Paddy Gordon

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This post was a mistake on Keir Starmer’s part because he’s actually just strengthened and emboldened Kanye West’s position because he has now made this a free speech/authoritarian control issue which is bigger than Kanye. People dislike those issues (being controlled and told what they can and can’t do) more than they dislike Kanye so they will now side more with Kanye. A classic backfire. Government leaders continuously make this type of mistake. Kanye now has become a greater symbol of free speech by Starmer associating him with an issue people dislike more. This is a blunder.

Prince Andrew is being protected by the same government that just stopped YE from performing at Wireless

No travel ban for anyone in the Epstein files but Kanye is the limit 😂😂😂

We have to replace the list system for Holyrood. It’s a haven for imbeciles.

Rent is not supposed to be 30% of your income. 30% was the cut-off used to determine if someone was low-income/living in poverty; we weren't supposed to surpass it. Today they've normalized everyone living in extreme poverty.

Matt Lucas going on X to make comments about Kanye West like this wasn’t how he created his wealth.

Pensioners get 4.8% added to their state benefits. Graduates get 6% added to their debt. It's not exactly subtle what they're doing.

Only 20% of energy usage in the UK is electricity. When conditions are right we can produce most electricity through renewables. That's what people focus on. But 80% of our energy needs are not electric and there is no renewable option. Nobody mentions this.

Wes Streeting doing the media rounds this morning, & still, not a single presenter found the means to ask him why he’s been receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds in private healthcare “donations”. Our media do more to launder bastards than ever hold them accountable.

More concern and pressure for Kanye than those in the Epstein files.

🚨 do you understand what kim jong un is actually doing right now.. everyone thinks north korea is abandoning iran out of fear.. that's the dumbest read possible.. kim just watched the US commit its entire military to a war it can't finish.. carrier groups in the gulf.. $7 million a day per strike group.. cruise missiles at $1.5 million each.. the pentagon stretched thinner than it's been since iraq and afghanistan ran simultaneously.. and he thought.. "this is the best negotiating position i'll ever have".. when your enemy is bleeding money and attention fighting someone else.. that's not when you hide.. that's when you walk up to the table.. because right now the US needs one less problem more than it's ever needed anything.. and kim is offering exactly that.. for a price.. north korea isn't leaving iran.. it's selling iran.. trading its oldest alliance for whatever trump will give in return.. sanctions relief.. recognition.. security guarantees.. the same things kim has wanted for 20 years but could never get because the US had no reason to give them.. iran's war just became kim's leverage.. this is the most rational move on the board.. and the fact that nobody in this thread sees it means it's working...

123 out of 516 Crown Courtrooms in England and Wales are sitting empty today — that’s 24%. Yet @DavidLammy claims the only way to cut the 80,000-case backlog is to curb our ancient right to trial by jury. There is no credible evidence for this. A report by the Institute for Government shows it would save just 2% of Crown Court time — not the 20% claimed. It’s obvious: jury trials aren’t the problem. Our courts simply aren’t sitting. Another reason why victims aren’t getting timely justice is the Justice Secretary’s failure to do his job. #SaveJuryTrials

Half a sandwich for 2 quid I've never seen a bigger recession indicator in my life we are so cooked

Let's not forget that Keir Starmer wanted to pass "emergency legislation" to "deal with" people reluctant to take the experimental mRNA injections. "We have to deal with the anti-vax campaigns, because they will cost lives." "If we need to pass emergency legislation to deal with them, I'll be quite prepared to work with the government on that." "And the sooner we do that, frankly, the better."

The government is consulting on an under-16 social media ban. That would mean more age checks for adults, just to use mainstream social media. And plenty of children would still find ways round it anyway.

It really is disgusting that a Doctor starts on £93,904 basic salary Oh wait That's the BASIC salary of an MP Who do you think gives you more value for money? Strike hard

Kanye just exposes the hypocrisy of the world.

That weird part of the year when you first get some warmth and the sun trap in your garden feels like July in Greece and then you go into your house and it’s like Ice Station pissing Zebra.

🚨 Wireless festival now cancelled ! Keir Starmer just wiped out an event worth about £37 million to the UK economy and about £4–7 million in tax revenue. Brilliant. Hotels, transport, staff, small businesses all suffer! He believe he should decide how private businesses should run. He isn’t a socialist he’s an idiotic communist.

the bbc was paying you and your sex pest best mate 7 figures to do blackface, i suggest sitting this one out