After gutting British car industry for 14 years, the Tories now say net zero is the problem. Badenoch calling Labour “disastrous” won’t erase their Brexit damage that caused factoried closures. Scrapping subsidies just means fewer jobs and more decline.

Nigel Farage’s Russian Influence Advent Calendar… bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

George Monbiot: "The Bylines Network is tremendously inspiring…it's crucial that journalism speaks truth to power, but the great majority of it unfortunately speaks with the voice of power…it’s really inspiring to see networks like yours filling that huge gap and doing what journalism ought to do.”

So yes, do both if you want to, while being aware that one activity is useful and the other is futile. But be aware that for most population obsessives, it's either/or, and is used to avoid moral responsibility and effective action. More on all this here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 13/13

India shows how BritCard Digital ID could be weaponised Starmer’s BritCards have cited India’s Digital ID system as a positive example – here’s why that should scare you | Dean Conway @deanconway.bsky.social

"The show is based on the lives of people who were denied welfare benefits and died" @conservatives.bsky.social legacy of mass murder & cruelty. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d...

This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC. *Why not?* Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com

Mark Rutte, "Russia has brought war back to Europe. And we must prepare for the scale of war our parents and grandparents endured" The US under Trump withdrawing their support of Ukraine and Europe, really is tragic for western democracies

According to @sebastienmaillard.bsky.social, the UK should consider rejoining European civil protection for three compelling reasons: 1️⃣ It's in the UK's interest 2️⃣ There's no political cost 3️⃣ It will rebuild trust with the EU Read in full 👇 ukandeu.ac.uk/why-uk-shoul...

New analysis from Peter Kellner suggests the UK now has a clear pro-Rejoin majority – driven by generational change and millions of Leave voters switching sides. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

In the words of Boris Johnson "Let the bodies pile high".

A reminder that when Kemi Badenoch hacked Harriet Harman's website it was an offence carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison

One thing you can say about Snake Oil, he’s dedicated. Dedicated to being anywhere but Clacton and the UK, Abu Dhabi for the Grand Prix, now Australia for the Ashes, he knows how to take the piss www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

UK households cut spending at fastest pace in 5 years. Average real wage stuck at 2008 level. Energy, water, broadband, rents, grocery, dentist, vets prices rising at more than CPI. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. Can't rebuild without redistribution.

Left: Financial Post, "Canada reaches deal to join EU's flagship defence program" Right: Bloomberg, "Talks for UK to Join Flagship EU Defence Fund End in Failure" Labour's 'make Brexit work' disaster #...

Negotiations over Britain joining the €150 billion fund have failed. Yet the UK's access to Europe's SAFE defence fund remains vital to deter "the tyrant on our doorstep," says @pimlicat.bsky.social. Read here: https://bit.ly/4p3vSTz

Instead of hammering the country with taxes, the chancellor should be tackling the cost of living and helping businesses grow by cutting red tape. The biggest path to growth is repairing our relationship with Europe. @CalumMillerLD.bsky.social

THE BRITISH PUBLIC IS NOT BEING TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THEIR LAND Across the UK, vast swathes of countryside, farmland, national parks, green spaces, digital infrastructure, and even local democratic powers are being reorganised into free zones. open.substack.com/pub/european...

I wish I was surprised. Buried in this Budget is a plan to slash the Digital Services Tax, giving a multi-billion tax cut to US tech giants and the likes of Elon Musk. That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.

More powerful evidence of the disaster of #Brexit from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social. If we’re to avoid yet more austerity, we need to start by rejoining the customs union & single market. Brexit was a reckless waste of money we simply can’t afford @europeanmovement.co.uk

James, please support my petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

In other words: "growth will be downgraded for every year that we stick with Brexit."

The petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian interference has really picked up stream and is now over 15k. Well done everyone for your good work. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

"Brexit didn’t behave like a normal economic shock. There was no singular collapse or dramatic turning point. Instead, it created a rolling fog of uncertainty that has lasted almost a decade. It made it impossible for thousands of firms to plan." ~AA eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

"One of the terrible ironies is that Reform’s leader, Nigel Farage, is now capitalising on the unpopularity of a government whose laudable aims have been frustrated by the economic damage caused by a Brexit behind which he was the prime mover." ~AA observer.co.uk/news/busines...

The latest bot-talking-point on X and FB, spread via Reform groups, seems to be "Doctors, Nurses, and engineers don't arrive by small boat". Only problem with that is... some do exactly that. ~AA

Letter: "New polling by Best for Britain shows three in five Brits now see Brexit as a failure with seven in 10 of these voters blaming Nigel Farage. His silence on the subject speaks volumes." ~AA www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2564170...

I mean why TF is Gove a Lord now? He spent Covid plotting with Cummings and grifting his sorry arse off, having already lied himself inside out over Brexit - another reason our country is in such a mess. He gets a peerage. We get to pay for it all. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Your reminder that the EU offered to freeze Brexit talks in 2020 so we could focus on Covid but Johnson said no. He then fucked up both: partying while 23,000 needlessly died & did a Brexit so shit the economic impact (-8% GDP) is worse than predictions he described as “the work of gloomsters”

While problem gambling tears families apart and costs lives, firms like SkyBet go abroad to dodge their taxes. It’s time to tax their UK profits. No escape, no loopholes.

I'm so tired of this "illegal immigration" label. Being a refugee is not illegal. You can only be described as that once your request for asylum has been reviewed according to international law and rejected. Britain still has far fewer asylum seekers than similarly large countries in Europe.

"Russia is the prime suspect in Monday’s bombing..a main artery from Poland for Ukraine." "...waves of other sabotage, cyber, and social media propaganda attacks, are acts of war. But they are all part of a hybrid war. And this malevolent blend allows Vladimir Putin to punch well above his weight."

Wouldn't mind taking a guess that the majority of these people were Europeans 🤔 Can't say I blame them... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Education is a human right, and should be accessible to all, regardless of their situation. Erasmus+ supports this by providing funding and opportunities that widen access to education across Europe, and Britain should join it.

This from the Government of the ex Human Rights lawyer. I can't stress enough that this is FUCKING SHAMEFUL.

“A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function.” How disgraceful. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’

Despite negative press reporting the energy transition is well underway. In the UK, we see strong demand for electric vehicles and solar panels. And the more people learn that these technologies can offer them tangible benefits the more others will adopt them too.

#BadEnoch …..enough said!

Apologies for the source, but the more the Mail publishes articles like this, the more their lemming followers might take heed. www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

Anyone sensible is laughing at them.

Has she gone yet?

The Government needs to get serious about climate change. And it hasn't so we're suing. But this is the longest and most expensive legal letter Good Law Project has ever sent - and it involves a huge team of specialist lawyers. And we really could use your help. goodlaw.social/4cqi

Ready for Belém! Just arrived in Brazil for COP30, with good news. The EU has just adopted its NDC for 2035. 66-72% in GHG reduction by 2035 from to 1990. A milestone on our path to reaching climate neutrality in 🇪🇺 by 2050. And to keeping the Paris goals within reach.

Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph. Sunak in the Times. Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper. Johnson in the Mail. Gove editing the Spectator. Farage everywhere. All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made. Nauseating.

"More than 440 City companies have moved almost £1tn — or roughly 10% of the entire UK banking system — to financial hubs across the EU because of Brexit." #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

RefUKuenssberg gave, yet again, a platform to an unelected millionaire, Mo, representing a party with just 5 MPs, to talk shit about things he hasn’t got a clue about. #ukpolitics

Reform UK supporting Matt Goodwin says because we are broke taxes have to go up Brexit costs us £40 billion a year in lost tax income from trade with the EU, this is why we are broke If you vote for Reform you're voting for the same people who made us broke, to fix us being broke 🤷‍♂️ #BBCQT