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The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.
The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.
Double standards or downright hypocrisy?
↓ Strong argument below ↓.
Can we also stop supplying weapon parts to Israel, suspend trade and impose a sports and cultural boycott to try and ensure there's a Palestine left to recognise?
It all sounds rather familiar, doesn't it?
I don't think I've ever been more ashamed to be British than I was over the last few days, watching the mango shitgibbon being courted by our government and monarchy like some all-powerful emperor. His crimes, his racism, his hatred of democracy, his support of our enemies... WTF were they thinking?
Same here Tina.
Russia - The bullying masks the inferiority complex; the insistence on imperial glory conceals the fear that without it, the system will collapse. An excellent article by @johnsipher.bsky.social on the weakness behind Russia's imperial pretensions. tomorrowsaffairs.com/putins-lies-...
Moscow thinks it can keep its war going. We are making sure it pays the price for it. Today, we present our 19th sanctions package. Every sanction reduces the Kremlin’s ability to wage war. We won’t stop putting pressure on Russia until it ends its war.
28% feel less safe than when Labour got into power.
Would it be too much to ask for the BBC (and others) to cease de-humanising people and call them "people" instead of "migrants"? All of these people are human beings - somebody's daughter, someone's son, sister or brother, somebody's loved one. They have not broken any law and deserve respect.
The UK needs a contingency plan for the very real possibility that the the US ceases to be a functioning democracy within the next year. That has to include accelerated re-integration with the rest of Europe.
Glad to see someone else raise this point.
Labour MPs are cheering on getting deeper into bed with Palantir.
A lot started to go wrong when we ceased to a very large extent to have journalists on TV talking to real people about real life - their lived experiences - but plumped instead for journalists talking to journalists about what their media organisations perceive to be real life.
Rip-off Quarter of the average UK energy bill funds profits. 2010-2025: Privatised energy companies paid £70.7bn in dividends In high winds, turbines turned off as system can't transmit/store electricity. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty. Many businesses destroyed by high energy bills.
Another one bites the dust... bromsgrovestandard.co.uk/news/by-elec...
One way to bypass the unwelcome and unnecessary appeasement of Trump by the UK gov. Well done Channel 4.
“Love of British royalty should not be confused with respect for the country’s political system.” Starmer will talk of shared values. “But that would be a polite fiction. In reality, Trump shares values with Farage, leader of Reform and the man who wants Starmer’s job.” www.ft.com/content/37b4...
How Project 2025's Blueprint Links Trump's "Freedom Cities" to Britain's Corporate Coup. Musk's speech at Tommy Robinson's far-right protest was not random, it served the broader project of destabilising democratic institutions to accelerate the free zone agenda. open.substack.com/pub/european...
Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has called on the Prime Minister to rule out any future contracts the Government could have with Tesla after Elon Musk told protesters to “fight back or die” and that “violence is coming” at the far-right rally over the weekend
Proof, if proof were needed, that current climate is the result of organised, sustained disinformation. "Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974." ~AA www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Lib Dems now saying that the Government should target Tesla in response to Musk’s call for regime change in the UK. “We need to hit him in the pocket where it hurts,” the source said.
UK Govt must change course. Increase purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. WRONG At the very least abolish VAT on domestic fuel, reduce std rate of VAT, lift personal allowance by £1,000. Shift the cost to the rich.
If this doesn't motivate him, what will? bsky.app/profile/blad...
Violent thugs not patriots
The people marching in London today are very obviously the ideological descendants of the Mosleyite BUF fascists of the 1930s. The mainstream news and media are too timid to point it out, but that's what they are - and we normalise it at our peril.
Senior Labour MPs and the UK’s largest anti-fascist campaign group have called on Keir Starmer to mount a more heartfelt defence of diversity and anti-racism. They say they fear that Labour is not yet putting its “heart and soul” into the battle against Nigel Farage and the far right.
Tommy Robinson is a fascist traitor working for Putin. Please repost. People need to know the truth about this fake patriot and petty criminal.
🗺️ Why is Russia trying to provoke NATO? 🌍 The most important story being squeezed out of the headlines. Listen. Share.
If this isn't incitement, what is?
Horrifying.
Significant. History will remember those who were on the right side. www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...
Britain doesn’t just need redistribution. We need to stop rents from swallowing wages, stop monopoly profits, and rebuild public capacity. Starmer’s new adviser won’t go there, says Prof Richard Murphy @eastangliabylines.co.uk
The rot set in a year ago when McSweeney won the battle against Sue Gray, and she was ousted. It’s been a disastrous journey for Starmer ever since
Denmark buys Franco-Italian SAMp/T air defense system, eight long-range systems to be purchased for the tidy sum of €7.8bn. This shows the change in Europe, two years ago I'm pretty sure the purcase would have been the US, Patriot system. Great choice, Denmark! www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/QMG...
Fortunately, other parties are available who wouldn’t be so shortsighted. Labour are condemning the UK to political and financial isolation.
If Starmer dropped Mandelson as US Ambassador because of disturbing emails to Epstein Surely Starmer should cancel Trump's state visit because of video evidence of Trump partying with Epstein?
No other party says the basic truth: migration is good for Britain. The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services. That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.
Mandelson is gone.
THE TIMES (Exclusive): Peter Mandelson urged Tony Blair to meet Epstein in secret memo Officials have stopped the 2002 note becoming public, fearing it could damage UK-US relations Paywall: archive.md/B7Poh
Yvette Cooper used to have some relatable qualities. But these days she reminds me of Liz Truss trying out human behaviour in front of the mirror.
This is another Starmer attack line that won't work because it rests on the assumption that 1) Polanski is insincere, 2) that Starmer isn't and 3) that Starmer himself is the real progressive. And that just doesn't land
It was a bit cringe when Tony Blair & George W. bonded over using the same brand of toothpaste, but the UK ambassador & POTUS sharing menbership of the world’s most notorious child-rapist/sex trafficker’s fan club is orders of magnitude more grotesque.
Here's part of Peter Mandelson's birthday message to "my best pal" Jeffrey Epstein.
Journalists questioning Nigel Farage should be pointing out Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings. How hard can this be? youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...
Mandelson to praise Trump as maverick 'risk taker' and paint Brexit as a liberating force. Heaven help us news.sky.com/story/mandel...
Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.
Farage fishes with immigration bait but reels in Russian-style oligarchy for Britain. He diverts earnings into ‘Thorn in the Side Ltd’ to cut his tax bill and bought his Clacton home in his partner’s name to avoid higher stamp duty. But if his bigger project leaving ECHR succeeds, he won’t need ..
It's so refreshing to finally hear an English party leader saying the things we've been screaming online for years. Every word he says here is true! 💥💥💥 #GreensUK 🌻
not seeing 'concerned mums' here, more like 'thugs threatening violence'
"What happened in Congress demonstrates that when he's really held accountable, Farage has no answers." Green Party leader Zack Polanski believes the UK's 'free speech problem' has been created by "irresponsible politicians" to create hate and division www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
Fash music festival in Great Yarmouth called off www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/2543569...
This is great! 💥💥💥 Finally someone is telling the truth about immigration! We've been waiting a decade for an English party leader to say this. To change the narrative. To stand up to the far-right lies. #GreenUK 🌻 [SOUND ON🔊]
As Yvette Cooper pushes forward new laws to make it harder for child refugees to get safe passage to join their parents in the UK, here's a picture of her from 2020 campaigning for the complete opposite.
I think we’re just going to have to take Starmer at his word and assume he’s become a nativist. At some point the mask becomes the face.
“In April 2025, Starmer was instrumental in continuing Palantir’s capture of crucial digital infrastructure in UK public institutions, he oversaw Coventry City Council’s signing of a £500,000 deal with Palantir for a "strategic AI platform"”
Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". -seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951. This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
This is strange when so many blokes are putting up flags and call themselves patriots and yet polls show that most people wouldn't want to fight for their country. Bit of a mismatch there.
I see that the folk who stretched interpretations of law / politics to absurdity around Brexit are now doing the same about leaving the ECHR. Is there an Article 24 we can invoke? Read this instead... davidallengreen.com/2023/07/why-...
Very sad news from France - turtle dove hunting is being reauthorised. Appalling decision.
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.
A brilliant and important read. 👇👇
Signed and shared.
🚨 NEW PETITION 🚨 The UK–US trade deal is being forced through with NO vote, NO consultation, and NO impact assessment. Parliament must decide — not ministers behind closed doors. ✍️ Sign & share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... #SaveBritishFarming #StopTheDeal
British journalists have called on Keir Starmer to protect their Gazan counterparts and press Israel to allow international reporters into the war zone news.sky.com/story/britis...
I'm boycotting the state banquet to send a message to both Donald Trump and Keir Starmer that they cannot close their eyes and wish away the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Donald Trump can stop this catastrophe in Gaza and get the hostages released. youtu.be/4MqPsjiage8
76% of Brits support EU youth mobility scheme. 👏👏👏 Time to remove the Brexit blockade on our youth.
I’m a British white woman. My family heritage can be traced back centuries. Farage will never speak for me, in fact no racist or fascist ever will. My country falls apart without immigration & it loses its soul when we mistreat those in need. Farage can go to hell, he doesn’t get to destroy the UK.
The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
So far, the Lib Dems and Greens are the loudest voices in response to Reform. Maybe this is why Nandy has done sweet FA on reform of the BBC and media.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Here's another question for the PM's spokesperson: 'Does the PM feel confident that he can win a sufficiently large number of Reform-curious voters to make up for those he's lost to Ed Davey?' Asking for a friend. And another friend. And myself. And a whole bunch of other friends.
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Nigel Farage pretending to be patriotic while pledging to rip up Britain's proud record of leading the world on human rights.
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Looking at the upside, it could be working as aversion therapy!
Leaving the ECHR would also end ... 🔥 Your freedom of speech 🔥 Your right to a fair trial 🔥 Your right not to be discriminated against 🔥 Your right to choose whether or not you have children 🔥 Your right not to be tortured 🔥 Your right not to be forced into slavery Sounds great, doesn't it?
Tired and old but still bloody dangerous.
The BBC grandstanding of Farage and his desire to leave the ECHR on TV this morning with no reference to the dire negative influence of that - confirms they have joined the right-wing propaganda campaign.
Courts would block Farage’s ‘mass deportation’ plan using common law, says former attorney general
This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
The Government admits our voting system is broken, and that's why they're scrapping it for electing Mayors in the Devolution Bill. But if it’s not good enough for Mayors, it’s not good enough for General Elections. Please sign our letter. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/176552/...
Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit
Unless the centre left can start working together proactively, a Farage-led govt is shaping up to be a cert in less than 4 years' time.
Public opinion may already be reflected in the decline in Israeli goods imported by the UK. 🧵1/3
Action on starting to form a progressive alliance to stop Farage becoming PM needs to be happening NOW. @werahobhouse.bsky.social
Another example of why a progressive alliance will almost certainly be needed to stop Farage becoming PM
It seems the only way to clean up our act is to join the EU www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain can’t afford Elon’s next power trip. Today I’ve written to the Energy Secretary urging him to block Musk’s electricity supply licence. The government should be putting the national interest first, not worrying about upsetting Elon Musk.
Don’t ever bother telling me that this flag-hysteria is a flurry of enthusiastic patriotism. Because we’ve managed to paint ourselves into a very dark corner with that particular claim. There is nothing to be proud of here. This is just another ugly spasm of insecurity, prejudice and threat.
It can be distressing to see European leaders trying to suck up to Trump but remember one of Rome’s greatest military heroes was Fabius Maximus Cunctator, ‘the Delayer’, who defeated Hannibal by stringing him along while Rome rebuilt its armies and resources. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus...
Some excellent news. "More than 16.1 GW of new renewable energy capacity spread across 323 projects was given permission to start building during the second quarter of this year - 195% rise on the same quarter last year." www.ft.com/content/926a...
I should add some nuance to this point - access to work is different across EU countries & there remain many barriers. But in some countries it's working well. We should be matching asylum seekers with language & skills training in areas where we need workers to get the best for all
Thanks for rightly countering it Ian.
Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.
Zoe Gardner: asylum seekers should be able to work while their claims are processed. Yes! It was the last Lab govt that removed their right to work, talked about bogus asylum seekers swamping our schools, introduced vouchers & opened Yarls Wood. And here we are #GMB
Agree, and I was outnumbered in today's YouGov Daily Chat about flags: 'When you see a British (St George's) flag flown on a home, car or lamppost – what’s your honest first reaction?' 'Positive – it shows pride and spirit' - was the response of 52% of the participants!
Bin the Blue Labour defensive identity bullshit, bin the "these people have a point actually" which just encourages the worst racists and narcissists, you were elected because you were supposed to be offering something more positive. Do it.