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No. Not at all surprising. As far as I'm concerned anyone who endorses or excuses Johnson is as bad as he is.

Looking at the Government’s handling of key decisions in the light of it, it is very clear that they were not “following the science” unless it agreed with what they wanted to do anyway.

Bear in mind that is the case anyway. It wasn't unique to 2020-2024

I'm quite enjoying "The Naked Week" as a News Quiz drop in. They have some good writers, and it's very well delivered.

Kruger's views on women and bodily autonomy were already know, I am more intrigued by this bit

whether he’s noticed how many of the young men in Reform’s press conference team had chosen to have Hitler Youth hair

That stood out for me too. Need to have a Google and see if that is accurate.

They are a drinking song away from a putsch.

That reminds me. Did anyone see the AI image that Crafty used on his blog? It is quite staggeringly vile.

Grimes is stunningly appropriately named.

Isn't he just.

Drama in my town today!

Christmas lights switch on so loads of activities and then a huge cordon was placed and Tesco evacuated.

The police station was central to all this.

Apparently someone found an unexploded WW2 bomb and handed it in at the station 🤦🏼‍♀️

The news… in haikus!

I like it too. Very dry humour.

Blimey, that was risky!

People would be surprised at how long the shadow of the war is. I was taught by several teachers who had served (women too).

My DGMs last confused thoughts as she slipped under the waves of dementia were to ask my aunt if she "made it through the bombs alright" when she visited DGM in hospital. This was 1991.

And it's quite possible that some born in the same year as me (kind 60s 😀) could have had a father - not a grandfather, a father - who was serving in 1945.

Once our generations have faded,it'll just be newsreels and noise.

It's the weirdest political article I've read so far this year. He was only lauded in Government because of his Brexit allegiance.

Perhaps he's happy to poach the almost 8,000 votes Reform UK got in 2024. (No pun intended)

Boris doesn't have the ability to even consider that he may be wrong. About anything. He's been allowed to do and get away with what he wants and has been pandered to his whole life. He has the emotional maturity of a sloth (apologies to all sloths). How anyone can try and come to his defence is beyond me.

He posted about young middle Eastern men queuing for the building that had the sign Job Seeker's Allowance - clearly fake.

These AI fake posts has to breach code of conduct within local Governance.

I just don’t understand how this is allowed surely it’s bringing the LA into disrepute he is faking information& stoking up lord knows what.

I agree @placemats and @dontcallmelen , it is baffling that an elected council official can get away with posting fake images.

I now assume all images are "AI" unless there is corroborating evidence.

Student of history will remember how the advent of printing created centuries of misinformation. Todays "AI" is yesterdays woodcuts.

I have a feeling we will eventually - as T.S. Eliot predicted - end up where we started.

He's a revolting specimen and I am horrified that he's deputy leader of my council.

As for the AI image, the open window of the house on the left is mind boggling.

I remember when someone did this in Durham - at rush hour. That was a painful journey home!

They don't care. People will complain and he will whinge even more about being victimised than he already does.
Durham Reform's Darren Grimes slams £11,000 complaint costs | The Northern Echo https://share.google/HpaYNg249QORGAvM5

A reminder that Russia and China are very much also rans in the traditional English view of enemies.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/11/22/britons-miss-musks-starlink-internet-rules-protect-france

My dad served in the RAF throughout the war as well as before and after. Mum was conscripted in 1942 and they wanted her to go into the army to chauffuese top brass around because she was exceptionally pretty and had a driving licence - very unusual for woman in those days. She turned them down and trained to be an SRN, ended up as theatre sister.

Most of my secondary school teachers had seen service. Looking back it’s clear a lot of them were suffering from PTSD. I worked for lovely man who had been a Japanese prisoner of war in the mid 70s.

Farage's defence over Gill is that he didn't get paid for his Russian propoganda