Given how trump speaks, if he’d had a massive stroke and was only capable of speaking total bollocks in a stream of unintelligible gibberish…. How would you tell?
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Given how trump speaks, if he’d had a massive stroke and was only capable of speaking total bollocks in a stream of unintelligible gibberish…. How would you tell?
That’ll probably be one of the pivotal points in UK history where we could have avoided so many problems in the future if the outcome had been different. We’d probably still be in the EU for one
This is the most embarrassing thing ever
Kemi Badenoch did a premed course in the same way I did. I did a geography lesson 30 years ago and at some point in the future I’ll be going to see a doctor.
🚨 NEW: Stanford University has "no record" to support Kemi Badenoch's claim that she was offered a scholarship to study medicine at 16.
Kemi Badenoch did a premed course in the same way I did. I did a geography lesson 30 years ago and at some point in the future I’ll be going to see a doctor.
The cost of people in small boats. 🏴 Asylum seeker benefits cost the equivalent of £2 per taxpayer 🏴 Tax avoidance costs the equivalent of £3,000 per taxpayer If Deform supporters and their hangers on can’t see they’re being stoked up to help make the ultra-rich richer, then I'm not surprised.
May you live in populist times is the new Chinese curse.
1997 when. He drove for arrows
There will be a fishy on my little dishy…
Probably since the evidence is people tend to put the weight back on.
I’ve been on wegovy a week. My CGM is reporting my estimated GMI is down 0.2% after 1 week. My bloods have been almost entirely in the green. The effect of wegovy is nothing short of fantastic.
My flat mate went for a cycle ride during the funeral. Said he didn’t pass a single person in 26 miles.
Hate these woke attempts to make Enid Blyton “modern” and “relevant”
Computer says no
So maga today will no doubt be all…. He died! And on the third day he rose to play golf!
Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Just to reaffirm. I will never vote for a politician who does not believe in a woman’s right to choose.
🔴 Brexiteers hate the world they created They claim that Britain is broken, while still clutching the hammer. 📝 New post 👇🏻
Do we have a weekend at Epstein’s situation?
Is he dead?
@stevepeers.bsky.social
I asked ChatGPT what it thinks of my immigration idea. Small boats in the Channel are unsafe, chaotic & costly. What if instead of deterrence, we made crossings safe, legal & useful? Here’s the Channel Access & Work Pilot (CAWP) 🧵
Never let Farage say there isn’t an alternative. @iandunt.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
The Channel will never be “solved” by slogans. But with a ferry, a work permit, and support for local councils, we can replace chaos with control.
Instead of spending billions on deterrence that doesn’t deter, CAWP flips the script: safe ferries, real jobs, stronger communities.
⚖️ This model is: • Orderly (capped & scheduled) • Humane (safe & legal) • Economically sane (workers, not hotel bills) • Politically realistic (built on UK–France treaty already in force).
📊 Pilot numbers: start with 500 people/week. That’s ~26k/year—enough to cut small-boat crossings drastically if scaled.
🔐 Security first: pre-boarding biometrics, watchlist checks, joint UK–France vetting. No boarding without clearance.
💰 Funding is already there. Hotels for asylum seekers cost the UK ~£8m a day. Every 1,000 people diverted from hotels for 90 days saves ~£15m—money we can recycle into communities.
✈️ If it doesn’t work out? A free, dignified exit ticket + reintegration support. Migration isn’t one-way by default.
🏘 Host communities don’t carry the cost alone. Councils get direct funding per placement to support schools, GPs, housing & integration
💼 Migrants are matched to UK regions that need workers: care, agriculture, hospitality, logistics. A job, ESOL support, and orientation from day 1.
🛂 On arrival, every passenger gets a Channel Work Permit: 24 months’ leave + immediate right to work. No hotel limbo, no months of waiting.
🚢 A weekly ferry from northern France to the UK. No smugglers, no dinghies. Places are capped, booked in advance, and fully security-checked before boarding.
I asked ChatGPT what it thinks of my immigration idea. Small boats in the Channel are unsafe, chaotic & costly. What if instead of deterrence, we made crossings safe, legal & useful? Here’s the Channel Access & Work Pilot (CAWP) 🧵
I suspect they’re too thick to join the dots. They are advocating killing people. This makes them a nazi.
This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …
There are no easy and simple options. And most of the outcomes are awful. Letting them work is actually the least awful choice
We can’t let them drown. We aren’t declaring war on france. So they land in the UK. Now what? Force them to live in concentration camps? Employ armed guards to search the streets?
The navy stopping migrants sounds so easy Do they push them back? How exactly? Do they sink them? Then what? Do we let them drown? Do we pick them up? Then what? Return to France? And if France disagrees then what? Your options: A. let them drown B. declare war on France C. land in uk. Pick one
Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...
Also standing next to a picture of Nigel Farage makes you look like a cunt.
The laws of the sea are there for a reason. Once you start advocating the breaking of laws by the state you are a fucking fascist. There isn’t a grey area here.
“Running it. Sorry typo. Ruining it”
Does she realise she is advocating the killing or leaving people to drown in the channel. Which basically makes her a fucking Nazi. And against everything her great uncle stood for.
There is a lady on sky news, talking about how her great uncle fought in the war for this country and that migrants are running it news.sky.com/video/share-... She then advocates that the navy should “stop the boats in the channel”. I assume this means, sinking them…
Now we do need financial discipline, and we do need to reduce the debt ratio one way or the other. But fuck me, when ever I hear about the fiscal rules I go yeah, that’s Labour nailing the government thing right there, really selling that future.
