Sky News summarizes what the Prime Minister was told before he made the decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as U.S Ambassador. As Sophy Ridge later pointed out
“The problem wasn’t the vetting process. It was ignoring what the vetting process said”
Whatever our political differences, depicting political opponents as pests or vermin has a long and troubling history in propaganda.
That the Conservative Party now thinks this is acceptable political discourse is deeply shameful. I hope Tory MPs roundly denounce it.
“The problem wasn’t the vetting process. It was ignoring what the vetting process said”
This is utterly damning
The downside is he comes across as a bit silly. To gain more electoral success the Lib Dems need to be serious, have gravitas…
Not a big issue Ed, stick with the big issues…
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This week Parliament debated the Representation of the People Bill. While there are positive elements to it, frankly, it does nowhere near enough to deal with overseas interference in our democracy, to reform our terrible voting system, or to reform the House of Lords into a worthy second chamber.
BREAKING: Ed Davey accuses Kemi Badenoch of competing with Nigel Farage to be Donald Trump's "biggest cheerleader" over Iran
Keir Starmer - “He's right... if they had been leading the country we would be in a war and they'd now come to Parliament to say oop..”
#PMQs
But we still have a system where politicians, particularly the Prime Minister, can appoint friends and donors to the legislature with no elections or any democratic mandate. Plus clerics!
GMB’s Susanna Reid presses Darren Jones on why the Prime Minister appointed Mandelson as US ambassador on the basis of what was known at the time about his relationship with Epstein
So apart from hitting the missiles themselves, the launch sites, the command and control sites, the Generals and clerics giving the orders, the factories producing the missiles, the boats which might attack shipping??? I wonder what they aren’t allowed to attack? Would Trump even care?
Just 9 percentage points between the top 5 political parties. Someone please justify continuing with our outdated, unfair electoral system?
Darren is dancing on the head of a pin.
Listing Trump’s lies has become a full time occupation…
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“To define Britain’s national interest as loyalty to the White House administration is absurd when the US’s own national interest would most be served by regime change in Washington” @rafaelbehr.bsky.social 👍
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The US-Israeli bombardment has once again underlined Donald Trump’s indifference to international law. A stronger EU can be a vital counterweight.
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How are we not now involved in this illegal war? - Times front page story.
Donald Trump saw his wealth increase by 27% to $6.5bn off the back of his crypto dealings 🤔
This is appalling. The Home Office rejected an appeal from the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world’s most dangerous countries from changes to the UK’s immigration system
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It was a lie, not an opinion. A blatant and obvious lie. Something he knew was a lie. And not just another one of the hundreds of lies he tells every day - a lie about the killing of at least 175 people, mostly girls who were attending school. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
“We cannot go back to a world where might makes right — where any nation can invade, bomb or destabilize another country for any reason they choose. That mentality leaves all of us, and future generations, increasingly unsafe” @sanders.senate.gov 👍
According to Trump his war is “Very complete, pretty much” 🤔
Trump: “We will take out easily destroyable targets that will make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back, as a Nation, again - Death, Fire, and Fury will reign upon them” - Unhinged. Plus he can’t spell!
Trump is a despicable human being.
Why the heck respected news outlets are still spending their time trying to put a rational interpretation on a speech by a guy who literally doesn't know what he's thinking or saying from minute to minute, goodness only knows.
Where is the new accountability for politicians? Where are the robust measures to really stamp out corruption and interference?
The Representation of the People Bill before Parliament needs to do far more to stamp out the scandals that have rocked our democracy. #LisaSmartMP #Westminster
Untold numbers are being killed but he thinks it’s ‘fun’
Why Europe needs a payment system independent of Mastercard and Visa 👍
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BREAKING: @andyburnham.bsky.social says the Duchy of Lancaster is treating people in the north as “second-class citizens” after failing to support the clean-up of a huge illegal waste dump near Wigan
An investigation by Ch 4 News uncovered that the estate of King Charles is connected to the site
“Geopolitics is never far away. Fossil fuels tie the UK to unstable regions. A renewable-based energy system would free Britain from the slings and arrows of the fossil fuel economy. Britain, like Europe, remains exposed to fossil fuel markets beyond its control”👍
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