Italy without immigration will shrink to 28,000,000 by end of the century, we wouldn’t be a viable country (we have currently 65 million people).
Italy without immigration will shrink to 28,000,000 by end of the century, we wouldn’t be a viable country (we have currently 65 million people).
I'm not entirely sure why it falls to ordinary people like @richfiend.bsky.social to do the BBC's journalistic due diligence for them. Platforming someone found to have been "fundamentally dishonest" was definitely not a good idea. Source: www.insurancetimes.co.uk/builder-pays...
Absolutely inevitably, the concerned local putting up flags in Sutton who is given an entirely sympathetic platform by the BBC turns out to be a right wing nationalist crook.
#getusoutofhere #supportscotland #ScottishIndependence
"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.
This article brought a tear to my eye. What is happening to my once tolerant nation is sickening & scary & it's happening in plain sight, without comment or interference from government & with encouragement from the media. Please, make it stop! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In all this madness ID cards are a good idea. The rest of Europe has ID cards, in a country where now it is compulsory to prove your identity to vote, not having a universal ID card is a sure way of making voting harder for some groups of people.
This map shows which year had the warmest summer on record, for mean temperature, area by area. Note that for many areas, it was summer 2025. 1976 is no longer the warmest summer on record for any area.
In a clever move to beat the heat, a small town in Spain has turned its rooftops into a giant reflective surface by painting them all white. This simple change has created a powerful cooling effect — lowering the town’s average summer temperature by nearly 5°C. #Heatwaves #SmartCities #ActOnClimate
This is ICE-style immigration enforcement in the UK, it is also very reminiscent of Windrush.
Potatoes AND bread????? Why?
They should lose the right to vote and no funds transferred to either country.
Hoping and praying their luck runs out completely!
Being white isn’t enough, you have to have an AnglosAxon surname too. The amount of “*uck off home, this is our Country” replies I had for commenting on a “Worcester News” piece about flags and painted roundabouts has reached 67 in 2 days. Not that upset, got used to it since the haydays of Brexit.
Nobody is telling them. Is it on the news? No it isn’t. All we hear is “boats, hotels, flags”, someone has an agenda and it isn’t reporting what Farage and his mates get up to. That includes the BBC that we fund.
Oh but “boats, boats, hotels, hotels, flags, flags”……FFS😡😡
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...
A bit like being part of theEU was never really an issue prior to 2014/15 and look how well it turned out. Flags main news on BBC1 1pm instead of being hottest summer on record,all our water reservoirs at historic min,peat burning for wks in Yorks. Racism is such an easy lever to pull & it works.
Carlo Bartoli, presidente OdG, replica a Musumeci: “Magistrati e giornalisti hanno pagato con il sangue per fare il loro dovere. Parlare di ‘magistrati killer’ e ‘stampa complice’ è un insulto. La stampa vigila sul potere, è il nostro compito”. www.articolo21.org/2025/09/bart...
Norway always does it better.
And Italy!
Sacked, Expelled, or in the Dock: All the Reform UK Councillors Nigel Farage Has Lost in Just Four Months bylinetimes.com/2025/09/02/s...
💥 Russia: The Unecha oil pumping station on the Druzhba pipeline in Bryansk region looks toast according to satellite imagery after a follow-on strike by Ukraine on August 28th just as it was reportedly repaired from a strike a week earlier.
Europe could give the 2 fingers salute to:Russia,Iran,Saudia Arabia every despot in Middle East, North Africa, and the USA (since it has replaced our gas supply) and to a certain extent China too. If we can produce our own renewables we can then make our own stuff more competitively.
Considering the weather we have had (which is the most important factor on boat crossings), that’s a very good result.
On the day it was made official that we just had the hottest summer since records began because of climate change…..
Have I gone mad or did Today just do an entire interview with the Conservative energy spokesperson, on the Conservatives' plan to max out North Sea oil, without a single question about the environment? (There was a question on crowding out investment for alternative energy, but I think that was it)
⚡️ Russia, China sign 'most ambitious' Power of Siberia-2 pipeline deal. The deal, long delayed by Beijing's hard bargaining over prices and volumes, cements Moscow's pivot to Asia as it loses access to European energy markets.
Such national pride! www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal... #r4today
Oops! Well, this is awkward 😊 YouGov survey shows shift in attitudes to Brexit debate & suggests Nigel Farage’s continued hostility towards the EU is not even landing with his own partys supporters 55% of Reform UK voters want a permanent youth mobility scheme for young people in the UK and Europe
⚡️Ukrainian forces liberate village near Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast. The positions previously allowed Russian troops to control the road leading into Kupiansk, approximately 104 kilometers (65 miles) east of Kharkiv, the regional capital.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Every day a new scandal and yet they are never held accountable in the media or with the public?
And, of course, it’s the 28th anniversary of the greatest of all newspaper corrections (with apologies to @seamas.bsky.social who traditionally posts this, but it’s 10.39, and I can only wait so long)
This is what communities are about. It isn't knuckle dragging morons disrespecting the flag to spread hate, it is people like Crystal Clean Windows. We saw it after the riots last year. The far right are not representative of local communities. H/t to @ottoenglish.bsky.social for the original post.
The second sales figures are not good news for European wide car manufacturing either. People find an alternative to BYD if you want to keep 100,000s of highly paid and skilled engineering and manufacturing jobs, pretty please with a cherry on top.
💥✈️ It’s official: Viktor Orbán’s controversial son-in-law István Tiborcz and daughter Ráhel Orbán—formally the owners of the family’s business empire—are moving to New York for a year. Officially to study, in reality to escape scrutiny over their luxury lifestyle during Hungary’s election campaign.
"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷
And people thought she could be leader🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
This country is heading for a really dangerous place. Rylan is allowed to say untrue statements on a national news show with literally no research by anyone on the show? Asylum seekers housed in hotels are NOT given phones or ipads. They are not living a life of luxury.
As a Labour member, unfortunately I have to agree with you.
How long is Meloni going to be allowed to serve 2 masters. She’s either pro EU and pro Ukraine or she’s on Russia’s side. It’s 2nd time in 1 wk that she’s been supporting Salvini pro Russian stand. He got away w causing a diplomatic incident w France (she kept quiet) now he gets his man in Russia. 🤮
I import automation equip for car industry from USA. My supplier has slapped9.5% surcharge fee on me to alleviate their tariffs costs. They import 100% of the sensors they use in production from China,they hv no intention of even attempting to manufacture them inUSA. Tiny real life example of above.
BTW regarding lunch, Lewis Hamilton is finding it hard at Ferrari to understand why all his engineers leave the factory floor for a cooked lunch (to be fair maybe at Ferrari they should work through lunch, the results on the track might improve😂).
I have been in the UK 34 years, I am still Italian and I am happy and proud it will never leave me.
This is just next level insanity. In January this year, Reform picked Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, to run as their Croydon Mayoral candidate. There was just one rather significant problem. She had sadly died in July 2024. insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
This is not good news. We can't wait for a convenient moment before taking climate action. The time is now. "the tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Brexit was never debated properly, minister says, unveiling new plan for EU trade. Did someone have a light bulb moment? Hopefully Starmer will have one soon! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage threatens UK with Brexit sequel
If you honestly believe the Russians hit the EU delegation in Kyiv by accident, I don't think you should be allowed to operate heavy machinery and I frankly question if letting you dress and bathe yourself is a violation of our collective duty of care.
People are trapped under the rubble of their apartment building in Kyiv, calling for help as a new batch of russian missiles approaches their city‼️
There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it - Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My grandson (2) and my sister’s 2 great grandsons (1&2) will all benefit from the 30 hours free childcare. Allowing my daughter and great niece to work 3 full days. Both are on minimum wage but the boost to their family incomes is significant. This is the difference with Labour
All you nd to do is check who is on the board of your formal employer. (You already know this,I am sure it was a completely rhetorical question). So many people were counting on doing a Trump over here when Brexit was being negotiated it didn’t quite work out,not given up, tried w Liz Truss too.
I’ve often wondered why Nigel Farage, who as godfather of the Brexit fiasco engineered the biggest British foreign policy disaster since Suez is continually offered so much space in some newspapers and broadcast media. Serious question. Thoughts welcome.
North East mayor accuses Durham Reform councillor Darren Grimes of 'inciting racism and hate' www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
Brexit! UK companies spent up to £65m last yr on licences to export food & agri products to the EU – costs the gov is promising to eliminate as part of new deal to be agreed by 2027. Figures released on Tuesday showed it issued 328,727 such licences last year, at a cost of between £113 & £200 each
He caused havoc with Brexit. Don’t let him do it again - here’s five red flags about what Farage said today. Hit share to show him we see through him.
Easier said than done, when people are screened before they get on BBCQT, or Jeremy Vine or any other radio programme.
Not to offend the “Red wall voters” (basically telling them your xenophobia and racism together with stupidity got us here) because every Party courts their votes, nobody ever called Brexit/Farage/Johnson out. That’s what got us here.
In what same world is the man who played a major role in inflicting Brexit still calling the shots? Such a failure of politics.
Salvini says antimafia measures for Messina Strait bridge will be strengthened "like those for the Winter Olympics". In reality, those for the Winter Olympics are weaker than standard ones. President Mattarella blocked attempt by Salvini to use them for the bridge in May, precisely for this reason.
Backtracking over the Good Friday Agreement means that he could not denounce the ECHR - a key element of the plan
It shows such a basic lack of political understanding that Labour didn't go straight on the attack over this. Just because most people are worried about immigration being too high it doesn't mean they're psychopaths.
We may not recollect every moment, but our nervous systems do. And these loving interactions play a key role in who we will become. So give all the kisses. And have all the talks. How we remember may be limited (compared to adult forms) but that doesn’t make these interactions any less impactful.
When we are loved deeply by highly engaged, responsive caregivers we form secure attachments. We learn that the world is safe and that our needs will be met. And this undergirds our longterm mental health.
Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Island of Strangers”.
