Reform media ban in Nottinghamshire is a disturbing glimpse of a future with Farage in power www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Reform media ban in Nottinghamshire is a disturbing glimpse of a future with Farage in power www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Nigel Farage is claiming to Congress that the UK gov deliberately withheld details of the Southport attacker from the public. This is dangerous and it’s false. The attacker was under 18, and so a court had to give express permission to release his name in exceptional circumstances, which it did.
Profoundly unhelpful and flat out untrue. No parent would endure the misery of the ECHP system unless they felt it was really necessary.
If Sky won’t give the story due prominence, we need to give it a little help. news.sky.com/story/nigel-...
Can't believe Farage ran away from further questions today after soiling himself under scrutiny. Reminds me of something. Can't quite put my finger on what...
I prejudged him by the way he was dressed. I was expecting a rant on how immigrants destroyed their way of living. Instead, he was well informed and spoke truthfully and authentically.
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
Nigel Farage blamed for small boats crisis after end of 'returns' deal for asylum seekers
🔥 🔥 "Her claims about the economy under her watch are about as credible as her place at Stanford University" PMQs is back with a bang!
Second Journalist I have seen only today who has been banned from the Reform conference
Angela Rayner should know the law is very clear on this and it is illegal to a working class woman in a position of power.
Farage, the multimillionaire man of the people. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey at PMQs: "The European Convention on Human Rights is a British creation that protects all our basic rights and freedoms, rights of children, survivors of domestic abuse...So will the PM categorically rule out withdrawing?" PM Starmer: "Yes" - but Govt is looking at reform
Speaking to Sky News ahead of his appearance before the US Houe Judiciary Committee, Nigel Farage talks about worries about the Online Safety Act and links it to the arrest of Graham Linehan. Linehan was arrested under the Public Order Act.
The ECHR is a British creation that protects us all. While other party leaders talk about leaving it, rewriting it or watering it down, Liberal Democrats stand firm.
Totally welcome #IDCards - indeed, as a non-driver I would personally welcome it. If you have nothing to hide, what's the problems. I'd cards are used across numerous countries in Europe.
Politico: "The Sun has seen evidence to [a US] committee submitted by Nigel Farage in which he suggests the White House should use “diplomacy and trade” in the free speech battle, which sounds like calling for Britain to be bullied into a law change." Is Farage calling for sanctions AGAINST the UK?
This'll be very telling when he comes to speak. If Farage uses his appearance in front of that committee to encourage a foreign state to bully his own country, he'll have crossed a very specific line.
Reform UK Council Leader George Finch asks ‘what is the point of cycle lanes?’ and calls for review of long awaited cycle route in Warwickshire. All whilst getting excited about the Tour of Britain running a stage through his county. Cycle route may be halted by Reform council review
Press/MSM, especially BBC, has found it impossible to accept that their one-time mates, the Tories, lost GE last year. They now have a new "hero," Farage, of course, and have "decreed" that he will be PM, asap. Labour must be hammered daily, and other progressive parties, eg Greens, swatted away.
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
Fucking hell, the Daily Heil has thrown it's toys out of the pram. They've become a real parody. The headline is something that Private Eye would turn out as satire. Hard left Rayner, really? How can anyone take this shit seriously? #DailyMail #Bonkers #UKPress #UK #Rayner
The UK is falling apart and the Media is ranting on about immigration, which hasn't really changed in 5 years, and is in fact going down. Perhaps their obsession is not because it is a big deal, but because the big issue is the rampant profiteering of their billionaire masters?
The Daily Fail sinks to another low tomorrow criticising Rayner’s dress sense. Stupid headline not to mention the misogyny!
It won’t matter what he does or says, people want to hear what these women have to say about Epstein, and we need the unredacted Epstein files to be released immediately.
Be careful out there…..
Somebody needs to remind Kemi Badenoch that the state no longer has control over North Sea oil and gas exploration, because her heroine Thatcher privatised Tony Benn's British National Oil Corporation
Funnily enough, I've never seen a Daily Mail front page expressing outrage at the number of homes owned by Lord Rothermere
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Strong start.
At least 15 Reform councillors have been suspended, expelled, or have quit since being elected earlier this year, with at least three facing criminal investigations, Byline Times can report. bylinetimes.com/2025/09/02/s...
I tried Almond milk for the first time and I like it - at least with cereal. I'm now one of those dreadful woke people your local Reform councillor warned you about.
How long did "Just stop oil" protesters get?
80% of murders in England and Wales are committed by white English males.
Elon Musk, one of the world’s most powerful and richest men is posting far right ideology. Remigration is commonly seen as a far right concept of ethnic cleansing. To deport migrants and their descendants to their place of racial ancestry. That would include me. Why are we not talking about this?
‘So Jo White, why are you 15 points behind Reform?’.. ‘so Sian Berry, why are the Greens not connecting?’ .. BECAUSE you the broadcasters are massively over platforming Reform. No one else can get a word in edgeways. Keep signing &pass on folks. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
More good renewable news. Powering 2 million homes is not a small project. BBC News - Morecambe offshore windfarm with 96 turbines wins approval - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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.
Shameful. You are more likely to be treated by immigrant in our NHS than be behind one in queue The reason there are 7.6 million on waiting lists, people are being treated on trolleys in corridors and you can’t see a GP is because for 14 years the Tories DELIBERATELY RAN DOWN YOUR NHS.
Perhaps this explains how Deform UK Ltd are polling so well. AI Derangement. https://werd.io/political-pollsters-are-trying-to-save-money-by-polling-ai-instead-of-real-people-and-its-going-about-as-well-as-youd-expect/
Well this is a good opportunity to wheel out Jonathan Gullis's Desecration of War Memorials bill. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...
This is a positive big development that should have dominated the UK news. What on earth has happened to Labour Comms?
Interesting read. There are many reforms needed in my opinion. But this could be a start
Nick Robinson sees an alternative to a world dominated by the U.S. as “anti-Western”, but never dares to call American hegemony what it is: white supremacist capitalist imperialism. Why? Because American dominance is seen as the default — both normal and desirable. #r4today
And today's news on every media platform: Immigration, small boats, migrants, small boats, immigration, migrants.... Repeat till the media gets the 'wasp nest poker' as PM!
Badenoch is so totally out of touch with her attacks on net zero. People support it and businesses are already well on that road and there is nothing she can do to stop that #r4today
This is how the Russian Wagner Group hired British citizens to carry out an attack in London.
Racism is a problem but Britain isn't drowning in hate, our right wing media is. When anti migrant protesters rage on the streets they're outnumbered by counter protesters, it's not reported. Reform poll high as many see them providing political change we must show the negative impact of that change
Henry Zeffman: “On no area will the public be watching more sensitively for signs of delivery than on migration”, but according to YouGov it’s only been top of voters concerns (knocking NHS off the top spot) since the 1st week of August. I’m v sceptical ‘the public’ are this fixated on it.. #R4Today
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
Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out And, the feathers it would ruffle My lovely followers, you know what to do: nationaltvawards.com/vote 🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Not that I want any action taken against refugees but Labour need to stop talking about this because it means we’re fighting Reform on their home territory we’re we’ll always be on the back foot! Better off making some significant announcements about the NHS! #r4today
🥳 NEW: Working parents now have access to 30 hours of government-funded childcare, saving families £7,500 and providing high quality early years education for children. Labour’s Plan for Change is putting money in parents’ pockets and giving children the best start in life.
Busy, positive start for the Gov. big announcements from Home Office, Foreign Office and a mega shipbuilding deal. Extra childcare hours come in and lowest August small boat crossings for 4 years. Keep up the good work!
![1. Towns and rural areas across the country will benefit from an additional £104 million to improve local transport 2. Investing £12.6m to boost UK agri-tech, building on clever innovations to cut costs, drive growth, 3. Strengthening border security and reforms to the asylum system - [ ] a 28% increase in returns of failed asylum seekers and a 14% increase in removals of foreign criminals. - [ ] Increased raids & arrests on illegal working by 50%, & cut the annual hotel bill by almost £1bn 4. August 2025 - lowest August Channel Crossings since 2021 5. Over half a million children to benefit from funded childcare from 1/9/25 6. New measures to tackle Corporate fraud come into effect 1/9/25 7. £10bn boost for Scottish shipbuilding as Norway selects UK warships. Biggest UK shipbuilding deal in history 8. Plans to build 14,000 prison places nationwide, work has begun in Devon 9. Treasury sold £5bn of 3yr gilts in an auction, more x3 oversubscribed. 10. £ has strengthened against other major currencies.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h4oe5ydbclpkhkocdjnaaaww/bafkreih2i47jl4fye5exj7vrmqpvfbhtdiypihl6b4vswgs47rtdgwlm5q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I'm wondering how Claire Cortina defines 'ordinary' people. #r4today
Done.
Rejoin isn’t the issue of the era. Racism is. Britain is drowning in hate. We can’t let Farage remake us into a truly nasty nation www.thenewworld.co.uk/paul-mason-r...
Rolling out around the country
Politico: "Reform [have another] press conference from 11 a.m. — though this one is focused on the new councils it controls" I wonder if the BBC (and other broadcasters) will continue the dire trend of broadcasting the whole thing with little counter or fact-checking
Parliament reopened today, but Nigel Farage was in Washington DC on his 10th trip to the US since becoming an MP. You don't get to earn £1m from 12 jobs by wasting time on what is meant to be your full time role.
