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Mum to the best little dog. Irish, living in UK, moving to Germany (thank you EU passport!) Economist + ex-regulator. Obviously Brexit/Trump are unmitigated disasters. Interested in a wide range of views on politics and policy. And funny things!

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Agreed. As long as this poison keeps being pumped out by national "newspapers" it will be more and more normalised.

12.07.2025 15:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep! If masked gunmen can run around the streets without identifying themselves, rounding people up into vans, it is only a matter of time before this explodes.

12.07.2025 15:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If the ex-PM of the country is advocating drowning asylum seekers at sea (does he think we can't see through his flowery language?), it's not that big a jump to shooting people on the beaches...

12.07.2025 14:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And for many people it seems that notion is correct!

12.07.2025 14:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed. I was really hoping this government would hit the ground running with Leveson 2 (I mean what do they have to lose given how much the press hate them?), and we might finally see the end of this cesspit. But no.

12.07.2025 14:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And presumably someone who fully intends to claim his Β£115,000 a year Public Duty Costs Allowance as an ex PM?

12.07.2025 14:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You do wonder how a party can go from "worst prime minister ever" to "wow, this one's even worse". And yet they did!

12.07.2025 14:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep! This poison day in day out.

12.07.2025 14:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep - disaster was definitely his high water mark. Does he think we're all bamboozled by the flowery language? Does he think we don't know exactly what he's implying?

12.07.2025 14:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As long as he raises his profile, damage is irrelevant

12.07.2025 14:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It sounds even better in french!

12.07.2025 14:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is vile the way it is all a game to him.

12.07.2025 14:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When you put it like that it's quite impressive πŸ˜• Seriously tho, any normal human being would at least have learned*something* from being an abject failure as PM. But not him. See also Truss.

12.07.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yet he doesn't want to own any of the mess it has created.

12.07.2025 14:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep! Anything to stay "relevant" no matter how untrue, damaging, rubbish it is

12.07.2025 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Meanwhile a daily diet of these lies and inflammatory nonsense is fed into homes across the country...

12.07.2025 14:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

He just doesn't care. And he thinks we can't see it because he wraps it up in ridiculous language.

12.07.2025 14:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just when you think the bar can't be set any lower...

12.07.2025 14:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It still baffles me how that happened.

12.07.2025 14:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

At least they occasionally add some wit and charm. Unlike Johnson.

12.07.2025 11:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I know it's the Mail, but how can anyone think this idiotic drivel is worth publishing? His ability to be wrong and offensive on everything is unparalleled.

12.07.2025 11:21 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 16

Well that's just what you want to see on a Saturday morning!

12.07.2025 07:16 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can dress it up any way you wish. You can claim it as a human right, even though you don’t recognise the authority of a body that exists to maintain your human rights but if you choose to smoke, and impose your smoke on the rest of us, you are a selfish dangerous idiot. Talking to you Farage.

12.07.2025 05:39 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

A dog and horse selfie posted by @dawnyb.bsky.social...πŸ₯°

12.07.2025 06:17 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ditching the Conservatives and joining Reform is rather like trading in your Michael Jackson CD collection for 'The Best of Gary Glitter'.

12.07.2025 06:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lib Dems complain to Ofcom over BBC's coverage of Reform Liberal Democrat MP Max Wilkinson has written to Ofcom about the prominence the BBC gave to Nigel Farage on Thursday night.

~ Lib Dems complain to Ofcom over BBC's coverage of Reform ~

https://www.markpack.org.uk/175359/lib-dems-complain-to-ofcom-over-under-prominence-bbc-gave-to-reform/

12.07.2025 06:49 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Yep!

02.07.2025 15:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These posts are really important reading (especially the need for solutions). We need to start this process in the UK before it's too late.

09.06.2025 21:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I know! Especially when so many people in the UK claim to dislike Trump and ask her stands for. Yet they're fooled by a cheap imitation.

03.05.2025 07:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The "silent majority" he claims to represent do seem remarkably noisy

02.05.2025 18:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0