The only ones who seem to be standing against the hatred are the Greens and Lib Dems. Terrific speech from Ed Davey here: youtu.be/iLouxH6a9x8?...
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The only ones who seem to be standing against the hatred are the Greens and Lib Dems. Terrific speech from Ed Davey here: youtu.be/iLouxH6a9x8?...
Keir Starmer just managed a "further and faster", a "hard yards" AND a "delivery, delivery, delivery" in two sentences now on the BBC. Also, we are now in the "second phase" of his government (the total number of phases is very much TBC).
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
This is scandalous. Short of building millions of council homes, the best way to address the housing crisis is to clamp down on private landlords. Starting with tax reform and tighter regulation of BTL mortgages and tenants’ rights. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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
cannot be right, cannot be ethical not human
Racism has cost the UK yet another nurse. This will be the cost, you will be left with racist thugs and no healthcare.
I don’t subscribe to this extremely well paid tv people slapping themselves on the back but I’ve voted for Lineker just to hopefully piss some right wing bellends off
Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out And, the feathers it would ruffle My lovely followers, you know what to do: nationaltvawards.com/vote 🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
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.
BBC using the phrase 'approved asylum seekers' today. It's technically correct I suppose, but emotionally barren - taking a word that inspires sympathy and turning it into a dead administrative phrase. They are refugees.
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.
Britain has been multicultural for the last 2000 years. That's why we have the Roman alphabet, a Middle East religion, Arabic numerals, a Syrian patron saint, an aristocracy with French ancestry and a German royal family.
When the penalty against Tarkowski was given, @skysportspl.bsky.social spent an age explaining why it ‘was’ a penalty. Same incident today, this time for Establishment FC and now they’re explaining why it ‘isn’t’ a penalty. PL, PGMOL, Sky have colluded to destroy the credibility of football. #LIVARS
I celebrated that goal almost as much as any Everton goal I can remember, it was fantastic
What a gurning malevolent cunt he turned out to be, really.
Small boats were not a problem before Brexit, look it up. The people protesting in front of hotels are the ones who created this problem, they can feel hatred but they cannot think of answer www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
The absolute fucking state of this. It's like 28 days later but the crazed are dressing like wankers and putting flags everywhere.
Your Player of the Match, with 58.9% of the overall vote, is that man @JackGrealish! 💙 Credits to: @Everton #Everton #Toffees #EFC #PremierLeague #GoodisonPark
"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."
Good to see @eddavey.libdems.org.uk's decision to boycott the state banquet for Trump in protest over Gaza is the lead headline in the Guardian. Now waiting to see whether other media outlets report on it ... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage pretending to be patriotic while pledging to rip up Britain's proud record of leading the world on human rights.
Here, Ed Davey is calling out Nigel Farage once again – something we need to do more of. Farage’s Trumpian policies are not the solution this country needs.
Trump’s visit is going to be an abject national humiliation, as the leadership class has to pretend his new clothes are awesome and stylish and nobody can see his gigantic naked arse and collossal gut. Luckily, Britain is filled to the fucking brim with pageantry bullshit, shills and shitehawks.
2,500 more signatures needed to get us to 10k. Help us get there. Anyone you know who wants fair coverage, pass them this way to sign. Democracy matters and our broadcasters need to report on ALL parties! They’re currently failing us. Here’s the link. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Nice to see our fans offering to help Brighton fans in their hour of need.
BBC complaint Complaint made to the BBC about the disproportionate amount of coverage given to a party with only 4 MPs. The BBC seems to have forgotten that the Lib Dems have 72 MPs, and what about the Greens and other smaller parties?
Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."
THIS IS AMERICA 🇺🇸 A mom runs to find her child after a school shooting because Republicans ran to protect the NRA.
The snake oil salesman got his way once - the result was a disaster. Don’t let him do it again
WHY the *fuck* is a party political broadcast by Nigel Farage being misreported as "Breaking News"?
So often UK media behaves like the PR arm of the far right. Why???
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To many of us, the policies of mass deportations, prison camps (aka concentration camps) and withdrawing from conventions on human rights are still extreme. Fascism was meant to be a warning, not a how-to guide. We need to stop normalising fascist policies. There is nothing normal about fascism!
Look at this senile slapdash cunt. Whining away with his crybaby bullshit while he oversees the humiliation of his country.
The fault of feckless politicians,who have never effectively explained the need for immigration, never appeared to have a robust and believable immigration plan,and never listened or always peoples concerns. This is why we have Farage and his Thick Racist Fockers.
“A flag on every damn lamp post is a sign of a society going quite mad.” Yes. Let’s not pretend this is pride or patriotism. This is snarling tribal nationalism. It’s vigilantism. It’s threat. app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
And now, driving home, some bunch of dickheads have attached Union Jack flags to nearly every bridge over the dual carriageway. WTF do they think this represents? Because I certainly don’t look at them and feel proud. I feel surrounded by dangerously emboldened racists.
Fucking hell, Everton Bluesky is morphing into Everton Twitter the hysteria is well, hysterical 🤣. If we don’t buy players it’s a disaster, if we do buy players they’re not the players the hysterical supporters want. Talk about being between a rock and a hard place
If it's true that Labour wants to fight the next election on the basis of "Look, it's us or the far right", as Macron did, then they're going to have to start explicitly denouncing the far right, as Macron does
Anti-asylum protests and threats, political dog-whistling, flag-mania, emboldened racists strutting around our streets… It must stop. People must speak out. This country mustn’t be chewed up with hatred and failure. Such an important read. @iandunt.bsky.social liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/386...
Several articles over past few days on #Everton Stadium - some making spurious claims that this development caused Liverpool to lose its UNESCO World Heritage Status. This is incorrect and needs to be addressed. 🧵 #thread
The government is accused of trying to “cover up complicity in genocide” after refusing to publish documents linked to a secret meeting with a top Israel minister for a fourth time ...
The UK's current rental market sector was created by Thatcher with the deliberate intention of supporting landlords and exploiting tenants, which is precisely what it has done. It is time to change that. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...
We are in almost exactly same place we were then. The same rhetoric, the same arguments, the same ideas - up to and including racist deportation programmes. Rivers of Blood is not some dark blood-dimmer artefact of a previous time. It is the template anti-immigrant politicians are using today.
MEANWHILE, OUR PUFFED UP DOLT OF A PRIME MINISTER IS STRUTTING THE WORLD STAGE. Every day we hate Brexit Labour more. The time for #Labour to redeem itself is fast disappearing. GET BREXIT UNDONE, FFS!!
'The Labour Party has been stolen from the socialists and the working classes by a bunch of comfortably wealthy capitalists ...' via @anotherangryvoice.bsky.social
How anyone, who perhaps joined Labour in good faith, could not only condone mass slaughter of tens of thousands of children, but also support continually rearming the Israeli killers, is beyond me "There will be attempts to rewrite history, don't ever forget those complicit" via Anthony Corella
On trade and investment the over-excitable announcements are particularly damaging because they normally take years to make any difference, by which time people will have concluded they didn't. Oh, and the last government did the same. Where's the "change"?
via David Taylor
Wow! That is bizarre, not sure how they managed that🤯
Honestly the admin at this club hasn’t improved over the years. One of my sons has been trying to transfer his season ticket to either of my other two sons without success for the Brighton game for well over a week without success & after hours accumulated on the phone. Hopeless
One explanation is that they not unreasonably assumed that nobody would put in a figure exceeding 11 when entering inches into the height section 🤔. As an IT consultant of 30 years I accept that this is no excuse as there’s no end of rubbish users will enter given free rein
BREAKING: The far right have not called for all white men to be kicked out of the UK after a white British Labour councillor was convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl 🤷♀️
Why is this "Has Been MP, " Loser being given air time to spout his hate rhetoric.
"Yeah, just use a picture of Everton's old stadium for this racism issue at Anfield"
Hard to Disagree with Mr. DeNiro, About Chump.......
🇺🇦🇫🇷🇺🇸 The Statue of Liberty near the French Embassy in Washington was draped in the Ukrainian flag, — Reuters
Every single Ukrainian child abducted by Russia must be returned to their families.
No one owns the Water. No one owns the Land. No one owns the sand. These are given by Our Mother. The Planet provides for Free. Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺
Here's a fact for you all. Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK. Not ONE. This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit. But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
Trump's plan to hand Ukrainian territory to Putin would not bring peace. It would be the greatest reward for aggression in living memory, and only lead to more Russian aggression in Ukraine and across Eastern Europe.
Reminds me of Brexit. Domestically, there was an intense pressure to give credit to Brexiters, no matter how batshit their contribution was. But as soon as you spoke to a foreign journalist, no matter where they were from, there was a uniform sense of baffled disdain.
This is CNN, a channel I really enjoy when I'm in the US. I wonder if American journalists are aware of how completely insane they look to the rest of the world. How utterly detached their narrative is from everyone else's. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...
"This is how you do it Lefties " via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
Don’t worry you’ll be back to civilisation before you know it, with 3 lovely points to write about #UTFT
On our way to Everton’s first game of the 2025/26 Premier League season and @joethomas18.bsky.social and I have just entered Yorkshire
ABSOLUTELY FCUKING NOT 😡 Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles👿 (R) got major blowback on social media Sunday after suggesting that President Donald Trump be given a hall pass to do whatever he wants.
This is GOLD !!!
Leaving the EU’s power market is costing us dearly! Brexit is adding up to £370 million a year onto our electricity bills, money that could be in people’s pockets instead. We need our government to be brave enough to reverse this. www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...
He reminds me very much of Homer Simpson in that video, you can just tell there’s very little intelligent thought behind those blank eyes
All you had to do was listen to her.
BREAKING - Zelensky: “Russia must end this war, which it itself started.”
Private equity curse UK grocers Asda and Morrisons crushed by debt anvil. Asset-stripping to pay for debt and PE profits. Staff cuts, low investment, market share struggles. PE has devoured high street, care homes, vets, healthcare. Govts subsidize PE by giving tax relief on interest payments.
Info for voters in Liverpool Walton "With his £93,904 salary, 2nd income with Steps Together Group Ltd, annual salary £36,000, expenses (£36,887.77 claimed since 1/4/24), allowances, donations & perks, Dan’s a working class lad who’s done very well at Westminster" www.facebook.com/no.dig.773/p...
President Macron: We are talking about an imperialist and revisionist power that is today's Russia, which since 2008 has constantly sought to conquer new territories, has constantly revised international borders, and has never kept its promises of peace and non-aggression.
Record salaries for FTSE 100 CEOs, pay up for third year in a row. Median pay £4.58m; £58.9m at Melrose; £18.9m at Person. 122 times the salary of the average full-time UK worker. 16m Britons live in poverty. Millions rely on food banks and charity. 37% of Universal Credit claimants are in work.
While the number of UK children in poverty soars Labour continues Tory austerity without a pause Rachel Reeves says 'not a penny to spare, we can't #TaxTheRich they don't want to share' "the average FTSE 100 chief executive is now paid 122 times the salary of the average full-time UK worker"
"Defend Our Juries have today written to Attorney General Richard Hermer KC MP raising a complaint of contempt of court against the Home Secretary after she repeated in today’s Observer insinuations that Palestine Action have been proscribed because of violence against people."
Trump still seems to think his job is to get President Zelenskyy to cave to Putin’s demands. Keir Starmer must show real resolve and persuade him that it’s about strengthening Ukraine and weakening Putin so he accepts Europe’s terms.
'Given the abject way Donald Trump abased himself before Vladimir Putin, I am reposting this piece from the archives on why it is not irrational to believe that Russia has a hold on him. Indeed, it’s almost irrational to believe that it does not' @nickcohen.bsky.social
An important thread. What is Reform UK up to? ~AA
"Thames Water is on the brink of bankruptcy. ⚠️ When it collapses, the government must take it into permanent public ownership. 💧 @labourlewis is with us in this fight. 💪 Take 1 minute to ask your MP to take the pledge to Make Thames Water Public"
Should ban it as in Singapore, the streets there are spotless
Most people don’t realise chewing gum is a single-use plastic, made with fossil fuel-based polymers & a major source of pollution. It litters our streets, breaks down into microplastics & costs councils millions to clean up. I’ve called on the Government to consider this in our plastics policy👇
observer.co.uk/news/opinion... No one I know watches BBC news, but unfortunately many do. The BBC needs to be taken ruthlessly in hand because their news is not news, but RW propaganda. Isn’t this something Lisa Nandy should be doing?
Record salaries for UK chief executives as pay rises for third year in a row Average FTSE 100 chief executive is now paid 122 times the salary of the average full-time UK worker www.theguardian.com/business/202...
#TaxTheRich
Fox News hosts saying Gavin Newsom’s tweets are childish and unbecoming of the governor of the state of California shows that you can lead a horse to water but the joke will still go over their heads.
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