Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
And 100,000 protesting in support of retaining trans people's rights are ignored, as did you
See timeline, and don't make enemies of your friends.
My response overlapped your, welcome, additional post in response to the many prompts. You're no enemy of mine afaik
Slight amendment to 1: ANY opposing voices are treated as noises off. If a government once thought to be of the left will not reform a press that is so clearly partisan then that government is either craven or complicit.
3. Trans people are also disproportionately targeted by the mainstream media, generating 1000’s of articles of transphobic click-bait, while simultaneously totally ignoring ANY trans-positive news! 😣
It didn't suit their agenda, so ignored it. If it had been 1000 people on an anti-trans march, that would have been in the headlines.
If it had been 10 people it would’ve
it is so obvious that the press in Britain are institutionally transphobic. They aren't interested in balance or protecting kids, they have found a marginalised group to attack, and they relentlessly push it. Shows of support are ignored or omitted on the grounds of balance. It's a fucking disgrace.
Yes.
Welcome to the last 30 years of US political media
You didn’t mention the massive trans rights protests
Sorta like here in the US, but we get added bizarre-o right-wing product logo angst on top of it.
We have to learn from the experience of Johnson as PM. Initially they appear charismatic but fragile egos need to strut, need self aggrandisement, need revenge, they are grandiose & have no emotional intelligence or empathy. Narcissists are toxic in public office.
Agreed George. They have absolutely stitched the media-political system up like a kipper. This only ends one way.
I reckon all of this was avoidable, if they just grew a set in the first place and did away with the protest laws that the Tories implemented. Very clearly, it has became weaponized against the left. Even that it can and has been, evidently, is cause enough to repeal it imho.
Trump spends money like a drunken sailor
That's the problem.
Well it is like the major blunder Obama made … he wanted to be a statesman, focus on Europe and the world. He forgot Georgia , Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Starmer does it too, be in Liverpool, Kingston on Hull or Camden, no he does nitty gritty and focus abroad .. stupid
Even the media in Canada seems to be pushing this neo-Nazi awakening. Why? Why in the hell do we want the world to be evil? Is it just an innate drive to control the population by murdering each other?
Its either 1. The news media loves to poke society and get a rise 2. The news media is bought by the rabid neoliberal nearly Nazis
We have similar situation with the main stream media in Australia. Unfortunately the concentration of ownership, particularly Murchoch, is such that even the ABC is intimidated to follow much the same line!
They do it in Canada too... the alt- right white nationalists. They're gearing up for it again. I found this article explained that cycle well in Canada. axorc.substack.com/p/views-rage...
True, but not only left-wing voices, but also those who speak for the liberal tradition in politics and all those who advocate for decency and humanity. The situation has deteriorated that far.
Talking about Brazilian media, are you?
Try being in the SNP George , if you want to talk about ignored !
There seem to be whole accounts dedicated to "calling out" Reform. But aren't these fanning the publicity? It wouldn't surprise me if they are run by people who are pro-Reform. This business of saying outrageous things to get noticed has been going on for ages.
Influence operations should not be platformed. Especially by our institutions. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social I'm looking at you.
Like this. bsky.app/profile/olei...
* hard to grasp that a party leader who won an election is trying hard to turn the whole idea upside-down and throw it under the bus, from day 1 --- reminds of some heavily compromised folks...* @ukparliament.parliament.uk @theguardian.com @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @the-independent.com
a fascist regime
The thought of a Reform government terrifies me. For people like me who depend on the NHS, and all that use it, for people they’d regard as migrant - I’m so fearful. But everyone I work with thinks Deform are marvellous.
Minimum arrests for rioting and setting fire to hotels prison for JSO and Palestinian protesters
Two things. Make much more of the fact that "small boats" are a direct consequence of Brexit. Start looking at a different way of absorbing & integrating refugees, like most normal countries do.
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Why are the press Shit scared of him? After all we have more Bungalows than Russia 👀
Not unlike the US and trump
We are all being played, probably by the lobbyists. Even the Greens change their policies under lobbying pressure.
How the Green party changed their stance, still oppose the war in Gaza, tax billionaires, scrap the 2 child cap, better benefits and oppose welfare cuts, keep our NHS free to the point of use
HS2 support, removing the objections from their manifesto (and losing a founding member in the process).
I haven't heard that, HS2 the train service, SHOCKED BY THAT, still support the Green party over cuts to welfare
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Who you support then, i'm still voting Green or Corbyn come the next election, i make my mind up come near the election
It's the outrage machine that drives clicks.
That’s exactly what it is. Angry people engage more. Engagement makes money. The media don’t care one joy about the actual people or policies - they care about relevance and revenue…
I'm still bitter about the two pro-remain marches in London, about a million people turned up to each. I went on one. Completely peaceful. I don't recall any talk about "legitimate concerns" then. Perhaps we should been angrier.
Mad isn’t it. I can only assume the establishment by in large want Farage in power. Because they are doing absolutely everything to make it happen
Oh no 😯
The establishment wanted a man like Hitler to control those bolshie types who wanted a decent wage, or just a job. Edward VIII was a fascist supporter, as was the owner of the Daily Mail. The fact that Mosely was only locked up for the duration of the war, is telling
Exactly as they did (and continue to do with Trump) The media cannot get enough of these villains. They will lead 85% of their stories with them and ignore everything else.
They did the same with fat slob Johnson and look how that worked out!
Citizens Singh, Patel, Wong, Murphy, and Goldberg, etc have exactly the same citizenship as John Bull.
That is exactly the point I am making.
Farage has been cosying up to Bannon, Trump etc for years and years. My money is on Starmer also being involved with that group in some way because he seems to be doing everything he can to legitimise all those who are connected, especially Farage and Trump
Lord Glasman was introduced to Bannon by Farage. Glasman has been on Bannon's podcast 🤷🏽♂️
Blair / Mandelson being involved as the missing link would be my money.
Mandelson is ambassador/rselickerinchief to America/Trump
And, as I'm sure you know, "Petie" was a very good friend of Epstein.
I didn't know that.
It's well documented, but I think this side of the pond people aren't looking at Epstein that much, despite it being globally relevant when it comes to identifying possible political corruption. www.ft.com/content/0723...
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In that case, it’s probably about Middle East policy…
Something to do with oil, I expect..
Nah. It's of no coincidence whatsoever that the result of it all suits Putin down to the ground.
Yup. And the pro -genocide, anti international law lobby. No coincidence that Blair has been key in "charities" supporting the terrorist -thieves in illegally occupied Palestine. You can't normalise UK participation in genocide without promoting racism.
And I've no idea why they want everything to be totally shit.
Shit AND then shitter.
It doesn’t matter what normal life is like for us as they have serious wealth. And farage will make them wealthier
Shit for us but not for them. They've got enough money to weather the storm. Let the little people suffer.
It's lazy journalism. Farage gives them easy copy, the algorithm rewards engagement not quality. He's walking clickbait. Same with Johnston, same with Trump.
They've all ready Malthus, they want to eliminate as many of the riff Raff as possible and make the rest into a permanent underclass.
Because "The Centre" [Neoliberalism] is collapsing, so it's seen as a choice of Socialism or Fascism. Capital almost exclusively chooses Fascism as that maintains the wealth hierarchy. Here's a shortish oldie, but goodie [inside playlist]: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gCs...
Now quite clear those in charge of all media formats want a Farage govt. 1 . In highly unlikely event a Reform govt is a success, media claim their part in making it so 2. In the much more likely event it's a shit show, media deny responsibility and have shit ton of incidents for engagement farming
Follow the money
Just so long as they can keep Corbyn and now Polanski out.
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Useful idiot?
Who are the establishment?
The people in positions of power across our institutions- politics, banking, industry etc
I never thought I’d parrot the bullshit of the right wing Tory rags but the politicians actually ‘are’ looking all the same and all in the pockets of the billionaires that are screwing us.
It's all conveniently constructed
Every word of this. And then some.
Seeing that neither of these made sense, I call bullshit
There you have it. After 14yrs of having news handed t them on a plate with garnishing, MSM has forgotten how to (with an element of strapped for resources) dig news themselves & follow the now normal regimen of listening to lobbyists
We are in the hands of oligarch owned media , and those oligarchs have realised they are more powerful than politicians. How that is solved I'm not sure
Mandate that media ownership be both highly dispersed and limited to UK tax residents.