Here are talking about immigrants AGAIN. Doing Farage's work for him. Von de Leyen's plane was hacked by Russia, hottest UK summer on record, Joe Bugner died, and an earthquake in Afghanistan, priorities, priorities... #Newsnight www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ffs, posts now saying what Starmer should have said about flags, they are basically echoing what Starmer said but using different words. Is he now expected to consult us all before he speaks.
This is a wonderfully detailed bit of reporting. On the other hand, Kemi Badenoch is adamant that Kemi Badenoch never commits gaffes…
Donald Trump is so terrible me of all people prefers the Catholic Church…
Nigel Farage has more TV time than any other politician with the exception of Keir Starmer, though some weeks he has more than him as well. You are being relentlessly forced every day by the Media to listen to a biased racist narrative that 80% of the UK do not agree with.
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
Twitter-brained Tories
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Bless Alf Dubs. 92 years old and still arguing for the rights of refugees, 86 years after he came to the UK. Wouldn’t it be nice if our politicians could regain some humanity and Alf Dubs could retire. Not looking likely, though, is it? #r4today
Can we keep the refugees, please, and send the xenophobic union-jack waving thugs back where they came from instead?
Best wishes to all the teachers about to head back to school. A much maligned, and under appreciated, role.
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from. I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR." It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
Massive, unalloyed good news that threatens to be eclipsed by the flag wars and the small boats. Let's talk ships and not boats... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The big dilemma - as they aim for government they lose their support base as they won’t be able to be the protest party they are anymore. If they stay as they are, they won’t have enough support to govern. Reform must grow up or it will face extinction www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...
Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians “The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy” eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...
Africa-born Carswell, aka Popeye, helped inflict Brexit on us and then fled to the US, from where he posts racist comments on social media.
🧵 Farage is whipping up anger against the ECHR with false claims (see thread). As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.” That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
🧵 Reform UK are truly a bunch of 🤪as a political party….they’ve invited a known conspiracy theorist who’s currently under investigation by the GMC to speak to their conference next weekend…
We’re almost there @mrjamesob.bsky.social at this point I feel it’s inevitable that someone will be seriously injured or killed. The government needs to step up before it’s too late apple.news/AwyBeYBplRYS...
Leave it to Labour to deal with boats big and small August confirmed lowest small boat crossings for any August since 2021 ✅ Largest export deal of large boats in our history worth £10bn to Norway ✅ Tides are changing for Britain.
The latest in the Telegraph's Angela Rayner obsession is she can vote in 3 constituencies and they're going on about that now. This is beyond a joke. Parliament resumes today and hopefully end this bollocks. I think she needs yo call a press conference and knock this crap on the head.
In the new Parliamentary session Pension Schemes Bill Water (Special Measures) Victims, Courts and Public Protection Bill Automated Vehicles Bill, Digital Information and Smart Data Bill, and Cyber Security Bill Product Safety and Metrology Bill Labour 👍
Transport & Energy in the new Psrliamentary session • Passenger Railway Services Bill & Railways Bill • Better Buses Bill • High Speed Rail Bill • Great British Energy Bill • National Wealth Fund Bill Labour act. 👍
Nigel Farage’s date in ‘court’.
Farage is whipping up anger against the ECHR with false claims. As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.” That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea.
The FT are running this headline about small boat crossing FALLING in August. Let’s see how much attention this gets in the rest of the press…. on.ft.com/4p0zWVf
"UK council tax is based on 1991 property valuations, grouped into eight price bands and paid by tenants. It is probably the world’s most unfair property tax: the poorest pay the highest tax as a percentage of property value and the richest the least."
Chris Philps lying through his teeth on BBC news just now. He knows perfectly well Tories caused this mess.
Badenoch's time as a credible politician is surely over. If this latest strange claim is true, she must produce documentary evidence of it. If not, she should step down from her position in the Tory party and resign as an MP. Her constituents don't need a liar representing them. #r4today #wato
Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik
If this had been a record high for August it would have made the front pages of the newspapers and be leading the news items on Sky, BBC and ITV Record low since 2019 meh...
The government’s failure to challenge Nigel Farage’s anti-immigrant message only emboldens people like these. If Reform get into power, things will get much, much worse.
on.ft.com/46eXCO6 Crossings of small boats to UK in August fall to lowest since 2019. Poor Nigel.
Anyone remember the brou haha re Angela Rayner's council house sale. She might as well wander round with a target on her back.
Reform UK are cited ahead of the actual Government in this piece. Farage's party continue to be given the VIP treatment by the Beeb
Futile to try, but an asylum seeker is someone running from life threatening situations/persecution. If you claim asylum in UK you need to be on UK soil. While your claim is processed you have to wait here. An illegal migrant is one who stays beyond, or has no UK visa or legal right to stay.