Me too.But you can be sure that there'll be some asswipe writing columns about how "hate crimes" are "woke", and they're political prisoners.
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Me too.But you can be sure that there'll be some asswipe writing columns about how "hate crimes" are "woke", and they're political prisoners.
Just is heartbreaking that this should be the basis of a govt-led realignment of the conversation about immigration, and the positivity that Apple and so many like her have gifted us. Instead, Labour are trying to win over the votes of worthless scum, like the racist attackers.
There is something deeply disturbing about the fact that #vicderbyshire is presenting the message so clearly, while #StephenMorgan had to struggle through a hostile hectoring "but minister"interview from her colleague this morning.
Good for you. I didn’t second guess anything. I just made a point based on Labour’s current performance.
Quite.
He's likeable and articulate. But I think the question on many Labour supporters' minds is how the changes will imp[rove communications, and whether it will mark a policy rethink, away from the move to attract Reform voters.
I'm sorry to say that I think a great many MPs from both Labour and the Tories come into politics as an entry level job in lobbying, directorial appointments on corporate boards, maybe even a TV presenting gig. I'm not sure how many come into politics to change the world any more.
Can you believe it's twenty years since Ireland was robbed - ROBBED I tell you - of this giant of statesmanship?
Thou winnest the internet for Monday.
Starmer vs Farage at the next election is frightening. It should - SHOULD - wake up Labour to the folly of their race to the gutter with #ReformUK. Because Farage will win, and we can content ourselves to USA on Thames, with mass deportations, the crushing of free speech, and ultra-nationalism.
Sounds like he's not himself. Literally.
I've just seen Saly Nugent's breakfast interview with #Stephenmorganmp, when she turned Labour's attempts to improve nursery places into a minor war crimes tribunal.
t's beginning to feel that #BBCBreakfast sofa jockeys are cos-playing Victoria Derbyshire interviewing a war criminal, not a minister trying to deal with the underfunded mess in nursery provision left behind by the Tories. Sally Nugent's interview with #stephenmorganmp was a disgrace.
Perhaps the more immediate question is should Israel be treated as a pariah state? Shd every country summon the Israeli ambassador, and give them 7 days to close their embassy and get their diplomats -and intelligence operatives / the hell out of their country,
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Serious question - who in the current Labour Party do you think is a viable replacement? ( I say this without any attachment to Starmer)
Quite.
This was a relatively innocuous piece of policy. It didn't need to be dragged into a Grand Inquisition.When govt tries to improve something, they don't need an attitude that starts in "This is a catastrophe, and it's all your fault", and ends in "Why doesn't your magic wand fix it, NOW????"
In fairness to Burden, I can remember her challenging and fact checking senior Tories including Johnson. My problem is less with bias in this case than it is with a trend among interviewers that unless they are interrupting with "but Minister" every few minutes, it's not a good interview.
I love the line from the NYT review that "Several of the jokes need a subterranean mind to be correctly understood."
It's the hope! You see the second row start to turn over, and you think "This time! THIS TIME!" but by the time yo0u're halfway, the hope has gone. Still, you think. Maybe a 3....NOOOOOOOOOO!!! 🤣
With a Q+ in his left hand. Is this current?
I'm all for forensic interviewing, but I'd love to know why #rachelburden felt the need to turn her #BridgetPhillipson interview into something akin to a warcrimes interrogation. Breakfast sofa jockeys need to learn that grownup interviewers have more game than just aggressive hectoring.
Have the people who painted the flag on public property been charged with criminal damage yet? Has their organisation been proscribed?
Disappointing to see the normally able #rachelburden buying into the Mail's Rayner-bashing agenda.
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I don't normally repost art, but this is wonderful.
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I'm waiting for the Mail to declare the Court of Appeal "enemies of the people" and Jenrick to call Lord Justice Bean an "activist judge." And are the vandals painting St George's crosses on public property going to be done for criminal damage?
That'll be yer two tier policing...
Happy happy, joy joy...
Let's face it, two centuries on, it isn't a very good constitution, is it?
'mineral' wealth, even.
Thus denying millions of Americans the opportunity to witness what we in the UK refer to as "a Portillo moment."
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Why do I get the feeling he gets his team to post this, and doesn’t bother to read the replies?
