I have said it a 1000 times and will keep saying it - all forms of political lobbying need to be made illegal and where it happens those MP's / senior civil servants should be removed from office with immediate effect.
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I have said it a 1000 times and will keep saying it - all forms of political lobbying need to be made illegal and where it happens those MP's / senior civil servants should be removed from office with immediate effect.
"Private Healthcare Money in Politics: Who's Funding Our MPs? " privatisation.everydoctor.org.uk/wp-content/u... @everydoctor.org.uk "The Labour Party received four times as much in donations from donors connected to private healthcare as all other political parties combined"
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Excellent news and congratulations @zackpolanski.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We shall see. I have worked in the HE sector for 15 years and have seen the numbers of international students drop significantly in the last two years after a period of upsurge - evidence shows a drop of 4% last year and not looking good for this year, but what do I know 🤷🏻♂️.
Tells us (decent people) what we already know. Certain sections of the electorate are OK with it, perhaps because they are similar?
Sacked, Expelled, or in the Dock: All the Reform UK Councillors Nigel Farage Has Lost in Just Four Months Party faces questions over candidate screening after string of resignations, expulsions and criminal investigations
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This will have a devastating effect on the Higher Education sector, many organisations rely heavily on income from international students to keep financially afloat.
Delivering the populist vision 😕 (via BBC News)
Cooper has become a Faragist 😆
of course she has, always has had. What a load of garbage.
The Reform conference starts on Friday, Farage and Tice are going to plastered all over our media for the duration. Consequently, for the benefit of my mental health, all news media will be off limits.
Weird? 🤔
And me, and sadly they are not listening. My local MP (Labour) is someone I know and holds decent traditional Labour values. I am drawn to write to him as a concerned constituent & in being hopeful of a reply.
SFO ignored currency manipulation by Farage, Odey & others on Referendum day 2016. When Barclays rigged the Libor rate senior managers got away scot free. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
An interesting perspective, as a ‘leftist’ I have never considered voting for the Lib Dem’s. I have nothing against them, but their only appeal to me is for PR.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Listening to her on Sky News, Cooper is parroting a completely right-wing narrative re asylum seekers, using the language of Farage and his mob. I absolutely despair at the naivety & hypocrisy. Labour are finished. 😔
Repulsive
Won't riot about Water Companies, cost £16bn a year Won't riot about Banks, steal £82bn a year. Won't riot about Supermarkets, take £20bn a year, 4x in 3 years. Won't riot about Energy Companies, stealing £130bn a year. Will riot about Asylum Seekers, cost less than £3bn a year.
Back jogging with Couchto5K - Run#1 I did it during the summer of lockdown & got the running bug until my arthritic left knee stopped it over a year ago. Went out this evening with Mrs S and it was great 😊
CORRUPTION #Renationalise water
On Reddit - the wager thin veneer masking overt racism
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.
All my (grown up) children were / are very favourable to Corbyn.
Now confirmed August 2025 had the lowest boat crossings since 2019, and the fewest migrants on them since 2021. After a rough first half to the year, things could be turning round. Governments "one in one out" trial with France started at the beginning of August.
Show this to Tory motormouth Phil, he will then claim it as his own work.
Can't disagree with you Ed, but I suspect he is trying to disarm Reform, and he is misguided in doing so IMHO. I think we all accept that politics is corrupt, you only have to follow the money to work that out.
Which was documented by Orwell in The Lion and the Unicorn. The problem the left have in this country is unity.
I think a Starmer is trying to disarm Reform, sadly it won’t work - instead he needs to unite all of us who stand opposed to such hatred & rally to the counter argument - what he is doing is a strategic catastrophe.
Vile 😢 Now Adil, where are those protestors with their 🏴 seeking protection for the local women and children?
Novara reporting a 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault and possession of a knife in a public place after allegedly hurling racist abuse at families praying outside a mosque in Portsmouth, punching one man in the chest and pulling a knife. novaramedia.com/2025/09/01/k...
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Philp is astonishing in his approach, he simply looks like what he is, a useless motormouth.
That Reform verification scrutiny is going well...
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.
"Sorry small child fleeing a war zone. I'm afraid you can't join your parent here in safety because your English grammar isn't up to scratch."
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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.
Some good work the Labour government are doing 👏👏👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Done
Nigel Farage Slammed For Skipping Days Of Parliament To Be A 'Trump Cheerleader' In The States
How did it go (I can’t listen to his show - too stress inducing)?
Don't just take my word for it though electoral-reform.org.uk/campaigns/up...
Musk is chipping a lot?
Peak rail fares have been scrapped on ScotRail trains, meaning passengers will no longer pay higher prices for travelling during busy weekday rush hours. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Deb makes a very important point here. The populist media frenzy has disenfranchised the decent people of our society at the behest of Farage's hate filled agenda. We need to reclaim the agenda for the public good. This biased nonsense has to be stopped > decent politicians please challenge this
Good point, clearly they are the section of the electorate who the media & Farage are very focussed on right now.
I did this in 2017, safe to say not much has changed. "I do not like this Färagé twit..."
Interesting addendum to this story: David Lilley, a dìrector of Resolute 1850, has significant business interests in Russia, as Desmog has reported. Not that this would worry Reform's MAGA friends in the slightest. www.desmog.com/2024/06/26/m...
You don't need to be told but this current iteration of the Labour Party, is in thrall to Maurice Glasman and the Blue Labour bollocks.....🙄 www.theguardian.com/books/2022/s...
There are advisors to Starmer and McSweeney, offering 'intellectual heft' to Blue Labour's Social Conservatim. www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Musk has shadowbanned the 10 Downing Street account on X, and is stepping up his destabilisation antics as he pushes forward his efforts to control the entirety of Britain's electric power. We have to push back against this foreign chaos-merchant dividing this country with his hate.
Good read - science isn’t what it was in the US of A
@labourlewis.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @libdems.org.uk @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk 👆 This needs amplifying- NOBODY in public service should be using X, Musk has shadowbanned 10 downing street
Science is real
For god’s sake someone remind the bbc.
Carswell now confident enough to emerge from behind a thinly-disguised racist veil. 😡
This type of overt racism from a former MP emerging from his former shell is as pathetic as he is. It makes me deeply sad as well as very angry. Clearly ‘free speech’ to offensively abuse people is (for these nasty b’stards) ‘acceptable’.
Despicable
A premise that was/is unimaginable of the Labour Party. Although I am not sure this is the case, a lot of questions need to be asked. It may be a matter of time before the affiliated Unions withdraw their financial and political support.
Highly unlikely, Labour are on a journey where they are heading into a vortex of oblivion. As a member (on and off) for almost 40 years I have never seen anything like the current capitulation towards right-wing opportunism.
IMHO, a very grave mistake. They (the Labour Party) are repeatedly signalling to Farage that his regressive views on the ECHR & immigration are to some extent valid.
It’s what he has always done. Capitalism is in the severe distress. It is no longer fit for purpose, it is only fit for the very wealthy & privileged.
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Parenting & role-modelling hatred.
You don’t see this👇🏼news pushed by the BBC on its main news page like they “report” when Farage opens his mouth or a migrant lands etc.. #RightWingScum put a Union Jack on a Mosque to intimidate them.. So its leaders put it in a window saying 'This is our flag... we are proud British Muslims”👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼
Farage needs to be dealt with, as a matter of urgency.
Hilarious that the Torygraph sees itself as a bastion of the white working class, which of course it isn’t, never has been and never will be.
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Farage won’t take any responsibility for what he has created through his hatred of many people of this country. He needs dealing with, urgently.
Horrific - I am assuming that this has been reported to the police?
Dear Mr Farage,you like to ask questions, I'd like to know the name of this woman, we don't need to know the ethnicity in this instance she's clearly white. Will you be calling for a long prison sentence for her & her partner in crime? www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-n...
All about the money, as always. It only affects those in need who can’t afford private healthcare. Neoliberal capitalism is depressing.
It reminded me of Liverpool St, Central line.
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These regressive people seem to want to return to the good old days of the empire, of extreme poverty, of child labour, of poor health, of widespread disease. I wish they would read Dickens alongside non-fiction like Henry Mayhew.
It is all part of their entitled sinister playground.
I often repost other folk’s stuff, mostly as I see it as being part of a supportive community, and also that I couldn’t have put it any better myself.
Obviously there is no organisational memory as to why most of it was stopped many years ago?
Lack of infrastructure and services is the fault of 14 years of Tory mismanagement and misrule not immigrants. If a new housing development is built without improving local infrastructure we don't blame the new residents, if new parents don't buy a pram or a cot we don't say send the baby back.
"We've sold toys, clothes, ornaments, even used my kids' old birthday money, just to keep things going." The parents struggling to feed children during school holidays news.sky.com/story/weve-s...
Indeed…..
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Inevitable and so predictable in its appallingness.
This whole summer only one story has dominated our entire politics & it comes down to literally 30,000 people in hotels. Ridiculous. The government needs to get a GRIP it’s pathetic.
Me too 😎
They want it all, and it seems they will get it. Reform are a morally and ethical bankrupt.
The very real face of Reform
Reform Party, Tory & Labour hate speech amplified by mass media has consequences 'I feel truly heartbroken today. My Chinese takeaway, which has been serving this community for more than 10 years, was vandalized with hateful graffiti telling us to “go home.”' via Dragon house
If you just look at the language here. "Undeterred". This is a judgement of a Court of Appeal. Not a war against a common enemy. It's the small things that are eroding the rule of law in this country. And the Times has become a driving force in it.
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Utter bollocks as usual. The only mention of the ECHR was in confirming that it wasn't considered at all by the judges. Deliberate lying to incite hatred and division by the the frog-faced gobshite.
Ok, can ALL MPs tax affairs be investigated now, start with Reform then the Tories then all the other parties as this is fucking ridiculous www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I feel like abandoning my country right now (but I can’t). Life has got to be better than this ruination that we have had to endure since the Brexit catastrophe. Things are going to get much worse with the rise of populism, promoted by a fickle, spineless and some would say, ignorant media.