The Home Office continues to use language that its own data refutes

Nice little acquisition you have there. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it..... uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-w...

🧵1/ The new US National Security Strategy is quite a document. In many respects it just says out loud what used to be unspoken about US foreign policy - of course it's 'America First'. But there is no longer any interest in promoting freedom and democracy... www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Carl Cashman is a star...

It's taken 15 years to get this far - what's another 2 weeks?

The penny has dropped FINALLY

I'm just an ordinary person who cares about the poor, the vulnerable, the aged and the sick. I truly struggle to understand why ANYONE would offer support to the likes of Trump, Farage and the Tories. They don't care about you! They just want to line their pockets and destabilise the West for Putin.

Why on earth did it need a 3 1/2 year long public enquiry to reach the conclusion that Putin was responsible? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

What's worse - that a council leader can be a fan of this FB account, or that Facebook allows this page to exist in the first place?

"today's trial has been kicked off to 2027, and I am sitting at home writing a blogpost. "nothing to do with juries. It is because the Witness Care Unit forgot to keep in touch with one of the key witnesses who is unavailable" thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...

Putin's 'peace' means plundering Ukraine. Europe must refuse this. We cannot let him win.

Charles is the UK's first billionaire monarch. The Royals don't pay inheritance or capital gains tax. The Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall don't pay corporation tax. They are exempt from Freedom of Information requests, and their Wills remain secret.... edition.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...

David Lammy has announced the details of his plans to restrict jury trials in England and Wales, which he said were "bold but necessary" But critics say there is no evidence the changes will reduce the backlog, and that juries are not the cause of the crisis www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w...

Very interesting that a lot of the Government's public claims about the threat posed by Palestine Action aren't backed up by the documents they have put before the Judge.....

Limit jury trials. Limit rights to protest and jail people for just talking about protesting. Arrest peaceful protestors as "terrorists". ID Cards. Plaster the country in CCTV and add facial recognition. When I was growing up during the Cold War, those were the sort of things the bad guys did.

Now I *really* want to hear the brother's back-story.....

It’s time to admit what a disaster Brexit has been. Liberal Democrats have a plan to fix our trade with Europe to turbocharge the economy, fix the cost of living crisis and properly fund our public services.

“It is Russia who have been the perpetrator of this war. If we don’t act to stop them in Ukraine, we will fight them somewhere else.” Edward Morello

David Lammy was right in 2020 when he called the jury system fundamental to our constitution. Now the government wants to remove juries from all but the most serious cases. It is dangerous and wrong and the Prime Minister must reverse it.

While I agree with the sentiment, and obviously we need to get closer to Europe (Rejoin!), please can someone have a word with Lib Dem HQ and ask them to stop repeatedly using the word "botched"? That word only exists now in Lib Dem comms and as the name of a TV series.

This is why the powers introduced by the Blair era govt to label anyone they dont like as terrorists is so dangerous. It means your right to a fair trial disappears. Secret courts with corrupt decision makers www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

What makes this even worse is that the law was recently changed to allow judges to serve up to the age of 75, and there is a ridiculous lack of diversity amongst them. Is that really better than a jury of your peers?

Three weeks ago Minister Luke Pollard declared Initial Operating Capability had been achieved by the Ajax vehicle programme, stating that he wouldn't have done so if the vehicle wasn't safe. Now this 👇 www.forcesnews.com/services/arm...

Apparent from being fundamentally illiberal and wrong to abolish this centuries-old right, will this really clear the backlog in the justice system? Is it really assembling juries that is causing the delays? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

👁️ Mass surveillance 2025: Data brokers can trace movements of citizens – and even EU officials. Sure your information isn’t already on a data marketplace? 👉 netzpolitik.org/2025/databro... @netzpolitik.org

Politicians in other parties won’t talk about it, but we had a more workable immigration system when we were in the EU. Labour finally admitted Brexit has been a disaster for the economy, so I asked the Home Secretary if she would admit it had been a disaster for immigration & asylum policy too. 1/2

Currently part-way through being reminded that the whole process on installing, applying outstanding updates and setting up a PC with Windows takes ten times longer than with Linux, and involves infinitely more nagging.

Genuinely fascinating analysis of the attitudes of people who vote for each Party. If I were to plot myself on these graphs I'd be solidly among the greens every time.

Polls suggest that Nigel Farage is heading for 10 Downing Street on a vote share of just 30%. It beggars belief that Labour is still committed to an outdated, undemocratic voting system that would see the hard right stroll into government on a minority of the vote.

This is a very disingenuous post. NHS workers are not being fast-tracked, they’ve simply retained the five-year route to ILR that they were promised when they moved to this country. Treating people fairly is not a Labour “win.” Is it possible to hate this government any more?

This is dreadful. Amounts to forced capitulation by Ukraine, in a deal that the US profits from, costs Europe money, reintegrates Russia into the world economy, all for the vaguest of 'security guarantees'. Big test of UK/Europe's resolve.... news.sky.com/story/trumps...

Branding essential care workers employed on minimum wage as unworthy is a new low.

I wonder if this is out of concern for the privacy of the victims, or the perpetrators?

We cannot allow the insane, autocrat Trump to sue OUR BBC. We pay a license fee so in my opinion it belongs to us the people of the UK. Ergo he is attacking us!

As ever, Trump is desperate to give Putin what he wants.

In today's bubble news.....

Two Wrongs make a Right with Keir and Kemi

I'm retweeting Jeremy Corbyn for the first time ever. What a time to be alive....

And this is perhaps the worst part of all. To announce that the RW press, Tories and Reform are basically right about immigration, rather than challenging their narrative, then introducing measures that won't work (enough) must virtually guarantee that Labour will lose the next election.

There’s been too much pre-budget speculation. That’s bad for business. I raised the concerns of Cheltenham businesses with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in Parliament.

So piss off a significant % of your own voters and MPs, tell the electorate that Reform are basically right about immigration, then introduce policies that won't reduce numbers enough to claim a win. Farage is probably choosing wallpaper for No. 10 already.

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

If I understand this right, the cunning plan is that we really don't want foreigners coming here, but if they do we'll shake them down for valuables on arrival, keep them in poverty for a few years, then kick them out again as soon as we think we can get away with it? And keep the jewellery.

The idea of the Home Office selling off the confiscated jewellery of those who have fled war and persecution should, in an ideal world, be the death knell for this government.

At last some good news. I'm sure there'd be volunteers to drive them to the airport.

The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.

What more evidence do you need that Labour is getting this badly wrong?