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Cue some talking head: What is this world coming to? You can't even celebrate Hitler's birthday in a pub with Nazi paraphernalia and swastika cake without the woke mob arresting you... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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this is very awkward for Kemi Badenoch

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🔴 These two charts expose Nigel Farage’s immigration myths The Reform leader’s campaign is based on blatant, provable falsehoods 👇

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Reform UK rails against working from home… but is hiring people to work from home leftfootforward.org/2025/05/refo...

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Reform’s green energy assault in Lincolnshire ‘puts 12,200 jobs at risk’ Party intends to block projects despite net zero industries contributing nearly £1bn to local economy, analysis shows www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Kemi Badenoch agreed to trade deal tax arrangement, say Indian officials www.ft.com/content/7f13...

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FUN FACT: Since 2019, Nigel Farage's Reform has taken more than £2.3 MILLION from oil and gas interests - making up an astonishing 92% of the party's donations. Reform are NOT for ordinary people. They're in the pockets of the big oil lobby.

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Do please tell me again how anti-trans legislation protects women. I'm still not understanding.... 😑😡

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Hugely misleading headline in the Daily Mail. This only applies to Indian workers who are seconded to the UK from a company based in India on a short term basis. India nationals applying for jobs based in the UK will not benefit from this convention and it does not disadvantage UK workers

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Former MI6 chief, Sir Alex Younger gives some Brexit truths. “Putin would’ve been absolutely delighted by our decision (to leave the EU) and so would Xi.” “Particularly since I've left office and I've travelled around Europe, I'm profoundly depressed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0eo...

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Mark Carney looking increasingly like a man who wants to get on with the purpose of his visit, end the reality TV show and get on with the closed door talks. Trump keeps the TV show going.

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“No more work from home” for British people – says the man who gets to work from America, and whose regional directors gets to work from home. One rule for him? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Or to put it another way, overseas students now subsidise the cost of teaching each UK undergraduate by an average of £2,500 each. Take them away and you've got an absolutely existential crisis for universities. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

Pity that The Telegraph isn't quite joining the dots and acknowledging that the far right grifter Nigel Farage, who they're all fawning over, is responsible for this shit show.

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Immigration is not the problem it’s now widely believed to be. Brexit is much more of a problem than it’s reported to be. So how can govt achieve growth, fix public svcs and deal with the cost of living if fear of Reform means it won’t be honest with us about these 2 elephants in the room? It can’t.

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

Voting for Farage’s outfit is a vote for Trump and Putin and not in the best interests of Britain and Europe.

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🚘 FREE DRIVING LESSONS FOR REFUGEES?! If you've seen those headlines and felt a twinge of outrage, you're not alone. But let's take a closer look at who's actually getting these lessons and why. 🧵 1/16

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The European Union has rejected British appeals for access to critical crime and illegal migration databases as part of a Brexit reset with the bloc www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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‘Trump’s meme coin soars after he asks top 220 holders to dinner’ - this happened a week ago, possibly the single most corrupt action ever by an American President. And yet the reaction is…whatever www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Today’s bulletin from a top US historian: the President doesn’t understand the constitution he’s sworn to defend but believes he can ignore it and the anti-vaxer he put in charge of health doesn’t believe in germ theory. Time for the UK to issue a travel advisory?

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Fuck me - that's a whole new universe of embarrassing

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Andy Burnham: ‘Damage of Brexit’ MUST be addressed by Labour youtu.be/cK6X35B3zcM

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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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Canadian and Australian right wing leaders both lose their seats within weeks. Meanwhile UK Labour thinks going to the right is the way to win, even though the right reject them and the left are alienated by them. Read the f*ing room. More importantly, feel the threat from progressive voters.

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“Do not mock us.”

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Remember this one. In five years, or ten, or twenty. When we're a weird, dirty, backward nation that still sets fire to stuff, and places like China and India start to ask us why.

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'Don't you dare try to invest in our area or create jobs'. Just imagine this lot in charge of the country

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This absolutely shocking. Donald Trump has posted an AI-generated image of himself dressed in papal regalia on his Truth Social platform - just 11 days after the death of Pope Francis news.sky.com/story/trump-...

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weapons-grade morons

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#Burnham4PM

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How can Labour defeat a man whose biggest idea has been an abject failure; who endorsed the Truss Budget; and who has supported one of the most toxic political figures the western world has seen for decades? It's a real puzzle.

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Reform clearly spent a lot of money in election campaign, especially in Runcorn. But it will be c 6 months before we know where the cash came from because of the huge lag in donation declarations Surely this should be published in real time as it is during general elections?

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

It's my decade long held opinion that many on the Brexit right are not really voting about migrants or EU membership or any of the other crap they purport to be about. They're voting against other people's joy.

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Copying Reform on immigration while cutting money from OAPs and the disabled has been a disaster Surely, now, Labour must change course www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-n...

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My wife uses this as a shorthand for when managers have run out of ideas. “They’re at the biscuit-banning stage.” Sure sign that they’ve no idea what to do next.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

Farage and Reform whip up people’s prejudices, then offer to get rid of what they hate.Their power feeds off ignorance and hatred. They make people angrier about the stuff they fear, then promise to fix it. Of course they won’t. But they know who to tell you to blame when they fail. (Letters, Times)

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

Oh great we’ve got ourselves a pound shop Trump…

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He's won three councils and he thinks he's Donald Trump. What an absolute fucking turnip.

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Today shows: - A lot of people are thick enough to fall for a con artists obvious bullshit. - Funnily enough, repeating mad Reform rhetoric doesn’t win Labour votes, who knew? (me and anyone else with sense) Finally, if you don’t protest vote tactically you help those fuckers.

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

I agree with Rees Mogg! Brexit wouldn’t have happened without Farage. He pushes sadopopulism by identifying scapegoats and moaning about issues to win votes which makes everything even worse. Brexit is destroying prosperity, Brexit made us a pawn on 🌍 chess board.

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments