Free speech? Really? It cost Jimmy Kimmel his job.

How we will look back at the British media's current constant indulgence of Nigel Farage and his brand of anti-migrant politics as the biggest collective failure of our times @adambienkov.bsky.social www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-dog...

Nothing good has come of privatising the Uk’s Critical National Infrastructure (energy, water, transport, health, comms, etc)… …so there is now a strong case for renationalising.

perfectly put.....

The IMF urges UK govt to end the pensions triple lock and charging for NHS treatment. Condemning pensioners to poverty and denying healthcare to low/middle income families is part of the right wing agenda. How many will be killed by neoliberalism? Anything to avoid taxing corporations & the rich.

England Water chiefs’ pay rises by 5% to average of £1.1m despite ban on bonuses and outrage over sewage dumping. Failure and abuses rewarded. The only effective remedy is to permit employees and customers to vote on exec pay. No major party supports democratization of water.

Over one in five 18-24 yr olds support the Lib Dems Become a member of the Lib Dems: As a member you can: ✔ Decide our party policy. ✔ Stand for election and choose our candidates. ✔ Vote in future Lib Dem leadership elections. Become a member today www.libdems.org.uk/join

Who would have guessed www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/wil...

Why we need electoral reform.

The problem with Starmer coming the hard man is that it brings to mind Vince Cable's comments about G. Brown trying to be Stalin but looking like Mr Bean. Or, if you prefer, our latest PM makes John Major look like Sid Vicious

One reason water companies feel able to delay bringing in hosepipe bans & drag their feet on fixing leaks is that successive governments have allowed them to pump water from rivers when reservoirs get low. But that water is taken from wildlife. 2/3 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When rivers get low & warm like this: - the pollution in them gets more concentrated - fish & other water creatures have less oxygen to breathe - pathogens from sewage have perfect conditions to grow - algae grow too much too fast - blocking out light & air for wildlife 1/3

What A Surprise

Great to see Labour implementing Lib Dem policy!

If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it.

Younger voters are begining to abandon Labour and are flocking to the Greens and Lib Dems [Tories and Reform remain unpopular] YouGov crosstabs • 18-24 voting intention 🔴 LAB: 28% (-13) 💚 GRN: 26% (+8) 🔶 LDM: 20% (+4) 🟦 CON: 9% (+1) ➡️ RFM: 8% (-1) +/- vs. GE2024 Fieldwork: 13-14 July, 2025

We should be having a debate about how British incompetence put the lives of thousands of Afghans at risk. Instead we're having a debate about 'how many criminals they let in'. Tells you everything you need to know about where we're at as a country inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

How do you ensure a nation fails to cope with drought? Privatise its water system. Almost everyone wants our water renationalised. Almost everyone, that is, except the government. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“I mean, (Brexit) was just a terrible con, it was a real con, and (the fact) that Nigel Farago (Farage) still exists anywhere and is taken seriously is appalling to me." www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/cele...

"Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s trip to London on Thursday is the latest sign of a new world order, in which European nations are uniting amid growing instability." We can’t rely on the US - it’s time to strengthen ties with the EU. 🇪🇺

Explains a lot....

Reform’s clean energy crackdown would cost 60,000 jobs, wipe £92 billion off the economy, and raise bills, says study

UK water companies had no debt when they were privatised. They've not invested in a single new reservoir in 40 years yet have acquired truly crippling debts by borrowing money to pay out huge dividends. Let them go bankrupt and nationalise the assets not the debts.

"Fucking hell, Farage. At least I dressed my lads properly..."

Reform UK MPs are nothing but a bunch of cheats, bigots, liars & grifters McMurdock took £70,000 in loans in 2020, which it said were from the government’s COVID Bounce Back scheme in 2020. He borrowed £50,000 for one business, which had no employees and negligible assets until the Covid pandemic.

Thoughts and prayers don’t stop mass shootings, and they don’t stop climate disasters either. This is a tragedy Gov. Greg Abbott did nothing to prevent. He still denies that climate change is real. He won’t act, and he won’t regulate.

This polling is still live, have your say: xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

Congratulations to the Lib Dems on these by-election wins.👏 🗳These results encapsulate the problem with the first-past-the post voting system. 📝 But of course the Lib Dems are of course calling for a fairer voting system. #getPRdone #FairVotes #ProportionalRepresentation

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage gets £8.4k helicopter flight paid by JCB www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...

We need to spread the word. Tell the UK government to stop deep sea mining before it starts. act.gp/3FvLdI9

There is no justification on earth for blocking deliveries of baby formula to starving babies and mothers. What Israel is inflicting on Gaza is monstrous, genocidal. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

@pimlicat.bsky.social‬, CEO of Best for Britain: "Voters want to see Europe prioritised" 🇪🇺 "This plan correctly identifies the importance of restoring frictionless access to reliable EU markets for farmers, but the gamechanger will be doing the same for all British industries"

On the anniversary of the referendum, shall we discuss the effect on the economy? The lives of EU citizens in the UK and Brits in the EU? Northern Ireland? European security? Britain's global reputation? Nah. Let's talk about how it affected Gove's marriage.😱~AA #BrexitMemorial

There is no doubt that there is a massive opportunity on the centre right for the Lib Dems in the space vacated by the Tory Party. I would prefer them to aggressively occupy the space vacated by Starmer on the centre left as Layla Moran would have done.

As in the case of the Iraq war the Tories would have been behind Bush even more enthusiastically. Only the Liberal Democrats of the English major parties opposed the war.

The Russians, who have been murdering Ukrainian civilians and bombing cities for three years, are suddenly very worried about "gross violation of international law" and "global and regional security" www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/22/r...

I’m impressed at how accurate the OBR’s predictions of the cost of a hard #Brexit were. At the time this was considered a worst-case scenario, but here we are. #BrexitReality #BrexitBrokeBritain

The people of Iran have suffered under a brutal regime for far too long. But a US President planning regime change in the Middle East feels like 2003 all over again. We’ve seen where that path leads and it does not end well.

The verdict, nine years on: “an unambiguous stagnation in investment.” “A large chunk of [tax rises] would not have been necessary if the UK had voted to remain in the EU or chosen a softer form of Brexit.” ~AA www.thetimes.com/article/346e... #BrexitMemorial

Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)

Another benefit of Brexit! In the EU we could simply send back about half of the boat people, because they had claimed asylum in the EU. Now of course we are “free” to keep them for years until they fail our asylum investigations!….. and the Tories knew that before we left

Labour has been urged to set a target for how many social homes should be built through its new £39bn fund announced at the spending review.

Britain, you should be better than this.

Britain’s retreat from building public housing was a historic mistake driven by a market purism that has conspicuously failed www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Mt Trashmore

I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Something broke the journalists and now they can’t write anything that isn’t ‘What does this mean for Reform at the next election?’

With the BBC (ab)using licence payer money to focus on attracting Deform voters, it's time for better media regulation of our media! Here’s a petition for you! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Richard Madeley reads out a "tweet I read yesterday": "This is what happens when integration is rammed down your throats" A random tweet; not from the police or a local politician, but from a racist that Madeley found on the far right social media cesspit X. How is that "news"? #GMB #r4today