Thread 19 Starmer - A Coalition of the Willing

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Morning! My tax is one of my favourite ever windows at the (since modernised) museum of antiquities at Newcastle University. Rescued from my twitter account, of course.

https://bsky.app/profile/adambienkov.bsky.social/post/3ljhnndt3ks24

Nigel Farage on LBC repeatedly refusing to criticise Trump and Vance's attack on Zelensky. Accuses the Ukrainian President of being "rude" and showing "no respect" to Trump. Says Zelensky should have worn a suit

Edited to add more

Nigel Farage says that Elon Musk and Steve Bannon's Nazi salutes were "not really Nazi salutes" because "they were out to the side."

but don't call them right wing, far right

Thanks for the new thread. Cat tax, I think he’s been listening to the news

Hopefully I can hear the sound of nails scratching as he slides down a cliff.

Has Farage had his head in a vat of beer for the past week? His fans are going to be so confused.

Farage.

Well now we know how Farage would have spent the weekend if he had been PM. WhatsApping Trump and waiting in vain for a response.

I think there will be a statement about Ukraine in the Commons later - I trust opposition parties will support the government.

It looks likely. I was heartened by Badenoch and Davey’s interviews yesterday.

I think there will be a statement about Ukraine in the Commons later - I trust opposition parties will support the government.

Well, the ones that turn up, you mean.

Rachel Reeves is giving a statement on Ukraine according to the Order paper. No time indicated

Late cat tax - I think you'll like it.

Thanks for the new thread (and great title).

Cat tax - lovely kitties waiting to be adopted, at the cat café in Rye

Thanks for the new thread. The world is scary, I have a stinking cold but there's always cats. The ginger one is taking his meds again, hallelujah!

Thank you for the new thread and as always, the Taxes ❤️

Thanks for new thread. Dog tax paid

Not sure why pic not showing. I'll try again

I give up!!!

We can see the picture of your cheeky dog

My boy! He's on a diet atm because the vet says he's the size of a badger! 🤣

Clearly just big-boned 😸

Lech Wałęsa and former Polish political prisoners compare Trump and Vance to Communist interrogaters:

"Former Polish president and 1983 Nobel Peace prize winner Lech Wałęsa signed a letter to US president Donald Trump expressing “horror and distaste” at his argument with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House last week.

The letter, signed by Wałęsa and over 30 former Polish political prisoners during the communist era, said that Trump and Vance’s demands that Zelenskyy showed gratefulness were “insulting” in the face of the Ukrainian nation’s heroic fight for freedom.

The signatories said that the “atmosphere in the Oval Office reminded us of that we remember well from interrogations” by Poland’s communist secret services and regime courts.

“The prosecutors and the judges, working on behalf of the omnipotent Communist party police, also told us that they held all the cards, and we held none,” they said.

“We are shocked that you treated Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the same, way,” they said.

They also reminded Trump of the US obligations under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which provided security guarantees for Ukraine in exchange for return of Soviet-era nuclear weapons."

Thanks for the new thread!
Not-my-cat-tax as Perdy is cross. We’ve just had the vet nurse here to trim her claws and take out some matts that had formed (her fur is like candy floss underneath). This cat was helping me look at a church by the castle at Bridgend. It belonged twice to King John’s wife Isabella (the castle did, not the cat).
Im loving Starmer being so involved with Europe again, despite hating the circumstances.

Trumps handler and trainer will be getting the Order of Lenin now.

The irony that the country that developed McCarthyism is now a Soviet vassal is too much.

Both Badenoch and Patel have spoken out against Farage

Tricky to get cat tax here - my old girl barely comes downstairs now so we don't have many pictures these days.

Thanks for the thread though.