Maybe the left need to say something? Instead of stupid red lines about Brexit and tax. ( When the facts change , I change my mind , John m Keynes,)
A. Starmer's Labour Party is not the left. B. That was Samuelson, not Keynes.
We have been, but every time we do, we get people showing up in our mentions to tell us the really bad things we're warning about are not happening. When you're a woman or minority it becomes a regular pain. They're not interested in hearing how Labour policy is harming us, just in arguing.
When you watch BBC World evenings (European time) it's only about Trump. Thankfully we get @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social since #hardtalk was cancelled but if Trump's farts are loud enough we stay with his farts and at midnight BBC News America again. I'm attaching a related image.
Hard talk is cancelled! I'm in Canada and that was the best interview show I'd heard, for f sakes.
Wonder what @stephensackur.bsky.social is doing now. A great loss for the Beeb.
Same facial expressions as Karoline Leavitt.
Right now I'm watching #France24 Merz Macron & Tusk livd in Moldova and where is matey Stärmer???
Inversions of realities in the West have inadvertently flipped North Korean news into the provider of reports closer to the truth than our own broadcasters can achieve. If not always absolute fact, then at least the provision of supreme humour. I want my news this way now: bsky.app/profile/stev...
This was a masterpiece hahaa
It still is. And I've just asked the initial poster of it here if anyone ever found a regular provider of this North Korean news covering the West (with subtitles).
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100% it’s a warped media view. Real life is nothing like what is currently reported.
Ignored or arrested. It's a ridiculous state of affairs.
Two-tier media
3. The police throw the book at leftwing protesters for being seen in a public place, while giving the far right & farmers free rein. 4. A cabinet minister, Jonathan Reynolds, says protesters outside asylum hotels are “upset for legitimate reasons”. No minister says this about Gaza protesters.
Wish they'd stop 'throwing the book at' - left or far right, suspect highly counterproductive
You'll notice that the current "Labour" party hasn't repealed one single Tory anti-protest or anti-strike law enacted since the 1980s, and in fact with the proscribing of P******** A***** has made protest more subject to legal sanction. I have NEVER lived in a more dangerous Britain, and I'm 75.
The calibre of Labour MPs bsky.app/profile/labo...
Preaching to the choir.
You can write Palestine Action.
Robert Reich is 79. He says the same about the US and UK.
I think they have repealed the Strikes( minimum service levels) Act 2023.
I stand corrected.
No bother, I’m a Labour supporter who overall has been disappointed with the government, but on the few occasions they do something good it is barely reported. The media landscape in Britain has always been right wing, but today it is off the scales.
Me too, I'm 76.
And an arrest for someone wearing a ‘Plasticine Action’ tee shirt. Beyond ludicrous.
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You mean Polyester Accrington?
Haven't seen any of those so-called farmers in court to receive a custodial sentence. Why is that?
5. Keir Starmer, who hilariously claims to be leader of the Labour Party, yields to every sally by the far right, seeking to compete with Reform on cruelty and intolerance, while ruthlessly purging from the party anyone to the left of Vlad the Impaler.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social > purging from the party anyone to the left of Vlad the Impaler If Vlad is still around, could you please invite him to Washington, D.C.? There's much work for him here.
Oh he's definitely leader of this labour party. Starmer and Starmerites are racist right wing anti immigrant genocide supporters. They know. We know. Labour gave up on democracy, socialism, human rights and honesty the day Starmer and the genocide wing of the party took over.
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6. MPs voting on traditional and moral Labour lines (for example against the Tories' two-child benefit cap) are immediately suspended. MPs supporting traditional - and deeply immoral - Tory policies are promoted to the cabinet.
Also suspended 4 decent Labour MPs sticking up for their continuants against welfare cuts to the disabled and sick
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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
That Starmer hasn't condemned Farage's talk of 'scourges' and 'invasion' is an absolute disgrace. Addressing people's anxieties about immigration without directly challenging blatantly racist and divisive language merely enables fascism, not defeats it.
Please don't use skywriter. It doesn't respect blocks by posters, it publishes no contact details, privacy policy, or means of having a thread removed. It's basically a content theft tool.
I wonder how to "vote tactically", now that 90% of the machinery seems hell-bent on bulldozing my tactical intentions.
Green party?
I think Jack Polanski would be great as Green leader. He’s loud, can’t be talked over, breadth of knowledge so can’t be caught off guard by made up facts/figures and will fight. Only suggestion not in favour of is leaving NATO. Dangerous. UK not equipped to defend itself. Allies become to enemies
When will the new leader be announced? I thought it was going to be yesterday.
According to the website results announced on the 2nd of September greenparty.org.uk/members/inte...
He said NATO isn’t a great place with Trump in the White House. He doesn’t actually want to leave it.
Different statements? Mine is Byline Times. “Age of NATO is now over. Greens to be bolder beginning with plan to withdraw UK from longstanding military alliance in NATO. New international alliances based on peace” bylinetimes.com/2025/05/08/g...
Yes, he said that’s where the “headline” came from when he was asked about it.
“New international alliances based on peace” sounds very much like the usual Russian messaging. Be very careful with this guy.
Lib dems have always faught to fix the system.
The answer to that is always the same, whatever the political weather. - Never vote tactically according to the national picture, vote for the best candidate (s), the person you are convinced will best serve all the constituents in your area.
I think as we get near to election times there are various people on here who can point you to how to vote tactically in your area. Particularly good pre general election was Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social
@George Monbiot All these multiple posts; a better tool such as a blog post link?
Reform are seen as the best Neoliberal successors of our political system. In an age when live streamed & pre-announced genocide is de rigueur & the USA plummets into jack booted facism, our special relationship, shared by our X european partners, demands, with no objection, this trajectory.
Or 100.000 for Trans Pride.
The BBC reported from Liverpool this weekend that over 400 anti-immigrant protesters were out, with just "a few hundred" counter protesters. This was accompanied with a photo of the far-right already being surrounded, and outnumbered, by counter protesters with a long queue of them still on the way.
A million on the Remain marches, practically nothing in the national press, yet all over int. news. Shocking. Farage's people's march (about 30 losers) and its "progress" on national news every night for about 2 wks. Don't tell me Farage and his agenda haven't been hugely helped and inflated by MSM.
George, How does this happen: Does BBC only hire far right & zionists propagandist: make them far right after it hires them: Or Journos prepared sacrifice the future for the ego of a spicy news story, excitement of racism & genocide & seeding future conflicts & spicy news & upping News profits ?
Another facet of two tier Britain is completely ignoring the biggest human rights rollback in living memory, that being enacted against trans ppl. Ignoring 100,000 ppl marching in London for trans ppl. You're a participant in what you claim to be against.
1. See timeline. 2. Don't make enemies of your friends.
Our true friends have thickers skins than to be hinting at abandoning us because some of us are terrified and lash out, thats not a friend in any sense of the word,thats someone who uses our cause to virtue signal. With that said,thanks for all you have done so far .
1/ Fair enough you added trans pride after ppl pointed it out. No evident concern about the biggest domestic human rights rollback in living memory 2/ If you were our friend you'd be speaking out against our rights being removed, healthcare being attacked & us being continually demonised.
Can you consider admitting you were wrong about the Cass report given she's happy with Wessely running havoc over youth services before you call yourself a friend?
It's almost like we have forgotten what happens when you appease the far right. We need a government with a spine and not one that allows mob rule to dictate policy.
it's almost as if the ultra-rich owners of the media have some sort of interest in common with the ultra-rich politicians and business elite...some sort of...class solidarity?
I totally agree, George, the bias is obvious. It's like the lie the right wing Tory Press keep peddling the lie, that the BBC is left wing. This being the same BBC who seem to take orders from Netanyahu, and invited Farage on BBCQT, more than anyone else.
farage will become the next PM with a 30 - 35% majority next general election. it's not written in the stars, it's literally written on face book and twitter.
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Please take a moment to complain to Ofcom re pro Reform bias, & ask “what will ofcom do to ensure news channels provide balance? Parties representing more uk constituents than Reform are not getting fair airtime”. Ofcom only acts on complaints so it’s v worthwhile🙏 www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...
The procedure for making any complaint is Byzantine bullshit (of course--that's deliberate) and indecipherable.
The counter to this is Farage talks about what matters to most British citizens. Gaza is a fringe issue.It doesn't impact many people's lives in the UK.
It's an issue on which the majority of Brits have a strong moral objection, and which would cost the government nothing to reverse course on. The leading issue in the country is the cost of living, and Farage doesn't give a shit about that because the only thing he cares about is being racist.
Well, I say it would cost them nothing. It would cost them bribes.
