Here are the stupidest things Kemi Badenoch has said so far today inews.co.uk/opinion/kemi...

Kemi Badenoch’s dismissive attitude towards local government

Kemi Badenoch's dismissive attitude towards local government

Kemi Badenoch's defence of the selection of former neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine is it is okay as it is for a council rather Parliament.

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Resetting our relationship with Europe is the fastest way to boost growth. It's time to cut red tape, back small businesses, and join the Single Market and Customs Union. @libdemdaisy.bsky.social

@jamestalarico.bsky.social for Texas US Senate gets it - under his opponent Ken Paxton and Gov. Abbott, data centers are running amok in TX. Talarico has a sensible plan to regulate data centers. Texas, he is the right choice for your next senator, not the corrupt, 15 home owning Paxton.

My statement on the harmful EHRC guidance coming in to force today 🏳️‍⚧️

I was once in a car in Cape Town, during a (minor) earthquake. First I knew about it was when I got home and heard the rest of the family tell me how they'd all run out of the house. (The main eathquake was Tulbagh 1969, but there was a minor ripple felt in CT suburbs).

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 12h ago

A car got struck by lightning with people inside. Here's why they walked away fine: the metal body works like a Faraday cage, sending 300,000 amps straight into the ground through the tires.

This is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?

The banks pay £5bn a year less tax than in 2022 because of Rishi Sunak's bank tax cut which has never been reversed.

Yes, it can be done.

Warspitefella 🇬🇧🇺🇦@warspitefella.bsky.social · 19h ago

Electric Buses Point of no return - have gone from 12% to 56% of new city bus sales in Europe in just 6yrs Europe's 2035 target of 100% zero emission bus sales could be reached as early as 2028 Bravo Europe 🇪🇺!

Millions of No Data Center! signs have sprung up across the USA all the way from Alaska to Texas on Farms, Residences, in towns and cities, from rich to poor. Nobody wants these monstrosities stealing their Water and Energy to spy on them and steal their jobs and land.

Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.

You are also, fundamentally, just *not* the Conservative Party any more. You're just a new party wearing its clothes. Yes, the tory party evolves over time but...evolution not revolution, and all that.

Chairman Moët@chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d ago

you can't build a big enough coalition if Gavin Barwell is too radical for you but an ex-Neo Nazi who broke into a police station isn't

States with the lowest literacy rates shouldn’t be banning books, they should be reading them

I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …

Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules

Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups

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Rather puts Grant Shapps being rejected as a Conservative candidate into perspective.

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

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Don’t forget: whatever the moron in chief talks about: lawns, reflecting pool, ballroom, Cuba, Greenland and whatever stupid memes he posts at night are mere distractions to make us forget the essentials: 1) He’s stuck in the world stupidest war he declared himself 2) the Epstein files

Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed for antisemitic offences and harassing a Jewish MP. He says Conservative officials knew everything before approving him.

"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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The Nigel Farage Controversies. It’s not just the £5m and Cottrell, his whole career has been scandal ridden.

Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage

Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy. Datacentre prioritised over building affordable homes. Little attention to environmental issues. Govt overturning local council refusal is not devolution or democracy. Big business always wins.

Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy

Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes

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EU membership is the best way to grow the UK economy. 🔊 'Mr Burnham cannot present himself as a "step forward" while sliding backwards on Europe. To fund social care without raising taxes or borrowing, he urgently needs economic growth.'

Letter: It's time Andy Burnham broke his silence on Brexit

SIR - If a week is a long time in politics, two weeks is an eternity. Yet despite a flurry of early announcements, Prime

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I did assume that this was a case of a local organisation having totally lost the plot, but Kemi Badenoch is now forcefully and explicitly defending the selection of a former neo-Nazi with a significant criminal history as a candidate. Crackers and terrifying.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Kemi Badenoch certainly seems to be advancing with her agenda to turn the Conservatives into Reform.

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Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election. Convictions for assaulting police officer, burglary of a police station, malicious communications, anti-semitism, racially aggravated harassment, harrasing MPs. Tories chasing Reform vote.

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

theguardian.com

Victims of crime are right to be upset at the perpetrators being released early. The alternative is to have a properly-funded justice system, and I don't recall seeing the campaigning newspapers calling for that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

Prison early release scheme comes 'at expense of victims', grieving partner says despite policy changes

More serious offenders will be excluded from an early release scheme in England and Wales but those guilty of manslaughter may still be eligible.

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Of course it is - thats's what they do.

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Between 2010 and 2024, only 500 more prison places were made available and 23 prisons were shut down. How dare the Tories and their media start with their bullshit faux outrage?!