Screeching 180 from Reform leader Farage who’s gone from Trumpian “Bomb the Islamists” to “We cannot get involved directly in another foreign war, we don’t have a Navy, we can’t even defend our own military base in Cyprus” overnight.
He’s seen the polling showing the public don’t support the war.
Reminds me of a famous quote:
"...a man who waits to see the way the crowd is running and then dashes in front and says, Follow me.” – Michael Heseltine
I wouldn’t buy a second-hand car from this chancer, let alone hand him the keys to the country.
Farage on council tax: 'Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong'
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I fully expect Farage, Kemi et al to be frantically erasing all their warmongering comments from last week... 🤦♂️
Energy bills, mortgages and more: How the Iran war may affect your finances - BBC News
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BBC News - Clubs complain to X about 'sickening' Grok posts
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Never forget...
The impact of Brexit on UK immigration - new research by @johnspringford.bsky.social & me for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukandeu.bsky.social
Brexit
a) reduced EU-origin employees by 785K (2.3% of workforce)
b) increased non-EU origin employees by 992K (2.95%)
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Iran latest: Oil price passes $100 for first time since 2022, as Khamenei's son named leader - BBC News
Wtf!
Wtf! 😮
We have mobilised full humanitarian response across region and will meet this moment. But humanitarians are being asked to do too much with too little, while politicians pour oil on fire and boast of spending billions on war while aid budgets are slashed.
I'm not sure this is the big win Farage thinks it is.
Stable and Decisive Leadership.
#StandWithStarmer
Picture of Farage from GB News website with the caption For GB News's funders, £130m is a small price to pay fro vast influence
GB News, the channel of “reactionary rage bait”, has released its latest accounts showing a £22m loss for 2024/25 (and a £131m total loss since launch)
Yet another demonstration that there’s no shortage of funds on the right of British politics, writes @writesbright.bsky.social for the Nerve
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You won't see this reported in our Crooked Right-wing Rags!
This is the example Farage wants to follow 🤮
The head of the British military "completely rejects" criticism that the UK had been ill-prepared for the conflict in the Middle East.
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🤣🤦♂️
BBC News - Withheld Epstein files with accusations against Trump released by justice department
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Now that's what a statesman sounds like!
Obama on Jesse Jackson: "The message he sent to a 22 year old child of a single mother with a funny name, an outsider, was that maybe there wasn't any place, any room, where we didn't belong"
Watch Molly vs The Machines on Channel 4
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My "American Week" for @tomswarbrick.bsky.social's programme on the UK's @lbc.co.uk.
This week: Trump & Netanyahu plunge the Middle East into war, with no plan for its end.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/887075...
🤮🤮🤮
Nigel Farage, the front runner to be the next British Prime Minister, is meeting with President Trump today. Time to sink Keir Starmer's ghastly Chagos surrender deal for good. @Nigel_ Farage
Nigel Farage is meeting Trump today, and you just know that he's going to fight Britain's corner and spell out our sovereignty and not desperately suck up to.... oh no, wait... that's the other Nigel Farage... the one I dreamed about when I got food poisoning from a slice of lemon sponge cake.
This may not be fashionable, but thank goodness for solid and stable leadership! 👏👏👏
