John Pedersen

It is also conveniently forgotten that it was a non-binding referendum, if it was anything else it would have been deemed unlawful due to leave cheating. Our democracy was held hostage by the billionaire press barons. I’m European first and foremost and I want my freedom and identity back.

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

Britons should use money we haven't got to buy food the country doesn't grow, store it in homes that don't exist, in spare rooms that got taxed away, so we can survive when reservoirs nobody built run dry because of a climate the govt won't protect. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The immigration doom loop, summed up here by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

There’s too much caution about calling Farage and Reform racist. They have no such timidity when they threaten to strip us of our rights and protections, to mass deport people and kill them at sea. They routinely insult, perv, vilify and hate people. You don’t ‘nice’ that away. You call it out.

And, FFS, freedom of movement is excellent.

Putin has not funded disruption and chaos across Europe and the UK solely to weaken his enemies. He also knows that disruption and chaos favour the far right. And the far right loves Putin. It will abandon Ukraine and build him a highway into Europe.

Okay, so Reform is now actively advocating for the armed forces to murder unarmed civilians as official policy. At what point does the media at large stop treating these people as anything but fascistic far right thugs who under any normal functioning system would be condemned as extremists.

Gentle reminder: Brexit isn’t shit just because the Russians backed it. It’s shit, and that’s why the Russians backed it.

Not in IMDB.

Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

THIS 👇 HERE.......

£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan:

It's funny those men in black have been labelled thugs. That's a word of Hindi origins, that migrated from India in the days of empire. Some of them might live in bungalows, use shampoo, sleep in cotton sheets on a mattress. And I expect, they think these things are English.

Reform say they'll force school children to sing hymns. Only 5% of Britons go to church. So what we have here is a religious minority forcing their wishes on the majority, and refusing to integrate with Britain's culture. They should go and live somewhere else. According to Reform.

The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Should we rename La Manche the English Channel?

it's odd to me that the resistance to all this seems to be a one-man operation, and that one man is Sunder, but I thank him for his service. I just don't get how all this is allowed to fester, it's not like we can't guess the consequences

If I were Andy Burnham I too would consider banning disposable barbecues. Or I might think about considering it. Or at least think about thinking about considering banning them. Because the climate change issue is important and urgent. Yeah, think long and hard. That'll sort it.

@dawnbritten.bsky.social Did we find out what happened to BrexitPirates?

Our baked soil can't soak up water easily. Unless autumn brings weeks of gentle rain, floods are next. A decent storm will bring devastation. Yeah, being able to cancel subscriptions is alright. Cancel cold calling too, like the French have. But don't mention climate. We'll just blame nature.

This is an attempted lynching, which will be treated with much less seriousness then pensioners holding up Palestine Action placards.

From the people who say drill for more oil and gas on the North Sea. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This wasn’t how it was supposed to be… The tragic truth is that, as some of us warned a decade ago, mainstream climate science has turned out to be the opposite of alarmist. It has turned out to be complacent and over-optimistic. Truthfulness - and strategic adaptation - are urgent. (Pse repost.)

With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it must only be a matter of time before we get a country song where a guy’s truck leaves him too. 🐢💨

"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach us, and not one of those miles goes through the straits of Hormuz." From Bill McKibben's recent TED talk, worth a few minutes. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...

The more Farage & Reform UK corruption is exposed the more people will #BlameMillionairesNotMigrants meme via Ronnie Anne Mckay

"the projected cost of the full CCS programme between now and 2050 is £264bn" Pure insanity that locks-in fossil fuel usage for decades Another HS2 (only far, far, worse) in the making Please @andyburnham.bsky.social - stop this nonsense in its tracks www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster

So, the EU-UK reset. To discuss study and work in each others' countries for the under 30's. How about the under 40's? 50's? 30 seems so random. An arbitrary limitation. How about for the under 100's? I'd like that much better.

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

BREAKING: Indigenous white people commit riot and arson. Incompetent indigenous white police fire water cannon. Indigenous white politicians who fucked up our economy discuss "legitimate concerns" in lying newspapers owned by indigenous white tax evaders. Immigrants somehow remain the problem.

This is truly excellent www.wsws.org/en/articles/... @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social

Sadly, every word is true. The American experiment is over. Killed in the middle of Fifth Avenue and no one in power blinked an eye to stop it.

He's doing this because polls show more people in favour of Mahmoodism than against. And from a purely political POV (leaving aside morality and, yknow, thinking) that sounds sensible. But it isn't. It's spineless and moronic. Quick thread >

Once again, I see wrong prices at the Morrison's self checkout. 75p off the yoghurt marked on shelf, 25p off at the checkout. This isn't unusual. I've never had it happen at a manned checkout. Never had a lower price at the checkout. Always in Morrison's favour.

Danny Sriskandarajah, "This should be the era for humanity, enough to survive, enough to thrive, supported by machines, not ruled by machines" "This should be the century of the citizen" Really interesting thought 👏

Who looks at these flags on roundabouts and lampposts and feels pride? Far right thugs and racists. And who looks at them with fear and loathing? Everyone else. National flags are being used as Nazi bunting by Reform and the far right. Let’s call this what it is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

We should ban MP's second jobs. Being an MP is responsibility and compensation enough. And for people like Farage, we need to ban 3rd, 4th, 5th etc jobs too. Bloody grifter.

I honestly think banning MPs' second jobs is the single most powerful immediate thing the Govt could do to dent Reform support. It's the right thing to do. It would be a strong move (and message) in cleaning up politics. And it would shine a light on the person hit hardest: Nigel Farage.

This guy nails it. 🎯

Have to say.. as red flags go, proposing to set up concentration camps and taking a £5M personal bribe would be the top two when deciding who NOT to vote for. It is genuinely insane and extremely troubling that Farage could still be electable despite that… or even because of it. WTAF, UK?

🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥 French Senator Claude Malhuret says what the majority of the world is thinking

The truth of it.