Reform UK councillor suspended over WhatsApp group featuring extremist posts

If you don’t move you are a visitor to the country and if you are a visitor to the country you fall under Schengen rules for visitors. Fairly simple.

Insightful re. how Refuk HQ seem to have no idea how local councils operate. Obviously causing massive tension at a local level.

'Tis risotto season.

Could prob accept some pretty draconian small boat policies if there was a genuine safe route policy alongside it. So far we have no details at all.

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

Just gold teeth missing from the proposals? Can they hear themselves?

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Facts matter

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

Well said

When Little Tommy Ten names is supporting your policies, you need to take a long, hard look in the mirror. Revolting.

Brilliant news! #Hero

The government just keeps doubling down on the strategy that’s taken it to genuinely historical unpopularity ever harder. The horse will be flogged until it sprints.

A response to Matt Goodwin on small boat refugees (with record of crime in Germany) committing crime (rape) in the UK.

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Ken Clarke humiliates Danny Kruger's new party, Reform UK on #BBCQT "I live in a county with a Reform UK council" "Most of them had no idea what the country council did" "They fought on the promise of reducing waste and council tax" "And they just put up the council tax by the max"

We're calling it now. Isabel Kemp (Chair of the Adult Social Care Committee) has left Reform Reform in Kent are now down to 48 from 57 in six months.

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Stop using the language of the rapist. It is not sex with children, it is rape of children. It is not underage girls, it is children. It is not sex trafficking, it is rape trafficking.

Well done Davey.

Absolutely this, but let's not pretend it's anything as good as FoM. The apprentice scheme I did in the 80s using FoM isn't open to non-EU citizens. Our kids overwhelmingly want and deserve better.

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This is a key point that UK (and a lot of Joiners) don't get. They treat the EU like a sovereign country open to deals and big concessions. They do not appreciate it is an entity of laws and rules partly expressed via carefully constructed MS agreements. Hence the "UK is a special case" fallacy.

This is a shrewd and important observation by Chris Grey. The same far-right people who advocated Brexit now appear again in different guises. Beware.

The shrewder question is who is financing all of this and getting US tech firms to support it. None of this is cheap and someone or someone’s are spending a lot of money to Americanise British politics s and media

Exceptionalists take note.

Online violence against women, for want of a better word, is being perpetrated by fascists, Nazis, religious fundamentalists and incels. It will destroy the quality of our government and democracy., which depends on getting pluralist voices into decision-making. 1

#SundayPixMirror Two mirrors in this one

A good time, it seems, for a thread about public sculptures of, and by, women that have been installed in the last 10 years or so... Aphra Benn in Canterbury, Licoricia in Winchester, Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dervorguilla in Oxford...

Good grief. They have no shame.

This is emperor Nero level bizarre.

Frightening. I don't have any answers, but we all need to come up with some and pdq.

And why not?

Which one is more English?

So much of the British class system can be understood from this little extract. And people are complaining that 200 places a year on a civil service scheme to get working class kids fast-tracked on an intern scheme is unfair. It won't even tilt the playing field in our direction.

Lord Heseltine on charlatan Farage

Hell hath no fury...

Seems the electorate is so far ahead of Westminster.

Calling the TCA “not hard Brexit” is wishful thinking. The UK chose max distance from the single market and customs union, that’s the hard-Brexit blueprint. WTO-only would’ve been a face-plant off the cliff; the TCA is just the slightly slower tumble down it.

How happy I was if I could forget To remember how sad I am Would be an easy adversity But the recollecting of Bloom Keeps making November difficult Till I who was almost bold Lose my way like a little Child And perish of the cold. Emily Dickinson

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@teamlabouruk.bsky.social this is where your voters are going.

Don't really know what's going on here.

Falling like dominoes. What wasted votes...

"uncontrolled immigration is a factor in keeping down both pay and conditions" (Sam Maclaine) "All the research comes to the conclusion the effect of low-skilled migration on low-skilled wages is zero" (Esther Duflo, Nobel Prize in Economics) Who to believe? 🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1pZ...

It is truly a stunning piece of disinformation to state that Brits face being 'banned' from using their second homes. In fact, it's an outright lie. The Schengen 90/180 rules have been in force for several years. Overstayers are just angry that they can't get away with breaking the rules any more!

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Inspired by this post went to local bougie bar in my town in Italy. Have decided I'll try old-school cocktails this winter. Unfortunately they didn't have pickled onions for a Gibson, so I started my quest with a Martinez and Mr F had a Hanky Panky - both superb.Thanks @sturdyalex.bsky.social