@quietriotpod.bsky.social yet another outstanding episode with real, make you think conversations. The reason this pod is my go to is the consistent quality of guests and David was fascinating. Thanks as always @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social

We have just finished the quarterly @quietriotpod.bsky.social editorial meeting for our backers and it was AMAZING. I’m feeling quite overwhelmed by the love, support & tremendous ideas. Our cup runneth full. Thank you to all who came along 🙏🏼

David Howarth joins @pimlicat.bsky.social and @sturdyalex.bsky.social on Quiet Riot to explain why Britain should be part of the EU’s Common Asylum and Migration Policy. They also dive into the debate on ID cards - spoiler: they are irrelevant in reducing illegal immigration. bit.ly/4mG4sRT

Look forward to seeing all out supporters' lovely faces at the open editorial meeting in 10 minutes. A, N, & K xx

This morning we hosted our latest Decoding Populism webinar about the messages that work to persuade voters away from supporting populist politicians. ICYMI it live you can now watch the whole thing back on the link below. Feel free to share. www.bestforbritain.org/decoding_web...

I enjoyed the episode when you spoke to Liam Byrne about this. Gave me much needed hope.

Bus would be roadkill within minutes in London. I’d give it 30 seconds in Hanger Lane.

"Farage can be beaten. His coalition is brittle. His arguments are vulnerable" strong stuff from @liambyrnemp.bsky.social over on the @bestforbritain.org Substack where he tells us HOW to defeat populism. 👇 bestforbritain.substack.com/p/how-to-bea...

“We need to be inside the new EU pact on migration and asylum - most of the things that people complain about would be solved within it: more information about the people we take, much easier returns, and an obligation for asylum seekers to apply only once, in the first country they land.”

That swan thing is just a canard, a cygneture move by Farage

Amid reports that MPs and an advisory taskforce will recommend scrapping the two-child limit on benefits, it's worth noting that this step would be the most targeted and cost-effective way for the Government to meet its aim of reducing child poverty ⤵️

“Reform is adopting a policy of ‘national preference’ - the sinister policy of the far right in France. It starts with citizenship. Who counts as a citizen? It then shifts to dual citizens. Suggests they have divided loyalties. It ends up in very dark places, all about having the ‘right’ ancestry.”

Always brilliant, and with another great guest in former Lib Dem MP David Howarth, @quietriotpod.bsky.social is an essential listen. And love the term @sturdyalex.bsky.social has coined for the age we are living in - The Endarkenment. (Don’t be put off, the vibe is generally positive, as usual)

“We need to be inside the new EU pact on migration and asylum - most of the things that people complain about would be solved within it: more information about the people we take, much easier returns, and an obligation for asylum seekers to apply only once, in the first country they land.”

This is a really useful piece of work well done @pimlicat.bsky.social

the TRUE swan eaters

New research by Best for Britain and YouGov shows: Farage is most vulnerable on the economy. @pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of Best for Britain: “Identifying the messaging that is most likely to persuade those Reform voters who remain persuadable is absolutely crucial.” https://bit.ly/46KmaOm

Do NOT miss David’s explainer about why Digital ID cards won’t work 👇

🔸We talk Lib Dem strategy with Prof David Howarth Plus 💊 Tylenol madness And some good 🦧 news 👇🎧

I don't mind telling you - actually, I LOVE telling you - that spending an hour with Doctor Howarth was like being back in school, in all the best ways. A clear and original thinker.

🪜 NEW QR: Waterslides and Escalators 🛝 Is Ed Davey the AntiTrump? We précis a lively LibDem Conference. PLUS A crazy 48 hours for Trump, even by Trump standards. With guest, law professor and former LibDem MP, David Howarth. 🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6R5e... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

@liambyrnemp.bsky.social on Best for Britain’s latest study, showing Farage is most vulnerable on the economy: “Nigel Farage is a false preacher of patriotism who would leave Britain poorer but the richest richer.” Full research here: https://www.bestforbritain.org/farage_vulnerable_on_economy

Brand new polling from us out now as part of our decoding populism work. With thanks to @liambyrnemp.bsky.social

As our Policy Director points out, HMG should drop financial prerequisites in its U.K. EU Youth Experience Scheme demands to ensure it’s not an elitist endeavour 👇 inews.co.uk/news/politic...

I’d kinda like to know what Mummy Trump took while pregnant tho

I've known @SadiqKhan for over 30 yrs. He's a feminist, a socialist & an LGBTQ+ ally. I'm so proud he's our London mayor. For the record, he's as interested in introducing Sharia Law to London as I am - and that's 0%. Those who suggest otherwise are deluded, or have a v sinister agenda.

A lovely new statue in DC www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Tom Brufatto, Director of Policy, Best for Britain: “Reducing trade barriers with the EU on agri-food products will help lower prices, and ministers must work with European partners to deliver this, following the promises of the UK-EU reset.” https://bit.ly/3Kl6ZTY

@pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of B4B: "By undermining the UN, he makes the world more dangerous and unpredictable. Putin couldn’t ask for a better gift. World leaders must reject Trump's reckless attempt to rewrite the rules." https://bit.ly/3Kfqyxa

Trump's America, like Bibi's Israel and Putin's Russia, are rogue administrations, determined to tear up the rules based international world order that keeps us all safer. We live in terrifying times.

Trump's America, like Bibi's Israel and Putin's Russia, are rogue administrations, determined to tear up the rules based international world order that keeps us all safer. We live in terrifying times.

Having pondered it all morning, I'm still incredulous that all that Today programme coverage of migrant hotels at no point (unless I missed it) mentioned why people were here, what they might be fleeing from etc.

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

Leaving the house and it’s single digits Celsius. Nah. Not having this.

Cravenly obeying the US on a batshit crypto hallucination, because Brexit made us desperate.

@pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of B4B: “Reform’s Trump-style plan to deport thousands of people from the UK who have the legal right to be here, and who even may have been here for decades, would not only be economically devastating but unconscionably cruel.” 🚨 https://bit.ly/4mquyIo

“The Liberal world order is gone” @snellarthur.bsky.social at the @bestforbritain.org #LDConf fringe meeting.

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

Easy for a billionaire to tell the rest of us that Brexit was worth it even though it made us poorer. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Labour must finally stand up firmly against a Reform policy. Call it out for the obscenity it is. Starmer has recently finally spoken out against populism and division. What could be more populist and divisive than this? Nor for heaven's sake, don't dodge it, or excuse it. Challenge it.

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

Joined! Please all do too.

If you don’t believe patriotism is only for nationalists, if you too don’t want to surrender flags to the fash, then please join Best for Britain (it’s free). We are tough on Brexit and the causes of Brexit, helping to build a better, stronger, inclusive country 👇 bestforbritain.org/join

If you don’t believe patriotism is only for nationalists, if you too don’t want to surrender flags to the fash, then please join Best for Britain (it’s free). We are tough on Brexit and the causes of Brexit, helping to build a better, stronger, inclusive country 👇 bestforbritain.org/join

“The King’s Speech was superb: holding the line on disagreements without being argumentative, flattering without being unctuous. Then Trump gets up to respond and essentially reads out what I think might have been the Wikipedia page for the UK.”

“Jimmy Kimmel could have the top podcast tomorrow. Maybe it is a huge strategic error [for MAGA] to kick these big names out of legacy media and into spaces, with 50 times the potential audience, that the right wing has dominated and progressives have ignored, armed with a legitimate grievance...”

🆕 Sunday School: Unidentified Party in Begging Area 🛒 * Whose party is Your Party & why it matters * Should UK welcome tech-bro money? * Why do so many hate it when Starmer does well? * Has Trump Jimmied the US Constitution? 🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/1rEH... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Sunday's SUN: Fergie in apology to paedo Epstein #TomorrowsPapersToday

Sunday's MAIL: Fergie's Epstein lies exposed in bombshell email #TomorrowsPapersToday

Moral: Never pen a song title that could double as your last words RIP