JFC Windmill

In the words of Tolkien.....

Two months until Scotland decides.

Stay stuck in broken Brexit Britain, or choose the fresh start of independence.

That wealthier, fairer future for Scotland is possible. On May 7, vote SNP to make it a reality.

Nissan ‘says Sunderland plant could close’ if UK excluded from Made in Europe rules Reports of carmaker’s warning come as lobby group says EU proposals could damage £70bn cross-channel trade

All the Brexiter lies before the Brexit referendum about Brussels sending the UK car industry to Turkey look richly ironic now.

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

Churchill has retrospectively been turned into a cartoon like superhero who could do no wrong and who we all owe a debt of gratitude forever.

The gold standard of leadership.

A man of supreme wit and gifted with statesmanship unrivalled by any other

It's far more complicated and interesting 1/3

Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s attempts to appeal to centre-ground voters may cause tension in his party, according to Hope Not Hate

More than half of Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens born abroad should be deported or encouraged to leave.

No different to the old BNP or National Front voters.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Our nation is again at war, not because we had to but because the president recklessly chose to.

Now we must recognize who pays the price: not the president and his wealthy allies, but service members and ordinary Americans.

We told you so.

The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners. It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day.

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Vintage photo of a woman wearing a polka dot dress and a necklace, looking thoughtful. The photo is aged and torn at the top.

28 February 1922 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Olga Lea Gross, was born.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered a the gas chamber.
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▶ Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

2024: Trump, "I was the first president in modern times to start no new wars"

2026: Trump, "The US military began major combat operations in Iran"

Oh, really.

Nikki Haley in 2024:

“The last thing I want is to send American troops to war.”

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“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24

“I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24

The UK can't be dragged into another protracted Middle Eastern war by a US President. Keir Starmer needs to rule out the use of UK bases for any future unilateral US strikes.

You know when they call it "family voting", right?

Despite being continually accused of not integrating, Muslims have voted in numbers, and against a party with a Muslim Home Sec whose immigration policies and actions regarding Gaza they strongly opposed.Instead they found common value with a white British woman who spoke to them locally and beyond.

Drop in overseas workers is ‘car crash’ for UK hospitals and care homes, say experts Care roles hit particularly hard by UK’s lurch to the right on migration, according to analysis of Home Office data

If you can't get a hospital appointment, there aren't enough nurses on your ward or you can't get a carer at home, do write to Nigel Farage and thank him.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Screenshot of an X post by Ann Coulter commenting on Trump’s State of the Union address and arguing that the U.S. cannot have a second-, third-, or fourth-generation immigrant as president because “love for our country has to be in your genes.” Below it is a “Readers added context” note stating that President Trump is himself a second-generation immigrant through his Scottish-born mother and a third-generation immigrant through his German-born paternal grandparents.

Community note FTW.

Matt Goodwin, the Reform UK candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election, suggested that people without children should pay more tax.

Here's what residents had to say 👀

Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!

The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.

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"See you on the inside"

Brexit Britain’s truckers bear the brunt of new EU border controls For many British drivers who rely on frictionless travel to do their jobs, the new checks could spell disaster.

The reality of Brexit ⬇️

"It’s going to make our job 10 times harder, and the reality is we’re going to have to potentially focus on employing European drivers working for a British company over employing British drivers to get ourselves out of that hole."

"So will it be the same act but with a different label?"

Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷‍♂️