Ed doesn’t get a chance to be on camera most of the time.
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Ed doesn’t get a chance to be on camera most of the time.
I’ve been banned this year too!
If course Farage lies, his MO is clear, but it's bold doing it to congress
"The goalposts always move. Nothing clarifies that more than Nigel Farage getting everything he has said he ever wanted, only for another boil to fester around the issue of immigration – and guess what, only Reform UK can lance it!" 🎯 https://bit.ly/4ngYcRp
Here you go.
Maybe try the LDs? www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/23/w...
Yes I had a look on the Internet. I personally am not a Corbyn fan but you’re right, which is a plus point in his favour - if he carries through with it. But they’re not exactly seizing à momentum though, are they? www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/19/j...
My last hope for Your Party goes up in smoke as Zarah Sultana ‘welcomes’ Mark Serwotka. His wife founded a Woman’s Place UK, a TERF group constantly trying to rollback trans people’s freedoms and he even wrote this lovely piece calling for ‘respectful discussion’ about our rights: archive.ph/iPb0L
I was on @lbc.co.uk with Nick Ferrari this morning to explain one simple fact: the Home Office is the most anti-family department in government. Labour’s new family reunion policy is yet another in a long line of policies designed to stop people who move from building meaningful family lives.
Sigh. And I used to think he was okay. It’s all just so crap, isn’t it. And Starmer & Cooper’s sudden bout of flagshagging is so pathetic 😩
Very good, plain facts told simply. Maybe they should get some of those protestors to live in one of those hotels for a week?
Good bit of myth busting, which does also include comments by @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social and myself, for some of the utter nonsense churned out about people seeking asylum, and repeated unquestioningly by some media commentators in today's @bigissue.com. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Positively or negatively ?
This is what Starmer should do. Get his lawyer hat back on & go in to attack mode.
Farage is lying to Congress. He has banned journalists from his events. @bylinetimes.bsky.social, @desmog.com, @thenewworldmag.bsky.social and others were banned from Reform UK’s conference in Sept 2024 - even after buying tickets. @femi-oluwole.bsky.social was also removed from a Reform UK event.
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events: "I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens.
Far-right Farage bangs on about protecting children from 'foreigners'.... then turns up in a foreign country to badmouth laws protecting children
You just have to search the Internet to see pix of Trump & Epstein looking really quite chummy & definitely not strangers 🤷🏻♀️
BREAKING: Epstein survivor says that Jeffrey Epstein’s biggest brag was that he was friends with Donald Trump. She says he had an 8x10 framed photo on his desk of himself and Trump.
Indeed. Esp when most people were fed up of all this stuff when it was Tory stuff & voted them out.
Yes I expect she is 😜
From the Eye.
How Russia is jamming GPS around Europe on.ft.com/45XQeW5
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Remember all those positive plans for Wales that Reform included in the Welsh language version of their General Election ‘contract’? No - me neither because we’re still waiting for them to publish it! #refomarenotyourfriends
Good piece by Emily Maitlis, from June 18, 2024. "Britain is broken - because Nigel Farage broke it" Still spot-on today. Farage takes the side of people complaining about something - even if it's Brexit. archive.is/i5e8f
Collateral damage in the battle for Teesworks The stage is set for a damaging battle for the future of Lord Houchen’s signature project northeastbylines.co.uk/business/col...
She’s gone over to the dark side 🙄
Driving along the M20 the other week I was thinking how many millions of hours people have wasted because of the truck queuing system they had to set up
🚨🚨‘Wasted time, effort and money’: Britain’s £800M Brexit border debacle". If anyone forgot about it, this is a reminder of the still disastrous effects of #brexit that still brings misery and pain to Britain. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/brex...
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.
Amid all the stuff about ‘dangerous London’ and ‘broken Britain’, new figures show the homicide rate in London is at a 10-year low. Killings dropped by 26% over the last year, from 78 to 58. No one under 25 was murdered during the school summer holidays.
