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Looking at the stars
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Pensioner, ex-professional creative, collector, videogamer, UK Green Party member. The Tories have remodelled themselves into a Reform clone, but without the popular appeal of Farage. Their polling is what Reform's would be without him.
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I don't believe that Jenrick will ever lead the Tories, let alone the country. He's crooked, oleaginous and prepared to say anything he thinks might get him nearer to power. The Tories know their next leader needs to be charismatic and able to pass for principled; and Jenrick is neither of those.
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Well then. No excuse now, is there.

You have a viable alternative to the piss poor Tory Tribute Act called Labour.

Best vote for it. #VoteGreen every chance you get, who knows you may end up with a Govt that puts people before profit.

Now there’s a thought…
Lisa Nandy stated today in a spat with Zarah Sultana, that, "Conflating being Jewish and Israeli, I have to say, I’m afraid is itself antisemitism." This is an interesting position, as it condemns anyone who claims that Israel is a Jewish State as antisemitic. So that would be Netanyahu, antisemite.
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That’s great, a great achievement.

Their policies are really starting to resonate with people. People hate the infighting and incompetence of the other parties and want a more humane approach to the major issues effecting people today.
Disrepute is Reform's central pillar.
Hegseth & Vance's attempted #NoKings spoiler went spectacularly wrong when a live artillery shell fired over a freeway exploded prematurely, raining shrapnel on a patrol car and a bike in Vances motorcade.The ludicrous posturing exercise was immediately called off
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Artillery shell exploded prematurely over California freeway during marines celebration
Shrapnel fragments rained on vehicles parked on Interstate 5 including highway patrol and JD Vance’s detail
www.theguardian.com
Under Zack Polanski, the Greens have just become the third largest party in the UK, relegating the increasingly politically irrelevant Tories into fourth place

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-gr...
The Greens Now Have More Members Than The Tories As Support Surges
Another 1,000 signed up this morning alone.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
Banning Maccabi fans from Aston Villa is about mitigating the risk of soccer violence. For the Labour govt to conflate it with antisemitism is disingenuous. If the govt has its way, and the event is subsequently marred by violence, the blood will be in their hands.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Maccabi v Hapoel called off by police after 'violent riots'
The derby between Maccabi and Hapoel is cancelled before kick-off after police say
www.bbc.co.uk
Capitalism is great for retail and services where there is choice in the market, but it has proven to be a consistently unfit mechanism for running monolithic public services and utilities.

The primacy of profit always trumps the interests of the public.

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CKI calls for Thames Water renationalisation after ‘high-risk’ creditor plan
Hong Kong firm alleges bid process for troubled utility was not ‘market-led’
www.ft.com
So impressive. It won't just be the Tango Baby who's quaking in his bootees, but all the corrupt and evil vermin who hide in his nappy.
MASSIVE crowds are flooding Times Square for the “NO KINGS” protest in NYC! The energy is electric —New Yorkers are making it clear: we bow to no tyrants. 🗽 #NoKings #NYCProtest
But they are well aware that if the Republicans lose power, there is every chance that they will be held accountable for their actions and punished. So in dismantling the nation's democratic processes, they are acting largely out of self-preservation. #NoKings 2/2
Much of America's emergent fascism is not principled, but opportunistic. It is a consequence of venality and corruption. GOP politicians, serving under the most venal and corrupt of them all, find themselves in a position to take what they want and hurt who they want #NoKings 1/2
#AEW Jon Moxley is looking shredded - not a look I particularly associate with him - but it suits him!
The #WWE Iyo Sky & Rhea Ripley vs. the Kabuki Warriors feud is the Japanesest (yes, I've just made up that word) wrestling storyline I've seen outside of NJPW. Hugely heightened emotions; Iyo's torment, torn between conflicting loyalties; Asuka sticking her tongue out to denote evil. Kabuki indeed.
Catching up with #WWE #CrownJewel after a weekend's work at the antiques coalface. The first thing that strikes me, looking at the overall yellowness of the Perth audience, is that John Cena will be able to afford that new toaster he wanted.
Maria Corina Machado is a clever choice for the Nobel Peace Prize. Given Trump's belligerent stance on Venezuela, he will find it difficult to argue with the prize being awarded to Maduro's greatest and most implacable opponent.
The Nobel prizes are meaningless gewgaws. If awarding one to the orange manbaby steers him towards trying to do some good, then that's better than him furthering his autocratic tendencies.
"Give me your privileged, your rich,
Your coddled nepos yearning to breathe free of the reek of poverty within your selfish walls.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost back to their hell.
I turn my eyes toward the sleazy golden ballroom."
In September, Trump signed an executive order in September designating Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization". That'll be because he and his minions are fa.
Netanyahu, his enablers in the Knesset, and the IDF have reduced Israel to the status of global pariah. It will take a complete change of government and decades of atonement to earn the state a place at the table of civilised nations