If we explain to Nigel that we're not calling him a racist in a hurtful or insulting way, perhaps he'll be a little less salty about it.

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Public Order Act 1936, s.1:

"Subject as hereinafter provided, any person who in any public place or at any public meeting wears uniform signifying his association with any political organisation or with the promotion of any political object shall be guilty of an offence"

When parties with just a third of the vote are winning big majorities our democracy is broken.

MPs have a plan to fix it.

Stephen McNair reports

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

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this is gold 🤣. the political clarity is unmatched. i need the daily digest.

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

Farage's policies:
*Private insurance based healthcare.
*Cut abortion rights for women.
*Cut rights for gay and trans people.
*Increase benefits for people with lots of kids.
*Don't end mass immigration, 1 in 1 out, so replace British people 1 by 1.
*Do whatever USA tells us.

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I'm sure they will survive the loss of that dubious pleasure 😄

Is there no safe port in this storm?

Cue this song: open.spotify.com/track/1Lz29v...

It’s cute he thinks Trump would read this. And care if he did.

"Once a hub for news, debate, and connection, Twitter has devolved into a cesspit of hate and chaos. Today, I’m sending my final tweet."

🔴Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers’ Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave

They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on “free speech”

bylinetimes.com/2024/12/17/c...

This petition has gained over 52,000 signatures in four weeks, WITHOUT the help of Elon Musk, politicians or the UK media, who have been boosting the general election petition. Can we get it up to 100,000?

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

I'm in the process of Xit. Hopefully many more will follow in the Great Migration from Muskland.