Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4hFrench Finance Minister Roland Lescure on the UK rejoining the European Union tells the BBC, "Come back. Anytime" My view: Across Europe, the message to Britain is increasingly simple: come back. We are stronger working with our closest neighbours — economically and in our shared defence. 28622
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5hPresident Trump, "Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. You want to see a horror show?" "Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles. You want to see some bad things happen?" "We're not going to let that happen, we protect our cities, we protect our country" 4142
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8hGood morning, a field of tulips to brighten your Thursday ☺️ Have a good day 🙏 3844
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19hChris Philp, "Labour wants to bring more people here from Gaza" "And those coming here have the right to bring their whole extended families, thanks of course to the ECHR" "The next Conservative government will leave the ECHR" "That's right, I can't come a moment to soon" 32199
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19hChris Philp, "All Reform UK have to offer is the financial probity of Nigel Farage" "The calm geniality of Zia Yusuf" "The selfless loyalty of Robert Jenrick" "All of that is available at the bargain basement price of £72 million" 11308
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19hChris Philp,"In the last year I've acquired an obsessive on-line stalker. A strange man called Zia" "Poor Zia is constantly on twitter pretending to be the shadow Home Secretary" "All I can say is that anyone who spends all day fantasising about being me is in urgent need of a very good therapist" 5226
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21hPresident Trump, "There's never been anybody in the history of the Nobel Prize that deserves it more" "I stopped maybe the total obliteration of the world" 344822
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Kemi Badenoch, "The era for peace is over" "If we want peace, we must prepare for war" My view: This is not serious leadership; it is militaristic fatalism dressed up as strength. 6438554
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Kemi Badenoch, "I don't want to live in a country run by people.. who debate whether my mixed race children are English" "We must not let these people take us backwards, that is not the country that we are" My view: For years, too many Tories indulged or amplified the same culture-war rhetoric 2320032
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A Wednesday tulip for peace in the Middle East 🌷🕊️ Every human life matters, humanity has to do better 🙏 2696
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yanis Varoufakis on Newsnight suggests that the European central Bank should forgive EU gov debt in exchange for investment programs to drive growth and productivity. And to address inequality e.g. by doing away with tax cuts for the rich, and lower taxes which the middle classes pay 14923
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026President Trump, "They (Iran) could take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego" "That, this is a very small price to pay" My view: What an astonishing thing to hear from a US president. How is this patriotism? 4721273
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Dr Ellie Chowns, "If we're talking about security against things that kill many people, covid, killed 250,000 people in this country and cost us hundreds of billions" "But I don't hear anybody in this country talking about pandemic preparedness - why is that?" 18421130
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Conservative Helen Whateley, "Tax cuts have to be funded.. I'm doing work on what is the right way to bring down the welfare bill" My view: Why is the answer always more hardship for people who are already struggling, while vast wealth can be hoarded almost untouched? 73612157
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "How long do you think its going to take for people to forget you ran the country for 14 years?" Helen Whateley, "Kemi has published an essay called The Right Way, really thinking about what's gone wrong with the country" 14 years of Tory austerity 🤷♀️ 74614169
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Conservative Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith Waves his hands around trying to get Conservatives to clap 206813
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Journalist, "You called Margaret Thatcher a genius. Was one of her biggest mistakes the privatisation of England's water networks?" Kemi Badenoch, "Privatisation was a success" She then explains exactly how privatisation was not a success - shameless gaslighting, utterly disgusting. 92597170
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Journalist, "Had Brexit been good for London?" Kemi Badenoch, "Not interested in having a row we had ten years ago" Journalist, "But do you think Brexit has been good for London?" Kemi Badenoch, "People of London are voting Conservative or Labour, not on Brexit" 3111426
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Good morning, the last rose of the season ☺️ Have a good start to your week 🙏 71269
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Canada, EU plan to link next-gen payment systems, easing transactions" Thankfully, Labour ditched Starmer and Reeves, the 'make Brexit work' crew, and with any luck, the UK can get in on this action. 813026
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Helen Lewis, "Do you have to be white to be English?" Nadhim Zahawi, "I don't think you have to be white to be English" "If you are born and bred in England then you have every right to feel English" Helen Lewis, "You're going to disagree with Suella Braverman?" Nadhim Zahawi,"That's how I feel" 3513729
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Left: The Tories claim they’ll save taxpayers nearly £1bn a year by cutting student loans to “foreign students”. Right: Most international students on Student visas don’t qualify for UK student finance in the first place. So where exactly are these £1bn “savings” coming from? 2523582
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Geordie Greig, "I'd say Zack Polanski is the eternal student stepson, who screams more than greens" Suggesting that Polanski does more shouting, angry rhetoric than substantive Green politics. While Penny Morduant says, "Zack Polanski is Rik from The Young Ones" 18212
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026President Trump mocks climate change: “The ice caps have gotten bigger instead of smaller. They’ve gotten bigger.” My view: No, they haven’t. Greenland is losing roughly 264 billion tonnes of ice a year and Antarctica around 135 billion tonnes. 2713844
