Just as an observation, Kemi Badenoch has called for Keir to sack Angela Rayner for tax shenanigans. Meanwhile, Keir has not called for Kemi to sack Jenrick for hanging around with Combat 18.
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Just as an observation, Kemi Badenoch has called for Keir to sack Angela Rayner for tax shenanigans. Meanwhile, Keir has not called for Kemi to sack Jenrick for hanging around with Combat 18.
Flat was up for sale. I took off market. Thing is that estate agent played with the blinds and broke it. They are responsible. They said they would send a team round as they have lets. It's been 6 weeks and they haven't bothered. Negative reviews on Google and install to force them?
One for YouTube later. There were some classic 1970s and 1980s USSR parades though.
Angela Rayner admits underpaying stamp duty on £800,000 seaside flat
Flam Photos www.flickr.com/gp/eregis/m4...
I remember the midnight openings of bookshops, jkr going on a train from King's x with a labeled 9 3/4 platform etc. No other book in post war era achieved that
Briksdal Glacier shots www.flickr.com/gp/eregis/4Z...
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
I think this was the paragraph I started bleeding internally.
This is very Jay from The Inbetweeners 'I had trials at West Ham' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There is something that smells about Rayners tax arrangements. Like... who else do you know puts their house into trust after divorce?
Absolutely loved the fact that the owner decided to dub Geronimo “the people’s alpaca”.
Mistreating & abusing citizens is not morally more reprehensible than mistreating & abusing those deemed “illegal”...[but] if we turn a blind eye to such treatment on the grounds that “it’s only illegals being treated this way”, it will not remain “only illegals” observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Encouraging people to “do their own research” has consequences.
You do wonder what the marginal cost per barrel of burning this north sea oil is anyway. We are running out and there's been few new major discoveries
Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse
Bagehot makes good point. In rejoining, UK would have to give up even more sovereignty than before. EU has already changed a lot since referendum, & direction of travel is more integration. These are not things Rejoiners will be eager to focus on any time soon... www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Reminder that small boat migration is c.5% of all UK immigration. And asylum-seeking generally is far lower per head of UK population than most other west European countries e.g. 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇧🇪 🇳🇱 🇦🇹 🇮🇪. Yes even Ireland takes way more. Yet none have the same sense of crisis and moral panic as the UK.
Huugesund shots www.flickr.com/gp/eregis/04...
Thank-you Ed Davey. Keep doing this. Relentlessly.
Going to do a list of your favourite Bluesky people who are still active on X, even posting their socials, at some point. You might be surprised by who thinks it's actually fine!
Guy who wrote a book saying his mom is a junkie slag and his people are lazy trash thinks that everyone else should be more grateful
You want to see the benefits of immigration and economic migrants? Walk around any City dealing room.
Ben Obese-Jecty is the only Conservative MP and frankly one of the vanishingly small number of MPs, full stop, to react to this stuff in a normal way.
If he ends up with a long term condition, there is no way he will be able to pay the medical bills in retirement. I looked up his pay
Norway. Shots of the ship and some of the solent from the ship www.flickr.com/gp/eregis/Z8...
And if you take decent camera gear in a peli case, you get questioned over whether you're working or why you don't have a carnet.
The radical right in Britain increasingly claims to represent "Christian values" & "Christian civilisation" - though its leaders rarely go to church or pretend to believe anything. It's especially important that Christian leaders speak out against this, as it's their tradition that's being claimed.
Lib Dems have gained a seat from Labour in Keir Starmer’s backyard. Congratulations Councillor Janet Grauberg OBE and the Camden Liberal Democrat team🔶
The government should be blamed for not pushing back aggressively against bad faith TV immigration coverage. But the prime culprits are the broadcasters: their news reporters, correspondents, editors and producers are amplifying and repeating lies. They are colluding in deception. It is shameful.
More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
Yer dad's taken a day off from shouting at dog walkers to go to that London
It will be quite funny if one of her daughters starts dating a black guy just as Steve Bannon comes home for dinner
What will bring down the BBC will not be pressure from its traditional enemies on the Far Right but rather it will be a loss of willingness to fight for it among its traditional allies among the Centre-Right, Liberals and Left
Listen if you have tiny kids I'm here to tell you you have *no idea* how many work/social days will be lost to chickenpox in the coming years if you don't get this jab. How many days you will pay for but not use at nursery. Get the jab.
They worked hard for this. I did some canvassing.
Your mam shouts at hotels and your dad paints roundabouts
BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop? #windows95
Labours arse handed to them in council byelection where I live
If they are too lazy to take then to the doc for a few injections, they will be too lazy to educate them. Needs carrot and stick
Coldplay are kind of that scale but they got big when cds were still a thing. Their scale has also been remarkable. Obvs people hate them but I kind of think they are jealous
Especially in the age of streaming so physical sames of albums will be lower. Eras was an expansive tour, bigger than u2s 360.
No child benefits either. Social contract
Whether Trump can run in '28 is important not because Trump will run in '28... But because JD Vance will use it to run in '36, '40, '44... The guy is 41yrs old today. Wake up people!!!
Far too sensible
They need to nor mess up the IT and for most part the covid apps worked well so I'm confident they can?
Populist or dictatorial states become very bureaucratic in my view. I won't go to the US, like if I ride a bike and so something minor that wouldn't be illegal here (say u turn on open road), that's me off to a centre
The otwhr thing is that in the US all the ice stuff is on many peiple who may just have unintentionally made mistakes in app forms or got a criminal record for even minor offences like Jay walking. Before they may not have bothered with deportations, now they are and it's legal.
My mum is 86. I made sure I at least got her a passport last year as she'll never travel being too old but it's her only form of official photo ID because we do not have Id cards. Big mistake of labour not to bring them in
Coz yeah my parents didn't come here to claim asylum but it will not matter to these people. My fear is they won't be able to deport enough people to make critics happy and then they go further
I'm seriously concerned. I have my birth certificate and have seen my parents naturalisation docs but now worried enough to want to find them. I don't trust a right wing gov not to change the rules, and make that all moot.
"Coming soon from the people who brought you Brexit — mass deportations, withdrawal from human rights treaties and Trumpist assaults on the judiciary. What could possibly go wrong?" - excellent, bracing column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social:
One for each day of week
Irony lost on the white south African immigrant saying immigration too high. Wonder why he came here after the anc took power. We should not have taken them in
Love how they interview the 60y old migrant from South Africa who says immigration is too high. Wonder why there's a few white south Africans who migrated here after the anc took power? 😉
Considering, not doing. And while Hungary is a member and still getting EU funds, little gets done
Tony Blair needs to come before Parliament to give evidence about his discussions with the Trump administration about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Trump has a unique power to end this war. We must leverage all the information at our disposal to make him do the right thing.
This is complete rubbish. Companies do check, more so if role is permanent but they do check. They Will ask references, they will check companies house if you have a consultancy (they talked to my clients). Make sure simple things are in order.
It would remove the argument that ni is for your pension. So if they do it, they'd have to merge income tax and ni
Remember there was like a year where the Right's biggest fear was walkable cities with local shops and amenities? Seems like a lifetime ago, but it was 2023-4.
@stephenkb.bsky.social
this is one of the most spectacular ongoing political misjudgements ever seen. he won't be PM for the next election.
'Is it in fact, a good idea to give money to the Taliban, you know, the Al-Qaeda hosting guys?' - if you don't understand why this was obviously going to be a thing to attack Farage on, you just don't *like* the average British person very much. You think they're a fool!
I do think X is seriously damaging the brains of the UK political class. It's wildly unrepresentative of actual public opinion but is still being treated as such. (Bluesky isn't representative either obviously but no one treats it as such).
We all want physical buttons in our cars instead of touchscreens. But it's worth noting that things were sometimes a bit too far the other way.
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.
I used to think that but I'm more than concerned about the Overton window and the commentaries not ignoring him
How do we know it wasn't someone who doesn't like reform taking the piss!
Former NY Fed President Bill Dudley: "Markets are too complacent. Even if Trump stands only a small chance of taking control of the Fed, the effort itself is disruptive and the consequences of success would be dire." @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
#10 is a bully pulpit. Complacency gets you nothing. If you cannot stand for anything, you stand for nothing.
I harsh on starmer. Having met him, I think he's alright, a bit awkward but no spirit, no leadership skills and is uncharismatic. Camden Labour chooses it's candidates by committee. It's been one day since Farage said he'd give money to the Taliban and there's been no response. Wtf? Grow a pair
Well we are half way to the next m users, but that 10 day surge or so has not lasted. Growth is back to the post US election slow and steady pace. And a ton of you are posting over there regularly.
"Bluntly, if the government cannot make the point that it is a bad idea to give money to the Taliban, it is far from clear to me when a better opportunity to attack Farage is going to present itself."- on.ft.com/3HKB1zO via @stephenkb.bsky.social
Screening for new job done and passed. I officially start Monday.
OK, I find this almost more terrifying than anything else. A scummy but still mainstream Tory now belongs to a party that wants to cleanse this country of huge numbers of legal immigrants as well.
Is Ben Habib immune from Lowe’s “remigration” plan out of interest?
As we've seen across history, the populist playbook used by Farage is ugly, powerful and incredibly destructive. We know where it will lead if we don't stop it.
Let's cut the "Farage's plan is impractical" line eh? People said the same of Trump and now ICE goons are rounding people up into alligator-infested camps and sending people to Uganda. Need to defend principle of asylum and defend human rights and be against sending people to be tortured and killed
The Kier Kuck Klan
But starmer is Farages Effete Metro Cuck. Weimer Kier
Reform talking about giving billions to the Taliban to appease a few racists is not what I expected on my bingo card. Weimer Kier is literally a stupid pussy if he can't even criticise that. It's back of the net stuff!
In before 'it's crap because they agree with it' - frankly even if you agreed with every dot and comma of the big picture stuff, you should have enough about you to attack your opponent's plan to give billions of pounds to the Taliban.
A lot of people seem to have convinced themselves that the Starmer strategy is a deliberate masterly inactivity. It's not, but even if it were, no winning government has ever gone quiet and just gone 'well, the opposition is just self-defining as extreme'. They went out and labelled it as such.
Starmer's basic problem with the immigration debate is also the broadcast news media's - like them, he does not understand the people who live in the UK; he sees them solely through the prism of the right wing press.
Exactly. It should be as simple as, saying "When people say who they are, believe them."
How could you pay Iran to take back asylum seekers. We've just been combing them!
I suppose Trump thinks of comfort women as similar to the girls and women trafficked by Epstein
Becaaue hes part of the establishment. After all, he's a privy councilor. Private school Shropshire manor house, total sell out
Noop, he's an ante semetic racist piece of shit. Because people voted Labour in 2017 on the assumption that he'd oppose brexit. Where was he in the refurendum? Sorry, magic grandpa is a egotistical old cunt and did he get his covid jab?
Because he is a leaver and did not even campaign to stay at m in the refurendum. He's also a racist egotistical scumbag who can't even get a flu jab as he's a crank
I have no respect for him. I mean I never really did but Trump mocked him to his face and he serves. What a pussy 😂
There are always these issues in a campaign that take a while to solve as bills need paying and Noone is quote sure who pays for what sometimes but the current president is literally corrupt and the nyt are pussies in their coverage of that
People will also have to come to terms thay corbyn is also a leaver who is such a nutcase that he doesn't even have his flu jab.
And Corbyn.
Lol. They have Little Marco to protect them 😂
Trump looks to have more fake tan than the average Essex chav
If the nhs is so great why do other countries have some form of mixed healthcare with public and private provision. The US is the extreme and I don't think this scaremongering works.