Jim Crawfurd

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The Iranian women’s soccer team has been playing in a tournament in Australia. Since they didn’t sing the national anthem at the beginning of one of the games, the regime has been threatening them. The athletes sent a distress signal from their bus as they’re due to be transported back to Iran.

Put Trump’s criticism of Starmer and other democratic leaders against his consistent syrupy praise for authoritarian, brutal leaders.
Starmer is in good company. Just remind yourself how Trump praises authoritarian antidemocratic leaders in this thread. It’s an eye opener 🧵 1/

Weird how Trump is so tolerant of this and Russia’s open support for Iran and yet periodically tries to bully Ukraine into folding against Russia.

Interesting thing is that Greens won the Gorton and Denton by-election by adopting policies on which Starmer became Labour leader. Since then he has abandoned all pledges, alienated base party support and has been chasing Reform voters.

Nigel Farage to discuss Chagos Islands deal at Mar-a-Lago dinner with Donald Trump tonight - UK politics live Reform UK leader told a ‘Save Chagos Boat Party’ yesterday he would be raising the issue in his meeting with the president

The Guardian treating Nigel '8 MPs' Farage as an international statesman

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One can't help noticing that the 24-hour news channels and other news & alleged 'news' programmes are filled up with the Iran conflict, meaning they have much less bandwidth for stirring up sh!t on anything else.

These outlets have far too many minutes to fill every day.

#Culturewars

The constant misinformation from the UK media is depressing. Emma unpicking the lies once again

NEW Holyrood voting intention

📊SNP maintain comfortable lead over Labour
📊4-point rise for Labour since Dec 2025
📊Reform UK’s share has fallen to 16%, down 2 points since Dec 2025

➡️ bit.ly/4rICate

Distressed elderly woman died alone in A&E corridor at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, visitor says A woman visiting the hospital with her partner says she saw the patient in her final moments and alerted staff.

Tragic, but as so often “there, but for the grace of God…”
This could have happened in almost any UK ED
It’s the appalling, sad, soul-destroying human impact of exit block.
It’s a systemic issue.
It’s been steadily worsening for 15+ years.
Action is needed, not words!

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INDEPENDENT Voices Nigel Farage: Why you should vote for Brexit this Thursday I believe we're big enough and good enough to govern our own country. If we Remain, we'll get swept up into a United States of Europe Nigel Farage Monday 20 June 2016 10:53 BST

INDEPENDENT Nigel Farage says Trump presidency makes world 'better, safer place' 03:08 Sophie Thompson Saturday 09 November 2024 15:56 GMT Nigel Farage says Trump presidency makes world better, safer place' Nigel Farage has insisted Donald Trump becoming president for a belated second term will help make the world a "better, safer place". The Reform UK leader has been vocal of his friendship with Trump, and even received a shoutout from the Republican during a recent rally. This weekend, Reform UK are having a conference in Exeter, where Mr Farage remarked: "We can say with some confidence that 'woke' just died in America. "Trump being there makes the world a better, safer place."

BADLY WRONG about Brexit.
It’s cost the UK economy alone circa £130bn.

BADLY WRONG about Trump.
Attacked more countries of any modern President.

Farage clearly has incredibly poor judgement, yet the mainstream media, ironically, constantly question Starmer’s.

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

From the department of "No Shit, Sherlock"

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I'd love to know what the plan is when a huge proportion of people are laid off thanks to AI or whatever and there are no jobs for them to go to, no way for them to earn money to live.

I don’t have a Times subscription, but reading another article about this, it sounds like they still posted profits >£100 million and had sales growth of 6.3%
Doesn’t sound like they are “struggling”…

Painting of a hare to the right looking up at a full moon in a golden sky

Artwork by Jackie Morris, artist, illustrator, author #WomensArt #FullMoon #March

05:33 Sun 1 Mar - L 100% 2 凸 ••• https://nation.cymru/feature/why-isnt-the-greens-growing-success-reflected-in-media-coverage/# • Reform UK • Conservatives • Liberal Democrats SNP •Greens • Plaid Cymru Frequency 69 60 40 45 20 14 13 4 Reform UK Conservatives Liberal Democrats SNP Greens 3 Plaid Cymru Number of items led by an opposition party on BBC News at Ten and ITV News at Ten. Cardiff University, CC BY-NC-ND < >

A new study by researchers at Cardiff University shows a massive broadcast media bias (including by the institutionally transphobic BBC) against the Green Party and others and disproportionate coverage in favour of Reform…

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Thousands of patients waiting over 24 hours in A&E 'corridor care' Known as "corridor care", patients are lining up on trolleys or sitting on chairs due to a lack of beds.

BBC investigation finds 50,000 people waited over 24 hours in A&E corridor care
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He is just such a nob

Despite his front row seat, he has shown no public support since the president decided to take action against Iran. There have been no commiserations about the service members who've been killed. No congratulations on the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei. No public support since the president's decision to take military action. That is leading to speculation that he is unhappy about the decision to go to war.

BBC on J D Vance

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

See a pattern here?

There's no big mystery.

This wasn't "electoral fraud" or "postal votes" or "family voting" or "sectarianism".

Reform's platform is all about shouting at foreigners and Muslims.

And a diverse, young, well-educated population told them where to go.

It was no deeper than that!😆

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The Mail on Sunday headline: FOREIGN-BORN VOTERS STOLE BY-ELECTION BLASTS FARAGE Amid rising alarm over suspected poll fraud, EXCLUSIVE Reform leader says allowing non-British citizens into ballot booth threatens democracy

And several days on, he said the quiet bit out loud🙄

It was the foreigners what done it.

And of course, the election was "stolen"

FFS🙄

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Express Headline: Nigel Farage pledges postal voting ban and end to Commonwealth voting rights The Reform UK leader claims postal voting has turned elections into a 'laughing stock'

Screenshot from news reporting about leader's voting in 2024: Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer voted in the west of England. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage voted by post.

🚨Postal Votes

Farage is also blaming Postal votes...

Side note - Farage voted by Postal Vote in the 2024 election.

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The argument appears to be that everyone can vote for who they like and who best represents their interests.

Unless you're Muslim.

In which case, if you don't vote for the party that calls you dangerous and wants to send you 'back home' on any given day, this must be sectarian voting🤷‍♀️

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Author's own graph of the Gorton and Denton parliamentary election results in 2019, 2024, and 2026. It compares the progressive votes of Lib Dem, Labour, and Green with the right-wing votes of Conservatives and Reform. In 2024 it has a separate column for the Workers' Party. It highlights that the progressive vote has always been significantly higher than the right-wing vote.

Yes, the Greens had a historic win - but largely because they switched from Labour.

Reform consolidated the Right Wing vote and clearly managed to pick up some new voters

So it's weird to see how adamant they are that they only lost because of some form of "cheating"

It’s mostly because of exit block due to underfunding of Social Care. Creating the extra capacity there would be cheaper and more effective than increasing NHS acute hospital capacity. Increasing NHS bed numbers without tackling exit block is like building a bigger ED - makes things worse.

Thousands of patients waiting over 24 hours in A&E 'corridor care' Known as

Corridor care:

"We're hearing from members who are going to work, feeling anxious and upset. We've had members saying they're sitting in their car crying before they go into work."

"It's because they can't do the job they want to do and they're faced with this distressing, relentless situation."