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Reform are egged on by news editors who think there is nothing more exciting than pictures of Farage brandishing a pint of beer. What success the party has enjoyed at this week’s elections has been because Labour and the Tories bequeathed it to them. eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...

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Reform UK says it’ll ‘reset’ Britain inch by inch. But to what? Smog, slums and Section 28? Their nostalgic fantasy hides a dangerous truth. 👉 Read The Bear's clear-eyed breakdown of what’s really on offer:

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Peter Brookes’s Times cartoon: May 5, 2025 www.thetimes.com/article/d0f4...

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🚨🚨This simple graph illustrates in principle all you need to know about the implications of #brexit for UK trade, the economy and the opportunities for British biz to succeed in the Global economy. #brexitshambles #brexitbrokebritain

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Trump: “I am not saying I'll resort to a military option to seize Greenland, but I'm not ruling anything out. “We desperately need Greenland for international security.”

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Trump approves $1 billion in debt forgiveness! ...for rich criminals!!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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President Donald Trump, asked during an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker,” whether he believes that he needs to uphold the Constitution during his presidency, responded, “I don’t know.”

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One recommendation I would make to PM Keir Starmer is to massively improve your communications! I’m aware things have been achieved by this govt in the short time it’s been in power. The trouble is we the taxpayers don’t know it! So copy Reform UK & hog the limelight! Announce your wins & progress!📢

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Morten Morland’s Sunday Times cartoon: May 4, 2025 www.thetimes.com/article/2d32...

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“Your leader responded by saying your plan is to go further & faster…the signature choices you’ve made cutting winter fuel allowance, cutting disability benefits…which of these are we going to get further & faster on?” Trevor Philips

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Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

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Room Temperature IQ.

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This is blatantly anti-Catholic and makes fun of Catholicism. Will ANYONE in the Catholic Church speak out against it?

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Australia’s centre-left prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has won a second term with a crushing victory over the opposition, whose rightwing leader, Peter Dutton, failed to brush off comparisons with Donald Trump and ended up losing his own seat.

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It’s quite simple Labour - make people feel good and they’ll vote for you! Give hope, not hatred. Look after the vulnerable, fix public services, stop taking money from the bottom cause you’re too scared to take it from the top. Stop migrant bashing, you’re doing Farage’s work!

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Peter Brookes’s Times cartoon: May 2, 2025 www.thetimes.com/article/dc72...

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Which auditors? The ones the councils already use might wonder how they'll be paid. And what brief will auditors be given? "Find stuff, like DOGE pretends it has!"? #r4today

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Labour have a very easy option, rejoin the EU, get £42bn a year to spend, add £250bn a year to the economy. Lose ZERO voters, gain millions. It would win them the next election by itself. Why won't they do it?

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Gloucestershire Council Result #LE2025: LDM: 27 (+11) RFM: 11 (+11) GRN: 9 (+5) CON: 6 (-24) IND: 1 (+1) LAB: 1 (-4) No Overall Control (LDs 1 off!) - No Change (though was initially Conservative in 2021).

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Liberal Democrats make 11 GAINS in Gloucestershire, winning 27 councillors. 🔶

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Liberal Democrats GAIN Oxfordshire - taking control of the council for the first time ever. 12 GAINS to elect 36 Councillors. 🔶

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Liberal Democrats have overtaken the Conservatives at these local elections. Now we're on track to replace them next General Election as well. People have put their faith in us because they are appalled by the Conservatives lurching to extremes and cosying up to Nigel Farage.

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Ella Baron’s Times cartoon: May 2, 2025 www.thetimes.com/article/c753...

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UK banks put $100bn into firms building climate-wrecking ‘carbon bombs’, study finds - UK is key financial hub for destructive fossil fuel mega-projects, according to research Analysis by LINGO, story by Matt Taylor #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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👏Attenborough speaks out against industrial fishing 🎣 ❌Killed “2/3 of all large predator fish” 🐟 ❄️“Removing the foundation of an entire ecosystem” in Antarctica. 🦈Sharks and turtles survived the dinosaurs but may not survive industrial trawlers. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Oh. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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What we have learnt from US, Germany and France is, if the gov don’t look after the people, if people’s living standards don’t improve, they will vote extreme right. Farage is only waiting for Labour to fail.

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Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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NEW: Millions in taxpayers’ money has been funnelled to intensive chicken farms near the Wye and Severn rivers – despite the industry’s links to spiralling water and air pollution in the region (1/4)

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The massive blackout that left the Iberian Peninsula in the dark today appears to have been sparked by the unexplained disappearance 15 gigawatts of power from Spain’s electricity grid.

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A leading health think tank says urgent and emergency care in England is performing "far worse" than before the pandemic www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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BREAKING: NHS prescription charges to be frozen for first time in three years www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work. The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink

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Philp: "Well, of course, the government should be getting immigration down. We took steps in government towards the end of our time." Ah, yes. Another thing the Conservatives were JUST ABOUT to sort out, if only voters had given them fourteen years and one month extra. ~AA

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Russia is expanding its military infrastructure along the border with Finland. Officials tell the WSJ it could be preparation for a potential clash with NATO.

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‘A lot of Russians have been killed. We like this’: on the frontline with a Ukrainian artillery unit

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Starmer: "If you're a Tory voter who doesn't want a pro-Russia foreign policy, how does a merger with Reform work for you? If you're a Reform voter who thinks the Tories failed for 14 years, how does it work for you? Both sets of voters are being conned. It would be a disaster for the country." ~AA

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Reform UK challenged to give details on donations after £2m mailshot campaign www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Peter Brookes’s Times cartoon: April 28, 2025 www.thetimes.com/article/1e75...

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Farage's numbers look false, skewed or spun Of the 16% (10.6m) people born abroad, 6/10 had arrived before 2011 [so he can't claim 7m new registrations since 2015] - about 4/10 of those born abroad are UK citizens + non-citizens on visas pay £1035/year NHS surcharge. NHS net gain on £ now

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