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sen Elissa Slotkin, "Trump is most successful corrupt leader in the history of the world" "Saddam Hussain would spit out his tea at the amount of money Donald Trump has stolen from his people" 618956
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026President Trump: “I’m a high-IQ person… among the highest IQs anywhere in the world.” Uh-huh... 326214
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Rachel Millward, "Imagine for a second that instead of new technology being owned by Silicon Valley proto fascists, it was owned by us?" "AI that serves communities" "Instead the the billionaires that buy our democracy" 818148
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Rachel Millward calls for the re-nationalisation of water without compensation as water companies are insolvent and we ought to own our crucial water infrastructure. 751747426
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Millward says billionaires hoard power, divide us and sell a bleak future—but collective action can reclaim our world, communities and democracy. 417253
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026By the power of Grayskull - or £98.95 at Boots Nearly five times the price of the flu booster at £21.95 🤷 Health is wealth, look after yourselves 🙏 77318
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Zack Polanski slams Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper's attack on non violent protest, and Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband's indifference to it. "We the Greens say, drop the charges, end the genocide, de proscribe Palestine Action" 414449
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Zack Polanski praises the RNLI volunteers 👏 "From The Green Party, we want to say to the RNLI, you are the very best of us, thank you" 14579145
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Zack Polanski, "Over the next year, more than 1/3 of the money that the DWP spend on housing benefits, go straight into the pockets of private landlords, subsidising their extortionate rents" "That's £13.4 billion" "That could be spent building new council homes" 17487173
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Zack Polanski, "We are the party that wants to tax the every richest, bring our public services back into public hands, and end rip-off Britain" "We are sure about who we stand up for" "And who we are standing up against" 319364
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Suella Braverman suggests on #BBCQT that you can't be English unless you are white, and have a lineage or heritage going back some generations 388544157
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026After the Brexit referendum in 2016, Nigel Farage predicted that the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and Italy. 2016 to 2025: each country has become more pro EU 🇳🇱 Netherlands - from 72% to 81% 🇩🇰 Denmark - from 62% to 85% 🇸🇪 Sweden - from 64% to 85% 🇦🇹 Austria - 37% to 51% 🇮🇹 Italy - 33% to 52% 52456152
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026President Macron, "Welcome back" "If, indeed, the British want to return, and if the Prime Minister is moving in that direction, I think that is very good news both for his country and for Europeans." 14514126
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Andy Burnham, "We could stay as we are.. We could look at what George Osborne has said about a Customs Union.. We can look at what the Liberal Democrats have said about the Single Market" "Or we could go all the way" #RejoinEU 613122
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026President Macron, "Brexit has cost the UK 8% of GDP.. Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years" My view: Brexit was sold as a route to greater prosperity: less bureaucracy, more money, new trade opportunities Instead, Britain put new barriers between itself and its largest trading market. 24832250
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Good morning, nodding violent hanging off of a tree at RHS Wisley 😊 Have a good Wednesday 🙏 4412
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sharon Graham on Newsnight criticises Andy Burnham for going after pensioners instead of putting in place a wealth tax on the rich My view: Sharon Graham asks a valid question. Why is a Labour government going after pensioners instead of a wealth tax on the vast fortunes of those with £10m+? 3819069
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Left: Shabana Mahmood says funding social care is about 'giving elders across our country much more dignity in old age' Right: A 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen OBE is arrested for non violent protest outside the Labour party conference 411860
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/20263,750 days after Britain voted to leave the EU by the slimmest of margins. A British Prime Minister has finally said: Brexit has been bad for the country. 626457
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/20262023: Nigel Farage who started campaigning to leave the EU in 1992 finally admits, "Brexit has failed" 2026: Andy Burnham, "Brexit has done more harm than good.. Brexit hasn't given us control" 516044
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Is Rejoining the European Union an option?" Lisa Nandy, "Yes of course." "And I think Andy Burnham is right to say that we've got to be honest, Brexit has not worked for us" "A lot of the public I think have come to that view as well" 3948374
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/20262024: Labour's Keir Starmer, "I firmly believe that the British public want... to make Brexit work" 2026: Labour's Andy Burnham, "Brexit has done more harm than good.. We need higher growth and prosperity for Britain" 2628558
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Angela Rayner, "Farage isn't standing up to vested interests, he's falling at their feet" "Does anyone really think that Farage's crypto billionaire sugar daddies are handing him millions because he's standing up for the working people of Britain?" "Give me a break" 329079
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Angela Rayner, "In the past few weeks the Prime Minister Andy Burnham and I promised a route off the street for every rough sleeper by Christmas" My view: This is an enormously consequential commitment if it is delivered. 512515
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Chris Bryant, "I have this warning for Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch. They say they'll bin the European Convention on Human Rights" "They've clearly never read the Good Friday Agreement, or maybe they don't even care about it" "I promise you this: we will not dump the ECHR, we will stand by it" 9701153
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Chris Byrant on Northern Ireland having the fastest growing economy in the UK, "And we're open to business like nowhere else on earth with unique dual access to enormous markets: the UK and the European Union - our potential is enormous" 1516142