I question whether the value of the 80% is outweighed by the harm of the 20%. Whilst it's still in positive territory for me, I know no other likely governing party gets close to even a 50/50 split of value versus harm.
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I question whether the value of the 80% is outweighed by the harm of the 20%. Whilst it's still in positive territory for me, I know no other likely governing party gets close to even a 50/50 split of value versus harm.
But, but, aren't there more in "asylum hotels" than Children in the UK? Anyone who's been in a coma since 2016 and comes round to see the media coverage knows that.
They lost me at "The Policy Ex..."
She's upset not because she can't find regular bread, but because other people can find the bread they want. It's the "why is this available when I don't use it?" argument. She'll think the same about benefits for example. Honestly there is such a thing as society and doesn't revolve around you.
Apologies that wasn't clear without clicking it and I didn't click it for the reasons stated.
Please, we don't need examples that fuel the exposure and give income to those who create such filth.
He is emblematic of some people who generally support managed immigration but who have swallowed, and regurgitate, the narrative of Farage and co. It's a Gov failure over communication. He should also be held to the same impartiality rules as the many forced out of the BBC from the political centre
This is my flag.
We have universal healthcare in the UK but homelessness and self medication are high. We just don't have the easy or legal access to guns. You (as a nation) know what's needed but don't want to do it.
The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A nice mid tempo one for you.
Philip Jefferson should be worried. He is a democrat and a POC and likely to be next, maybe?
'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.
He has a good record in persuading people to vote against their own interests. The groundwork on leaving the EHCR has been a long process. People now see it as a single right protecting people they have been told are 'illegal' from being ejected from '5 star Hotels' that they are paying for.
Another rarity for ya.
If you can't get enough people to wave flags, just get lampposts to do it for you. One person can hang twenty flags, making any presence seem twenty times greater. Don't let the amount of flags and painted roundabouts convince you this is anything like the media are selling.
And that ABC, is why you never give a bully your lunch money in search of being their friend.
If you don't love Nigel Farage give this a Like. If you hate him, give it a RT.
I can see the window of my old bedroom in that photograph.
A rare one for sure.
Not those files, the original ones. Those Epstein files. SMGDH
If you stand by and watch a bully steal someone's lunch money and then they give it to you, guess what? You're a chicken shit bully too.
Schrödinger's Hotels. At once both 'Five Star Luxury Hotels' and no longer 'hotels' because they have changed their use without following planning rules. Cognitive dissonance in action in the media of all stripes.
The answer? Leave Earth, isn't it obvious?
It would take a real change in who controls the media. Nothing else would work
Silence is acquiesce. Make more noise or just lay down and accept the status quo. And if you accept the status quo that doesn't mean no change it means they'll push for more and more and you'll let them. Capitalism is broken.
There are many reasons to question Gullis' intellect. Even if you knew none of them prior to seeing this example you'd be thinking.... Who is this moron?
It's not like they are using it for offering up arguments that will persuade habitual users of the merits of their policy positions. They are directing people to a platform where the majority of contributions are working against the government's interests. Dumb, just dumb.
In years to come, historians are going to have such fun destroying any creditability Trump hasn't destroyed himself by then. What they'll make of the American people gets bleaker every day they allow Trump's presidency to roll on unchecked.
Just a tiny giggle then?
It's capitalism rather than Americanisation in my view. There's too much money in the game and too many live games on TV (because of the money it brings in) I say these things as a life long Man City fan. Money is destroying the game. It's no longer a game for the working class.
Apparently 'severe consequences' amount to we've cancelled your luncheon.
Anyone would think he was in his late 70's.....Oh wait.
To paraphrase Jim Bowen. Here's what you could have won.
TACO.
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Jigsaws can be tricky.
The more incoherent he becomes the less analysis seems to be done. It's like apathy is taking hold due to mental fatigue. Does this give him more latitude? eu.usatoday.com
After a period even rational money men become blase about Trumps ever shifting sands. Danger lurks in these waters.
www.nbcnews.com So, in a bid to keep women safe a woman is asked to prove she has breasts. The world has gone mad.
TACO
Reward this step with a well deserved 'Follow' please.
All full time workers who receive benefits should have the costs of those benefits plus an administration fee; of say 20%; charged to their employer. No company should be giving an effective hourly rate of 100 times to one employee over another, let alone multiples in the thousands.
Another step to bury the truth. The international community needs to do more and to hold the people responsible to account for their actions in the Hague. That's at every level whether following orders or not.
There's none so blind....
Illegal migrants? See how it's effectively been adopted as a legitimate phrase. Come on Peter we expect better of you.
I am.
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Just to keep Trump at bay? If so it's so short term and ultimately counterproductive.
Einstein posited that is relative to your frame of reference. It's funny how we were in the same place at the turn of the year and again now but we got here at different speeds? But then again Einstein didn't have a smart watch did he now?
The source: The Beer Orders 1988. The splitting of brewers and pub companies. The resulting change in price differential between On and Off licence. The result: Less socialising Less 'learning to drink' in social setting. The loss of social structures. No moderation of norms. The death of the pub.
Sanctions are rarely comprehensive enough to make a real impact. They need to be wide spread and far reaching if they are to move the dial at all. Politics seems to be the problem not the solution.
The time is long overdue for Congress to stop funding Israel’s illegal and horrific war against the Palestinian people. The U.S. must not support a government which is starving children. Tomorrow, I will force votes in the Senate to block the sale of weapons to Netanyahu.
A scream and a panicked cry of "HELP" came from the kitchen. Knocking over a side table in my rush to the aid of Margaret (my better half), I find the cause of the hysteria. As she put the watering can under the tap a frog leaped out. No people or animals were harmed in the making of this drama.
President Trump caught cheating at a game of golf The caddie in the MAGA hat on the left drops a ball
Those in MAGA hats working to enable a cheat and liar clearly know what it is they do. 'We were just following orders.' will not cut it when the reckoning comes as it surely will.
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
I feel I'm in an alternate universe sometimes. This is definitely one of them.
The line of questioning was great (and often that isn't the case) it left Mencer with only the option of trying to flood the airwaves with his script. Which neither addressed the questions nor justified the current appalling plight of the innocents in Gaza.
Bribes work!
Reform councillors criticised after voting to spend £150,000 on political advisers
Reform will legalise hand guns if elected. It’s almost 30 years since Dunblane. Farage said then, that post Dunblane gun control legislation was “ludicrous”. But we have not had another school shooting since 1996. Farage wants to bring US style private health to UK & also US-style gun violence
Unnecessary cruelty whichever way you look at it… …but do look at it 👇 www.nyic.org/2025/07/new-...
Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live
Shame on the enablers. History will judge most of the world extremely harshly.
The fact this isn't 'trending' on here is a sad indictment of how the world views this tragic situation.
How does business doing a businessy thing surprise anyone. They spent billions covering up the real harm their product did over decades.
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC): 🔸 Article 8(2)(b)(xxv) “Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including willfully impeding relief supplies, is a war crime.” #Gaza
“a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population” A statement by Doctors Against Genocide. #Gaza
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought." h/t @msnbc.com
Cole Palmer has never spoken so fast. Nor has he put so many words together at one time. AI fails again.
Show this to every person who thought that elected Republicans cared about exposing pedophiles.
"Alan, don't lie on TV where people can factcheck you. Which Israeli soldier was prosecuted for dropping a grenade on a child?" My challenge to Dershowitz to come back on Piers Morgan's show & name these Israelis he falsely claims have been prosecuted. Full debate: youtube.com/watch?v=FFCg...
NEW MUSIC!! Anti-I.C.E. anthem “PRETEND YOU REMEMBER ME” out now! Video features #LeonardPeltier. Streaming EVERYWHERE. Check it out! “The only thing we should be deporting is injustice.” tommorello.lnk.to/PretendYouRe...
Another example of poor vetting. Both by ReFUK and her, neither understanding the others views before getting hitched.
Labour MP for Blackpool South Chris Webb writes about high levels of child poverty in his area as he calls for the two-child benefit limit to be scrapped www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
And thanks for your optimism that the Tories or Reform will not harm or even kill a greater number of people. History suggests your optimism is misplaced.
I agree. However until it's clear that they have a shot in my constituency I'll make a judgement on the least worst possible outcomes.
I am personally affected but that is by the by. I'll make a judgement closer to the time but right now I suspect more people would be negatively affected by either of the two current realistic alternatives.
What would put me off any party is an alternative with a real chance of forming a government that was less bad on all the issues I care about. Of the three parties that look like they could form the next government Labour may be the least bad. It's not ideal but politics never is.
Seven years since this gem on BBC News
David who is 17 years went missing on 6th June, he & his family are friends He got on a flight to #kualalumpur via Dubai The police in UK have been investigating & have passed on information to police in Malaysia. But 4 weeks & no leads to his whereabouts Please share #Malaysia mol.im/a/14883131
YES!! We all KNEW this was the case the DAY after the election. We've just been bewildered that it wasn't recognized and REVERSED. Do it NOW. For the WORLD'S sake, DO IT NOW.
Farage is a product of the British media and Russian rubles. He doesn't care about practical politics. He's just a grifter, an agitator who makes a fortune out of division. The media pushes him so much because they still believe that stirring up conflict is more entertaining than finding solutions.
UK stores still stock throwaway vapes despite single-use ban https://on.ft.com/4nMgb3c
I wonder what Lincoln would make of this?
He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them. Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
Quite funny. Well played.
Whipping MPs is an abomination. We elect them to represent us. We do not vote for a PM or even a particular government, even if some of the electorate and all of the press act as if we do. This 'climb down' is the essence of 'country before party'.
Projecting his behaviour in TV onto everyone else.
Is it just me? Isn't this the way a representative democracy should work? The specifics of how a manifesto commitment will be implemented are communicated. The electorate makes their views known to their representative who works on their behalf to influence those specifics based on those views.
An example of an administration thinking it is on the moral high ground when it's as wrong about that as everything else. We've stopped listening Rubio.
About time
True dat
Unbelievable
I'd love to know what they thought they were voting for exactly? That would be so enlightening. Were they fine with so much of his plans but misunderstood this part? Or did they not understand any of it?
Latinas For Trump co-founder rips Trump’s immigration policies as “unacceptable and “inhumane” “This is not what we voted for”
AVM 