White Eggs Matter ? Farage will be on top of this story. #wato

In Wales they now do a cool thing where candidates have to list their recent party membership history. It throws up lots of interesting findings for voters. Like Dai Richards (bottom) - 'independent' candidate who has been a member of four far-right parties in the space of a year...

Musk may well be propagating "uninformed ignorant guff" but it is being read by many uninformed ignorant people. #wato

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate. TAT: [Attacking science | Hollowing state]

I have many issues with Keir Starmer. But his response to Nigel Farage in the House of Commons today was dignified, firm and quietly powerful. It exposed Farage for the shallow and heartless opportunist he is. Could we please see much more like this from the government.

Of course "mistakes were made" by the police, but I do not believe they were "racist mistakes", just pure incompetence from probably inexperienced police officiers. #wato

Following the extremely short clip of Sir Kier responding to Nigel Farage’s ‘2-Tier policing’ claim on #wato just now, I feel it’s worth adding the full response

Farage stirring up race hatred as usual. His conduct is disgraceful.

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

Clever old Farage. Pivoting to corrupt grifterism to distract from his appalling racism, then pivoting to appalling racism to distract from his corrupt grifterism.

I hate living in a UK where a victim’s family wishes that his death is NOT be used “to create further division, hatred or tension” is blatantly disrespected by racist scum intent on causing a Race War I hate Farage with a vengeance for using Henrys death as a weapon to try & cause more #FarageRiots

A whole housing estate full of Overton windows - Blair suggesting Starmer's govt is a "lurch to the left" Wonder what Lurch thinks? #wato

Just what parliament needs, another ogling perv. Reform UK put everything down to “just banter”. People use to demand standards from the people who they elect. Racism - banter Anti-Muslim comments - banter Misogyny- banter Homophobia - banter Sharing far-right content - banter

New Reform councillors off to a great start by refusing to vote on anything because they haven't a clue what anything means, how anything works or what the fuck they are doing. Vote Reform, get lazy, incompetent, ignorant morons.

"What? Nigel Farage? The first CEO of Reform Ltd? Corrupt? With his reputation? What were they thinking?" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So we have full 2025 immigration stats - Total net down by 2/3rds in 2025 (3/4 from peak) - Small boat arrivals in 2026 down 40%. Asylum backlog down 48%; returns up 9% - Asylum seekers in hotels down 35% (down 48% from peak) YET PUBLIC PERCEPTION 49% think 2025 saw increase; only 16% know it fell

This is yet another consequence of Starmer / Labour's shocking failure to communicate. People complained about Alastair Campbell's stranglehold on messaging, but it worked. People knew what was happening. Labour weren't drowned out by a right wing media.

Perceptio on migration numbers is wrong due to constantly skewed media narrative. And same people will now say 'don't trust the figures' despite being from same source as earlier figures they constantly quoted. Same happens with NHS waiting list figures. People only believe stats they like. #wato

In case you didn't know, Nigel Farage is a liar! #LiarFarage

New oil/gas fields would only come onstream in 5-10 years, Claire Coutinho. That won't help ease today's transport fuel worries #wato

I presume when the govt say "temporary" slower phasing in of new sanctions they mean "depends how long Trump's idiotic war drags on". Since Trump keeps saying it will be settled in a few days, on a loop, then 'temporary' falls into a similar category of definition #wato

There’s no bar low enough that Kemi can’t get beneath it

Serious alarm bells running in German politics. It used to be argued that the AfD has a ceiling around 15-20%. Now, despite having become one of the most radical far-right parties in Europe, it is getting closer to 30%

So first he told us the £5 million he secretly took from a crypto billionaire was for "security", then he said it was a "reward" for Brexit instead, then he said it definitely wasn't for buying himself a big house, now it looks like it probably was

Bit of an own goal from the party run by a man (with absolutely no personal ambition 🙄) who stood in Eastleigh Salisbury Bexhill & Battle South Thanet Bromley & Chislehurst Buckingham South Thanet (2nd time) to try to get into Parlt before discovering Clacton. #c4news

Utterly predictable, and yet another attempt at shutting down all of the extremely necessary conversations we need to have about Brexit, its consequences and the way forward.

A leading 'Raise the Colours' flag activist, who claims to be fighting to "protect our women" from migrants, has pled guilty to assaulting a woman bylinetimes.com/2026/05/18/f...

Come off it Sarah, there clearly is no functioning ceasefire in Lebanon. Any Israeli govt official telling you otherwise is doing what Israeli govt officials do ... and you are falling for it. #wato

Whatever happened to the idea of an EV charge? (money not electricity) Thought that was being planned to make up for EV drivers not 'contributing' to fuel duties? #wato

Be serious. Ever since Iran kicked off the fuel duty increase was never going to happen, it would have been political suicide. It's a non-story. #wato

Watch how legacy media whitewash Tommy Robinson as an "anti-Islam activist", and fail to acknowledge his white nationalist, anti-black racism. At @bylinetimes.bsky.social we trawled through his own posts: Please share to help folks see what he's really about bylinetimes.com/2026/05/15/h...

One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.

One of the biggest mistakes by the government was to tolerate and pander to this group. Far right extremist thugs posing as patriots, who should have been clamped down on from day one www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Tommy Robinson is marching through London again today. He presents himself as a patriot, a journalist, and a victim of the establishment. But in reality he is a serial criminal with a rap sheet two decades long. Here’s the record he’d rather you didn’t read. 🧵

I honestly think banning MPs' second jobs is the single most powerful immediate thing the Govt could do to dent Reform support. It's the right thing to do. It would be a strong move (and message) in cleaning up politics. And it would shine a light on the person hit hardest: Nigel Farage.

Seen today in my little Dorset town ...

Starmer declares donor funding for glasses/clothes - media outrage for weeks. Rayner relies on inadequate stamp duty advice - media outrage for weeks. Farage donor hands over a secret £5m - media shrugs shoulders. Spot the difference? #bbcpm

Oh what a tangled web they weave... Farage now admits he bought the Clacton house, having told everyone last year that his partner Laure Ferrari bought the house.

"Obviously simply for all his security folk to live in. Nothing to see here" #wato

She's right on that point - whatever the merits of a leadership contest, for the govt as a whole, the day of good GDP figures and waiting list reductions is the worst possible day for Streeting to announce a resignation, detracting from any possible media coverage of GDP/NHS. #wato

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

This letter is incredibly unusual for a ministerial resignation in that it actually spells out in plain English why Phillips is resigning, and why she thinks Starmer should go. With worked examples. Genuinely quite refreshing.

You misunderstand Parliamentary democracy, Sarah. Possibly wilfully. "The whole country" didn't vote for Starmer, they voted for a constituency MP and the leader of party with most seats became PM. #wato

Nandy's been around long enough not to fall for your gothcha questions Sarah #wato

Are we experiencing the beginning of a mini media love affair with Streeting? One which will immediately go into reverse if he takes over. #wato

At least Starmer in his speech finally got round to labelling Farage as a grifter and a chancer. But I doubt many in the media will quote that bit. #wato

What does Reform actually want? To lower the Minimum Wage. Get rid of the NHS and replace with US Health Insurance. Cut Benefits by at least 30%, which will have to be all of them, including State Pension, Child Benefit and Tax Credit. And much more, and it's all terrible.

What's the difference between your Tories and Reform nowadays, Mel Strident? #wato

Just met a Reform UK voting couple who had no idea that it opposed: Recent rise in the minimum wage End of the two-child benefit cap Expansion of free school meals, free breakfast clubs Help with school uniforms Horrified that they would lose big from Reform How many others voted without knowing?