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David Vick retweeted
74% of the Prime Minister's own voters in Makerfield oppose giving up the right to set our own food standards laws - shortly before Labour do exactly that at the 20 November EU summit.
Andy Burnham has failed his own "Makerfield test". 👇
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The hypocrisy of these people is off the scale. Everyone could see at that time that Brand was a foul-mouthed misogynistic braggart, but Miliband, Powell and Burnham were delighted to have him campaigning for Labour.
🚨 WATCH Lucy Powell SQUIRM as Sophy Ridge confronts her with the fact she was the person who set up that infamous Russell Brand/Ed Miliband interview.
The Education Secretary looked blindsided. She didn’t know what to say. Plenty of us had no idea she was involved.
Sophy simply asks if it’s true she set up the interview and if she regrets it. Powell doesn’t answer directly. Instead she says it was a long time ago and if they knew what he was like they wouldn’t have gone anywhere near him.
Not an answer. Sophy tries again: “You were campaign chief, did you set that up?”
She says he approached the party and campaign team. She claims it wasn’t the “social media age” so they couldn’t check anything.
What a load of rubbish! First of all, there was social media, and there have always been plenty of ways to research someone. That’s not a modern phenomenon. They will literally say anything to dodge accountability.
Sophy rightly points out that things were known. That notorious Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross Radio 2 segment about Andrew Sachs happened years earlier. He was basically hiding in plain sight with his comedy and his behaviour.
There was plenty out there to make a judgement and they didn’t. So be honest. Just say it was a mistake. Stop trying to excuse it.
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David Vick retweeted
Russell Brand. Now David Walliams. Not a great look for Labour with its celebrities
Jon Ossoff should be the Democrats’ candidate for president in 2028 …
Watch the sweat on Pete Hegseth’s brow as Jon Ossoff takes him apart without ever raising his voice.
Now imagine Ossoff on a presidential debate stage.
Then imagine him in the Oval Office, looking Putin or Xi in the eye and pressing them with that same composure.
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David Vick retweeted
Imagine the surprise 😂 only game on and we get a ref born in Plymouth. How can that be right
David Vick retweeted
We should not forget Lisa Nandy called for The British Army to be replaced with a “gender balanced and ethnically diverse” peace force.
In her defence, Lisa Nandy is incredibly stupid.
On Remembrance Sunday Lisa Nandy has claimed that no one in Britain has had to fight a war since WW2.
What about the 7,193 British soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in conflicts ranging from the Korean War to Afghanistan?
While she erases their service, the country will never forget their bravery.
Remembrance Sunday is a sacred day, not to be cynically used by Labour to justify closer ties to the EU. Whatever the merits of their argument - and I believe reopening the Brexit wars is both a colossal waste of energy and a strategic disaster when national sovereignty is more important than ever - this is not the day for it.
It’s disappointing that Nandy and Andy Burnham, who presumably agreed to this, have failed so badly to meet the moment.
David Vick retweeted
Russian General Ivashov to Putin: “You lost, after all; you didn’t foresee a thing. You didn’t have the wits to realize that the war wouldn’t be some light-hearted operation—just pop in there, strike somewhere, and that’s it, victory.” The easy military operation promised by the Kremlin has completely failed. According to the military officer, the continuation of the war is leading Russia toward total militarization and deep stagnation in all civilian spheres—from the economy and education to culture.
Ivashov emphasized that dragging out the war is destroying the country’s future for the sake of one man’s political survival.
Retired Russian Colonel General Leonid Ivashov, during a live broadcast with Russian blogger Pavel Ivanov, harshly criticized Putin for unleashing a full-scale war against Ukraine, calling for an immediate end to hostilities and a return to the negotiating table. Back in February 2022, several weeks before the full-scale invasion, he openly warned the Kremlin against attacking Ukraine, stating that it would jeopardize Russia’s very existence.
David Vick retweeted
First year of Burnham's 10 year plan is writing the plan - it won't come out until 2027. Now he's not even writing it. Andy's outsourced development to private sector consultants (as opposed to his beloved public sector) because he's devoid of any political ideas - who knew...
Interesting that parts of the 10 year plan are being outsourced to Boston Consulting Group, where James Purnell used to work.
Story by @KatieTarrant_
thetimes.com/article/8a202a0…
David Vick retweeted
75% of constituencies in England and Wales spend more on welfare than their workers pay in income tax and National Insurance. London and the South East are the only regions that are net contributors; the North East is the most welfare-dependent region in England.
Explore the ASI's new Welfare Sustainability Tracker at buff.ly/ltyWwQH
Along with Miliband, Burnham was also a keen supporter of Russell Brand.
Depressing to see media mission to discredit someone who stops playing their game & uses celebrity to help others. Keep going @rustyrockets.
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He just can't, for the life of him, admit that Putin is in the wrong. He can trash his allies, threaten them, tariff them, mock and insult anyone and everyone, but never Putin.
It's almost as if the kompromat they have on him is groundbreakingly powerful.
This is the guy that the Democrats need as their presidential candidate in 2028!
I'm less impressed by how @ossoff speaks (though he's terrific at that too) and more impressed by what he says.
This 2-minute clip is the best explanation of Trump corruption that I've ever heard. His explanation of the Russian dirty deals is so accurate and so clear. He knows the facts cold. And he explains them better than I can.
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I'm less impressed by how @ossoff speaks (though he's terrific at that too) and more impressed by what he says.
This 2-minute clip is the best explanation of Trump corruption that I've ever heard. His explanation of the Russian dirty deals is so accurate and so clear. He knows the facts cold. And he explains them better than I can.
David Vick retweeted
👇Anger…doesn’t really cover how the people of the North East of Scotland feel about the Labour Government and their total disregard for them, their jobs and our region.
David Vick retweeted
Russia does not need another security agreement. It has the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, and absolutely nobody in Europe has the slightest desire to invade or occupy that miserable country.
What Kushner is describing as some magnificent new European security architecture is, essentially, the security system Europe already had before Russia decided international law was optional and its neighbours’ territory was available for collection.
We had treaties. We had security guarantees. We had diplomatic consultations. We had internationally recognised borders.
Russia violated them, invaded Ukraine, annexed its territory and turned European security into a catastrophe.
The problem was never a shortage of agreements. The problem was Russia’s refusal to honour them.
And now Washington apparently believes the solution is to sit down with Moscow and invent another agreement.
Brilliant. Perhaps this time Putin could promise to behave himself in writing.
Oh, wait. He already did.
David Vick retweeted
Russia gave him a choice — betray Ukraine or die in prison.
Volodymyr Mykolayenko, the former mayor of Kherson, refused to serve the occupiers and spent more than three years in russian captivity, where he was beaten with batons and fists and tortured with electric shocks from the very first day.
When russia invaded in 2022, Mykolayenko joined the territorial defense forces. A few weeks later, he was abducted, stuffed into a car trunk, and transferred through prisons in Crimea, as well as in the Voronezh and Vladimir regions. The torture did not stop for a single day.
For every word spoken in Ukrainian, he was beaten. Prisoners were fed potato peels, watery soup, and a single piece of bread per day. For vitamins, they gathered nettles growing by the fence. In the morning, the guards played Orthodox sermons on the radio; in the evening, they tortured the prisoners.
Russian officers offered him money, safety, and any position he wanted in the occupation administration. He refused. They lined him up against a wall and staged a mock execution.
“I told them I have two grandsons — they will continue my life,” he recalls.
In 2022, Mykolayenko refused early release so that a gravely ill young prisoner could take his place. Later, he accidentally overheard from an investigator that Kherson had been liberated. “That was the day I truly felt free,” he says.
On August 24, 2025 — Ukraine’s Independence Day — he was freed during a prisoner exchange. He returned exhausted but unbroken. His mother’s home was destroyed, and his own apartment damaged.
“I will return to Kherson — to rebuild it and to defend it again, if necessary.”
Source: translated and adopted from Tymofiy Mylovanov
David Vick retweeted
This image of Russell Brand at the Guardian, where he had a column, is almost poetic, isn’t it? Look at him holding court, adored, by some, ignored by a few others.
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Meanwhile, Putin chose a moment when he believed the world’s attention was focused elsewhere to unleash at least nine bombs on a school in Ukraine, where civilians had sought shelter. This wasn’t just an attack. It was an atrocity. The world must not look away, and those responsible must be held accountable.