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I thought Belgium looked slightly off in that dismal list.

Karoline Leavitt announced that Belgium joined Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’. Belgium’s foreign minister responds.
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2014314854530568548

Putin musy have told Trump "Leave Belgium to me - I have them by the balls..."

Surely the one in possession of their balls would be Vilma the Zoroastrian?

"The details of my life are quite inconsequential."

Can someone tell me why Labour are going all Donald Trump with extra blasphemy laws and actually cancelling elections? And negating democracy?

I can’t work it out. Why are they doing this? It’s so mystifying

RFM: 32% (+4)
CON: 18% (-1)
GRN: 17% (-1)
LAB: 14% (-1)
LDM: 11% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)

• i) Sir Keir Starmer is an authoritarian. He believes that people and society is fixable and the fixing mechanism is the law.
  
• ii) He doesn't understand what the problems of the country are. I'm not even sure he knows how to fix them even if he knew.
  
• iii) The election cancellation are pending council reorganisation, although it's not what I would have done (we had an election to the European Parliament in 2019 despite the fact we were soon to leave)
  
• iv) They want to keep the Muslim population onside and believe that a new blasphemy law is the way to do it.
  
• v) Several other things which I can't think of at short notice