First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented. Tell Keir Starmer to change this. actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...

Correction: the UK has been colonised by some odious super rich individuals based overseas.

They’ve been meddling for years. Popping people into opportune positions in the BBC, restricting the unfettered reporting, feeding divisive narratives to the newspapers, they are hateful hateful people. Bannon, Banks, Farage et all should all be prosecuted for Treason.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/th...

What I find amusing about the Express' cinematic universe is that the UK is simultaneously free and thriving thanks to Brexit and poor and oppressed thanks to the current government. This dichotomy is also reflected in Mail/Telegraph etc but its at its most acute in the Express.

This May’s elections are expected to bring chaos because our voting system is broken. I’ve written to my MP to push for fairer elections before it’s too late. It takes 2 minutes to do the same here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... @compassoffice.bsky.social

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Just an observation… but if Farage *was not* now a racist - genuinely… then he would really want to make up for the hurt he caused as a schoolboy bully. Definitely not make it worse. Instead, he’s angry and accusing. So, he is racist. And raging with anyone who says so. Or thinks that’s a problem.

60% of the British public agree: our voting system is not fit for purpose. The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it. I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

Where political argument by ardent pro-Europeans failed, cold economic reality has prompted informal discussions across government about rejoining the customs union. Ministers and advisers have been quoting House of Commons analysis that found it could increase GDP by 2.2%

Fortunately David Lammy you have the chance to vote for a customs union by backing our bill next week. See you in the Aye lobby?

So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this

I think this speech needs sharing again. Since the PM said this, there have been Tories who have come out & said the same as Reform: that they want to see people with a legal right to be in the UK get deported. Call it out and stand up for these people - our friends, neighbours and key workers.

Bet365 CEO Denise Coates paid herself £277,000,000 this year, and £410,000,000 in 2020. This was more than 20,000x the Minimum Wage that she paid most of her workers. The betting industry needs to be taxed, heavily.

Mariella Frostrup: "I just don't know when we started dehumanising people to the extent that we do. I find it quite shocking ...I think it's a shame that we allow Reform to set the tone and the agenda in the way we talk about illegal immigrants an asylum seekers" #bbcqt #r4today #RefugeesWelcome

We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution. This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity

Laure Ferrari faces a criminal fraud verdict in Brussels over alleged misuse of €730,000 in EU funds ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Even just reading about him infuriates me. Sighing, proclaiming how “difficult” it was for him. How “difficult” it must have been for the hundreds of thousands of families that lost someone. Narcissistic, sociopathic, egotistical fucker. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When I see announcements like this, I have to ask - how many of the people out there who are so vehemently anti-migrant would actually pass English at an A-Level standard?

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract. The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits. archive.ph/vQ7Tn

If Michelle Mone has "no wish" to return to the Lords as a Tory peer, as reported this weekend, she should probably stop boasting about being a baroness

Please RT this so Donald Trump sees.

This is big: Michelle Mone is being forced to pay back £122m after supplying poor quality protective gear to our NHS during the pandemic. But she STILL hasn't been kicked out of the House of Lords. Mone has to go. Agree? Sign the petition today: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/expel-Mo...

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

So much writing about politics is in fact writing about a soap, treated with the same offhand glee. I really wish political reporting were more serious; less focused on the plotting, less driven by "insiders" briefing about their friends and enemies.

This is appalling.

These people are scum and deserve whatever our one-tier justice system throws at them. But I can't help also feeling none of this would be happening were it not for the right wing extremist influencers on social media whipping things up - and yet none of them face any sanctions.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

If Nigel Farage really loved Britain he wouldn't talk it down at every opportunity to a bunch of ill informed right wing American fuckwits who know sweet FA about the reality of this country.

Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it. This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.

Nigel Farage says he hates Europe but all his children, which have European mothers, have EU passports not British ones. He is a disgraceful fraud everything he says is a lie.

“Tabloids tell us Connolly is lovely, ordinary, caring, a great Mum. But she wasn’t punished for any of that. She was punished for telling a mob it's okay to set fire to hotels full of people she sees as lesser. That she did it between a cuppa and walking the dog, makes it more chilling, not less.”

Utter garbage. She was a prisoner, nothing political about it. Reasonable people can disagree on any given sentence but the facts are clear: - she incited serious violence - PM did exactly nothing - she went to jail because of what SHE did: committing a crime + pleading guilty

Note to Robert Jenrick, the #RuleofLaw, it is a very good idea www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

The Tories have put out this list of all the great things asylum seekers get including... "Access to food banks" Source: The Daily Mail

Arrests for peaceful protesting is obviously immoral but I can’t get over how stupid it is. There are viral videos of the Met dragging elderly women and pushing wheelchair users to a police van. If you’re looking for public support, a bit of discretion in who you’re arresting isn’t rocket science!

Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Jamie Lee Curtis on The Late Show cancellation. “They’re trying to silence us. That won’t work…we’ll just get louder”

7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.

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...

Nigel's record as an MP isn't good...

Tesla cars are designed to turn off its self-driving mode less than a second before a crash, so Tesla can claim that the car was not operating in self-driving mode when it crashed. Musk is evil. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Reform UK has lost another MP, that is 2 out of 6 (33%) in just 1 year. This party is a joke.