Well said @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social

This morning I spoke on the Today Programme, about the Government’s Earned Settlement proposals. We’ve got to remember that this debate is about who has the right to belong here and contribute, it’s not about cutting migration. It’s also about who we are as a country. youtu.be/U5WxQn56kyQ

Today's IPPR report dismantles the "Boris Wave" welfare burden argument, undermining the whole earned settlement policy. I stand by what I said about it at last month's debate.

EARNED SETTLEMENT We must be a country that is true to our word, and we must be a Labour Party that stands up for the values of community, solidarity, equality and internationalism. youtu.be/ec6LL7McYG4

Another one of those Trump tantrums, this time attacking NATO for not sending ships he told them he didn't need... probably scripted by Putin.

Bravo. It also occurred to me that the bigoted idiot Nick Timothy is effectively calling for the prohibition of faith-based funerals. A thought prompted by a horrible story I will post as a reply to this one… www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...

Nazis, Nick Timothy & their portrayal of public praying as an ‘intolerable provocation’ or ‘act of domination’… open.spotify.com/episode/2WJ2...

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’

🧵 This has to be the funniest Brexit moment yet. The Brexit-loving brigade spluttering into their cornflakes as they discover The Telegraph has been sold to a German media company. The irony is spectacular.

I wonder if a drone has hit Dubai Marina. Or whether it was just debris from a successful interception. If only loads of Dubai based accounts, including Isabel Oakeshott's, could tell me.

Very impressive & insightful interview with Calvin Bailey MP on @lbc.co.uk with @mrjamesob.bsky.social this morning. More of this!

It seems Reform need to tell themselves & their voters a clearly false story about foreigners stealing the election from them, so as not to acknowledge the fact that Reform's "people's army" is unpopular: that a third of people like and that most people want to see defeated at the ballot box

Kemi Badenoch just claimed that youth unemployment is a record high. It's 14% today. It was 13.3% when Labour was elected in 2024. It peaked at 20.3% under the Coalition government #PMQs

Temu Trump

This man is completely unhinged.

Here’s Reform UK Kent’s Councillor David Wimble threatening to pull funding for the Turner Contemporary in Margate. Wonder what Tracey Emin would make of that. It’s surprising Wimble is talking about funding, bearing in mind he’s know for the quote “numbers have never been my thing”.

Brilliant work from a brilliant Mayor of London @london.gov.uk @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social

Reform UK are seeking to fob off blame for their illegal leaflet on a printer error. That won’t stand up with the police - responsibility for making sure the law is followed lies with the party commissioning and distributing the leaflets.

Dorothy Bryne, former head of #C4News "People keep saying this story is about women, and all they do is talk about men" "What's intolerable is how these men are making out that they are the victims" "They've all been having the most terrible time"

Thanks to @pollybillington.bsky.social for her great work in exposing this.

the perils of being a commentator

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is betting the benefits of embracing undocumented immigrants will make the inevitable backlash worthwhile, and defying the global tone set by US President Donald Trump.

Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release: "I have spent my entire life covering the news. I will not stop now ... I will not be silenced."

My first remarks since being arrested last night.

You know, we can just say this without the “I held off on using the term bc I’m not an irrational leftist” dig. I think the people who recognized what the GOP had become—long before we had ICE agents shooting Americans—deserve *credit.*

Agree 100%.

We're 8 minutes into Trump's speech unveiling his 'Board of Peace' and this is what he's talked about: - How many countries he's bombed. - How much oil he's taken out of Venezuela. - How large the US military budget is. - How he won the popular vote. - How much investment he's bringing into the US.

It only took 49 days for Conservative MPs to conclude that Liz Truss was a total loon and unfit to be Prime Minister. Meanwhile over in the United States...

Trump in Davos, Switzerland: "Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German". German is the main language of Switzerland.

This speech by Trump surely marks the end of the transatlantic alliance. An American president itching to incinerate NATO, conquer Greenland, and get far-right parties elected to government across Europe.

“Would you actually use the word fascist about a Nigel Farage led government or not? - Trevor Philips “I would just say if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck in my experience it usually is a duck” - Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

🤣🤣

"The danger for Reform is that this is the latest of a string of former MPs that all tend to be rather alike," says Lewis Goodall. "They're all from a particular wing of the Conservative Party – the hardcore radical right" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/nadh...

Incredibly, no-one on Nigel Farage’s team has got round to deleting this post. It’s still live as Robert Jenrick gives his big defection speech.

Robert Jenrick is the MP for Newark - the only constituency that is an anagram of wanker.

Do you think Reform UK members will accept the man who opened the asylum hotels? Farage: "I'm getting people in who are apologetic, indeed ashamed, of what they've done in the past." This is totally humiliating for Robert Jenrick.

Mine earlier today with @mrjamesob.bsky.social, with the supporting video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb0p...

All the elements of an administration cover-up in the investigation into yesterday's Minneapolis shooting are now in place.

“Trump supporters can only see this truth if they’re willing to see it, and history suggests that most of them will choose to trust Trump over their own lyin’ eyes. Neither Trump, nor the DHS, nor ICE is going to reflect on how their rhetoric led to another innocent American being killed.”

🚨 Farage is challenged on the truth about London. "London's murder rate is the lowest in decades." "Knife crime has fallen sharply over the past 10 years." "The proportion of adults who have been victims of personal crime has fallen to the lowest level since 2002."

Jeez. Greenland is in the NATO alliance. How hard can this be?

The pardon for Hernandez makes an obvious & absolute mockery of each & every attempt to rationalise, or even justify, Trump's treatment of Maduro. I'm not sure this single, simple point can be stressed enough. Once again, he proves his critics right & reduces his supporters to epic moral corruption.

Buddy, hope left the building, went to lunch, had 4 margaritas and a bloody mary, got into a fight with the server, was tossed through a window, severed an artery, had its leg amputated, spent three nights in ICU, got divorced, defaulted on the mortgage, and is living in a van down by the river

Paging Tulsi Gabbard circa 2019.

Jan 1. Jan 3.

try to make sense of it

Responding to the chancellor’s #Budget2025 speech, Kemi Badenoch claimed unemployment has increased “every single month” under Labour. As we’ve explained before, that’s not quite right.

The UK isn’t a “soft touch” on asylum. UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands) UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany) Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.