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AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

I told you we’d be back

The CBI are right to call this an anchor on ambition. We need to break the link - stop the price of gas setting the price of the wind and sun. It’s bonkers. In 2023 we paid £43bn more than we needed to. buff.ly/lBnuryJ

Call for British citizens to ‘have their say’ five years on from Brexit transition www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

Zsa-zsa Korda for president!

To lose one MP, Mr Farage, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose an MP and your chairman looks like carelessness.

Reform UK Party Ltd: 2 directors- Nigel Farage and Richard Tice. The 'person of significant control' is 'Reform 2025 Ltd' with 75% shares. Reform 2025 Ltd is a private company limited by guarantee without share capital. Directors are Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf. Yusuf has resigned as party chairman.

Couldn't agree more.

'Labour’s £13.2bn warm homes plan will not face cuts in spending review' >> Good to see & a victory for Ed Miliband www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My call for an independent inquiry into the UK's role in Gaza has passed its 1st reading in Parliament. We will establish the truth over the UK’s complicity in genocide - and we will bring about justice for the Palestinian people.

Trump's phone call with Putin reveals that Trump is now merely an international reporter - not a peace negotiator.

Has this Labour government ‘allowed the biggest influx of migrants in British history’? No. fullfact.org/politics/ric...

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

How much better did he say we would be after Brexit? Hmmm...

So, according to Dominic Cummings, for Farage to become PM he has to change the Reform UK Party. So the party will become something the members did not join.

Richard Tice says we need to adapt to climate change. Climate change committees and Flooding committees are set up to help us to adapt to climate change. Why are Reform led councils scrapping committees that are doing what Richard Tice wants?

Byline Times.

Er... in the 2024 general election I heard a Tory MP 'still' blaming Labour after 14 years!

Boyle: We just verified with the congressional budget office and of 13.7 million Americans who will lose their health care because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants

It's great news that this profoundly selfish landowner has been beaten in court, and many congrats to the National Park and those supporting it. But wild camping is a fundamental right that we should be able to exercise in many parts of England, not just Dartmoor. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Johnson put a border in the Irish Sea, sold out the fishing industry, all SMEs trading with the EU, our farmers, universities, musicians, young people, scientists, all of us… And now he sits in the mess he made throwing insults at those who are clearing up after him. What a monumental piece of shit.

Good old Daily Mail.

'Head of Brand' at the Co-op has just said on telly that the 'meal deal' is an iconic British tradition. A British tradition? A TRADITION?

52% of Brits are open to aligning with ALL EU rules on goods and products if it led to a better trading relationship with the EU. Only a quarter would oppose it.

Is the penny finally dropping? Netanyahu and Putin do not want peace, only victory.

When they say, "We want our country back", what do they mean? England, Great Britain? United Kingdom? And when did they last have "our country"? 1980? 1970? 1960? 1950? When? It would be useful to know. #NoIdeaWhatTheyMean

Labour 2024 manifesto. Immigration.

He should be made to carry them until the end of time, like Jacob Marley's chains.

Farage has announced that Reform councillors will refuse training on net zero. But polls show that two-thirds of voters want UKGOV to either maintain its current pace on net zero or go faster. Farage is going against public opinion. Will Reform councillors choose to remain ignorant?

BBC Economics Dep Ed Dharshini David: "The average tariff on British goods to the US has tripled compared to a few months ago while goods coming the other way have been cut by two thirds... So when we talk about winners and losers, it's pretty clear who got the upper hand here."