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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clypmk3k80ko
James O’Brien free version if you want it. Presumably we’ll have a rant about left wing bias or moaning about the licence fee instead.
Bon weekend folks, wear sunscreen.
Where’s the desperation and what has the presenter got to with it? The footage speaks for itself, makes no difference who is commenting on it. No actual response to add so you’re playing the man and not the ball.
These are the sort of clueless morons now sitting on councils. They are finding out that, unlike their hero, they actually have to turn up and do something.
"That's what happens when you elect Nigel Farage fans…" @mrjamesob.bsky.social reacts to two new Reform councillors admitting they don't know what they're doing.
Whilst there’s no denying that the Greens have had issues with some of its candidates’ past utterings, it’s nowhere near the scale of Reform’s problems which we barely hear a peep about from those on the right.
No coincidence that the three longest established parties aren’t seeing this on the same scale. They are clearly better at vetting. Out of the Greens and Reform I know who I have more faith in to sort it out.
Asylum hotel numbers down by a third and number of people claiming asylum down by 12%.
Will the rightwing media celebrate these figures? I won’t be holding my breath.
If you listen to the Tories (yes, I know), it’s either not enough or James Cleverly should be the one to take the credit. To think they used to be a serious party.
Farage and his lackeys believe that people should be rewarded for verbally abusing opposition politicians in public. A highly dangerous road to go down, wait for the copycat incidents and someone to start making the abuse physical. Farage is highly concerned about ‘security’ when it’s his own, so much so that he allegedly needs £5 million for it, but he’s more than happy to encourage abuse of a woman in public. Despicable.
Oh good, weeks upon weeks of hearing about a by-election and then a leadership contest. Wake me up when it’s all over 😴
I’ve only been to eight across England and Wales, nine if you count staggering across Worcester drunk and lost
I have also been to two overseas. The now defunct Kranji in Singapore which I didn’t like much, perhaps a night meeting would have been better. Happy Valley was brilliant, as was Hong Kong in general. Great atmosphere and at around £1 the best value entry fee you’ll find anywhere, just had to tap the same card you use on the metro to get in.
Thanks Cork, not something I look at much at all but the headline seemed a bit out of step with the source so it got my interest.
When Starmer is replaced, it will see the seventh Prime Minister in a decade.
The previous seven occupants of 10 Downing Street lasted 46 years.
It’s a damning statistic but reflective of the age we live in. The previous seven were largely before social media and 24 hour news. They were able to carefully curate their images and control what went out, aided and abetted by a compliant media Establishment with which I imagine they had a very cosy relationship behind the scenes. I’m sure many still do to some extent. In the past scandals were harder to come by but now every word is pored over and socal media timelines rigourously trawled and even minor transgressions can become headline news because 24 hour news channels, social media and near constant live blogs need something to talk about all day and night.
Meanwhile, the country, as a whole, really needs a working government facing up to its challenges and implementing an economic and welfare strategy for our future.
On that we are very much agree. Sadly nobody is interested in talking about that. Most of the media simply exists to undermine the Government at every opportunity, opposition parties are constantly having a pop a Labour without saying anything constructive and the Government itself is too busy with this will they / won’t they saga which has grown tiresome in the extreme.
No idea who the author is or where his politics lie but I think this piece from the very much not left wing Spectator may actually end up being on the money.
https://spectator.com/article/youll-miss-keir-starmer-when-hes-gone/
Their solution? Call in Gordon Broon, who sold off the nation’s gold reserves.
Incidentally, those reserves would be worth £40BN in today’s terms….yes, £40BN.Of course Tory governments would never dream of flogging state assets.
As predicted, Reform councillors dropping like flies already, mostly due to racism. All that public money that could be used to care for your grandparents or educating your child with additional needs now being spent on entirely avoidable council by-elections. I thought Reform were going to cut the waste?
Israel have drifted bug time in the market
I read somewhere that there’s a lower limit on the number of votes an individual can cast in the public ballot. Wonder if that’s got anything to do with it.
Reform are not popular in the Liverpool region.
Neither are Murdoch’s vile rags. I wonder if the two are in any way related.
Peeps expect domestic issues to come first, second and third.
Our domestic issues would be worse if we’d followed the USA into their illegal war like the Trump bootlickers on the right wanted us to. It’s one thing Starmer did correctly.
