216 Responses to Start the Week 11th May 2026

  1. Up2snuff says:

    I am here so send me to the Top of the Thread. The BBC are very wasteful. The BBC have a pronunciation unit, said to number over 100 staff. But on BBC news they still keep refering to DeckAids (sun loungers and quoits) and Hunter Virus when it is Hanta virus. The BBC overpay staff and also are anti-Reform/anti-Farage and have TDS in bucket loads! Defund the BBC. They do not deserve the TellyTax.

    The BBC are biased, and pro-Palestinian and anti-Reform/anti-Farage and are pro-Green Party. Defund the BBC. The BBC are pro-Labour Party so the lack of votes for Labour must make the BBC very downhearted.

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    • taffman says:

      Up2snuff
      Are you still paying the Telly Tax ?
      Hit them where it hurts. Stop paying it .

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      • Up2snuff says:

        taffman, no – I don’t pay the TellyTax – for over a quarter of a century now. I have another ‘beef’ about the BBC. The BBC are firmly wedded to climate change and Global Warming. Climate Change was mentioned on Farming Today.

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    • harry142857 says:

      Back in the day, when Saint David Attenborough was controller of the BBC (well BBC2 actually 1965-69)the announcers used RP, received pronunciation, everyone could clearly understand. Now they are race obsessed you have voiceovers from IC3’s who drop certain consonants. It’s so obvious, but extremely annoying. You would think they would have to pass some sort of test first. Same is true of many sports commentators. Still, their quotas hit targets.

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  2. Nibor says:

    Talking to a friend earlier about Labour (and thus BBC ) .

    The times have moved and the working class are no longer repressed by frock coated top hat wearing cigar smoking tycoons .

    Very often the working class are white van man with a small business and liking independence .
    But he still repressed . By Labour types .

    His repressions are from the bureaucrats from town halls , councils ,quangos , Health and Safety , Enviromentals , EUrocrats , DEI , so called charities and others .
    All taking money from his taxes , and charging him for licences to do his job . [or having pleasure , such as the telly tax for the BBC when he wants to watch Sky Sports ].
    98% of his repressers wil be Labour supporters .

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      “A student from India who does not hold British citizenship and is here on a temporary visa has just been elected to the Scottish parliament to serve a five year term salary £80,000 per year.

      ……
      A non-binary transgender Indian and former PhD student, born in Tamil Nadu, has become the first person to be elected as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) despite being a foreign citizen who does not have a permanent visa to live in the UK.

      Read more at:
      http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/130998924.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
      Manivannan, will now get an annual salary of £77k (Rs 99 lakh) despite not having the right to work full-time.

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  3. Nibor says:

    I**C* a company in W****// are due to close in one or two months time .
    Ga**//e , who came from Romania doesn`t seem fazed . She thinks she will get another job easily . In the same town , no need to get on a bicycle or car to go far . she`s confident . She doesn`t need to relocate to Coventry or commute to there .

    The BBC tell me that there are 9 million people on benefits . At the height of the Depression in the Thirties there were 3 million out of work and it was seen as a cataclysmic situation . Policies for the next 50 years were based on getting British workers jobs and never having to sign on .
    This isn`t a Left v Right thing . This is a total re evaluation of where we are and where we need to go .

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  4. JonathanR says:

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    • vlad says:

      Dr Ashenden gives an urgent warning about the real and present danger of Islamic theocracy / islamic internationalism.
      His diagnosis of our current situation should be heard even by non-Christians who may not agree in every detail with his prescription of a solution.

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  5. StewGreen says:

    News not widely reported
    Although the UK government is mad for cutting man made CO2 release, as if was some magic control knob for UK weather
    it recently restarted a factory that makes industrial CO2
    “United Kingdom: The government reportedly reopened a CO2 production plant in late April 2026 to support the continued operation of its nuclear power stations during supply shortages.
    ” (World supply of CO2 has dropped due to Iran conflict)
    https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/iran-conflict-forces-government-to-reopen-co2-plant-to-support-nuclear-power-security-28-04-2026/

    You see UK has AGR Advanced GAS cooled nuclear reactors
    And the coolant is CO2

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    Stew – a wise government ( What ?) would have a list of key manufacturing that must be kept ‘in-house ‘ …. Oil refining – fertilisers – co2 – food production – energy ( coal powered stations – would surely be on that list – but once politics gets in the way the crazies like mad ed shut them down ….. i dont think the uk even makes its’ own jet fuel any more – and the US type can’t be used un Europe ….

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  7. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    The BBC is trying to tippex out Reform and concentrate on the coming civil war in their Marxist party …. And still trying to find stupid comments by reform councillors …. The Islamic greens have crawled back under their rock – despite another false claim by David Zack poulsen that he worked in the department of injustice ….
    Zack is an easy target for any decent journalist – his CV is beyond ‘flowery ‘ and is deception …. Which in ordinary times would end a political career …..

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    • digg says:

      I can’t understand how the hypnotist has any serious following at all, he’s a joke!

      Even the Monster Raving Loony Party leaders had more substance!

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  8. digg says:

    Starmer and Raynor both saying more or less that everything they have been doing in government hasn’t worked and The Country needs a new direction.

