And if it's not Farage, it's Tice. 🤬
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And if it's not Farage, it's Tice. 🤬
Excellent. I trust that he will fully integrate in the local culture, learn the language, etc.?
Overt racism on our streets, flags as threats, Reform strutting around like they’re in power already, toxic radicalisation by Musk on X, politicians howling to leave the ECHR and to hell with the consequences… How can the govt just meekly nod along? FFS and for all our sakes, stand up to this shit.
Each day I am astounded and mortified by this country’s descent into open and brazen racism I am equally astounded and mortified that rather than push back on the malign forces taking us to these dark places - an elected Labour government appears more interested in trying to learn from them
Buck - I don't know you apart from being a follower on here (and, before that, The Other Place) but just wanted to send thoughts and condolences. Your words words to remember Rory by are lovely; you must be very proud. Love to you all and those who love you.
YES! Thank you... Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". - seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives? Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course
They're in the pockets of the oil and gas companies, who are worried that their monopoly on energy production is being eroded and, with it, their profits. A gas powered power station needs to buy gas forever, whereas, once built, a wind turbine just needs maintenance; the fuel is free.
Racism is learnt, not natural. Children of all colours, religions, languages and backgrounds play happily together until they hear their parents' bigotry. I feel so sad for that poor child.
Hopefully, her insurance will be voided and she'll have to pay the full repair costs herself. Plus a driving ban.
"You're taking that out of context" 🙄
🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
If you are against reasonable gun control, YOU need to come help clean up the trauma bay after we have tried to save the life of a shooting victim. Oh, and then go speak to the family of the victim. #guncontolnow
Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."
We continue to send our kids to the hospital and morgue so a bunch of men-children with arrested development can play GI Joe... and the makers of their big boy toys can make money. We are morally bankrupt.
Why are guns so readily accessible? In every other country where a mass shooting has taken place, private ownership of guns has been banned shortly afterwards. But in the US? Thoughts and prayers. FFS. 🙄🤦♂️
I don’t know if she means the UK or the USA, and THAT IS SCARY
Those who have the power to stop mass shootings can go to hell with their "thoughts and prayers." Do something about it, you evil bastards.
Did you mean Oakeshott? 🤣
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
Not the brightest. So not that surprising, really. 🙄
I don't get what Farage and his acolytes seek to gain from all of this. Stirring up hatred and division, destroying the country and its economy for their own financial gain whilst making everyone else poorer, when they could be creating a better world for everyone and *still* be rich. Pure greed.
It is ridiculous. This racist shite from Farage needs to be confronted and ripped apart. Starmer is clueless and terrified.
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
Immigrants aren’t stealing your jobs. But employers are stealing $50 billion in wages from workers each year.
Britain doesn’t have a migrant crisis, it has a far right crisis This is manufactured by a small and violent minority, backed by a foreign owned media and supported by an ineffective government with weak leadership
"Your call is important to us. Well, actually, no; we don't give a f..." 🤣
Just went onto Facebook to see if the results of my bowls clubs Saturday open were up. Facebook decided to present me with a GB News clip of the flag shaggers justifying hate. THIS IS WHY WE HAVE A REAL PROBLEM The Government needs to get a grip with social media hate speech, and GBNews
Immigration has dropped dramatically in the last two years – small boat crossings are a small part of the overall picture, but have come to dominate the story (in part because the government has let it)
I laughed way too much at this Genius 😅
Maximus Decimus Meridius vs Jeff compilation #Caturday
🤬 Woman who admitted incitement to violence and racism on Social Media and in Court was jailed for 2.5 years. Gets released early and British TV and media repeating what she said originally, give her prime spot on TV. Britain wonders why they have a problem which every day is getting more extreme?
And pleaded guilty.
Lucy Connolly is a far-right extremist who called for hotels full of fellow human beings to be burned. She’s disgusting, and anyone who has an ounce of sympathy for her is a danger
Fortunately, I'm away.
I really wonder what would need to happen to disrupt the British media‘s current obsession with immigrants. I am serious. What would it take to talk about something else? Putin invading a few more countries? Another Prime Minister being hounded out of office? Global economic collapse? A tidal wave?
BREAKING: A famine has officially been confirmed in Gaza City and the surrounding neighbourhoods news.sky.com/story/gaza-l...
🚨An important reminder of the trauma faced by asylum seekers. Not just in fleeing persecution abroad. Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores. But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.
It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.
Once more for the dimwits at the back: a) Lucy Connolly pleaded guilty. b) She was convicted under legislation introduced under Thatcher. c) She was sentenced under guidance brought in under Boris Johnson. d) fuck off.
They're "former hotels", used as bunk houses with minimal services. Not the nice, 4*, "24hr room service available, gym and spa" hotels with clean sheets and fluffy towels that people seem to imagine. And now, many of those that have been used will simply close.
This is what too few people talk about when it comes to asylum seekers: they are being accommodated two to a tiny room. Now, I don't know about you, but I have NEVER been to a hotel where you were required to bunk with a stranger in a single room. As far from "luxury" as it's possible to get!
The Tories reallly are scum. Getting councils now to appeal against asylum hotels that HER party started using and weaponised it to turn the public against them. Utter fckn scum,. Think the media will highlight this? Will they fck. So where are the asylum seekers supposed to go then?
Pass pass this on .. too cute a chuckle to miss
Gambling adverts on every advert break on commercial radio and TV, from bingo to lottery to the chance to win cash from radio stations every week. Gambling adverts and sponsorship across sports. Destroying lives.
Philp on BBC Breakfast this morning "demanding" that the government sorts this with the Rwanda plan, when it was his party that caused the problem. Tice saying, from Dubai where he's an immigrant, that all asylum seekers should be deported. Those former hotels will simply close, now.
400 hotels across England being used to house asylum seekers by the Tories. 200 now being used by this government and for those unable to work out what that means,thats half the amount being used compared to the Tories You’d think they were in every town and city the way media bang on Get a grip ffs
World leaders are in it for themselves not for humanity. As I watch the genocide in Gaza & see the deteriorating ecosystem all they want is to increase revenue & castigate the immigrants they created with their wars & lust for fossil fuel money. The social system is broken!
Journalists are under pressure from owners etc. We have given up on enforcing good standards. Leveson II was never implemented & the likes of Sun, Mail etc continue to publish their lies & hate. This spilled across to TV. Look at reality TV - scripted trash for viewer no.s. And now news programmes.
BREAKING - Zelensky: “Russia must end this war, which it itself started.”
Pervs of a feather flock together
Designed-in obsolescence. The curse of a throwaway society 🙄
Mortified that the leadership of... Europe... has to come here b/c we couldn't bother to hire a competent woman for the job & instead re-hired a child rapist insurrectionist felon who happens to be Putin's little lap bitch. What Zelenskyy must sit through is now our eternal shame. #SlavaUkraini 🌻
“Trump has adopted Russia’s position,” writes one Russian paper today. “He will present his peace ultimatum to Zelensky. And there’s no doubt it’s an ultimatum.” My review of today’s Russian papers. #ReadingRussia
Reform: amateur and irresponsible. Sounds about right 👍
Barcelona, perhaps
Unpopular opinion: The UK is a pretty cool place to live in. I know, some things could be better but, in the last year, I've noticed the roads are being fixed, the NHS more efficient, things are moving in the wright direction. So if your pet project hasn't been dealt with yet, be patient.
I've about had it with throttle bikes that get lumped under the basic label of "ebike". Throttles that propel people into double digit speeds, without pedaling requirements are causing issues on our active infrastructure, largely fueled by thrill seeking males.
Thatcher sold the family, leaving us to live in a country that is now largely owned from overseas. Having run out of things to sell, Thatcherism has come to the end of the road. It was a failed social experiment that has completely failed. Labour needs to abandon Thatcherism.
They've just noticed that they're irrelevant nobodies and want to get back into the limelight. Neither have any morals, conscience or convictions, and will wait until they see which way the crowd is going before running to the front and shouting, "Follow me!"
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." William Shakespeare
No ceasefire then, what a shocker! Putin goes back to Russia with his photo-op successful and Trump looks weaker than ever.
This is all we need to agree on
Why the hell don't they actually do something and ban Israel from European Football. Come on UEFA it is what everybody wants.
Excellent 👍
And for some careers you can study for a degree whilst working. It takes longer, but you don't get stuck with huge debts
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It's a privilege to have witnessed, in my 7th/8th decades, close reenactments of the Third Reich. In particular, the UK Tories' Goebbels-like disinformation over Brexit; Netanyahu for his holocaust tribute in Gaza; and Johnson/Trump for the cult of personality and supreme unfitness for high office.
Advice from a 55yr old who still has a student loan. If i was leaving school right now i would train in a practical skilled profession such as plumbing, as an electrician, maybe plastering or something similar. Our electrician is fully booked 3 months ahead, and at 25 he has his own house.
The challenge is finding the apprenticeship scheme. Most trades need time in college followed by work experience to become fully qualified. It's definitely hard to do later in life. But we will always need skilled, manual trades, long after desk jobs have been replaced by computers...
This is for vehicles at a junction; I wouldn't even try to make eye contact with a driver behind me, as shown in the video. You'd have to look behind for too long
I've been advised to watch the wheels... Eye contact doesn't actually mean they've seen you; you will see the wheels start to turn and be able to react more quickly.
With the world’s attention on Gaza, Israeli settlers in the West Bank are carrying out one of the most violent campaigns against Palestinian villages since the UN began keeping records. nyti.ms/4lt6F2u
If Farage said it was going to rain all day, I'd take suncream instead of an umbrella. The man is just a liar.
My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.
Every day, politicians and the right wing media whip up hatred and fear of migrants. None of them say this is wrong. None of them make the positive case for immigration. None of them tell the truth. And then, today, someone did speak out, and the sodding BBC sodding apologised for them. I give up.
"Growth" cannot continue indefinitely. In a child, it is good, but if it doesn't stop as a child reaches adulthood, then the individual will suffer and die. Economic Growth is a pseudonym for consumption and the ultimate destruction of the planet.
He's making Theresa May's Hostile Environment look welcoming. And starting to make Priti Patel's stint as Home Secretary look rational... Now, that's worrying 😲
All that anti-immigrant bullshit is whipped up by right-wing lunatics, right-wing newspapers, and right-wing social media algorithms. Good to see that not everyone believes it.
"Disastrously wrenching our country out of the European Union was a cranky obsession of relatively few plastic patriots who hoodwinked a minor majority subsequently regretting the giant con." Spot on by Kevin Maguire. ~AA www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
People rely on their automatic headlight sensors, instead of using their brains 🙄🤷♂️
Netanyahu is a monster.
Israel is assassinating journalists
The people who brought you Brexit on a promise of ‘control’ now threaten civil unrest and frothing racism as govt policy… For love of god can we just stop listening to anything they have to say. They represent nothing but inadequacy and failure. Surely our country can do better than this.
These stories belong together: 1. The UN hails a climate breakthrough with clean energy cheaper than fossil fuel in 90% of cases www.theguardian.com/environment/... 2. Keir Starmer green-lights new oil & gas field exploration despite his 'Day 1 green energy pledge'... www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Reminder to whoever needs to hear it: fast, unimpeded travel is not a constitutional or human right. Including and especially not if it is dark, or the sun is in your eyes, or people might be walking or biking nearby, or even if you are in a rush, or you pay taxes.
Whilst the police in London arrest blind pensioners in Wheelchairs for being anti-genocide, in Portsmouth the leader of UKIP makes a nazi salute at an anti migrant demo and the police do nothing. Welcome to Britain 2025.
Boxing is the only so-called "sport" where the intention is to inflict brain damage on your opponent - to win by knock-out. Yes, the boxers are supremely fit, athletic and strong and it is great fitness training, but how can we really consider thumping one another in the head as a sport?
Let’s do some maths: In 2024 the UK population was about 69 million, and there were about 37,000 asylum seekers arriving in small boats. 37,000/69,000,000 x 100 =0.0536 The small boat people represent 0.054 percent of the UK population. But they are the main cause of trouble? Yeah, right.
The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from. It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.
But Farage has had years more experience, and a loyal base of idiot supporters.
Ooh, look; Theresa May's Hostile Environment once again. 🤬 How about, allowing asylum seekers to work, so that they can become productive members of society and removing the argument about staying in hostels at taxpayer's expense?
Yep, I'd agree with that. Then there are those lights that have gone so dim you would be hard pushed to detect in pitch black - I usually assume that they were ok when switched on, but the batteries have died. You can still have type marked, rechargeable LED lights at good prices.
Always the case. "They're punishing Brits!" No, they're looking after their border security. Something that Brexit supporters seem to be very keen on, except when it inconveniences them. And it applies to all non-EU states, which we wouldn't be if they hadn't done this stupid thing.
Some lights are better than no lights. Given the pressures on police, I can't see how this could be enforced. We could allow only the sales of approved products, but the chances of being stopped for not having lights after dark are minimal. I'm all for improving road safety for all, of course.
I'm angry, with this constant othering of migrants and asylum seekers, the fact that "small boats" is pushed as a major news item, the racist rhetoric and the promotion of Farage by the media. I'm also angry that this stirs up idiots to form mobs outside the homes of vulnerable people.
Really frustrating seeing journalists continue using “peace deal.” This is such an insult to Ukrainians. What “peace deal” implies is rewarding a terrorist state committing genocide and an illegal invasion by an aggressor.
I’m sick of paying my tax to have it spent on 3000 extra police to patrol because white men and women want to cause a riot in their own country. These are the people I’m afraid of on our streets. Bang them up.
BBC News and Current Affairs are pushing a pro-Reform Ltd. agenda, talking to ill educated people who are spouting the anti-immigrant lines they've read in the Mail and Express. They will be as much to blame for this summer's #FarageRiots as the vile man himself, if they kick off.