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Working class Reform voters who want to fight the elites will soon be able to choose whether to be led by privately educated millionaires Nigel Farage and Richard Tice, or by privately educated millionaire Rupert Lowe.

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The worst element of what happened this week isn't even about immigration specifically. It's that Starmer surrendered against populism.

submitted 23 hours ago • 205 comments

Oh. news.sky.com/story/leaked...

submitted 13 hours ago • 76 comments

Save this picture onto your phone. Keep similar pictures in a folder/album. And just put them out there "on the socials" once in a while...

submitted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

Sky News release audio of Conservative Chris Philp admitting that Brexit makes it harder to return asylum seekers to countries in Europe That's right, inside the EU, with freedom of movement, the UK had the ability to return asylum seekers to Europe Brexit created the rise in small boat crossings

submitted 11 hours ago • 22 comments

One of the things that enrages me about Labour’s approach is the reality that immigration hysteria is entirely manufactured Farage has used it to flog every con and it’s been in the tabloids, daily, for ten years. To the point that now even some Labour voters defend it. It’s fucking MADE UP.

submitted 11 hours ago • 21 comments

Trump is in the Middle East lining his own pockets and those of his oligarch backers. Such corruption is so massive that we don’t even really know how to talk about it. I try to frame some issues and the stakes in today’s piece.

submitted 15 hours ago • 34 comments

Reform councillor was sacked from the police after pretending to be sick... When he was actually on holiday in Spain. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 19 hours ago • 56 comments

Let me get this right….for the good of America, children have to have fewer toys and pencils but also for the good of America Trump must accept a $400mn bribe…ooops I mean airplane?

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

The man who wanted to ban all Muslims from entering the United States because of terrorism is meeting this week with the former head of Al Qaeda in Syria.

submitted 1 day ago • 540 comments

Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

submitted 3 days ago • 314 comments

This sums it up.

submitted 2 days ago • 230 comments

"He’ll eat in a room with a floor covered in feces. He’ll ask, many times, for supplies to clean it up... he’ll gradually start to long to be deported to El Salvador, a country he barely knows. He’ll want this but won’t get it, because this is an ICE jail." How is every story worst than the last?

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Meanwhile…in other non-immigration developments…

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

What immigrants from all over the world have done for this country is tremendous. “Incalculable”, even. 🇬🇧♥️🌎

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

That went well. Alienated your voter base and MPs, Reform voters still hate you and The Mail still drags you because, unlike Reform, they don’t think you really believe in racist policy. I mean, who saw that coming? points at self You win by stopping this bullshit.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

How can I defend their nonsensical bollocks on immigration? Profoundly depressing

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. posted photos of himself swimming in a sewage-filled creek. A fitting metaphor for his entire approach to public health. www.mediaite.com/politics/rfk...

submitted 2 days ago • 727 comments

I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months. The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.

submitted 2 days ago • 346 comments

I did consider making a speech about tackling poverty, taxing the rich, nationalising utilities and properly funding the NHS and social care, but then I thought... nah, just go full Enoch Powell.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Well done Labour Anyone who thought you represented real change now despises you. Anyone who didn’t, still won’t. People who weren’t that convinced but hoped for the best are out of patience. You’ve managed to turn off everyone. Quite the achievement!

submitted 2 days ago • 209 comments

Even if Starmer suggested rendering every migrant into glue it wouldn't satisfy Reform or the Mail. The politics of today's announcement is baffling.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Another breathtaking comms victory secured by pandering, once again, to the frothing bigots on the right I see.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Today, the Covid Inquiry heard how Boris Johnson lied to the British public about the UK's ability to Test & Trace. Those in power knew that a lack of planning and underinvestment had left the country unprepared, and they tried to cover it up. Our loved ones paid the price.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

submitted 2 days ago • 273 comments

Today, Starmer said he’d “take back control of our borders” and claimed that soaring immigration had done “incalculable damage” to our country. No. That damage is done by the ruinous dishonesty of our politicians and the hatred whipped up by their ugly anti-immigrant rhetoric. Shame on you, Starmer.

