Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #themadcountry, aggregated by home.social.
@GiteMilvain We are talking here about the people who twice in the 19th century waged war against China because those cheeky chinky chappies objected to the Brits selling huge quantities of opium in China.
We are talking here about the people who in the ear,y 1980s shut about 25% of their industry,then fought a war over some bleak rocks where they had stuck a flag 150 years before.
We're talking about people who haven't even figured out how to elect a head of state.
It's #TheMadCountry
The UK is protecting itself against novelists who sell sex-filled books and give the proceeds to people who oppose genocide.
But companies who equip a genocidal country? Welcome!
BBC reporting on DPRK (North Korea) overlaid on Queen Elizabeth's funeral procession in #TheMadCountry
genius from 2022 from https://twitter.com/Karl_Was_Right/status/1570314755167997952
Thoughts and prayers to the people of #TheMadCountry as they begin their fourth annual 49-day ritual of remembering the halfwit and her defeat by the salad.
One of the many terminological horrors of #TheMadCountry's #Brexit Wars was the use by the Europhiles/Remoaners of the term "Little Englanders" to describe opponents of European integration.
In reality, the Little Englanders were the good guys of English history. They were the people who opposed the violent subjugation of a quarter of the earth's land mass, and the resource extraction which followed.
In #PlainEnglish: almost-universally-loathed rat of an outgoing Prime Minister commits his successor to taking cash from much-needed road and energy projects to buy more overpriced #wartoys through processes that are proven to be complete crap.
Or "you blew the budget on shite toys with runaway costs, so here's billions to do it again".
Even worse: rat's succesor has probably agreed to this, to let the rat take the heat.
screenshot from https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/30/defence-investment-plan-keir-starmer-labour
#JohnCrace ranked last 6 UK Prime Ministers. https://archive.is/TR8Cv
It's #TheGuardian, so snarky sketchwriter has to rate #Starmer as best. 🤮 But his summary of each PM isn't bad. All had deep flaws.
But so did 4 predecessors.
Thatcher, zealot without empathy.
Major, grey man with vision of cones.
Blair, destroyer of Labour values, messianic warmonger.
Brown, intellectual & orator, raging bully who couldn't connect.
If all 10 came to interview, you'd re-advertise.
Brighton woman arrested & tried for writing to own MP.
Claire Kerrison arrested at 4:33am on 17 June 2025, in her Brighton home, for sending emails concerning 'israel's' #genocide in #Gaza to #PeterKyle MP.
4 cops seized her electronics. Held her for >8 hours. Released on strict bail. Charged under Communications Act.
Case dragged on for a year. Multiple court hearings. Case dismissed.
@MiaMarkTwo The Independent has long since ceased to be a newspaper. It's now just a clickbait factory for bitter remainers who want content which flatters their prejudices rather than helping them to think critically
The Daily Telegraph churns out equivalent mendacity for the Brexiteers who like similar flattery of their own uncritiqued prejudices.
It's the two warring tribes of #TheMadCountry.
Russians killing your kids. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?
No point in feeding #breakfast to children, says retired Admiral #LordWest of Spithead. The Russkies will just march in and kill the kids.
Better to give the cash to Alan and his chums to buy #wartoys. Says Alan.
Monday. #TheMadCountry has decorated #10DowningStreet like a #flagshaggers' convention. 🤮 Or a roundabout in Bedfordshire.
The door opens. #LarryTheCat runs away. Wise man, #Larry. 👍 👏
Then the 4 most unpopular leaders in Europe emerge: #Macron, #Starmer, #Merz, #Zelensky.
The quartet then botches a #GroupHug like no hug has ever been botched before. The unhuggiest unhug in the history of unhugs. #Cringetastic
These boys make the case for choosing leaders by #sortition look overwhelming.
When I was a child in 1960s & 70s Dublin, I didn't get the Ulster fights over flags. I could get fights over food, jobs, houses, money, attackers, soldiers, even language. But not flags.
Early 90s, I visited USAnia. Flags everywhere, & guns. Sick, insecure society. 🤮
In the 2010s the English put the George's Cross everywhere. In the 2020s, on mini-roundabouts.
Now even #TheGuardian's lead article is about feckin flags.
Fuxake, kids. Get over yerselves & yer feckin flags! 😡
A blatantly antisemitic caricature of #ZackPolanski in #TheTimes cartoon about the aftermath of the #GoldersGreen attacks.
But it's England. So the Jewish guy who opposes genocide and queries police violence is:
1/ depicted as a blatantly antisemitic stereotype;
2/ falsely portrayed as the perpetrator of a violent kick, rather than the critic of violence;
3/ denounced as an antisemite.
h/t Owen Jones
It appears that in #England, the #homopobes have taken up #cannibalism, and now have a 100-year-old brand selling frozen #GayBurgers to families, apparently as some sort of cranial nutrition speciality.
One doesn't like to stomp on cultural traditions ... but please, can someone warn the EU about this before the UK tries to get any closer? #TheMadCountry
Faggot Brains are even available from Tesco! https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/282049626
What's behind this Brit Royal offer to talk to the police about the ex-#PrinceAndrew?
They appear to have made a statement to PA in the small hours.
Is this some sort of attempt to draw the heat off #Starmer, as #AnasSarwar's botched coup was mopped up?
Or was #KingCharles miffed that he had been upstaged by Downing Street, and was no longer running the most dysfunctional show in the UK? Inviting the Plod to ransack a few palaces was a good way catch attention.
@KimSJ When assessing actions of governments of #TheMadCountry, I find it safest to discount any possibility that competence was a factor.
RE: https://climatejustice.social/@PabloMartini/115933378668881090
#Farage's defence amounts to "I am computer illiterate and can't supervise staff to input data correctly on my behalf".
Definitely a strong qualification to be #UkPrimeMinister. If Farage can add an ability to hide in fridges and party through a lockdown, then he will only need to lie as persistently as #Starmer to qualify as the perfect leader of #TheMadCountry 😈 😅
The #BBCnews Editor has sent this to #BBC journalists.
#Kidnapping must NOT be called #kidnapping, in case #Trump is offended. #SelfCensorship
Honest, this not a spoof. It's a screenshot from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/04/lammy-my-christian-faith-shows-me-right-curb-jury-trials/ / https://archive.is/Ta0k8
Did #Jesus actually denounce #trialbyjury? Or is David #Lammy as a mad as a box of frogs?
@ChrisMayLA6 It's self-entitled delusion. #TheObserver is cynically flattering the #europhile fanaticism of its dwindling readership.
Any UK readmission will mean not just an end to UK opt-outs. It would require evidence of a sustained cross-party political consensus for #EU membership, so that the UK could be relied on to not resume its #MillwallFC-style hooliganism in EU institutions. That consensus is not just absent; it's unforeseeable.
These people are mad. England is #TheMadCountry
In #England, the cops in #Bristol took a short break from arresting opponents of #genocide. They used the time to arrest people attending #newyear parties.
#TheMadCountry. Protecting the people from peace and from fun.
screenshot from https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/police-pelted-break-up-huge-10733062
In #TheMadCountry, the #DailyTelegraph continues its focus on the big issues. #WaitroseHooliganism 🙄
Courageous readers who brave the pages of the #Torygraph will see that in fact the #Waitrose van knocked about six inches off the corner of the wall. Which might not entirely justify use of the term "destroyed".
@ReggieHere "Wtf is going on?"
It's #TheMadCountry being #TheMadCountry. Crap governance, but great entertainment
In #Liverpool and then in #London, #GreenpeaceUK's man set out to be arrested for supporting #genocide in #Gaza. But both #MerseysidePolice and the #MetropolitanPolice #MetPol refused to arrest him.
In London, outside the #RoyalCourtsOfJustice, he was surrounded by protesters who oppose genocide and support #PalestineAction. All of the anti-genociders were arrested, and the genocider supporter was left alone.
#Palestine #BritishJustice #TerrorismAct #ukpol #Greenpeace #TheMadCountry
Sounds like good news. The last of the UK's hereditary peers pose for a group photo before being stripped of their political privilege.
Reality: it's bad news. The #hereditaryPeers and the #bishops are the only members of the #HouseOfLords who are not cronies appointed by the#PrimeMinister.
The whole House of Lords should be replaced by a democratic chamber, but until then the hereditary peers and bishops are the least stinky part of the stinky sewer of corruption. #TheMadCountry
#DailyMail publisher agrees to buy #DailyTelegraph for £500m
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2eg1w0n81o
This is another dangerous concentration of #UK media ownership. But it's less scary than it wouid have been a decade or two ago. The #Torygraph has already been turned into a vehicle for the Mail's mendacious propaganda style of journalism.
Concentration of ownership is bad, so the merger should be blocked. But the 1990s days of The Teiegraph being a decent newspaper are long gone. #ukpol #TheMadCountry
#UK to strip #migrants of everything except #weddingRing, says #TheSun. #Jewellery & watches, #necklaces & chains, cars & bikes will be seized and sold.
There was a country in Central Europe famous for taking the last assets of people who had lost everything else. Maybe they can give technical advice to the #Brits.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37340079/migrants-jewellery-seized-accommodation/
How long before #ShabanaMahmood's #HomeOffice starts seizing #goldteeth and fillings? Tattoos for lampshades?
#TheMadCountry goes full fash. #ukpol
In Brexit Island yesterday, yer man King Prince Charlie went to the cenotaph to cosplay a Field Marshal.
The Brits' idea of commemorating the dead in their imperial wars is to take a man who served zero days as a soldier and dress him up as a pretendy soldier. 🙄
#TheMadCountry, mocking the fallen
It's #PoppyPolice season again the #UK. 🙄
But for 2025, it seems that poppy fetishism has been merged with #flagshagging. 🙄 I assume that unadorned #lampposts will be either arrested or burnt down by feral #miniroundaboutpainters. 😂
pic from https://x.com/Frankpembleton6/status/1986507563878531569 #TheMadCountry
