Andrea

In Bath it's the cricket club next door.

I've done that too, eg EFF0FF is a surprisingly nice shade... ;)

Or even the opposite, pretend to be toppled by Trump and fall on top of him, that would be funny too and would look like Trump's own fault. :)

So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”.
Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.

New petition: Create legislation that stops MP's from changing parties once voted in. MP's should not be allowed to change to different parties once voted in by their constituency under a different party, as it can be seen as going against people democratic voice and choice.

New petition: "Create legislation that stops MP's from changing parties once voted in."

Deadline 6 September 2026, created by Isabelle Heseltine-James

#NewPetition

I would say it depends on where they make their money.

All relief flights from Dubai should be met at arrivals with signs saying "HM Revenue & Customs welcomes you back to the UK"

A zonking great cry-for-help pickup truck labelled "Mobility" and a person on a little escooter labelled "micromobility"

A conversation earlier today reminded me of this slide I put into a recent talk. How did we decide the tiny human-sized machine is the special case, and the massive overpowered machine full of empty furniture is the norm?

It’s the Jeffrey Epstein War

voter turnout: 47.62%

still not even half but much better than most by-elections...

voter turnout: 35%

New petition: MPs repeatedly failing to disclose financial declaration on time to be suspended Reform MPs’ financial disclosure rules so repeated late declarations automatically trigger Standards Committee referral and suspension. We believe this would ensure patterns of non-compliance have real consequences, including recall where thresholds are met.

New petition: "MPs repeatedly failing to disclose financial declaration on time to be suspended"

Deadline 23 August 2026, created by Claire Hutton-Williams

#NewPetition

Does Nigel Farage have a problem with women? Critics link Farage’s ‘Trump-lite’ condescension to female journalists to Reform’s moves against women’s rights

Farage “wants to distract people into thinking their problems are because of women or equality and diversity policies, or immigrants. Like Trump, it shifts the discourse and that’s v dangerous”

Women must turn Farage’s problem with women into a problem for him.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

🚨 Following cycle theft, 15% of people stop cycling altogether – thousands of Londoners robbed of the chance to ride into work, or to school with their children.

🚲 If London is to become a world class cycling city, theft must be taken seriously – sign our petition to demand action: bit.ly/4bRyUXr

Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.

voter turnout: 27.75%

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

There is a petition to stop Palantir taking over NHS services etc, you can sign it here if you like:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

voter turnout: 25.2%

only 36 votes between the top two, so much to the other 74.8% who probably thought 'my vote won't change anything anyway'...

Victoria Embankment this morning. Why should hard working cyclists taxes go on these wide car lanes when motorists don't bother using them?

Uproar as Reform policy chief threatens to defund Welsh university Martin Shipton Reform UK’s head of policy Zia Yusuf launched a culture war in Wales by threatening to withhold funding from Bangor University after its student debating society refused to host two lea...

Not been aware of this “uproar” anywhere but here. Either on the news or in broadsheet media. And there should be uproar. Because, in a nutshell, it tells you why Reform - in their infantile, idiotic, vengeful inadequacy - are so ragingly unfit for office.

nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

Reform UK approached Bangor University to ask whether Sarah Pochin (Reform MP) could come to debate. They said no, and this is the response they get

Reform would behave exactly as Donald Trump. Don't agree with them, and they will penalise, threaten, defund, and cancel you. They are proto fascists.

The will of the rich and powerful: Brexit and the Epstein files The Epstein files reveal the role of Brexit in a global network which stands to gain from undermining democracy itself

The Epstein files show that Brexit was never a “plucky British revolt”. In reality, Brexit was fed, and empowered, by an entire class of oligarchs and autocrats, who thrive on chaos, weak regulation and brittle institutions.

If you want to know what Reform will be like in government, look at the councils we control. At Worcestershire County Council, for example, we want to increase council tax by 10% and are begging the government for a £71m bail out, otherwise we face effective bankruptcy.

Reform UK threatens to cut funding for Welsh university after debating society bans party from campus

want to go to Bangor University' said nobody ever. Especially if Bangor University is stripped of government funding and student loan facilities by @reformparty_uk Is that "in line with your values,' poppets?

This is pretty menacing.

Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."

When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.

By searching for "Farage" in the Epstein Files database (justice.gov/epstein), 38 results come up.

In one, Steve Bannon suggests to Epstein that his advisory roles to European political parties means he can influence European Parliament…. 1/3

It's being pointed out today that the last UK prime minister to last more than three years was David Cameron.

That's no coincidence.

Brexit destabilised Britain. It makes our economy unfixable – until it is confronted and reversed.

That is the underlying reason why we can't keep a PM any more.

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Just a word of thanks to our fantastic media. Despite my racist bullying at school, having a senior colleague imprisoned for being a traitor, breaking the MP’s Code Of Conduct 17 times, my dodgy house purchase and even being in the Epstein Files, nobody is demanding I resign!