Yes this has a very dark feel about it and flags are popping up everywhere. This is not being patriotic.
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Yes this has a very dark feel about it and flags are popping up everywhere. This is not being patriotic.
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Just read this The people out waving George flags & yelling that they “can’t say anything now” don’t read this They are stupid brainmelts
Far right organisers in this country consistently side with foreign billionaires over our democratic institutions. They are not patriots. They are quislings.
It was never about - Unite The Kingdom, raise the colours(flags) or protecting women and children. 👇🏾
‘It was known from day one’ that Covid was airborne. Imagine if instead of them telling us to get in a bubble and take off masks in shared indoor space 🤦♀️, they had spent that time being useful and rolling out Hepa air purifiers & informing on good ventilation & giving medical staff the correct PPE.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Migration is falling. Someone tell that to the RW media who have been partially responsible for what happened yesterday - due to their consistent positive reporting on Farage.
Never has a govt fallen so far, disappointed so much, so quickly, as this Labour govt. I had zero expectations of Truss, Johnson, et al, but had hoped for better from Labour. Starmer’s abject weakness, lack of moral fibre feels like betrayal. The Trump visit next week will represents a new low. 🤮🤮🤮
A rally organised by Tommy Robinson should be a slam dunk for a Labour government. Most people will recognise it as being led by the far right (and will not identify themselves as such). Violence is predictable too. The PMs and ministers should have been ready to respond immediately.
Took his time, and shame it took 150,000 marching under the banner of the far right to prompt it, but, under current circumstances, at least he has finally said something against the use of the flag to drive hate and division. Needs to be more than just words though. 1/4 www.bbc.com/news/article...
I too would like my country back — that calm, sensible, peaceable, tolerant, rational, stable, essentially moderate Britain which extremists and rich American ignoramuses want to take from us. These, surely, are the values we should be defending.
apple.news/AM-kxlewcRlK... Well done to all involved for standing up to this vile behaviour. Keir Starmer needs to stand up and make it abundantly clear that any and all of this vile behaviour is not welcome in our society. Stop pandering to billionaire social media owners.
Algebra of dictatorship. Reform UK want a new dept for immigration staffed solely by people who agree with the party’s policies to leave the ECHR and implement mass deportations How long before similar edicts apply to police, judges, academics? Would the next road to Auschwitz go through Clacton?
That feeling of desperately wanting your elected government to loudly call out racism & far right violent extremists... And nothing. Labour so afraid to lose power, it has forgotten both how to use it & that with power comes responsibility. As America gets ever darker, too little light here.
Revolving doors. Thames Water paid £1m+ to corporate lobbyists part-owned by Starmer adviser. The aim is to reach policymakers, keep TW private. TW pays £200m a year to various advisers, cost borne by customers. Public ownership would end this chicanery. No need to pay dividends, lobbyists.
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This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.
An excellent example of the environmental cost of billionaires. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Keir Starmer is facing grim questions about women versus men in public life, about posh versus poor, about diplomatic versus council estate." The PM was slow to react to Peter Mandelson's relationship with Epstein – is this a new nightmare for Labour?
A foreign national interfering in democracy, spreading hate - Is it time to ban X? Via video link Elon Musk called for a “dissolution of parliament” and a “change of government” in UK while addressing a crowd attending “unite the kingdom” rally in London, organised far-right Tommy Robinson
I just don’t understand why politicians are on x anymore? The owner is threatening Parliament and talking about violence. A reminder a weak government in Germany was one of the factors in Hitlers rise to power.
Musk vociferously pushing Tommy Robinson is having major - predictable - results in terms of reach. We saw the real-world impact on the streets of London today. It is foreign interference, by any reasonable assessment.
See that👇🏼that’s what far ring patriotism looks like❗️ Not defending our country by serving in the forces… it’s getting largered / drugged up, then attacking police officers doing their jobs defending our constitution and laws.. Doesn’t it make you sick of this #PlasticPatriotism by Reform & Co😡
#ElonMusk, the ketamine junkie and illegal South African immigrant - speaking via video link at a rally of right-wing supporters in London, called for the dissolution of the British Parliament and the holding of early elections.
England has a deeply troubling far-right problem that Keir Starmer is simply not opposing. This has to stop, none of this is about free speech, it is fascism, and it’s out of control. 1/2
Utterly sad and appalling is hate shown by people. Imagine being in your 70's and 80's and having nothing but hate towards foreigners? Appalling seeing the indoctrination of hate into young people by #Farage and #Trump. Yesterday in London was the March of hatred, not the love of Country.
Far right doctrine of the kind not seen since WW2.
Crucial point ! 👇
Absolutely disgusting Starmer suspended seven Labour MPs for refusing to vote to keep children poor – but Mandelson still has the whip www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
When Angela Rayner was under scrutiny re not paying stamp duty there was a rolling feed of headlines & reports by MSM for over a week But Farage gets caught out over ownership of his #Clacton house raising the question of him dodging stamp duty & after some initial reports it’s now gone quiet 🤫🤫 😡
In a functioning democracy, oligarchs wouldn't legally be allowed to buy up news outlets.
youtu.be/jXVrvMj0Lwc?... How did 🇺🇸 get here? How did WE get here ? We tolerated Trump’s appalling behaviour; politicians appeased Trump/made him feel acceptable. Ppl in power failed to draw a line in the sand - and so now some ppl believe it’s ok to have no ethics, no empathy and no principles.
The insult “antivaxer” is unhelpful. Vaccines are not de facto benign. They need testing and monitoring. Several billion doses on, you don’t need to work too hard to refute the idea that Covid vaccines caused mass harm. (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... By @whippletom.bsky.social
Day 10. I'm in Bristol. Later in Birmingham. Tonight in Manchester. The Green Party is on the move. Join.greenparty.org.uk
I know this is the narrative, but Starmer doesn't even believe in growth. If he did we would rejoin the single market. He believes only in holding power. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Whoop whoop 🍾🥳🥳 @libdems.org.uk win by election beating Reform👇🏼👇🏼😁 Which is a surprise being as Reform are so very, very popular as the BBC, Sky etc keep telling us.. despite just having 4 MPs vs LibDem’s 72 and a handful of councils and councillors which quit weekly 🤔
BBC World Service right now is painting Kirk as a plaster saint and his wife's coded threats of righteous vengeance. There is no discussion of Kirk's odious views. He is merely described as a "Right wing influencer." That's NOT journalism. That's craven propaganda. @lisanandymp.bsky.social
Trump and the big tech CEOs are coming to the UK to pressure our government into SLASHING their tax. Tax that could be spent on training over 100,000 NHS nurses. If you want our government to stand strong and say no, join me and sign the petition:
Great scoop 👇🏼
Similar sort in Wigan: Reform candidate who vows to reduce number of HMOs in town... manages three HMOs www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
EXCL: Reform's first councillor in London is a convicted "slum landlord" who rents out a 33-person HMO. While digging into him I found out one of his former tenants is new Green party leader Zack Polanski. www.the-londoner.co.uk/reforms-firs...
No one, does stratospheric hypocrisy like Reform❗️👇🏼🙄🙄 A Reform ex Tory councillor says too many Tory rejects in party.. Obvs Jim “I’m So Dim” O’Neil didn’t include himself in his statement as he was a highly successful Tory nobody before jumping into bed with Reform Reform is the party of Unity🤣
It looks like Starmer thinks wanting to feed to children is worse than raping them "Starmer suspended seven Labour MPs for refusing to vote to keep children poor – but Mandelson still has the whip" www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
I didn’t agree with Charlie Kirk on much, but he was 100% right about this.
Because the entire UK political and media apparatus is on twitter reading the firehouse of bullshit jettisoned from the US and thinking that's what's most important to people who live in Midsomer Norton.
The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
The world knows a whack job when they see one.
