Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE

So Farage thinks that Brexit has been a success and that we're "standing taller in the world"!!! He's as demented as his orange boyfriend.

Vucic has been kicked out in Serbia. Beaten by the student movement. This is seismic!

theguardian.comHow might Andy Burnham tackle Thames Water debacle?A look at some of the options after PM is urged to consider radical alternatives to deal with stricken company

Just get on and do it. These parasites have already made far too much money on the backs of ordinary people. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Xela Hart

@xelahart.bsky.social

This is masterful debating. If only the orange turd possessed half of El-Sayed's intellect.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

During the English Civil War the nation was divided as never before. Families divided & fought on different sides. Then, after eleven years of the Commonwealth, wearing hair shirts and having no fun, they finally decided they'd made a dreadful mistake and asked the King to come back. Sound familiar?

theguardian.comBrexit’s back – but are British voters ready to contemplate a reversal?As Andy Burnham talks up closer alignment with the EU and a poll suggests half in UK would rejoin, the B-word is back on the agenda

Gosh. Even in Clacton 52% back rejoining. Is there hope for that corner of Essex, after all? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comReform UK councillors and candidates filmed making racist and misogynist commentsParty faces fresh crisis as three councillors quit after ITV undercover filming exposed violence, misogyny and racist views

What a surprise. Not. I would love to see Reform totally disappear from our politics. It and it's disgusting leader. A fish rots from the head down, after all. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comNigel Farage says charities that help asylum seekers reach UK should be prosecutedReform leader did not say who should be targeted but party figures have been critical of small boat rescues by RNLI

This wretched creature is almost as bad as the orange horror in the White House. He has no humanity. What a disgusting apology for a human being he is. The sooner he falls from grace and disappears from view, the better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

@esrasyenen.bsky.social write a biography. Tell us something about yourself and you'll probably get followed back...

theguardian.comBBC asks judge to force Trump to sit for deposition as part of his $10bn lawsuitBBC asks US federal judge to compel Trump’s lawyers to schedule deposition after his team canceled initial session

Glorious. I bet he ends up quietly dropping the charges. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

theguardian.comZelenskyy furious as Trump announces deal to buy Russian dieselPresident says deal essential to lower US fuel prices but move set to create fresh crisis with Ukraine and Nato allies

What a complete and utter shit this man is. When, Oh when, Oh Lord... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I listened to the Today Programme today (unusually). Charles Moore is living on a different planet. 1st he stated that inequality in the UK had fallen over the last 40 years. Actually, it's the opposite. Then he said Burnham owed his education to Thatcher. Um, no. He benefitted from free education

theguardian.comIsrael facing water shortages caused by destruction of Gaza’s treatment plantsFive desalination plants shut down for days, while Gaza remains in grip of severe water and sanitation crisis

A case of reaping what you sow... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

theguardian.comBanished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation dealsAfter a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...

21 Sept

Trump's US has been turned into a scary Police State. Why are we having anything to do with it? We shun North Korea and isolated Saddam's Iraq and Ghadafi's Libya for such abuses. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

theguardian.comSmall boat arrivals are ‘wealthy men’ who do not deserve help, says Reform’s Danny KrugerThe fact that some migrants pay people smugglers thousands of pounds makes them well off, MP claims

19 Sept

I would like to think that this piece of shit's mother is embarrassed by him. Sadly, I fear she holds many of the same views. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comSpeed up electricity grid upgrade or else face higher bills, warns UK watchdogNational Audit Office says failure to implement £70bn modernisation would also hold back economic growth

11 Sept

We wouldn't be in this situation if the Tories hadn't privatised everything and then failed to invest in infrastructure. It's the same story every time they're in power. They never invest for the future. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

theguardian.comFrom ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwavesThousands of heat-related deaths in record-breaking temperatures appeared to only intensify hosts’ climate denials

3 Sept

Isn't promulgating such climate denialism a security risk? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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AshfromEnfield

@ashfromenfield.bsky.social

15 Aug

Facts Matter…. And She Doesn’t

theguardian.comLabour seeking ‘deeper relationship’ with EU under Burnham, new minister saysExclusive: Hamish Falconer wants ‘sense of renewed pace’ in post-Brexit talks while staying within Labour’s red lines

10 Aug

Disappointing. I can't believe they're still sticking to those wretched "red lines." It really is time the UK government grew up. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

youtube.comClacton Express: Binface 2026YouTube video by Count Binface

6 Aug

This needs sharing far and wide so that we can make 13th August Bin Day! youtube.com/watch?v=ujHp...

open.spotify.com200. Count Binface: Nigel Farage's Biggest Threat?The Rest Is Politics: Leading · Episode

4 Aug

Glorious! open.spotify.com/episode/6QT3...

theguardian.comFormer neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council electionJoshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

4 Aug

Still the nasty party, then. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comDining across the divide: ‘He didn’t change my mind on anything – but he did give me a lift to my car’A prospective Restore Britain voter and a Green-supporting Chinese immigrant found some common ground over small-boat crossings, but where did they land on foxhunting?

