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submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

1. Trump and his Death Eaters cannot tolerate any rival power. Europe, when united, is a major trading and diplomatic bloc. They see Russia (much less of a threat to US hegemony) as an excellent instrument for breaking up Europe, by threat or by force.🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 83 comments

submitted 9 days ago • 655 comments

1. Here are just a few of the ways in which Starmer’s Labour Party seems determined to alienate its voters and lose the next election. As they pile up, you have to keep pinching yourself and asking, “what the hell is it playing at?” 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 177 comments

The idea the Labour government should now reinvent itself to become a form of Conservative government in order to fend off Reform is possibly the maddest thing I’ve ever seen.

submitted 14 days ago • 28 comments

This would be the minimal first step.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

A majority of voters on the issue of the EU have no political champion. Agree with every word on the cowardice of Labour, the timid steps of the LibDems and the irrelevance of the Greens. When will they start to represent the views of the public? This is what is driving the slide rightwards.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is thick as pigshit politics. You fight the right by making a positive case for immigration. We are governed by idiots with no idea of the real world.

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

"Dozens of countries back International Criminal Court after Trump sanctions." A majority of member states, including the UK, Germany and France, said that the ICC was "a vital pillar of the international justice system". Only a criminal would sanction the ICC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

OK, that’s very clear, and deserves a clear response. I will no longer urge people to vote Labour as the party to get the Tories out. To put it plainly, you can F**k right off. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 16 days ago • 6590 comments

When will Govt learn you can’t out-Reform Reform - you end up simply legitimising their toxic narrative. To see off populists, Labour needs to invest in public services & local communities, making a real difference to people’s lives - levy a wealth tax & use it to improve people’s lives now

submitted 18 days ago • 164 comments

Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart

submitted 20 days ago • 638 comments

Donald Trump announces he's reaming everything after what he feels like - no matter what anyone else thinks. Hungary will eagerly accept the changes apparently.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Some thoughts while returning on the Eurostar from Paris. 1. It’s a cliché but nonetheless true that the intellectual culture in France reminds us what we are missing in the UK. 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 34 comments

I wonder whether anyone at the Beeb has ever told Robbie Gibb, the Brexit-supporting board member knighted by his former boss Theresa May who polices the ‘impartiality’ of others, to piss off. Someone senior, whether on or off air staff, really needs to. This nonsense can’t continue.

submitted 23 days ago • 62 comments

In my column today I argue that, unbelievably, Labour are worse on environmental issues than the Conservatives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 24 days ago • 122 comments

When maximum sentence for chaining yourself to railings is over twice maximum sentence for racially aggravated assault, anyone who cares about justice should be appalled. This is a dangerous, undemocratic & disproportionate attack on longstanding right to peaceful protest in UK #DefendOurJuries

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

Reducing 'regulation' to increase 'growth' while reducing immigration & bolstering workers' rights & ruling out any return to the single market/customs union is such a mad project that I'm tempted to take the Reeves speech live this morning...

submitted 25 days ago • 107 comments

Getting so tired of Starmer's insistence that he can make Brexit work for the country. It's impossible. Rejoining is inevitable. If he wants to remain as PM, he'll have to reset his own thinking & abandon his ridiculous & unpopular red lines. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

"Six months after taking power, the government still hasn’t built on the meagre proposals in its manifesto, via either greater policy detail or additional proposals. The EU waits for both." It's not just the EU waiting for these… so are swathes of Brits. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

So, Wes Streeting, private health firms have given you shedloads of money without expecting anything in return and it’s only a coincidence that you want more un-evidence-based, expensive NHS privatisation? FFS, Labour, after 14 years of Tory lies, people deserve better than this

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Pecksniff on good form this week. Hard to disagree with anything in this tour around the abysmal state of UK politics.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Some really good points here about how 'dangerous Labour's economic agenda' is.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Dumb, and dumber. Beginning to think Labour is as useless as the last lot. They had a strong mandate - to clean up our politics, renew ties with Europe to stimulate growth, tackle inequality, corruption, structural issues; and they’ve wasted it in under a year with pointless tinkering. 🤬

submitted 30 days ago • 19 comments

Can't grow UK economy through regressive tax policies. Richest fifth pay 31% of gross household income in direct taxes; poorest fifth,14%. Richest fifth pay 9% of income in indirect taxes; poorest fifth, 28%. The poorest pay higher proportion of income in tax. leftfootforward.org/2025/01/labo...

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

“We have longer life expectancy, higher social and environmental standards, and lower inequalities than all our global competitors.” Europe is now setting out its stall. Good. It’s about investing in citizens, environment and standards. 💙

submitted 32 days ago • 31 comments

So, SO, happy for these families. Relieved they look ok physically, tho’ probably deep mental scars. What might have been for other hostage families, let alone 1000s of Gazans, who will never be reunited, had this deal been made in May, when first mooted? 😢https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_qELjvLED8

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

The Lib Dems are becoming proactively more and more creative after @eddavey.libdems.org.uk fantastic election campaign 😊 They have launched a poster van attack ad outside CCHQ after Kemi Badenoch suggested she would look at 'means testing' the triple lock. Well done 👏👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿 ❤️🇪🇺

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

UK should seek new customs union with EU, Lib Dems to say www.theguardian.com/politics/202... I agree 100%. Talks need to begin now.

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

Thought for the day.

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

Joining the EU Single Market Could Be the Gamechanger for Keir Starmer’s Government Both the UK economy and the new Labour Government needs an urgent shot in the arm. Could this be the solution? bylinetimes.com/2025/01/13/k...

submitted 40 days ago • 109 comments

As horrific fires rage in LA, news comes that world has breached 1.5 degree limit on global heating. When will political leaders join the dots & take urgent far-reaching action? Leave all new fossil fuels in the ground & prioritise building resilience - home retrofits, flood defences & much more

submitted 43 days ago • 37 comments

Dear God, they really should've sorted this and got rid of her. The problem isn't that she's Brexiter. It's that she's an idiot.

submitted 45 days ago • 94 comments

Have written a longer version of this, including on the history of social care and how we got here. Enough of acting timidly when you have the largest majority in memory. To govern is to choose. So, choose something. benansell.substack.com/p/profiles-i...

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

In 2024 we pulled together the full story of the impact of Brexit so far. All the stats. Laid bare. Here they are. 👇

submitted 54 days ago • 19 comments

Perfectly clear at the time - to everyone except Cummings - that this would be the inevitable outcome. Yet another example - as if more were needed - of the sheer lack of understanding by Brexiters of how the world really works. Arrogance, exceptionalism and fantasy. This is why we're now screwed.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment