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Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

Let me guess, wealthy people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying taxes now want the countries they moved from to protect them?

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

It’s time for Scottish Independence.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Once again Reform are spreading misinformation & smears, and the press & the media seem to repeat them.. its really important that the media.. take responsibility so when Reform or Farage says something they don't just keep repeating it"👏👏👏

Joyful to see Goodwin and Farage having a huge wettie and rightwing media scrabbling around for credibility in the rubble of their cocky predictions and polling.
You don’t have this in the bag.We voted for change in 2024. That never meant hate-fuelled populism. It meant hope. You don’t give us that.

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.

Expect weeks of "family voting" rhetoric from Reform. They're out of the gates on it already.

It mustn't be allowed to wash because look at the scale of that win.

Tactical voting has obviously played a massive part.

Gorton and Denton rejected Reform and its hateful agenda.

Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office

The Epstein files grant us a rare glimpse into the kind of machinations that must be happening all the time. As @bylinetimes.bsky.social reveals, Trump's fixer, Steve Bannon, helped Boris Johnson overthrow Theresa May. Blatant foreign interference in our politics. 🧵
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

BTW… The Lib Dems motion to look at the documents covering Windsor’s time as trade envoy is a good thing. But what about another motion to publish the whole, unredacted Russia Report?

#FollowTheMoney
#Putin

Britnat media Everyday
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Days after Andrew Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

Are the authorities looking into that time Boris Johnson ditched his security to party in Italy?

Virginia Guiffre… one of Epstein’s victims

Farage accused of 'cheap stunt' after being 'denied entry' to Chagos Islands The Foreign Office website makes clear the restricted access of the British Indian Ocean Territory and clearly states 'you need a permit before you travel'

But it's not "a cheap stunt."

Farage won't have flown economy, or alone and if there was "an aid boat" that will have cost money too.

It's expensive flying to the Maldives.

Where did he stay?
How long is he staying?

How much did it cost?
Who picked up the tab?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU A referendum on resuming membership talks had been expected in 2027, but could come as early as this August.

So then... here's some good news!

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal.

Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

Read and share all over..he nails it

Like Dominic Cummings, Morgan McSweeney helped deliver electoral victory but, in doing so, debased and subverted everything his party claimed to stand for.

Is policing political? View the very different treatment of the former first minister of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and Mandelson. This really should raise serious questions about Police Scotland. 🤨🤨🤨

The Mandelson affair: inside the scandal of a century Mandelson's fall from grace reveals a very Labour weakness

It gets worse. Starmer's shortlist for US ambassador.

Mandelson and George Osborne, Mr corruption and Mr Austerity.

The voters can see it.

In Gorton and Denton, it's between the Greens and Reform, and we will win.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

If Reform ever wins power in Westminster, it will be because of Labour’s cowardice | George Monbiot Starmer could improve our unfair electoral system to stop the hard right, but he won’t. All the party has left are threats about ‘splitting the vote’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

In this week's column I seek to explain Keir Starmer's flat refusal to change our electoral system, even though its gross unfairness could put Reform UK in power on <30% of the vote. The reasons, I believe, are deeply cynical and disturbing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Billie Eilish: "No one is illegal on stolen land"

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

To all the Minnesotans who are making their voices heard and protesting peacefully:

The world is watching, and when change comes, it will be because of you.

Do not vote for this clown in Scotland or Wales.

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

The SNP will make the case for independence with 100 days to go to the election In his Daily Record column, First Minister John Swinney lays out why voters should back the SNP with just over three months to go until polling day.

By John Swinney
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

There’s always a post..

What would be HILARIOUS now is if another Labour MP immediately stood down to make room for Andy Burnham.

The following Labour MPs are over 70, and might decide retirement sounds lovely.

Marie Rimmer
Clive Betts
Graham Stringer
John McDonnell
Diane Abbott
Hilary Benn
Valerie Vaz