand up to not even smallest bit of scrutiny. (But they still hogged the headlines for over 24 hours & the original stuff was piped loudly to all their would-be voters with no real-time challenge; so it’s a win for them) www.bbc.com/news/article...
Slightly annoyed that one took me till last go 🙄 Cardle 2025-08-27 Score: ❌❌❌❌✔️ cardle.uk
I hadn’t even noticed that tab was a thing 😳 thanks - now pinned!
Not to mention that the most costly self inflicted wound in British history, is the Brexit that they sold everyone.
It shows such a basic lack of political understanding that Labour didn't go straight on the attack over this. Just because most people are worried about immigration being too high it doesn't mean they're psychopaths.
Just update the plight - pleasingly prompt rejuvenation of this one at least 🙂 (Though covered in dirt from scarifying my dust bowl of a lawn today 🤦♂️ Hopefully managed to remove all the dead crap before it finally rains tonight! 🤞)
Principled. Right that Ed should have been invited. Within his right to decline it.
Some pictures I found on the internet. No similarities to what the post below shows.
Repulsive, weak sycophants.
Some pictures I found on the internet. No discernible link to the previous post, of course.
Don’t forget the Hamas tunnel that was up on the fourth floor as well.
Oh absolutely! They don’t believe in anything other than enriching themselves & stopping others from doing the same. This is just how they get attention - say outrageous things & sell easy blame solutions to the impressionable to make them look the other way while they take away their rights.
Difficult to contain the emotional response when watching him, isn’t it? But of course, that’s precisely the point. It’s how they get so much attention!
Phil McCann all over again. (Though the story is definitely no laughing matter)
The type of people Reform want to “do business with”. This is where their carefully orchestrated, softly-softly, bit-by-bit roll-back of our rights leads. When international oversight & controls are removed, they’re free to change laws single-handedly & do what they want to us. Brexit just the start
Nigel Farage and the Reform Party’s Taliban Tax means sending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money to an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought and died to defeat.
Farage’s “probity and judgment were sold as the product called Brexit. It turned out to be a piece of shit.” And, unbelievably, this Labour govt finds itself trapped because it has refused to call this out. What a profound - and now dangerous - political failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🤣 🤔 Had you made sure to consume the requisite amount of gin before signing as Dorries, though?
Beautiful
Reform UK: 5 MPs (give or take) LibDems: 70+ TheGreenParty: Same number as Reform. How does a party that could fit in an Addison Lee dominate the attention, while the other two that could fill a coach get none? I discuss that below.
Another great piece, making lots of sense. Your point about ‘you are the product being sold to advertisers’ if you’re on X was similarly made to me by my father a while ago, though worded slightly differently: ‘if you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product’.
Do agree timescale doesn’t fit within their remaining term & we shouldn’t lose yet another gov term talking only about Brexit - but that doesn’t mean completely avoid the conversation that Brexit is the cause of many problems They need to stop pretending it isn’t. Call out Farage’s flagship failure.
The nation needs preparing for such events - careful hand holding as lead towards them.
"This is unlike anything we've ever seen before." The Atlantic's David Frum on the "sick psychological dynamic of what President Trump is up to" with proceedings like the FBI raid on former national security advisor John Bolton. #Newsnight
Sending people back to Afghanistan who the Taliban will torture, kill & oppress is not “doing business with people you may not like - that’s just a hard fact of leadership”. It’s a complete & utter abdication of any morals & humanity and a complete *lack* of leadership & acceptance of responsibility
Absolutely no consideration 😤
So a frog, then?
One for automotive Bluesky. There are some real gems out there! apple.news/ADwZEJgm_SLG...
Also populist governments are weak and incompetent (thought they think they’re the opposite) so they’re easily bought and manipulated.