The extent to which Starmer's Labour seems so petrified of Farage and the right-wing press that Starmer chases their talking points rather than trying to shape debate to his own agenda can only be described as cowardice. Voters are willing to back fighters, they hate quitters
In trying to emulate the Far Right the Starmer Labour Party will lose the liberal and leftish voters that helped win it the 2024 election and fail to gain the right-wing voters that didn't vote for it then and never will in future
ExxonMobil returns to Sakhalin-1. That's what Alaska was about. Doing business. Helping russian regime with money to kill more Ukrainians
The Labour response to Farage policy of leaving the Refugee & Humam Rights Convention should not be “he won’t deliver”. It should be “this is not morally right” (not “British values” even). Voters want to see authentic consistent leadership. Not debate the workability of cruelty.
"The numbers arriving so far this month have been the lowest in August since 2021" - The Times mentions in the 24th paragraph of its front-page splash something which few people in the print, broadcast and online newsrooms of the UK are aware of www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This!!!!!!!! 1,000,000 % THIS!!!!! Have they not understood that the average person in the UK is actually pretty undereducated and has an attention span of 30 seconds. You just have to listen to the news on BBC radio 1 to work out how trivialised the news are. FFS!!!!
Those planning to attack Farage’s policies to leave the ECHR and other human rights treaties on the practicalities might want to stop and think about how attacking Farage’s plans to leave the European Union on the practicalities worked out in 2016.
What is wrong with them? Sometimes I really despair.
Why is UK Labour announcing our updated relationship with the European Union With Michael Gove who is now Editor of the Spectator, who famously said we could have a green Brexit if we chose to leave the EU - which of course we haven't?
This is classic Labour imposter syndrome. They believe the country is fundamentally and unalterably right wing.
The thing is, it's not just the nationalist right that they are scared of: it's a terror of challenging huge amounts of the Tory settlement of the previous 14 years (taxes on income can never go up, pensioners must be privileged over workers/families, media must always platform the right)
Burnham is a flag in the wind, he is a big fish in a little pond, that’s what makes him look “good”.
Nailed on head. Blair was a great communicator,he could sell you the story &yes he got so much stick for it; but if this Gov could sell their story and what they are doing it wouldn’t feel like they are constantly on the defensive against the RW press and Farage. This is not in Starmer’s skill set.
Mind-boggling. This is not democracy. The "fossil fuel sector [is] primary force behind..$954-million (2024 USD) lobbying campaign [on] (CCUS etc.).. comprised at least 54,243 contacts of high-ranking government officials..w/ significant legislative results." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Everything Farage and RefUK plan rests on them dragging us out of the ECHR. That's why we have to start defending and informing about it NOW. People need to be afraid of leaving it. They need to know the move will threaten their OWN right to ... 🔥 A fair trial 🔥 Fair laws 🔥 Protection from execution
Calum Miller, MP for the constituency where Nigel Farage delivered his repatriation speech today, says Oxfordshire is “thriving thanks to overseas talent” – and criticised him for not meeting residents living near Campsfield House detention centre, next to the venue for Farage’s event.
The snake oil salesman got his way once - the result was a disaster. Don’t let him do it again
A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.
I wonder if any of this is being raised at CLP meetings across the country and what our MPs are thinking of it. Are members OK to go along with this B💩? Decided I will hv to start going to mine.
Politically insane Morally bankrupt Labour risks delivering the UK to fascism because it is too scared to call it out. Pathetic and repugnant.
They have always thought that the UK just because they are “British” can’t possibly be fascist. Yes they can, there is no vaccine against it.
Thanks Stephen. I am unsure why people looking at the actions of the present American Government would assume that such a thing cannot happen here. A peculiar British exceptionalism.
If you want to fight and win a fear election, you do in fact need to be able to say loud and clear what it is people should be afraid of.
Agree. They think they can live on their little island, do what they want to their neighbours w zero consequences. They need to be shown the consequences.
The big question for me is whether the British public really have the stomach for the kind of brutality the Reform approach implies. This is rounding up thousands of people onto the back of trucks and dumping them into a tent city in the Midlands. We haven't done this since WW2. /fin
You can't assume that the current pace of capacity building remains constant if you are willing to disregard existing procedures in pursuit of your goal, as we saw during the pandemic. The Government can move at speed if it chooses. /2
While I certainly agree with Sunder that this will not be easy, I am forced to point out that in withdrawing from all relevant international agreements alongside some kind of emergency declaration Reform would be able to set up 'Nightingale' style concentration camps to house asylum seekers. /1
In before 'it's crap because they agree with it' - frankly even if you agreed with every dot and comma of the big picture stuff, you should have enough about you to attack your opponent's plan to give billions of pounds to the Taliban.
Even just the chaos would make all of us a lot poorer, some people won’t be able to pay their bills/rent/mortgage/ end up homeless. Then there is the instability w the economy and investment that means job losses. People are being too naive to hv forgotten Liz Truss already!!!
Stupid, selfish people. It starts w our own family,we keep quiet to keep peace when we shld be calling every bad behaviour/habit out. From paying/getting paid in cash(I hv 2 cousins who have a business & happen to pay nxt to zero taxes but have a boat🤷♀️) because they are “furbi”. It then snowballs.
Even worse then.