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A majority of ReFuk voter -55% , (76% of all respondents), support a permanent youth mobility scheme between the UK and Europe. 62% of Conservative voters & 90% of Labour voters backing it. 41% of ReFuk voters expressed a preference for closer trading relations with the EU, v 19% more distant
How many people voted for a Labour Government last year in order to keep torture survivors separated from their families?
So Trump upped the tariff’s on India to 50% when Trump Modi declined to lie for him by saying that he was responsible for bringing peace between India and Pakistan, or nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. So India et al parades Modi laughing and chatting with Xi & Putin.
Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell says migrant deportation plan won't solve problem. "Mr Farage is not offering any long-term solution to the big issues." "We should actively resist the kind of isolationist, short term kneejerk 'send them home'." https://bit.ly/41wWwuF
Yvette, I'm confused.
The French have offered multiple times to site processing centres in France. Genuine refugees could be pre-screened and given safe, legal routes to get to the UK and make an asylum claim. No more women or children need to die in the channel. So why won't starmer do it?
OTD in 1939 Adolf Hitler began his special military operation to protect ethnic Germans from persecution by Poland. Imagine such a bullshit excuse today
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from. I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR." It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
#SlavaUkraïni
This is a tactical, as well as moral, error. Musk is spectacularly unpopular in the UK. There's a chance to take the patriotic high-ground, calling out foreign billionaires stoking up violence in Britain, without being seen to dismiss "ordinary people". And you can challenge Reform to back you.
Brexit - the gateway drug to a dangerous obsession with immigration - next come deportation schemes, #Farageriots, increasing authoritarianism, overt racism from politicians and media, cruelty as policy, leaving the ECHR… On and on. Relentless, ruinous failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity and respect. Instead, they have fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far-right. My piece for @tribunemagazine www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labour-is-paving-the-path-to-fascism
It seems relevant to ask why it is said to be important to leave the ECHR. I can get to ‘so we can abuse the rights of asylum seekers’; or ‘so we can abuse the rights of immigrants’; or ‘so we can abuse everybody’s rights’. Not the most attractive proposition.
Labour are also REALLY shit at comms. Things like this are getting totally eclipsed by the flag nonsense and the phoney ECHR debate.
This is utterly heartbreaking. People like Rylan, the media and many politicians need to stop the hate and lies! This is the lady who was racially abused by the old couple at the weekend.
As a boomer, I resent this post.
Elon Musk will be championing the Tommy Robinson 13/9 rally, on grounds that Nigel Farage is "weak sauce" on mass deportation and too soft on Islam Govt not even reviewing its use of X since 2022 shows different rules apply to Elon Musk than we expect of every school-child on British values
Today Nick Ferrari asked if treaties like the ECHR & the Refugee Convention that were drawn up in the wake of WWII are still relevant to modern Britain. I said the context of racial hatred towards Muslim immigrants now echoes the hatred of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. We need these laws.
Another day, another utterly shameful cruelty against refugees announced. Recognised refugees - so people granted the long term right to stay in the UK because they have escaped real danger - will face new barriers to reuniting with spouses & children safely in the UK #r4todat
Politics today is less driven by ideological conviction and more by parties chasing votes based on a distorted picture of public opinion, one filtered through algorithms that amplify emotionally engaging content. This incentivises performance over substance and erodes democratic deliberation.
I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children. They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
🔴Far Right and the Press Accused of ‘Weaponising Violence Against Women’ to Fuel Hatred of Migrants Women’s rights groups condemn politicians and the media for spreading false claims about migrants while failing to back calls to fund actual support for sexual violence victims
Farage is whipping up anger against the ECHR with false claims. As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.” That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea.
Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". -seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951. This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
The likely impact of introducing even more barriers to safe family reunification for refugees is that MORE people will instead take dangerous smugglers’ routes to reunite with their loved ones. & then Labour, Tories & Reform can demonise THEM on #r4today too. Yay.
It’s literally impossible to imagine selling your soul in the way Labour MPs have done. I genuinely cannot imagine the process that leads you from where you were to where you are. Dead, dry skin-sacks with no internal parts that can be recognised as human any more. Empty.
Yvette Copper as HASC chair has said numerous times on the record how important family reunification is. How she has children and it’s what every family would want. The mind boggles at how much of a coward she is now.