It says a lot for the #BBC that when the #Epping injunction ordered the migrants out of the hotel, they reported it as a blow that threw their immigration policy into chaos. Now that the injunction is overruled, they say it's a victory for Labour, but which causes them political problems.
I think that's a great idea. And I think there is something authentic enough about Rylan to believe that he could be convinced that what he was saying was wrong. But who? Labour won't in case the Mail calls them out for being 'woke' (or something).
NI did its bit, to be fair - putting effigies of boat people on a loyalist bonfire, when we haven't actually had any boat people (well not for a few hundred years, anyway...)
Your mam shouts at hotels and your dad paints roundabouts
The trouble is that Rylan is the perfect mark for #ReformUK - popular, likeable, so anodyne that he can be grafted onto any TV format without trace, but not the sharpest tool in the box. A competent Labour party would be turning Rylan, not treating him as a bellwether.
Martin transfers better to the screen, perhaps. He certainly isn't a master prose stylist. Potter is Halloween magic pastiche. Again, the movies are better than the books. I think the BBC adaptation of Dark Materials is quite good, possibly because Ruth Wilson is a very convincing Mrs Coulter.
If she was worried about "safety and fairness" maybe she'd be more critical of orcs in St George flags intimidating vulnerable people. never forget that these people think a scumbag who wanted to burn humans alive is a "political prisoner."
Oooh. Maybe so -I certainly Feely it was conscious. To my shame haven’t got round to Thd Book of Dust. But I think Pullman has created a world that is better than Potter, and arguably GRR Martin. And maybe even the equal of Tolkien
Yes, it's very good. But outside of a football match, is there any need for it at all?
Equally astonishing is the compliance of the Labour Party. No pushback, no rebuttal. Just a terror that opposing it might be somehow going to lose them prospective Reform defectors.
The whole point of 'dust' was that we didn't know! I always felt that he was alluding to 'dark matter' but even that wasn't clarified.
There is no road, no journey. America is there. They are so smug - after Jan 6, they declared that the "Great American Experiment" had been stress-tested, and passed. So, what do they think this looks like to the rest of us? This is an authoritarian country. This is who they are.
They have mass deportation, armed military on the street, the politicisation of the DoJ, the retributive pursuit of critics, and the crushing of dissent. Cabinet meetings in which courtiers vie with each other to spout obsequious eulogies. Attempts to over-ride the sovereignty of pother countries.
In general, the right is obsessed with the "bonfire of regulation" mentality - it is a key part of their appeal, and Labour in particular isn't fighting it. "A man's feet should be planted in his own country but his eyes should survey the world." - George Santayana. We need to look around.
There is a "reasonable liberal" fiction that we don't need it because we aren't post WW2. There are now greater drivers of a mobile population than then, and we should be putting up the arguments, and the vision, to broaden the protections, not sweep them away in a frenzy of "breaking things".
We are about to enter a world in which migrants make up a huge proportion of humanity. We need MORE protection for the refugees, asylum seekers, victims of famine and climate change, not less. And for the people we need to make our country run - the ones who do the jobs we won't.
I hated Jackson's Lord of the Rings, because they were so pedantic and longwinded. You weren't allowed to imagine things for yourself. The Potter films work despite the books being visually stunted - Rowling is good with ideas, and puts, and the magic of growing up but bad at visualising them.
I haven't seen it, and I haven't read the books. But it occurs to me that successful books are successful because they coax you into imagining things for yourself. A good writer means that you don't need an army of art directors, wardrobe and a name director to show you what a world looks like.
It is beyond belief that these people can turn anything -ANYTHING, even the death of children - into political currency.
Backs up what I have been saying I have to say -https://bsky.app/profile/mojumi.bsky.social/post/3lxfffdpux222
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Asopposed, we don't need to say, grossly disrespectful to the parents of every slain child. I am sorry to say that wish Leavitt no good.
Taken by itself, that isn't such a bad thing.
A chilling thought. The question, will the Tories need them?
I note that the Met officer who has been accused of child rape and grooming offences, has not led to mass protests by concerned citizens and patriots outside police stations.
My equally wishful theory is that #Jenrick replaces Badenoich, doesn't do the deal with #ReformUK that everyone expects, and the two proceed to knock lumps out of each other.