At what point do Labour MPs decide to rescue their party - and their seats - by evicting Starmer and Reeves? When voting intention figures fall to 19%? 15%? 10%? (Last week they stood at 21%, and have prob fallen since) The longer they leave it, the harder and less plausible the recovery will be.
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Last November Mr Farage said he had "just exchanged contracts on a house that I'll be living in there". Now Farage says he has no financial stake in Clacton home.. Via BBC News
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I believe that the sooner Labour have a soft left leader, one that’ll work collaboratively with the Greens, Lib Dem’s, SNP, Plaid and any other party on the soft left, the sooner we can produce a united front against Reform. The danger is real and it is now.
Screenshot of LBC Youtube channel "Why are Charlie Kirk's words suddenly off limits" It is ironic. Free speech? Yet, when we quote what Charlie Kirk has said... people have been sacked, threatened... We are seriously heading into complete fascism.
This obnoxious weirdo can absolutely do one with his poisonous little take on what the British people think. He lost the right to appropriate our opinions when he foisted his prejudiced and dishonest Brexit shitshow on us and told us that’s what we wanted. Reform is the grim hangover of that failure
I’m with the @libdems.org.uk👇🏼are you❓ End the BBC love in with Farage, Reform etc and stop using licence payers money to promote them… Instead provide us with an impartial, professional, incisive news we can rely on for balanced reporting 👍🏼 You got that @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
“The one person who is the constant through every bad decision since 24 July [last year] is Morgan. Maybe the PM keeps getting rid of the wrong people.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
@labourlewis.bsky.social is voicing what everyone I know is thinking. We are all frightened. Where is the resistance??
Our "western democracies" are rotten to the core with far-right, corporatist politics controlling our supposed free press. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social THis is why you MUST ally at the next GE
Americans have short memories—keep reminding them. PLEASE SHARE!
Ohh I hope Sarah Pochin’s by election win gets overturned.. not just as she’s Reform but because she lied that a street in her constituency had been blighted by violence & anti-social behaviour caused by illegal immigration.. Up until residents furious at having their street maligned pulled her up❗️
Its been three years since a complaint was lodged to GNC about Malhotra’s anti- vaccine stance which has seen him continue to grow his sphere of influence reaching into US and now potentially Reform, UK policies
After more than a year of disastrous political direction it looks like Labour MPs are finally questioning McSweeney's judgement. Remember - this is the man whose strategy is for Starmer to become a Farage tribute act with no solutions
Eurovision embodies a culture of unity, defiance & joy. To platform Israel, a state carrying out genocide in Gaza, killing 64,000+ people & silencing journalists on that stage, is obscene. The BBC must join Irish state broadcaster others in saying: no genocide in Eurovision.
I have a vested interest here being CEV bit not high enough risk to qualify for the boosters.
Those who deny c0v1d, WAKE UP! WAKE UP! We are seeing so much early/young deaths Really Long illness Heart disease Neurological problems - dementia These are ALL increasing So why wont we EVEN try to get better, reduce illness? THERE IS NO "immunity debt" Avoid illness
Anyone surprised? Reform UK Ltd conference was sponsored by crypto firm and tobacco company with Russian ties and via opaque off shore accounts It’s against the rules
"Mr Polanski who has launched a podcast which has surged to fourth in the charts, said the scandal proved politics was rigged to reward failure." Am I about to get lots of new podcast listener's from the Daily Express? Unexpected! www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
Every time Donald Trump mentions Charlie Kirk remember that 2 weeks ago he murdered 11 Venezuelans in a fishing boat. And no one mentions that ever, certainly not him now he has finished bragging about it.
About bloody time.
We know www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
It's highly effective. Nigel Five Piles also works. #FivePiles
🚨 Farage twisted his tale twice over his Clacton mansion. Claimed last August he was selling his £1m Sevenoaks pad to buy it. Yet Land Registry shows he still owns Sevenoaks. #ukpolitics www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
There you go Steve Reed. Who’s buying all these shiny expensive houses then????
