Notices by Philip C James (philipcjames@mas.to)

Morning, all,

it’s good that #HMG has chartered aircraft to help British “ex-pats”* escape the active war-zone now engulfing the Gulf states. That stands in stark contrast to Desperate Don’s regime, which has sloped shoulders, telling U.S. citizens to find their own way home.

#USpol #UKpol #Starmer
#Trump #GOP #MAGA 🧵

* Britons living abroad are always ex-pats. Never immigrants.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4wwd2jlypo

Morning, all,

From an edition of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy that fell through a wormhole from a thousand years in the future:

Homo Sapiens Sapiens: an allegedly intelligent species of hominids indigenous to the Planet Earth that drove itself to extinction “because it made sound economic sense.”

#Trump #EPA #GOP #MAGA #USpol
#FossilFools #ACC #AGW #ClimateEmergency
#H2G2 #ArkB #DouglasAdams #RIP
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/12/10/we-look-ridiculous-us-government-website-removes-fossil-fuels-as-cause-of-global-warming

Poland's Donald Tusk wrote:

"Dear American friends, Europe is your closest ally, not your problem. And we have common enemies. At least that’s how it has been in the last 80 years. We need to stick to this, this is the only reasonable strategy of our common security. Unless something has changed."

What has changed?

Putin has an agent in the Oval Office. That's what has changed.

#Krasnov #AgentOrange
#Trump #GOP #MAGA #NoKings
#NATO #TraitorTrump #TyrantTrump
#USpol
https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/fuller-version-of-trump-security-strategy-reportedly-calls-for-pulling-poland-away-from-eu/

@georgetakei

Imagine the pleasure of finding one's self described in a footnote to History as "Marjorie Taylor Greene's Boyfriend"....

Have long loved the political humour expressed by ordinary people oppressed by the police states of the Warsaw Pact back in the 1980s and earlier.

My favourite Soviet joke concerned the three Czechoslovak Secret Policemen. Updated for modern times it goes:

Q: Why do #ICE agents always go around in threes?

A: Because one can read; one can write, and the third is there to keep an eye on the two dangerous intellectuals...

#GOP #MAGA #USpol
#Trump #Krasnov #USGestapo
#AgentOrange #PutinsPoodle

Morning, all,

why would any European country at threat from Putin's expressed intention to reconstitute the USSR's Warsaw Pact want to elect a leader endorsed by Two Dolls Donny.

#Trump would side with #Putin, were Russia to invade Poland (again). #MAGA are so tone-deaf...

#Krasnov #AgentOrange
#PutinsPoodle #TraitorTrump
#GOP #POTUS45 #POTUS404
https://www.europesays.com/2114833/

@CloudyMrs Glad to see that through it all you've retained your sense of humour.

@CloudyMrs

A little fatalistic. Are you going to 'lie back and think of Scotland'?

It's strange how little influence we have on the world, natural and artificial, individually yet when you add it all up, it moves mountains. Sometimes literally. Nothing will ever improve unless enough peeps make conscious efforts to achieve improvements.

@CloudyMrs

Far less so than his predecessor, the saintly Bercow... As far as I'm aware Hoyle has made but one substantial unconventional decision (but that was an egregious howler, selecting Labour's amendment to an SNP opposition-day motion).

The Speaker has limited power when the government has a good majority (by definition the usual case). Less blame attaches to Hoyle than to our failure to separate powers properly in Parliament, where the overtly political LOTH controls Commons business.

@ChrisMayLA6

Point of information, Mr Speaker...

According to my less-than-well-thumbed copy of Erskine May, there is a strict order of questions to the Prime Minister laid out in the Order Paper for the day and Mr Speaker was simply following the protocol and calling those listed on that Order Paper.

It was not a Commons debate as such - it was Questions to the Prime Minister and most back-bench MPs have to wait weeks for a chance to ask a PMQ. Unfair to pre-empt!

https://commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/86044/Html?subType=Standard#_idTextAnchor001