Ben

The Slasher loons are out in force too - all over the airwaves shrieking at the govt to cut the spending that goes into accumulating GDP - then somehow growth magically happens even though you’re now starting two steps back from where you were. Lessons of Tory austerity disaster going unlearned

You look at how the populists are getting turfed out in #Serbia, #Hungary, #Brazil and the recent positive movement in polls under #Burnham and you think about the feeble #Starmer and ask why on earth he thought caving in to that rotten, racist, dangerous and corrupt thinking was the way forward?

Exactly. Is there anything less British than this? Cringeworthy Far right weirdos

Add this to Serbia booting out its own far right populist waste of space yesterday too.

Truth bomb

Well done Brazil! Great news www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

Andy Burnham on #gogglebox It’s a bit forced. But the cause is a good one

Slamming into reverse so fast you can hear the gears crunch

Fraser Nelson commendably points out to the Right that their narrative of 'lawless Britain on the verge of civil war' is the inverse of the truth. And the big rise in immigration has coincided with a big drop in crime. frasernelson.substack.com/p/lawless-br...

And already they have moved on to screeching for the dirty Rosebank oilfield to be opened too. Foolish myopic decision

This isn’t new of course but it is indicative of the descent of America.

Starmerism from Burnham as drilling in Jackdaw gas Field is approved. This is bad news. The reckless anti net zero zealots won’t stop here. They’re after the whole show and Burnham has shown himself to be just as weak as his predecessor

It turns out that spending your life mired in hate & grievance grinds you down and turns you into a victim. Good Morning.

The drumbeat goes on no matter how often the prescription fails. Just another quack

Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 27% (+3) CON: 23% (=) RFM: 22% (+1) LDM: 11% (-1) GRN: 10% (-1) RES: 3% (+1) SNP: 2% (-1) Via @yougov.co.uk, 18-19 Oct. Changes w/ 11-12 Oct.

This book rocks! I’ve read a preview copy It tells the story of a bold young lady who bravely embarks on a magical adventure of growing pies & dripping down. Unfortunately she is turned into a lettuce. It’s being called the best fantasy book since Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings.’🤓

The problems we have with Donald Trump are two-fold and escalate in severity. Firstly, he is without doubt the worst person ever to be President of the US. Secondly, America elected him twice. It is actually the latter that shatters the foundations of the postwar democratic world.

I caved. The heating is on.

The global Right is mired in self-serving scandal, near universal policy failure and incompetence, base racism and scapegoating, and clear moral degradation. Human progress is stunted by it.

With the circus in Washington AfD over in Germany doesn’t get the attention it should for just how extreme it is. Yeah it’s far right but even more unapologetically so that Reform here. What scumbags

47/29 in favour of rejoining #EU prior to campaign is nowhere near enough. Too many still clinging on to Brexit’s rotting carcass and others will be susceptible to all the inevitable bullshit about *them* stealing *your vote* etc let alone tsunami of other lies and codswallop.

Dear knuckledraggers: This is what you hate the establishment for. Not turning your ire on other more vulnerable people www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A rather chaste Nick Ferrari on #LBC this morning as it finally dawns on him that oops! Donald Trump really is a scumbag. Back to normal tomorrow I bet

In the least surprising news of the century, vast majority of racist flag shaggers who go about brandishing crosses and saying that we're a Christian country... don't pray, or go to church or read the Bible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

Traitor.

When you thought you couldn’t despise moronic right-wing grifters any harder, look below at how they attempt to manipulate people. This analysis applies to the rest of the ‘foreign aid’ budget too - mendaciously crafted facile headlines distorting projects that’ve been through several bid reviews

Good including point that IHT cuts do not much (I’d argue nothing) for GDP

Very good and clear-sighted piece about what's going on with French bonds. It ain't great and the potential consequences would be ruinous for pro-Europeans paulkrugman.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

I actually quite like Kemi Badenoch. But she is subject to a myth she doesn't deserve: a Tory recovery which just doesn't exist. Despite endless positive coverage, the Tories are still going backwards. And they deserve to be. Piece from me. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-strang...

Yup

The right-wing paranoia that kids being taught proper stuff doesn’t help them

The Tories sorely need a new David Cameron, but one with backbone. They’re a galaxy away from this, though I sense more Tories are only putting up with Badenoch’s infantile nonsense for now until she and the hyper online movement she defines is clobbered in the next election.

What is the market for the wacky litany of half-baked, resentment-dripping, anti youth policies the #Conservatives have pumped out the last couple of days? Do they not realise their vote base is dying out and they absolutely need young voters - trust funded weirdo Tory boys ain’t going to cut it

Labour was polling a little over 30% when these articles were written. It is genuinely strange that the Conservative Party is not being subjected to the same obituaries by op-ed given its frequent sub-20% polling.

Eh? What?

Kemi Badenoch’s speech on Wednesday is going to be jammed full of petty, waste-of-time, culture war crap. It will be bigoted, reactionary, negative and shrill. It will not move humanity forward one inch.

Dewy eyed Laura Kuenssberg

The state of the country explained in one chart. This hyper concentration of degree holders is just not representative of the country. And where we had a clear problrm with out of touch old etonians when Tories were in office, we have and enduring one of Oxbridge educated lawmakers

Shut it down. Racist propaganda shite

Never forget that the states over there with the death penalty have the highest murder rates.

In this week’s voting intention, Labour's lead widens as Reform fall to their lowest in over 18 months. 🌹 LAB 27% (+1) 🌳 CON 22% (-1) ⏩ REF 21% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 11% (-) 🟢 GREEN 9% (+1) ⚫ RES: 6% (-) 🟡 SNP 3% (+1) ⚪️ OTH 1% (-) N = 2,041 | Fieldwork 25-29/9 | Changes w 18/09

Oh how terrible it would be to be in the #euro with its bond yields nearly a full 2pc points lower than #sterling #EU