£72m still doesn’t buy you good candidates, or policies.
Andrew Connelly
@connellyandrew.bsky.social
Writer. Broadcaster. Shouter into the abyss. Presenter of Fortress Europe: tracking the EU’s violent borders https://open.spotify.com/show/3uh4hHdjFLxRoTPfznlyNd?si=Ibzf0gvRSPOKuFII3b2wxA
Reform has already enjoyed several years of support from a loss-making TV channel whose main function seems to be to give money and favourable coverage to its MPs. The government has done nothing about this. It's probably a more effective way of spending millions than Farage will manage.
£72m still doesn’t buy you good candidates, or policies.
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
Malibu residents evacuate after massive, expanding sinkhole opens at Nicolas Cage's house
Malibu residents evacuate after massive, expanding sinkhole opens at Nicolas Cage's house
Evacuation orders were issued for 31 Malibu homes due to a massive and expanding sinkhole in the driveway of Nicolas Cage's property.
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The boat brought to Portsmouth departed from Cherbourg due to increased fortification of the Calais-Dover route. Just as the small boats route emerged after fortification of French ports. There is still no way for people to lodge asylum claims outside of the UK, so this will continue.
It’s but a few hours since Trump lied about being evacuated from Ground Zero on 9/11 by firefighters but the scandal, which would have engulfed anyone else, has probably already sunk into the mist.
Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵
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EXCLUSIVE: Equatorial Guinea police pull guns on migrants deported by Trump, witnesses say
Police in Equatorial Guinea pulled firearms on migrants deported there from the United States, according to three witnesses and video footage shared with Reuters, intensifying concerns about the treatment and safety of people sent to the Central African nation under a U.S. deportation programme.
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#BREAKING 12 countries including France, UK, Canada say to sanction trade with Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank
I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to
Cops are very wary of intervening quickly if they do not enough have personnel, equipment, trained units and leadership to coordinate at hand. Same goes for why 12 gendarmes won't suddenly stop 100 - 200 people from jumping on a dinghy on a French beach Key issue is the intel failure beforehand
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A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 7d agoThe Times has run a story this morning about how ‘polite’ the masked men in Dover were to three white ladies on a train. Propaganda in its clumsiest form.
Yesterday #wato did an extensive soft interview with a Tommy Robinson supporter who “spontaneously” joined the Portsmouth mob and claimed everything was peaceful. The media are being played like a fiddle. www.itv.com/news/meridia...
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The Times is now doing ‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts’
The UK media’s near universal adoption of the absurd term ‘mega dinghy’ is symptomatic of the hysterical reporting around asylum that allows the far right to thrive.
Curiously, the French translation of the Reform ‘agreement’ doesn’t say that France will take back small boat migrants intercepted in British waters.
Libération@liberation.fr · last wk.Un passage du document, stipulant en anglais que la France va «accepter» sur son sol les migrants interceptés dans les eaux britanniques, ne figure pas dans la traduction française. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/1sJ
If the Prime Minister can’t be bothered to comment on these wanton fascist mobs maybe someone could remind him how Manchester mobilised against blackshirts in 1934.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · last wk.Asked if the Government considers the masked thugs swarming British ports “far right” Andy Burnham’s spokesman replies that “it's an operational matter for the police to set out their response to the protests on the ground. So I will leave them to respond to that.”
Matt Dathan, who reported this story, told Times Radio this morning: “I am surprised that it’s as low as 1% and it’s very hard for me to say whether that’s right…” But by all means let’s slap it on the front page regardless.
Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · last wk.Codswallop, as the Home Office's own stats make clear. To claim, for example, that Iraqi Kurds don't face persecution automatically discounts this "whistleblower" as someone without the knowledge to be conducting reviews or speaking on asylum recognition rates.
No arrests made in Portsmouth or Dover. Blackshirts egged on by an opposition party mired in corruption and given free rein to stalk the streets by the government.
If this was a Palestine demo they would already be bundled into police vans.
Sky News@news.sky.com · last wk.Dozens of masked men stop traffic at Port of Dover as part of 'protest'
One thing that I love about the film is how it captures a very distinct social setting and milieu. Lunch at Rules. G&Ts at Mark’s. A champagne reception at Oswald’s. Pints in a Shepherd Neame’s pub in Westminster. Discussion of Black Velvets over oysters by the sea.
Robert Smith@bondhack.ft.com · 2w agoThe full Verbatim video also on YouTube here. youtu.be/RugPik-G1Jw?...
Farage will not be the next Prime Minister, Reform will not be the next government, these things were never going to happen outside of the media-driven fantasy that willed Farage into existence in the first place.
Looking forward to Matt Goodwin continuing to take on the New Elite.
The policy of treating the phenomenon of irregular movement as a solely criminal issue is precisely the same kind of politics as previous Labour and Tory governments and will generate the same results.
Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 2w agoI said I'd do things differently. So here are some things I had very little impact over
Madrid and Brussels know this already but won’t utter a word of condemnation towards Morocco because their demonstrably dysfunctional migration policy relies on empowering thuggish regimes to warehouse migrants on the periphery.
Jorge Liboreiro@jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 2w agoBombshell in Spain: A police report has concluded that the Ceuta crisis was planned and steered by Moroccan authorities to violate the Spanish border under the guise of a migratory wave. The findings directly contradict the Spanish goverment, which has blamed smugglers, rather than Morocco.
Quite a pathetic spectacle watching mainstream UK media not crediting @newjournal.bsky.social with the Starmer resignation scoop.
“Suicidal empathy” is another histrionic term concocted by entrepreneurial online racists who are with increasing ease able to launder their buzzwords through a complicit or clueless media.