Ed Balls

We've no say in the EU any more, you idiot.
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Strange to claim that what your CEO says “should not be taken as policy” because she “does not play any role in the decision-making process”.

Especially when your own website describes the board as your “main decision-making body... which provides strategic direction”. ~AA

🔴 Zero Fines Handed to Russia-Linked Kleptocrats or Firms by UK Since Full-Scale Ukraine War Began 

This is despite hundreds of suspected breaches of sanctions since 2022, reports Josiah Mortimer

bylinetimes.com/2024/04/23/rus…

What if I told you every major novel influenza pandemic of the last 150 years originated in the US, and science-denying antivaxxer American farmers were to blame?

Someone has been watching too many ‘how did Hitler do public speaking’ videos. As ever, an epic fail.

Slow puncture in the City after Brexit - those who predicted as much were rubbished ft.com/content/515654… via @ft

The Rwanda Plan is not a policy but a taxpayer-funded Tory political stunt.

It's designed to have political outcomes rather than governmental outcomes.

It's legally, constitutionally and logistically unworkable.

Good to join WION today to discuss.

dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 Metro What Susan Hall lying? deceiving? Surely not.

The whole article is a compelling case, by Andrew Mitchell, against Andrew Mitchell's argument for the Rwanda scheme conservativehome.com/2022/04/19/and…

With my partner's blessing, I share our recent personal journey trying to access mental health help. My OH just started full time work again, after eighteen months off sick. At every point, the system was a set-back instead of help, it LENGTHENED and WORSENED his problem. 1/ ~AA

In Mark Menzies story the bit that jars me most is where his member of staff, paid for by the tax payer is called to give their own money & turn up to what appears to be a criminal scene. In any other profession the person would be sacked on the spot for endangering junior staff

Cereal box diploma academic makes fatuous claims, 'likes' culture war posts but for some reason thinks no one can see it.

Brexit border checks delayed again as will cause higher costs and disruption at the border

UK will not ‘turn on’ post-Brexit checks of EU goods for fear of border delays on.ft.com/446Ws4K

That supposed “Rothschild” quote, by the way, was famously fabricated a century ago by “Jews control the world” antisemites — something Liz Truss must have known.

“Anti-globalist” beliefs, even from British PMs, always seem to be rooted in the same old “them” theory

The party has known for three months and only now acted because of this story.

For anyone who has been interested in my lawsuit against the Sun, the news is that  I’ve had to settle my claim out of court before it gets to trial. A 🧵…

Liz Truss The Spectator CPAC Matt Schlapp ّ Donald J. Trump

Oh Gods of irony ... Birbalsingh ends her statement on the Michaela prayer ban ruling and the need for a secular environment with... 'God Save the King'

All of her days in Downing Street were final days, to be fair.