Great take 👏

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‘Pay me £10k for a time slot to offer me more money to promote your interests’

Took this a step further - U.K. political party donations ytd compared with their current polling figures. One of these is not like the others.

Turns out ‘Muslims are the problem’ quickly becomes ‘actually Dubai seems lovely this time of year’ when there’s no council tax and the cocktails are 2‑for‑1.

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

Anyone that thinks unions are a bad thing is either a bad employer or someone easily led by the media.

Politics doesn’t need to be all doom & gloom - this is refreshingly funny 👏

This is poignant.

Up to 60k, go on, give it a share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Please sign this petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics. I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem. Sign and share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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The reform voter’s mind cannot comprehend this. They want low taxes, functioning NHS and stricter immigration. A frightening inability to connect dots.

10 years in prison. How do we get an proper investigation into the rest of the cronies going? If they’ve got nothing to hide I’m sure they’ll welcome it.

Great explanation of how govt debt works and why owning it is so fruitful. Capital gains from this system are largely tax free. People are earning billions. They’re not ‘working hard’, they’re not contributing to society, they don’t even need to live in this country. youtu.be/JlnWVq_I800?...

If anything, the people who believe Britain was better 50 years ago are partly responsible for it being ‘worse’ today. Although there has to be some sort of curve that people become more aware of bigger picture issues as they get older, rather than rose-tinting being younger and care free.

I once saw someone's synopsis of the European version of Breaking Bad. Teacher gets diagnosis of cancer. Considers life of ever escalating crime to pay for treatment. Remembers he is a citizen of a country with properly funded health care. Gets treated; buys hat. Roll credits.

Because federal laws apply worldwide, obviously.

it's rather telling how people react to the awful stabbing incident on the LNER train your usual, braindead suspects are going all-in on racism everyone else (including myself) is at awe of the professionalism and conduct of the train staff and signallers

So almost everyone that thinks immigration is an issue, thinks it’s only an issue somewhere else. Classic.

Served its purpose then. When was the last time anyone asked about Reform’s Russian ties?

Always take these polls with a pinch of salt, but if accurate then these are very telling!

Just seen this - @zackpolanski.bsky.social calling Starmer ‘low fat Nigel Farage’ is the funniest thing I’ve heard in weeks 😂

Catching up on this - really interesting conversation, learned a lot!

Farage/Jenrick etc go on about making changes that ‘protect British values’, then suggest things that actually remove them. Core British values include mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. These people aren’t protecting British values, they’re destroying them.

We’re going to cut £m’s in waste! Pride Flags and diversity begone!! …hmm actually there’s not as much waste as we thought. Yeah we might have to increase council tax. Tell you what, let’s pick the places that we had the most votes in and make the poorest people there start paying 🧠

‘Quick say something really divisive so they stop talking about Russia’

That ‘follow back’ button carrying more weight than Tice’s entire rant 😂

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Vote reform, get tory

This is brilliant stuff from @zackpolanski.bsky.social What a breath of fresh air! youtu.be/jTV4wLmmF5s?...

Can’t help but feel it’s only a matter of time before Farage is in a headline like this. There’s plenty of breadcrumbs. Will he even be a candidate by the time an election comes? I don’t know, I’m just asking questions 🤷

Wake me up when people are being arrested for eating pork

If the UK stopped all asylum seekers from entering the country and redistributed the ~£5.4b annual asylum system expenditure equally among every person alive in the UK, each individual would receive about £78 That’s £1.50 per week. Would that change your life? Asylum seekers are not the problem.

Giving asylum seekers the right to work would reduce the burden on government spend, bring in more tax, help people integrate faster, and fill labour shortages.

Saying the U.K. is implementing sharia law doesn’t make sense. Sharia is a religious code followed voluntarily by Muslims. They aren’t legally binding. It’s no different from Jewish practices, like praying three times per day, or Catholic practices, like Mass on Sundays

Quite ironic when you consider where Christianity originated

Just listened to this. Fantastic interview with @zoejardiniere.bsky.social and @zackpolanski.bsky.social - some great points made. I’ve had many of these thoughts, it’s really refreshing to hear them spoken out loud by someone else.

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This 9 year old sketch from @theguardian.com popped up on the YT algorithm. Aged well. youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?...

The problem with UK asylum hotel rhetoric is that the only connotations people protesting their use have of hotels is ‘holiday’. They see ‘taxpayer funded asylum hotel’ and hear ‘two weeks on the lash in Benidorm’, as if all occupants are sitting around the pool sipping cocktails at our expense.

My feed today is mostly independent uk journalists being banned from Reform/Conservative conferences. #freespeech

Savage takedown of Farage here from Congressman Jamie Raskin. UK MP’s take note youtu.be/reQaq3ArAak?...

One of those helps fix the other

70% of UK voters want nothing to do with reform, this is what happens when you pander to the minority that do.

Ah man…if only someone had told them

Nearly a million people marched against Brexit. Not front page news. 50 people gather outside a hotel. National news for weeks. "Fears of mass unrest", media says.

A word on immigration. Don't prejudge this, just listen to the data, and then consider what the solution is. The UK has a falling birth rate. This means that - unless things change - each generation will be 25% smaller than the one before.

The great national strategy of... flag-shagging. Because nothing says 'I love my country' like buying a plastic flag and letting it turn to tatters on a lamppost.