What a traitorous piece of shit Farage is… (Sunday Times)
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What a traitorous piece of shit Farage is… (Sunday Times)
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...
Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...
The desperation by those on the Right to smear Angela Rayner is wearing thin🙄 And no - don’t bother replying UNTIL you’ve read the thread! I’ve trawled through multiple versions of this “story” in the Telegraph and Daily Mail to try and piece together what’s going on! 🧵1/17
Or succeeded depending on what you believe their ulterior motives are. From where I sit, the British media is desperate to make Farage PM in 2029.
Farage’s Reform UK and many Tories plan to leave the ECHR: in this piece Chair George Peretz KC explains why those plans face serious difficulties and will end up harming the UK’s ability to fight illegal migration. Read the full article here: www.labourhome.co.uk/the_first_ti...
The billionaire press barons must be having a right laugh… Here we are distracted & arguing over asylum seekers (0.2% of the population) Meanwhile, billionaires (just 0.0002% of the population) hoard more wealth than half the UK Immigration isn’t draining us Inequality is.
The fact that Reform were trying to run a person who had been dead for six months as their Croydon Mayoral candidate is proof if it were needed that they are not a serious party. It demonstrates abject incompetence and no vetting as well as utter contempt for the electorate.
Another tv ‘celeb’ jumping on the bandwagon of vitriol and hate in the hope of remaining relevant. He was not misinformed - he knew what he was saying was a lie, but like all those wanting to vilify asylum seekers & stir up hatred, he doesn’t care as long as it keeps him in the news.
Excellent. Farage's plan would mean police -or new paramilitary forces - rounding up tens of thousands of people in *every major city* (hundreds of '000s in London). It really shouldn't be hard to make this politically toxic. www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/it-wont-wo...
Almost four years out from an election & paying *the actual fucking Taliban* to torture & murder people who risked their lives to escape them is getting the full ‘both sides’ treatment in Brexit Britain.
This is Nigel Farage on mass deportations less than a year ago on GBNews. I wonder what has changed?
"The numbers arriving so far this month have been the lowest in August since 2021" - The Times mentions in the 24th paragraph of its front-page splash something which few people in the print, broadcast and online newsrooms of the UK are aware of www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
The immigration debate is going badly off track, thanks to a combination of opportunism, racism and spinelessness in the UK's political and media class. But it's not too late to turn things round. Me in Time magazine time.com/7312223/uk-i...
As Rafael Behr says, “are we really going to spend the next four years watching Farage leaf casually through the familiar playbook, running the same campaign…? His probity and judgment were sold as the product called #Brexit. It turned out to be a piece of shit.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This government has Nationalised the railways and British Steel, allowed for locally owned buses, created GB Energy, the National Wealth Fund, and created the National Housing Bank. He has spent £300bn extra on the NHS, Education, Housing, Energy, and Transport.
Wednesday and Friday look ok. The other days - nah
Why are people wilfully pushing misinformation that the government sentence and lock people up - we don’t have political prisoners and we should be glad about it. They should look at countries where governments do lock people up and feel glad the UK isn’t like that.
Just astonishing! Reform UK supporters caught out... (brilliant trolling though) #ReformUK #Farage #TruthAboutReform
Brits becoming migrants because of the amount of foreigners in their own country. Brits climbing ladders to fly flags from lamp posts Brits thinking Farage has the answers when he never has before. Brits think pleading guilty is the same as pleading not guilty. Stupidity
Ignore the haters. London is the 🐐
There's no credible evidence asylum seekers commit more crime, or are guilty of more sexual assaults. I am so sick of being force-fed lies by these mendacious thugs in their expensive suits. share.google/WCAREyAQN5TG...
Email just sent to today @ bbc . co . uk #r4today
Yet another retrospective triumph for Cameron and Osborne.
Pensions: - there to ensure more people have a secure retirement - not there to support tax planning
Am astonished at how many people don’t understand this basic concept. You get tax relief (at your highest rate) when saving & pay tax (after 25% of the pot being tax free) when you start to take it at retirement. Any thats left over when you die should of course be taxed.
My substack newsletter on the far right weaponisation of sexual violence: mattcarr.substack.com/p/beware-whi...
Things that are down: Crime Interest rates Mortgages NHS Waiting Lists Things that are up: Wages Investment in UK Retail spending Growth Labour rebuilding Britain
An important thread. What is Reform UK up to? ~AA
Jaymey McIvor (who the Tories kicked out for sending dick pics) is now Reform's Director of Local Government. His job is to make sure councils are run efficiently. A company he ran went bust in March owing £141,025, so he sounds ideal. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/12/b...
NEW BLOGPOST: Why did the jury acquit Ricky Jones? thesecretbarrister.com/2025/08/16/w...
We don't often share a clip from GB News... But Barry Gardiner MP calling out Reform UK's voting record on protecting women is worth a watch!
there is nothing right wing about improving tenants and workers rights, building more houses, school breakfast clubs, surestart centres, reducing the NHS waiting lists etc their economic policy has been restricted by the promises they made, but without those promises they wouldnt have got elected
Labour still working through the recess. Delivering for the military, obese patients and making electric car models more available. 👏👏
Year on year GDP comparison either side of election. Honestly you’d just never believe it from listening to the narrative out there. Reeves is doing a good job!
Good news on the economy, lowest mortgage rates since Truss/Kwarteng and success for Online Safety Bill. All in a week’s work for our impressive Labour government.
Good to see the progress after 1 year. Be good to see how they do by end of year 5. But it’s looking good!
Quick recap. No mass exodus from private to state schools. No exodus of non Doms. No mass redundancies from leading businesses but recruitment a bit shaky. Mortgages down. Interest rates down. Growth up a tad. But consistent. Starmer doing well on int stage. NHS improving. LABOUR
Quick Recap. Online Safety bill reduces visits to Pornhub by 47%. Breakfast Clubs and wrap around childcare in place in 000’s of schools, Sure/Best Start Centres in every LA by April 2026. 5th interest rate cut. All cladding removed by 2031, no fault evictions banned.UNDER LABOUR
Sky News, "There are many in the industry who feel that Prime Minister Keir Starmer's post Brexit deal with the EU has thrown them (fishermen) under the bus and will hamper the next generation as they head out to sea" Starmer simply extended Boris Johnson's fishermen's Brexit deal from 2026 to 2038
Britain has a strong service economy & emergent vibrant tech economy, precisely structure needed for 21st-century economic success … reshape the financial system to unleash a flood of private capital on the tech economy from a new generation of pension superfunds observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
🚴♀️ London has done it. We’ve just been crowned Europe’s favourite city for cycling, a fantastic recognition of the progress we’ve made to make our city greener and more accessible for all. Our cycling boom is good for Londoners and is putting us on the map for cycle tourism.
You've GOT to be kidding me! The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...? So incredulity aside, what about the list itself? Let's go Debunking! 1/34
The Budget inheritance tax changes raised £500m/year, but hit small/businesses unfairly. And also allowed much IHT avoidance to continue A new proposal does the impossible: protects small farms/businesses, hits avoidance, AND raises twice as much revenue. How? 🧵:
Actual Conservative front bench politicians are calling for the government to overturn a not guilty verdict returned by an independent jury in respect of a political rival. Trump levels of partisan, anti-rule of law authoritarianism.
Juries are randomly selected members of the public. Men and women from all walks of life and all political backgrounds. Only a moron of irredeemable proportions would even think of suggesting that a jury verdict represents some deep state “two-tier justice”.
Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...
Summer vibes, Brixton style ☀️ Beats in the street, sizzling food, cocktails and dancing: Summer Streets transforms spaces across London into places for Londoners to come together to enjoy our great city at its best.
Again: shock.
The first politicised human rights reports by the US have been published. I won’t link them. I am appalled. No longer a serious document. See the conclusion on El Salvador by the US - and compare to that of Amnesty International.
Why Rachel Reeves believes she – and the UK economy – have been underestimated. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Yet another Conservative Party Treasurer is about to be handed a seat in the House of Lords. The government must stop major party donors being fast-tracked to power for life. Sign the letter. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/176157/...
As a Londoner, it’s easy to become accustomed to the incredible offer on our doorstep. However, there’s a reason millions of tourists from around the world flock to our capital every year. For LBC, here’s a reminder of what makes London so special this summer ⬇️
The latest figures show robbery, theft, residential burglary and knife crime are down in London, but there's still a long way to go before I’m satisfied. Backed with record funding from City Hall, the Met is putting high-visibility policing at the heart of fighting crime.
We’re investing £32m in neighbourhood policing to crack down on antisocial behaviour, shoplifting and phone robbery. The Met Police are putting more officers on the streets in the West End, Brixton, Kingston, Ealing, Finsbury Park, Southwark and Spitalfields.
The evidence for more 20mph zones ⤵️ ✔️ Cut deaths and serious injuries by 1/3 ✔️ Protect children ✔️ Reduce crashes ✔️ Lower noise ✔️ Boost walking & cycling
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/new-fig...
totally agree - this is a point I make repeatedly on @instituteforgovernment.org.uk #Insidebriefing podcasts. Hunt was deeply irresponsible on the NIC cuts and this overshadows all his other decisions.
🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
A key point.
There would have more anti-immigration protesters, but they were too busy beating up their wives and partners. bsky.app/profile/kell...
The National Allotment Association has debunked the claim that this is an issue.
Twenty seven people who donated £50m in total to the last Tory government were given seats in House of Lords. And some still argue against an elected second chamber.
“Meta’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza is not less than Israeli war crimes.” Meta suspended Palestinian poet @mosababutoha.bsky.social’s account a day after he won a Pulitzer Prize, as he risks his life to get stories out, he tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Full intvw: zeteo.com/p/this-is-ma...
In three days, more than 5,000 people used our online tool to write to Sky News and make a formal complaint. “The changes made by Sky News today to reclaim some degree of editorial control are welcome and we thank our supporters for taking action.” ~AA www.bestforbritain.org/sky_news_cha...
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
The teacher who was sacked supposedly (if you believe GB News/Telegraph) for saying the Lucy Connolly case was one of 'two-tier justice'..... No, it was much much more than that.
It also doesn't mention that 'the number of pupils overall in England’s school system decreased in January to 9,032,426, a drop of over 59,000' So there is no extra pressure on state schools schoolsweek.co.uk/pupil-number...
Why can’t they just admit they were wrong? Same with Brexit. Despite all the data showing the opposite to what they said, they have to still twist the narrative to try to support their case. This is not objective journalism, it’s cultism.
The headline here should say: "Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded". (The increase is mentioned way down the article.) www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...
This week’s list of achievements from our Labour government. Some great initiatives making a real difference to ordinary people throughout our wonderfully, diverse Country.
So just today there are reports of Knife crime down everywhere bar Greater Manchester (6-25%) And The number of asylum seekers in hotels is down from 50,000 (2023) to 34,000 today. Where is this reported. And why is it not reported?
Obvious point this, but people need to stop believing what they are told by Farage, GB News, and the general declinist and alarmist media narrative and start paying attention to what is really going on regarding crime in this country. The BBC and mainstream media have a duty to get the truth out.
How much about this have you seen mentioned in the UK media? "Qatar, Saudi, Egypt join call for Hamas to disarm, give up Gaza rule" @mrjamesob.bsky.social - have you seen this? www.france24.com/en/live-news...
@danneidle.bsky.social has also done an excellent thread on this.
Henley & Partners’ wealth migration reports have been reported all over the world, both to prove both that there's a massive exodus of wealth from the UK and that there isn't. Our forensic review finds the data riddled with anomalies - and in key places looks fabricated:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Can someone please explain why it is that too many politicians only seem to want the votes of the prejudiced and the ignorant? To the extent that they are actively repelling anyone capable of rational thought and decency. Why the pathetic need to appease the bigot vote, at everyone else’s expense?
London's crime rate now is half of what it was in 1990 and nearly a quarter of 1975. But all Farage has is BS and lies.
#Labour #KierStarmer
Far from solving problems, Reform UK invent them... The stoking of divisions and spread of misinformation is dangerous for our democracy and our communities.
"Nigel: Farage makes bogus claim about £1m council savings" Exclusive: A fact check of Farage’s national TV claim shows he is making up the numbers Great local reporting here: www.nnjournal.co.uk/p/not-true-n...
Much-vaunted crime wave: a small rise in fraud and computer crime ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
This has been the story of the last decade.
Important analysis of this increasingly dangerous development
Stephen Flynn, "On Brexit, everyone across the UK right now feels that Britain is broken" "And the guy who orchestrated Brexit, Nigel Farage, doesn't have to face the consequences of the economic damage that Brexit has done to the UK"
Part 2
Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
🚨UK Lawyers for Israel Ltd has tried to silence various voices supporting Palestine. Their charitable wing has made public statements rejecting international law. Activist Em Hilton is on the Charity Commission offices to ask for an investigation. youtu.be/Ui70R8PCkJ4
Labour's Polly Billington MP responds to Reform's letter: "Reform UK can't just go around writing unhinged letters threatening investors with reprisals for growing our green economy and creating good, well-paid jobs. Here's my response and the questions they need to answer - signed by 58 Lab MPs."
Just to be completely clear - this British Army Vet was NOT forced out of military housing to accommodate Afghans - who, by the way, put their own lives at risk to support and protect British soldiers. Just ever more rage-baiting by Matt! 🧵1/14
TalkTV is airing attacks on trans people without broadcasting the views of those who support trans rights. Call on Ofcom to take action: goodlaw.social/66f6a3
Confirming once again that there is strong support in the UK for stronger EU ties. Achieving such things has a long lead time however, and the agenda for the reset was set in Labour's ultra-cautious first 6 months in office.
I see it's now fine for Conservative MPs to lie not just about the facts, but about their own party's stated policy. Most "foreigners" on benefits have entitlement via the EU Settlement Scheme and withdrawing those rights would breach the Withdrawal Agreement (and is not Conservative policy)
No 10 on the Cabinet meeting today: "The Leader of the House said that over the past year the [govt] has passed 21 bills, with 24 currently before parliament, and more to come before the end of the session, making it the most ambitious legislative agenda of any incoming government for generations."
If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it.
Experts are warning the economy is about to implode! Well, that’s what GB news wants you to think. It’s a masterclass in cherrypicking and scaremongering. Let’s reveal the truth together… 🧵
The MSM show their deceit and willingness to lie by saying ‘the government’ when writing about the Tory government’s complete and utter failure around the Afghan fiasco. They want to tarnish Labour. How despicable they and the Tories are. Never trust a Tory. Never trust the MSM.
Reform's Richard Tice has written to energy firms to inform them of the 'political risk' of Reform to renewables Labour official: “Reform are now actively trying to discourage businesses from investing in clean energy in the UK... "They are disgracefully... undermining the UK's national interest."
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