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I watched the trailer last night. Standing on the south coast and describing the small boat 'crisis' as the most visible sign of a country that has lost control of it's borders. QT should simply be classified as a party political broadcast. A once decent programme is now a disgrace.

Watched some of it before deciding that the only role of the programme was to keep immigration in the news and to mask the real problems that the UK has. Typical of tory #bbcqt. Zack Polanski was the only one to be realistic, without the usual political soundbites.

⏰ It's time for change on immigration policy - We all agree on that much! Labour so far have got it all wrong, chasing hostile headlines that will only make our system crueller, society more divided & immigrants easier to exploit. BUT THERE IS ANOTHER WAY!! My 9-point plan for a system that works👇

And HEEEERE it is!! The REAL solutions to fix immigration for all - for a system we can be proud of! bsky.app/profile/anot...

Sick of constant demonisation of migrants on #bbcqt & failed cruelty being the only answer from spineless politicians? Look out for my report launching at 11am with 9 evidence-backed proposals to ACTUALLY fix the immigration system! With @anothereurope.bsky.social & @fesonline.bsky.social 👀👀👀

BTW Today’s Budapest memorandum anniversary . What’s a better day to be bombed by Russia than on a day Russia promised to never attack or threaten Ukraine

So ridiculous EM can’t even get the basic facts correct on something as simple as a reciprocal visa agreement The Youth Mobility scheme is not freedom of movement or anything like it at all Lies and disinformation helped drag us out of the EU, repeating those tactics won’t help us get back in

Lots of people really enjoying this interview this week! In case you missed it: youtu.be/TQVnIkSzrZI?...

Hi All You might already be following @neets21.bsky.social but she's also worth adding to your faves list & whacking the notification bell. I can vouch. She was great on Xitter & will be great here. 👍

Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get £60,000 a year for driving a train. But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets £30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK. Or the £250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.

This is a superb speech from @zackpolanski.bsky.social It’s why the #BBC make Question Time, in order to hear different voices, and Zack’s is undoubtedly the strongest in the room here. “You’re a Government of cowards.” Spot on. Labour *never* speaks positively about immigration #bbcqt

The European Commission targeted the tech billionaire’s social network with its first-ever fine under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The account tick marks and advertising policy do not respect EU law, the Commission said www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

And in response the Nobel Committee has decided that the next Peace Prize will be decided on penalties. It’s time that our football federations broke away from FIFA. What does that remote corrupt body contribute?

That piece of s*** Putin needs to be captured and punished severely for everything he has done to the Ukrainian people who have done nothing to him. 🤬

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

Don't fall for the "Reset2" bullshit. It's just more of their long-game nonsense. We don't want to be "closer" to the EU and Single Market. We want to be "in" them ffs! #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Cue epic whine.

Yinke Bankola says he was 9 when the sixth form Dulwich school prefect Nigel Farage, aged 17, asked him where he was from, then told him "that's the way back to Africa". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Dubai immigrant, Isabel Oakeshott, whines that Farage got nothing from his deal with the Tories last time, so why should he do that again. Christ. The whining victimhood of these spoiled brats. Squabbling over power, while the rest of us live with the mess they’ve made of our country and our lives.

Well, that's patriotism for you...off the scale entitlement demanded by a privileged tax dodging immigrant for the exceptionally wealthy few...not a care, that their ongoing wants continually delivers a deteriorating shite exsistance for the rest of us.

I've been listening to the Cadwalladr & Jukes podcast about the insidious creep of Russian influence on our democracy. I knew a lot of it already but am learning a great deal too. I did not think I could detest that crowd of privileged oiks more. But here we are.

Do you follow @europeanpowell.bsky.social?

Starmer has to go.

Frontrunners for next year FIFA Peace Prize: Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu.

I am enjoying how much you scare them. Turn it up to 11 and let’s fucking go!

All in one day: Immigration Minister lied about me with a slur. Wes Streeting then tried a different attack. And the Evening Standard write yet another attack piece because I dare to say we need to tax the rich. Want to help create our better future? Join.greenparty.org.uk

Today, on the 31st anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum with its useless security assurances, we are facing a repeat of history as EU leaders warn of the risk of a peace deal without strong US security guarantees. Strength is the only true guarantor of peace for the EU.

Surely a chance to reignite the Brexit wars would be bliss compared to the immigration wars raging now? At the moment Labour are defending territory the size of a postage stamp, with the rest of the battlefield already conquered by Reform.

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

It’s really simple… - Cap all political donations - Ban foreign donations - Strict conflict‑of‑interest & anti‑corruption laws with penalties - No titles, honours or peerages for donors - No govt contracts for donors - Publish every donation/lobby meeting …that’ll do it.

Oh, there's no denying that the original terms we had are long gone. The Brexiters killed off to best deal, that will be their legacy. The regular deal is far better than anything else available on the planet, and I'm perfectly happy with FoM, Schengen, the Euro etc.

Labour has been gutted and neo-liberal Tories are just wearing the skin and pretending it’s all the same Vote green “Labour” as it was, was ended when they started throwing minorities under the bus to appease the far right That shit never works and always makes it worse

The Brexit wars would be bliss compared to the immigration wars raging now. At the moment Labour are defending territory the size of a postage stamp, with the rest of the battlefield conquered by Reform.

No, there's something gigantic stopping them: they are going to LOSE the election. That kills ALL plans.

"I can see there's a fire. I can tell that it is causing a lot of damage. I realise that if we put the fire out we'd be better off. But I am not going to put the fire out." That's the worst possible situation, because it amounts to wilful destruction.

This is getting stupid now. We're at the point where Labour acknowledge both the damage caused by Brexit AND that rejoining the Customs Union (more accurately, joining A Customs Union) would boost growth. And yet they still reinforce their red lines. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

"'Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’ with an accompanying hand gesture pointing towards a place far away." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces. There’s no such thing as a “free market.” It is designed. It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.

And nor should it. Farage is a dangerous racist and yet is being fast tracked into No.10 on a ruinous populist agenda, funded by shady right wing money and malign foreign interests. People must know who and what they are voting for. That’s the very lowest bar in a democracy.

These r/wing billionaires and their complicit MSM really do take us all for fools. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Brexit broke Britain's economy, made snake oil, racist Farage a multi millionaire and Britain the sick man of Europe.

The thing is, most of us knew the essence of the stories about Farage many years ago - but the media still had a complete love-in with him, and the BBC built him up relentlessly.

“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising” Daisy Cooper

History about to repeat itself as England fans make excuses for their team saluting Trump; just like they did when the England team saluted Hitler.

The thing is, Farage’s racism was establishment racism. The establishment (his Public School) protected him and supported him, just as over recent decades the establishment (in particular the BBC) has protected him.

I wish he would be put on trial. I wish those who spread their owners propaganda, to the electorate for a few roubles, would face charges too. Traitors shouldn’t be allowed to run.

He’s a laughing stock. Clearly a swivel eyed loon, deeply unpleasant bigot, a long standing proto-fascist, mouthpiece of Russian propaganda and an enemy of the UK. We’d all be better off if he hadn’t ever been given such undeserved prominence by the BBC in the first place.

The racist is trying to grift the BBC, just like he did with the bank that didn't want him. It's time for someone to stand up to the lying Hitler-lover and put him in his place. #FarageOut

While I think most literate people can be insightful and articulate in text form, if given enough time to collect their thoughts, it is a rare talent to be able to do that verbally, in real time, while responding to interruptions, hostile jibes or pointed questions and STILL get your point across.