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This is getting stupid now.

We're at the point where Labour acknowledge both the damage caused by Brexit AND that rejoining the Customs Union (more accurately, joining A Customs Union) would boost growth.

And yet they still reinforce their red lines.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Not clumsy. Spreading racist myths isn’t clumsy.
I have deleted a post I made which referred to 'International health system', because whilst health tourism does exist, it is not the main issue surrounding the need for stronger borders and I appreciate the post could undermine the brilliant work by many migrant NHS workers.

I was clumsy. Sorry.
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Not for the first time, I’m being told that attacking Farage for his boyhood racism is futile. The opposite is the case, as you can see from how rattled he is by it.

And no, it’s not about persuading Farage fans anything, it’s about mobilising the non-voters and encouraging tactical voting.
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I wonder how many cigars JK Rowling smokes as she mumbles “I love it when a plan comes together” as she giggles, picturing all the children she has made feel sad and more alone today
December 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Meanwhile, the University of Essex is making 200 academics redundant and closing an outreach campus.
December 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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BREAKING NEWS

Over a third of Welsh Labour Senedd Members have written to Keir Starmer to stop undermining devolution.

They say:

"If this was being done by a Tory Government, we would be calling for a judicial review. This must never happen again."

1/2
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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MUST WATCH: Reporter points out that firing on survivors is classified as a war crime in the Navy manual.

Leavitt’s claim of legality just collided with the rulebook — live, in front of everyone.
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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That’s probably how native Americans viewed the successive waves of white settlers, all in their turn fleeing persecution, danger, oppression, or poverty and hoping to make a new start in America. Like Somalians, Afghans, Haitians and Central Americans today…wait, oh, but they’re not white. 😡😡😡
Leavitt: "I'll tell you what doesn't add to our nation's character is refugees who come here under the alleged plight of asylum and then come to the US to abuse our system ... Somali immigrants in Minnesota have been ripping off American taxpayers"
December 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Don Winslow

I think the world needs to hear this AGAIN.
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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For Millie: 🎂

Mabel & I are celebrating her becoming a teenager now that she's just turned 13.
It's a small, intimate affair with plenty of belly rubs, cuddling & extra doggie treats all around! 🐕 ❤️

#Woof
November 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Utter bullshit/lies from the "Centre for Social Justice" via the Express.
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.

Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?

It is Profumo on stilts
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Under Mahmood's current proposals, presumably would have been deported to Czechoslovakia in 1945, when it was "safe" again.
R.I.P. Tom Stoppard, playwright most famous for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88
Winning an Oscar for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, he captivated the hearts of audiences for more than six decades.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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But think of all the astonishing things he's selflessly done for this country and look at all those medals which he won during his four months in the Royal Marines.
November 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Tucker Carlson is a rightwing conspiracy theorist and Putin apologist who was sacked by FOX.... yes FOX

BUT The Spectator is happy to pay him to talk down our capital city... despite it thriving and crime falling.

Whose side are you on Mr Gove?
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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As Jesus said: “You’re on your own mate, not my problem”
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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I wrote on allegations about Nigel Farage from his school contemporaries. The key test for Reform on racism may be less about Nigel Farage’s schooldays than their 2025 reputation & why 7/10 ethnic minority Britons currently feel that Reform fail on racism
www.thenewworld.co.uk/sunder-katwa...
How Farage fails the racism test
Would a person from an ethnic minority trust Nigel Farage in power? So long as the answer remains “no”, Farage and the Reform party are unfit for office
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Farage is trying the age old politicians default now, of, it's just because you don't like my poltics

It's a bit more than that Nigel

It's about values isn't it?

Not the pathetic stance of, you just don't like me

There are reasons we don't like you Nigel, very good reasons
"The allegations that I used to use hammers to murder rabbits are only being made because people don't like my policy of killing rabbits with hammers."
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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The government’s stated number one goal is growth.

Its actual number one goal is scrabbling together enough money to meet the fiscal rules while trying not to actually make any tough decisions or piss anyone off. It is not very good at that goal, not least because it’s a stupid one.
If the Government do go ahead with the mooted plan in here to (effectively) remove workplace pensions from salary sacrifice schemes I am genuinely a little in awe of how bad their "growth strategy is."
www.ft.com/content/ca5e...
The four audiences Reeves’ ‘high-wire’ Budget must satisfy
Chancellor needs a lot to go right if she is to somehow reconcile interests of Labour MPs, markets, business and the public
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Apparently, there's a budget tomorrow. Why has nobody mentioned this?

Would really have appreciated a bit of a build-up to that because it would have been really fascinating to read all about it in advance, I'm sure.

#NationalSarcasmDay
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM