note that it's the right-wing parties, who have complained that UK should have joined US strikes on Iran, who are now also demanding the Labour government steps up household help with energy bills
“Never once did Reform promise to cut council tax” insists an angry Nigel Farage to Sky News.
Here's some of the leaflets Reform have been putting out ahead of the local elections
"It is not that one expects these guys to actually *like* Starmer: few of those who actually voted for him do. Nonetheless – when did denizens of the British right convince themselves that backing a foreign leader over their own countrymen was in any way patriotic?"
On "patriotic" "conservatives"
A political problem for far-right ideologues is that they genuinely adore violence - not just as a means for getting what they want, but for violence's sake. It is confusing to them when they find out that regular people generally don't like war.
The response to this extraordinary piece tells us so much.
The British media and establishment remains so obsequious and deferential to royalty that to have the truth spoken so openly and freely feels positively revolutionary.
I think Trump has microwaved his brain.
This man has access to the nuclear codes.
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.
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
on May 01, 2003, George W Bush gave a "Mission Accomplished" speech on an aircraft carrier:
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed"
the actual Iraq war ended in 2011
We are facing an energy crisis. Britain is the worst exposed in Europe with only 2 days gas supply stored. If only we had our own gas to exploit. Or our own oil. Or our own coal.... Blame @Ed Miliband (Allison Pearson on X)
If only we had clean, renewable energy and were not beholden to a dirty, expensive, dangerous commodity that pollutes our environment and is the source of most of our geopolitical woes.
'A pathetic spectacle from pathetic MPs'
'A screeching U-turn'
Even with just 8 MPs, Reform can't work out what their stance is on Iran...
28 February Reform leader, Nigel Farage ‘ The Prime Minister needs to change his mind on the use of our military bases and back the Americans in this vital fight against Iran!’ Post on X
8 March, Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice,: ‘We wld be helping the Americans and the Israelis in any way they saw appropriate’ GB News
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With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary.
Heating oil has trebled in price in a week. That's all on Trump.
Donald Trump is the reason your bills are going to rise.
It has that look written all over it.
Average price of gas is up 50 cents nationally since Trump launched his war with Iran — the fastest spike at the pump in years.
And for what? Trump can't even explain why he's forcing America into this disaster in the first place.
WE STILL DON'T HAVE A CLEAR ANSWER ON THE MOST BASIC QUESTION ABOUT THE IRAN WAR
WHY did the U.S. go to war?
A Popular Information review of public statements over the last 9 days found 17 DIFFERENT EXPLAINATIONS. Many of which contradict each other.
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Uk Labour's instagram account shares an image of Sir Kier Starmer standing in parliament saying "It is my duty to judge what is in Britain's national interest, and that is the judgement I made. I stand by it."
Sign of where things are going that in a shockingly competent move Labour's social media team are actually straight up promoting the fact that he had this falling out with Trump re the Iran war. The British right wing press and party establishments may have fucked up here methinks.
If this is actually the new set of strategic goals, the Trump administration is admitting that they have strategically failed and this has been a disaster.
Just killed a man's whole family and accidentally installed him as leader of Iran. We created Super Vengeance Boy and are just assuming he'll leave us alone.
Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like oysters and champagne cocktails at Gow's in the 1980s, followed by some old chap at the golf course offering you a job in the City.
The right wing media are seriously out of touch with this.
A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him
I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit
The RW screeching is not working - just the opposite
Very interesting how out of line the r/w media are on this, given their pretensions to know their readers. I was struck by responses to a very gung-ho piece in the Mail over the weekend where, at a rough guess, 75% or so of them were very resistant to the article's line.
