We like it ... plastic patriots seem to be everywhere just now

We at @ukstoptrump.bsky.social exist to challenge Trumpist far right politics.

Labour’s drive for European security will fail if it is paid for by cutting our essential services.

Tax the rich to ensure our security! No state visit!

We have got to stop kidding ourselves that appeasing Trump & trying to please him gains us any leverage, any guarantees, any reliable favour.

Trump has chosen Putin and the oligarchy. We must cancel his state visit. @ukstoptrump.bsky.social

NEW: "America is your enemy," I interviewed Jason Stanley for this week's newsletter & podcast. A Yale professor, who's a leading expert in fascism. We're normalizing what's happening & we urgently need to stop. Please read/listen/share. 🙏
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-united...

Impeccable timing, perhaps?

Tories must feel so glad to have the JD Vance-whisperer as their leader. So, when the rest of us hear him insulting us, Badenoch tells us he didn’t say what he said at all. And goes on to sneer at us for minding being insulted.
Chef’s kiss of obnoxiousness from that clueless clown.

JD Vance tried to berate Starmer for locking up people who used social media to incite race riots in the UK just a few days ago.

Now the free speech champions have this to offer

If Russia is allowed to overrun Ukraine, Ukraine will become another Gaza. Netanyahu has demonstrated that you can commit repeated atrocities and still receive the support of successive US presidents.
I fear that Gaza will be the model for future occupations.

They’re fucking evil.

Come on Starmer.
I used my very last right to vote in the UK in the hope that you would try to change the UK's relationship with the EU.
That creep in the United States doesn't care about you or the population of Britain, he just cares about himself. .

Starmer is to attend an EU summit and Brexiters are having a proper tantrum about it.
As if they negotiated something good.
As if our industries hadn’t been desperately lobbying govt ever since.
As if the EU wasn’t an ally.
Brexiters are monstrous toddlers - a total drag on diplomacy and progress.

A brilliant analysis of the epic Brexit failure. Scorn for the liars and solidarity for the rest of us.

“We lost something intangible and yet priceless, something we might never get back: an idea of our country.”

Heartbreaking, enraging and yet, still hopeful.
iandunt.substack.com/p/brexit-fiv...

🔴After Five Years of Brexit It’s Time to Admit It Was a Terrible Mistake and Build the Case to Rejoin the EU

Let this be the moment we look forward to a brighter future at the heart of Europe, argues Green MP @elliechowns.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/01/31/b...

Here we go. Fascism 101.

Threaten a sovereign state and ally with massive economic damage if they won’t let you take a huge part of your country’s territory.

This is chilling. If you STILL don’t think Trump is a threat to us all, here’s the clear evidence he is.

#Greenland
#DonaldTrump
#Denmark

Weaker, poorer, unhappier, more divided and with an emboldened and radicalised loud minority who champion overt racism and selling out to Musk and Trump…
This is where Brexit has led us. Over and above these dismal numbers. That is the true cost.

Badenoch was Minister for Children and Families. She never once raised the issue of grooming gangs or met any survivors.
But now she implies that Labour MPs are complicit, refuses to defend Jess Phillips and hopes to wreck the child safety bill.
All to please Musk.
Utterly… unforgivably detestable.

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Thought it was about time I had a go at posting something, here is a shot of a Siskin in flight, about to alight on a cone bearing twig of an Alder tree, that I took a few months ago.