3 Aug

Joe is clearly far more patient than me. I'd have had severe problems restraining myself in any conversation with Phil. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

1 Aug

Interesting results in Manchester. Reform is definitely on the slide 21% of first preference votes seems to be going in the right direction (IE, down). I do think, however, that it's time to introduce compulsory voting. And move polling day to Sunday. Thursday is ridiculous in this day and age.

bylinetimes.com‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial StructuresWhy did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...

31 July

Absolutely my favourite time of day. Evening sun on Monte Coscerno.

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Peter Jukes

@peterjukes.bsky.social

30 July

I think a lot of people have missed this. Until the police investigation in February last year, Reform UK’s financial structures were all tied up with Cottrell and his Montenegro base bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...

thenerve.newsFarage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denialThe Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...

22 July

Brava Carole Cadwalader. Farage is a crook, up to his ears in Russian and criminal money. His farcical by-election is a huge miscalculation because the curtain has finally been lifted on his criminality. Let's hope it's the beginning of the end for him. www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...

22 July

I find myself, once again, wondering about that report into Russian interference in the referendum, which was quashed by Johnson. The logical conclusion of all this law breaking is that Farage, Cottrell and Johnson (and probably many more) should all be in prison.

theguardian.comJohnson government wasted ‘vast’ sums on PPE, Covid inquiry findsChair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report

14 July

What a suprise. Not! Why isn't Johnson and his ministers in prison? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

7 July

Awaiting THE statement at 2pm. Is everyone in the UK crossing their fingers??

theguardian.comRemove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf DubsExclusive: Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child says Andy Burnham has chance to ‘correct mistakes’ on refugees

26 June

Appalling woman. I hope she's one of the first victims of Burnham's cabinet reorganisation. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.comOnly Donald Trump could make America’s special 250th birthday all about himThe milestone called for the epic vision of a JFK or the soaring oratory of a Barack Obama. Instead it got a Trump rally

Bear with me, as this is a slightly lengthy thread inspired by today's Guardian US Politics Sketch. It put me in mind of a paper by Robert Pearce on the collapse of the Western Empire. Two paragry seem particularly apposite: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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regardless of the indignity to their office and the state! Of course collapse does not happen at once. But the rot is there. Why sacrifice yourself, when you are accustomed to indulging yourself?

It is only by hard work and self-denial and deferred satisfaction that most people can achieve everything. But why worry? Eat, drink and be merry! … while it lasts. Such hedonism is, in the end, profoundly depressing

The effect of easy divorce, itself often a product of adultery, and so of low personal morality, was to dissolve the fundamental building block of Roman society. At that point, obligations also dissolve. It is every man for himself.

Office is valued, not as a means to serve society, which includes one’s own family, but rather as a means to gain money. Thus we reach the comical situation described by Juvenal, where wealthy magistrates appear as “clients” at some rich man’s morning levee, to claim a daily handout,

I see Mark Rutte is arse-licking Trump again. He's just embarrassing himself now.

24 June

Waking up the day after the '92 election to hear that John Major had won, against all expectations, was so depressing. Nothing, however, can compare with the depression which set in on hearing the Brexit result ten years ago today. It's lasted for ten years. Bloody David Cameron.

theguardian.comKeir Starmer couldn’t beat the curse of Brexit – a politics poisoned by nationalism | Rafael BehrThe outgoing prime minister’s efforts to mobilise a healthier kind of patriotism fell flat. Andy Burnham may stand a better chance, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

24 June

There's a lot of sense here. Brexit has not only hurt the economy but it's poisoned political debate in the UK. We can but hope that Burnham is the person to bring the country back from the edge. He's got an enormous job on his hands. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

bit.lyEvidence shows Trump admin caused Reflecting Pool damage it blamed on sabotage: ex-insiderAn ex-GOP lawmaker has heard enough about phantom left-wing saboteurs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and he is pointing at the only suspects who fit the evidence: the people Trump hired to clean it.In a series of posts and a new video, former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger dismantl...

23 June

The Brexit bots are out in force today.

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Raw Story

@rawstory.com

21 June

An ex-GOP lawmaker has heard enough about phantom left-wing saboteurs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and he is pointing at the only suspects who fit the evidence: the people Trump hired to clean it.

theguardian.comTrump news at a glance: US president claims ‘vandalism’ for Washington DC reflecting pool problemsPaint seen peeling off in the water at pool site; investigation finds ICE agents disproportionately target people from Latin America – key US politics stories from Saturday 20 June at a glance

21 June

We all know the man's a moron but trying to deflect criticism of a costly mistake by blaming "vandals"? He clearly thinks everyone else is a moron,too. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

19 June

I am most definitely no Meloni fan, however I'm loving this: mostly for the way in which Trump has been called out over his behaviour. I wish people like Starmer and Rutte would do likewise.