There is UK's Catch 22. This Labour Govt idea would also make the UK the true, genuine vassal state the Brexiters always falsely claimed the UK was when **a member with representation**..... Fucking nuts innit? The Brexit denials continue. 5/5
Again worth pointing out these facilities *were NEEDED* for the Brexit that UK wanted, negotiated & got. Some of us been warning since 2016 UK would not have ops ("red tape"personnel) capacity it needed for this. Brexit choices were always as follows...1/5 www.politico.eu/article/brex...
Hospital network to advise using seat belts again as vehicle collisions rise
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Council taxpayers in Portsmouth were set to be paying part of these costs. news.sky.com/story/uk-por...
'A very sorry saga of wasted time, effort and money.' Politico on the hundreds of thousands invested into near-redundant border inspection facilities because of Brexit. www.politico.eu/article/brex...
The government is changing the law to stop the Sentencing Council issuing new guidelines to courts in England and Wales without the explicit approval of the justice secretary Under new rules, Shabana Mahmood will have veto powers over new sentencing guidance issued by the independent public body
Ludicrous poll. Far as I know, the country is still alive & kicking & working. Bonkers poll from à bonkers excuse of a ‘newspaper’ 🙄
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Fml ! The fecking nerve of her 🤬
The UAE-based campaigner has called for a ban on speaking in foreign languages at public protests ✏️ Rats in a Sack
Reform claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending its conference tells a very different story ✏️ @jamesrball.com
NEW: An NBC News joint interview with six women who say they were sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein or convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... They want Trump to release the Epstein documents and not pardon Maxwell.
This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
What a trustworthy bunch. Must get out my big England flag....
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Dogs pissing on lamp posts to mark their territory springs to mind. These people are like sheep just jumping on the jingo jolly bandwagon and making our streets look like something that 7 year olds put together.
So the Beeb platform them 🙄 And print his words about ‘taking the mickey’ 🙄 Do you really get in a rubber feckin dingy, having paid someone a lot of money, and cross dangerous waters with a reasonable likelihood of drowning, to go somewhere just to ‘take the mickey’ ffs. Grow up mate.
Absolutely agree.
Sadiq has been a great mayor. He’ll be difficult to replace.
Broken Britain and no go London latest. New figures show the homicide rate in London is at a 10-year low. Killings dropped by 26% over the last year, from 78 to 58. FACTS!
#politicslive your weekly reminder from AA Roadwatch, avoid the Westminster area around midday due to another car crash by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch at #pmqs
I hope so …
The Home Secretary's decision to stop people fleeing from war and torture from reuniting with their families should shame this Government, argues refugee rights campaigner Nick Beales
The far right flagshaggers, chancers & criminals. Reform Party Ltd is their natural home. Running the UK down Rivers of Piss: taking it, producing it in the streets. Rotten & corrupt from the top down.
And Lib Dems are 3rd largest party.
One of the main issues is who controls the media. Without that there’s no fairness, balance or even truth in politix.
Yes. Some have had repeat Covid infections - the PM himself has had it twice. I know others who’ve had it more than that. One, five times.
There is only fleeting immunity. Fauci said this ages ago.
Extract from interview with Fauci and he’s right
Oh man, this is stupid..."shrinking" the size of the asylum system is a useless mindset, did they learn nothing from the NHS Crisis? If you shrink the size of a service, you just increase the workload unto that smaller service. What results is probably more backlogs 🤦♂️
It’s not even all immunosuppressed. Most who shielded aren’t getting one. How conditions like chronic copd aren’t covered is ridiculous.
It really is. It doesn’t even make sense. There’s a far bigger offer on flu this year than Covid yet isn’t Covid more dangerous? Many studies say it is. And most don’t test for it anymore or wear masks. www.gov.uk/government/p... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39154585/
And why do they admit vax protection wanes but not offer it to those who’ve not had one for years? Or admit that immunity from previous infections also wanes, if it even existed.
Yet they admit “COVID-19 spreads more easily in winter because we spend more time indoors with others.” And who spends most time in busy classrooms? Or in nursing/residential homes? Our kids & care workers. Our vax offer is worse than USA’s under Trump. ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/26/w...
And despite having had a minister for LongCovid (has he even been replaced?) the vax offer from Labour for this winter is minimal. 65-75 now will have to buy a vax if they want one. Care home workers won’t even get one to protect them from LongCovid. Nothing for kids unless immunosuppressed.
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So much has gone into the denial of harms. counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/hartleaks-...
We must talk about #COVID because the misinformation on the vaccine is key to the popularity of Reform. The US & UK politics are entwined and from 2020 lobby groups popped up drowning out the voices of medically vulnerable folks & parents voicing concerns. 🧵 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Absolutely sickening, and we're going to see more and more incidents like this as long as politicians keep giving succor to bigots. They need to be out there making it clear this is totally unacceptable, all the time they don't they have blood on their hands.
Warehouses? What next, cattle trucks? Would she like to live in a warehouse ffs?
Thought exactly this listening to Cooper on Today this morning. If you’re saying that the far right is essentially correct, then don’t be surprised when the whole political terrain moves in their direction
I can’t even begin to understand what Starmer is doing 😩
Brexit was always and is a colossal act of self harm. It is a neoliberal wet dream and continues to debilitate the UK. Erecting barriers to our biggest trading partner (similar to current US Tarrifs) leads to loss of markets and downgrading of trading relationships. These do not return easily.
#BrexitHasFailed because #BrexitWasNeverGoingToWork
Were always going to be transition costs to Brexit, but the absence of clear endpoint and indecisive govts have made those even bigger than they needed to be www.politico.eu/article/brex...
Totally agree
I’m not sure what’s on my bingo card, but I think Corbs & Zarah maybe being kindof usurped. They may not have seized the moment.
Guess it’s difficult to have a pact with a party that doesn’t really exist yet 🤷🏻♀️
Yes, me too & yes, that’s possible.
It’s already failing with Labour’s attempts at out-Reform-ing Reform 😩
Yes, this is another appalling policy & optic from Labour.
Damp fur is just the limit, though 🤷🏻♀️
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The BBC uncritically platforming fascists is a growing problem in the UK. This article allows Reform UK's Tice to spout his unevidenced claims with no attempt at balance. #ReformUK #SEND #UKPolitics www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’m listening. Also to the LDs who want back in Europe. Maybe LDs & Greens should work together instead of Corbyn’s not-yet-existing party?
Yes, agree, it’s a ludicrous policy.
Crackdown on international students could hurt struggling UK cities. Billions lost to local economies. Education is a major export, being systematically harmed by xenophobic policies of successive govts. Students going elsewhere, loss of UK soft power. Exclude students from immigration total.
Tens of millions of partridges are bred in cages, raised in sheds, and then dumped into fields, just to be shot for fun. This is all legal. And it’s happening right now across Britain. We’re campaigning to end bird shooting once and for all. Please follow us and join the fight. ✊🌱
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social Hi Victoria: can newsnight look into why we have pensioners attacking Filipino NHS workers in parks please? Douglas carswell is posting race hate. It's all linked and I hope the media can begin to pull this apart. bsky.app/profile/doct... bsky.app/profile/doct...
Fartage accused Starmer of lying 🤷🏻♀️🙄 Pot kettle imo
Yes they really really should #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles 👍🏼
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles you say? They really should #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #BeforeHeDies
“Studies show that COVID infection causes developmental delays in babies and toddlers and neuropsychiatric disease in children age 5 to 19.”
With Labour now sending out hostile letters to international students, along with pushing every dehumanising, discriminatory, potentially illegal in cases, pointless anti-asylum policy which pop into their heads, it's worth remembering this is all their choice and better, humane, alternatives exist👇
😢 so sorry. As if it’s not hard enough for you & yours without Tice sticking his ugliness in 🤬
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