Thread 8 Burnham: En attendant le Fonds Monetaire International.

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Badenoch walked into a major faux pas* during PMQs regarding Burnham's lack of understanding regarding national security. Step forward her recent disastrous interview regarding her proposed iron Dome for Great Britain.

• see what I did there? 😁

The windows are appropriate 🍅🥒🍅

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/14/civil-war-british-right-charade-politics-united-coalition

It certainly begs the question what the right actually believes in when it comes to promoting a vibrant, functional and econically stable society, when the raison d'etre of the right is low to no taxes.

Also given that the right wing media constantly put articles forward criticising Restore and sometimes Reform it beggars belief that some posters on Mumsnet have never heard of Danny Tommo until his actions were highlighted by threads.

Which is why I said "feels like" as opposed to "has been".

https://bsky.app/profile/peterwalker99.bsky.social/post/3mxtkdl67o22l

The Conservatives have finally given an explanation for how they over-stated the supposed cost of net zero by nearly £500bn in Kemi Badenoch’s flagship policy document. It was a “source error”, her spokesman says, which I think means it was copied from the IEA/Spectator and not checked.

Janes Law:

once you have found one mistake, there will be others.

That is horrifying.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/14/nigel-farage-charities-help-asylum-seekers-uk-prosecute

No doubt in the days to follow, Farage will claim his words have been "misinterpreted".

"Speaking to Benny Johnson, a podcaster who has previously written for a series of rightwing US outlets, including Breitbart News, Farage discussed the arrival of asylum seekers on small boats, calling it “literally an invasion of people who could cause us enormous harm”.

Johnson asked him: “Do you believe in criminal penalties for those who facilitated this invasion of the English Isles?”

Farage replied: “Totally, totally. The role of the NGOs, the role of those that are sponsored by taxpayers’ money, because they’re nice, they’re good, they’re kind. They have actually aided and abetted criminality in absolutely every way."

He’s such a vile man.

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https://bsky.app/profile/jdportes.bsky.social/post/3mxtjorjxbc2h

I see the "migrants taking all the new jobs" nonsense is back, in the Mail, Telegraph and Times.

Reminder that this is BS, and IPSO ruled repeatedly that this is not what the data says. I expect corrections from all of them (Times has already agreed to correct)

https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/11838-15/

Andrew Sparrow's PMQs snap verdict has an interesting observation.

"Burnham saw off the Badenoch attack quite easily. (Badenoch will probably get written up as having scored a great victory in the papers that have swallowed this hogwash, but if the Tories end up believing their own spin, they are in more trouble than they realise.)"

Yes I thought the same @placemats