Asylum-seekers don't impact many people's lives in the UK. So far this year, we've had HALF a premier league football crowd arrive by small boats. That's all. But people believe it's orders of magnitude bigger than that, thanks to politicians and the media.
Small boats are a visible display of a lack of control of our borders.People know they are only a small part of the huge numbers. Politicians had plenty of chances to control the narrative in the media.They talk tough and do very little.
People DON'T know that the small boats are a vanishingly small percentage of total immigration though. If you ask these chumps how many are arriving that way, they will say millions, we are being overrun and invaded by huge groups of 'military aged men' who rape our women and girls.
Even though most sexual aggressors are white brits. Now fartrage has planted the idea, it's only a matter of time until this government are bribing bad acting foreign governments to take back, torture and kill the people who came here for safety.
Is that what you want with 'well controlled borders'?
The small boats aren't visible. How many people have ever seen one in real life? People believe that many 1000s are coming by small boat each day, and they have no idea that immigration overall FELL by 400,000 last year. We already have control over our borders. The whole thing is a giant con.
It 'matters most' because the right leaning media constantly tell them that. What really matters most is quality of life which has been eroded by those peddling this myth.
I think TikTok,X,Facebook and what people share on WhatsApp are far more influential today than The Sun etc.
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"What matters most" - recent polls do indeed show it 😞 But I think it is years of manipulation. Recent protests, etc all seem well-coordinated to time with the policy announcement. Opportunism everywhere... bsky.app/profile/glob...
There is no opportunity if immigration is under control.
But is it "out of control"? Or the political framing, narrative has created that perception for opportunistic reasons? Weren't many Brexit supporters from areas with barely any immigration, for example?
You're right, it is after years of manipulation. Farage et al got us here by talking about it for decades, when it *wasn't* polling as as mattering. We won't get away from it by pandering to it. People need to talk about what *actually* matters most. That's what shifts the polls.
Agreed. You reminded me something I wrote YEARS ago: www.globalissues.org/article/537/... "The issue of asylum and immigration is reported [2003] in terms of a threat and invasion despite a lack of statistical evidence supporting such dramatic claims." Palpatine would be proud of this patience...
Just read it, that's a great article. And I think reading it from a 2025 perspective shows both how long it's taken to push this framing to where it is, and also underlines that the approaches taken to countering it over that time have clearly not been effective.
'Farage talks about what matters to most British citizens...' Talks yeah. And will do nothing for them. Like Trump Like Bolsonaro (did not) Like Wilders Like Orbán Like Fico Like Vucic Like LePen Like De Wever Like Kickl Like Nawrocki Like... Liars, cheaters, agitators, haters, powerjunkies.
He talks in order to *make* foreigners the 'most important issue'.
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Because it's all click-driven. People that actually want news and information will click on stories about far-right idiots, generating ad revenue. Those idiots won't click on left-wing stories because it conflicts with their preferred vision of reality. In short: smart & kind people = more $/£/€.
Hardly anyone reads newspapers any more but the billionaire owners still drive the TV news agenda with their front pages and focus attention on their useful idiots.
““Freedom” is a grand word, but under the banner of freedom for industry the most predatory wars were waged, under the banner of freedom of labour, the working people were robbed.” VI Lenin I would argue this hypocrisy created in social democracies extends in a straight line to what we see today
Voices of hate are normalised while voices of reason are ignored.
100,000 were at Trans Pride and it didn’t get mentioned anywhere other than BBc London local news several pages in. Yet 3000 racists outside hotels gets all the coverage.
Tbf it was on balance probably a good thing to have coverage of a few thousand racists attempting to burn families alive for the crime of being foreign
Not on Twitter, always come up with a 2 tier police system bollocks
racists gonna racist
I deactivated my Twitter account, one rule for the racists and call them out get in trouble, one of them having a go at me being an artist and sticking up for migrants, said punch yourself in the face for my beliefs, i replied slap yourself and i go an 11 hour ban and told to remove my reply
sounds like Twitter 😞
Rather than 100,000 trans people watching their rights being taken away and made third class citizens. We should have both!
well obv we should have both, yes in an ideal world we’d have neither ofc but alas
Nowhere near 3000 from the reports I've seen. A few hundred at most. But that's enough to make it the #1 headline and ensure immigration has become the #1 policy of the government. It's all total BS, and Labour have fallen for it hook line and sinker.
Also happening in Germany.
