Graham Penrose

My feed is dark, and full of horrors 👹 I promise that life outside my screen is pretty chill, I'm just extremely online when it comes to politics, and have a morbid fascination with the rise of fascism in the modern West 😅

The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain for Tax Purposes.

Return to Oz for Tax Purposes. *Batteries Not Included for Tax Purposes. Spider-man: Far From Home for Tax Purposes. Homeward Bound for Tax Purposes.

God isn’t it great having a labour government, labour MPs are so great if you ignore the unwillingness to nationalise anything, blaming migrants, attacking the disabled community and the constant unrelenting transphobia

Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.

Lmfao Jesus Christ.....this is so delicious, it simply MUST be fattening 😂😈

I could save a third of my monthly pay cheque by not paying my mortgage, but I'd lose my fucking home. It's like toddlernomics or something.

Labour stands up for corporations and big money. I'm running to stand up for people and our communities. www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/excl...

It is always the same betrayal: the public interest is sacrificed for the sake of immensely wealthy people. And Andy Burnham has already gone and done it. My column on how Burnham needs to defy the ultra-rich if he's not to follow Starmer out of the door. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Provisional Met Office data shows this summer was the hottest ever on record. Thousands of deaths due to dangerous heat. Crops destroyed by drought. Homes threatened by fires. Labour must not approve Rosebank or Jackdaw in this new climate chaos. No new oil and gas.

President Trump likes to slap the name of America on everything. Gulf of Mexico? Gulf of America. Strait of Hormuz? Strait of of America. Lake Ontario? Lake America. Epstein Island? America Island.

Anyone else get the feeling that, after the (maybe literal) dust settles at the end of Trump's presidency, they're going to have to pull down the whole White House and start again like they did with the Reich Chancellery?

Checkmate, Nige.

A fire now the size of 140 football pitches Drought in half of England & all of Wales Heat alerts across the country. Already 3000 dead from the heat. The crisis is here. We can see it, we can smell the smoke. We cannot sit by while government sit on their hands. www.lbc.co.uk/article/new-...

Why do weird coincidences like this keep happening even without an algorithm 🤔

For years, Telegraph columnists told us climate breakdown is a hoax. Now they say: it's real, but it's too late to do anything about it, so let the bodies pile high (again). Just one long list of excuses not to reduce fossil fuel use. Such newspapers bear as much responsibility as the oil firms.

Keep it simple today in Greater Manchester. Vote Green first 💚

Andy Burn 'em - surely not how he'd want to be remembered

Argentina is such a fucking awful team of cheating, crying violent little babies. Utterly undeserving of any of their accolades, and terrible role models. Thank you, Spain, for playing great football and putting them in their place. Glad we had a better game in the play-offs.

Sigh. We re-invented cable again. This is like the entertainment industry equivalent of transport bros constantly re-inventing trains.

"Any effect? Oh, no, none at all. I'm just a li'l bitch. Self-respect is for losers."

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

Hubris, thy name is...

Watching this game with headphones on while my wife sleeps upstairs has been a challenge. Trying not to make any noise while jumping up and down and frequently fist-pumping the air has definitely confused the cat.

Juiceless team going out on their knees looking like the Simpsons soccer gif.

Belgium's answer absolutely HAMMERING home the point that the USA doesn't deserve to win this. What a beautiful instant come-back.

Unearned. Rubbish all game. One lucky free kick.

Still not over hydration breaks. This little two-minute tactical huddle in the middle of each half is just bizarre to me. Belgium have momentum; I hope they can keep hold of it.

Fuck yes, Belgium!!!

Brb, off to learn the Belgian national anthem.

For no particular reason, obviously, this weekend I found myself remembering all those allegations about mysterious dark money funding untraceable Facebook ads during the Brexit campaign.

We can't afford another lost decade. It's time to turn the page.

Kier Starmer may not have been a *terrible* Prime Minister, but he *was* the kind of Prime Minister who removed the whip from his own back-bench MPs for voting for a policy that he later claimed as one of his successes in his resignation speech. I think that says a lot about his political instincts.

And this is before we get to support for a government committing genocide, ever more deranged attacks on the right to protest, ripping down planning and environmental protections, kowtowing to corporate lobbyists and treating the left of the Labour Party as the real enemy to be crushed.

"You unlock your house every day with a key, so why is it suddenly a problem if the government and every corporation you've ever interacted with gets a copy of that key and access to your house!?"

10 years on, Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right extremist. Jo was an extraordinarily warm person who believed in a more inclusive society for all. Today, we remember Jo, and vow to build the kinder world she was striving for.

At a time when some seek to divide our communities, let's instead celebrate the simple of acts of courage that bring us together. Remember, we have more in common with someone seeking safety than with the billionaires pointing the finger. Refugees welcome.

Seems like PA has even more in common with the Suffragettes than Baroness Carr would like to admit.

10 years ago tomorrow, William Mair murdered Jo Cox at a constituency surgery, and since then the two legacy parties and the principal insurgent party in the UK have essentially been in competition for his vote when he's eventually released from prison.