Something magnificent about Kemi Badenoch's self-confidence, and her claim that the Mandelson affair is entirely down to her asking questions at PMQs. Like a toddler who thinks their plastic steering wheel is controlling the car.
Trump has just added this vindictive plaque below Obama’s White House portrait and it bears all the childish pettiness and chaotic capitalisation of his 4am Truth Social rants.
Just a vicious, lawless regime.
The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'
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Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
🚨 Saeema Syeda, of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), said the poll shows:
"It's a manufactured panic, pushed by some politicians and parts of the media to distract from what actually matters to people.
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Reform aren't going to be able to win an FPTP election if 36% for "generally not racist" & 46% for "generally racist", however fair or unfair perceptions of racist/ not racist are
They did well to get 36% in Caerphilly but this is a big part of why they mobilise opponents (Plaid 47% Reform 36%)
"Listen love.." says Nigel Farage to Mishal Husain, someone streets ahead of him intellectually. A little glimpse into the Britain he wants to get back to.
Margaret Thatcher recognised the need to provide asylum for refugees, as well as the need to distinguish them from immigrants. No hope of that from her successors, of course.
Ian Gow MP (Thatcher's PPS) to Tony Marlow MP 23 August 1979:
Sing along everybody!
🎵Any time you're Handsworth way
Any evening, any day
You'll find us all
Doin' the Jenrick walk.
Ev'ry little Racist gal
With her little Nazi pal
You'll find 'em all
Doin' the Jenrick walk.
Oi!🎵
The old songs are the best! 😊
Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."
Anyone can have a mad moment in an interview (I certainly have) but this speaks to some recurring problems with Badenoch:
- her lack of basic prep;
- her amazing ability to walk into lamp-posts;
- the patronising manner, even when wrong;
- & a consistent failure to think seriously about Brexit & NI.
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
Quite apart from Tice going out to defend Farage's shady house purhcase and making things ten times worse, for the guy who says he will be the next UK Chancellor of the Exchequer to end on: "I'm not a tax expert - you're asking the wrong guy," is objectively hilarious. ~AA
A political party, that's topping the polls, lauding someone who called for human beings to be burned to death should be a moment for national self-reflection.
This is not who we are nor who we should become.
Reform UK are a plague on our national humanity. We must never permit them to govern.