Irish citizen, married to a US citizen and living there for 20 years with his own business and a valid work permit, held in one of Trump's concentration camps for 5 months, Camp East Montana. He was arrested in Boston, and is held in Texas. He has been outside less than 10 times whilst imprisoned.
Report by Phil Moorhouse, who is a lefty Youtuber but this is a straight report.
I saw that and it is shocking and hard to believe Farage seems to have similar ideas
Phil introduced an idea that I have been musing about for the last few days - that to deal with Trump and his allies offences is going to need something using an international structure in the style of Nuremburg.
There was a piece in the NYT the other day with commentary from a number of subject experts that US law possibilities for holding Trump & Co responsible for their crimes had essentially been gutted, most perniciously by the SCOTUS ruling on official Presidential acts not being subject to criminal law.
Other possibilities are particular extensions to Impeachment to go beyond the usual limit of sacking them, and a Bill of Attainder.
Even this like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act focus on US people bribing foreign governments, not US citizens accepting bribes.
So you're proposing we violate US sovereignty to deal with Trump? It's bad enough for people with TDS to egg on a civil war without turning it into WW3 as well.
"There’s a lot of evidence that it might be a very special night for the Dems in the midterms."
What midterms?
We're only in mid February and it's already increasingly clear that a fair midterms would be a bloodbath for the Republicans.
Ideas of "hey lets use ICE thugs to scare voters away" assumes there are only a few pockets of seats where the threat is. But we're seeing big swings in all kinds of unlikely places.
The only winning move for Trump is not to play. National Emergency. Seditious traitors everywhere trying to overturn the immortal republic. So to protect it we have to suspend the election, especially in states where the voters have elected traitors to illegally run corrupt elections. You can have a federal election - run by me DJT where I'll win - or I will suspend the state-run elections until the traitors can be removed from office and brought to justice.
Ed Davey was excellent at PMQs, reducing Starmer to an angry shouty response about austerity, and then the SNP followed up creating more Starmer fury which needed the speaker to humilate him over his response, and this the ex DPP
Some suggest Starmer showed the 'real him' but what it revealed is he is out of control of his emotions and not in control of the news agenda, especially as Ed rightly pointed out he had appointed 2 senior labour figures to senior posts both with known links to paedophiles
Labour women are deeply upset and angry and I think he is in a worse position today, but sadly for the country labour have not got their act together yet to remove him
This physco drama damages all of us, and labour need to do the right thing and find someone they can coalesce around and lance the boil
I've never been able to understand why women join the Labour Party. For much of my life I was very much in tune with their politics, but even then it seemed clear to me that women were a supporting act and couldn't aspire to top jobs. It's a bit different now but still there's the impression that a woman leader would cause a Shock Horror reaction.
The three most important positions are women including chancellor as are over half the cabinet for the first time ever.
I will never walk away from the mandate I was given.
I will never walk away from the people I'm fighting for.
I will never walk away from the country I love.
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
Todays Local election musing from me for London is...... could Labour lose control of the entirety of Outer London? Of Boroughs bordering the outer edge, Labour currently gave majorities in Hounslow, Barnet, Enfield, Walthsm Forest and Redbridge and Croydon is very marginal.
I dont expect Labour to recapture Croydon given their position and history of bankrupting it nor to be anywhere near the LDs in the SW or take back much if any ground in Havering, Bexley, Hillingdon, Harrow or Bromley. Can they lose the rest? There was a sizeable swing in Hounslow against Labour in August and both Con and Ref will be looking to make ground. Barnet and Enfield are both Con targets and Labour have small najorities in each where loss of 6 or 7 seats loses the majority. I expect them to lose both - Barnet to Con, Enfield to NoC. Hounslow might well slip into NoC Waltham Forest and Redbridge are more problematic - the Lab majorities in Leyton and Walthsmstow etc are absolutely massive. In Redbridge the majorities are smaller but the majority on the council is very dominant, but has the close run in Ilford and the Gaza issue cracked it?
My feeling is, in outer London, Labour will be left with just Waltham Forest (which is a straddler between inner and outer really) and a narrow grip on Redbridge. I suspect the Tories and LDs will both control more of outer London. Not impossible Reform will too
Reform are likely to make inroads in Waltham Forest and Redbridge in the wards closer to the Essex border
Unlikely in Redbridge. Result in 2022:
58 Labour 5 Tory.
In 2022 Labour were polling 40%. The 2 by elections in 2025 suggest all is not well in Redbridge Labour. They are vulberable
NEW: Furious female Labour MPs have told Keir Starmer to appoint a woman as his de facto deputy to oversee a “complete culture change” in Downing Street after a series of scandals they say exposed a No 10 “boy’s club”.
Harriet Harman urged the PM to revive the role of first secretary of state, a post previously occupied by Peter Mandelson under Gordon Brown. But she insisted the role must be held by a woman to “transform the political culture in government around women and girls”.
Reading the full article the headline rather sums up their thoughts on McSweeney
The fact 4 females have mow assumed the number 10 roles that are free suggests change.
The obvious person Hattie is talking about is Ange.
It's part of her old role. The fact though that Lucy Powell attends Political Cabinet rather overplays the hand a little.
Does Ange want this new role?
The other obvious wrong he could right on the soft left would be to bring in Emily Thornberry
I'm a big fan of Thornberry. One of Starmers big mistakes keeping her out
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So.. the House of Lords has told Starmer that he was wrong about his explanation about the honour. I hope he is forced to correct himself in the Commons... and apologise for his misleading and untruthful answer
So.. the House of Lords has told Starmer that he was wrong about his explanation about the honour. I hope he is forced to correct himself in the Commons... and apologise for his misleading and untruthful answer
Todays Local election musing from me for London is...... could Labour lose control of the entirety of Outer London? Of Boroughs bordering the outer edge, Labour currently gave majorities in Hounslow, Barnet, Enfield, Walthsm Forest and Redbridge and Croydon is very marginal.
I dont expect Labour to recapture Croydon given their position and history of bankrupting it nor to be anywhere near the LDs in the SW or take back much if any ground in Havering, Bexley, Hillingdon, Harrow or Bromley. Can they lose the rest? There was a sizeable swing in Hounslow against Labour in August and both Con and Ref will be looking to make ground. Barnet and Enfield are both Con targets and Labour have small najorities in each where loss of 6 or 7 seats loses the majority. I expect them to lose both - Barnet to Con, Enfield to NoC. Hounslow might well slip into NoC Waltham Forest and Redbridge are more problematic - the Lab majorities in Leyton and Walthsmstow etc are absolutely massive. In Redbridge the majorities are smaller but the majority on the council is very dominant, but has the close run in Ilford and the Gaza issue cracked it?
My feeling is, in outer London, Labour will be left with just Waltham Forest (which is a straddler between inner and outer really) and a narrow grip on Redbridge. I suspect the Tories and LDs will both control more of outer London. Not impossible Reform will too
Reform are likely to make inroads in Waltham Forest and Redbridge in the wards closer to the Essex border
Unlikely in Redbridge. Result in 2022:
58 Labour 5 Tory.
In 2022 Labour were polling 40%. The 2 by elections in 2025 suggest all is not well in Redbridge Labour. They are vulnerable
NEW: Furious female Labour MPs have told Keir Starmer to appoint a woman as his de facto deputy to oversee a “complete culture change” in Downing Street after a series of scandals they say exposed a No 10 “boy’s club”.
Harriet Harman urged the PM to revive the role of first secretary of state, a post previously occupied by Peter Mandelson under Gordon Brown. But she insisted the role must be held by a woman to “transform the political culture in government around women and girls”.
Reading the full article the headline rather sums up their thoughts on McSweeney
The fact 4 females have mow assumed the number 10 roles that are free suggests change.
The obvious person Hattie is talking about is Ange.
It's part of her old role. The fact though that Lucy Powell attends Political Cabinet rather overplays the hand a little.
Does Ange want this new role?
The other obvious wrong he could right on the soft left would be to bring in Emily Thornberry
I'm a big fan of Thornberry. One of Starmers big mistakes keeping her out
At the risk of asking a loaded question, what is it about the North London elite lawyer that you like?
'I mean, the UK has been colonised. It's costing too much money. The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn't it? I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it's 70 million. That's 12 million people. - Jim Ratcliffe.
Thats going to cause a stir. One of the few big business people to back Labour at the GE. Was talkes up as a real coup during the campaign. I imagine it will be Jimmy who from Labour politicians from now on.
So.. the House of Lords has told Starmer that he was wrong about his explanation about the honour. I hope he is forced to correct himself in the Commons... and apologise for his misleading and untruthful answer
So.. the House of Lords has told Starmer that he was wrong about his explanation about the honour. I hope he is forced to correct himself in the Commons... and apologise for his misleading and untruthful answer
Desperate sandbagging.
Pointless
Point scoring
Boring now.
Do you also write Stamers tweets, very similar style.
So.. the House of Lords has told Starmer that he was wrong about his explanation about the honour. I hope he is forced to correct himself in the Commons... and apologise for his misleading and untruthful answer
Desperate sandbagging.
Pointless
Point scoring
Boring now.
Do you also write Stamers tweets, very similar style.
'I mean, the UK has been colonised. It's costing too much money. The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn't it? I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it's 70 million. That's 12 million people. - Jim Ratcliffe.
Thats going to cause a stir. One of the few big business people to back Labour at the GE.
Though the main thing it shows is that top businessmen can be wrong.
From the Sky report on that interview,
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) estimates that the population of the UK was 67 million in mid-2020 and 70 million in mid-2024.
The UK population was estimated at 58.9 million in 2000.
Todays Local election musing from me for London is...... could Labour lose control of the entirety of Outer London? Of Boroughs bordering the outer edge, Labour currently gave majorities in Hounslow, Barnet, Enfield, Walthsm Forest and Redbridge and Croydon is very marginal.
I dont expect Labour to recapture Croydon given their position and history of bankrupting it nor to be anywhere near the LDs in the SW or take back much if any ground in Havering, Bexley, Hillingdon, Harrow or Bromley. Can they lose the rest? There was a sizeable swing in Hounslow against Labour in August and both Con and Ref will be looking to make ground. Barnet and Enfield are both Con targets and Labour have small najorities in each where loss of 6 or 7 seats loses the majority. I expect them to lose both - Barnet to Con, Enfield to NoC. Hounslow might well slip into NoC Waltham Forest and Redbridge are more problematic - the Lab majorities in Leyton and Walthsmstow etc are absolutely massive. In Redbridge the majorities are smaller but the majority on the council is very dominant, but has the close run in Ilford and the Gaza issue cracked it?
My feeling is, in outer London, Labour will be left with just Waltham Forest (which is a straddler between inner and outer really) and a narrow grip on Redbridge. I suspect the Tories and LDs will both control more of outer London. Not impossible Reform will too
Reform are likely to make inroads in Waltham Forest and Redbridge in the wards closer to the Essex border
Unlikely in Redbridge. Result in 2022:
58 Labour 5 Tory.
In 2022 Labour were polling 40%. The 2 by elections in 2025 suggest all is not well in Redbridge Labour. They are vulnerable
'I mean, the UK has been colonised. It's costing too much money. The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn't it? I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it's 70 million. That's 12 million people. - Jim Ratcliffe.
Thats going to cause a stir. One of the few big business people to back Labour at the GE.
Though the main thing it shows is that top businessmen can be wrong.
From the Sky report on that interview,
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) estimates that the population of the UK was 67 million in mid-2020 and 70 million in mid-2024.
The UK population was estimated at 58.9 million in 2000.
So.. the House of Lords has told Starmer that he was wrong about his explanation about the honour. I hope he is forced to correct himself in the Commons... and apologise for his misleading and untruthful answer
'I mean, the UK has been colonised. It's costing too much money. The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn't it? I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it's 70 million. That's 12 million people. - Jim Ratcliffe.
Thats going to cause a stir. One of the few big business people to back Labour at the GE. Was talkes up as a real coup during the campaign. I imagine it will be Jimmy who from Labour politicians from now on.
He's only 20 years out of date...
Doesn't bode well for the resurgence of Man Utd though good for the clubs happy to provide asylum to disenchanted Man U players
So.. the House of Lords has told Starmer that he was wrong about his explanation about the honour. I hope he is forced to correct himself in the Commons... and apologise for his misleading and untruthful answer
Desperate sandbagging.
Pointless
Point scoring
Boring now.
That's your cv isn't it.
I am not sure who he thinks he is convincing
Nor sure labour would be overjoyed with some of his comments
England in ODIs and T20 have rapidly gone from looking way ahead of the curve in terms of tactics and strategies to absolutely clueless.
I have heard a number of former Arsenal players say that with Wenger, initially miles ahead of the world game, by the end the players themselves were having to tell him you know this analysis software exists, you know about this rehab technique., other elite teams now play this way because...
"There’s a lot of evidence that it might be a very special night for the Dems in the midterms."
What midterms?
We're only in mid February and it's already increasingly clear that a fair midterms would be a bloodbath for the Republicans.
Ideas of "hey lets use ICE thugs to scare voters away" assumes there are only a few pockets of seats where the threat is. But we're seeing big swings in all kinds of unlikely places.
The only winning move for Trump is not to play. National Emergency. Seditious traitors everywhere trying to overturn the immortal republic. So to protect it we have to suspend the election, especially in states where the voters have elected traitors to illegally run corrupt elections. You can have a federal election - run by me DJT where I'll win - or I will suspend the state-run elections until the traitors can be removed from office and brought to justice.
Ed Davey was excellent at PMQs, reducing Starmer to an angry shouty response about austerity, and then the SNP followed up creating more Starmer fury which needed the speaker to humilate him over his response, and this the ex DPP
Some suggest Starmer showed the 'real him' but what it revealed is he is out of control of his emotions and not in control of the news agenda, especially as Ed rightly pointed out he had appointed 2 senior labour figures to senior posts both with known links to paedophiles
Labour women are deeply upset and angry and I think he is in a worse position today, but sadly for the country labour have not got their act together yet to remove him
This physco drama damages all of us, and labour need to do the right thing and find someone they can coalesce around and lance the boil
I've never been able to understand why women join the Labour Party. For much of my life I was very much in tune with their politics, but even then it seemed clear to me that women were a supporting act and couldn't aspire to top jobs. It's a bit different now but still there's the impression that a woman leader would cause a Shock Horror reaction.
The three most important positions are women including chancellor as are over half the cabinet for the first time ever.
Todays Local election musing from me for London is...... could Labour lose control of the entirety of Outer London? Of Boroughs bordering the outer edge, Labour currently gave majorities in Hounslow, Barnet, Enfield, Walthsm Forest and Redbridge and Croydon is very marginal.
I dont expect Labour to recapture Croydon given their position and history of bankrupting it nor to be anywhere near the LDs in the SW or take back much if any ground in Havering, Bexley, Hillingdon, Harrow or Bromley. Can they lose the rest? There was a sizeable swing in Hounslow against Labour in August and both Con and Ref will be looking to make ground. Barnet and Enfield are both Con targets and Labour have small najorities in each where loss of 6 or 7 seats loses the majority. I expect them to lose both - Barnet to Con, Enfield to NoC. Hounslow might well slip into NoC Waltham Forest and Redbridge are more problematic - the Lab majorities in Leyton and Walthsmstow etc are absolutely massive. In Redbridge the majorities are smaller but the majority on the council is very dominant, but has the close run in Ilford and the Gaza issue cracked it?
My feeling is, in outer London, Labour will be left with just Waltham Forest (which is a straddler between inner and outer really) and a narrow grip on Redbridge. I suspect the Tories and LDs will both control more of outer London. Not impossible Reform will too
Reform are likely to make inroads in Waltham Forest and Redbridge in the wards closer to the Essex border
Unlikely in Redbridge. Result in 2022:
58 Labour 5 Tory.
In 2022 Labour were polling 40%. The 2 by elections in 2025 suggest all is not well in Redbridge Labour. They are vulnerable
But not to Reform
Is it my imagination or have the emojis got bigger recently?
England in ODIs and T20 have rapidly gone from looking way ahead of the curve in terms of tactics and strategies to absolutely clueless.
I have heard a number of former Arsenal players say that with Wenger, initially miles ahead of the world game, by the end the players themselves were having to tell him you know this analysis software exists, you know about this rehab technique., other elite teams now play this way because...
Funny how it didn't magically improve once Wenger was ousted. It was the players that needed binning as much as Wenger.
Todays Local election musing from me for London is...... could Labour lose control of the entirety of Outer London? Of Boroughs bordering the outer edge, Labour currently gave majorities in Hounslow, Barnet, Enfield, Walthsm Forest and Redbridge and Croydon is very marginal.
I dont expect Labour to recapture Croydon given their position and history of bankrupting it nor to be anywhere near the LDs in the SW or take back much if any ground in Havering, Bexley, Hillingdon, Harrow or Bromley. Can they lose the rest? There was a sizeable swing in Hounslow against Labour in August and both Con and Ref will be looking to make ground. Barnet and Enfield are both Con targets and Labour have small najorities in each where loss of 6 or 7 seats loses the majority. I expect them to lose both - Barnet to Con, Enfield to NoC. Hounslow might well slip into NoC Waltham Forest and Redbridge are more problematic - the Lab majorities in Leyton and Walthsmstow etc are absolutely massive. In Redbridge the majorities are smaller but the majority on the council is very dominant, but has the close run in Ilford and the Gaza issue cracked it?
My feeling is, in outer London, Labour will be left with just Waltham Forest (which is a straddler between inner and outer really) and a narrow grip on Redbridge. I suspect the Tories and LDs will both control more of outer London. Not impossible Reform will too
Reform are likely to make inroads in Waltham Forest and Redbridge in the wards closer to the Essex border
Unlikely in Redbridge. Result in 2022:
58 Labour 5 Tory.
In 2022 Labour were polling 40%. The 2 by elections in 2025 suggest all is not well in Redbridge Labour. They are vulnerable
But not to Reform
Is it my imagination or have the emojis got bigger recently?
There was one of the dreaded "upgrades" of vanilla a day or two ago. Could be that???
England in ODIs and T20 have rapidly gone from looking way ahead of the curve in terms of tactics and strategies to absolutely clueless.
I have heard a number of former Arsenal players say that with Wenger, initially miles ahead of the world game, by the end the players themselves were having to tell him you know this analysis software exists, you know about this rehab technique., other elite teams now play this way because...
Sub continent has always been a challenge for England. No excuse, but our best tournaments have NOT been in Asia.
Hearing that Labour canvassers in Gorton are surprisingly chipper.
Voters scared of the Greens & Reform, the squeeze message appears to be working for Labour - given overwhelming representation in the area (almost all cllrs, 2024 victory margin)...
BBC leading with Andrew rather than Starmer. I appreciate they are between a rock and hard place on this sort of thing but I think the PM is more significant than Andrew.
Hearing that Labour canvassers in Gorton are surprisingly chipper.
Voters scared of the Greens & Reform, the squeeze message appears to be working for Labour - given overwhelming representation in the area (almost all cllrs, 2024 victory margin)...
NEW: Furious female Labour MPs have told Keir Starmer to appoint a woman as his de facto deputy to oversee a “complete culture change” in Downing Street after a series of scandals they say exposed a No 10 “boy’s club”.
Harriet Harman urged the PM to revive the role of first secretary of state, a post previously occupied by Peter Mandelson under Gordon Brown. But she insisted the role must be held by a woman to “transform the political culture in government around women and girls”.
Reading the full article the headline rather sums up their thoughts on McSweeney
The fact 4 females have mow assumed the number 10 roles that are free suggests change.
The obvious person Hattie is talking about is Ange.
It's part of her old role. The fact though that Lucy Powell attends Political Cabinet rather overplays the hand a little.
Does Ange want this new role?
The other obvious wrong he could right on the soft left would be to bring in Emily Thornberry
I'm a big fan of Thornberry. One of Starmers big mistakes keeping her out
At the risk of asking a loaded question, what is it about the North London elite lawyer that you like?
Hearing that Labour canvassers in Gorton are surprisingly chipper.
Voters scared of the Greens & Reform, the squeeze message appears to be working for Labour - given overwhelming representation in the area (almost all cllrs, 2024 victory margin)...
Hearing that Labour canvassers in Gorton are surprisingly chipper.
Voters scared of the Greens & Reform, the squeeze message appears to be working for Labour - given overwhelming representation in the area (almost all cllrs, 2024 victory margin)...
Todays Local election musing from me for London is...... could Labour lose control of the entirety of Outer London? Of Boroughs bordering the outer edge, Labour currently gave majorities in Hounslow, Barnet, Enfield, Walthsm Forest and Redbridge and Croydon is very marginal.
I dont expect Labour to recapture Croydon given their position and history of bankrupting it nor to be anywhere near the LDs in the SW or take back much if any ground in Havering, Bexley, Hillingdon, Harrow or Bromley. Can they lose the rest? There was a sizeable swing in Hounslow against Labour in August and both Con and Ref will be looking to make ground. Barnet and Enfield are both Con targets and Labour have small najorities in each where loss of 6 or 7 seats loses the majority. I expect them to lose both - Barnet to Con, Enfield to NoC. Hounslow might well slip into NoC Waltham Forest and Redbridge are more problematic - the Lab majorities in Leyton and Walthsmstow etc are absolutely massive. In Redbridge the majorities are smaller but the majority on the council is very dominant, but has the close run in Ilford and the Gaza issue cracked it?
My feeling is, in outer London, Labour will be left with just Waltham Forest (which is a straddler between inner and outer really) and a narrow grip on Redbridge. I suspect the Tories and LDs will both control more of outer London. Not impossible Reform will too
Reform are likely to make inroads in Waltham Forest and Redbridge in the wards closer to the Essex border
Unlikely in Redbridge. Result in 2022:
58 Labour 5 Tory.
In 2022 Labour were polling 40%. The 2 by elections in 2025 suggest all is not well in Redbridge Labour. They are vulnerable
But not to Reform
Is it my imagination or have the emojis got bigger recently?
There was one of the dreaded "upgrades" of vanilla a day or two ago. Could be that???
Upgrade is a word that has come to mean the its opposite.
BBC leading with Andrew rather than Starmer. I appreciate they are between a rock and hard place on this sort of thing but I think the PM is more significant than Andrew.
He is, but his sins were of omission rather than commission. They don't have quite the same odour.
BBC leading with Andrew rather than Starmer. I appreciate they are between a rock and hard place on this sort of thing but I think the PM is more significant than Andrew.
He is, but his sins were of omission rather than commission. They don't have quite the same odour.
No one is saying Starmer is comparable with any alleged perpetrators. It smacks of the BBC not wanting to pile the pressure on the PM because that would be a bit unfair. This latest revelation is as serious as last week's if not more.
Meanwhile, in "quality advice and contacts attracted people to Epstein" news,
Jeffrey Epstein Advised an Elon Musk Associate on Taking Tesla Private The financier recommended adding Margaret Thatcher to Tesla’s board even though she had been dead for five years.
'I mean, the UK has been colonised. It's costing too much money. The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn't it? I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it's 70 million. That's 12 million people. - Jim Ratcliffe.
Thats going to cause a stir. One of the few big business people to back Labour at the GE.
Though the main thing it shows is that top businessmen can be wrong.
From the Sky report on that interview,
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) estimates that the population of the UK was 67 million in mid-2020 and 70 million in mid-2024.
The UK population was estimated at 58.9 million in 2000.
Meanwhile, in "quality advice and contacts attracted people to Epstein" news,
Jeffrey Epstein Advised an Elon Musk Associate on Taking Tesla Private The financier recommended adding Margaret Thatcher to Tesla’s board even though she had been dead for five years.
"There’s a lot of evidence that it might be a very special night for the Dems in the midterms."
What midterms?
We're only in mid February and it's already increasingly clear that a fair midterms would be a bloodbath for the Republicans.
Ideas of "hey lets use ICE thugs to scare voters away" assumes there are only a few pockets of seats where the threat is. But we're seeing big swings in all kinds of unlikely places.
The only winning move for Trump is not to play. National Emergency. Seditious traitors everywhere trying to overturn the immortal republic. So to protect it we have to suspend the election, especially in states where the voters have elected traitors to illegally run corrupt elections. You can have a federal election - run by me DJT where I'll win - or I will suspend the state-run elections until the traitors can be removed from office and brought to justice.
Never going to happen. They kept elections going even through the actual Civil War.
There is no proviso in America to cancel elections.
Meanwhile, in "quality advice and contacts attracted people to Epstein" news,
Jeffrey Epstein Advised an Elon Musk Associate on Taking Tesla Private The financier recommended adding Margaret Thatcher to Tesla’s board even though she had been dead for five years.
"There’s a lot of evidence that it might be a very special night for the Dems in the midterms."
What midterms?
We're only in mid February and it's already increasingly clear that a fair midterms would be a bloodbath for the Republicans.
Ideas of "hey lets use ICE thugs to scare voters away" assumes there are only a few pockets of seats where the threat is. But we're seeing big swings in all kinds of unlikely places.
The only winning move for Trump is not to play. National Emergency. Seditious traitors everywhere trying to overturn the immortal republic. So to protect it we have to suspend the election, especially in states where the voters have elected traitors to illegally run corrupt elections. You can have a federal election - run by me DJT where I'll win - or I will suspend the state-run elections until the traitors can be removed from office and brought to justice.
Never going to happen. They kept elections going even through the actual Civil War.
There is no proviso in America to cancel elections.
Indeed, it’s not like it’s the current U.K. government.
I'm in favour in principle of the Lib Dems new departmental wheeze. Of course it could be bollocks that will do nothing except give branding agencies and makers of brass plaques some money, but the principle is sound.
The more the anti Trump data piles up, the more certain it is that free and fair elections in November are not going to occur. Is there a reasoned account of how Trump could risk it?
Appeal to the 'rule of law' as to why Trump can't interfere is not really a powerful argument.
I don't think he'll try to cancel the elections as that's difficult and probably unnecessary. What he'll do is try to fix the elections. There are multiple ways of doing this, many with a long lineage in US history, going back to the Jim Crow era. We've already seen gerrymandering. There's the SAVE America Act, which will hit female suffrage. He's done a test run of seizing voting machines. He can use ICE to scare off non-white voters. Restrictions on postal voting and cutting down the number of polling stations are familiar approaches.
The thing is, though, that doing all those things (a) can only have a relatively small impact on your opponents vote, and (b) rather tends to motivate them to head to the voting stations.
NEW: Furious female Labour MPs have told Keir Starmer to appoint a woman as his de facto deputy to oversee a “complete culture change” in Downing Street after a series of scandals they say exposed a No 10 “boy’s club”.
Harriet Harman urged the PM to revive the role of first secretary of state, a post previously occupied by Peter Mandelson under Gordon Brown. But she insisted the role must be held by a woman to “transform the political culture in government around women and girls”.
Reading the full article the headline rather sums up their thoughts on McSweeney
The fact 4 females have mow assumed the number 10 roles that are free suggests change.
The obvious person Hattie is talking about is Ange.
It's part of her old role. The fact though that Lucy Powell attends Political Cabinet rather overplays the hand a little.
Does Ange want this new role?
The other obvious wrong he could right on the soft left would be to bring in Emily Thornberry
I'm a big fan of Thornberry. One of Starmers big mistakes keeping her out
At the risk of asking a loaded question, what is it about the North London elite lawyer that you like?
What was it about the North London elite lawyer who was famously condescending against those who fly our flag, that first attracted Roger to her?
Hearing that Labour canvassers in Gorton are surprisingly chipper.
Voters scared of the Greens & Reform, the squeeze message appears to be working for Labour - given overwhelming representation in the area (almost all cllrs, 2024 victory margin)...
Labour MPs have told Keir Starmer that they have been branded "paedo lovers" on the doorsteps
I'm sure that's true but only by people who hate him and never had the slightest intention of voting for him anyway. It beats having to think about policies and anything difficult like that.
My favorite doorstop explanation was a voter who couldn't vote for Neil Kinnock because he had red hair. I'm sure you have met similar.
"There’s a lot of evidence that it might be a very special night for the Dems in the midterms."
What midterms?
We're only in mid February and it's already increasingly clear that a fair midterms would be a bloodbath for the Republicans.
Ideas of "hey lets use ICE thugs to scare voters away" assumes there are only a few pockets of seats where the threat is. But we're seeing big swings in all kinds of unlikely places.
The only winning move for Trump is not to play. National Emergency. Seditious traitors everywhere trying to overturn the immortal republic. So to protect it we have to suspend the election, especially in states where the voters have elected traitors to illegally run corrupt elections. You can have a federal election - run by me DJT where I'll win - or I will suspend the state-run elections until the traitors can be removed from office and brought to justice.
Never going to happen. They kept elections going even through the actual Civil War.
There is no proviso in America to cancel elections.
Hearing that Labour canvassers in Gorton are surprisingly chipper.
Voters scared of the Greens & Reform, the squeeze message appears to be working for Labour - given overwhelming representation in the area (almost all cllrs, 2024 victory margin)...
I think theyve got no choice but to big it up. There is a real risk of coming third in a top 50 seat. I dont think the Tories ever managed that even in their complete meltdown phase
Hearing that Labour canvassers in Gorton are surprisingly chipper.
Voters scared of the Greens & Reform, the squeeze message appears to be working for Labour - given overwhelming representation in the area (almost all cllrs, 2024 victory margin)...
Labour MPs have told Keir Starmer that they have been branded "paedo lovers" on the doorsteps
I'm sure that's true but only by people who hate him and never had the slightest intention of voting for him anyway. It beats having to think about policies and anything difficult like that.
My favorite doorstop explanation was a voter who couldn't vote for Neil Kinnock because he had red hair. I'm sure you have met similar.
The more the anti Trump data piles up, the more certain it is that free and fair elections in November are not going to occur. Is there a reasoned account of how Trump could risk it?
Appeal to the 'rule of law' as to why Trump can't interfere is not really a powerful argument.
I don't think he'll try to cancel the elections as that's difficult and probably unnecessary. What he'll do is try to fix the elections. There are multiple ways of doing this, many with a long lineage in US history, going back to the Jim Crow era. We've already seen gerrymandering. There's the SAVE America Act, which will hit female suffrage. He's done a test run of seizing voting machines. He can use ICE to scare off non-white voters. Restrictions on postal voting and cutting down the number of polling stations are familiar approaches.
The thing is, though, that doing all those things (a) can only have a relatively small impact on your opponents vote, and (b) rather tends to motivate them to head to the voting stations.
It also really pisses independents off.
Yes, it might only have a small impact overall. Then again, only about 3% of Black Americans voted in the South during the Jim Crow era despite the constitution saying they could, so such measures can have a very big impact.
At 5:00pm today The New Statement posted a podcast (grr). It told you that the problem with the Left is that it has no answers to 21st century problems and past solutions don't work now. The link is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl3tl-YV6QE
BBC leading with Andrew rather than Starmer. I appreciate they are between a rock and hard place on this sort of thing but I think the PM is more significant than Andrew.
He is, but his sins were of omission rather than commission. They don't have quite the same odour.
No one is saying Starmer is comparable with any alleged perpetrators. It smacks of the BBC not wanting to pile the pressure on the PM because that would be a bit unfair. This latest revelation is as serious as last week's if not more.
It is for us nerds. Lord Doyle isn't a household name though, or at least not in the households that read the Sun, the Mail, the Mirror and so on.
Never mind. When you are Chief Political Editor at the Beeb you will be able to choose which stories to lead with, and I am sure the world will be a better place as a result.
BBC leading with Andrew rather than Starmer. I appreciate they are between a rock and hard place on this sort of thing but I think the PM is more significant than Andrew.
He is, but his sins were of omission rather than commission. They don't have quite the same odour.
"There’s a lot of evidence that it might be a very special night for the Dems in the midterms."
What midterms?
We're only in mid February and it's already increasingly clear that a fair midterms would be a bloodbath for the Republicans.
Ideas of "hey lets use ICE thugs to scare voters away" assumes there are only a few pockets of seats where the threat is. But we're seeing big swings in all kinds of unlikely places.
The only winning move for Trump is not to play. National Emergency. Seditious traitors everywhere trying to overturn the immortal republic. So to protect it we have to suspend the election, especially in states where the voters have elected traitors to illegally run corrupt elections. You can have a federal election - run by me DJT where I'll win - or I will suspend the state-run elections until the traitors can be removed from office and brought to justice.
Never going to happen. They kept elections going even through the actual Civil War.
There is no proviso in America to cancel elections.
You know the xkcd cartoon on the subject, I'm sure;
BBC leading with Andrew rather than Starmer. I appreciate they are between a rock and hard place on this sort of thing but I think the PM is more significant than Andrew.
He is, but his sins were of omission rather than commission. They don't have quite the same odour.
Thinks who the f##k is using Mistral crap models*...checks article...governments.
* absolutely miles behind all the US and Chinese players.
We've been benchmarking real time speech to text, and the latest Mistral model is the first to beat OpenAI's Whisper. We're probably going to switch over to it.
At 5:00pm today The New Statement posted a podcast (grr). It told you that the problem with the Left is that it has no answers to 21st century problems and past solutions don't work now. The link is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl3tl-YV6QE
You don't pay me enough.
Journalists have been cribbing from PB for years, View.
BBC leading with Andrew rather than Starmer. I appreciate they are between a rock and hard place on this sort of thing but I think the PM is more significant than Andrew.
He is, but his sins were of omission rather than commission. They don't have quite the same odour.
No one is saying Starmer is comparable with any alleged perpetrators. It smacks of the BBC not wanting to pile the pressure on the PM because that would be a bit unfair. This latest revelation is as serious as last week's if not more.
It is for us nerds. Lord Doyle isn't a household name though, or at least not in the households that read the Sun, the Mail, the Mirror and so on.
Never mind. When you are Chief Political Editor at the Beeb you will be able to choose which stories to lead with, and I am sure the world will be a better place as a result.
Doyle is worse than Mandelson potentially because its a quadruple error - the appointment without apparent due diligence, not pulling the peerage after the media story, lying about nkt being able to pull the peerage, not withdrawing the whip despite knowing. Thats why he was angry today.... no pants and a chill wind
"There’s a lot of evidence that it might be a very special night for the Dems in the midterms."
What midterms?
We're only in mid February and it's already increasingly clear that a fair midterms would be a bloodbath for the Republicans.
Ideas of "hey lets use ICE thugs to scare voters away" assumes there are only a few pockets of seats where the threat is. But we're seeing big swings in all kinds of unlikely places.
The only winning move for Trump is not to play. National Emergency. Seditious traitors everywhere trying to overturn the immortal republic. So to protect it we have to suspend the election, especially in states where the voters have elected traitors to illegally run corrupt elections. You can have a federal election - run by me DJT where I'll win - or I will suspend the state-run elections until the traitors can be removed from office and brought to justice.
Never going to happen. They kept elections going even through the actual Civil War.
There is no proviso in America to cancel elections.
You know the xkcd cartoon on the subject, I'm sure;
No President has sought to cancel (or manipulate into meaninglessness) elections... before.
The problem Team Trump have is that they are in a lot of trouble if they hand over power to anyone else. Are they really going to take the risk?
Really?
Yes, and in this respect the parallels with the rise of the Nazis in Germany become distinctly worrying. It gets to a point where the ruling Party dare not allow their opponents to prevail.
Thinks who the f##k is using Mistral crap models*...checks article...governments.
* absolutely miles behind all the US and Chinese players.
We've been benchmarking real time speech to text, and the latest Mistral model is the first to beat OpenAI's Whisper. We're probably going to switch over to it.
I thought Inworld had the best model these days.
Mistral no where near on LLM, coding, text to image / video, etc. They are surviiving because EU governments are buying their services, not because the best, but because of this French push to get away from US dominance.
Thinks who the f##k is using Mistral crap models*...checks article...governments.
* absolutely miles behind all the US and Chinese players.
We've been benchmarking real time speech to text, and the latest Mistral model is the first to beat OpenAI's Whisper. We're probably going to switch over to it.
Their LLMs are way behind the curve mind, although Devstral Mini is used by a couple of devs on their MacBooks.
BBC leading with Andrew rather than Starmer. I appreciate they are between a rock and hard place on this sort of thing but I think the PM is more significant than Andrew.
He is, but his sins were of omission rather than commission. They don't have quite the same odour.
No one is saying Starmer is comparable with any alleged perpetrators. It smacks of the BBC not wanting to pile the pressure on the PM because that would be a bit unfair. This latest revelation is as serious as last week's if not more.
It is for us nerds. Lord Doyle isn't a household name though, or at least not in the households that read the Sun, the Mail, the Mirror and so on.
Never mind. When you are Chief Political Editor at the Beeb you will be able to choose which stories to lead with, and I am sure the world will be a better place as a result.
NEW: Furious female Labour MPs have told Keir Starmer to appoint a woman as his de facto deputy to oversee a “complete culture change” in Downing Street after a series of scandals they say exposed a No 10 “boy’s club”.
Harriet Harman urged the PM to revive the role of first secretary of state, a post previously occupied by Peter Mandelson under Gordon Brown. But she insisted the role must be held by a woman to “transform the political culture in government around women and girls”.
Thinks who the f##k is using Mistral crap models*...checks article...governments.
* absolutely miles behind all the US and Chinese players.
We've been benchmarking real time speech to text, and the latest Mistral model is the first to beat OpenAI's Whisper. We're probably going to switch over to it.
Their LLMs are way behind the curve mind, although Devstral Mini is used by a couple of devs on their MacBooks.
At this point, for pure coding tasks, if you aren't using Claude Code with Opus complete with Super Max Sub you are just a wally.
Somewhat sweeping statement, plenty of immigrants eg Hindus, Jews and Chinese and many Nigerians for instance have come here and built successful businesses or professional careers and not claimed off the state at all.
Immigrants anyway now need a certain level of skill and work visa arranged to be allowed in
Thinks who the f##k is using Mistral crap models*...checks article...governments.
* absolutely miles behind all the US and Chinese players.
We've been benchmarking real time speech to text, and the latest Mistral model is the first to beat OpenAI's Whisper. We're probably going to switch over to it.
I thought Inworld had the best model these days.
Mistral no where near on LLM, coding, text to image / video, etc. They are surviiving because EU governments are buying their services, not because the best, but because of this French push to get away from US dominance.
Inworld is great for dictation, but struggles with lower quality phone calls. Both Whisper and Mistral are much better if your source is cellular and there's background noise, etc.
NEW: Furious female Labour MPs have told Keir Starmer to appoint a woman as his de facto deputy to oversee a “complete culture change” in Downing Street after a series of scandals they say exposed a No 10 “boy’s club”.
Harriet Harman urged the PM to revive the role of first secretary of state, a post previously occupied by Peter Mandelson under Gordon Brown. But she insisted the role must be held by a woman to “transform the political culture in government around women and girls”.
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He gave as good as he got and some
Compared with the utter piffle Boris came out with under pressure he was classy erudite and effective.
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
Effective
Social Media friendly
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen
"Do you think Trump is covering up Jeffrey Epstein's crimes?"
Yes: 52%
No: 30%
YouGov / Feb 9, 2026
https://x.com/USA_Polling/status/2021358104764612962
They are vulberable
Can't wait for his shoe to go flying across the chamber
Odds on Flynn
Evens Davey
He's far to much A gent to lob one at Kemi
“Earlier this week, the anti-drone technology was launched near the southern border to shoot down what appeared to be foreign drones. The flying material turned out to be a party balloon, sources said. One balloon was shot down, several sources said.”
@JenniferJJacobs
with scoop on fight between FAA and Pentagon that led to sudden closure of air space over El Paso, Texas and equally sudden reversal. Pentagon used high powered laser to shoot down what turned out to be a “party balloon.”
I hope he is forced to correct himself in the Commons... and apologise for his misleading and untruthful answer
Thats going to cause a stir. One of the few big business people to back Labour at the GE. Was talkes up as a real coup during the campaign. I imagine it will be Jimmy who from Labour politicians from now on.
Pointless
Point scoring
Boring now.
From the Sky report on that interview,
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) estimates that the population of the UK was 67 million in mid-2020 and 70 million in mid-2024.
The UK population was estimated at 58.9 million in 2000.
https://news.sky.com/story/bluesky-13506333
But politically, feels beat facts, until the facts become inescapable.
https://x.com/MattCartoonist/status/2021635269808861405?s=20
Who knew those sandal wearing, muesli munching Lib-Dems could be so nasty 😂
Doesn't bode well for the resurgence of Man Utd
though good for the clubs happy to provide asylum to disenchanted Man U players
Nor sure labour would be overjoyed with some of his comments
I have heard a number of former Arsenal players say that with Wenger, initially miles ahead of the world game, by the end the players themselves were having to tell him you know this analysis software exists, you know about this rehab technique., other elite teams now play this way because...
@tomhfh
Hearing that Labour canvassers in Gorton are surprisingly chipper.
Voters scared of the Greens & Reform, the squeeze message appears to be working for Labour - given overwhelming representation in the area (almost all cllrs, 2024 victory margin)...
Labour think they can hold.
https://x.com/tomhfh/status/2021558707885343207
Gorton market?
https://www.electionpolling.co.uk/battleground/defence/labour
https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/2021644514335523212
Labour MPs have told Keir Starmer that they have been branded "paedo lovers" on the doorsteps
https://news.sky.com/story/the-uk-has-been-colonised-by-immigrants-says-ineos-boss-and-man-utd-co-owner-sir-jim-ratcliffe-13506333
Smartphone is another.
https://www.ft.com/content/664249e7-e8d5-4425-b397-ad3ed590b305
Thinks who the f##k is using Mistral crap models*...checks article...governments.
* absolutely miles behind all the US and Chinese players.
Lisa Nandy says misogynistic briefings by senior government figures are "still going on".
The culture secretary tells Times Radio: "Some of the briefings have absolutely been dripping with misogyny."
Jeffrey Epstein Advised an Elon Musk Associate on Taking Tesla Private
The financier recommended adding Margaret Thatcher to Tesla’s board even though she had been dead for five years.
https://www.wired.com/story/jeffrey-epstein-advised-an-elon-musk-associate-on-taking-tesla-private/
There is no proviso in America to cancel elections.
The LibDem paper I saw implied it was going to be called The Ministry of Managed Decline.
It also really pisses independents off.
More like “Sitting around with our thumbs up our bums, trying to look relevant, while everything Declines.”
My favorite doorstop explanation was a voter who couldn't vote for Neil Kinnock because he had red hair. I'm sure you have met similar.
And the Presidential election during the civil war was effectively cancelled in some states.
I dont think the Tories ever managed that even in their complete meltdown phase
It’s a low bar, admittedly.
Definite ‘strivers v shivers’ narrative emerging and they attack both Reform and Labour but not the Lib Dem’s.
White British 2001 = 60%
White British 2011 = 45%
White British 2021 = 37%
White Irish/Other 2001 = 11%
White Irish/Other 2011 = 15%
White Irish/Other 2021 = 17%
Asian 2001 = 13%
Asian 2011 = 18%
Asian 2021 = 21%
Black 2001 = 11%
Black 2011 = 13%
Black 2021 = 14%
Mixed 2001 = 3%
Mixed 2011 = 5%
Mixed 2021 = 6%
Other 2001 = 2%
Other 2011 = 3%
Other 2021 = 6%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London#Demography
- At 1:44pm today I posted a post from a YouTuber Mythos analyst. It told you that the problem with the Left is that it has no answers to 21st century problems and past solutions don't work now. The link is here. https://vf.politicalbetting.com/discussion/comment/5452931/#Comment_5452931
- At 5:00pm today The New Statement posted a podcast (grr). It told you that the problem with the Left is that it has no answers to 21st century problems and past solutions don't work now. The link is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl3tl-YV6QE
You don't pay me enough.Never mind. When you are Chief Political Editor at the Beeb you will be able to choose which stories to lead with, and I am sure the world will be a better place as a result.
You know that.
https://xkcd.com/2383/
No President has sought to cancel (or manipulate into meaninglessness) elections... before.
The problem Team Trump have is that they are in a lot of trouble if they hand over power to anyone else. Are they really going to take the risk?
Really?
“I don’t think it should have been awarded in the first place”
Culture Secretary @lisanandy says the Prime Minister was wrong to appoint Matthew Doyle to the House of Lords
Thats why he was angry today.... no pants and a chill wind
Mistral no where near on LLM, coding, text to image / video, etc. They are surviiving because EU governments are buying their services, not because the best, but because of this French push to get away from US dominance.
It wss working with Rupes that got McMurdock briefed against and ousted........
Pray, who does she think should play such a role?
Immigrants anyway now need a certain level of skill and work visa arranged to be allowed in
Notice the strong horse effect after 1st May - the surge in Reform as they appeared more credible to due electoral success.
Winning begets winning.
There could be a second inflection point after 7th May.
https://nitter.poast.org/tomhfh/status/2021534667233755180#m