Raymond Bennett

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

Israeli turnout now at 55.7% as of 4pm — up 8% on 2022 and the highest ever recorded in Israeli history. There are still six hours left of voting from 4pm and the Central Elections Committee says polling stations must remain open if there are voters still queuing.

Sadiq Khan deserves credit as the first major politician to call for Rejoin back when it was still derided as an idea. True progressive leadership on this and ULEZ. www.arguably.uk/p/sadiq-khan...

The case for Rejoin is clear - Europe is our home & our identity. A place of shared democratic values, whose countries collectively stand up to Russian imperialism & a place of shelter from global trade wars. Europe is the future now. www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

The rewriting of 2016 needs challenging. ❌ The referendum ballot did NOT ask: “Should Britain end freedom of movement?” It asked whether Britain should remain in or leave the EU. Nothing about leaving the Single Market. Nothing about the customs union. Nothing about ending free movement.

Is there any group of people who enjoy a violent French protest more than the UK media. I haven't heard such, sweaty, unbridled glee since the Brexit referendum and BBC R4 presenters haven't needed to take their Viagra for the last two weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Brexit has been catastrophic. It's time to rejoin the EU.

The wealthiest person in the world—a man who's gotten rich through government money and has spent half a billion dollars on this election cycle—is complaining about elites getting rich off the government and spending big on elections.

It's a pity that 'unbowed' Jean-Luc Mélenchon bows to Putin and makes excuses for Russia's war against Ukraine. But he does. So f🖕ck him.

💪 "Lord Sadiq Khan today made his latest push for Britain to rejoin the EU, warning that Brexit has been “catastrophic” for the capital."

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A message from the "humanitarian" in the Kremlin.

Yeah I don’t see how this isn’t a crisis at this point? You cannot have a private citizen running a full private foreign policy which runs against that of the United States like this

The scene, just moments ago, in the BBC News studio.

Coming soon: Al Jazeera uncovers disturbing links between British right wing activists, the far right and loyalist paramilitaries. #Glasgow #Belfast #London

UK government failures led to Covid spreading ‘like wildfire’ in care homes, inquiry finds

Outstanding

What would Trump's percentage be for handing them back to Putin? 10%? 20%?

Jeffrey Donaldson sentenced to 15 years for CSA www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

Shocking news that I have to share... It appears that Reform is full to the brim with racists, misogynists and Putin agents. Well I f**🫅never...

Aaron Banks financed Leave.EU to the tune of £8 million (?). There were also up to a dozen meetings at the Russian embassy in the run up to the referendum. The NCA said they found no evidence of criminality but how thorough was the investigation, were the pricing of those mining deals examined?

Altogether, Mason, Kuennsberg, and Webb cost the licence fee payer nearly £1 million a year, when all the costs of employing them are taken into account. Reform should be reporting this as a political donation. .

An undercover investigation by ITV Exposure into Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has found multiple elected councillors and party candidates expressing racist views and using offensive language, calling Muslims “parasites” and describing black children as “animals”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"The social media engagement on posts from Reform UK figures appears to have dropped in the wake of Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres," according to The London Economics.

Badenoch's position on Russian interference in the Brexit vote is a patriotic disgrace really. Her view seems to be that because she approves of the outcome of the referendum, no-one can mention that there was very likely to have been foreign interference in it.

Does the UK government realise, I was asked yesterday in Brussels, that their actions on China are crucial for the future relationship. Unfair, but such is life as the smaller player, and probably not... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.

I was on the telly.

Zelenskyy says Ukraine received no warning from partners before Russia’s overnight attack with 100+ drones and missiles, incl 5 ballistic strikes on civilian infrastructure in Kyiv. Ukraine had paused refinery strikes for 2 days after Trump’s energy ceasefire announcement, Russia continued attacks.

Loch Lubnaig #Scotland #Trossachs #Stirling www.damianshields.com

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

some of us worked this out a decade ago but it’s refreshing to see a prime minister say it out loud

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Like it or not, we are at war, and the future is very precarious. I don't think I'll ever get a perfect PM but we need someone to take the lead. While I've been ready to criticise him thus far, Andy Burnham is as good as we are going to get. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKTI...

Well worth a listen Summary of the Brexit and Russian interference timeline Why Johnson blocked the Russia report And speculation on why Starmer as PM didn't release the Russia report? Divisions? Protect Mandelson? We need to be able to prevent these sophisticated attacks / influence campaigns

European capitals should now stop talking and instead seize Russian assets in Euroclear to expedite funding to Ukraine Lots of thinking has been done on how to overcome Belgium's opposition. Those plans should now be put in place

At last! Big congrats to all including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social As MP I was proud to join a court case to try to force ministers to hold an inquiry into the impact of Russian disinformation on the Brexit vote & other recent elections - their lack of curiosity, from Boris onwards, was stunning …

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Eight years ago

EU Foreign Ministers just adopted nearly 1,600 new sanctions listings targeting Russia’s military-industrial complex. This is the single largest expansion of our sanctions list since Russia started its war. Europe is again showing a united front.

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

Well, here's me not visiting the USA, I suppose.

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)

This is where we are. Live stream executions for Maga porn. Such barbarism is not easily wiped away.

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports