Text book example of how misinformation is directed against European unity. The overall goal is to put the consequences of Brexit on Europe, engender bad feeling, and cripple any join efforts. A 🧵

Striking to hear a senior Government minister in Wes Streeting clearly condemning Sarah Pochin's racism and the wider spread of racism across the UK, while defending the contribution of migrants to our country. Feels like a long time since we've heard a government minister speak like that

this is vg www.ft.com/content/94e0...

In case you missed it during the week.... Because it's the Telegraph, the B word isn't mentioned.

“You end up with something… like fascism” | Rory Stewart on Britain, “the far right” & Trump #Newsnight www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4kyua6nxNc

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white" Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀

are labour’s traditional values racism and oppression of lgbt+ ppl? bcos that’s all i associate this government with.

This is a real red flag about any boss let alone the PM.

A British court has sentenced six men to prison terms ranging from 7 to 23 years for torching a London warehouse storing humanitarian aid for Ukraine. They were working on orders from Russia's Wagner Group — The Guardian & Sky News. ⤵️

Listening to this (so you don't have to). Unsurprisingly, Farage says he would end alignment with the EU. And he still thinks we can play hardball with the EU to get a much better deal - shades of 'they need us more than we need them'. No question, he would take the UK to 'No Deal'.

BREAKING: Lucy Powell is elected Labour’s deputy leader

Whole cabinet is terrible, they need sacking. PM needs sacking. McSweeney needs sacking. They all do. Fuck it, just vote Green, SNP, Plaid, Lib Dem, Scottish Green, whatever else is vaguely palatable. Forget these lying charlatans and diabolical losers. Labour is a toxic brand now.

The Sun’s attempt at punching-down on trans people with a poll positioned slap-bang in the middle of a leading transphobic propaganda piece, has spectacularly backfired on them! 😆

Tia Kofi to Zack Polanski, "There are better ways for everything to be better for everyone, rather than just sort of your little bubble"

Today, and I should stress I am feeling like absolute death warmed up and have been in bed for two days, I have received interview requests about one asylum seeker violently murdering a woman and another escaping jail as "balance". What exactly do you think I am going to say? 1/3

Why the Caerphilly by-election result shows Nigel Farage's party is much weaker than most of the coverage of Reform suggests bylinetimes.com/2025/10/24/t...

Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would. I’ll start. Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later

Good point from @adambienkov.bsky.social - if the massed ranks of the right wing press with BBC boosting, plus the vast amount of money (and foreign social media bots) couldn’t get Reform over the line, what will?

Lady in white, "There aren't any illegal immigrants in Poland" "But in the UK, you can come in, any time, go to hotels" "There are English people, veterans, in the streets, like I saw in Swindon today" *Fact check: in 2024 roughly 17,020 people applied for asylum in Poland* #BBCQT

Well done, Caerphilly! In the end, @lsrplaid.bsky.social was closer to the mark on high turnout than @willhaycardiff.bsky.social. It foiled RefUK bc the tactical consolidation behind Plaid was so decisive. This is a blueprint of what progressive must do everywhere. Read the form. Back one horse.

If they don't win every marketing award going for this it will be a travesty. Chapeau! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Been back to my childhood village in Essex for a funeral. High Street is littered with tatty flags attached to every lamp post and telegraph pole, and by God, it looks awful. Everyone I spoke to hates them. So intimidating. Apparently- "Epping Forest council is scared of offending the nasties."

The key take from the election is that ‘anyone but Reform’ is effective. Just not for those parties aping Reform.

How do you say "Vive le Front Populaire" in Welsh?

“Many of us have very weak knowledge of the major historical events …” Here’s one of the folks he refers to as “us”:

Lord Frost's bid to become Katie Lam's philosopher.

Precisely this👇👇👇👇 Repost!

Those UK citizens who live in the EU legally should be protected by the WA even if the UK stops honouring their part of the agreement. We will find other ways to retaliate. Those who are not living/working here legally is a different matter. They should of course be fined, deported and banned…

You may be old enough to remember how Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse lampooned 'old style' Radio 1 DJs, eventually leading to a big clearout. We need a big clearout of all 'big name' journalists like Peston, Kuenssberg, Mason, Trevor Phillips (where did that one come from?) Ridge (and that?)

But most of it is not a mistake. Deporting millions is the conscious and deliberate aim. The ratio of deport to keep is pink: black so doing 10-20 times more deporting than Idi Amin is a choice, not a mistake

it's just so so mad and evil, as I pointed out yesterday! Clearly, I wasn't interpreting it wrong.

On this one, the only party I have seen come with a sensible set of proposals regarding the Home Office are the @greenparty.org.uk with @carladenyer.bsky.social's report, written by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social, on options for breaking the Home Office up. 2/ carladenyer.co.uk/no-way-home/

Anyone who has ever had to interact with the Home Office could have told her that. Thing is, with a singular focus on making life worse for marginalised groups Mahmood is making the whole thing worse. 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

Home Sec describes a widely held public perception (UK is the destination of choice for asylum seekers in Europe) + endorses it as true. Home Office data shows it is not true. Whatever merits of her policy change, should not make false factual claims www.thesun.co.uk/news/3709465...

Jonathan Hinder (Blue Labour): We've got to sort that out.... use suitable accommodation, not hotals... Another man who actually has no ideas. Why do we need a deterrent against asylum seekers most of whom we will accept as legal refugees? #R4Today

Honestly the UK (England) needs to get over itself. (Not Richard K, but the article he’s responding to).

I know the Tory party is a rancid rotting carcass of a party but, Christ, surely we’re all beyond sick of them now. This lot won’t get back into power but they can’t even manage to be a responsible opposition. They’re just so grimly dismal, racist and thick. They reek of inadequacy. Just go TF away.

Dear Louvre Thieves: How fast do you think you could get the Epstein Files? 😂😅🥵

I warn you not to get sick. I warn you not to get old. I warn you not to get pregnant. How to lose your right to live in Britain (under a very hypothetical government with a hypothetical draft Idi Amin Tribute (Mass Deportation) Bill bsky.app/profile/robe...

People who are generally upset with how their lives are going, and also feel there are too many people around who look different, can never actually be appeased. Not by Brexit, not by eliminating FoM, not by new taxes or fees, not by ending ILR, not by denaturalizing not by anything.

@anandmenon.bsky.social's new piece in the Guardian is ultimately very frustrating. If UKG wants rapid progress, it should start by accepting the terms on the table. Instead it quibbles over every detail and demands special treatment. 1

The fact that this is even seriously discussed, by frontbench politicians and in mainstream publications, shows that something fundamental has broken in UK politics. All those who look at Germany with horrified faces because of the rise of the AfD, kindly take a look in the mirror.

Disappointed in Labour (again) but very relieved to see this scandal gathering pace when it felt like hardly anyone had noticed it on Monday. Fair play to @sundersays.bsky.social for highlighting it tirelessly.

Fair amount of unhappiness within Labour at the party's response to Katie Lam row. Critics pointing out the PM spoke about a battle between "decency and division" at Labour conference, but feel they've flunked the 1st opportunity to show he meant it. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

The EU was frequently held to ransom by the UK. Luckily that is no longer the case. We also need to make sure that it never happens again.

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel to Gaza had been held in... a military base in the Negev desert where... Palestinian detainees were held in cages, blindfolded and handcuffed, shackled to hospital beds and forced to wear nappies. #R4Today

Not much point in the EU putting in effort to the relationship until the UK has reached a stable consensus on the left & the right as to what it wants.

Britain is suddenly pining for closer ties with the EU. It’s more likely to get the cold shoulder | Anand Menon

"It is hard to avoid the impression that Starmer and his Labour Party felt that simply not being the Conservatives was enough not only to get elected but to kick-start the economy. While the first assumption proved well founded, the second has not". time.com/7326397/uk-s...