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Husband & proud dad of two PhD students. Retired accountant with interest in sports and politics and renewed passion for vinyl records. LCFC fan still in a state of disbelief about 2015/16. Pro-EU.
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Capitalism is about making things worse, so they can make more profit by providing less and charging you more. So they buy all the essential services, Housing, Healthcare, Power, Food, Banking... And then they just charge you more and more and more, year after year.

Schrödinger's parade - the crowd was both sparse and dense.

Please read. Love these threads from Emma

The #r4today interview with Mel Stride follows the usual path. Every problem between 2010 and 2024 was the fault of the previous Labour government Every problem in 2025 is the fault of the current Labour government.

Nigel Farage is to give up his £73,000 EU pension! Sorry - my mistake - he just wants to stop other people having a decent pension.

Reform UK Ltd “No immigrants, we’re overcrowded” Also Reform UK Ltd “We want you to have more children”? Racists with no answers facing Britain.

Healthy but tired cynicism being expressed in this letter (to the i Paper). We’re all so bloody sick of the failure… of being lied to like this… of politics for simpletons who think the stuff they don’t like can be swept away with a magic wand and who have no clue how a country works.. or doesn’t.

I don't care where you sit on Starmer, Farridge decrying his credentials as a 'patriot' is a bit farcical. The man who tanked the UK economy, then ran off. Also, breaking stuff is easy, long-term fixing them is hard & it takes time. It requires hard work. Not something we see Farridge has ever done

The people kicking off about resetting relations with the EU, screaming betrayal and crying about sovereignty are the very same people who sold you Brexit on a pack of lies and would prefer you to continue suffering under their madness. We’ve had a decade of shit, ignore them.

Voters are 'unsure' about Farage but are 'willing to roll the dice'. F*ck, me. Clearly, the last 15 years of grifting, flim-flam, cowardice, and avoidance of actually doing the job still haven't convinced you yet...?!? Dear God #newsnight

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

So, National Trust spends £3.3m renovating Coughton Court and then has to hand it over to the Throckmorton family. Interesting that they took it back immediately after members had shelled out all that money. The family appears to have a long standing reputation for shithousery 🤬

Finished staining garden furniture, mowed lawns and clipped hedge. Feeling knackered but pretty pleased with myself ☺️

All that fuss in 2023? ##priceincreases

THURSDAY. Trump: America First. Rest of the world: America Last. 🇺🇸 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ve commented on the piss poor optics from Labour of late but my god, let’s not forget what shit they are clearing up after 14 years of Tory mismanagement and corruption. Not even 9 months in and people who should know better are blaming Labour for the deep hole that is British economy?

Imagine the feeling of trepidation in Ukraine watching Putin fan boy Trump negotiate peace. Like Arne Slot deciding Manchester United's transfers.

I think newspapers should not be allowed to report on any info given by a source who is not prepared to be named. Or the info needs to carry a warning clearly to that effect. That way we know when it’s likely to be lies.

Exciting to watch Elon Musk pivot so elegantly from making his cars toxic to the demographic most likely to consider one, to making his Starlink a national security risk for all the governments who might have wanted it.

The last *seven days*? What *we* have *always feared*? What an irredeemable fraud he is. Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’. And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’. Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”

Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off. That's what blackmail looks like. That's what the world is up against.

George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty

Perfectly captured.

They really, really need to pin this on Farage. When you think of the 'big beasts' of Brexit bollocks, there's not really anyone else left in the game so it should be quite easy.

Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, Chris Philp. All members of Parliament. Voted by the British people to represent their interests in Parliament in Britain. All siding with a foreign plutocrat against their fellow parliamentarians? Traitors.

I think it’s very clear now that Trump & Musk want to aggressively divide, dominate and rule the Western world, rather than work with anyone respectfully of sovereignty. From Canada to UK, Germany and Greenland/Denmark, the rest of the West need to pull together to resist.

Of course the right wing howler monkeys have gone nuts at Sadiq Khan being honoured. Didn’t hear a peep when it was Charlotte Johnson, Shaun Bailey, Hannan, Coffey, Cameron, Frost… You know…*actual* failures, non-entities, losers and liars who’ve done untold damage to our democracy and our country.

Only one of them is a bearer of grifts.

If anyone doubted that Badenoch is an idiot, the Toby Young nomination confirms it. Just the shabbiest, most dimwitted option available and she jumped right for it.

During the GE campaign Starmer constantly spoke about the state of the economy and our public services and was criticised for talking the country down. Now he's PM and is having to make the difficult choices he said would be needed, he's criticised for not fixing everything within 5 months. 🤔