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I watched the Kemi Badenoch interview so you don't have to iandunt.substack.com/p/i-watched-...
This is all just magnificent. I would use up my superlatives on the Badenoch piece but then I’d have none left for the bit about online ‘pile-ons’. Well worth a subscription.
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OMG… meanwhile Jeremy Hunt “forgot” to declare that he rented out 7 properties…and went on to become Chancellor…?? The world has gone mad.. Good luck @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social 🙏🙏❤️🌹
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Sadly true
The Bank of England is expected to cut interest rates again today, taking them to the lowest for two years. Despite many headlines suggesting the economy is in bad shape, it is actually trending exactly as the BOE predicted earlier this year, where further rates cuts were predicted. 1/2
Whenever I hear him, Farage or the rest continually attacking and demonising the most vulnerable people I wonder the same thing…do they look in the mirror and say “yep, I did good today…” ?
Every single time the Tories are in power, they close services and slash funding Labour are about to fund a wide range of youth services, to divert young people away from online harms, as part of a wider strategy which includes online safety
A miscalculation? What is wrong with the BBC? It is the act of an ignorant conspiracy theorist who is a danger to public health.
Absolutely 💯 The country is all of us and thankfully that includes people of all races, sexual orientation, religious affiliation and gender… we’re stronger for being diverse and we’re better than Rupert Lowe and co…… 🙏🙏❤️
"People who are 'too poor to pay tax' find a spare half billion quid to pay UPFRONT for something that's entirely voluntary." There, I fixed it for you. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Just the supposed ‘paper of record’ bemoaning the fact that asylum seekers have *human* rights and may be able to enforce them. Accompanied - ultra cynically - by a photo of Human Rights lawyer, Amal Clooney, at a glamorous fundraiser. What a sly and deeply unpleasant rag The Times now is.
The ground of refusal of readmission by France that the Times article whines about is simply taken from the Schengen Borders Code. Another variation on the Brexity trope that only the UK can legitimately have border controls.
It’s also disturbing for those of us who are living here shocked by this Far Right hysteria
This is true. I live in Italy. The UK media has been whipped into a hysterical disinformation frenzy by Farage and this, in turn, has led half the population (polls are clear) to lose the plot. For anyone who lives abroad and follows British news, it is quite evident, striking and disturbing.
Reform UK Councillor for @durhamcouncil.bsky.social Darren Grimes has called for zero migration. His Facebook posts are a hub for disgusting comments with no moderation. Here’s an example on this post. When is the council going to protect their reputation and enforce their code of conduct?
This isn't new. UKIP and the Brexit Party did it. But boy oh boy the price has gone up
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“Whatever happens, the damage that has already been done by the constant media indulgence of Farage and his divisive, inflammatory and outright racist views will take many years for this country to recover from.” Yes. A disgraceful, unforgivable failure. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-dog...
It’s also anti tackling climate change because they’re funded by fossil fuel companies
Been a lone voice for weeks, saying that RefUK have not maintained momentum. Been bobbing around 29-30% despite LUDICROUS media help. They're now going backwards (-2pts on latest YouGov poll, compared to a week ago). And I bet, once JC's party is in the mix, they will lose another couple of points.
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Rebuilding the NHS The NHS isn’t broken because of staff; it’s broken because of systems. Labour must lead with reform that restores trust, strips back bureaucracy, and delivers care with purpose northeastbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
Nick Timothy did delete his post but did not apologise. More fundamentally, Timothy was criticising the police for protecting the delivery person from a racist mob. Not sure how, if he *had* been working illegally, that makes it ok?
In 2022, Nadhim Zahawi’s solicitor sent me a libel threat - and said I wasn’t even allowed to say he’d written to me. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ruled that was improper. Now he’s appealing. A 🧵 on why it matters.
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
This is a direct result of the deliberate conflation of two very different things the huge number of people Colin here to work on legitimate visas and the tiny number of people arriving on small boats…the media failure to challenge this Far Right conflation is now having real impact
Nobody challenged Farage when he said this. If you send a plane to a country without prior landing permission the crew would be arrested. No pilot would fly the plane and nobody would insure it. It’s not going to happen.
“When the oppressed becomes the oppressor…. “ How very sad that the state of Israel has become the newest perpetrator of genocide having so recently seen the Jewish people victims of the worst genocide in history….
You need to understand that Israel are doing EXACTLY what the Nazis did. The same lies, the same starvation, the same constant resettlement, the same abhorrent War Crimes. All for the same purpose, extermination.
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The Guardian view on Nigel Farage and ‘lawless Britain’: dangerous hyperbole has real-life consequences www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
He’s utterly irresponsible and hopefully people will now realise just what a dangerous liar he is.. 🙏🙏
Meanwhile, Farage has admitted he was "slightly inaccurate on the details" on GBeebies, but apparently "the gist" of what he was saying was right. Because, APPARENTLY, bussing people to a protest is fundamentally the same as maintaining the peace when a group that wants to protest turns up.
She’s definitely got a screw loose
The UK must immediately recognise Palestinian statehood. There can be no two state solution if there is no viable state left to call Palestine.
Precisely…the reason they are using “irregular” methods to travel is due to the lack of safe routes….
*Every* single time a politician uses the phrase "Jumping the queue" with respect to migrants as James Cleverly has just done they should immediately be asked "What queue?" and the journalist should insist on the details of how people can join this queue.
"A darkened room in central London. Curtains drawn to keep the lawbreakers out. A few dozen brave journalists who have dared to walk the streets. Mugshots of convicted criminals line the walls on video screens. Though weirdly, none of James McMurdock." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Effective Opinion page in the iPaper. The Torygraph succumbing to… or, more cynically, helping Farage peddle… the fear he’s selling. The hope he offers is a mirage. A fake light at the end of a dark and never-ending tunnel of hatred, prejudice and failure. The fear shoves you into the tunnel.
Wasn’t he supposed to be one of their “moderate” ones….
James Cleverly set against Angela Rayner with the housing brief. This James Cleverly: Cleverly was one of 72 MPs who voted against requiring landlords to ensure rental homes are “fit for habitation”—a proposal many described as simple common decency
Well done as always to John Crace…if he can expose this what’s preventing our leading TV “political journalists” from doing it…? Genuine question….
Thank god for sketch writers… Welcome scorn for the sinister clownshow that is Farage and his entourage of frothing halfwits. “Don’t believe the stats that show violent crime is going down, says Farage: just turn the graphs the other way up and use your own data” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Busy day for Labour yesterday here’s a few ✅ Ofwat abolished, Sizewell C gets green light ME patients to get care closer to home Football Governance Act gets royal decree £63m investment in clean aviation fuel Changes in law to help victims in miscarriage of justice.
Yep. We're in the fight of our lives here. I have more confidence about the next election than most but the stakes could not be higher.
He wouldn’t last 2 minutes with a decent political interviewer
Farage is an absent MP, earning a fortune from side grifts. His ‘party’ is in hock to fossil fuel donors. He’s pro Trump, pro austerity (DOGE) and his ‘policies’ are nothing more than ugly populist hogwash that have done real damage to our country. Would that be so hard to point out #bbclaurak?
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Scarborough Town Council faces scrutiny over 600% increase in Reform UK Mayor’s allowance www.thescarboroughnews.co.uk/news/politic...
What on earth does that imbecile look like….
The govt's reforming democracy paper isn't perfect, but it's a serious attempt to make registration easier, to reduce barriers to participation and to increase the number of people voting. That's a very welcome contrast with the last govt's approach to electoral reform. www.gov.uk/government/p...
The latest employment data is out today. Many in the media are leading with unemployment being up from 4.6% to 4.7%. Some mention wage growth is down to 5% from 5.5% - but fail to mention it's still well above inflation. Nearly all are ignoring that employment rates are up from 75% to 75.2% 1/2
Suella’s husband. More fuel for my theory that Johnson is about to jump across?
Doctors, scientists, police, nurses, the Armed Forces, librarians, teachers. Anyone notice that Reform UK call the people trying to help other people ‘woke’ all the time? It's all they've got.
Sadly very true… if media amplifies the Far Right paradigm that somehow immigration is the problem in every issue then the same media will always report the Far Right perspective on every issue…it’s a deadly circular doom loop and we’re stuck in it
Is the reason why Kemi Badenoch didn't raise the Afghan data leak at #PMQs Because she couldn't be bothered to turn up to the security briefing offered to her in March?
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As Maya Angelou said “when someone shows you who they are believe them the first time..”
Utterly shameless from Reform, portraying Labour restoring mayoral elections to a more representative voting system as some sort of anti-Reform stitch up, while failing to mention that their own manifesto campaigned for the nationwide introduction of PR
Ex-Reform MP faces calls to trigger by-election after ‘taking £70k Covid loans while pocketing salary from City job’ www.yourthurrock.com/2025/07/13/e...
Exactly… I was shocked this week to realise that he was only forced out of power 3 years ago…! By his own MPs btw… sick of his relentless lies
To think that this desperate tabloid Rod Liddle knock-off was once a Prime Minister.
Hard to pick a “winner” in that particular “beauty contest”… 😂
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Truth bombs from the man who got sacked twice for lying, lied to Parliament, lied to The Queen, cheated on two wives, partied while people died, agreed the worst Brexit deal possible and promoted sex pests.
I think I probably can…. 😂
A few years ago, Eurostar stopped services picking up passengers in Kent. They cited Brexit as a key reason. You'll never guess which party has started a campaign to reverse the decision. 🤔 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
This is spot on. Farage doesn’t want to stop the boats… yet… They’re his daily ‘Breaking Point’ poster made flesh… His political strength relies on the hatred, prejudice and disinformation he can whip up on beach watch. Humane solutions scare the hell out of him. @adamboulton.bsky.social The iPaper
This will probably come as no surprise to anyone leftfootforward.org/2025/07/from...
Rwanda was a colossal failure in every way and everyone knows it. The fact that the Tories are still pushing it as a policy is an utter embarrassment.
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I thought that the BBC said they were “making the political weather…” ? 😂
Haven't seen this written up in some media outlets, unlike their third (yes THIRD) place finish in a Scottish Parliamentary by-election... www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...
He’s like the pub drunk droning on in the corner increasingly ignored by the punters
“For the few not the many”
The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.
Covering the small boats 'deal' without referencing Macron's irrefutably accurate observation that blame for the 'crisis' lies with Brexit involves contortions so violent that the people doing it should be in a circus.
Anyone with a functioning cortex will agree with Macron about Brexit. We were sold a lie and what has happened since is the exact opposite of what was promised. One would hope the UK government approve of his comments.
He’s looking increasingly isolated and very much “yesterday’s man”….. despite all the media building him up and his sad, racist @reformukscotland.bsky.social
The country has moved forward and a significant amount of people want closer ties with Europe and to rejoin as soon as possible. But Nigel Farage’s default position hasn’t changed for nearly 20 years. We don’t want these dinosaurs leading our country. We want people who evolve
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Are these economists in the room with us now, Dick?
Absolutely 💯 As Samuel Johnson said “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel”
Sure know how to back a winner, Jake Berry.
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The thickest of the thick and the most racist of the racists..
Britain will always be an increasingly irrelevant backwater and laughing stock for as long as people like this dominate its commentariat. She really is an imbecile, can barely believe she is an adult.
Brexit has been such an abject disaster that all the people who lied to get it now have absolutely nothing to say about it whatsoever….
“Rather than generate “global Britain”, leaving the EU has had one simple effect: economic harm. Without Brexit, they [Britain’s services] would have done even better” Ugh Brexit What an endlessly tedious and costly drain on our resources, our prosperity and our patience www.ft.com/content/3e9d...
“With few seats in Parliament, no coherent policy platform beyond his usual outrage machine and no serious political capital in Europe, Farage is not being snubbed. He is simply being treated according to his actual political relevance” 👏 Let’s keep it that way www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/macron-snu...
Yup.
Prospective Reform UK candidates who previously failed the party's vetting processes have been told to reapply under what the party describes as new "common sense" rules prioritising "freedom of expression" bylinetimes.com/2025/07/07/r...
Great news …. Sure Start was one of the great achievements of the Blair/Brown Labour government 👏🌹
Has he lasted longer than 45 days?
Or was he thrown out of office in disgrace by 63 of his Ministers resigning in 24 hours in disgust at his outrageous lies and treating us like fools with his endless #Covid parties..? No, I don’t think so…