BSky Pet Peeve: > @ SafeStreetCommittee > > Horrible accident on Main Street, this intersection > has been a death trap for decades. main street *where*? Ditto talking about MPs not named Streeting or Poilievre or whatever. Which *parliament*? #bikesky #capoli #ukpoli #urbanism

If the UK actually elects the Reform Party, then I think I have to abandon all hope in them as a state. It'll be an indictment of not just the viciousness of their voters but of their collective inability to remember simple facts.

#UKPoli #UK

Somebody sat through hours and hours of listening to #NigelFarage to make this video, so we all owe it to them as well as ourselves to watch it.

It's clips of Frog Man himself set to the 90's song "500 Miles."

I can barely handle five minutes of watching him, so salute to whoever did this.

https://bsky.app/profile/neverevertory.bsky.social/post/3lzogxx2zxs26

#Reform #UKPoli #Fascism

Maybe Trump will take the cue?
“Everyone- out! If you weren’t here before 1492, get out and we’ll screen you individually if you want back in.
… Oops! All us white folks have to leave? Did I say that?”

#satire #ukpoli #uspoli #authenticAmericans #authenticBrits #ugh

https://flip.it/UqB-lo

This pretentious, insufferable, loser wants Donald Trump to be the next Prime Minister of the UK! I am not even joking.

“Donald Trump could become a subject of His Majesty…This is what we need, a prime minister who wants to use the levers of power and who knows how to.”

But then… there are plenty of historical precedents for British aristocrats coveting Nazis.

The Telegraph: https://archive.ph/pxxt6
#ukpoli #trump #fascism #rightwing

“In other news, the chimp secured a $1bn trade deal with the US.”

#uspoli #ukpoli #satire https://www.newsbiscuit.com/post/trump-eats-spoon?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fsatire

It's true what they say: "Pets and British women's stomachs can always sense evil approaching." www.thedailybeast.com/queen-camill... #Queen #Camilla #Trump #UK #Britain #England #uspoli #ukpoli #potus #donaldtrump

Queen Camilla Says She Is Sick...

Whoa. Didn't have this on the bingo card. It puts the meeting with dad a few days ago, and the meet between staff people a couple weeks before, in a much different light.

A "working royal" probably could not do this, let alone the King, but Harry, especially with his military past, makes a lot of sense to be there on behalf of the royal family even if officially he isn't.

King Charles definitely sends different messages than his mother.

#Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #Ukraine #UKPOLI #RoyalFamily #War
https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/115200301533748695

Mandelson sacked for a third time for corrupt behaviour (this time from UK's Ambassador to US) Good.

He should never have been hired by Starmer. Peter Mandelson is about 90% of the reason Farage's various fascist parties got a foothold in Hartlepool.

#epstein #ukpoli

This is the most British headline I have ever seen.

#UKPoli #RoyalFamily #PrinceHarry #KingCharles

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/prince-harry-charles-meet-1.7630332

Bravo, BBC. "First King of England not getting enough recognition" is a level of irony we could only dream of achieving.

#Aethelstan #ukpoli #BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d07w50e15o?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Use your real name if you have nothing to hide said the politician with the redacted FOIP papers, the non-work email servers and personal phones, the network of intermediaries to sneak around backrooms to keep things off-record. Avoiding a trail seems to be politics 101.

#politics #cdnpoli #ukpoli

Under Keir Starmer, UK Terrorism laws have descend into total farce:

"A senior officer asked the arresting officer if he could arrest Pickering under section 12, which could have brought a more serious charge of supporting a proscribed group.

“[The arresting officer] said: ‘No, I can’t.’ And they said: ‘Why not?’ He said: ‘Because he hasn’t got Palestine Action written on him. He’s got Plasticine Action written on him.’”

#PalestineAction #PlasticineAction #UKPoli
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/protester-arrested-wearing-plasticine-action-t-shirt-palestine-gaza-protest

This seems fine.

“Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England”

#Privacy #Overreach #PoliceState #UKPoli
https://news.sky.com/story/facial-recognition-vans-to-be-rolled-out-across-police-forces-in-england-13410613

It's been a while since I caught up on the current state of UK polling.

If a general election were held today, there's a slightly higher than 50:50 chance that Reform and the Conservatives would have enough seats between them for a majority.

On the other hand, there's a slightly lower than 50:50 chance that Labour, the Conservatives and Lib Dems would have a majority between them.

The Conservatives may hold the balance of power. A position no Conservative would want to hold.

#ukpoli

"As #economists we stand, today, with #FrancescaAlbanese, the UN Special Rapporteur under attack by the US and Israeli governments because her recent report throws indescribably important light on the political economy of Israel’s occupation and #genocide." https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-top-economists-back-francesca

#StoptheGenocide #FreePalestine #uspoli #cdnpoli #ukpoli

Political Parties Become Antidemocratic

Political parties are part of a system that makes them become less democratic over time, because of the need to win power in order to do anything, their vulnerability to capture by powerful interests, the influence of money and élites and the pressure to polarize.

#Politics #USPoli #CDNPoli #UKPoli #democracy #PoliticalParty

http://ericlawton.org/2025/07/04/political-parties-become-antidemocratic/