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Trump has just repeated the lie he has told many times - that he was in the UK on the day of the Brexit referendum and predicted the result. (He was actually there the day after.) So why should we believe a word he says about this trade deal? factcheck.afp.com/no-donald-tr...

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

The UK just agreed a trade deal with India. The official UK government press release doesn't say anything about the significant concessions Britain made to India to get the deal over the line. www.gov.uk/government/n... The Indian government is much more forthcoming... pib.gov.in/PressRelease...

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

"Since the election, Labour has lost more than three times as many voters to the Lib Dems as to Reform" (Rachel Sylvester writes in the Observer today). They don't act like they are concerned about those lost votes

submitted 30 days ago • 41 comments

England's broken electoral system strikes again. 93%, 90%, 90%, 87%: the percentages of electors who DIDN'T vote for the winning candidate in West of England, N Tyneside, Doncaster, Lincolnshire. 82% DIDN'T vote for the new MP for Runcorn. This is not democratic representation of the people!

submitted 32 days ago • 18 comments

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

submitted 32 days ago • 236 comments

Labour has to move left of faces a wipe out on the scale the Tories are already suffering. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...

submitted 31 days ago • 12 comments

Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption. Breathtaking. Heartbreaking. We cannot let this stand.

submitted 33 days ago • 606 comments

This is the best 100-day recap I’ve seen — and it begs the damn question: Why is his approval rating still 39%? Are folks in a coma?

submitted 34 days ago • 1130 comments

This exchange is so very telling. Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this: "I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"

submitted 35 days ago • 1351 comments

Oh look, all white, working class, probably Reform voters and have paid loadsamoney to TateUniversity

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Mark Carney, "The lessons of Brexit are beginning to be applied to the US" "When you break trading relationships you end up with slower growth"

submitted 35 days ago • 198 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 35 days ago • 1333 comments

The higher £5.30 (peak) parking charges are now being applied to all on-street parking (incl. Micklegate/Priory Street) plus Bishophorpe Road off-street car park. Fair to say that many drivers & some traders are very upset by the Councils actions. westfieldnewsfocus.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/s...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Eye-watering details of the sums big firms are giving Trump and what they get in return - “the Trump administration has dropped federal investigations and lawsuits against 89 corporations, many of whose leaders donated heavily to Trump’s inaugural fund.”

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

It's pretty chilling seeing it laid out so clearly. The US economy (and, inevitably the rest of the world) is about to get a massive hit due to the piss scented orange ogre's demented plans

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

People are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means. It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling.

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submitted 37 days ago • 274 comments

Lovely..vegetable gardening this morning

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

& another twist to the car parking charges shambles as one York Council car park on Bishopthorpe Road is now offering "free parking" westfieldnewsfocus.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/s...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

York Labour Councillor says that she will "suspend" the enforcement of the new parking charges in the Micklegate area. They were warned 4 months ago that their plans were unfair westfieldnewsfocus.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/s...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

submitted 49 days ago • 812 comments

Parking charges on Micklegate in York now suspended altogether Latest news here westfieldnewsfocus.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/s...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Mostly switched off from news during my paternity leave, but this is too good. Politico: "Much of the Welsh Conservatives’ promo material [is] still being published in the name of Tom James, one of those charged with betting offences. A Tory staffer said...there’s “no one else available to step in”

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

A petition has been started which opposes Labour's plans to restrict access for cars and vans on the Rougier Street/Ouse Bridge route. westfieldnewsfocus.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 50 days ago • 689 comments

🚨🚨 WOW: UK is prepared to retain some regulatory alignment with the EU and accept #CJEU supervision over a deal to cut checks on imports of foods & agricultural products- in a significant a move on the promised EU-UK #reset five years after #Brexit.🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 49 days ago • 63 comments

Astounding levels of illegality.

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

In case you missed it ... Here's a damning verdict from the Intelligence & Security Committee regarding Boris Johnson's half-baked report into Russian interference in the Brexit ref. Basically, they didn't even bother looking for any! Surely now it's time for a public enquiry into Putin's Brexit!

submitted 55 days ago • 65 comments

Meet Ruben Robinson, Reform UK candidate for Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire and Chairman of NE Lincolnshire Branch. We need to talk about his judgement... You won't have heard of Ruben Robinson, but you'll have heard of his business partner (well, he was until he resigned in March): Dan Turner.

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

Donald Trump is ramping up his trade wars and crashing the global economy. He's not sparing the UK from his new tariffs, why should we roll out the red carpet for him with a second state visit? Join more than 200,000 of us and add your name to he petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments