Why is it always the women and children that are abused, oppressed, victimised, denied, cancelled, killed at the hands of those more powerful. Yvette Cooper has gone from Minister to monster in my view. A political opportunist who has lost her way.
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Why is it always the women and children that are abused, oppressed, victimised, denied, cancelled, killed at the hands of those more powerful. Yvette Cooper has gone from Minister to monster in my view. A political opportunist who has lost her way.
It's technically correct for a news outlet that glorifies Farage. To me it's yet another morally barren divisive comment
She's as dim as a candle.
Each day I am astounded and mortified by this countryโs 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
The EU has specific family reunion rules for refugees, including unaccompanied minors, which are more favourable than the general family reunion rules (and these rules were not amended by the asylum pact). I notice that the Home Secretary made no comparison to that...
Labour is why.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Peak rail fares have now been scrapped across Scotland's rail network" "it is to encourage people to switch from cars to trains" Why isn't this happening across England and Wales too?
The more Labour stampede right, the emptier the vacuum for the LibDems to go "Let's just ****ing rejoin the EU already!" and snaffle up votes. But it would need to be a loud, proud and sustained message. Not a policy line item on their website, but front and centre in all comms. 2025 is NOT 2019.
I was merely responding to what you posted. Sorry...
This is a lie on an absolutely colossal scale - the figures show that tariff revenue has increased by $20 billion/month - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... would take over 30 years to reach $8 trillion at this rate
1 September 2025 is the day Labour went FULL REFORM. They're dead as a party. The next few years will be spent on twitching and rigor mortis, but they're done. Today was the finale. Astonishing. Who could have dared predict it when they swept to power with a massive majority just over a year ago?
If Trump is ever removed.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
He really ought to listen to himself. The UK is not a flag flying country, unless you're a nationalist.
Colin Talbot, an emeritus professor of politics at the University of Manchester: โI went through Reformโs national policy statements and they had no policies whatsoever on local government. Nothing at all." https://bit.ly/4p6QHy8
Very Republican. Trump will be proud of his lapdogs.
Great explainer: The ECHR is protecting everyone in the UK ๐จ "Reform has touted its plan as a 'legal reset'. But it is better understood as a total rejection of the UKโs postwar international commitments to protect the human rights of everyone within its jurisdiction." https://bit.ly/3JYzaI8
Well done ๐ Scientists are standing up to the Trump administration and are making information about climate change more accessible! ๐ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/30/climate-gov-website-trump
It's not religion gaining power it's right wing extremism riding on the back of religion. Extreme, exploitative and deceitful. Just like Trump, Hitler and many others. It never, ever ends well, especially for the facilitators as well as ordinary people.
Another day, another utterly shameful cruelty against refugees announced. Recognised refugees - so people granted the long term right to stay in the UK because they have escaped real danger - will face new barriers to reuniting with spouses & children safely in the UK #r4todat
I wouldnโt have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children. They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
You have to read quite a way down this article about anti-social behaviour in Stockport to learn that the 80 arrests were *over two years*.
What do Jenrick, Farage, Goodwin, the Telegraph etc think will be the consequences of their actions? And what does Starmer think will be the consequence of his inaction?
I guess this is what we're going to have to get used to... NHS Worker (and British citizen of Filipino origin) with 15 years of service abused whilst walking with her family in W Yorkshire. She's leaving the country and I'm sorry. The tone from the top is always heard at the bottom.
474 people www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...
"In December last year, Resolute 1850 Ltd was incorporated in the UK. With a thinktank soon to be launched and funds from MAGA, American Big Tech and the US religious right already pledged, it seeks to use Reform as a vessel to bring Project 2025-style policies to the UK."
Is there a process available to secede? Or does a state have to go the route of unilateral declaration of independence? If declaring independence is denied by the federal government would a state be able to defend itself?
Yes! Please!
He believes in the 'some more than others' kind of 'faith'.
YES! Thank you... Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". - seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
Another Labour traitor.
I wonder if this will apply to government vehicles as well?
For godโs sake someone remind the bbc.
Starmer is simply not the man to respond to this dangerous moment in history. Labour must get rid of him.
Prison awaits. Or is Labourโs focus aimed lower, socially?
The President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa called the orange felon a Russian asset in a live televised speech. Well done, this is how you do it. ๐
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
A very good point
Diana and Dodi Fayed, her boyfriend of just six weeks, as well as their driver, Henri Paul, died in a car crash on this day in 1997. I was working as a teacher at a summer school in Kent, and the burly ex cop who told me the news was crying so hard that I couldn't understand a word he was saying.
In this house, every day is S.M. Lipset Appreciation Day. Somewhat depressingly, he wrote this exactly 70 years ago.
![Seymour Martin Lipset wrote this in 1955 about the Radical Right: This essay deals with the emergence and activities of an important |American political phenomenon, the radical right. [I] This group, which v is characterized as radical because it desires to make far-reaching changes in American institutions, is basically concerned with eliminating from American political life those persons and institutions which threaten either its sense of traditional American values, or economic interests. In general, it is opposed to the social and economic reforms that have been enacted in the last twenty years, and to the internationalist pro-British foreign policy pursued in that period. The activities of the radical right would be of little interest, except to students or practitioners of politics, if it sought to achieve its ends through the traditional democratic procedures of pressure-group tactics, lobbying, and action at the ballot box. In fact, however, while most individuals and organizations which should be considered part of the radical right do limit their activities to these means, some use undemocratic methods as well. It is a fact that radical right agitation has facilitated the growth of practices which threaten to undermine the social fabric of democratic politics; this movement, therefore, must be seriously considered by all those who would preserve democratic constitutional procedures in this country. The threats to democratic procedure which are, in part, an outgrowth of radical right agitation have been documented in great detail by many observers, and it is not necessary to repeat them here. In brief, they involve attempts to destroy the right of assembly, the right of petition, the freedom of association, the freedom to travel, and the freedom to teach or conduct scholarly research without conforming to political tests.[2]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bazcpmyw3kcuy53b43m5xtfp/bafkreiexmb3uludqel4hs4mfvjsfrbuqek452mezib2rzasmvstb7su52e@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Ah, you cheated! What I meant was that modern Britain isn't influenced by the invading Roman culture, at least sot so you'd notice. We seem to be influenced more by the US culture!
They failed.
I was talking to a pleasant couple from the Netherlands today. Geert Wilders is still going strong there, although, they said that the Dutch version of PR has nullified him to some extent. The far right is on the rise there too. ๐ญ Ppl across the ๐ need to wake up. Doing nothing is not an option
maybes311: #defense #subs #fdt
Yes, central France, in the Corrรจze. The French just have their flags at the mairies (town halls).
Where the Romans were the occupying force and the population were slaves and terrorists.
The only thing missing here is the 'English' flag superimposed on an image of the Brandenberg Gate (hint: Hitler was fond of raving racial hate in front of it). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I'm hearing, through Tic Toc mainly, that union and England flags are everywhere in the UK. Is this true? Has the UK fallen to unspeakable levels now? If so, the situation there is dire!
I understand your point of view and sympathise completely. My only problem is that it is out of context with the post and thread I was responding to. Learning from the past is why we have educational institutions, we have to hope that they are enabled and willing to pass that information on.
Yes, we do!
I know that, but isn't that beside the point?
Labour in gov'm'nt 'should' take action to equalise the MSM playing field. Labour should, as the 'supposed' only socialist main party, be doing a lot of things that they are refusing to do. They seem to be in the pockets of big business & billionaires lobbyists. Next election tactics'll be crucial.
No, Lord Falconer. Labour should stop pandering to this nonsense. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
There are numerous and very well known ways that hotels could be closed, two of which are to provide safe routes, as opposed to no routes at all, and rejoin the EU. Others include processing centres in France and enable some form of work for those in detention so they can pay their way.
Home & school are needed for all things. Obviously, I was referring to history only, which most parents aren't equipped to teach. I always use should appropriately, it implies not necessarily. So, children should leave school with a good educational grounding in history. This is the role of school.
Labour's 'Farage is right, just don't vote for him' strategy is going about as well as expected
Happily they are so stupid theyโll shit on each other.
Labour have three years to work it out. As the horror unfolds in the USA it will become very clear that Farage wants the same as Trump. That'll wake everyone up!
I guess the point has been reached where AI is self sustaining. The rapid increase in AI capability must now be down to the monster developing its own intelligence. Is it now at the point where it no longer needs it's servants?
Hard to avoid the conclusion that the BBC - whether by accident or design - is increasingly a footsoldier for Farage
And Farage is a foot soldier for the billionaires. I have no doubt that the money trail, even from the BBC, would lead all the way back to them.
The young should be leaving school with a full, unabridged education. I had had a good enough grounding when I left at 16 and have made sure I continued my education for the subsequent 64 years. It really is down to schools in this case.
It is also highly hypocritical hearing the likes of Badenoch and Jenrick criticise the government for appealing the verdict in the first place when the Conservative government deliberately allowed for the number of people waiting on asylum claims to be processed to increase as policy. 3/
Perhaps it takes one to know one.
The deviant is Grimes.
Why wouldn't it be free? Are we sliding towards an NHS that is not free at the point of use? BBC News - Children offered chickenpox vaccine on NHS - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
As soon as Labour closes the last asylum hotel, the debate will move on to remigration. The Far Right will always want more, and there's always further they can go. It's why they need to be tackled on principle and values and not specific policy.
Is this the "ICE style deportation enforcement" that Farage has in mind? Does this seem like a happier, safer place to you? Machine-gun armed militias, with faces covered, yanking people into unmarked cars? The full Mark Stone report is a must-watch๐๐ฝ. ~AA www.youtube.com/watch?v=KolI...
On Trump's "next day" plan for Gaza:
Exactly.
Tesla sales in Europe drop 40% www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
If ReformUK get in they'll manoeuvre to stay in power, just like Trump. If we align Farage unequivocally with Trump, what will be unfolding in the next year in the states will finish Farage for good. What are the differences between Trump and Farage? I would argue that there are none.
national.thelead.uk/p/making-tax... This seems a characteristic Reeves combination of performative cruelty to the weak and counterproductive deference to the voices of the powerful. Why not not crackdown on the wealthy tax avoiders and evaders with equal zealotry
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community It's not just you. Survey says: "Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky" arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Someone was asked why Blair is involved in this. Her reply was that Satan was unavailable.
No, never have been. I'd bet my liberty on it, maybe.
Are we really going to drown in six inches of water? The central far right claim - that our problems are caused not by those with power and wealth but by utterly powerless people (asylum seekers etc) - is obviously and pathetically wrong. Yet millions, once more, are floundering in that puddle.
In case you missed it ... The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the European Court of Human Rights (also ECHR) were created to protect the rights of working class people who can't afford expensive lawyers or barristers. That's something Farage will never tell you. #OurECHR ๐
Former Palantir employee explains the uses and dangers of Palantir's AI surveillance and targeting tools:
He won't be.
Ed Davey taking a strong moral stance that he wonโt banquet with Trump - the man who is able to end the starvation & massacres of Gazans - when he visits in September. Trump receiving honours is honouring a genocide. We cannot let it go by without protest #r4today
Something we need to grasp is that Establishment power meant imperialism. Imperialism is a system of thought that sees upper class white men as the pinnacle of humanity, with a sacred duty to control the lives of others. What we now call the far right is an extension and revival of imperialism.
Iโve never argued against the license fee - but I am now. The idea that Iโm funding this unremitting political propaganda campaign is appalling.
This week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.
Why, I ask myself, have Labour allowed the BBC, Tory appointed governors to remain in place? Isn't there only one explanation for this, too?
This country needs another Labour leader. It is crucial . I am beyond terrified of where this country will end up! This is an absolute failure of Starmer and his guru McSweeney.
BBC and American media please take note...
It's not like we've literally watched it all play out in the US. And we're watching the identical movement with the identical strategy in the UK. And you know what's also identical? The fatal belief that 'this can't happen here'.
Labour's current path to the right is served by the BBC elite, I guess.
Me too. So terrified. We must try and hang onto the belief that most people are not fascist or evil. At least I hope theyโre not. Now is the time to turn up and face these people off. Although I feel a bit old to be doing all this tbh. ( And tired)
You're welcome.
Nick Thomas-Symonds, "Boris Johnson realised the Brexit deal was bad once it was explained to him" "My hunch, he probably accepted the bad consequences but decided ideology mattered more than reality" "The result was the first free trade deal in history that made it harder to trade"
You are though!
Florida?
An understatement.