Wtaf????

'What on earth would induce you to think that you are going to gain by giving up that relationship?'

Putin, emboldened by American weakness and European cowardice, is bringing Georgia back into the bosom of the Soviet-Tsarist-Oligarch Imperial Russia.

Easy to explain (as I suspect Gigi Pipia knows)

Labour at very senior level need to advise Cabinet Secretary and all Permanent Secretaries that all government Comms during recent purdah period will be assessed for evidence of breach of civil service code, and that all government Comms in run up to election will be held to…

Remember: Jacob Rees-Mogg publicly admitted voter ID is just a 'clever scheme' to 'gerrymander' - to gain unfair electoral advantage by denying you a vote.

So no matter what: take photo ID with you, and don't assume a win is in the bag. It won't be unless you #vote

30 April 1945 | As Soviet forces neared his command bunker in Berlin Adolf Hitler shot himself.

Hitler's Thousand Year Reich lasted twelve years, four months & eight days.

We need to commemorate all the victims & remember where ideologies of hatred may lead humanity to.

I promised myself -and you- that I will post this excellent Tweet of the brilliant Dr Dan Goyal every day until the Local Elections on Thursday.
This is spot on. 🎯

Because this shows in one statement the core and toxic nature of the Tories and stands as an example (of the…

The Bid references mining & Lithium (which many Plymouth Freeport watchers discussed) + 'port & customs deregulation'. There is a lot to study - with content & implications for residents also prob. relevant to other freeports Freeports & Special Economic Zone Community Group

26.4.24 Plymouth Freeport provided a range of requested documents via FOI, incl. original Freeport Bid (they state it will soon be on their website). At last some transparency - but also more Qs, incl. why has my council been so unable to provide them? A 🧵 Ann Aubert 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇬🇧 Watershed

Would you trust her with your pet?

Let alone your capital city…

As news breaks of a secret GRU safe house run by Elena & Nikolai Saposnikov in Frama , Halkidiki across the bay from where Boris Johnson’s father’s villa & where he took his mysterious private sail boat trip in 2016 (where it is rumoured Alexander Lebedev was on an Aegean Yacht)

When I was a TV political reporter with Newsnight & C4 News, if I'd said only a few months before a general election that I was thinking of standing in that election, I would have expected the BBC or ITN to sack me.

The KGB endorses Susan Hall - Conservative candidate for London mayor

The Evening Standard is owned by Lord Lebedev of Siberia

(No, I didn't make up his ennobled title)

Teesworks Ltd is appealing the PD Ports High Court decision that wet against them. Meanwhile the Select Committee urges an investigation into the use of public funds | Julia Mazza

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Maybe be the police need to investigate this instead of Angela Raynor?

I’ve written to Oliver Dowden about the government failing to meet the ministerial code requirement for transparency about David Cameron possibly being recused from aspects of his work due to financial interests.

It really is time that politicians took note of modern monetary theory taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/2… Modern monetary theory is the only credible alternative economic theory challenging the neoliberal consensus right now. When that neoliberal consensus has so obviously failed, why…

Word on the grapevine is that not all is well within Houchen’s camp. Coffee cups being thrown against walls & doors being slammed is what I’m told. The #TeessideResistance has eyes everywhere. In fact I’ve never experienced such a massive collective effort as this.
Keep going 👊