An important reminder

Labour delivering very good economic news this week alongside some big news for Wales and SEND education. Also new tech for illegal waste is already delivering with multiple arrests. A special call out to Rachel Reeves this week. 👏👏👏👏

Thats 2 things in the last 48hrs. that wouldn't have happened under tory/reform.

I really want Matt Goodwin to defect to Restore the day prior to the election... I think that would be utterly hilarious.

The Golden Rule What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn. — Babylonian Talmud

The US is a sad joke ran by criminals, for criminals.

Why would you pig-headedly ignore the voice of the next generation? Why would you saddle them with debt, shrink the job market and limit their opportunities? It runs counter to everything politics and society should want for them. For all of us. They’re the future. www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

Do not "upgrade" your shit. Keep the things you have and use them to their fullest extent. It is not difficult; stop burning the world for somebody else's profit.

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

Early Zoroastrianism (c. 300 BCE – 1000 CE) was an early source for the Golden Rule: "That nature alone is good which refrains from doing to another whatsoever is not good for itself." Dadestan-I-denig, 94,5, and "Whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do unto others." Shayast-na-Shayast 13:29

Ah Matt turn off comments. Why? Maybe to stop people pointing out that: a) All Reform MPs voted against the Workers’ Rights Bill b) He took a hefty salary from a Hungarian far-right organisation c) He doesn’t even live in the area—and likely won’t be seen after the election d) All of the above?🤔

The Golden Rule "Do not do to others that which angers you when they do it to you." – Isocrates (436–338 BCE)

👏Superbly done @mortenmorland.bsky.social.

Bill Bramhall cartoon.

Someone to celebrate! 💯 🎉🎉🍾🎈

Forty-six thousand gun deaths a year in the US (roughly equivalent to the entire population of Banbury, UK). Thirty in the UK. And not one of them shot ten times by immigration agents.

The BBC interviewied "shadow home secretary" Zia Yusef from Deform UK. At no point did they mention that "Are Nige's" private company, with barely a handful of dubious "unelected" MPs is not the official opposition, and Yusef is not even an MP!

Reform want to plunge you and your kids BACK into poverty by restoring the 2 child limit again. Who the fck would vote for that? Would you 🫵? Be honest.

Every way Nigel Farage's policies would hammer families if Reform wins power. Abandoning net zero targets. Labour has previously said Mr Farage’s “war on clean energy” and net zero would threaten over 950,000 jobs in thriving industries across the country.

FARAGE’S KENT MELTDOWN – Reform loses grip as councillors jump ship to Restore Farage said Kent would prove they could govern. Instead, it’s proving the exact opposite. Source: The London Economic #UKPoliticd

Heartbreaking from @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social on the very real damage Farage and Reform are doing to our country and shared future. “Brexit was the first, deep cut into that optimistic, multiracial Britain. What has followed was entirely predictable.” liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/424...

If you don't know how all this works now here is a perfect example.... Yesterday: Reform were asked about minimum wage and the outcome was that they will reduce it - worrying people and getting some negative press. Today: an unsourced, anonymously briefed, speculative story is 'revealled'... 1/2

Trade Union Congress: "Young people: We can't afford our rent. Multi-millionaire Reform MP Richard Tice: We're going to cut your pay."

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

Reform: an undeniably racist, misogynistic, transphobic, disability-sceptic party with disturbing links to christofascist MAGA… wants to leave the ECHR and scrap the Equality Act, removing our rights and protections. As red flags go, this is the reddest it gets www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Not sure why Reform announcing they’ll scrap the Equality Act 2010 hasn’t provoked widespread alarm. They want to torch our human rights framework AND repeal our right to protection from discrimination. A smile and a shrug on BBC News. What the hell? FFS, media. Tell people what this really means.

Meanwhile over on the far right of British Politics...

Reform UK Ltd are looking into whether to cut the minimum wage for young people??? Spiteful and shameful and not the least bit cost effective.

Farage says if he were hit by a bus tomorrow that Reform would continue as a political force. Can we test that out?

Licence to discriminate? Now Reform's failed Tories want to tear up the Equality Act. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/17/nigel-farage-unveils-reform-uk-frontbench-team

Farage’s “top team” consists 2 Tory has-beens & 2 Reform never have beens Jenrick economics spokesman - sacked by Johnson & Badenoch, Tory leadership loser❌ Braverman education spokes - sacked twice as Sec of State❌ Tice deputy leader - so vacuous ❌ Yusuf home affairs spokes - unelected nobody❌

The Golden Rule Do not do to others what you do not wish done to yourself; and wish for others too what you desire and long for for yourself–this is the whole of Dharma; heed it well — Mahabharata, Anusasana Parva 113.8 The Mahābhārata is usually dated to the period between 400 BCE and 400 CE

The Golden Rule The sage has no interest of his own, but takes the interests of the people as his own. He is kind to the kind; he is also kind to the unkind: for Virtue is kind. — Tao Te Ching, Chapter 49

This is probably one of the most important pieces I have ever written. Robert Lowe MP is proposing the forced expulsion of millions of people from the UK. Full-on fascism is being put before people. We have to decide. Do we want a politics of care, or of hate? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02...

Victor Orban, the leader of the far right authoritarian government in Hungary is bankrolling the Reform candidate Matt Goodwin in Gorton and Denton by-election. You know, Orban who stands firmly behind Putin. Reform UK Ltd, the patriots who always follow the money.

COUNCILS wanted to delay some council elections NOT the government. Farage took them to court and now it will cost the taxpayer £60+ MILLION.

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

Just so I'm clear on Refuk's crime policy: - if you throw a coffee cup at Dear Leader, it's insane if you are not jailed - but if you threaten acts of domestic terrorism like burning down hotels, it's insane if you are jailed. Is that right? 🤔

Dear US Cousins... In honour of this presidents day, allow me to offer this vision of a better alternative (that only want to drain our water and harvest us for food).

If you really think the colour of your neighbour's skin, or their sexual orientation, or the religion they practice is a problem, it's not. Turns out it's YOU that's the problem.

Disability and LGBT hate crimes set to become aggravated offences www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Thanks to a Labour government. 👏👏👏👏👏

It’s up to all of us to now step up and call this absolute bull**** out

Harvey Jones, can you explain how Labour is a “paedo protectors party”? Mandelson was a bad egg, dealt with immediately when information came to light Labour have upgraded the online safety act, are protecting children & women while targeting sex offenders/abusers This is facts!

Matt Goodwin said in a post on X: “Welcome to the UK. Where you go to prison for 18 months for anti-immigration tweets. This is insane.” No. What is insane is shrugging off incitement to racial murder. Put this man in the bin, not the House of Commons. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

What a bunch of…. Nothing good comes from these people. Nothing hopeful for the communities of Gorton and Denton. Nothing to make anyone’s lives better. It’s just an ugly pitch to boost Matt Goodwin’s needy ego. Voting for this is voting for hatred and failure. manchestermill.co.uk/goodwins-gan...

🚨Reform leader Nigel Farage has posted on X “1 million people living in this country don’t speak any English at all. 4 million people living in this country barely speak passable English” It’s racked up 2 million views AND IT’S COMPLETELY UNTRUE youtu.be/o56Tw8vSEfE?...

The Dublin Agreement was a huge deterrent. People knew if they arrived in UK & had claimed elsewhere, approved or denied, they would immediately be returned. Now that data sharing is no longer an automatic right. The UK lost access to several shared mechanisms when it left the EU