Pia Colson

An English woman living in France and loving Italy. Grows, cooks and eats.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

Did you know the far right suffered a major setback in yesterday's Swedish election, down 15% from 2022, falling from 2nd to 3rd behind Social Democrats and Moderates ?

Probably not. It doesn't fit the "Europe's turning far right" narrative. Compare when the AfD won Germany's smallest state of 2 million people last week - but when the far right loses significantly in a national election in an 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞, not that much coverage ...
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[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

👍🚨 Listen to Mark Carney dismantle the central Brexit myth!

Canada 🇨🇦 is deepening its economic, defence, energy, industrial and research alliance with Europe because it will make both sides:

“More sovereign, more resilient, more independent, as well as more prosperous.”

Isolation is vulnerability.

Sovereignty comes from trusted alliances, shared capabilities, alternative markets and the bargaining power to resist coercion.

Canada has learnt that lesson from Trump.

Brexit Britain still refuses to learn it.

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

Precisely

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

Be clear. Reform now has the resource to buy every billboard in the UK, blanket wall to wall advertising across written and broadcast media and saturation leafleting. The British will be blitzed into voting for the ultra right - against every best instinct. It is a dark moment.

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

Any journalists clutching pearls about these Reform crypto billionaire donations need to look in the mirror.

Why has Reform got to this place? Because they’ve been relentlessly platformed for years. Legacy media outlets need to take responsibility- they’re part of the problem.

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

Why?

Because it's now the official position of Reform UK that if a woman speaks out of turn, she should be bashed in the head.

They ALSO backed the Reform MP who was jailed for beating his girlfriend.

So, fair warning, I will be referring to them as the woman-beating party.

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

So.... £2,485 on glasses for a PM was "sleaze rotting our politics to the core" but £72,000,000 in a single day for Nigel Farage is celebrated as hitting "the jackpot" and a "war chest..."

Whatever is happening here is happening in plain sight. You decide!

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

He doesn’t even turn up most days

[Bradley Wall 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇬🇧🌍 @BWallArthur]

The only 3 people to benefit from Brexit were

Johnson - got prime minister
Farage - got a cult following
Putin - got a weaker UK and Europe.

The rest of us got a poorer, more divided country with less rights and freedoms.

Plus now we know reform were on the Russian take.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Andy Burnham has halted the Nationalisation of Thames Water.

As the law currently stands Water Companies need a Water License to be able to sell you Water.

Almost all of them have broken pollution laws, their licenses could be revoked today because of that.

Then they would be unable to charge you.

Then Nationalised for free.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

I prefer Labour MPs who want to tax billionaires to avoid benefit cuts to Labour MPs who want to cut benefits to avoid taxing billionaires

[Bernard McEldowney @BernardMcEldown]

Sick of the #bbc constantly banging on about the future of @Keir_Starmer

They have opposed this government from the first day they were elected

They underreport government’s achievements and fail to expose danger that @reformparty_uk presents to our country

@BBCNewsnight

[Scotland Rugby News @ScotRugbyNews]

A true sense of Scotland in Rome 💙

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

"You should never overestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices."

– George Monbiot

[Trevor McArdle @McardleTrevor]

Starmer:

Not mentioned once in the Epstein Papers

Bad judgement call over Mandelson

Press - Go!

Farage:

Mentioned over 40 times

Bad judgement call over Nathan Gill

Reform “treasurer” Nick Candy linked professionally to Epstein

Bannon was Farage advisor

Press - Drive on!

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Those questions sure are mounting up

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Donald Trump is withholding billions of dollars in New York infrastructure unless he gets Penn Station and Dulles Airport named after him.

This is not only brazenly corrupt. It is sick, twisted and egomaniacal. The time is long overdue for sane Republicans to stand up to Trump.