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The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

By way of a reminder folks... You voted for Cameron Everything got worse You voted for Johnson Everything got worse You voted for brexit Everything got worse You voted for Truss Everything got worse If you vote for Farage You have no idea how bad your life will become.

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US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

She's plainly repulsed by him, understandably so.

It was only ridiculous articles in places like The Times that suggested they would.

Husband came down with vase fatigue in the British Museum. At first he was like "whaaat? are they giving each other HANDIES?" and then by the 20th or so room of red figure vases was all "oh. Gay spitroast," in the jaded-to-numbness tones of Malcolm MacDowell's Caligula.

Keir Your Enthusiasm.

OK, let's take this seriously. I had an odd half an hour and via Apple Books had a quick look at the three claims I knew most about - two re the post-Brexit bilateral preferential trade agreements replicated from the EU versions and one about cheaper bananas. All are wrong or wildly implausible. 1/n

#ReformUK When is he leaving?

"At first I thought it was a little bit of a conspiracy theory... but at this point..." Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva suggests her support for the full release of the Epstein files is delaying her swearing in as a member of Congress in the US. #Newsnight

Report @europeans.today @chrischirp.bsky.social 🏥England COVID hospitalisations highest this year. 🌀Surge driven by waning immunity / indoor mixing. 💉Booster uptake lags, leaves many vulnerable unprotected. 🚑NHS under pressure with long waits and ambulance delays. www.europeans.today/2025/10/13/e...

Perfectly put from @stephenkb.bsky.social and follows on from my piece about both the Tories and Labour negging the PMC groups who were their normal base before they went all in on retirees. benansell.substack.com/p/british-po...

The questions remain. Why did White House border czar Tom Homan accept a bag with $50,000 cash? Who was it from? What was promised in exchange? Why did the DOJ close the investigation? How does bribery and corruption make America great? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

DO NOT BE DISTRACTED!!! TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

I can see why Reform would oppose measures to prevent money laundering. Maybe banks should check money going *into* bank accounts - particularly when it's Russian money going into Reform politicians' bank accounts...

No policies. No ideas. False promises. And yet people will still vote for them. Why? Because of immigrants. This is what Brexit was all about and they are lying if they say it isn't.

Boris Johhnson, "Starmer recognising Palestine is meaningless" "It hasn't done the Palestinians any good" "It looked like rewarding Hamas's terrorism" (Does Starmer deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?) "Starmer doesn't deserve a baked bean"

www.reuters.com/world/middle... Corruption.

Farage accused of doing the dirty on one of Putin’s enemies. Colour me shocked. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Orange man never misses an opportunity to big himself up. Repulsive narcissist that he is. news.sky.com/story/gaza-h...

Hi, I'm a U.S. citizen and veteran... I was detained by ICE

Both Donald Trump and his Slovene-born escort spent years calling for Obama’s birth certificate. I am calling for Melania Trump’s legal immigration papers: How did she get an “Einstein” visa for extraordinary abilities despite her blatant lie under oath about her college degrees?

Reform UK leader in Cornwall suddenly resigns www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

This shutdown is proof that Trump and his MAGA Republicans don’t care about the American people. They don’t care about federal workers who aren’t receiving paychecks, they don’t care about your flights, and they don’t care about Americans being able to afford health care.

No Republican leaders, “No Kings” isn’t a ‘terrorist movement’ it’s against the terror of a dictatorship.

Reform accounts on X, who now form the vast majority of highlighted posts (Musk is doing this deliberately), are posting the most outrageous lies & fake stories on X to deflect from stories about Reform’s Russian connections. Many of these are of course fake Russian accounts.

He is looking worse and worse. That’s what hate will do to you. #HopeNotHate Join the 18 October protest No Tyrants, No Hate @hopenothate.org.uk @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social @standuptoracismuk.bsky.social It takes a united effort by ordinary people to curb the fascist billionaire backed groups!

This is the inevitable outcome of relentless anti-immigration political rhetoric and a media environment which disproportionately amplifies the voices of racists, giving the indication that they are the "voice of the public" rather than the minority they are. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

Right-wingers do seem to love Russia And Russian money.

Boris Johnson, "My job was to deliver on the mandate of the people and to get Brexit done" "In 2016, Margaret Thatcher would have been on the side of leaving the EU" His expression shows that he doesn't believe what he's saying 🤷‍♂️

Nigel Farage can’t keep a promise longer than lunchtime. Reform UK Party Says It Will Drop £90 Billion Tax-Cut Program

Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences. So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.

“Farage also has a relationship with Dana Rohrabacher, a US congressman from California who, according to a recent report in the New York Times, was seen as such a valuable source of intelligence to the Kremlin that he was given a codename.” www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Boris Johnson, "I tried to get the scientists to say that lockdown was a bad idea" *they all laugh* There were 26,000 covid deaths because Boris Johnson ignored scientists and delayed the first lockdown by a week

Now we have firm evidence that a senior Reform member and close ally of Nigel Farage Nathan Gill,was working for the Russians is it not necessary for our democracy to reopen the Russian inquiry and fully investigate the interference in our domestic policy by a hostile state?

Yeah, my doctor's like that, always starts crying when he sees me cos I'm so healthy.

This - and Farage working with wealthy US anti-abortion groups on 'freedom of [our] speech' campaigns (per Byline Times and NY Times) - show significant US financial interference in UK politics. If you want to end up like the US, first thing to do is let money dominate democracy.

Keir Starmer trying not to laugh when asked if President Trump should be nominated for next year's Nobel Peace Prize

@angelaraynor was forced out because of paying the wrong amount of tax on a new house. A UK politician taking bribes from another country should be instant arrest & investigation & no longer allowed to stand in any post regarding politics But because it’s @reform u won’t mention that will u Rupert

Not fit for public office.

Area Man's Ex-Girlfriend Glad She Bumped Into Him https://theonion.com/area-mans-ex-girlfriend-glad-she-bumped-into-him-1819564583/

Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia: “The White House and Republicans want to intimidate Democrats like me. They'll fail. People around the country want us to fight back against Trump’s illegal power grabs and stop health care costs from surging.”