via Jon Taylor

I'm old enough to remember being told that Brexit was all about us Brits 'taking back control' (not about being brainwashed by overseas, tax-avoiding billionaires) #TaxTheRich meme via Anthony Corella

Errr....bye then

Former child refugee and a Labour peer @alfdubs.bsky.social has criticised the “shabby” asylum reform proposals as “seeking to use children as weapons” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.

"Compared with other European countries, the UK received the fifth largest number of asylum seekers in the year ending March 2025, and the seventeenth largest intake when measured per head of population" - Home Office data www.gov.uk/government/s...

“The number of EU students enrolling in a new course in British universities fell sharply after Brexit, declining by 57% between 2020/21 and 2023/24.” Source @migobs.bsky.social

Minimum wage is £10 or £12.21 an hour. How much does Farage get paid an hour? he declared £40,075.37 for 10 hours. So just over £4k an hour. Quite probably more. He is not on your side.

Not everything has to be cost effective. Society is about caring too! However the estimated loss to the economy of sickness is £150bn a year www.oxera.com/wp-content/u... And the UK has the highest waiting lists for healthcare in the G20

There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the final year of the last Conservative Government alone. Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government

Seventy-five years ago, Britain helped create the European Convention on Human Rights, a promise of life, liberty, and fairness under the law. It has strengthened justice, protected victims, and upheld equality. These rights are ours to defend.

UK energy companies made £30bn profit. Gas extractors £10.8bn Electricity generators £9.7bn Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn Retail suppliers £2.8 bn £500 a yr profit from average household Bills up 42% since 2021. Direct cause of inflation and poverty. 128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments

Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating. My thoughts with all involved

The right wing halfwits who believe train drivers are overpaid need to give their head a wobble. In charge of £ms of kit and, far more importantly, the safety of passengers is worth every penny of their £75K.

Dominic Grieve’s response to Nigel Farage’s ‘let’s leave the ECHR’ stunt in parliament is spot on.

Reeves Estate Agent screwed up and apologised to her, end of❗️ But oh no not for BBC with today’s character assassination & scathing critique re Govt Determined to keep a non story alive Yet they dropped Farage potentially dodging £44K stamp duty like a shot & never reported his OH’s alleged fraud🤷🏼‍♂️

Integration eh??? 🤣🤣🤣

“the impact of Brexit for the City of London is clear. Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan & Paris are all doing better than they were..at London’s expense..City companies moved almost £1tn between them ~10% of the entire UK banking system – to financial hubs across the EU.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Six months on from the locals… Reform is losing councillors at an “unusual” rate PolHome analysis finds that Farage’s party has lost over 5% of all cllrs elected in May In Kent, its 14% @matildamartin.bsky.social’s deep dive www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Reminder: Here's what Nigel Farage tried to take away from you this week...

The reform party nativity scene. No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation. And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

Of course the real threat isn't Asylum Seekers in Dinghies. It is the people who want to leave the ECHR and take away all your Rights. Right to trial, right to healthcare, right to sick pay, right to holiday pay, right not be discriminated against. They can make so much profit

Matt

Intellectually dishonest from The Times' Lord Finkelstein. If you look only at a progressive tax and ignore how much more the richest earn of course you 'prove' they "bear the heaviest burden". But if you look at all taxes as a percentage of income the poorest bear a similar burden to the richest.

Food profits have increased more than 30% in Europe since 2021. While in the US/UK they have increased nearly 200%. There is no 'inflation' only profiteering.

This 👇 Cartilage does not grow back.

"Nazir Afzal OBE is ex-Chief Crown Prosecutor for NW England, Chancellor of Manchester University, chair of Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency. Maybe listen to him if you won’t listen to Jeremy Corbyn, Gary Stevenson, Zack Polanski, Richard Murphy, Zarah Sultana ..." via The Daily Politik

The whiter the area the more likely it is to have a Reform problem. Immigration isn’t the problem, otherwise you’d get Reform in more diverse areas - it’s fear of change among older people.

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

As supermarkets profits soar ...

Sarah Pochin clearly hasn’t met 2016 Farage. The irony is though that they booted out white European workers who are now being replaced by black and Asian workers. What do they want?! 🤷‍♀️ You couldn’t make it up. Brexit hypocrisy is off the scale! 🤦‍♀️ www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Totally untrue garbage from @thetimes.com & @dailymail.co.uk today - smear dressed up as journalism. Some facts: - There is no “£900 desk” - my constituency office has Ikea desks/chairs - we significantly underspent the new MPs allowance to set up an office www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Albania PM visiting the UK "You left the EU because you wanted less boats (immigration), you have more boats (immigration)." And worse economy, higher food prices, higher energy prices, dirtier water... Are there any benefits? No not for you.

Germany receives the most asylum seekers in Europe, with over 1/3 of all applications in 2023 & a 1/4 in 2024.The next highest are Spain, France, & Italy, which together with Germany receive the majority of applications.The UK has fifth largest applications but intake is 17th per head of population.

Tories claim taxing the rich will force them out without a recognising that the Brexit they voted for caused exactly that. Over 440 firms in the financial sector alone have re-located to the EU taking up to £1.3 trillion in assets with them plus their employees , and that’s just in finance!

When the ICE agent is Canadian… 🇨🇦

Incredibly minor point in the grand scheme of the horror of this policy, but this would mean that many women with ILR would be unable to go on maternity leave unless they had a very high salary or an amazing employer package.

The Farage Effect

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

The Tory government’s post-Brexit deal, and specifically its failure to reach a 'returns agreement with the EU', whereby unauthorised migrants to the UK could be returned to the first safe EU country they had entered www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/2555127...

The man is sick in the head ... 👇👇👇

Judge the next UK budget by how much it improves the purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Can't revive economy without that. 16m live in poverty. 34% of universal credit claimants are in work. Millions rely on food banks. Bottom 50% of population has 5% of wealth; the bottom fifth has only 0.5%.

As seen at No Kings Atlanta:

"There will be no downside to Brexit, only a considerable upside" David Davis MP, 10th October 2016. 18th October 2025. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...