Live by your words, die by your words.

MPs’ basic salary to rise to £110,000 by end of parliament, watchdog says. This should be accompanied by a total ban on second jobs, which in most cases is a corporate bribe. Must end all conflict of interests. Being a MP is a full time job. MPs must act exclusively as MPs.

Never have I been more aware of the value in terms of price the government sees our lives as being worth and that isn’t seemingly even the cost of a vaccine. Yet many of us pay a lot of tax, have jobs that give back to others. They don’t think of broader contexts.

The question of why the UK isn’t involved in America’s latest war can be answered with a single image. It can also be answered by reminding the current US Administration that insulting our war dead, and questioning their heroism, has consequences.

Two-faced Frottage:

Just wanted to point out to Farage that 1 in 3 people in Clacton have been out of work for up to 3 decades. So what does that also tell us?

sorry, Britain’s full-up, we can’t have these Dubai immigrants coming over wanting their all-day buffets by a pool & not integrating with British culture

Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.

This is Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair. While working class American service people are dying in the gratuitous war his father and Donald Trump started, Yair is poolside in Miami chilling. No word on where Donald Trump's children were, just that they were 100% *not* wearing a uniform.

Let all 94,000 make their own way back. We don't want people who'd rather live a life supported by indentured and low wage immigrant workers than pay taxes here and support welcoming immigrants as equals.

I feel quite mean saying this but those British multi-millionaire nationals who have “fled” the UK because of the “high” tax regime because life is “better” in the oil funded regimes will now be relying on British tax payers support their travel to safety.

Hear hear

While we're on the topic of electoral fraud and the unproven allegations about #FamilyVoting, we should remember that there are actual proven cases of Tory / UKIP politicians stealing votes by tricking the elderly in care homes.

The motherfucking draft dodger who called the fallen of war suckers and losers just said out loud that American lives may be lost in a war he has NO FUCKING AUTHORITY to wage?!? Hello CONGRESS… is this thing on??!!

I've already signed. Please will you.

No half-sentient person would trust Trump with a barbecue, and here we are watching him start a war to distract from his weapons grade depravity & incompetence.

Private equity companies linked to Manchester City owner, and Bono making millions in profit through taxpayer-funded special needs schools. 20%+ profit margins. Children are cash cows. Councils pay up to £350,000 a year to support pupils. Money ends up in offshore tax havens. archive.ph/sY2eJ

When will SKS realise that we're not all rampant racists and it's not all about immigration? Labour knows the difference between the online world, bots and real people don't they? We voted for change.

Here we go. This is horrific; Trump wants to kill everyone. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing. "It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."

No, no, no - you’re not alienating Muslim voters, Shabana. You’re alienating progressive voters. Ya know, the ones who put you into office? Your actual voting base? It looks like lessons will not be learned after all.

She is not ‘taking on Reform’ she is sinking to their level. There’s a difference. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Awful statistic.

The Green Party has won more elections than Reform have. Why are Reform constantly on TV and the Green Party is ignored? The electorate says it should be the other way around.

Labour have alienated the voters they had on the left, and failed to win over any of the voters they have courted on the right. Now their core appeal is all but gone and ever growing numbers of voters have exit options on the left, right and in the centre. Welcome to the Valley of Electoral Death.

Just heard Hannah Spencer's acceptance speech in the car on the way home & it blew me away. Exactly the right content & tone. The stuff we should be hearing from Labour politicians every fucking day instead of the dross they pump out. Starmer's already proved that he won't learn a thing though...

Spencer’s victory speech an object lesson in grace while Reform’s man rages | John Crace

If you live in the Gorton and Denton constituency and spoke to a Reform party member on your doorstep or in the streets then I'd like to speak to you for an article. My DMs are open.

Remember when parties who lost elections used to be like "This is a strong message from the electorate and we will listen and learn and change" rather than "Fuck everyone who didn't vote for us, you're all extremists trying to destroy Britain"

Matt Goodwin lost to a white woman and a party led by a Jewish man — and somehow he’s blaming Muslims? No, mate. This one’s on you: your misogyny, your shallow, divisive tactics, and your empty obsession with “us vs them.” Gorton & Denton saw right through it. Hopefully one day you will too.

Joyful to see Goodwin and Farage having a huge wettie and rightwing media scrabbling around for credibility in the rubble of their cocky predictions and polling. You don’t have this in the bag.We voted for change in 2024. That never meant hate-fuelled populism. It meant hope. You don’t give us that.

The Gorton and Denton result should be a brutal wake-up call for Labour - but I'm not convinced they've even plugged the alarm clock in yet.

Yes who are these fathers forcing their wives and daughters to vote for a woman on a progressive platform of equality and fairness? Really scrapping the barrel with this take! 🤣

Well said @zackpolanski.bsky.social It’s about time parts of the press and media were held to task.

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I beg to differ. This is different. The writing has been on the wall for Labour’s policies in many areas, Brexit. refugees, austerity, taxes etc. Labour stayed rigid, the public spoke, Labour has lost….and I predict will continue to lose. Brexit in particular leads Labour’s downfall.

Dear Labour. See where holding on to Brexit and austerity, not taxing the rich and demonising refugees gets you. 🤷‍♂️ @sarahhall-labour.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social @charlotte2153.bsky.social @sadikal-hassanmp.bsky.social @sarahowen.org.uk @bengoldsborough.bsky.social

Making infantile, eye-rolling gestures on the platform and demonstrating the contempt he has for the outcome of the democratic process. He didn't lose to a conspiracy. He lost because the majority of G&D voters don't want a racist, Trump-fluffing, Putin-admiring, hate-monger for an MP.

Today's by-election is another illustration of the problems with FPTP. The result may tell us less about what voters want to happen than whether they can game the system effectively to stop a result most *don't* want. The electoral system should not be an obstacle that voters have to work around.

A timeline cleanse of dogs having fun in the snow. Well not sure about enjoy in the case of a couple of them 😅 but the majority are loving it.

This isn’t the only risk from Measles. You can suffer hearing loss or Pneumonia. 1 in 5 children are hospitalised. Don’t listen to antivaxxers!

Education Secretary defends freezing the repayment threshold for student loans in England. Ridiculous plan to align repayment threshold with minimum wage. Graduates pay tax+repayment at marginal rate of 37%, higher than capital gains tax rate for the super rich. Abolish uni fees. Write-off debt.

: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close. That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education? #Universities #HigherEducation

It feels as though there is no long term strategy for *anything* in the UK. Not for improving universities, culture, climate challenges, transport infrastructure and costs, health and wellbeing inequalities, training. We're so far behind now that it's going to cost too much just to catch up.

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:

the usual media outlets would treat this as a crisis for a Labour PM, but Farage is unlikely to be ever asked about what his party members say or do