Forgive me, as I'm a fan of your posts, but may I suggest that it's because you have the toxic marriage of an anachronistic constitution, and a feeble-minded, selfish misunderstanding of the meaning of "liberty." And a corrupt political system where fat donations buy representatives' votes.
I wonder if this has less to do with security, and more to do with Trump wanting to enrich the US -and the Trump Crime Family - with Greenland’s miner wealth.
She incited her fellow-travellers to burn human beings alive. Are there children under her malign care?
"Something has to change", says Amorim. He's not going to like it if we narrow down the "something."
My point precisely! 👏
And that's before we get to the parade of inadequates dodgy "businessmen", teenagers and barstool bores that he'll be claiming were "extensively vetted" when the candidate lists for the next GE come out...
Sounds suspiciously like "snitch on your neighbours." We'll be encouraging kids too spy on their patents and report "subversive " behaviour, like insisting they get vaccinated.
We seem to have national hysteria in the UK fuelled by insane social media. The leader of one of the smallest opposition parties says they will leave the ECHR and now people are saying the UK intends to leave the ECHR.
Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.
Or indeed to spend thousands on prosecuting a flinger of sandwiches... there's a metaphor lurking here, if someone cleverer than me can't it to good work.
And so a metaphor glides down the birth canal, ready to plop into a thousand social media posts....
Oh I don’t know. Him not having to watch them again ever might be the best way forward.
“Something has to change”says Amorim. Well, yes, but maybe not in the way he means.
As a veteran of the Thatcher years, I can comfort you with the news that you'll probably get over it.
When her husband gets back after work, does he shout "Heil Honey, I'm home?"
Even a conspiracy theory sceptic like myself finds it hard not to see the fingerprints of interference...
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That could almost be cover shot for their first album.
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And yes, the rebound system is worth thinking hard about.
Don’t you think it’s just symptomatic of an overall disillusion with political leaders?
You must be so delighted to live in a country where, as your children are gunned down at school, your DoJ is spending at least six figures on going after a sandwich flinger.
What could possibly go wrong?
Is it because media have moved from reporting events to framing “narrative” and the narrative of Farage breaking the mould of our (mostly) 2party system -as Trump did in America - is more attractive, than real politics?
I mean, when the BBC - just as an example - finds itself with a radically reduced licence fee, and even more placement on the board... (Sings) "Because, because,because,because,because of the wonderful things he does...."
“Because, because, because, because, because of the wonderful things he does…” They’re going to get a hell if a shock when someone pulls back the curtain.
The media -in their mad rush to proclaim Farage Supreme Leader - seem not to have factored this in. He’s going to have to put up 600 candidates, many of whom are likely to be bampots, pub bores or have links to extremist hate groups.
The worry is that if he doesn't, everyone else in the room probably does. But they won't say anything because they're too obsessed with obsequious arselicking.
I imagine this was taken live by #BBCNews, given that the Lib Dems have more than 70 MPs. After all, they broadcast that bloke with only 5 MPs the other day, and made it the lead story in the news....
Yes, all that concern go red thd victims of grooming gangs seems to have been filed under “inconvenient”
Quite possibly. There's also the possibility that, when Jenrick replaces Badenoch, he will embark on the same rhetoric, galvanise the traditional Tory swivel eye loons and split the vote.
The UK doesn't have a presidency, and Farage isn't elected by opinion poll, media declaration or popular acclaim. He has to put up candidates, and the #ReformUk track record on this is poor - dodgy "businessmen", and pub bores who want to resign as soon as it dawns on them it involves work.
The media ought to remember that we don't have a President. Farage cannot be elected PM by opinion poll or popular acclaim. In a GE, #ReformUK have to put up 600+ candidates. Past form suggests it'll be a parade of pub bores, and dodgy "businessmen", who quit when they realise it involves work.
Very astute. And timely - it can't be more than a fortnight until the BBC start wearing poppies at every opportuinty.
The thing that no one in media has factored in is that we don’t have a presidency. They have to put up 600+ other css as mediates. And given past form that will be the usual parade of crackpots, petty criminals and lord knows what else.
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Yes, and so would I. But we are not Labour Prime Ministers.