Here's the thing. Where Russia is concerned, sooner or later all our skins are in the game. There is no safe place.

@markpackuk.bsky.social - you've been the one pushing the UK Government on its continued use of X. Here's a case for further pushing them to address this increasingly poisonous influence on our public life.

Isn't it interesting? There's no indication on what grounds the soon-to-be Mr Mountbatten Windsor is to be evicted from what appears to be a legal lease on his home. Does that make it a S.21 eviction - a process the Gov't has just passed a law to abolish?*

(*Law not yet in force).

Lots of communities use "aunt" or "uncle" as a generic term for a non-immediate family member, as a mark of respect.

Well, of course not. Because the news sources they are following are deliberately ignoring any issues, just moving on with the next Farage press conference.

There is no objective source of truth that is trusted by them that will actually tell them. If they do know about it, it becomes a conspiracy.

The point is there wasn't any serious alternative to short term belt-tightening, if you remember the global situation in 2010. But there was one in 2015, but people didn't vote for it then.

But then it depends when the damage was done. Was it done during the period of coalition, during which Labour had been committed to similar cuts, or during the deeper, permanent austerity implemented by the Tories when they were in government alone?

I would if I had said that, but I didn't. Strawman.

On the contrary, it was a much simpler system to sell than STV. And the one that Labour had supposedly committed to under the Jenkins commission. But Ed Miliband refused to properly campaign on it.

People voted Tory. Or voted Labour in seats they couldn't win. The majority Cameron won in 2015 was almost entirely seats switching from Lib Dem to Tory.

BTW, Labour under Gordon Brown was committed to halving the deficit -they even passed a law about it- which is about what the coalition did.

And doubly well done to those Labour supporters who voted to keep First Past The Post in the referendum in 2011 too.

As a direct short-term response to the 2008 financial crisis, yes. But by 2015 there were Lib Dem plans to re-expand. But hey, people decided to punish the Lib Dems by voting Labour or Green in their seats, got the Tories and their policy of permanent austerity instead. Well done.

To be fair, I wouldn't want to see this. Do you not understand what is happening here? Racist gets to say racist thing, then gets to apologise so we see it all over again. Double whammy. The racists don't care that she apologised, they take the wink: "you can do this too, with no consequences".

Not just paid up members can vote, but also trade union members/supporters.

I guess the reason I am seeing so many people complain about this is because the Greens have been talking up membership numbers.

Margaret Thatcher said that was her favourite song.

Because they are very closely linked to the same American groups that defend the US model. See also "why are Reform trying to make abortion a party political issue like it has never been in the UK?"

Are they threatening to leave the country, or just Reform?

Perhaps they are threatening to join a more extreme, fringe party, like UKIP, or maybe even the Conservatives .

...the government and overthrow all the elected politicians of the day!