James Willby

Same rules as before. Sign up, follow @iandunt.bsky.social, no swearing and also see if that French Dog lover is around anywhere ...

And this is the honest truth. We do not like Freedom of Movement. We do not want Europeans being able to come to the UK because we see them as foreigners, not 'fellow Europeans'. That's just a fact. But. Are we now prepared to live with it for better trade and growth? Maybe. #Brexit

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

That is a politician, a Prime Minister supremely confident in what he believes in. Authentic through and through. #Burnhamspeech

if hundreds of uniformed and balaclava wearing non-white extremists gathered outside a police station because their leader had been arrested, it would be the lead national story

While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible

Really is amazing how many Reform and UKIP elected officials have been arrested over years. So unlucky.

Oof

Oh no what a shame.

So it looks like Reform policy chief James Orr has straight up broken the law here. It's also exactly the same crime Farage has been accused of re: George Cottrell donating via his mother and which Parliament is currently investigating.

Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin.

Not only are Reform in absolute meltdown this morning, but James Johnson and JL Partners, the polling company they worked with to commission those polls - founded by a former Tory Brexiteer - are absolutely screwed. Who is going to work with them?

And again on the subject of why the UK government is absolutely right to refuse home-fees for EU students as part of a Youth Mobility Scheme, the UK University Russel Group are clear: it will cost £500m and will result in cuts to places for British students. www.russellgroup.ac.uk/policy/polic...

You mean Andy Pandy wants to escape scrutiny and hide in the North because its comfortable and he doesn't like London. Great start Labour ...

Sigh. Just occurred to me that Labour redlines on Europe will be gone. With Streeting at No.11, we'll see Labour capitulate on youth mobility and home fees. In exchange for nothing. And Brussels will be emboldened on Free Movement. Rome cannot bear imperfect communion with Canterbury ...

When you're the least popular person at a party . . .

A statement from the family of the victim of the knife attack in Belfast calling for the attack not to he used for division, and stating that many immigrants make a valuable contribution to the UK. A statement that will likely just be ignored by those wishing to exploit the attack.

June 6 is D-day, probably ANTIFA's most heroic moment.

Easy win for stay out if the Euro, Free Movement and no rebate, plus schengen are the deal.

UK economy on ‘stronger footing’ than expected before energy shock after February growth surge. Starmer and Reeves, cannot catch a break. If Trump hadn’t won that election, we would be well on the path to recovery. Damn him.

UK economy massively beat expectations in February. Growth of 0.5% was well above estimates. Be happy your third largest export market is doing well. Its in your interest.

Its for those who want to join the EU - not Starmer who does not - to explain why the UK should afford rights to a Slovakian it doesn't to an Australian. And to be clear; Remain failed and Rejoin has continued to fail on this since 2016. But fine. Make the argument. Stop hiding from it.

Agreed. And its important to ensure EU nationals with no right to be in the UK are deported. As the HO has started.

The polling on the UK is clear. Barely 15% of Brits describe themselves as European. In Germany its 78%. There is no European identity in the UK. And that number has been consistent for decades. And its why Brexit happened. Its just not a sentiment that exists.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Matt Goodwin’s sitting on his own in a Scruton cafe crying like a little girl and you’re laughing?

Good that Orban is gone. He was Putin's man in Brussels and with him out of the way the aid to Ukraine should be unblocked, plus the EU can go further on sanctions. Additionally, its another loss for Trump and the MAGA crowd; Hungary was their vision of a restored Europe. Now that's crumbled.

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

Tell me you all saw what I saw

Worth having no right to prevent millions of economic migrants moving to the UK en masse? No. Of course it isn't. Yes, Brexit has consequences. Some negative, some positive. Thats what separation means. But on the whole, its working well and Starmer is taking the correct approach.

The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

So they want to impose a hard border between Scotland and England. Because there is no chance - zero - of England allowing an open border to an EU state. This is not Ireland.

*applause*

Iran's 10 point plan seems to put them in a better position than they were in before the war www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Presenting the reopening the Strait of Hormuz as a victory is like the Greeks failing to take Troy but celebrating the safe return of their wooden horse

Everyone understands this ceasefire was just so Trump didn’t look weak for not obliterating all of Iran’s critical infrastructure, right? Iran is already claiming the US gave them the OK to enrich uranium, so these talks almost certainly aren’t going to go anywhere.

It would get curb stomped and Labour would crash in the polls. Nobody cares about joining the EU. The conversation I overheard at Malaga in the queue for the gate said it all. Quote: "The deal we'd be offered would be so bad for the UK, to punish and humiliate us, we'd be better off out"

So, the last 24-30 hours (open source): F-15E lost, 1 pilot rescued 2x HH-60W damaged A-10 damaged by Iran, crashes, pilot reported ok F-16 Squawk 7700, Iraq. Landed safely. MQ-9 shot down, Shiraz. +1 possible shot down MQ-9. 2x KC-135 Squawk 7700, Israel. Will come back to this if/when more info.

“Bucha survived 33 days of russian occupation, terror, torture — 33 days of total evil. 600 murdered Ukrainian men and women. Russia called it staged. Russia always does this. Actually, all evil acts this way.” President Zelenskyy addressed the European leaders at the Bucha Summit.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit a war crime. Attacks on civilian infrastructure and deliberate targeting of clean water are war crimes. They are illegal. Which means either the US military is about to disgrace itself or he is lying because he is clearly desperate.