Kathy T

I don't want to hear "we can't afford it" one more time from Labour. Not while they continue to reinforce their Brexit red lines. The amount of money being left on the table by not seeking to rejoin the EU is eye-watering. The tax lost to Brexit would have paid for everything Labour needed.

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✍️ Did Donald Trump steal the 2024 election? A legal challenge in New York could reveal the truth behind allegations that last year’s election result was “consistent with vote manipulation”

The extraordinary moment at the NATO press conference when Trump admits he gave a foreign enemy (Iran) permission to attack a US military base. “They said is one o’clock ok? I said it’s fine.” He even says soldiers were still on site. I’m not a constitutional lawyer, but that’s treason, right?

Full explainer here, with interactive charts for the bored, and footnotes for the truly committed: buff.ly/AUgCtc9

🚨🚨 Late at night, the European Union’s leadership excitedly revealed a new plan to combat the hell-raising American president’s #tradewar: Take him on at his own wild game. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...

Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million. If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000. Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.

Pam Bondi is denying she knows ICE agents wore masks during raids despite copious video evidence. If she truly didn't know, she should be fired for incompetence. If she does know (she absolutely does) then she should be fired for ordering or allowing it on her watch.

Why do UK media outlets- in particular the Times, Mail and Telegraph - let Trump get away with appalling loutish behaviour which they’d condemn in anyone else? Like trying to get a journalist sacked for writing the truth or calling them scum or dropping the F-bomb in public

This is a level of control freakery to which even the Blair government didn’t aspire. And it’s clearly terrible for good governance – connection is vital, and this severs that at all but ministerial levels.

Watching Truth Social posts by Trump every hour, each more insane & unhinged than the previous one as he circles the drain of a malignant narcissist’s descent into dementia, makes it that much more ridiculous that media just spent a month on Biden while pretending Trump is sane.

I see no real difference between ICE and the early SA/SS in Nazi Germany. A secret police force implementing the mass incarceration of social and political “enemies” in centers and camps. Maybe only a matter of time before they get confident enough in their power to impose actual genocide.

A U.S. citizen on their way to work abducted by ICE then locked in a basement, with federal government employees refusing to consider indisputable proof of citizenship. Congress endorses it. SCOTUS keeps thwarting judges from even slowing it. What more is there to say? We live under fascism now.

An absolute scorcher from @johnjcrace. Do read! “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be Dan was very heaven! O wondrous day. One of which dreams are made. Especially if you’ve been taking large quantities of hallucinogenics.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Friendly reminder that under Morgan McSweeney's direction, Labour have lost the public's support in record time yielding a 10pt lead to the party he claims he's trying to "head off". By any metric his appointment in-Govt has been a total fucking disaster for Keir Starmer. Why is he still there?

IF there was a god.. America is the very last place on earth he would bless,no offence,but you are absolutely nuts

Brexit was a disaster. Most people know it now. We gave up frictionless trade, freedom of movement, and economic stability, all for lies sold by snake oil salesmen. Leaving didn’t free us, it cost us. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

For those with a hangover from yesterday's Hannan Day celebrations. Good Morning.

UK - a founding member of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty - buys jets that can carry nuclear bombs. We buy the jets - estimated £60m each just to buy the basics - the USA provides the bombs and tells us what we can do with them bit.ly/3GdJPNF

“In 2018, Elon Musk … paid no federal income taxes.”

Amnesty International UK said it was “deeply concerned at the use of counter-terrorism powers to target protest groups”. Unless @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social has something serious on Palestine Action beyond vandalism (you cannot “terrorise” inanimate objects) then this is looney tunes stuff.

Since it's #DanHannanDay let's run through the "brain of Brexit's" 5 greatest moments since 2016. First up The One Where Dan Predicted Independence Day in 2025

Donald Trump has accused Israel and Iran of violating a US-brokered ceasefire, according to the FT. The two countries “don’t know what the fuck they’re doing”, he said, adding: “I’m going to see if I can stop it.” The question is whether Trump knows what tfh’s doing after opening Pandora’s box

I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers. Easy money, no risk. Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

Sure as eggs, up she flails…

Excellent, clear list of American brands by @seayou.bsky.social

I stand with #PalestineAction. Lock me up as a terrorist, Yvette Cooper. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Foreign Affairs C'tee chair, @emilythornberry.bsky.social, gets to the absolute heart of the issue. "The only way to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb is a deal. There cannot be a deal without negotiations and there cannot be negotiations without trust." ~AA

Confirmation they did not destroy the uranium stockpiles. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

Senile, vile, evil.

DHS CONTRACTORS FOR KIDNAPPING: These job adverts confirm that DHS-ICE is hiring people off the streets with as little as 2 years military service. Plus CBP is hiring former War on Terror analysts to hunt Americans and migrants alike. Straight up Secret Police shit. These were on LinkedIn.

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And for all the people taken in by the Brexit lies here's more of the same brought to by the chief grifter himself which inevitably they'll swallow happily: taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/06/23/b...

Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it

As english politics leans even further to the right, with LAB now questioning the EHCR, alongside "Island of Strangers" & pro brexit rhetoric, here's a quick thread on how the Far Right utterly collapsed in Finland. TL;DR: "r/w voters: I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face". 🧵

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Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)

The Constitution Society and Federal Trust asked me to do a survey of the evidence on the economics of Brexit, nine years on from the vote. Hopefully it's a helpful reference. Short answer: the consensus was right - a large hit to GDP, trade and investment. consoc.org.uk/publications...

Happy “Make yourselves poorer and more isolated” day… £40Bn ongoing hit to economy and 10% inward investment drop confirmed… But hey ho… Who needs economic strength or strategic clout when you have super-special-sovereignty? 9 years on. And stupider every year. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Or it’s cost: “£140bn so far, according to new analysis, and could see the nation £311bn worse off by the middle of the next decade, according to a new report.” Based on data modelled on how the UK's economy would have acted were it still in the European Union #Rejoin news.sky.com/story/brexit...

9 years on from the Brexit vote, the verdict is in and predictions correct: 🕳️£40 billion hole in public finances 📉4% hit to UK productivity 📦15% drop in trade 💷 £100bn in tax rises—40% of which Brexit made necessary Happy Brexitversary! 🇬🇧🎉 www.thetimes.com/article/346e...