"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."

Allowed to spout the usual bullshit about how they’ve come up from nothing (yeah no UKIP, Brexit party, Nathan Gill….) and how their Russian corruption links will be sorted with better vetting. Easy ride. Nothing serious or properly scrutinising. Pap.

This is a good response. Why did it take 48 hours? What kindal of Micky Mouse operation are they running in there?

"a kind of celebration of ignorance"

The draft legislation is crackers. It would fail immediately if we stayed in the ECHR but it disappears the human rights act. if passed after that it would involve mandatory loss of ILR for up to 400,000 people + refusal of 2-3 million others, though without no credible means to identify or remove

Just ignorant, ahistorical rubbish from Blair. The average burden of direct taxes (income tax and employee NICs) has barely shifted in two decades. Was 21% of gross incomes in 2004, was 21% last year. archive.ph/MVNMw

This, this, this. If journalists don’t scrutinize this and explain it properly now then they have failed on their duty and will bear a share of the blame if such policies are enacted (most of the public oppose them and don’t I think realise what is being proposed yet).

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly." "With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this." "I blame you for that."

Trump has declared a sort of war on half of us. NYT:

Everything is retribution www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Facts… The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

A much needed corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "welfare is out of control" narrative, drawing on research by my colleague @benbgeiger.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/ee67...

It's time for Starmer to abandon the race to keep up with the economy-sapping immigration policies of the man who brought us Brexit in the first place. Until he takes that step, the “severe and long-lasting” impact of leaving the EU, identified by Reeves today, will only keep getting worse.

1970's: CEOs earn 20 x more than average worker 2025: CEOs earn 122 x more than average worker The richest 1% own 50% of entire country's wealth. Obscene inequality has been normalised.

Indeed. The government has chosen to prioritise reducing (skilled, legal, for work) migration over growth and hence over improving public services. No economic rationale - but even worse, no political rationale either.

I can see Labour losing the next election having needlessly fractured the coalition of voters they need to retain power, and Starmer will be bleating on about “learning lessons” when the one lesson he should learn NOW is to STOP chasing Reform’s Nationalist agenda, for Christ’s sake….

Rupert Lowe on Nathan Gill, former Reform leader in Wales, who has pleaded guilty to taking bribes from pro-Russian proxies: "I had absolutely no idea. I was new to the European Parliament, Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close." Shots fired. ~AA

Never mind that he got this from a public report about the agents called to the location AFTER the riot had started. Not knowing that you'd been President for almost four years on that date, and Biden would not be inaugurated for another two weeks, even by Trump standards, is SKETCHY AF.

Give up satirists. Move to Saudi or something. You're not needed any more.

Left populism without most of Corbyn's extensive baggage, expressed clearly, is clearly going to find a lot of support, not least when he'll also take on Reform on their own ground. My scepticism of simple answers will remain, but broadly still I think positive.

They're going to put an enormous lawsuit magnet in the sky. mastodon.social/@sundogplane...

As for this - in other words the government would rather we offshore our operations instead of generating jobs and exports in a high productivity sector in the UK. I despair...

You can't have a successful economy by kowtowing to bigots who want to close the country to the rest of the world. It'd be nice if a politician had the brains or guts to point this out.

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Oh. That Trump-sponsored 'Brexit benefit' on steel may be about to go up in smoke.

Are people in the UK 'over-taxed'? @danneidle.bsky.social points out that the median worker is currently paying historically low levels of tax 👇 Rewatch the full discussion 👉 buff.ly/dQaGaNo

1/3 I’m from Birmingham, my mom grew up in Handsworth It’s a lie to say there’s not an integration issue - there’s Black areas, Asian areas, & white areas where people live separately I say this as a mixed race Brummie! However, Jenrick saying “he didn’t see any white people” is a dogwhistle…

Did you think No Deal Brexit was gone for good? I have bad news.

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Reform UK promised to slash “wasteful spending” - now they’re raising taxes. Looks like Reform UK are learning council budgets aren't as wasteful as they thought... https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-uk-council-tax-kent-news-rf05q0bqm

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

James is correct. The Tories have simply copied Reform's deportation policy for *legal* permanent residents (of the wrong colour..) (NB the numbers would not be remotely as large as James says because most of those with ILR do get citizenship).

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

This reads far better in the original German, where of course the discussion would have been about Jews, Poles, gypsies, gays, Communists and Social Democrats. Still, Miller's model for all his rhetoric and action plans is unambiguous.

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?

ON THIS DAY in 2022 it was reported that in the UK, the Tory Austerity Polices, which provided tax breaks for the rich, killed an estimated 334,000 British citizens. Although some Tories who supported this are now retired, many are still active, and many in the #Reform Party.

Got clap back on air for saying this yesterday but I believe it to be true- Islamist extremists pretend to represent Muslims (they do not). The far right are pretending to care about Jewish ppl (they do not). They’re both abhorrent & we’re all caught in their crossfires.

History repeats.

Nigel Farage accuses Keir Starmer of "emboldening" anti-semites. This Nigel Farage

Excellent from @mortenmorland.bsky.social.

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism. I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.