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2016: Nigel Farage, "The worst case scenario, economically, is better than where we are today" 2025: Nigel Farage, "This is broken Britain, nothing works"

The Big Fucked Up Bill, is NOT a spending bill. It’s a government restructuring bill, that consolidates power in the executive, defunds critical services to the point of absurdity, removes the power of our courts to enforce the law and dramatically curtails voting rights. It’s Project 2025

Privatisation in a nutshell: Steal from us something we own. Sell us back an inferior service at a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services… @mrjamesob.bsky.social

"It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." RIP, George Wendt www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXED...

Elon Musk announced today that he will significantly scale back on his political spending. HERE'S WHY: In a new poll, Tesla dropped to the bottom of America's 100 most visible companies' reputation ranking (95) and places last in Character, Ethics, and Citizenship. www.axios.com/2025/05/20/a...

"Don't you have a nerve, when you were the party that allowed net migration to soar to almost a million people?" Victoria Derbyshire challenges Richard Holden MP on the Conservatives' criticism of the EU deal. #Newsnight

Anyone spot the problem? It's subtle, but it's there...

when he sends citizens to foreign concentration camps, it’s no longer a slide to authoritarianism—it’s full blown fascism! 😔 this is not an administration, it’s a criminal regime in a hostile takeover of 🇺🇸 democracy. #FightFascism #TraitorTrump #DefendLiberty 🔔

Very sad to see this www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Congratulations to Greenland’s new government and Premier-elect Jens-Frederik Nielsen. You deserve partners who respect you and treat you as equals. And the European Union is proud to be such a partner for you.

Farage’s links to MAGA fascist Steve Bannon need to be properly investigated…

Just less rich. That’s all we’re asking.

This is how the Swiss chose to protest against Donald Trump this week at Basel Fasnacht, Switzerland's largest annual carnival.

Russian hacking group Dark Storm claimed yesterday's X DDoS attack. Russian-backed collective disrupted service across multiple outages. Musk suggested Ukrainian origins in his response, contradicting cybersecurity experts who confirmed Dark Storm's responsibility through their Telegram channel.

It imbues a gut level understanding about WHY the EU exists, rather than the technocratic explanations about the HOW.

My thoughts on Farage. Full version here: youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_Ag?...

🚨BREAKING CROSSPOST AFTER DDOS ATTACK Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman www.bylinesupplement.com/p/breaking-c...

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

Am I the only one who sees “patriotic” Farage supporting the enemies of Britain like Putin and Trump and wonders about his “patriotism”?

🧵6/6 All this might be “difficult” but it’s better than letting the EU’s credibility evaporate, and it’s easier than fighting a huge war in the forests of Poland and Germany. Let’s not do that again. We promised ourselves that we wouldn’t.

George Monbiot on Ukraine/Putin: “It’s as if he’d come to the UK, he’d occupied Kent, Surrey, Sussex & then somebody else like Donald Trump comes along & says fine guys just live with that. These people who go on about sovereignty will sell anyone down the river” #bbcqt

Ok folks, deep breaths. There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome. (A rather long 🧵, obviously) /1

“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation” George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt

By almost every economic & financial measure Brexit has been disastrous for the UK - the Office for Budget Responsibility says it will reduce the UK’s potential GDP by 4% in the long run by lowering the trade intensity of the economy & its latest report lays bare its catastrophic impact on trade

Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 13, 2025 ~ This will end badly. "The researchers, on board the ship Sarmiento de Gamboa, have observed columns of methane in the ocean up to 700 meters long and 70 meters wide" english.elpais.com/climate/2025...

Not everyone's a fan, but #StopFundingHate works... crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

It’s all beginning to feel a bit 1984. We’re in a battle against autocrats and oligarchs who are using money and misinformation to dismantle democracies. That’s why we’re looking for 1,984 new monthly supporters to make our biggest and boldest plans a reality (see link in bio)

Spaffing hell!.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poec...

Surveillance capitalism can toggle pretty quickly into digital totalitarianism

The UK govt should prioritise looking at DB pension surplus extraction to drive investment into productive assets, say asset managers. “This is a once in a generational opportunity to change the fortunes of the UK” on.ft.com/3P7aM6G

Dear Keir Starmer, If you don’t do something, urgently, to stop Musk bankrolling Farage, you are signing the death warrant of UK democracy.

Finland gave every homeless person a house and within 6 months 85% had a job and were financially independent. Less crime, less hospital visits, less suffering and even including the cost of the house, LESS COST than the UK/USA method of abandoning them on the streets.

“He doesn’t live here, he doesn’t pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?" - 2018 “It would be a fantastic endorsement of our policies to save Britain and get Britain growing again" - 2024 www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ric...

Commons Library visualisation of the history of refugees: Syrians were the largest group of refugees in the UK in the years after 2011

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.

Russia has learned how to influence elections, EU’s top diplomat warns Kaja Kallas says today’s methods for evaluating the fairness of elections are outdated www.politico.eu/article/kaja...

Huge thanks to everyone who’s chipped in to make LBD interventions happen this year. We’re 100% funded by small donations & refuse big donors to protect us from becoming reliant on any individual source. Wanna help? Link in bio👆

With Farage back on Question Time last night... ...here is your reminder that Farage was on BBCQT a record-breaking 35 times before he became an MP. And, further, that the panellist selection on BBCQT has been heavily slanted to right-wing think tanks and commentators over the years.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says “We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants” Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY

“Brave” decision on the day the CEO of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson, was shot in an apparently planned assassination. Have these 🇺🇸 insurers lost their bloody minds?