Can I tell you something? Over a year ago, the EveryDoctor team suspected that this Labour government might restart NHS PFI projects (🚨🚨🚨). So we painstakingly investigated what was going on with the old projects, and found that… 69 NHS Trusts are locked into paying back..

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There are lots of good reasons to charge people in expensive homes more tax, principally all the good the revenue can do. But if you want to help those struggling to buy at all you need to build more affordable homes.

I am ashamed to admit that I didn’t read the alt texts my first time through this delightful thread. Please learn from the error of my ways, I implore you

Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal. We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.

I wish I was surprised. Buried in this Budget is a plan to slash the Digital Services Tax, giving a multi-billion tax cut to US tech giants and the likes of Elon Musk. That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.

The thing about "left on the economy, right on culture" is it's based on analysis of swing voters. Those voters are often low attention and their politics are often not especially coherent. Which is fine for them, it's not their job to run the country, but, you know, the government is

This child is the only one of their bunch that tells the truth. That is also some cartoon villain laughter in baby form. You know he heard adults say something as he was being brought along as a tiny human shield. This is not a line a child just comes up with in regards to this. #Pinks

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

Reform UK are going to announce a policy where all EU citizens will be stripped of all benefits and double the NHS surcharge They will be given 3 months notice. If the EU refuses to accept these terms, there will be a ‘trade retaliation’ with the EU? Race to the bottom in the sewage of racism.

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

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

Funny they'd want to do that while not talking about NATHAN GILL at all.

It was only a few days ago that Trump said “things happen” to describe a literal dismemberment of a journalist and celebrated his killer

The failure of centrist journalists to understand the way that their compromises actually end up supporting the wrong side is one of the tragedies of the last few decades.

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

A tiny, misplaced label may have slowly loosened a critical wire on the ship that hit Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, eventually causing a catastrophic failure

One small(!) point. The way the debate has been engaged in over the last decade, asylum seekers have been conflated with illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants conflated with legal immigrants, and immigrants conflated with all ethnic minorities, you can’t attack one group without attacking all.

Listening to Steve Reed explain on the radio today that he can't say what Mahmood's plan means for kids of people who give birth after they've been granted asylum because that's a hypothetical Q govt can't be expected to answer right now made me think these reforms are going to unravel quite fast

Labour has comprehensively trapped itself by agreeing to play entirely by their opponents’ rules. The game is fixed so the only move that’s ever available is more and worse cruelty, while at the same time no level of cruelty will ever be enough to win. A moral & political death-spiral.

Look, if you are trailing a budget and then immediately walking it back, before trailing an asylum bill and immediately walking it back, then you are just bad at politics and policy. There are no redeeming features here.

Labour MP for Stroud, Simon Opher, says his party should "stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel". "We should push back on the racist agenda of Reform rather than echo it".

The main question I have for Labour is, what will you do when the polls don’t improve for you after this?

Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics. He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist

I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.” If they support them they will too.

I’ve seen his work online and am always stunned. His mind is genius! I can’t even begin to comprehend how this works 🤯🔥🙌🏼❤️

Not overreacting, it is highly symbolic and resonates with the Nazis stripping of victims possessions before murdering them. Not suggesting equivalence but resonance and that's what is triggering you and me

Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

I struggle to see why turning ourselves into a society so unwelcoming that even those afraid for the lives are deterred from coming is something we would actually *want*.

How have Labour watched the Tories spend 2-3 years parroting Farage then lose an election badly and conclude a similar strategy is the best course of action? I. Really. Genuinely. Do Not. Get. It.

Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence. Every single human in the world is the product of migration. It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human. That’s never going to change. Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.

"I am a child of migrants, I'm not far-right." Said Shabana Mahmmood, Suella Braverman, and Zia Yusuf #bbclaurak

Another chilling aspect... The Tories simply passed a law declaring Rwanda "safe". Do we really trust that this govt or the next won't resort to similar tactics if this finds them politically convenient? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Do I trust this recent transformation? Not yet Will I offer grace to those who want to be done with toxic politics? Even those who once reveled in it? Yes The road to redemption, however, is long and it must be travelled. For MTG, the road requires her to be truthful about J6 and her role in it.

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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!? Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.

Yet again we’re being warned that if we ask billionaires to pay their fair share of tax they might leave. So it’s definitely worth trying.

The odious criminal who is in charge of the US is trying to take down our national broadcasting service & people like Farage are cheering him on. I'm beyond livid.

Greenland’s Parliament has passed a new law making it harder for foreigners to buy property or obtain land-use rights in Greenland 🇬🇱 No members voted against the bill The bill was introduced following increased foreign interest in buying property in Greenland 🇬🇱

Turns out Johnson wasn’t Churchill after all, but Lord Haw Haw?

I've given it some thought, and I think the funniest possible outcome is if they somehow decide to impeach Bill Clinton again

He’s been ranting in long posts all night. Rather than subject you to his drivel, refer to the gif below for the gist of it.

The Epstein coverup will go down as one of the greatest scandals and miscarriages of justice in U.S. history. Everyone involved with Epstein’s victims or with the coverup needs to be prosecuted and go down in shame. It does not matter if they are GOP or Dems! Repost if you agree. #BlueCrew

The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.