“A disillusioned public recognises continuity where it was promised change. Nothing short of a decisive break with Thatcherism will suffice. Not managerial tweaks. Not rhetorical resets. A break.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The whole Trump regime is one chromosome away from paste

It’s now almost 2 months since Nigel Farage was scheduled to appear on #bbclaurak as part of her Leaders Interview but pulled out due to being “under the weather” He’s currently in America supporting a foreign president over his own country

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next. There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.

I see Farage is off to Mar-a-Lago to talk down Britain and suck up to Trump. There's nothing patriotic about cheering on a foreign leader whose illegal war is sending British families’ energy bills through the roof.

So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”. Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.

Let's just be really clear here, this is far from an isolated case. The Home Office routinely makes vulnerable people homeless, and yesterday's announcement by the Home Secretary on increasing the removal of support from some asylum seekers will make it worse. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

You can dodge reality, deny facts, & cover up truth only so long. Every distraction is temporary while truth lives on. Reality wins in the end. Facts have the last word. You cannot undo them, you just cover them up, & that cover can come off at any moment. It's never forever. #GoodMorning, everyone

"People must trust that their voting voice matters". Well said, @mp4stratford.bsky.social ! Thank you for raising in parliament issues affecting overseas voting. The new elections act is a chance to fix it with: 📮 Better postal ballots 🌍 Overseas constituencies 🏢 Using embassies and consulates

Yanar Mohammed, a leading Iraqi feminist and co‑founder of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, was assassinated outside her home in Baghdad on March 2, 2026. For more than two decades, Yanar was one of Iraq’s most courageous advocates for women’s rights.

So we need another million-strong protest in the streets to speak up against joining the US in waging illegal attacks on other countries? I was happy to be at the last one, would be happy to do it again.

Big weakness for Reform' - comfort zone denial - that party has not a single public champion with confidence, status or bottle to give own side a reality check about why losing by > 10% once Reform v Not-Reform [even to smaller parties] Farage/Goodwin response is making Reform more Trumpian

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This 1000% times over 👇👇👇

At this time we must remember heroes like Robin Cook and Charles Kennedy who stood up and opposed the Iraq war.

Judging by the markets this morning, I’m going to guess that Trump is doing his illegal toppling of foreign governments on a Saturday to avoid shocking them even more.

Can anyone explain to me why we are (yet again) getting dragged into an illegal conflict in the Middle East started by the US? Did we learn nothing last time? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Alexander de Pfeffel is mercifully quiet at the moment. Small mercies.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: “Military action carries the risk of igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region of the world"

The only way to genuinely beat Reform is to work very hard to improve people’s lives. Most people - even Reform voters- are don’t wish ill on fellow humans, they just want their own lives to improve. Reform is thriving on 16 years of standards of living sliding backwards out of control

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

Please, US, you need to stop your president from setting the world on fire. He has a very destructive personality and he has been handed all the tools he needs to destroy on a large scale. This is not a drill.

Trump ripped up the Iran nuclear deal and created this mess. Now, he's putting servicemembers in harm's way with no clear plan and no Congressional approval. The American people deserve answers — and Congress needs to do its job.

"If Kamala gets 4 more years, the Middle East will spend the next 4 decades going up in flames + your kids will be going off to War, maybe even a Third World War, something that will never happen with President Donald J. Trump in charge. For our Country's sake + for your kids, Vote Trump for PEACE!"

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Evening.

Well what could possibly go wrong? news.sky.com/story/flatpl...

Thank goodness the good people of Gorton turned away from the politics of division and hate brought to them from far away by this by-election- London for the candidate, but much further away across the Atlantic for the twisted ideas. #GortonAndDenton

I am devastated to hear of the passing of Nurul Amin Shah Alam. He was a refugee of the Rohingya genocide living in Buffalo, New York. Border Patrol agents wrongfully detained him and dumped him on the street in brutal winter conditions. Blind and walking with a cane, he died trying to get home.

💩 #PollutionMatters ➡️ #Devon #Exmouth 💩 @eeelibdems.bsky.social @northdevongreens.bsky.social @jim-hunt.bsky.social @northdevongazette.bsky.social @southsaxon.bsky.social @eleanorrylance.bsky.social @chulmleighed.bsky.social

If you live in #Pinhoe, #StLoyes or #Topsham, please complete our local survey. digitallibdems.typeform.com/to/dW6EkFXF

The Guardian/UCL have conducted an in-depth study of all of the immigration debates in parliament over a century. It shows sentiment more mixed, more negative today than in the past. (Though also that parliamentary sentiment historically is more pro than con) www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron. 10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.

When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. #TrumpTariffs #Again #Doomloop

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Karen Newton, 65, retired admin assistant at a primary school A valid British passport, a tourist visa and no criminal record Handcuffed, shackled and locked up for 6 weeks, mostly sleeping on the floor After trying to leave the US after a trip of a lifetime - @jennykleeman.bsky.social

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.

Donald Trump is a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Oil and Big Coal. He's literally stopping coal plants from shutting down after receiving nearly half a billion dollars from the industry during the 2024 campaign.

Look at that ridiculous man. The absolute king of whataboutery. The crown prince of entitlement. The Emperor with no clothes.

Poor old dude is just being trotted out and propped up to do other people’s dirty work without the first understanding of what he’s doing. open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

Not surprising Farage hasn't bothered to announce a health spokesperson - his entire team is populated by politicians who broke the NHS. They've also forgotten about a foreign affairs spokesperson, but I guess they will take their orders straight from Trump's White House anyway.

First appointment - Richard Tice would be deputy PM and run a new business, trade and energy department, Farage says. Worth remembering that Tice is vehemently opposed to net zero policies.

This

It was only a matter of time I guess. Is there a report mechanism for disinformation accounts and their networks?

The constant U turns from this government are giving off serious Johnson years vibes. Tiring, tiresome and disappointing. It’s the right decision to maintain the elections but why try to call them off in the ghost first place?? www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

I refuse to link to the scumbag, but yesterday Farage posted a video in which he claimed that "One million people living in this country don't speak any English at all" The actual figure is 160,000. So that's a lie. He lied. I won't hold my breath for him to correct himself.

The art of politics is not to do what people think. If it was, there literally wouldn’t be any politics. The art of politics is to convert public opinion in the direction of your policies. Not so subordinate your policies to opinion.

Although of course it is perfectly possible to be an “elderly white man” who is not a bigot. I know many.

Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it. The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after. I’ve had a front row seat. 7/

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/