'How did an idea with so much potential traction and reach – hundreds of thousands of people signed up to support the idea of a movement spearheaded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana before it even existed – become so quickly and comprehensively bogged down in power struggles and infighting?'

Resolution Foundation analysis of the Chancellor's Budget: Typical families gain approximately £230 from energy bill support, fuel duty & rail fare measures. Scrapping two-child benefit limit helps over half a million families by an average of £5,000. The Budget is progressive overall, RF finds.

Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting. Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth? For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today

Oh but you know, when the extremely wealthy old guard do it it's okay. In fact, it's good for the nation. When the party of the workers and unions do it it's bad and set to bankrupt us all because they are worse for us than the billionaires born to rule are.

This is not the pluralism a healthy and true democracy needs. So now I see that this is just like an authoritarian communist state where a few own everything and tell the masses it's good for them its that way. Both approaches point to how mush worse it would be if they were in the East/West.

Exactly. This is capitalism and it's what the people want until their profits tank.

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Although unsurprising it is depressing. There was a time that the once respectable broadsheet that the Times once was would never have been an ad rag for a racist. Someone whose harm was so injurious that the victims are still traumatised by it nearly 50 years on. Shame on the Times!

Not sure it fits the narrative to report the facts

Dropping like flies

Farmers were banned from protesting in Whitehall by Police but went ahead & broke the law by doing so👇🏼 September 857 were arrested for showing support for Palestine Action.. a group calling for an end to Genocide in Gaza Farmers are bitching about Death Duty.. so how many arrests so far❓

@peterjukes.bsky.social nsils it.

I'm hearing criticisms of the end to the two child limit, because it was done just to mollify Labour backbenchers, at a cost of £billions. I remember another govt delivering a referendum on EU membership, just to mollify restive backbenchers. That's costing way, way more... A little perspective?

Not with intent anyway

'Richardson warned that if “the Guardian proceeds to publish any allegation suggesting that Mr Farage engaged in, condoned, or led racist or antisemitic behaviour, or that such claims bear upon his present character or fitness for office, proceedings will be issued without further notice.”'

I am willing to bet this Farage story is triggering for many people with a protected characteristic. Reflecting on their school years is likely to bring up painful memories of being abused with no one protecting them. It won't cause the bystanders to reflect me thinks.

What's shocking is how in an age of enlightenment about the impact of abuse on children well. Into adulthood that no one has expressed any surprise that the adults in the school appeared to let him act with impunity. It's time this myth that children don't harm other children is well & truly busted

This was a landmark day for a Labour government.

Yes it does. I am tired of the Party that gave us years of austerity to no avail telling us now what will or won't work. 14 years of Tory rule no accountability. One year and a bit of Labour and they are responsible for the years of decline in living standards.

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When only one decent person tries to act. Good for @orynski.eu it may not have changed things there but at least you left with your integrity in tact.

He could have done that. Many seasoned politicians would have done that but Reform are Trump light. They find journalists who interrogate them offensive.

And that's offensive because elsewhere, they get to speak on all sorts with little if any accountability.

I wonder where this rabid individualism stems from???? I don't care for those who have no pride in their society as long as they are ok. What good is it to be alright jack if the country looks like poo! Where's the national pride in that?

@sarahowen.org.uk makes me extremely proud to be a Beds resident. This is totally in keeping with her approach.

And I do not object to contributing to a society like that.

It was a great line at a time when Farage's real self has been revealed by those that were present when his racism was formed.

Anyone who actually thinks that Reform voters will be remotely put off by these revelations and the impact on his victims is being overly optimistic. The reason they vote Reform is exactly because of the rhetoric and behaviour that makes the recounts of Farage's adolescent behaviour believable.

On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism". These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.

“...I’m really not sure which is the more offensive: the schoolboy Farage’s approving references to Jews going to the gas chambers, or the adult Farage gaslighting those of us who have chosen to speak up with his bizarre denials and total lack of contrition.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social blooming great share! This is great journalism in @theguardian.com by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social. Best article I've read on this by far.

'In her telling, racism and xenophobia seem not themselves objectively bad things that must be combatted, but a natural outcome that occurs when too many rights are given to immigrants and asylum seekers. If only they had fewer rights, then people wouldn’t hate them so much.'

81 killed in the Caribbean Sea including innocent fishermen. I'd say he's already started killing for oil. He's not so different to former US presidents with imperial tendencies.

They had better start working on the narrative for when this strategy isn't enough for the racists.

Nigel Farage has become increasingly vocal in his support for the crypto industry, declaring that “Reform’s Britain will lead the digital money revolution”. Reform now accepts crypto donations - the only major party to do so. Read our newest blog: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/11/19/r...

'Farageism is a curious dish of microwaved Thatcherism, seasoned with a big dash of old Labour. He’s about slashing taxes and partially re-nationalising water, more manufacturing as well as plans to “bring crypto in from the cold”. It’s a mush of right and left economics.'

'Faced with declining poll ratings and the possibility of a tax-raising Corbyn premiership, the Conservative party establishment turned to the one man most of those who had ever worked with him knew couldn’t even be trusted to run a tap.'

So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this

My gosh! I wish I lived in her world where the economy was "pretty" until Labour took power in 2024.

Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC

@sparkyrob73.bsky.social last week flytipping was big news story reported as crime. No consideration given to why the increase in this behaviour. No thought as to why people would blight their own neighbourhoods.

We must get to a point where the onus is not on victims of racial abuse to 'prove' they are indeed victims. It compounds the abuse and permits the abuser to taunt their victims further. It's the equivalent to: "Who's going to believe you?" Farage should prove it's not racist to use those terms.

I believe every single one of them.

“He was proud to be a racist at school. That was his shtick – he was the school pet racist. […] A nasty foul mouthed racist and happy and proud to say he was. No contrition at all, trying to pretend it’s just a joke. I’ve heard him say every racial slur you could possibly imagine.”

Baldwin, who was director of comms for the Labour party under Ed Miliband said: “Britain’s media is already tilted dangerously to a homogenous, rightwing, angry point of view. A merger between the Mail and the Telegraph will only exacerbate that.” www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

'Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer.' Painful, very painful. I didn't vote for it.

'Analysis by the unions showed working people were just £12 a week better off compared with 2008 after a “painful Tory pay hangover”.' Austerity did not work. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

After all rgese years of austerity, what's left to cut?

"There are times when I question whether some of these movements fully understand the gospel that they are seeming to walk behind, and my gut feeling is it's more about identity than faith," he adds. It's a "difficult road for the Church to walk," he says. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@skynewsrss.bsky.social Trevor Phillips is attempting to belittle the transport secretary for telling rail commuters that fares will be frozen after a 60%increase during the Tory reign. I am very happy to hear this @heidialexander.bsky.social