Reform UK government would replace top civil servants with policy ‘believers’

🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves says she chooses Urusula von der Leyen over Donald Trump “I believe our future is closely intertwined with that of Europe”

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.

Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

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Today’s Local Power Plan announcement is the biggest investment in community-owned energy in British history. Our members have fought for years to put power and profit in community hands. Now that work will shape the future of energy ownership in the UK.⚡️

⚠️Reform UK are the failed Tories in disguise. 🚨Check out Best for Britain’s new Tory to Reform UK tracker. Find out just how many have jumped from the sinking ship⛴️. www.bestforbritain.org/tory_reformuk_defection_tracker

Musk, you idiot.

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"He was not holding a gun unless they can prove otherwise." The lawyer of Renée Good's family, Antonio Romanucci, reacts to the claims of self-defence by the ICE agents that killed Alex Pretti. #Newsnight

Reminder: Reform and Rupert Lowe were outraged by the stance of the Labour Gov against X, based on this. "Grok AI generated about 3m sexualised images in less than two weeks, including 23,000 that appear to depict children" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Cohen thinks women’s health has been neglected for too long, but these patches expose broader problems in the healthcare system too. “One of the reasons we go to social media to solve our problems is because doctors can’t give that level of holistic care,” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Great news for Earth! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This intro to David Frost's Telegraph column sums up so much that is wrong with British politics.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

🚨Thames Water is on the brink of collapse. 🙋We asked its customers what should happen next. 54% think the water regulator Ofwat should put it into special administration. And over two thirds (68%) believe that Thames Water should be run in the public sector. Read the full results here.

it feels weird to memorialise a wonderful actor just for being good at saying the word "shit", but also he was perhaps the best person at saying "shit" ever and that is no small thing

Tired: flat streets Wired: Speed humps, tables, etc Inspired: Speed *dips*, because modern clearance and suspension makes taking speed bumps at speed no big deal, but dips still make drivers worry they'll damage their car, and that has the highest level of encouraging compliance

Yep, it's this. Men don't want to evolve and grow so it's just an epidemic and all the fault of women, obvs.

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

It might be on the rise because the world has become so fucked up for an individual over the last 10 years and people aren't coping 😭😭😭😭

Labour: let people use nectar points to buy baby formula, it'd be slightly cheaper The very online right: THIS IS COMMUNISM The very online left: NATIONALISE BABY FORMULA NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR IT Just need 'everyone should breastfeed anyway' to complete the deck

FWIW, I believe the people who had abused hurled at them when they said Farage is a racist, over Farage. I think non-White people know a little bit more on what is racist abuse.

Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.

So… the Epstein File Transparency Act has this exception. What can go wrong….

It's interesting that the demographic of those who think this isn't shared. Because I'm guessing there were a section of women and many people of colour who don't think life was better in the 70s than now. Also, disabled people and those who identify as LGBTQ+. It deffo was not happier times.

Wet, windy, wonderful Manchester for day 3 of the #TaxTheSuperRich bus tour 🚍 Massive shoutout to Louisa Munch for joining us today

Remember when multiple right-wing idiots told us of "no-go zones" for white people? Turns out, there are "no-go zones" which are areas that NHS staff, who are not white, are feeling "deliberately intimidated". These are real and valid feelings. Do not dismiss. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Certain male billionaires should take note. More of this, please!!! abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness...

#CCFC 😭😭😭😭😭

Probably worth saying that gambling firms prop up The Sun through millions £ in advertising and referral deals. For some reason they don't point that conflict of interest out on their front page story against gambling taxes today (save for a promo note that it "includes Sun Bingo and Sun Vegas")

And today The Sun have roped in Nigel Farage to back their massively self-serving campaign against higher taxes on gambling

Ah delightful. Danny Kruger on #r4today telling us that Pochin ‘clearly meant something else’. I don’t think so Danny. ‘It’s concern about DEI!’ - also no. ‘Nigel has concluded she’s not racist, so she’s not’ - v much not how it works. Insulting to all of us that they churn out this ugly nonsense.

Tom Peck in The Times on Vote Leave campaign director and snappy dresser Dominic Cummings...

The Sky interview on Nuneaton high Street in the Summer a perfect snapshot. An Asian businessman expressing his concern with flags etc, a group of youths racially abusing him, and a white shop owner demurring to comment at first then saying "yes it's worse since Reform". She is the silent majority.

Broadcasters - especially the BBC - have been working hard to ensure they give a voice to the 25-35% of people willing to vote Reform (and harder groups within that, like anti-asylum protest and Tommy protest) Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics

Reform lost by 11% in Caerphilly - because of a surge in turnout, because Reform looked set to win the seat. This illustrates Reform's vulnerability *because* they are leading the polls (in a 6 party system) while being an *unpopular* party. A much bigger problem under FPTP 2029 than PR 2026

My OCD wasn't diagnosed until 37 and I was told it was an affect of my PTSD which wasn't officially diagnosed until I was also 37. That trauma was from when I was 7. It took 30 years. And it was in the US. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Coventry City have scored more goals (31) than any other side across England's domestic leagues this season. (Who scored)

Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost" NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt No govt since Idi Amin has done this

America: No Kings Britain: No Dukes of York

‘Suck it up’: leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council

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For all the sessions and motions on menopause (which is fantastic) no stands have any branded fans!!! I might not menopausal yet but the hot flushes are real! 😂 😂 #LabConf25 #LabourConference25

We recognise that true national renewal must begin in our communities. We know that politics and decision-making should be driven by communities themselves, shaped from the ground up. This new era of community empowerment is essential to building a more Community Britain.

Racist property developer allows Muslim man to live rent-free

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Look at the response from Democratic political officials on the Left when someone on the Right is shot vs the response from Republican political officials when someone on the Left is shot. Tells you everything you need to know about them.