It looks like Reform UK want to outsource defence of the realm to the Brazilian Navy ... "Even Larry the cat knows more about the Royal Navy than Reform" via Ben Bridge
Phil Waring
@philwaring.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇪🇸 UK Brefugee in Spain. Afraid for Democracy. Pro-EU. Anti-tory. Anti-Fascist. Trans ally. #FBPE (I tend not to follow back US accounts; there are just too many of you! Sorry). 🗣 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸
I’m old enough to remember the whole press annihilating Corbyn for alleged antisemitism and they’re fkn SILENT on the #ToryScum standing as a candidate an ACTUAL FKN NAZI!
Serious mental gymnastics this morning from Kemi Badenoch of former neo-Nazi-turned-Tory-candidate Joshua Bonehill-Paine ... www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kemi-b...
Kemi Badenoch Says Former Neo-Nazi Standing For Tories Can Be A Councillor But Not An MP
The Conservative leader said she would not want to give Joshua Bonehill-Paine “a national platform”.
huffingtonpost.co.uk
The EHRC's Code of Practice has been condemned as a "system of segregation", "impractical and inhumane", and even "genocidal in nature" It comes into force today
EHRC says 'sex questioning' will be "rare" – but evidence suggests it's increasing
The chair of the EHRC has claimed in a letter to a Labour MP that sex questioning under the updated Code of Practice will be “rare and exceptional”
wearequeeraf.com
- We believe in second chances! - So you think refugees deserve a second chance at making a life? - Not like that - Young people who’ve made mistakes shouldn’t be punished? - Nope - Benefits to help people get back on their feet? - Ha! - So who do you believe in second chances for? - Nazis!
"Liddle's work"? As if he'd written 'A la recherche du temps perdu' rather than a selection of bigoted middle aged rants.
Reform UK fostering race hate has consequences for the most caring people ... "NHS staff have been called “monkeys” amid a reported rise in racism across the health service, experts have said" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-...
NHS staff have been called “monkeys” amid a reported rise in racism across the health service, experts have said
NHS staff have reported a shocking rise in racist abuse over the last year and a half with health workers called “monkeys” and patients refusing treatment from non-white staff.Staff said they are some...
morningstaronline.co.uk
Bloody short sighted ideologically corrupt idiots.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 24h agoThe UK government is scrapping Net Zero and environmental criteria from procurement rules.
"When it comes to the very obscenely rich in America, I take an aggressive zero-tolerance attitude. Break their monopolies. Seize their estates. Confiscate their wealth. They have built a system by which to steal our freedom as well as our money. They are criminals. We should treat them as such."
The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 23h agoZero-tolerance for oligarchs www.editorialboard.com/zero-toleran...
I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
Has anybody checked that it's NOT Grant Shapps?
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · yesterdayRather puts Grant Shapps being rejected as a Conservative candidate into perspective.
Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.
CNN is reporting munitions shortages influenced Trump’s decision to cancel the large-scale attack on Iran. Nothing to do with impending talks. It seems Trump has left the US in no position to fight a war.
The US has now used up 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during the Iran war, Reuters World News reports.
❗️Kyiv is under a Russian ballistic missile attack, with approximately 30 missiles reportedly launched at the capital. Jet-powered Shahed drones are also active over Ukraine. #Ukraine
⚡️Russia's ballistic missile attack on Kyiv is ongoing, with additional missiles headed toward the capital, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. "Kyiv and the region are under ballistic attack. More missiles at the city," Klitschko reported.
Explosions heard in Kyiv as Russia launches ballistic missile attack
Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground heard explosions as Russia launched a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv and said multiple missiles appeared to strike the city.
kyivindependent.com
The UK government is scrapping Net Zero and environmental criteria from procurement rules.
UK to strip back procurement rules to focus on job creation, says Louise Haigh
Andy Burnham’s de facto deputy PM says requirements for businesses vying for Whitehall contracts will be streamlined
ft.com
Tice being investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Richard Tice investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog
Reform's deputy leader is being investigated about an allegation he failed to declare an interest.
bbc.co.uk
Nothing says "man of the people, fighting the elites" quite like secretly haggling over £1m loan write-offs and a £5m crypto gift in a pub backroom before deciding you suddenly care deeply about Clacton. 🍺 #ReformUK
‘Stench of sleaze’: Farage struck deal over political return months before 2024 election, reports say
Labour chair accuses Reform of making ‘grubby pacts’ after contradictory reports emerge on timeline of events
theguardian.com
“When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists.” - Navalny
New photos from the New York Times reveal that construction for Trump's ballroom is now above ground, despite an ongoing lawsuit over its legality. This vanity project is one of the most corrupt things a president has ever done. Watch.
Trump’s Ballroom Corruption Exposed
Is this the most corrupt thing a president has ever done?
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Perimeters, not parameters. An excursion, not an incursion. Six genders, not cisgender. Insane asylums, not asylum. Transgender mice, not transgenic mice. The IQ of a potato.
Man who shagged his girlfriend behind his wife's back lectures the Archbishop of Canterbury on Christianity.
On the Goodall COVID thing, whenever The News Agents say anything, I check what the Tony Blair Institute has been peddling recently—as all three of them have benefited from Blair's cash at one time or another. Interestingly, the TBI is currently pushing the transformative use of AI for healthcare 🙃
Governments must rethink risk to close health gaps with AI
If AI is to help bridge health-system capacity gaps, governments need to change how they think about risk.
institute.global
