The media silence over the Island of Strangers speech seems to be part of an overall consensus that it’s impossible for people *not* to be against immigration. The media won’t even consider that there are people upset by xenophobia.

“I don’t want to take my country back, I want to take my country forward” www.lbc.co.uk/article/brex...

A Reform councillor accused of shaming a disabled man and a dyslexic colleague, has been put in charge of Special Educational Needs at his council Sam Journet has faced a barrage of complaints for bullying and intimidation whilst regularly using Meta-style camera glasses to film residents and staff

The Mail poll seems to be resting on 85% for rejoining the EU and just 11% for staying out. This is a staggering result and one I hope every Labour MP sees. @chrisbloore.bsky.social @sarahhall-labour.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I have seen my first Reform stakeboard in my town and honestly I find it sickening. I’m also pretty bemused and confused as to why anyone would want to publicy advertise that they are thick and/or racist.

This is what happens when stupid votes for stupidity.

Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...

10 years of cost, red tape, business closures, lost opportunities, emboldened prejudice, national insecurity and social division. A total waste of our time, resources and patience. But refusing to face up to that has been the most dismal part. Political cowardice and dishonesty on an epic scale.

If the US thought it had immigration problems before Trump, just wait until spring planting fertilizer shortages lead to fall food insecurity in Africa and South America.

Quiet xenophobia www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I’ll believe it when I see it.

If we ignore all the noise from elsewhere, Labour are a party of quiet xenophobia.

It's a very long story but I had a Trump supporter in my house this morning. I didn't know that he was still a Trump supporter until this morning. At which time he was saying that Trump has done more for gay rights than any other president. My head almost fucking exploded.

Farage and Badenoch are absolute clowns: startled by the entirely foreseeable series of events they failed to foresee. A demonstration of their total lack of judgement.

Mahmood is a horrible xenophobe and would not be out of place in any Tory cabinet or Reform. She's absolutely vile.

I do wonder who’s advising her on clothes. Hugo Boss, the early years?

You know, when Benjamin Franklin wrote about the only truly certain things being death and taxes, he did not mean those as *alternatives*. It was not death OR taxes.

Quiet xenophobe continues to implement Reform policies on the sly www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

Quiet xenophobia. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No, Shabana Mahmood, people seeing failing state support and crumbing infrastructure don't have either legitimate concerns or a legitimate grievance against immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers. They have a legitimate grievance against governments.

Got it in one.

Labour’s flirtation with xenophobia continues quietly. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

Should have doing more important things this morning but watching the racists infighting on X as a result of their defeat in Gorton and and Denton has been joyous. They are steaming.

Watching racists go wild on X this morning is still worth the moral compromise of remaining on there.

Only because he rambles on incoherently and no one has the balls to call his mental decline out.

Emily Maitlis: “It might take our producers five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit, and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it. But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance. It wasn’t.”

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

Bluesky is great for intelligent views. However, it will never beat X for the sheer spectacle of racists arguing Reform v Restore amongst themselves while pretending they’re not racists.

Presumably Jim Ratcliffe, who colonised Monaco, excludes Man Utd's multi-national squad from his claim that Britain has been "colonised by immigrants."

I know I’ve been getting some attacks on this, but there’s nothing progressive about strict immigration controls. Yes, some on the left have pushed for them over the years - hence Lexit - but that wasn’t progressive. ‘Workers of the world unite’ isn’t ’workers of England unite’.

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

No Reform MPs turned up to the debate on Russian influence on UK politics yesterday, because we are confident that we already know how it works and don’t need any further advice.

Good. Let’s hope this is the end of Blue Labour. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Allies of McSweeney... say [he] feels he has "let his boss down". " A rare moment of self-awareness for Morgan McSweeney.

A good way to start the day. Labour need to purge the rest of the disastrous ‘Blue Labour’ project.

There are no Brexit benefits

For those wondering - you need to look at his replies not just his posts. Reported and blocked. ❤️

My personal opinion is that Labour shouldn't be attacking the Greens so much as stealing their thunder. Some good, strong, socialist policies, and moving away from the xenophobic immigration policies, and you might just tempt people back.* *yes, might is doing some heavy lifting.

You couldn’t make this stuff up. Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman accidentally voted with Labour to abolish the two-child benefit cap tonight after entering the wrong lobby!

'We have free speech to push hate but you don't have free speech to object' is so very Reform. www.theargus.co.uk/news/2581285...

Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”: youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

Here's a bit of historical context for the area he's standing in. Back in 1962 Oswald Mosley decided to visit Gorton. The locals weren't that happy about a far right agitator in their area.

Ignore the headline and read the actual article. It's incredibly grim to see how pathetically unambitious Labour's plans for Brexit are, and how little change they think they need to promise in the next parliament to win back voters.

Oh good. Labour are putting in place the apparatus of repressive state control, just in time to hand the keys over to Reform. What could possibly go wrong?

Res ipsa loquitur. American service men and women know the truth of allies stepping up, and I am sure, despite the personal risk of speaking truth to power in the USA right now, that many of them will already be reminding this administration of their true allies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...