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Private Eye on Starmer’s immigration speech Are we really meant to think he wasn’t responding to Reform? Would he really have used such toxic rhetoric if the results had been different? Does he really believe what he’s doing is fair and right? No one really thinks so Which means he loses everyone.

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“They (Reform UK) voted against •stronger SSP • the right to guaranteed hours • protection from unfair dismissal • stronger protections for pregnant mothers • a package worth £600 for poorest workers.. We’re backing British workers, they vote against them at every turn” PM Keir Starmer #PMQS 👏

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🔥 "The Reform company, sorry party, has already seen four of their new cohort announce that they can’t or won’t represent them in the council chamber, decisions that in some cases will cost local government tens of thousands of pounds."

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Reform councillor was sacked from the police after pretending to be sick... When he was actually on holiday in Spain. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Labour MP Clive Lewis calls out worrying shadiness of US-UK tariff deal "There has been no public consultation, no published mandate, and reports suggest secrecy has intensified" said Clive Lewis www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

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This kid runs circles around the reporter

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At Pope Leo XIV's first Mass as leader on Friday, he pledged to align himself with “ordinary people” and not with the rich and powerful. Many see the first American pope as a continuation of his predecessor, Pope Francis, in his advocacy of the poor, migrants and a more open church.

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The question everybody needs to be asking is this: How does Farage as leader just get away with it? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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CNN are brutally honest about the trade deal we agreed with the USA. As they highlight, it wasn't really a deal, but an agreement to talk towards agreeing various things. The real thing could take months or years or not happen at all.

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This is grim. I’m pretty sure this swan in Hyde Park is nesting, and it’s surrounded by plastic waste that’s washing up from the Serpentine. It’s so representative of our relationship with the natural world. It’s shameful.

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“So far, the most energetic opposition has come not from civic leaders but from everyday citizens, showing up at Congressional town hall meetings or participating in Hands Off rallies across the country. “Our leaders must follow their example.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

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West Berlin, 2 August 1960. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing). #Berlin

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Crockett: I cannot wait until voters have an opportunity to say: You took food out of my mouth. You took a roof from over my head. You are responsible for making sure that I do not have health care. I'm going to make sure you don't have a job.

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Walz: When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb, and apparently now in your toy chest.

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Eighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms. Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability. Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.

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Perhaps Reform could try out a new slogan: ‘Do as I say, not as I do’…

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Good thing he decorated the Oval Office with all that tacky gold shit from China before the tariffs kicked in.

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It’s why the European Union was created. 🇪🇺

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Seems obvious really.

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Reform voters voted for Brexit, causing the small boat crossings and removing our right to return people to Europe. They will have waved their Union flags vigorously on VE day whilst supporting a party/actions that are the direct opposite of what people fought and died for in WW2. Utter madness.

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For Labour, the danger of pandering to a rightwing agenda is immense: “Since the election, the party has lost more than three times as many voters to the Lib Dems as to Reform.” observer.co.uk/news/politic...

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Get Rekt ™

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US pushes nations facing tariffs to approve Musk’s Starlink. Wow the corruption. An internal State Department memo lays it bare:“As the government of Lesotho negotiates a trade deal with the United States, it hopes that licensing Starlink demonstrates goodwill and intent to welcome U.S. businesses.”

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Naw ye cannae

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An anniversary worth marking. I'm sure we're going to see the very people who have trashed its legacy seek to appropriate WW2 today - so let's remember what was really fought for: peace, a more united Europe, a land fit for heroes (mark 2) and the defeat of fascism.

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Crucial point by Sophia Gaston to Commons C'tee: "The existence of a 'Brexit betrayals' narrative" has a "profoundly depressive" impact on how gov't is approaching the UK/EU relationship. And that is "problematic" because it does not even reflect public opinion, but "coerced by media opinion." ~AA

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here's today's post: "Birdbrain of Alcatraz confuses movie with actual prison" — Mad King Donny can’t separate reality from fantasy. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

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This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.

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Trump is already facing pushback from Congress on his budget proposal and now he’s planning to override them entirely. His new budget would slash nearly every federal program by a total of $163 billion while leaving defense spending untouched.

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If Labour want to attack Reform, they should attack it on their weakest front. Brexit, it hasn't worked, is unworkable and unpopular. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/steve-angles...

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maybe the new Reform UK MP will spend time in her constituency and doing work in parliament unlike her boss

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Developing: The White House has confirmed they are planning a military parade for the world’s most famous draft dodger.

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here's today's post: "Captain Clownpants reshuffles the deck chairs on the Trumptanic" — Mike Waltz is out! no, he’s back in! and Marco gets yet another job. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

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Hahaha.. Just seen a clip of Farage pretending to be Trump and telling council staff if they work on climate change or DEI initiatives, then they need to look for new jobs. What an utter tosser. Tough, thankless administrative work awaits his motley crew of inexperienced halfwits. It’ll be carnage.

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The nasty little knot of far right ugliness that is Andrea Jenkyns (now Mayor of Lincolnshire) says it’s ‘no more soft touch Britain’. How lovely. Voters have basically handed her a loud dog whistle and told her to kick the people and policies they don’t like or understand. Failure is inevitable.

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It’s what dads do. 👏

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If Kemi Badenoch is so outraged at calls to kill MPs, she'll surely be returning the £15m donation the Tories took from the man who wanted to shoot Diane Abbott any minute now

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America is… cooked.

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www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Organisers of the London marathon show more leadership than the government. And should be applauded for doing so. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

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BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.

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🚨 Growth in Northern Ireland. Stagnation in Britain. Why? NI is in the Single Market. 🇪🇺 Now imagine: 🔥 Cheaper food 🔥 More jobs 🔥 Real economic growth We’re not broken. We’re being held back by our own government. 🇬🇧❤️🇪🇺 Time to #RejoinEU #TeamEU #BrexitRebels

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I'll bet arresting judges will really lower the price of eggs

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OK, its not a question of whether the phone is compromised. If you are the spy chief of a major country's intelligence service and your people have not compromised this phone, you should resign and find some other line of work

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WTF? FBI agents arrested a Milwaukee county judge on Friday, accusing her of shielding an immigrant from federal authorities. The allegation? That Judge Hannah Dugan “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” someone they were pursuing, according to a now-deleted post by Mr. Patel.

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FBI director Kash Patel alleged in a now-deleted post on X that Wisconsin county Judge Hannah Dugan ‘intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse'. www.ft.com/content/3f8f...

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"Hegseth shared the information on Signal even though an aide warned him in the days beforehand to be careful not to share sensitive information on an unsecure communications system before the Yemen strikes..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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