Apparently Farage doesn't like the term Farage Boats. I imagine he would be even more upset if people started using the hashtag #FarageBoats. So please do not use the hashtag #FarageBoats. I repeat, do not use #FarageBoats

The more you restrict services to try and deal with a (real or imagined) group of people gaming those systems, the more difficult it is for the people who genuinely need them to access them. Basic shit.

Cassetteboy with an absolute heater against Kier Starmer

Farage convinced a lot of people to choose to make themselves poorer and screw up the country, all it took was a dash of racism, now Farage is fuelling that racism in order to convince people that he’s the one to solve the problems that he created. Stop listening to Putin’s pet.

Krishnan Guru Murthy: "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?" Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country." #Labour

Imgur has now been taken down without warning in the UK due to the "Online safety act" meaning anyone who was using it to store any images can no longer access them. Without a vpn active all you'll get is an error when accessing the site or seeing any embedded images.

💯 this. Britain might be f***ed but Farage and his mob f***ed it. Make them own it.

[John Curtice]the polling expert also said that Labour focusing on Reform UK is a “mistake” as the party loses more support to the LibDems and Greens. He then suggested Labour should not “repeat the Tories’ mistake” of focusing on immigration. www.thenational.scot/news/2550267...

Starmer is a disgrace. Worst leader ever

It's probably fair to say that a disgusting racist freak would find the presence of an innocent person of colour in female spaces "unpleasant", but we don't give in to them because they're disgusting racist freaks. Draw whatever parallels you wish to this situation.

"Research has shown that any apparent marginal increase [in autism] as a result of paracetamol in pregnancy tends to disappear when the analyses take into account the factors that matter the most" www.newscientist.com/article/2497...

First Farage platformed notorious UK anti-vaxxer, Aseem Malhotra, who insinuated that Covid vaccines caused the Royal Family’s recent cancers. Now he’s openly trashing scientific method & evidence, pretending neither can be trusted & facts are a free for all. This is deeply dangerous populism.

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

As Nigel Farage announces another hugely racist immigration policy demeaning the contribution of formal migrants to the UK the best our Labour government can offer in reply is "the numbers don't add up". How's about standing for people & their immense contribution to society?

I feel like a madman pointing this out but the plausible, real world explanation for the marked uptick in work visas after 2019 is quite simply that in the previous year, the UK blew up its entire labour market by getting rid of FOM, on which it was intrinsically and inherently dependent.

Oh my days

m coming around more and more to the idea that anti-immigration rhetoric and proposals should just be outright shamed in the strongest moral terms. Any responses like "It's unworkable, it's uncosted, there are rules against it" make it sound like it would be a good idea if only it could be done.

People with indefinite leave to remain may have lived in the country for decades. These are your friends, colleagues, nurses, doctors... To suggest we would just evict people for whom this country is their home is just insanely cruel, not to mention foolhardy! Fuck Nigel Farage.

watching corbyn's new party completely spiral out this early in the process is once again proof that socialists trying to do electoralism have to show even an ounce of the ruthlessness that liberals show towards us within their parties.

📢 Nigel Farage vows to abolish indefinite leave to remain within 100 days.

Seems like this is all ego. Is leadership of a party that doesn’t exist yet more important than stopping Reform UK Ltd? Vote Green 💜🌱

Yes. A big attraction of the UK Green Party is that their leaders aren't calling in defamation lawyers and threatening to sue each other ! #YourParty #ZarahSultana #JeremyCorbyn #ZackPolanski #BackZack

This exchange says it all.

The Green party now has over 76,000 members 🔥 The Green Revolution is coming, but we need you 🫵 Step 1: Join the Greens 👇 join.greenparty.org.uk Step 2: Repost this message! 🔄 Step 3: Get one friend or family member to pledge to vote Green! 💚

If Corbyn and Sultana can pull themselves together perhaps they'll win back some support... But what is there to gain, really? There's already a good option on the left. The Greens are democratic, too, you can help shape the party.

you know when I found out the name of corbyn and sultanas new party? when i read about it falling apart... Just join the fucking Greens already.

I've seen several Europeans here claiming that "Antifa is an American term". Maybe in some misguided attempt to distance themselves from the term and what's about to happen to "Antifa" in America? Well, the term "Antifa" is loaned from the German short form of "antifaschistisch" ("antifascist").

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

Good fucking lord electrolysis is miserable. 32 more hours of torture to go.

Zack Polanski, "Are you comfortable with the most powerful man on earth banning books, militarising the police?" Penny Mordaunt, "That's not the point"

@zackpolanski.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk I know I'm not alone among trans people in the UK who are terrified for what this means. When I started transitioning - not that long ago! - the UK felt like a safe place to be trans. 1/

The UK needs electoral reform, now more than ever. There are 5 parties here with none of them claiming anything like a majority. This will only fracture further with the addition of Your Party later this year, and it already misses out Plaid, SNP, etc.

@nationwideuk.bsky.social As a loyal customer of #Nationwide, this is disappointing news. I'm sure other customers will have similar feelings. Did Nationwide use savers' money? If so, how much went to support #Farage #ReformUK?

Because fascist thugs don't actually care about children, just like they don't care about women and they don't care about patriotism. These are all things that they use when it's convenient to them and forget about when it's inconvenient to remember them. All they care about is power and violence.

Every week the Met arrest peaceful pensioners who hold up cardboard placards and yet this bastard is allowed to make threats against the PM, for whom incidentally I have no sympathy, on camera with seemingly no consequences.

YouTube's algorithm is at least semi-good at figuring out what shorts I enjoy, although I have to do a lot of intentional directing of it... But whenever it throws a live in there it's just absolutely batshit every single time. Russian Roblox brainrot. Guy in basement ranting, 1 viewer. Wtf is this?

Very pleased to see this from Zarah Sultana! Obviously still a disparity between this position and Hussain's apparent one, but this is a positive step. I truly hope we see not one but two genuine progressive parties standing (ideally hand in hand) at the next election.

LETS GO!!!! Join.greenparty.org.uk

🔴 Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland had “collectively lost its mind” on the issue of trans rights. The former Scottish First Minister also said Sir Keir Starmer must “grow a backbone” on immigration. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Labour no longer represent my values. I've joined the Greens because I believe that they can challenge Farage.

Sometimes, you live long enough to become the thing you used to parody...

Great Zack! I do think that rather than saying "we are for nature but we also want to lower your bills " a more unique phrasing is the line " We can't save the planet or protect nature unless we address inequality BECAUSE the rich exploit resources for profit and the poor have no access/influence."

Nearly 24 hours work in the past two days, but now a 4 day weekend featuring a cool folksy queer event. Thank you ADHD for making this possible.

For all those who've asked me and others to "trust" that Your Party will not be transphobic, to "believe" that Corbyn and Sultana are on our side... This is all it would have taken. A few words so that we have SOME reason to believe it. Instead they share a platform with someone saying the opposite.

Finally I can stop saying "Maybe trans people will have some support IF Zack Polanski gets in". A really excellent moment, and I trust that ZP will not waste time in building more momentum for the party.

Restricting recognition to after Hamas "has no role" in leadership of Palestine is a frankly pointless gesture given that there is no practical way for that to happen. How on earth could they run elections? Nonetheless, the sanctions against Israel are welcome.

People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.

This godawful mess with the Dark Romantasy convention that devolved into straight women committing mob sexual assault is a great reminder that the sexes really are not fundamentally different from one another, they just usually have different levels of power and opportunity to inflict violence.

Didn't spot the l and really wondered why SK would want such expensive bins from America, or why that would be newsworthy.

Think it couldn’t happen in the UK? I wouldn’t be so sure.