Let’s be honest. Carswell is not alone. You don’t tweet unless you know it’s a popular belief. There are many in public roles, in pubs and at dinner tables who believe this. This is a persecution of Muslims in the UK and anyone with any sense of humanity, who cares about Britain must call this out .
Going on Ferrari @lbc.co.uk in a minute to argue about the ECHR as well. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE.
Taken an hour ago. Healthy and fit as ever.
Time perhaps for CPS to take a look?
Post a video of yourself with today’s newspaper saying this
"Rudy Giuliani nursed an injured crow back to life with warm milk, then drove to a place not a liquor store, and then got in a car accident. After this, an unscrupulous stranger littered the backseat of his car with scores of emptied airline-size bottles of Gilbert’s vodka. Two may have been gin."
Guliani and Trump?
RFK Jr., driving away with Rudy Guliani tied to the roof of his car
Our TV president is avoiding the TV. Suspicious AF
📌If Rudy Giuliani had been a bear after being struck by that car, RFK Jr. might have scooped him up to eat him. Long way of saying: It could have been worse.
Was this the same Trump who was recently musing about whether he might get into heaven or not?
So the photos we get of the “golf outing” today is a pale and feeble looking one of him getting to a car at the WH and this one of him returning. Nothing from the course.
California stepping up.
When it happens: red, white & blue smoke should come out of the White House chimney.
Also, it seems, rather a lot of his money originated in Russia.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Is this the same Trump who was recently musing on whether he might get to heaven or not?
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
We now know that Trump, or probably more correctly, the White House posted a photo today showing Trump playing golf which we now know was taken over a week ago. What do you reckon is going on?
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For god’s sake someone remind the bbc.
'“You said Britain is on the wrong track. Which of these moments, if any, do you think is most responsible for putting Britain on the wrong track?” ... by a long way, “the 2016 Brexit referendum” is the most damned cause of the apocalypse'
Something for the CPS to look at perhaps?
I’m sick of Cold War has-beens like Mearsheimer, Posen, Allison, and Walt obtusely misinterpreting Ru and confidently regaling us w clueless takes about how Ukraine can end the war through concessions. Enough. Accept that Ukraine proves you wrong every day by not conforming to your warped theories.
In the near future, all cars should be fitted with Bluetooth, to allow drivers, with a single push of a button, to send a polite, automated message to the car in front. "This is a 60 stretch, why are you doing 32 mph?"
🔴‘Progressive Parties Must Start Working Together or Concede the Next General Election to the Nationalist Right’ If parties on the left can’t find a way of working together, then the Conservatives and Reform will, argues Neal Lawson bylinetimes.com/2025/08/29/l...
"One of the most damaging consequences of Brexit is the loss of freedom of movement. UK citizens could previously study and work in Europe indefinitely, visa-free... For those from less fortunate backgrounds, these challenges could prohibit studying abroad."
"There are those out there who submit to the false narrative, peddled by politicians and media alike, that the far-right xenophobes that exist on the fringes of English politics somehow represent the entire nation. ...The truth, however, could not be any more different."
Holy shit
At what point can we just call this whole Farage-led-flag-shagging-moral-breakdown the brazen racism that it is? Asking for the ignored, decent majority who are completely sick of this hate-mongering shit pretending to be “legitimate concerns”.
Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives? Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course
Putin has not changed. In the last 25 years he started four wars. He can only be kept in check through strong deterrence. We must be precise and fast with the surge in our defence posture ↓ europa.eu/!wgH6QK
📍 At the border between Poland and Belarus. Poland is facing hybrid attacks from across the border. We stand in solidarity with our Member State. In our new EU budget, we have proposed to triple border management funding. We are all responsible for Europe’s external borders.
A free press is fundamental to democracy. 📰 Dawn Alford, from the Society of Editors: "Political parties should really welcome scrutiny and not silence it. A free press is not a privilege to be granted when it suits those in power - it's a pillar of our democracy." https://bit.ly/3HX5BpN
MPs tamely go along with a 19th C convention not to discuss the royal family. Which is a shame, because there's lots to discuss www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/monarc...
My visit to the Poland-Belarus border was a demonstration of European solidarity. A strong Poland and a strong Europe, safeguarding our borders and protecting all Europeans. Our message is clear. And it is one that Belarus, and other actors in the region, are paying heed to.
Mistreating & abusing citizens is not morally more reprehensible than mistreating & abusing those deemed “illegal”...[but] if we turn a blind eye to such treatment on the grounds that “it’s only illegals being treated this way”, it will not remain “only illegals” observer.co.uk/news/columni...
If what you say is true - and I agree that covid certainly makes many other conditions worse - then it would make sense to vaccinate everybody, including infants, against covid as well, no?
Covid killed millions and can still kill adults and children, especially if they're unvaccinated. Yes, chicken pox can be dangerous to a small cohort but it's absolutely not as dangerous overall as covid.
Also, the last week has highlighted the very different ways the Russians and Ukrainians are undertaking strategic air operations. The Russians are targeting civilians, the Ukrainians are hitting oil refineries. And guess what--oil refineries are actually "strategic".
YES! Thank you... Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". - seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
What Ukraine collapse?! “It would be far better to report the land war for what it is—a bloody quagmire for 🇷🇺 , where the 🇷🇺 state is expending vast resources & losing mass numbers of soldiers for little or at times no gain. Because that is the truth. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Thank God!
#CouchFucker
Aid flotilla with Greta Thunberg set to sail for Gaza to ‘break illegal siege’ Unspecified number of vessels due to depart Barcelona on Sunday, with dozens more expected to leave other Mediterranean ports on 4 September
Can't read it because it's behind a paywall.
The late Queen reportedly viewed Johnson as a comic figure & allegedly said he was "perhaps better suited to the stage". www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Is that cover real?
I still wear an N95 every time I have to venture into an indoor public space. Here the UK you can only get a free Covid shot if you're over 75 or have high risk condition. But the government has just introduced free chickenpox vaccines for all infants. Chickenpox is not as dangerous as covid. 🤷
I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.
He can pretend to be dead all he wants. I still want the Epstein files released.
WOW, must see TV!
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just drew a line in the sand...refusing to let Trump’s troops or ICE turn his city into a staging ground. That’s not politics...that’s spine. Fire...fight...and the kind of defiance America needs right now.🔥
This is the most compelling case I’ve seen yet that America is no longer a democracy but an authoritarian state. Not a *soon-to-be* authoritarian state—a *current* one.
RFK Jr must be fired. He’s too deranged and full of himself to leave voluntarily. So it’s vital to convince Trump that keeping Kennedy around drains his own political power and thus his personal wealth by so visibly endangering the health of everyone in the U.S. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
People’s homes are being stormed by far-right groups. The govt. Is saying nothing about how violence like this will not be tolerated. Where is Starmer’s “law and order” now? They’ve no control and we are moments away from someone being killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer had one shot to fix the country. Rejoin S/M, implement P/R, + press & social media reg => ultimately bring us down from the frenzied radicalisation & echo chambers. He's fucked up on all of it. He probably will be ousted.
Why does the government listen to the “legitimate concerns’ of racists, while they ignore the legitimate concerns of those of us who don’t want fascism and racism on our streets?
Good to see, our government may be afraid to act but plenty of us are willing. A boycott was fundamental in breaking the Apartheid state of South Africa and the freeing of Nelson Mandela - we need the same thing now against the Apartheid (and genocidal) state of Israel. buff.ly/J56BRXV
“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” – The Bear on why leaving the ECHR would be a really Bad Idea.
…about setting up a conference post invasion. And while wining and dining Johnson and owning two papers in the UK, here is Lebedev at a conference with the former gangland boss (the ‘Goblin’) in his Crimean hotel complex in 2017. That we have Lord Lebedev supervising our laws is such a scandal
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social bravely exposed the Lebedev security issue with Boris Johnson was foreign secretary, and the wild parties at their villa in Umbria. Lord Lebedev maintains his former KGB father has no links to Putin. But he emails Surkov about Crimea… www.occrp.org/en/news/chan...
Still staggered that Byline has no less than six contributors named on the Kremlin’s latest stop list - way more than any other UK media organisation. But beginning to wonder if this is as much to do with our investigation of the Levedevs (who still control a raft of UK media)
Very good. And here's the transcript for those unable to watch an 11-minute video. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...
The UK doesn’t just have one economy: it has three. They are the real economy, the sustainable economy, and the monetary economy. However, the government is fixated on the wrong one. In this video, I explain why Rachel Reeves has it all wrong. youtu.be/OnewHXTy8ak?...
Here's the transcript for those who are not able or inclined to watch an 11-minute video. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...
What a traitorous piece of shit Farage is… (Sunday Times)
