Dont knock the strategy. Farage is entirely unfeasible yet is leading in the polls.
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Dont knock the strategy. Farage is entirely unfeasible yet is leading in the polls.
"Farage's policies aren't about creating a 'Better Britain', they are about pulling things down: It's easy to be in opposition, you just get to destroy things!" So, why does Keir Starmer keep agreeing with Nigel Farage on illegal immigration?
Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream" Well said
Are they at half mast like the ones I saw?
It sounds like the Dominic Cummings excuse
Reform is actually a bit of a blessing for both LDs and Greens, they split the RW vote. Opens up quite a few other seats.
2025: Yvette Cooper suspends the rights of child refugees to come to the UK, effectively rejecting Article 8 of the ECHR 2016: Yvette Cooper making a passionate plea for child refugees to come to the UK Cooper spent over a decade speaking up for child refugees, now she rejects Article 8 of ECHR
Politico: "The Liberal Democrats are calling on the Commons’ culture committee to launch an inquiry into Reform UK banning Nottinghamshire councilors from speaking to the Nottingham Post, its digital site and local democracy reporters."
What the fuck is wrong with @teamlabouruk.bsky.social ? Seriously.
Rachel from accounts is on it .
Tomahawk costs $4 million. Flamingo flys faster and longer, has a larger conventional warhead and has the potential to be fitted with a nuclear warhead (that will interest the UK and France). All that for under $1 million. 'BUY UKRAINIAN' makes sense for other European nations.
See also:the brexit trade agreement requiring the UK to remain in the ECHR. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023....
Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice
Elon Musk, one of the world’s most powerful and richest men is posting far right ideology. Remigration is commonly seen as a far right concept of ethnic cleansing. To deport migrants and their descendants to their place of racial ancestry. That would include me. Why are we not talking about this?
As a LibDems supporter I really like LibDems MPs and councillors are here on BlueSky. And I could have understood why they may want to address audiences on Twitter. But a red line has been crossed by Twitter. And they need to get out now. Cc @markpackuk.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Its not a serious question though is it?
The rights of all the people Reform doesnt like. Just look at America on this, canary in the coal mine of where this goes.....
He wont be banging on about majority rule if his chosen Far Right party gets elected on a minority of the vote. Minority interests DO rule!
'I know a lot of normal people who question it' These ppl arent normal dude, they are Far Right.
'It’s become a charter for minority rule over majority' Sounds exactly like our First Past the Post electoral system. You know the other European country which has FPTP AND is outside ECHR? Belarus.
Reform UK, the right leaning think tank Policy Exchange, and some Labour grandees, are all pushing for us to either leave the ECHR, or disapply parts of it temporarily or permanently. This puts me, you and everyone at risk, not just those seeking sanctuary.
They're doing. Those crazy fuckers are doing it
@samcoatessky.bsky.social hi Sam, this morning you stated “…the main opposition parties, the Cons and Reform UK…” Unless I missed 67 Parliamentary by-elections since July, the Lib Dems are very much the main opposition party with the Cons, not Reform. Do we have to keep doing this?
He cant even spell Labour. Dumb ass
You didnt get that on X? Thats why I left X
It would be very difficult/impossible to deliver a trumpian hellscape in the UK while we have the ECHR protecting us. Outside it, we are well & truly fair game. Which is why billionaire disaster capitalists & asset strippers are flocking to Farage. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/res...
If this were the residents of a majority Muslim area in protest at the actions of the UK regarding Palestine, Pearson et al would call for mass arrests. They're just radicalised nationalists who cannot accept they lost an election and that Brexit has consequences.
Remember “the Malthouse Compromise?” Its proponents basically said “Our Sovereign Parliament has decided this so you Johnny Foreigners had better jolly well give us what we want!” They never understood that U.K. sovereignty ends at the borders and isn’t binding on others 🤦♀️
Brexit lies all over again
And if you're wondering whether someone getting killed is what it will take for the media and political class to come to their senses, I would just remind you that Jo Cox was murdered in a similar moment of demagoguery and hysteria 9 years ago, and if anything things have got far worse since then.
Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik
They have learnt absolutely nothing from the last 9 years. inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Chief Justice Roberts says the rule of law is eroding like we've rarely seen. Maybe he should've thought of that before ruling the president is above the law. You don't get to burn the house down and act shocked it's on fire.
Yes, EU Parliament ratifies all EU trade deals.
And you dont think that is a major problem?
FTAs were signed under prerogative, but AUS/NZ were laid under CRaG, scrutinised/needed primary law. EPD opposite: US quotas written into UK law by SI before any treaty is laid; bypasses MPs, hands leverage to Congress and risks WTO/NI breaches. Not mormal & reckless. As deregulation also forced
Rubbish! Every democratic country scrutinises trade deals. Only regimes like Russia and North Korea don’t. That’s the problem: Starmer is embedding the US deal into law with no real scrutiny. That’s not normal procedure, it’s executive overreach.
‼️ He claims “nothing has changed.” In reality, MPs are locked out, just as they were under Johnson. 🚨 Johnson’s proroguing was about Brexit. Starmer’s SI trick is about the US deal. 🆘 Both undermine parliament. Both bypass democracy. Both show: the executive will go rogue if we let
🆘 Today, @Keir_Starmer is doing the same - but worse - in plain sight. ⚠️ By sneaking US trade concessions into law via Statutory Instruments, Starmer embeds binding changes before any treaty is ratified.
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
Having had a weekend away in the midlands. I saw quite a few England flags on lamp posts, but done in such a way that it makes it look like they are flying at half mast. The morons dont even know how to put up a flag properly.
The Liberal Democrats said Badenoch should reveal the full story behind her apparent offer. A party spokesperson said: “Kemi Badenoch spent months asking questions of the chancellor regarding her CV. It’s now time for her to answer some of her own.”
The LibDems look on the ball again but, in truth, they are only doing all the very obvious stuff Labour should be doing but isn’t.
Oops! Well, this is awkward 😊 YouGov survey shows shift in attitudes to Brexit debate & suggests Nigel Farage’s continued hostility towards the EU is not even landing with his own partys supporters 55% of Reform UK voters want a permanent youth mobility scheme for young people in the UK and Europe
Rank and file Democrats desperate for an end to inequality with tax hikes for the rich, single-payer health care, student loan forgiveness, etc., policies that will win elections... are without candidates, because the DNC is opposed to these policies
Hes helped devise the ethnic cleansing plan.
Where are the parents?
Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it. This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
What a gurning malevolent cunt he turned out to be, really.
Douglas Carswell’s massive racism update:
“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.
Is that the US govt and Chinese govt?
Or just fly the flags when it actually means something. The problem with these fake patriots is v few of them were slamming George crosses on lampposts when it was actually needed (when the Lionesses won the Euros). These cretins deserve all the ridicule.
Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...
Racist mobs arent ordinary, they are Far Right
They call it progress. A card like Estonia. Digital ID for migrants, then workers, then you. Efficiency is the mask. Control is the aim. Freedom doesn’t come with a barcode. It comes with trust, solidarity, and a country that believes in its people.
UK govt handed £895bn of QE to banks. It bought bonds/gilts, now selling them at a loss. It also pays interest on banks' central reserves. Costs the public purse £22bn a year and is avoidable. Profits at big four banks doubled since the pandemic. Windfall tax could raise £8bn. Tax the banks.
Zack as in the Greens? (Sorry I dont know who Zack is)
Your Party has got a transphobic MP before they’ve even gotten a name!
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Just not something that supports trans rights bsky.app/profile/euan...
Oh look, exactly what trans people said would happen is happening to the jeremy corbyn party. Fuck that party and fuck every coward who shouted at trans people that we should wait and see how things turned out.
Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
Oh look its the Me show.
Tbf Trump was 1 inch away. If only. History wd be very different.
Whats weird is how she removed herself from her first home to avoid higher stamp duty. Is someone else on the registry?
Angela Rayner's home flipping to avoid stamp duty has made me really nostalgic for the MPs' expenses scandal. Given how many careers ended then over what was a legal practice of 'flipping' which residence was your main home, I'm surprised to see a cabinet minister use that exact same trick.
The federal govt wont be able to afford not to.
"Lefties crying coz of England flags painting on roundabouts lol lmao" from the people who have spent the past decade crying coz they saw some rainbow flags.
The infantilism of UK politics has been off the scale since 2016 and the current government has largely carried on from its predecessors on that
Watching folk get radicalised over the other place is quite the depressing sight. But then again, if government isn't prepared to tell a story of complexity, not surprising if many people think there really is a simple solution like leave the ECHR.
Coop isnt. www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/08/co-o...
If nothing was changing, ministers wouldn’t need to rip up standards by statutory instrument. Irish/EU beef already meets UK rules. US beef doesn’t unless you change the rules first. That’s exactly what’s happening, by stealth.
Thames Water are still paying out record bonuses which have doubled their bosses pay in the last year though. All thanks to the 35% bill hike that you were forced to pay to 'repair' the network.
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And that is going to lead to worse outcomes for tenants, higher rents and with landlords who really dont give a crap.
It also isnt going to end landlordism. It is just going to push more of it into the hands of corporates and foreign owners. If they just add NI as is, a basic rate taxpayer will pay an extra 8%...someone who is a higher rate/top rate taxpayer will pay an extra 2%. Corporate landlord? ZERO %.
Depends where you are. In a city definitely, in a small town/village, there will be very few. And most of the areas that have the biggest concerns about immigration have very few immigrants. Its why there is a disconnect between country and personal experiences.
Its basically proof that we dont have an immigration problem. Most people never encounter immigrants.
Ed Davey has written to King Charles to explain why he believes he has to refuse his invite to a state banquet for Donald Trump news.sky.com/story/ed-dav...
Im old enough to remember this www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFdg...
Basically the metropolis gets all the money, but also most of the immigrants, the rural folk get pissed off all their young ppl leave, and blame the non existent immigrants.
In every US state that votes Democrat the countryside votes Republican, in every US Republican state every city votes Democrat, that isnt a coincidence. Repeat that in UK, France, Germany, NZ, Australia.....e.t.c
Not saying it does, but you need to redistribute wealth in a capitalist system. The universal theme of every major country? Globalisation concentrates wealth in the cities with airlinks. Rural areas get starved of investment, and go all fascist.
The alternative is taxing wealth and redistribution.
And wealth inequalities create discontent. The countries with the least amount of wealth inequality are going through better times.
We are never going to get global solutions, so what is the answer?
Same problems across so many countries, polarisation, ageing societies, deficits, low birth rates, immigration, governments unable to deliver their promises. But usually put down to failing national leadership. Which of course it is but there's something bigger going on.
Hint its starts with a C and ends in an N (Capitalism). Capitalism concentrates wealth
This is going to lead to some really weird impacts. Someone who rents out a property and is a basic rate taxpayer will pay an extra 8%......someone who is a higher rate/top rate taxpayer will pay an extra 2%. Corporate landlord who owns via a company? ZERO %. Thats 'socialism' folks.
Which Labour/Tories wont do.
Marginally good for those who can buy, terrible for renters.
It might decrease the price of houses for sale, it will increase the price of houses to rent. Supply and demand.
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Reform said it was "mortified" and apologised profusely in April 2024 after announcing the sacking of a parliamentary candidate in York for "complete inactivity" without realising he was dead. Selecting a long dead candidate seems weirder still www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...
This is broadly the voice+ argument that LibDem MPs would be using to secure an anti-populist plurality in their 72 seats (v likely to succeed). It may be underestimated that Labour's marginal seats depends on maintaining a broad progressive + centre/moderate coalition across different geographies
This is a key point. A lot of Labour MPs have small majorities. They need those progressive/moderate votes. Taking them for granted is a huge mistake.
Now they are a Trump loving, Israel excusing pack of cunts.
The #BBC gives a disproportionate amount of air time to #Reform. They seem to have forgotten there are: 72 Lib Dem MPs 9 SNP 7 Sinn Fein 5 DUP 4 Reform 4 Green 4 Plaid Cymru It is not as if they are holding #Reform to account. Instead they are just giving them free publicity.