Barclays Bank's CEO tells govt to cut wages of public sector workers instead of taxing banks. Wants to cut wages of doctors, nurses, teachers, cleaners, drivers, cooks, security guards to give more to bankers. Wage rises inflationary apparently but CEO pay, dividends aren't. archive.ph/yTGN7
But we need more jobs so that people can afford houses in the first place and then affordable food and fairly priced heating. Expensive houses in the private sector will not fix anything.
We’re not a threat to Starmer. We’re the replacement. People aren’t leaving Labour - Labour left them. And they’re finding a new home with the Green Party.
Politico: "One Lab MP, not a usual suspect, texted Playbook after seeing the list of new parliamentary private secretaries to say that “only this No 10 operation could think that appointing the chair of Labour Friends of Israel [Jon Pearce] as a PPS to the PM is an appropriate thing to do" right now
There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.
The real issue isn’t left vs right. It’s not white vs black. It’s not citizen vs immigrant. It’s not gay vs straight. The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.
Was just on BBC Wales talking about why Labour MPs are seriously starting to doubt the judgement of Keir Starmer, in the wake of the Peter Mandelson sacking, and pushing for Mandelson's ally Morgan McSweeney to also be given the chop too bylinetimes.com/2025/09/11/p...
Why indeed?
Ouch. Mandelson will keep his cosy seat in the House of Lords, though, of course. So just the small matter of him voting on our laws, for life.
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This is the person they are suspending people over btw
A date has been set for a by-election to replace a Reform councillor who resigned after allegations he 'used racial slurs to neighbours' - i.e. shouting the N-word at a black family repeatedly (the BBC don't mention that detail)
Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
8 teachers ill today Cold/flu symptoms Ffs
When Boris Johnson overrode security service advice in order to give Evgeny Lebedev a peerage, Keir Starmer (rightly) demanded a full investigation. Now we learn Starmer did exactly the same thing with Peter Mandelson. news.sky.com/story/no-10-...
‘Five Houses’ Farage has a certain ring. And he owns, or has claimed to own, all of them. Which is four more than Angela Rayner does… www.bbc.com/news/article...
The SNP has lodged a parliamentary petition (EDM) in Westminster asking to remove Peter Mandelson from the House of Lords – warning Sir Keir Starmer that the minimum the public expects is that Mandelson is ‘stripped of his peerage and permanently removed from the public payroll’
A flawed study pre-print that claimed to show link between mrna vaccines and cancer has been withdrawn thanks to @elisabethbik.bsky.social
RIGHT NOW! BBC World Service is platforming a guy from the "Chicago Project" lauding Charlie Kirk and promoting the Great Displacement Theory. There is no push back. Can anyone defend this? @ofcom.bsky.social @lisanandymp.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Another HUGE reason (one of the main reasons) why I can’t vote Labour again. Why does Starmer think he won the leadership contest in 2020? (Because he was a Remainer) We didn’t think back then that it was all going to be smoke and mirrors.
Also this supposed link between RNA vaccines and cancer was not scientifically sound. It was terrible, the methods extremely poor, it did not suppott its conclusiobs at all. Infortunately, some will have used this as "proof" and scared others. 1/3
In light of Peter Mandelson being dropped as Ambassador due to close ties to Epstein When will Peter Mandelson be removed from the House of Lords?
The far-right activist was known for espousing racist, sexist, transphobic and nationalist beliefs on college campuses across the country.
The BBC: force out good guys like Lineker, promote Farage-fan-boys like Chris Mason. You’ve lost your way, Auntie
When I asked two years ago about Mandelson’s role advising Starmer, his spokesman told me he had “no reason to believe” Mandelson wasn’t a fit and proper person Those reasons were there for anyone who wanted to see them. That Starmer either couldn’t, or wouldn't, tells us everything we need to know
Ireland will not participate in Eurovision 2026 if Israel takes part "Ireland's participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza" www.rte.ie/entertainmen...