@terryweldon
S African/British LibDem councillor (Waverley, Surrey) Gay, married, practicing Catholic 2 daughters, 4 grandchildren Living "with & beyond" a rare cancer (GIST); Interested in queer religion, politics (SA, UK, USA); obsessive poll watcher
No principles, no morality, no information, no expertise, just endlessly appeasing Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and assorted billionaires and foreign oligarchs or chasing the next headline, until suddenly colliding with reality. Bang, oof.
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Just do it! This country needs an end to the mess that Johnson and Farage have got us into.
A private jet used for Farage’s Chagos stunt is reportedly linked to a billionaire donor who has given £12m to Reform
Huge money can buy political influence.
The #ElectionsBill must go further. Democracy shld be shaped by voters not the biggest cheque.
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How can you tell if Farage is lying?
Same as with Johnson: check if his mouth is open.
Flip flop Farage:
“Most likely is an in-between scenario in which the U.S. largely clears the Gulf but the current regime survives....solving nothing fundamental but preserving a fragile balance of power in a vital part of the world.”
As before, except for vast expense and disruption.
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Britons tend to think that King Charles's planned state visit to the US should be cancelled, as Lib Dem leader Ed Davey calls on the government to call the trip off in response the US-Iran conflict
Should be cancelled: 46%
Should go ahead: 36%
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🏳️🌈At the very end of last year we looked again at voting intention by sexual orientation
➡️Reform led 🌹Labour by 11 with straight men
➡️Reform led 🌳Tories by 6 with straight women
➡️Reform led 💚Greens by 6 with gay & bisexual men
💚Greens led 🌹Labour by 16 (!) among gay & bisexual women
Am going to keep posting the gif until war is over.
People in Britain need to be really clear that the reason they are about to be worse off is Donald Trump and his enablers.
Have your say: Ed Davey has urged King Charles to scrap his US trip as Trump’s attacks on Sir Keir Starmer put the state visit in question trib.al/w5j8i2t
No, not the price of a barrel of oil. It's the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in parts per million over the last 2,000 years.
📈 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
The Tories oversaw the degradation of UK gas storage capacity - 2010 to 2017.
Thatcher privatised the gas and oil industry - 1982 to 1986.
Thatcher closed the collieries - 1986 to 1991.
This woman is an idiot - 1960 to 2026
Black theology has charted a path toward understanding and liberation for some 60 years, challenging Eurocentric norms and calling the Church to justice.
Tamika Royes writes that it should be paid special attention to by Western Catholics. www.blackcatholicmes...
Ukraine is working to help save American lives, taking out a Russian drone factory that supplies drones to Iran. While Trump continues to praise Putin.
The insanity of Donald Trump is crystal clear, as is his loyalty.
Wake the hell up, MAGA Republican Senators and House members. You are complicit.
Opposition to the United States' military action against Iran has risen by 10pts among Britons over the last week
Support: 25% (-3 from 2 March)
Oppose: 59% (+10)
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I have a magical device in my driveway that protects me from oil price shocks, emasculates petrothugs, slows the rising seas, and powers my car. During times like these, worth considering!
‘Call off King's US visit over Iran, urge Lib Dems’ BBC
YES. CALL IT OFF
Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.
Reform seldom agree on anything consequential - except for love of the great leader.
Reform are unable to get their story straight. Jenrick rules out deploying British forces in Iran. Somewhat different to the position of his front-bench mate Tice, who said Reform would help the US and Israel “in any way they saw appropriate.”
"And military leaders we spoke to during a recent trip to Ukraine were increasingly confident they can continue to keep the Russians at bay as long as Western aid continues to flow."
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Regulate toxicity on social media before it’s too late.
"Trump Threatens Not to Sign Any More Bills"
Is that a threat - or a promise?
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Worth reading by @chriscurtis94.bsky.social. Abundantly clear to anyone that spends a cursory amount of time on public opinion that economic insecurity, exacerbated 10x by cost of living crisis is driving political force of our time, fuelling Labour’s woes chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/who-actual...
Yvette Cooper: "But it is our job as the UK government to decide what's in the UK national interest, and that doesn't mean simply agreeing with other countries or outsourcing our foreign policy to other countries."
Odd to think that Nigel Farage was basically saying the same back in 2015...
The Iraq Inquiry found that the British government failed to achieve its stated war aims in Iraq. In Iran, the US isn't even stating consistently what it is trying to achieve.
