[Bones McCoy]

Interesting view that workers don't like bank holidays there. That's "populism" for you.

At least the Daily Mail used to make an effort with its excuses, which went rather like:
1. You don't want this extra Bank Holiday that's probably to commemorate a black one legged lesbian.
2. It will be at a completely inconvenient day when you wouldn't normally want a day off.
3. And if everybody's on holiday you'll spend three hours in a traffic jam to get to Saafend.
4. Meanwhile Fritz at the Munich plant will have cranked out 30 extra units, while your job gets listed for closure.

5. it should be on Battle of Britain Day.
6. Or Trafalgar.

5 & 6 are close, but the truth is worse.
Charles Moore (off of te Telegraphs) suggested Margeret Thatcher Day.

[Rosvanian]

Over on Mail Online, in the comments the most pressing concerns are that the tens of millions of Iranians in Britain will now rise up and there'll be a sharp increase in the number of dinghies. Better just to kill 'em all.

[Andy McDandy]

In fairness, that's their answer to everything.

[Boiler]

Yeah, sure, right - of course it was a low-level loser who said this.

Fuck off, Leavitt.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn7ze4v ... d7970#post

[The Weeping Angel]

[Boiler]

You have to ask yourself "what are they disapproving of?" - because I suspect for a lot of Septics, it isn't what you or I would disapprove of.

[Spoonman]

[RedSparrows]

BOMBS.

He's a fucking moron of a child and his enablers will all burn in... old age of slow heart failure sipping their martinis in their palaces.

[The Weeping Angel]

You have to ask yourself "what are they disapproving of?" - because I suspect for a lot of Septics, it isn't what you or I would disapprove of.

Probably their friends and neighbours abducted by masked thugs and held without due process.

[Oboogie]

I don't know a thing about her, but she's impressed me!

[Tubby Isaacs]

What were we hearing about Canada standing up to Trump properly, unlike the subservient UK?

The United States will restart trade negotiations with Canada immediately after Canada scrapped its digital services tax targeting US technology firms, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett has said

But Starmer picked some papers up off the ground.

[Boiler]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyzzzdj15vo

After hours of stalemate, Republicans in the US Senate have narrowly passed Donald Trump's mega-bill on tax and spending, meaning the proposed legislation has cleared one of its key hurdles.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed with Vice-President JD Vance casting a tie-breaking vote after more than 24 hours of debate.

[Youngian]

Musk's threatening to form a mid term spoiler party if this bill passed. Don't know who he thinks will stand, how many US libertarians choose balanced budgets over tax cuts?

[Tubby Isaacs]

No Republican is going to side with Musk over Trump.

There might be some problems in the House before this is done. The pretty blatant special favors done to Alaska to get Murkowski's vote may not have gone down well with everyone. Congressmen don't have the clout of senators. but might be worth a couple with swing districts trying the same thing.

[Youngian]

A lot of the Maga crowd have a hard on for Epstein Files conspiracies so a strong wedge issue for Musk to make mischief on. He only has to stand Joe Rogan type twats and push this issue onto the news cycle to damage Trump.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

A lot of the Maga crowd have a hard on for Epstein Files conspiracies so a strong wedge issue for Musk to make mischief on. He only has to stand Joe Rogan type twats and push this issue onto the news cycle to damage Trump.

Unsure of meaning - there seems to be a key word missing.

[Bones McCoy]

Musk lacks the organisational and leadership skills of even Nigel Farage.

If he launches a party, he'll wander off to play with his stickle bricks withing a fortnight.

It will have outlived most of his recent launches (asploding rocket gag).

[Tubby Isaacs]

Isn't he talking about primary challenges at this point? You don't really need any organizational skill there. Just need to shovel a load of money to somebody who's running who you like.

I don't see these troubling candidates backed by Trump, but the Trump endorsement might not be so handy in the actual House/ Senate election.

[Boiler]

Musk lacks the organisational and leadership skills of even Nigel Farage.

If he launches a party, he'll wander off to play with his stickle bricks withing a fortnight.

It will have outlived most of his recent launches (asploding rocket gag).

Sister and brother-in-law watched a SpaceX/ESA rocket launch at Cape Canaveral yesterday

[Tubby Isaacs]

Looking at projected figures for who's likely to lose healthcare. The states that expanded Medicaid get it worse than those that didn't. Some of the richer blue states might be able to do something about that. But Red states who expanded Medicaid get hit really badly as well. Louisiana, Kentucky aren't wealthy enough to do much about the losses their Senators (with the exception of Rand Paul) have just visited on them.