basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Its not only the pay out but the peerage too with all its financial benefits and entitlements. 000 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Someone should give him a peerage. You only get paid when you show up and you can't be the PM. 001 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Two coastal options: Orford, Suffolk. Or Cley Next The Sea, Norfolk. 010 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialLiam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I’ve lost track of all the mad and bad things that Reform’s Makerfield candidate has said. From misogyny to absurd conspiracy theories and pro-Russia propaganda. What’s amazing is this is their top candidate. The guy they have chosen to fight the biggest by-election in living memory. This guy. 921051234 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Turned on the Today programme for perhaps the first time this year. Instantly presented with three minutes of Chris Mason: glib, inane, uninformative, utterly banal. Turned it off again. 2262221319 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Govt departments generally work better when there is political stability at the top. One of the few things Cameron got right. 000 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Hope you went inside the Bundestag building. Incredible. 000 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Animals on money? Perish the thought that patriotic British people would ever countenance such a thing. 55934127 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Massive humiliation for Farage, who tipped off the UK press that he was flying to Florida to have dinner with Trump... only for Trump to decide he had more interesting things to do when Nigel arrived. 1681671547 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The MOD took the findings of the 2016 Iraq Inquiry very seriously and rightly so. The top military will want to ensure there is no repeat of the Iraq debacle. 010 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialThe News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 03/03/2026“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”. Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US... But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage? 59664176 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 12/02/2026We are watching the steady erosion of an impartial civil service. The rot started when Johnson was in charge. Starmer has learnt nothing. 210 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/02/2026just billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe throwing out some serious made-up numbers on TV 59511122 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 20/01/2026What is so worrying this second term is that no one around him is prepared to challenge in private or even gently correct him. 021 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Having grown up in the 70s and 80s, couldn't agree more. 010 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 05/12/2025He will be renaming the days of the week after his family next. 000 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Someone needs to tell Farage and his Reform mates that the UK aid budget now amounts to diddly squat. Cuts by the Tories and now Labour who have diverted funds to the defence budget, with 20% of what's left being spent on accommodation for asylum seekers, doesn't leave a lot. 000 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Farage at school by those who knew him best: www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-... 411077447 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC 7136261037 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/07/2025In "Legitimate Concerns" news. 41% of the 899 arrested for taking part in Farage Riots last year had been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence. For those arrested by one police force, this figure was 68%. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...theguardian.comTwo in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abusePolice data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse 1111770892 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialProf Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 26/07/2025This 316077 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Spot on. I am old enough to remember when the voting age went down to 18. Hell didn't freeze over then and it won't now. It might also shake up the political debate during elections which is long overdue. 020 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Give the public what they want! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 532206240 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialLiam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 18/06/2025What happens when a political agenda takes over any semblance of journalistic standards Telegraph admits its story about private school family not being able to go on five holidays was complete nonsense and not remotely fact-checked Beyond embarrassing www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/the-t...telegraph.co.ukAn apologyOn May 25 we published an online article “We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays” which included stock photographs and not, as the art... 35517208 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Johnson's old preparatory school closed in 2021 due to a steady fall in demand, accelerated by the pandemic. Just saying. 000 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/06/2025In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants. 23783272395 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Do some Tories seriously want him back as leader? 010 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 13/05/2025I can only think that Starmer and those around him have no direct or recent experience of care/nursing homes and the work of so many amazing care workers who are mostly from overseas. If they do have experience then they are utterly spineless and heartless too. 2163 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialProf Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025I am getting increasingly frustrated by Labour bigwigs speechifying about how the world has changed and we need to be bold and then... not being bold 1673628699 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialRory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 05/03/2025www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... Has the US really sent Ukraine $350 billion for its war? In less than 5 minutes @timharford.ft.com calmly demolishes Trump’s big liebbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, Defence Spending, Rare Earths and Trunk TruthsThe numbers behind Ukraine’s rare earth worth and the UK’s defence spending ambitions 1136696 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I think it was to force him to resign so they can all install their puppet. 190 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Am really hoping that King Charles will pay a visit to Canada once they have their new leadership in place. Or William and Kate. Might just make Trump belt up about the place. 040 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 24/02/2025❗❗❗ former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukEx-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian bribesThe ex-MEP and former UKIP Wales leader made favourable statements about Russia for money, a court hears. 16523581235 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 22/02/2025former Tory chief whip Simon Hart on the party’s current leader 492407324 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 13/02/2025This is a replay of how the Trump administration handled the Afghanistan peace talks. Afghan government had no say and look how that ended. 000 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 04/02/2025This was always the plan. Netanyahu just had to hang on until Trump was back at White House. Trump withdrew from UN Human Rights Council today and has already stopped US aid. Gazans will be forced out shortly on spurious safety grounds, then Kushner and his mates will move in. 030 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Then he should release all his tax documents too. 020 0
basilcat2.bsky.social @basilcat2.bsky.social · 15/01/2025This was all carefully planned by Tories to ensure a rapid return to power. 000 0
Reposted by @basilcat2.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/11/2024If the right wing press and their Tory allies want to go after politicians' cvs, then why didn't they go after Iain Duncan Smith when he was the actual party leader? 52912271 0