    Typical Starmer weasel words to escape responsibility! That’s admitting that they have had no idea what they have been doing and have totally failed?

    The BBC of course will fall for this nonsense hook line and sinker and get their (regurgitated) publicity campaign on the road in no time!

    Just go, it’s embarrassing and painful!

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    BAFTA s
    I ve seen the list of winners and non – winners …. It confirms that i am completely out of touch with those programmes – all of which I have not seen or want to see .

    The only one I heard of was the one about a coloured boy who killed someone . The coloured boy – for some reason – was played by a white boy …..

    Im surprised they didn’t Give a ‘still alive award ‘ to the bbc nature journalist but they did give something to a 91 year old women who does cakes …..

    The impact of wokeness on output is a ‘culture ‘ killer eh?

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    • Northern Voter says:

      The bbc nature journalist, an avid believer in conservation and climate tomfoolery, was once believe it or not, a specimen collector for London Zoo.

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  10. Fedup2 says:

    Did you know that if the cost of government borrowing goes up by 0.25% the cost to the taxpayers is £2.5 billon per year …. Which for a Marxist regime is probably ‘pocket money ‘….

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  11. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    Looks like the BBC is refighting ( again ) formal rejoining of the Reich EU – thereby supporting their favourite Marxist PM …. Comrade Robinson chats with some economist – no challenge – no interruption – enough to make one ill …..

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  12. Doublethinker says:

    Starkey and Littlewood , friends of Reform but both still Tories, have agreed that the new political paradigm is Nationalist v Globalist and that Left v Right is no longer applicable. This has been being discussed on this site for several years and yet most of the commentariat are still stuck with Left v Right and so can’t really explain why politics is cleaving the way it currently is.
    Those who want the ‘Right to Unite’ can’t understand why Reform has some quasi socialist policies yet in their view belongs on the Right. They gloss over the problem that many, probable most, Tory MPs are Globalists and hence incompatible with Reform.
    There are a few elements within Labour , eg Blue Labour, who are closer to Nationalism than to Globalism. They need to bite the bullet and join with Reform along with the few Nationalist Tories. Of course the irony is that the Welsh and Scottish Nationalists are really Globalists in disguise.
    If the sight of Muslims campaigning on our streets in local elections on Palestine doesn’t shock people into action nothing will. The bovine like complacency , or is it stupidity , of the British people is astonishing. Are they incapable of thinking about what things will be like in ten or twenty years?
    I suspect that the reason why the commentariat and legacy media avoid using the Natuonalist/ Globalist paradigm is not because they don’t think is true but because once voters being to see politics through that lens then many more will realise it’s time to vote Reform.

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    “SpaceX is preparing for the key Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) test of the full stack V3 Starship at Pad 2, a key milestone ahead of launch.”

    Starship Flight 12: Full Stack Awaits Launch Rehearsal | SpaceX Starbase

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    You cannot compete on the international market when your energy is too high to make anything.

    Get in touch ….
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  14. Fedup2 says:

    Double – an interesting piece …you mention the stupidity of British people …. I used to think that but have toned my view down a lot . Ok – there’s a big number of thickos – sadly a lot choose to be thick ….
    On those few occasions when I had to suffer being in the presence of certain relatives – I would be aghast at their lack of knowledge about the world and events – I learnt to bite my tongue . I realised that some people like bread and circuses – i pity them but don’t look down my nose any more .

    You are right about the left / right split -which remains a comfort blanket for the likes of the BBC . But key issues – eg green crap – transcends the left right idea – same with border control ….

    Just going back to the thickness of the population … I just think people have been bred to accept stuff which isn’t in their best interest – again – green crap – destroying personal finances and National finances for no immediate benefit nor – I believe – any future benefit- man made global warming is a theory – not the truth – it’s a theory i cannot accept ….

    The council results have genuinely frightened the uniparty – the first time in 2 years they might realise just how cheesed off even the thickest people are – with or without benefits thrown at them ….
    The thing that frightens MPs is the prospect of losing their seats next time – they can’t all get into their House of Lords …. But they’ll have got another 2 years MP pension and the golden eff off ..

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Vote and forget and assume the Party selected will do what you want – take the moral high ground to shut people up.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      But whilst people get their circuses regularly , football, Strictly etc their bread supply is dwindling thanks to them voting for Globalists whose policies actually do the people harm and are steadily wrecking their homeland.
      We have not reached the stage when we are compelled to vote for particular candidates , excepting Muslim family voting of course, it is a free choice inside the booth. So why do people vote Uniparty or Green or Plyd etc ? It must be because they can’t be bothered to think about what they are voting for and the implications.
      Or perhaps they just believe the sewage that the likes of the BBC pumps out 24/7 and are happy to leave it at thst. Anyway they deserve what’s coming in ten or twenty years.

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  15. AsISeeIt says:

    So while this morning Sir Keir’s arse is making buttons (as that old saying goes) our Navy brass is fretting about the placement of uniform buttons

    Against a backdrop of global threat and instability in this multipolar world of ours, Keir Starmer asserts British military power…

    Army parachutes onto remote island to help Briton with suspected hantavirus. British Army medics have parachuted onto the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha to help a British national with suspected hantavirus. (Lauren Turner, BBC News)

    I don’t think the BBC has been so patriotically gungho for a military mission since Daniel Craig & HM The Queen parachuted in to open the 2012 London Olympics

    Six paratroopers… a nurse and an anaesthetist leapt from an RAF plane… accesable only by sea… remote Atlantic island – relishes the regime-mouthpiece Times

    To be fair, Captain Kirk would tend to bring Dr. “Doc” McCoy and a couple of red shirts along with his small team when he beamed down to an unexplored planet.

    …travelled 7,000 miles from RAF Brise Norton in Oxfordshire via Ascension Island (Times) – blimey, what’s that cost us? Talk about NHS healthcare free at the point of access. We can’t even get a GP to jump into a car to do a local housecall.

    Does this mean I won’t have to pay for health insurance on my next overseas holiday trip?

    Paramilitary Paramedics

    This story is definitely going to excite our dodgy white English Adolescence generation of boys to sign up for a career in the forces. Admittedly the mission is more of an International Rescue Tracy Island plot than something out of The Eagle Has Landed – but at least it sounds adventurous and manly…

    Gives one a bit of a feeling of “Hard Power” eh?

    I can envisage Commando comics (there’s one for the teenagers) doing a new edition titled something like “Desert Island Rats”. “Kelly’s Virus Heros” or “Stig SAS of the Rubbish Dump”

    Oh, wait… As You Were (as they say in the army): A hot button issue… The Royal Navy is planning to spend up to £200,000 on a new uniform for female sailors because the buttons are said to be placed “inappropriately” (Times)

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      The best fences couldn’t keep intruders out, RAF insiders claim
      Spending millions on tall barbed-wire fencing will not stop break-ins, sources say

      Spending “many millions” to install barbed wire-topped high fences at every base would therefore not materially improve security, they argued.

      OPEN BORDERS IN MILITARY BASES?! HA HAH AH AHA!

      A mooted future home for the new nuclear-capable F35 fighter jets is kept behind a 5ft-high fence.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Asiseeit – Hermer must have looked at the £mercy £ mission and wondered what sort of action he could take against those involved – particularly since Labour / Sinn Fein IRA have a special place for the paras … a great source of income in past and current years …..

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    196 x3 boats….

    Small boats data
    This page shows figures for the last 7 days for migrants attempting to cross the English Channel in small boats without permission to enter the UK.

    Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
    3 May 2026 422 6 0
    4 May 2026 92 2 0
    5 May 2026 0 0 0
    6 May 2026 0 0 0
    7 May 2026 0 0 0
    8 May 2026 70 1 0
    9 May 2026 196 3 0

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    10 years
    36 months
    Racist!

    “He was convicted of three charges under the Official Secrets Act of communicating and collecting information likely to be useful to an enemy, and willful misconduct in a public office at the Old Bailey.

    The court heard that he could have passed intel on which “posed a threat to the lives of UK and Nato service personnel in Afghanistan and elsewhere”.

    He claimed he began handing the sensitive details over to the Iranians after being overlooked for a promotion by “racist” colleagues.

    The British-Iranian dual national was subsequently jailed for 10 years – but served just 36 months of his sentence in December 2011.”

    https://www.gbnews.com/news/brighton-news-soldier-jailed-military-secrets-iran-salsa-teacher

    He now works as a salsa instructor and claims to be the “No1 in Brighton”, according to his promotional material.

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  18. Sluff says:

    Bonjour a tous!

    Just back from a few days in France. Always instructive to return from another country and get that immediate impression of the UK, local elections or not.

    We drove over 600 miles but I can count on one hand the number of a. Potholes b. Road patches arising from road digging by endless utility companies. Germany is similar. What are we getting so wrong?

    The 20 mph speed limits (or 30 km/h) are being rolled out across Europe.someone, somewhere is powering this war on the motorist. It’s not just a Welsh thing. But who? And why? What overpowering sway do they have?

    The cultural homogeneity in villages, towns, and cities was a joy to behold. As was the architectural homogeneity. Why do so many French villages look so pretty? Maybe they have sensible planning rules they actually enforce.

    And yet house prices are very reasonable. Sell a 3 bed semi in Londonistan and get yourself a 5 bed detached with swimming pool overlooking the Dordogne. No wonder many Brits do. So presumably the house v population ratio is better in France. How come?

    So many places seem to have decent public services and spaces. No litter. Nice town centres. Excellent Maison de Tourisme. Such a change from so many UK third world centres.

    Seems to me UK politics and especially policies have for a long time been framed by left activism and the response of politicians to assuage them (Trans, BLM, Gaza, climate change, ‘poverty’, ‘wellbeing’), most of which bear absolutely no relation to the lives of ordinary people. And TTK wonders why it’s all going t*** up.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Sluff – i think part of the reason for ‘nice France ‘ is they tip their third world detritus into the English Channel ….

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        My best guess for why UK does not stop the boats (and 50 Royal Marines stationed at Deal would easily do the job) is:

        1) The French would retaliate by stopping the constant 3GW of electric power transfer to the UK from their atomic generators.

        2) The Gerrymandering by the Uniparty would slow (this would upset the Kalergi plan).

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Give the illegals/undocumented/dreamers some onions and send them back as French citizens! HAH AH AHAH!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Dover MP Natalie Elphicke told the Commons that the BBC’s “shocking report” contained the “breath-taking” disclosure of free French public bus services being used to ferry migrants from camps to Dunkirk beaches.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63229010

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  19. Sluff says:

    While Labour go in the wrong direction, and after the election results will almost certainly do so even more quickly, Poland goes in the right one.

    Poland establishes itself as a deregulation model for the EU
    https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/brzoska-poland-establishes-itself-deregulation-104329855.html

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    A deception practiced by some stat type looking at the voting map of the UK Mainland – the deception is that only a third ? Of council wards were up for grabs – courtesy of reform challenging the attempted cancellation by the uniparty ( notice no one mentions that crime now ) …

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    Tim Stanley DT

    STARTS This weekend I attended the birthday party of one of the finest priests in England, Nicholas Leviseur, an eccentric ex-soldier who cut his cake with a halberd. He gave a little speech. It was rather sad. Born in 1956, Fr Nick is old enough to remember when Britain was more than a country, it was a civilisation – and he has witnessed its slow retreat. I found the recent election of Green Vulcans very funny, but to men and women who recall when we were once serious, it is a profound insult.

    Scotland, for example, has elected a transgender immigrant, here only on a student visa. Given that the Greens are committed to independence, despite it having little to do with otters, it seems we are literally importing people who wish to destroy us. Britain got assisted suicide after all.

    That’s the backdrop to this week’s desperate bid to save the PM, and I can save you the bother of watching the reset speech: his father was a toolmaker. We’ve come to the end of Keir Starmer’s personality, not a long road to start with, and short of wearing a fez or announcing a sex change, there are no depths left to reveal. In a vote of confidence in the Parliamentary Labour Party, brimming with “talent”, he has brought back Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown. Harman is in charge of women, despite being unable to define one. Gordon is special envoy on global finance, because Keith Vaz was unavailable.

    It’s like trying to save the Weimar Republic by reviving Crossroads, with kitsch policies to match. Prepare for breakfast clubs, ID cards and reversing Brexit, the latter an implicit repudiation of the entire Starmerite project. Recall that he first “transformed the Labour Party” by reconciling it to the referendum result (having previously campaigned to reverse it) and thus has clearly decided his future lies not with healing the nation, or treading lightly on our lives, but kickstarting a second Brexit civil war.

    Keir has lost much of his original staff; he has been denounced by Josh Simons (former head of the appropriately titled Labour Together). And Wes Streeting has reportedly told him that he is ready to be the next prime minister, which is how he has felt since the age of five. Much of what you’ll see in the next few days isn’t about saving Starmer so much as trying to game a leadership battle towards Wes, because he probably can’t win a democratic contest with a Left-wing alternative, such as Andy Burnham or Angela Rayner, but he could win the equivalent of a South American coup.

    This scenario is Byzantine, cynical and, most importantly, nothing to do with the public. Labour has no philosophy; it isn’t a movement anymore. It is a tribe. It will fight its battle according to its own logic and with little interest in the effects upon the wider country. Take the backbench MP Catherine West – well-intentioned and brave – who said she would trigger a leadership ballot if the Cabinet didn’t timetable a succession. Speaking with Laura Kuenssberg, her wish-list included a better relationship with the civil service and encouraging a woman to run. Both completely irrelevant to our lives, but evoke the HR culture of the lanyard Left.

    Of course, were an all-women shortlist imposed, I wouldn’t put it past Streeting to wear a push-up bra and call himself Wendy to get on the ballot. He is mercilessly ambitious.

    West’s insurgency might fail precisely because the MPs who are minded to vote for it, i.e. Labour’s socialist caucus, fear it benefits Wes the most – that West is being pushed to push the Cabinet so that the Cabinet sets a timetable before the race can include Rayner (yet to be cleared by HMRC) or Burnham (yet to enter the Commons).

    But the very fact Rayner and Burnham aren’t ready to run is indicative of their own gargantuan flaws, while talk of Ed Miliband playing “kingmaker” smacks of mediocrity in high places. The man is a serial failure, rejected by the electorate in 2015 just as Brown, Harman and Burnham were in 2010. Why, despite its massive majority of fresh faces, is Labour recycling through old names faster than a panto agent’s Rolodex?

    And what do the hopefuls propose that’s different? Much talk of a failure in “comms” (idiot speak for “communications”), which insultingly suggests the public doesn’t realise how lucky it is. “Labour values” comes up a lot, but the wide range of opinions on immigration or welfare suggests minimal consensus. Policies that might win back the Greens will nudge others towards Reform. More regulation and handouts, suggests Rayner; more devolution; more men called Andy in Parliament. Can we afford all that? Then there are anti-Semitism and Islamism, issues that have confounded even a Prime Minister with a Jewish family – in part because politicians of his ilk have tolerated this crap for years in exchange for votes.

    A recent scene of London school girls telling their striking teachers (with a Palestine flag, natch) to go back to work sums up where we are: bad ideas have been baked into public life, much of the damage done in the Brown/Harman era, fuelling state failure. Children, already hit by Covid and tuition fees, have been betrayed by stupid adults – and now, locked out of the classroom, Labour deals them a final, cruel blow. They can’t even smoke behind the bike sheds.

    In short: sack Keir Starmer, fine, but it won’t change a damn thing. Labour cannot fix us because it cannot fix itself, because it is a hangover of a 20th century party that no longer enjoys a class basis or a mobilising philosophy. It shouldn’t still exist, and very nearly split into oblivion under Jeremy Corbyn. It was only elected by default in 2024 and the error became obvious to the public almost within minutes. You’d require the comms skills of Bill Clinton and Cicero to turn such a mess around.

    A government does not define a nation, but it can traduce it. Fr Nick was born in the year of Suez, an act of hubris that contradicts Tory nostalgia. But even as I find much to sketch and laugh at, I appreciate that many readers resent how much Britain, the land of Gladstone and Disraeli, appears determined to become a joke.ENDS

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The ‘pro Jewish ‘ rally this week end in Londonistan had Patrick pat mcfadden – famed expenses fraudster standing in front of an audience – delivering his lines amid the booing and running away straight after ….

      Someone suggested the cabinet must have drawn straws … I wonder why TTK didn’t turn up as he has more experience of Jewish people than many … he could have bought his wife ….
      Although I suspect the Labour Party gave him a wife like they did his mate Gordon brown …

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      • Doublethinker says:

        Fed,
        If the Labour Party offered you a spouse you would need to undertake at least a superficial examination to ensure that their various bits and bobs were different to your own. It’s not that Labour would be trying to sell you a dud but rather that they genuinely don’t think that it matters.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      He rots the soul of a nation
      He rots the soul of a nation

      “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. (Boris Johnson)

      But it cannot survive treason from within.(Theresa May)

      An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. (Anjem Choudary)

      But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.(Jeremy Corbyn)

      For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”

      Marcus Tullius Cicero

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    I hope the UK Overseas Aid helped China launch this rocket?! HA HAH AHAHA HHA HA!

    Live: Special coverage of China’s Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft launch

    ….
    UK foreign aid to China has dropped by approximately 90%, from around £82 million in 2019 to roughly £8 million in 2023–24, primarily focusing on education, climate change, and research rather than direct government funding.

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “The lefts ENTIRE argument is pretending not to understand basic things”

    British leftists are losing it..

    Asmongold TV
    4.53m subscribers

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    • vlad says:

      For libtards, “racism” has become the ultimate sin; the ultimate crime; the ultimate thought crime. But what is so wrong about wanting to live among one’s own? Especially when a certain group of non-whites are openly hostile to this country’s way of life and are expressly trying to ‘replace’ the native population?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Saudi Arabia generally does not grant citizenship to migrant workers, regardless of their length of stay, maintaining a strictly temporary labor system. While legal pathways for naturalization exist, they are extremely difficult to achieve, with most foreign residents, including long-term residents and those born there, excluded.

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    1689 “No forreigne prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence within this realm.” English Bill of Rights 1689
    ……….
    2026 An Indian was elected to the Scottish Parliament, even without a permanent visa to stay in the UK.

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  25. tomo says:

    Polanski gets replaced before Starmer?

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “‘Hi, I need some new people to blame and sack, are you up for it?'”

    Keir Starmer announces Harriet Harman as his Advisor and Gordon Brown as his Special Envoy

    ……………

    How paedophiles infiltrated the left and hijacked the fight for civil rights
    This article is more than 12 years old
    A 1970s campaign to lower the age of consent has returned to haunt Harriet Harman, Patricia Hewitt and Jack Dromey. But in such a liberal climate, it wasn’t hard for a small, determined group to exploit a commitment to free speech

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/02/how-paedophiles-infiltrated-the-left-harriet-harman-patricia-hewitt

    But how did the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), whose affiliation to the NCCL has been exhaustively investigated by the Daily Mail, come to get a ticket to the party?

    ………….


    Watch live: A plan for a stronger and fairer Britain

    Keir Starmer
    50.7k subscribers

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  27. tomo says:

    Nonentity withdraws after trying out as a lightning rod?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Ok – just watched the Starmer show online – complete with adverts !..

      The denial is very strong – he is going even further left – the speech was underpinned by well schooled Labour Party clappers who were used to fill the room ….

      He has 3 remedies – nationalising British steel – rejoining the EU – and I can’t remember the third one .

      Tommy Robinson didn’t get a name check but the March on Saturday did – nice advert – snd he is proud of banning dissenters to coming to the socialist paradice to express their views ….

      Starmer is a chancer – apparently – who runs away ….. at least Starmer didn’t tell reform voters they are fascists …. Yet ..

      There was no humour – no grace – no real emotion – just the autocue….

      Would that win people over ? Those who listened wouldn’t vote for him and his dying party – but people hear what they want to hear …
      I knew it would be a waste of time and effort but I wondered if he might change … how stupid of me …

      BTW Reform is now the new ‘forces of darkness ‘’’

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Wot no ‘Let Me Be Clear’ on the bullshit Bingo Card?

         8 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        ‘I get it ‘ was about 15 seconds in ….

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        • Scroblene says:

          Just got back from Tesco…

          Turned on ‘Talk’ radio!

          Looked at my receipt to sum up Rodney’s squealing self-pity!

          Word salad
          Past its sell-by date
          Reduced to clear.
          Clubcard accepted…

          What a gink that bloke is – he’s already getting absolutely slaughtered by the normal MSM!

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    “I travel the world because I like the sensation of DVT tights on my legs.”

    “@BurnsideWasTosh
    What Starmer should say:

    I am sorry, I turned the country against itself, in the wake of Southport I chose to attack those grieving and stoke division. I spent 19 seconds laying flowers and then went to a drinks party. I have spent two years pandering to Muslims, recognising Palestine, removing the two child benefit cap and spending hundreds of millions protecting mosques from an imaginary threat. I actively loathe British people, you embarrass me by going out to work and not fucking your cousins, you are not the community I talk about protecting.

    I have offered nothing but dither, corruption and economic malaise. I have exhibited the warmth and charisma of a plate of chilled luncheon meat. Everytime I have shown myself up to be inadequate I have lashed out like the angry, brittle man I am, who was mercilessly bullied for playing the flute at my fee paying grammar school.

    I have built a cabinet of the most venal, retarded and envious people I could find. The currency of my Government has been deceit, I lie so often I dont even know what the truth is anymore.

    I travel the world because I like the sensation of DVT tights on my legs. The feeling of power on the world stage makes little Keir tingle and it is the closest I’ve ever come to feeling a human emotion, apart from that one time I prosecuted a British solider for protecting our country, how I leaked that day.

    It’s clear the circus of retards in my party want me to leave, so in one last act of spite I am calling an election before retiring to Mauritius with my boyfriend Lord Hermer.
    8:51 am · 11 May 2026 24.7K

    https://x.com/BurnsideWasTosh/status/2053744734951067660

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  29. atlas_shrugged says:

    Thick Ed’s carbon removing plans do the opposite of what he intends the DT reports:

    Montel’s report said: “Power generated from carbon-emitting sources rose by 5.7pc in 2025 compared to 2024 despite the complete removal of coal from the energy mix in September 2024.

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  30. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Anybody think that the Conservatives Party might split?

    They like to use the term ‘Broad Church’ so that they can include the wide range of members and MP’s but they have become just too wide.
    A Party that had Grieve and Jenrick in it could not be taken seriously.

    Could it happen that the real conservatives could split from the libdems in the Conservative Party.
    I think there will be much less than half the MP’s who could join Reform and the majority of the other MP’s would fit in with the liblabgreen.

    The next GE could wipe out the Conservatives.

    I don’t agree with the lefty commentators they have on GB News who keep going on about Reform being full of Conservatives and calling them out for it.
    Only the real conservatives fit with Reform.
    Also, are the left saying only people who have never supported any Party before can go to Reform because they seem to keep using ex Conservatives joining Reform as some kind of slur.

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  31. JohnC says:

    ABC Misinformation Report
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F0jgliW-kpM_rgs0WfXIGqOzyAX9Mjei/view?brid=YWdncwFQlqEzX5gBSJFkpfzM36gO

    Just saw this on social media. So I asked AI:
    ‘did ABC make up story of malnutrition while using a child with health issues’
    The answer:
    ‘Initial Framing: The child was featured as a face of famine and starvation in Gaza.
    Clarification: After publication, The New York Times issued an editors’ note admitting the boy also had pre-existing health problems that affected his ability to thrive, information they had not included in the original story.
    Media Integrity: Critics, including former editors and journalists, called the omission a “deception,” arguing that the malnutrition was largely caused by a pre-existing disease rather than a lack of food alone.’

    So they blatantly lied for the pro-Muslim agenda.

    Then I asked:
    ‘did the bbc report it?’
    And of course the answer was no surprise:
    ‘Yes, the BBC reported on the child, Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, and faced similar criticism for failing to initially disclose his underlying medical conditions.’

    ‘Initial Reporting: The BBC published a video story on 24 July 2025 titled “The story behind the photograph of a starving Gaza baby”. The report interviewed the photographer, Ahmed al-Arini, who described the image as symbolic of “extreme hunger” in Gaza.
    Omissions: Critics, including the Israeli Foreign Ministry and media watchdogs, pointed out that the BBC aired an interview with the boy’s mother that omitted any mention of his pre-existing genetic conditions or cerebral palsy.’

    Of course they did. They are dirty b@stards. Isn’t it just amazing how all these ‘mistakes’ are in favour of their far-Left agenda.

    It seems from AI responses I have seen, the BBC have the argument that it doesn’t matter if their staff are Left wing because their job description says they must be impartial.

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    On the upside – Starmer has published the banning orders on Europeans and Americans coming to Britain to protest next weekend –
    Hopefully he will get the White House involved ….

    …im betting there won’t be a stalking horse now …

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    • tomo says:

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Tommy Robinson reacts by saying a US congress man is due to attend on Saturday – will TTK ban him too ?

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Meanwhile Der Starmer is unable to ban the arrival in the UK of known criminals who do real harm to UK citizens. Take a bow Rathkeale. AI says this:

      Several members of the Irish Traveller community have been convicted of high-value burglary and conspiracy offences in the UK, Ireland, and Australia, often described by police as organized “fly-in fly-out” criminal operations. These groups frequently target high-end homes for cash, jewelry, and luxury goods.

      TikTok
      ·9newsmelbourne
      +2
      Recent and Notable Convictions
      Melbourne, Australia (2024): Three Irish nationals (19, 24, 25) were arrested at Melbourne airport, accused of over 60 home invasions and stealing up to

      million in luxury goods. A wider investigation led to 14 men being charged in relation to a crew of Irish burglars.
      West Midlands/Wales, UK (2023): Jason MacDonaugh (32) was jailed for 13 years at Birmingham Crown Court for his role in a gang that raided 54 homes, taking $\pounds$350,000 in property.
      Swansea, UK (2021): Michael Casey was jailed for his role in a gang responsible for over 70 high-value burglaries across South Wales, stealing $\pounds$500,000 worth of jewelry.
      London, UK (2006/2015): Gerard O’Leary was jailed for seven years for leading a gang responsible for a $\pounds$2.5m burglary in Hampstead, with police believing the group was responsible for 40% of burglaries in North London at the time. Peter Kerrigan, an Irish Traveller, was dubbed one of Britain’s most prolific burglars after admitting to over 1,400 burglaries.
      Ireland (2016): Members of a Traveller family were sentenced for a series of burglaries, including one in which a homeowner died of fright, with a judge acknowledging the “premeditation” of the crimes.

      YouTube
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      +9
      Modus Operandi
      Targeting: Focus on affluent areas and, in some cases, elderly victims.
      Methods: Using stolen cars with cloned plates, employing “cleaner” tactics like bleach to remove DNA, and engaging in “distraction burglary” (posing as workers).
      Organization: Some gangs, often linked to the Rathkeale area, operate as part of wider networks.

      YouTube
      ·9 News Australia
      +4
      Defense Arguments
      In some cases, defense lawyers have argued that the offenders did not have the “tools to support themselves in the workplace” due to their upbringing in the Irish Traveller community, or that they fell under the influence of older, more experienced criminals.

      Wales Online
      +1

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  33. tomo says:

    Voter remorse + schadenfreude in equal measure?

       10 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Why not net ZERO miles per hour?

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      • tomo says:

        wet-dream.jpg

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Chelmsford bus gate signs ‘confusing drivers’ brains’
          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-47175357

          A psychologist fined for driving through a bus gate has won her appeal after arguing there were too many signs for the brain to process.

          Bernardine King’s penalty charge notice (PCN) was quashed after a tribunal ruled signage was “inadequate”.

          Essex County Council has taken £1.5m after 54,000 drivers were fined using the Chelmsford bus gate in 18 months.

          It said the PCNs had seen the number of people using the gate “reduce to less than a quarter” of the figure before.

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      • taffman says:

        MarkyMark
        Why not India, China, USA , etc, etc …..?

           4 likes

        • Fedup2 says:

          Simples – each sign should be made bigger than the others .. Er .. i ..er …think …

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        • MarkyMark says:

          India has pledged to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070, as announced at COP26. This long-term target is supported by 2030 interim goals, including reducing emissions intensity of GDP by 45%, achieving 50% cumulative electric power from non-fossil fuel sources, and creating a 500 GW non-fossil energy capacity.

          “Is India’s lack of toilets a cultural problem?”
          Published 16 March 2012

          Agricultural residue burning (straw burning) in China, primarily occurring during harvest seasons (May-June, Sept-Nov), is a major source of air pollution and vegetation fires, particularly in the Northeast and North China Plain. Despite strict, long-standing government bans, some rural areas are relaxing rules to allow controlled burning,.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “If I have to” HA HA HAH AHAHA HAAH AH A H!

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  34. Fedup2 says:

    As I said yesterday – the meeting on Saturday celebrating the UK is definately going to have Starmer inspired trouble – planted in the crowd – or ‘intelligence assessments this week leading to it being banned … betcha …

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  35. Fedup2 says:

    30 year gilt now up to 5.66% … bust that economy TTK .

    45 Marxist MP have now called for TTK to go …. 36? To go ….
    More popcorn please .

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    DWP increases benefits for husbands with 2 or more wives – started in April
    EXCLUSIVE: The DWP has increased the payment for households in polygamous marriages.
    https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/2203443/dwp-increases-benefits-husbands-2

    The DWP has confirmed in its benefits uprating list that ‘additional spouses’ in ‘polygamous marriages’ are being given a 4.8% boost to their benefits from April, which would most likely be for husbands with multiple wives.

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  37. Fedup2 says:

    X reports that the stalking horse wasn’t impressed by the darlek speech and is going ahead with her challenge of the great leader – let chaos rein …

    I don’t think the chancer ( Farage ) will stay quiet much longer – he needs to defend all those dark forces that voted reform ….

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  38. harry142857 says:

    Kier will stop Far Right Agitators from coming to London to attend rallies.

    Just like he stopped the boats

    and carloads of p4kis from Bradford coming down to abuse Jews.

    What a c**t.

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    “I know that Tony said our project would only be complete Completely DESTROYED when the Labour Party learned to love Peter Mandelson”, he said.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8279705.stm

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  40. tomo says:

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  41. harry142857 says:

    Small steps

    https://order-order.com/2026/05/11/bbc-verify-live-blog-to-shut-down/

    BC Snoozify Verify’s live blog is winding down following the departure of former Head of News Deborah Turness, who launched the live service last June as a “an exciting step towards even greater transparency”. As soon as she was out the door, it was only a matter of time before the new leadership took a cleaver to it. Nobody reads it, and whenever it occasionally posts a story, it is a disaster. Don’t say Guido didn’t warn you…

    The Times reports Lindsay McCoy, BBC Verify’s executive editor, gave staff the bad news in an internal memo:

    “Unfortunately, the format hasn’t matched how people want to consume our work and it isn’t reaching the audience numbers we would like.

    “As a result, we’ve taken the decision to focus our efforts where we can make the greatest impact. That means strengthening our presence on the main BBC News website and live page.”

    At its peak, the overall BBC Verify team employed 60 people at a cost of £3.4 million. It remains to be seen what happens to the live blog staff…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      TAXPAYER? GOV? BBC Pidgin is funded by the UK government through a special grant to the BBC World Service, not by the UK licence fee. Launched in 2017 as part of a £289m expansion, it is backed by government funding to enhance digital services in Africa and globally

      ………..
      South Africa begin review immigration policy afta Ghana petition to Africa Union on ‘xenophobic attacks’ against African migrants for di kontri
      https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cp8pyz680pqo

      South Africa govment don begin review dia immigration policy to address di mata of illegal migration plus allegations of xenophobic attacks on black foreigners.

      South Africa Minister of International Relations Ronald Lamola for statement on Friday, 8 May tok say dem find Ghana decision to escalate concerns about irregular migration to di African Union “regrettable”.

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  42. MarkyMark says:

    “On Thursday, two Green candidates standing for Lambeth council in south London, one of the party’s targets next week, were arrested for allegedly stirring up racial hatred online with antisemitic posts.

    ​Another Green candidate to be accused of antisemitism was Tina Ion, who is standing for Newcastle city council. She said this week that posts, including a call for “every single Zionist” to be killed, were “isolated fragments” of her statements.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/02/inside-green-party-antisemitism-struggle-israel-palestine

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    • moggiemoo says:

      Presumably an expanded version was “every single Zionist and all their supporters”?

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    It’s not looking good – about 50 Marxist MPs now telling TTK to go …. Stay kier – destroy your party ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Wil they all UTURN when they get promised a Lordship or an ambassador role?

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  44. tomo says:

    DIDDUMS

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  45. vlad says:

    Starmer’s totalitarian ban on speakers at Unite the Kingdom rally next weekend is already well underway.
    And he’s proud of it!
    Who’s the fascist now, Starmer?

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  46. tomo says:

    Meanwhile in Zummerzet

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  47. vlad says:

    Here are the details of the upcoming Unite the Kingdom rally for free speech. Before it’s too late: https://www.utkevents.com/

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The Telegraph has compiled this full list of the Labour MPs who have broken cover to call for change in No 10.
      Abtisam Mohamed (Sheffield Central)
      Ms Mohamed, who entered the Commons on Labour’s landslide victory in 2024, said Labour needed leadership that “brings people together”.
      She said: “The Prime Minister should now agree a clear transition and timeline for new leadership can do that. I came into politics to fight for real change and that hasn’t changed, but I won’t follow blindly.”
      Andy McDonald (Middlesborough and Thornaby East)
      Mr McDonald, a former frontbencher under Sir Keir and Jeremy Corbyn, said: “We need a change of leader tied to a change of policy – for a radical economic vision, with better incomes and higher living standards.”

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Sheffield bins will not be emptied….

        “A joint statement from
        @YuanfenYang
        and me on the Israeli authorities’ refusal to admit us entry to the occupied West Bank:”

        https://x.com/Abtisam_Mohamed/status/1908775982464376925

        “Sheffield Central is not “an island of strangers.” We are a mosaic of neighbours, friends and families from across the world. We all cooperate and contribute to our community.

        Our country was rebuilt from the contribution of successive generations of migrants, like my grandfather and father who worked tirelessly in the steel industry. They were not strangers, but part of a city and country that welcomed them.”

        We are a mosaic of neighbours, friends and families from across the world.

        We are a mosaic of neighbours, friends and families from across the world.

        “Large numbers in Sheffield standing up against the handful of right-wing thugs. We remain united against racism, islamophobia and any type of hate.
        #Sheffield
        #hopenothate🕊🤍”

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  48. vlad says:

    I think this is a spoof. Or was Andrew Lawrence just reading a transcript of Starmer’s speech? Hard to tell parody from reality these days.

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  49. MarkyMark says:

    3 weeks to deploy HMS Drag On.
    Pothole repair lorry falls into pothole.
    Keir Starmer is doing great!

    “Pothole repair lorry swallowed by pothole it was sent to fix
    Stranded vehicle has become an attraction for bemused villagers in Somerset”
    Lily Shanagher | Lily Shanagher is a reporter. See more | Published 11 May 2026″

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