The police officer quoted makes a good point. I also understand why the police quickly identified the arrested man (a Liverpudlian) and later confirmed that he had been charged with driving while under the influence of drugs. Given the riots that have been at least encouraged by misinformation on identity.
But this could come back to bite.
*gasp*
You mean to tell me all those 'Free Speech Heroes' crying about being held to account for their words, oh sorry 'cancel culture', actually just wanted to silence everyone else?
This is such a surprise to me, who could have seen this coming? /s
Ex-Reform councillor disliked having to watch what she says
Ms Edmunds also said she no longer has to “watch what I say” and so called for the jailed far right activist Tommy Robinson to be freed from jail, describing him as a “political prisoner”.
#Reform council abolishes flood committee in flood-prone area
#Lincolnshire #council has #abolished its #flooding committee on #ReformUK’s first day in charge.
That is despite Lincolnshire suffering some of the worst flooding in its history in both 2023 and 2024, with 900 homes affected, as well as further flooding in January this year.
https://informuk.org/reform-council-abolishes-flood-committee-in-flood-prone-area/
Reform’s phony war on #woke
#ReformUK wants to scrap anything with even a hint of ‘woke’ about it. Now that they run 10 councils, they have their opportunity.
There’s just one problem: they keep targeting schemes that just don’t exist – at least not outside the imagination of the /RightWing press.
Here are three times #Reform went to war with non-existent policies …
#Lancashire County #Council, one of 10 councils now run by Reform since 2025 local elections, appointed all-male cabinet
It's first time the council has had a cabinet that includes no #women
#ReformUK could have chosen any of their 9 Reform women #councillors
Reform UK’s new council leader Atkinson said (yes, this is a real quote)
“I’m sure that some of the ladies of the group will be useful in the future.”
https://informuk.org/reform-appoints-all-male-cabinet-in-lancashire/
Trump is ‘remarkably like’ 1930s far-right fascists, billionaire investor warns https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/27/ray-dalio-trump-policies-book-dictator #Trumpadministration #Farright(US) #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Business #USnews #Books
Meet Reform’s regretters: councillors quitting just weeks into the job
#Reform is seeing unusual number of #councillors #resigning in their first few weeks in office. In each case, it will trigger a council #byelection costing in excess of £20k
Reasons range from dodgy #SocialMedia posts to not being eligible to stand in the 1st place
We look at some of them in more depth. [This article may be updated to reflect further resignations]
https://informuk.org/meet-reforms-regretters-the-councillors-quitting-just-weeks-into-the-job/
In 1928, the Nazis had only 12 seats in the Reichstag.
By July 1932 they had 230 seats and were the largest party.
In 2025 Reform UK have only 5 MPs......
If you're not a racist, driven by manufactured rage and your friends and family start parroting the far right talking points of Reform UK
CALL THEM OUT!
Why Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed With Hobbits:
#Tech power players and the global #farRight are learning all the wrong lessons from “The Lord of the Rings.” #lotr #thiel
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/books/tolkien-musk-thiel-silicon-valley.html
"The live debate on CNN Portugal on 28 March 2023 was, however, only one of 29 ‘live interview/debate’ slots in which André Ventura has had media exposure on the TVI/CNN Portugal group since 2019.
André Ventura was the only Chega Member of Parliament until 2022, a position he achieved with 1.29% of the vote in 2019. The lone voice who only received less than 70,000 votes had just two fewer interviews than the leader of the party that won nearly 1.5 million votes (at the time, Rui Rio, president of the PSD). The period under review (from April 2019 to January 2022) accounts for the post-presidential election period, in which André Ventura managed to increase his support to 500,000 votes. However, the disparity in interview numbers was exactly the same even before this more significant election result.
Between receiveing 7% in 2022 and 18% in 2024, André Ventura was interviewed 27 times. 400,000 votes in 2022 turned into more than double the number of interviews with the leader of the party that won 1.5 million votes, the PSD. “Even today, we still give André Ventura media coverage that does not correspond to his election results,” says Alexandre Malhado.
“What is gained from 27 interviews with the same person? Where is the informative value?” asks João Carvalho, who accuses the media of no longer caring about political pluralism: “They give much more attention to political figures who generate controversy, even though the informative value of this coverage may be very little.” Although Chega has “a strategy to saturate the news”, it is not the party that creates this much media exposure, “the media outlets provide it”."
Trump administration is minimizing white supremacist threat, officials warn https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/trump-threat-far-right-white-supremacist #Trumpadministration #Farright(US) #Thefarright #USpolitics #Worldnews #USnews
US Republicans chase away world’s most promising students and destroy their higher education.
Sadly, I see similar attitudes in the UK and the Netherlands’ governments:
Contempt and massive cuts for universities.
Rejection of foreign students, which bring their colleges money and talent to our countries.
Same shit, lower intensity…for now.
Stripping #Hungary's EU voting rights on agenda for May 27 meeting
This will be the 8th hearing regarding Hungary since #European Parliament triggered Article 7 procedures against the country in 2018
Article 7 allows for suspension of Council #voting rights if a member state consistently breaches EU founding principles
https://kyivindependent.com/stripping-hungarys-eu-voting-rights-on-agenda-for-may-27-meeting/
#Farage speaks with a plum in his mouth, & the Mango Mussolini is reportedly a billionaire. People associate this status with success & power & are more liable to pay attention to their #FarRight diatribe.
What both have done is used race as a way of cutting through the political & class divide. A hatred & dislike of foreigners cuts through class, hence so many working poor being wooed by their #Fascist rhetoric.
HOWEVER, their followers always ignore the real agenda of these conmen.
“The FBU just slammed Farage – and Labour – in one fell swoop”
by The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour
“The [UK] Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has warned the Labour government against ‘surrendering to the far right’, describing the rise of the Reform UK party as an ‘imminent threat to workers in the UK’”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/05/22/fbu-labour-farage/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg
When AmeriKKKa sneezes, the UK catches a cold, so beware posh & rich "Men of the People" offering final solutions.
Their only interest in the common person is our vote, as there's far more of us than there is of them.
«The #ConstitutionalCourt in #Rome "ruled as discriminatory the failure to recognise both mothers" on birth certificates, decision which "effectively becomes law", lawyer #MicheleGiarratano told #AFP
Ruling was hailed as "historic" by opposition parties in #Italy, which is governed by self-declared "#Christian mother" #GiorgiaMeloni
The #FarRight leader has railed against the "#LGBT lobby" & says she defends traditional family values in the majority-Catholic country»
