Fortunately, Britain has a Bermuda-registered mass circulation newspaper owned by a French-domiciled billionaire, a television station owned by a Dubai hedge fund and a political party backed by a Thailand-based crypto tycoon to remind us of the importance of patriotism
@LoftforWords Brilliant assessment. Poetic. 'Take his brain out and give it a rinse under a cold tap, teach him to cross a ball, I think we might have something here'
"Just because you’ve got a flag in your van and you scream at people in the street doesn’t make you a patriot."
Chancellor Rachel Reeves tells Channel 4 News' Economics Editor Helia Ebrahimi that being a patriot is about "loving this country and treating other people with respect", after being heckled during a previous interview.
The QPR fans slagging off all our players regularly should take note of Nicolas Madsen. Slaughtered last season and now double player of the year. Remarkable turnaround and shows how sometimes players just need time to adapt. Support them and they could become great for us #QPR
In a healthy democracy we would have journalists doing this kind of thing. But in the days of “Give Nigel a free pass” media MPs have to do it instead. Ps the open financial greed and grift is very much part of the “Trump’s man in London” Farage strategy
@paulfinney1969@IrishQpr Perspective. Overall some positives over the past 2 years. Agree though that an honest assessment of and dialogue on the current position is desperately needed.
Mandelson hosted a party last April at the White House.
Co hosted and funded by...........
The Daily Mail, who called him a 'political genius'
They didn't mention that in today's hysterical headlines.
It is worth considering that if Badenoch or Farage were Prime Minister, the UK would now be actively participating in a war with no defined end state, having not been consulted or involved in the planning.
Some do not learn from history.
@TiceRichard@JohnHealey_MP Quick quiz for you, Richard:
Do you think the Royal Navy became depleted over:
a) The space of a year or so
b) A lot of years, the majority of which were overseen by a government that your party is now stuffed to the gills with former members of?
Take your time...
Never seen the right wing press more out of touch with public opinion than slavishly falling in behind Trump & his war with no plan against the Prime Minister
Surely we can now all agree.
Labour & the Green party combined polled 66% in Gorton and Denton.
Reform polled 28%
Meaning more than twice as many people prefer Socialist policies than the Racist right wing Reform scum.
I didn't count the Tories because they lost their deposit!
@LauraF7x Who is this magical proven manager that we have been missing?.. so easy to be negative. My take is we are on slow upwards curve. Highs and lows as always.
@RobertJenrick Robert you and i know both know this is a cheap stunt, There are strict rules and permits about who can visit. Pub bores like Farage need to fill in a form! And the island base is full of serious people doing serious things. So perhaps he should get back to Clacton.