Julian D 🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE #RejoinEU

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Mapping, CAD and GIS professional. #LGBTQ+, Social-Liberal ❄ and Green-Progressive 🌳 Political junkie.
#WOKE 🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE 🇪🇺 #RejoinEU
MY VIEWS (that people are stupid) ARE TOTALLY MY OWN!
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This year wasn’t “chaos.” It was a pattern. Trump is normalising imperial threats. Musk is laundering authoritarianism through tech. Europe is realising - too late - that the US isn’t a reliable adult anymore. The mask didn’t slip. It came off.
A year of watching Labour win power… and then govern like they’re terrified of it. Endless triangulation, zero narrative, and a strategy built on not upsetting anyone who reads the Daily Mail. Change promised. Management delivered.
UK politics in 2026 will be all about power, money, and influence — not just policy. If we don’t speak up for transparency now, the same old systems will roll on. It’s time for real democratic reform. #UKPolitics #MakeVotesMatter
Foreign interference isn’t a fringe theory — it’s a real threat when governments dodge scrutiny and anchor deals without transparency. Let’s demand stronger laws and accountability now. #DefendOurDemocracy #StrongerLaws
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-trump-quiet-piggy-daughter-b2887016.html
Starmer says he wouldn’t let someone talk to his daughter the way Trump spoke to reporter

PM challenged on Loose Women over reaction to derogatory language used by Trump to a female journalist

The Independent
While some cheer on Trump-style chaos and Farage’s antics, real democracy gets hollowed out. When politicians dodge accountability and dodgy money flows freely, we all lose. Enough is enough. #NoMoreMAGA #DemocracyNotDemagogues
https://www.politico.eu/article/how-to-watch-british-politics-in-2026-like-a-pro/
How to watch British politics in 2026 like a pro

Mark your diaries — POLITICO has all the dates in a year of make-or-break elections, a closer U.K.-EU relationship and laws on migration control that Keir Starmer hopes will save his premiership. It’ll be a wild ride.

POLITICO
Democracy alert 🚨 UK political integrity shouldn’t be up for grabs to foreign powers — whether it’s Kremlin cash, US influence, or billionaire tech bros lurking in the background. Politics is for voters, not for foreign agendas. #ProtectDemocracy #StopForeignInterference
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/19/lib-dems-call-for-inquiry-into-hostile-foreign-state-interference-to-include-us
Lib Dems call for inquiry into hostile foreign state interference to include US

Party says US government’s explicit support for far-right nationalist parties in Europe amounts to outside interference

The Guardian
The fact that money and influence from abroad keep cropping up in UK politics — and no one seems to care enough to fix it — shows how fragile our system has become. Democracy needs defenders, not apologists. #TimeForReform #ElectionIntegrity https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/18/farage-avoids-police-investigation-over-alleged-electoral-law-breach
Farage avoids police investigation over alleged electoral law breach

Essex force say report falls outside time frame for prosecution while watchdog says it is looking into claims

The Guardian
Musk, Trump, Farage… the same old cast of chaos agents playing games with truth and trust while real voters get ignored. We deserve better than billionaire melodrama dictating public policy. #PeopleOverProfits #StopTheNoise https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/jeffrey-epstein-files-department-of-justice
Deadline nears for release of Epstein files – what we know so far

Justice department must release most documents by Friday, and failure to do so would provoke a firestorm

The Guardian
Right-wing activists dominating online spaces isn’t an accident — it’s the algorithm. #Musk hands them a megaphone, #Trump hands them talking points, #MAGA hands them rage. #Democracy pays the bill.
https://champ.ly/4acB-UQ5
As Russia praises Trump’s new security strategy, the UK is in trouble

Leaders across Europe are waking up to an increasing sense that the US President has hung them out to dry

The i Paper
#Europe reacting with horror to Trump’s national security plans? Fair. When your “strategy” makes Russia smile and democracies panic, maybe the problem isn’t the world — maybe it’s #Trump.
https://www.ft.com/content/c3a91229-30d5-44d4-ad81-b9beb3d7c6bc
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