Simon S

Imagine a world where we are no longer dependent on oil and nuclear energy. It's coming and it's better and that's why the vested interests are doing everything in their power to stop it

What do the 'only by leaving the ECHR can we stop the boats' crowd have to say...

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Can't wait to read Liz Truss's new book.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Thank you to the hundreds of devoted supporters who were there to cheer me on at the press conference today.

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

“Farage & Jenrick were forced to face rows of empty seats as they set out a limp package of rehashed plans ahead of the Budget..The miserable turnout another sign of Reform’s sliding popularity…Ipsos this weekend put Labour on 32%, Tories on 24% & ReFUK on 20%..” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then "performative pietism" is surely the panic room inside.

Nigel Farage, Daniel Hannan, Aaron Banks: the remaining Brexiters look so stale and dated and old. Listening to them is like eating mouldy bread from the back of the cupboard open.substack.com/pub/arguably...

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Doesn’t matter how you voted if you were front and centre in a Brexit government, actively overseeing the shrinking of our economy, our influence and our opportunities, while you rolled around in the trough. We’ll be disregarding everything you now say, thanks.

Feeling a bit rough this morning after being up all night comforting Richard Tice, who was crying hysterically.

On FoM: Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch stated that the Prime Minister "hasn't thought this through". Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp warned it would mean "handing back control of our borders". Can *you* spot what wannabe Prime Minister Badenoch and Philp completely missed? #UKPol #RejoinEU

The UK government are doing a consultation on Equal Pay and Pay Discrimination, which includes a question on making pay transparency in recruitment mandatory www.gov.uk/government/c...

The thing I like about Andy Burnham talking about free movement is that he used the phrase “honest conversation” about immigration talking about the benefits and trade-offs, rather than it being immediately followed by something racist.

Kemi Badenoch and Jacob Rees-Mogg, both Conservatives, criticised Andy Burnham for appearing on Gogglebox Here's Boris Johnson appearing on Eastenders when he was Mayor of London The double standards are extraordinary.

One of the great political achievements of the 21st century, delivered by Mayor Sadiq Khan.

The Green Party topping off a disastrous few weeks by slating Prime Minister Andy Burnham for going on Gogglebox, spending a few hours in his own time to raise money for a cancer charity. Imagine thinking "raising money for a cancer charity" is "ridiculous"?

We all know what happened. We were there. Hancock lied at every stage even in January when WHO gave its warning Johnson didn’t take it seriously and neither did his acolytes. Sunak made it worse with his eat out scheme. Many died unnecessarily Outright negligence. There must be a reckoning

The Mirror rightly placing the blame of our struggling NHS where it belongs, with the Tories. They sold the most profitable parts of our NHS to private healthcare companies, they have close ties to.

One: this is welcome Two: Burnham is the first PM in some time who’s remembered that he’s PM, so can set the agenda.

"He wants you scared. It feeds him. Don’t fall for it." via Reform Are Not Your Friends

In a crowded field Jenrick manages to retain the title of biggest twerp in UK politics.

I'm the ideal person to lecture teachers on hard work, since I’m usually too busy with my 12 side grifts to bother turning up for the full-time job I’m paid to do and because I had the 4th worst attendance record out of 751 MEPs in the EU Parliament.

The fall in immigration is mutilating Healey’s Budget iandunt.substack.com/p/the-fall-i...

Kemi Badenoch says without hesitation that everyone has tins of food in their cupboards and enough supplies to last a few days. She proudly boasts that she shops for the whole week. 🙄 Has never met a poor person in the wild or heard of the foodbanks that exploded under the Conservatives. 😑

Proper shocking stuff here

So, Farage has reported ITV to the police following the work their undercover journalists did which confirmed that Reform is indeed a seething mass of racism, misogyny and bigotry. Meanwhile, here’s some commentary from Private Eye and their handy guide to undercover journalists.

The undercover reporter suggested people did not mind if Farage “makes a few bob [from politics]” Jukes replied: “Well it’s a bit priced in with our Nige, isn’t it, no one’s voting for him to be the pope” But a racist, corrupt, security-risk PM is fine, is it? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

These guys will do anything to kill reform. They're partisans. They don't give a damn that FPTP is mangling our electoral system or that it could hand total executive control to Nigel Farage. They just care that a few times a century Labour has a majority. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

The trade unions resisting a political donations cap in the UK are ragged-trousered philanthropists. Thanks to their delusion that a system allowing limitless donations enhances their power, they're in danger of handing the country to the far-right parties that billionaires support. Burnham must act

Simple answer - the majority right wing media not only let's him get away with it but continues to promote him... while many in Labour - for the most part - arw too timid to call him and his disgrace of a party out. Burnham has it in him. Needs to take the fight to Reform

Where are the Newcastle Reform UK 'protect women and girls' Councillors calling out these thugs - oh sorry, I didn't notice, they're all white ... "The vile North East thugs who subjected women to unthinkable degrading behaviour" via Newcastle Chronicle www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

My dad fought in the war and he wasn't a racist. My late mother was a teenager and dedicated her life to helping refugees. My cousin is in her 80s and "fucking hates racists". You don't get a get out of racist jail free card simply for being old and having happened to have lived during a war.