England’s contested 1,100-year anniversary passed with little public interest, reflecting a broadly unbothered national identity, even as a small but vocal far-right English nationalism gains visibility. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/01/19/world/being-properly-english/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #uk #england #tommyrobinson #donaldtrump #nigelfarage #mikenesbitt #georgeorwell #johnmajor #rishisunak #labour #tories #reformuk #conservativeparty #ulsterunionistparty #maga #englishdefenceleague
#JohnMajor
Ipsos (Dec 2025): Starmer recorded a net dissatisfaction rating of –66%. The lowest rating recorded for any British #PrimeMinister since Ipsos began tracking the figures in 1977, surpassing previous lows set by #JohnMajor & #JeremyCorbyn!
#KeirStarmer #UKLabour #ByeByeKeir
#MargaretThatcher resigned her leadership of the #Conservative Party on #ThisDayInHistory in 1990, losing also her position as Prime Minister, with both jobs going to #JohnMajor. #Thatcher remains a polarizing figure who pushed UK politics rightward to #neoliberalism & #nativism.
Boris Johnson tells Tories to stop ‘bashing green agenda’ or risk losing next election https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/30/boris-johnson-conservatives-green-politics-election #Greenhousegasemissions #Conservatives #Climatecrisis #Greeneconomy #BorisJohnson #KemiBadenoch #Environment #TheresaMay #JohnMajor #Politics #UKnews
Boris Johnson tells Tories to stop ‘bashing green agenda’ or risk losing next election https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/30/boris-johnson-conservatives-green-politics-election #Greenhousegasemissions #Conservatives #Climatecrisis #Greeneconomy #BorisJohnson #KemiBadenoch #Environment #TheresaMay #JohnMajor #Politics #UKnews
If #JohnMajor and #GordonBrown started a party I would vote for that. Competent, honourable, and effective government seems like a dim and distant dream these days. #UKPolitics.
The housing market in the #uk appears to have changed radically towards the end of the 1990s. Earlier despite fluctuations the level of house prices did not change much in relation to prices in general - it seems to have been roughly the same under #johnmajor as it had been under #edwardheath . It then tripled in less than a decade. Across the #uk it is still two and a half times the previous level while in #london it is close to four times. This divergence occurred after 2008.
DJs Kalle Karvanen & John Major
@ Rica Bar, Kristiinankatu 5 B, Turku, Finland.
Saturday 23 August 2025. 22:00->
"Tervetuloa klo 22 alkaen ihmettelemään, mitä kaikkea saadaankaan laitettua levylautaselle."
#KalleKarvanen #JohnMajor #DJs #clubs #electronic #RicaBar #Turku #Finland
Who would have thought I’d ever agree with John Major!
But thinking back to when he was on, it’s also a reminder that there was a time when you could be on the right and have decency and integrity.
How things have changed.
"When did you last hear, from any party, a senior politician make a lengthy detailed speech on what we needed to do to protect our place in the world - and our values and our wealth - 25 years from now" - John Major
#JohnMajor #AmolRajan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jr449q
@JorisBohnsonPM With the likes of #JohnMajor and #RoryStewart long gone, who within the current gaggle of #tories realistically even has the intent, intellect, and standing amongst his peers to return the party to a sane form of conservatism? We are seeing much the same with the current #CDU here in #Germany BTW, with chairperson #FriedrichMerz being more interested in destroying the #Greens rather than defeating the #fascist #AfD (no wonder #AngelaMerkel hated that guy BITD).
‘Un-British, un-Christian, unconscionable’: Major condemns Tories’ Rwanda policy – UK politics live https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/sep/18/john-major-condemns-tory-rwanda-policy-uk-politics-live #Politics #UKnews #Labour #JohnMajor #Immigrationandasylum
John Major criticises Rwanda asylum plan as ‘un-Conservative and un-British’ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/18/john-major-rwanda-plan-un-conservative-un-british #JohnMajor #Conservatives #Immigrationandasylum #Politics #UKnews
Just getting to the features section in Friday's newspaper. The 'Daily Almanac' list of birthdays is now providing the year of birth rather than the person's age, but what struck me as rather curious were the descriptions of some of the individuals who celebrated birthdays on Friday.
(I also had never realised that John Major and Eric Idle were born on the same day.)
The Good Friday Agreement #GFA, signed in 1998, ended most of the violence of #TheTroubles.
It called for a commission to review policing in #NorthernIreland. As a consequence, in 2001, the Royal Ulster Constabulary #RUC was reformed and renamed to #PSNI.
Jon Boutcher, the Chief Constable of the PSNI, leads Operation #Kenova, which has spent the last seven years, and £40m, investigating 101 murders and abductions linked to the #British military double-agent known by the code #Stakeknife.
One of the report’s most serious conclusions is that the impunity was discussed at Cabinet level during the conflict and continued until six years after the #IRA ceasefire of 1994 and two years after the Good Friday Agreement.
(Prime Ministers: Margaret #Thatcher, #JohnMajor, Tony #Blair.)
Here is the report: https://www.kenova.co.uk/publication-of-kenova-interim-report
#Nationalists #counterTerrorism #stateViolence #Ulster #UK #Ireland #BritishArmy #colonies #IrishHistory #history #intelligence #doubleAgent #impunity #law #lawAndOrder
Rishi Sunak should forget Margaret Thatcher – and learn lessons instead from John Major
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/rishi-sunak-should-forget-margaret-thatcher-and-learn-lessons-instead-from-john-major-2057202
#RishiSunak
#JohnMajor
#PaulWaugh
The #Tories infamous Rail Privatisation, the gift which keeps on giving, mainly from the British Taxpayer to foreign railways!! NB: Those Commies in the Tory Party have Nationalised four railways in five years!
#RailFail #SameOldTories #JohnMajor
The #Tories infamous Rail Privatisation, the gift which keeps on giving, mainly from the British Taxpayer to foreign railways!!
#RailFail #SameOldTories #JohnMajor
When conservatives at least made sense and had integrity.
#brexit #johnmajor said it before it happened https://youtube.com/watch?v=r_MibwzlZ84&feature=share
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