Ah yes. All hail the arbitrary fiscal rules.
Change would be rolling back Brexit, or doing something different about refugees, or new ideas on housing, benefits, maybe some kind of community investment, something that isn’t just the previous policies dressed up in slightly more efficient competence and sticking to a budget.
That would involve doing something different
Starmer’s next speech should be: “Sorry if I haven’t been clear, but Nigel Farage is a vicious, dog-whistling racist who in any sane country would not be anywhere near the reins of power. We utterly reject his racism, his fascism, his plans to turn this country into a far-right fantasy.”
Our culture has been greatly enhanced over the years. Our favourite foods are curry (Indian), fish and chips (Jewish) and kebabs (turkish), pizza is Italian, Tea is from fucking china. Christmas trees are German, lager is Czech, gin originated in Holland, English roses originated in France.
What is like to see is a Prime Minister with the moral courage to say, on the matter of immigration and asylum seekers, the far right are wrong on this matter. We should allow immigrants to work and settle here. We need them for our economy. They are a benefit to society.
I really hate spotting typeos. Obviously that’s “being an alternative to”
Labour need to stand a strong argument to bring an alternative *to* the reform party, not an alternative reform party. Standing closer to the reform party just makes you look like the cunts you are standing next to. Not taller and better looking.
Unfortunately as a government you tend to have to stand for something, as the alternative will always be more interesting if what you are is dull, incompetent, moral cowards. People will end up voting for reform simply because they are fucking bored of the lack of anything ever changing.
Labour undoubtedly when faced with the challenge of reform will run on campaign of banal incompetence and lack of ideas, based on the idea that people will vote for them because the alternative is far right racists. This effectively is the campaign every time of “kick the Tories out”.
And we wouldn’t have to pay them to stay in hotels.
Or we could give jobs to immigrants helping in social care, farming and hospitality. They’d get to pay taxes and contribute to the economy.
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.
Despite having a huge majority and a mandate to change absolutely everything because the last 14 years where a total massive cluster fucking shitshow that should be buried in a bin, but instead we have lets make Brexit better and fuck the immigrants?
They’re absolutely fucking useless moral cowards with no ideas and no solutions other than repeat the failed ideas of the past and try to suck up to the far right in the hope that copying their ideas will some how make them less repugnant and more electable?
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Labour are just moral cowards.
The only reason to want to remove human rights from asylum seekers is that you don’t consider them human. That’s the bottom line here.
Japanese ones even play nice tunes when the rice is cooked
Buy a rice cooker. Best kitchen purchase we made.
It’s been ruled unenforceable but is still in the statute.
In Texas there are more restrictive laws about the possession of dildoes than guns.
To be fair the interviewer on radio 4 was pushing them hard on specifics and pointing out the total bollocks of their plans
That interview could only have been improved if they’d immediately followed it with an interview with the asylum minister for Spain asking them how they deal with the problem. (Work visas, help to find work in areas which need workers, language lessons and integration help)
Reform on radio 4 promising a 20,000 person prison for migrants and sending them to the taliban. Radio 4 interviewer actually pressing hard on the issues and asking *how exactly* and *who exactly* We need more of this. Seriously good interview with someone who is obviously a massive cunt.
Tell me Florida is ruled by Nazis without telling me Florida is ruled by Nazis
Let them work. Give them a job.
Then we wonder why the country is broken, we have no one picking crops, we can’t afford the NHS, and we have riots about people who are just sucking off the stake staying in hotels.
We spend billions stopping people working or locking them up. People who want to work and contribute.
Listening to “The rest is money”. In Spain asylum seekers can work, they get integration support, they get help to find jobs in areas where the economy needs them. Spains GDP is up 2.5% It’s sounds so much simpler and more humane than say paying for their hotels and deporting to Uganda.
It looks like the KKK ran out of sheets
Just got a voip phone. It’s got loads of ring tones. I don’t know why manufacturers bother, there is only one socially acceptable sound for a phone to make. Who the hell as anything other than a ringing sound for a phone?
Heck we’d even get them to pay tax.
If we gave them a work permit and allowed them to work, we wouldn’t need to pay for accommodation so much either.
We could stop the small boats in a second, if this government had the moral fibre and back bone to do so, by buying a fucking ferry to take people across or more simply, providing safe routes for them to come to the uk.
Wrong country. The libdems are not the us democrats.
At the next press conference, someone should just ask Trump how did the meeting go and why was he acting like a total gimp?
Is it easier to just burn this? Or try to explain to the ai I’d like it fixed please
Just vibe coding that one last feature before I commit this and….
What the fuck is he clapping Putin for?
Gulf of Epstein
Tell me you are an incel, without telling me you are an incel.
Nothing better than some nicely toasted sourdough bread with butter and baked beans on it
Just think, every other image must have been unusable
You’ll be better of making your build system awesome, having continuous deployment and removing the process and sprint bullshit. Then spend the time you save with your family
Fast track to burn out. Your life isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon and there’s more than just someone else’s startup that you’ll want to do.
And how it related to the Battle of Britain. The explanation was good, the map less so.
I asked for a map explaining the blitz.
Apologies to our American friends who apparently didn’t merit a mention.