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party. I ask again, what is he playing at?

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We use ‘Left-wing’ and Right-wing’ as identifying markers on the political spectrum. But ‘Left vs Right’ isn’t the key battle now. The real battle is essentially between humanity and inhumanity. It is our humanity that is under assault. Kindness over hate. westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/its...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Art of the Deal!!

submitted 2 days ago • 1372 comments

Those who are uncomfortable with this Labour immigration announcement, but think it's necessary to satisfy Reform voters, this is for you. You will not satisfy. You will never satisfy.

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

Trump Republicanism at its finest. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 2 days ago • 477 comments

It’s incredible that the President of the United States is openly flirting with suspending Habeas Corpus, disappearing people left and right, arresting judges and politicians, accepting ludicrous bribes from foreign countries, and people are still trying to normalize this shit.

submitted 2 days ago • 478 comments

What on earth is going on with Starmer, Cooper & Labour? What a waste of a strong majority, & what a mess they are making of their programme of "change" & "growth". I thought only the Tories & Reform could make me ashamed of my country. I was wrong.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

i'm sorry, i do just kind of think you're a bad person if you value human lives differently based on where they were born.

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

Personally, I think it’s a marvellous thing and a great privilege that you can meet, befriend and learn from people from all over the world without having to invest in a plane ticket. But then I’m not trying to appeal to Reform voters so hard I accidentally Enoch Powelled.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Very ashamed today of Starmer/Labour's comments about 'island of strangers' and 'incalculable damage'. It's the job of the government to leave the country in a better place than they found it, not to appeal to the base instincts of a nation in order simply to carry on governing.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

I am proud of what immigrants like my mum and those across Luton North have given to our country. Many serve in our NHS, open biz, enrich culture/arts & much more. The best way to avoid becoming an ‘island of strangers’ is investing in communities to thrive - not pitting people against each other.

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

Starmer's speech today was shameful from a Labour government: pandering, dishonest and inflammatory. To say "the damage this has done to our country is incalculable" is language no politician should use about migrants who have come to the UK and contributed to our economy and society.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment. inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

submitted 2 days ago • 179 comments

What does Starmer do tomorrow when the papers still hate him and people are still going to vote Reform? Seriously, what is his next move when this makes things even worse for him and Labour?

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

I hope you’re not waiting for some clever defence of Starmer’s speech. As you know, I try to be fair and have praised him on foreign policy. I don’t think the White Paper is terrible, but ALL of the language surrounding it is inexcusable, insupportable, and indefensible. He can kiss my migrant butt.

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

Immigration is a beautiful thing and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise ❤️

submitted 2 days ago • 135 comments

When govts stop panicking and announcing policy to “challenge” Nigel effing Farage, we may stand a chance of fixing the mess that Nigel effing Farage helped to make. Until then, we will stay stuck in this populist dead end, loudly blowing our dog whistle at the world and wondering why nothing works.

submitted 3 days ago • 102 comments

As long as there’s a single brown face in this country, Reform voters won’t be happy. You could stop immigration today but it won’t affect those already here so Reform won’t be happy. But Starmer is validating the belief that foreigners are a problem. It’s wrong, disgusting & appalling from Labour.

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

The newspapers, the Labour branding on Facebook, the obsession with Immigration rather than fixing the problems they blame the immigrants for... What THE FUCK is going on with Labour? And most depressingly: will it even work? youtu.be/vzWXPcbWfJI

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

One of the many problems with Labour trying to appeal to Reform voters is that Reform constantly moves goalposts. if today’s white paper takes the wind out of the ‘we need to leave the ECHR’ campaign sails, they’ll just pivot to something else. Said as much on Sky news last night….

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This is Labour's core problem here. The right will never allow Starmer a win on immigration because the issue is central to their appeal and therey' daren't lose it. So whatever he does will never be enough.

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments