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Sheer disbelief at how rapidly this country is descending into madness.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Getting completely out of hand. Last year I dismissed idea we could see mass civic violence on US streets. Also, believed US forces would reject orders to deploy against fellow citizens. I trusted there were still some redlines politicians would not cross. Naive and stupid me.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

This, by @iandunt.bsky.social, captures exactly how I feel about the Trump-Musk deathmatch. I know we're meant to laugh, but I just feel total shame & dismay that this is what democracy has come to. And finding it funny might be a (tiny) part of how we got here iandunt.substack.com/p/musk-vs-tr...

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

#RejoinPetition2 is open! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... Tell Starmer the UK needs to Rejoin the EU fully - not just 'reset' the relationship - for maximum economic benefit and to restore influence rather than merely 'reset' relations ✍️ Sign and share!!

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

I believe millions of people feel exactly like this fisherman but still Starmer doubles down on his catastrophic red lines at every turn. Blinkered idiocy on steroids 🤬🤬🤬

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Coverage of idiots claiming ‘betrayal’ or ‘surrender’ isn’t just bad journalism, it’s a dereliction of our duty to explain things. I’d actually forgotten just how bad it got but here we are, straight back to treating liars & spivs like authorities of equal weight to experts & honest brokers.

submitted 27 days ago • 171 comments

It’s precisely because Brexiters howl about betraying fish and talk shit about sovereignty/immigration and our media amplifies their nonsense, that govt is trapped by fear, unable to freely negotiate in our best interests in case Farage/Daily Mail have a meltdown. Beyond time for the goddam truth.

submitted 27 days ago • 74 comments

So Labour binned Rwanda, but not the concept of Rwanda? That's hardly reformed thinking. It is, however, Reform thinking. Labour: Finding new ways to disappoint the electorate daily since July 2024. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

When the Home Secretary is having to argue that the Prime Minister's speech was "completely different to Enoch Powell's", it may be time to pause and reflect on ... lots of things.

submitted 34 days ago • 71 comments

Truly sickened by @UKLabour strategy: bank on Reform rising, scare Green voters with Farage, and uphold Tory cruelty with two-child cap, disability cuts, austerity 2.0. This is democracy by extortion, leading to snuff out democracy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

submitted 34 days ago • 82 comments

Dominic Grieve, former UK Conservative AG “This is not my party” “The party used to note populist sentiment as a problem but never inflamed it or echoed its vitriol. Jenrick runs a campaign that is racist: It’s utterly reprehensible, stoking emotions that cause riots, exactly as Farage does”

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

I voted to scrap the two-child benefit cap — and lost the Labour whip. I voted against cuts to winter fuel payments. And I’ll vote against any cuts to disability benefits. I didn’t enter politics to toe the line. I’m here to fight for the working class.

submitted 35 days ago • 74 comments

'Giving equal weight to people who lie or mislead and people intent on presenting facts may superficially look like impartiality. But this model, in effect, takes the side of the lies, because truth is not the midpoint between a fact and a lie.' Patrick Howse via Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025...

submitted 38 days ago • 15 comments

1. Brexit does not stand up to scrutiny 2. The more scrutiny is placed on Brexit, the worse it looks 3. A strong majority already think Brexit is going badly 4. Labour can't fight Reform on immigration. They're trying. They'll LOSE. 5. So why not make the fight all about Brexit? That's winnable!

submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments

Trump at his most Trumpish. I’m getting more and more convinced that Dementia or Alzheimer’s is in play big time.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I was deeply honored to meet President Zelensky via Zoom when he asked me to become an ambassador for UNITED24 to raise funds for surveillance drones. I'm proud to have walked this road with @u24.gov.ua to support the sovereign nation of 🇺🇦 & so grateful to all who have donated! 🙏❤️👍 #SlavaUkraine

submitted 41 days ago • 293 comments

A couple of days of sunshine followed by water rationing warning by England's water companies. Water shortage in an island surrounded by sea No new reservoirs since privatisation. Inflation-busting annual bills, excessive dividends, sewage in rivers. Must end privatisation. archive.ph/uLwMM

submitted 41 days ago • 28 comments

Keir Starmer given benefit cuts warning by Welsh First Minister - 'We will not stay silent'. Use the crisis to redirect govt. Make a start - ditch the self-imposed fiscal rules and Tory policies. Redistribute wealth, invest in infrastructure, end profiteering, nationalise water/energy.

submitted 41 days ago • 11 comments

V good letter in The Guardian on Labour’s flailing hopelessness in the face of Reform. Come on, Labour. The country is crying out for better. We’re sick of this ugly rightwing agenda. It brings nothing but failure. It’s disloyal to your voters and to the country. You’ve got power and time. Use them.

submitted 41 days ago • 61 comments

Which political party is going to remind voters we need more immigration not less. Sectors like health & care are in desperate need. That asylum seekers have no safe and legal routes. 80% are genuine and make a vast contribution to the economy. That we can’t get anything done without migrants.

submitted 42 days ago • 37 comments

Labour losing Runcorn was avoidable and as much a result of our party’s failures as Reform’s rise. Now, we need to learn the right lessons, not double down on the same mistakes. Cutting disability benefits and scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance made voters abandon us. [1/3]

submitted 45 days ago • 252 comments

Labour losing one of its safest seats shows what happens when a government cuts disability benefits and winter fuel payments, keeps the two-child benefit cap, and panders to anti-migrant rhetoric: Reform wins and always will. This isn’t the change people voted for and it shows.

submitted 45 days ago • 133 comments

Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.

submitted 45 days ago • 302 comments

It's been revealed that the Office for National Statistics, which prepares the UK's inflation data, has been using the wrong prices to estimate it. They have used list prices, not what most people pay. The result? Serious overstatement of inflation. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

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...

submitted 47 days ago • 104 comments

It really annoys me that @uklabour.bsky.social treat us all as though we’re 5. Stop with the “smash the gangs” 3 word nonsense. Please let’s talk about catching the criminals that profit from some of the most desperate people on the planet. Currently you need to be an adult to vote, treat us as such

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

One of the worst features of the tabloid press is the constant claim to be reporting other people's "anger", "rage" and "fury", when in reality they're trying to whip up those emotions. A more accurate headline would read "please be furious about this". And they could use the same one every day.

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

Brexit is quest for the Holy Grail: a shining promise of total sovereignty, booming trade, freedom from Europe’s regulations. But like the Holy Grail, Brexit’s promised treasures never existed. Labour promises a ‘better Brexit’ — a new miracle deal 🦄 of better deals with Europe and USA. 1/2

submitted 50 days ago • 8 comments

Frighteningly true 👇

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

We are fully committed to maintaining the mistake; whatever happens we promise you, without reservation, that we will not remedy it and will never give you back your rights and freedoms. Please vote for us.

submitted 51 days ago • 16 comments

European MPs urge an end to "the policy of appeasement"& call for a united stance against Russia's terrorist regime. In a joint statement, the Chairs of 7 Foreign Affairs Committees said: "We must not repeat the mistakes of Munich in 1938.Negotiating with the war criminal Putin is evidently futile;

submitted 51 days ago • 93 comments

Just forget appeasing these monsters. We must return to Europe and stop kidding ourselves we can have it all. We did that before and ended up with less than nothing. British politicians who support Trump betray Ukraine, betray us all. (Letter, Times)

submitted 52 days ago • 20 comments

I will just ask you a question you really should have asked yourself. Why would the rich people want you to be rich? Then there is less money for them.

submitted 52 days ago • 6 comments

Labour are pleasing no one. Their stupid red lines on Europe, their constant appeasement of those who voted for Brexit (red wall) and the lurch to try and keep up with the vileness of Reform UK The country wants a clear choice not three different varieties of bigots & idiots

submitted 54 days ago • 14 comments

These are all things the US could do unilaterally: recognition of territories, commitment not to admit Ukraine to NATO, sanctions lifting, and economic normalisation. Zelensky isn't the barrier. Huge implications for Europe if US moves this forward unilaterally

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

LBC Caller CHALLENGES Brexiteer Ferrari youtu.be/JlxH7wce91I

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Really worrying that Keir Starmer wouldn't commit to a vote in Parliament on a Trump trade deal when I asked him just now. If the government really thinks it's a good deal for Britain, what are they so afraid of?

submitted 53 days ago • 36 comments

Mindblowingly awful, given the historial precedent of associating particular ethnicities with particular types of wrongdoing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 54 days ago • 52 comments

You can delude yourself that Labour have over four years to turn things around before the next GE. But make no mistake. If Starmer signs a hasty bad deal with the USA that prevents Britain from getting closer to the EU again, it's OVER. No ifs or buts. Then it becomes a waiting game until the end.

submitted 55 days ago • 31 comments

I’m sure every country in the world realises this. I just wish Starmer hadn’t made the same mistake with Trump that May did, which was inviting him before he had settled into his reign of destruction. We don’t want him. I’m sure King Charlie doesn’t either.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments