Responding out loud to contentious items on the radio is a constant hazard for the politically engaged. I am no exception.
Listening to Sajid Javid, the former Home Secretary for the #Nastiz, I heard him plugging his book on #R4Today
As he talked about his father's reaction to him being banged up for petty theft in Bristol's Bridewell Police Station, I blurted out, "I know it well!"
"... I used to pick up their post, when I worked for Royal Mail," I sheepishly added.
Yet another of the #Nastiz (formerly the Conservative & Unionist Party) defects to #ReformUK.
After 14 years of misrule by the #Tories, the British voters finally said 'Enough is enough' in 2024 and resoundingly threw the whole bunch of chancers out of power and out of Parliament.
Why does Nadhim Zahawi think he is any more acceptable to the British public as a Reform Party UK Ltd candidate than as a Tory MP?
#Farage #FascistFarage #TrumpLite
#PrivateEye #UKpol
https://youtu.be/V59br2CBgJ0?si=YYvLrDJnW7CPEfqq
Morning, all,
Matthew D'Ancona writes that an electoral pact between the Conservatives and Reform might put Nigel Farage in No.10.
He nicknames this pact "Conform" but also toys with "Reservative."
I prefer "Reformatory," which OLD* says is "a type of school that young criminals are sent to instead of prison."
It might allow the Young Pretender greater leeway with his racist remarks than did Dulwich School.
#NaziFarage #Reform #ReformUKltd
#Nastiz #UKpol
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/matthew-dancona-how-the-tories-will-put-farage-in-no-10/?utm_campaign=968afe29-39e7-45b6-a2e0-e403e0d51196&utm_source=1234581
Meanwhile... on this side of the Pond, Labour is planning to end the ancient right to Jury Trial in millions of court cases.
12 Angry Men to be replaced by 3 Maddened Kangaroos?
When, after 14 years, we finally got rid of the #Nastiz, we all hoped their authoritarian 'reforms' would be reversed by the new #HMG. Yet again, we are being sorely disappointed.
UKpol #KangarooCourts
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov/20/moj-to-remove-right-to-trial-by-jury-for-thousands-of-cases-in-controversial-overhaul
Morning, all,
“fi-fi-fo-fump
I smell a reek like Trump…”
Robbie Gibb led the coup against his own fellow conservative and BBC DG, Tim Davie.
The Far Right movement funded by oligarchs worldwide to preserve and increase their obscene wealth, undeserved privilege and malevolent influence never sleeps and requires our constant resistance.
#Nastiz #LeagueOfVeryOrdinaryGentlemen
#Trump #GOP #MAGA
#DarkMoney #Koch #Thiel
#Musk #Putin #Orban #Vance
#UKpol #USpol
https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2025/nov/10/make-no-mistake-this-was-a-coup-the-extraordinary-downfall-of-the-bbcs-top-bosses?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb
Any #AI that considers Sasha to be 'clever' is, by definition, hallucinating...
#BorisJohnson #Nastiz #Hubris
#MalignantNarcissism
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-chatgpt-books-ai-b2846526.html
Reminds me of the special rendition titled instead as ‘Ode To Freedom,’ performed on the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
And this one, in which the US Army trolled their Commander-in-Chief as he sat before them at the Governors’ Dinner, with their rendition of the revolutionary song from Les Miserables.
Les would’ve been so proud:
#SlavaUkrayini
#Trump #TraitorTrump
#FelonTrump #PutinsPoodle
#Krasnov #AgentOrange
#POTUS45 #POTUS404
#GOP #MAGA
#Nastiz #Tories #Farage #Sasha
https://youtu.be/IQ1J0HCZS74?si=1VA_qT_mmtnSePqB
That's pretty good 'value for money', as one country troubled by wannabe dictators to another...
The #Nastiz * spent over £700 million ($900 million) to send personae non grata to Rwanda and failed to actually transport a single individual thanks to resistance through the courts, etc.
They even used their parliamentary majority to pass a law stating, ipse dixit, that Rwanda is a Safe Country.
#Trump #Krasnov
#BorisJohnson #Sasha
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-tories-spent-ps715-million-sending-no-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda_uk_674df45ae4b0d426caf1266d
Morning, all
Labour still repeating the #Nastiz' tired old mantra about the "benefits" of #Brexit on #R4Today with Charlie Faulkner still unable to acknowledge the simple truth that the way to access the benefits of a club is - to join the club!
#Rejoin! Especially necessary with the Blowhard #POTUS Donald Trump threatening us and EU for 'not taking American cars.' Wonder what Ford UK think of the ignorance of Don The Con?
* Interestingly, the Far Right rioting appears largely confined to England, mostly passing Scotland and Wales by.
Having failed to promote his manifesto by democratic means, Nigel Farage appears ready to excuse, and thus condone, violent revolt "conducting politics by other means" (to channel von Clausewitz).
If the Far Right cannot win by the ballot, we have to be alive to the risk that they will eventually seek to win power "by the bullet..."
Philip C James
