New YouGov poll gives Reform its lowest lead since last April. RFM: 25% (+1) LAB: 21% (+2) CON: 17% (-1) GRN: 16% (-1) LDM: 14% (=) Looks like hoovering up a series of deeply unpopular, disgraced former Conservative ministers isn't quite the massive vote winning strategy that was predicted

Carole Cadwalladr, "He's not that cuddle cosy golf club English pub figure" "He is in a relationship with the US far right and with the European pro-Kremlin far right" "What happened in Brexit, we saw that money that force that influence, those networks coming together"

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The UK was better off in the EU and Europe was better off with the UK in it. All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow. WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.

This is the problem in the UK. Nothing to do with immigration.

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Spot on.

Time for Americans to stop this madman.

Why Donald Trump wants Greenland. To loot the crap out of it.

Imagine, given what is happening right now, being "afraid" of getting closer to the only power-centre that has not abandoned reason, democracy, and the rule of law. ~AA

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It’s time for Starmer to find some backbone. We can’t tiptoe around hoping to be spared, Under Trump, the US is not reliable ally, friend or partner. Where Congress won’t act, other world leaders have duty to call out Trump’s behavior for what it is. Many Americans will also appreciate such clarity.

US chicken is chlorinated because America has no animal welfare laws where poultry is concerned. It has to be chlorinated because Salmonella and e. coli run rife The EU banned that practice in 1997 and as such the UK has among the highest welfare and standards in the world. 1/2

Jeremy Clarkson complains about no village Doctor, no village shops, no village schools, no bobby. This is the same Jeremy Clarkson who loves Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron who made all these things happen with their cuts. They love complaining about what they voted for.

Venezuela now, because he wants the oil. He wants the oil under Greenland too. And under Canada. He's openly called for them to be part of the USA. How long before he decides to bomb a couple of NATO members to get his own way? The USA is a rogue nation.

Chatted to my great uncle yesterday – a northern, working-class guy, not that political. I told him my job involved exposing Farage. His first question was: “who funds him?” Investigations into Farage’s donors can have a major impact on Reform’s support – as this research has already shown 👇

Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in. A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.

“We have sacrificed our national success because of our fear of immigration. And now, if Farage has his way, we'll do it all over again” Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...

Great to have such an enthusiastic support for rejoining Erasmus from the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University on #t4today No stupid questions about whether this was anti-Brexit. Just unequivocal celebration of the chance to broaden our horizons again. A step on the road back to sanity.

If millionaires had paid their proper taxes for the last 50 years there could now be No poverty, homelessness, unemployment Much less crime, war, climate disasters The problem isn’t migrants The problem always has been The insatiable greed of the super rich #TaxTheRich #SocialistSunday

We despair that the rightwing keep shifting the Overton Window further right. They never suggest that leaving the ECHR is impossible or not the right time. They just demand it. And we end up discussing it. It’s time the left pushed back. Not put up ‘can’t do’ barriers to our own hopes and aims. 👏

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

Starmer accuses the Brexiters of selling Brexit on lies and false promises. He’s guilty of pretence and obfuscation now. The EU won’t trust us or even consider major changes to the current deal if British politicians continue to lie, hedge and mislead. Act like a leader, Starmer. Damnit, man. LEAD.

“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising” Daisy Cooper

Where Trump goes Farage follows.

The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.

"In the ashes of war... Europe pulled together to create collaborative bodies designed to prevent a repeat of the horrors of Nazi Germany. One such body was the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)."

Today the #independent newspaper is bleating about “why are the pensioners a special case” when they should be asking “why are millionaires a special case”

What’s the point of Keir Starmer employing an economics advisor if he ignores her on the biggest economic issue of the day?

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes… And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say …funny that.

Let's hope the rest of the country is watching this chaos!

Gosh. What a surprise.

The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion. So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

UK electricity bills up 163% since 2008. Wages haven't. 6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%. Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty. No govt checks profiteering.

It’s as if they think we’ve all been in a coma for the last 15 years, rather than watching the Tories smash it all up in front of us. Very good on our ‘let’s-not-bother-with-right-wing-racism-or-Farage’s-corruption-and-let’s-blame-Labour-for-everything’ media. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

One young voter in New Jersey on CNN right now: “Honestly, the last few days [of shutdown] have been scary for a lot of Americans. And while we’re sitting here struggling and worried, they’re building a ballroom.” 🎯

Always be wary of politicians insisting that the only way to truly “take back control” is to remove our rights and freedoms. We lose our protection from abuses of power while our country loses trust and influence on the world stage. That’s not control. It’s weakness. www.bbc.com/news/article...

There is so much hate in the UK. Thanks to Farage. He needs to be stopped – this is not who we are. We are a tolerant nation who take pride in integrating people from other countries, whatever their religion or belief. We deserve better. Do not be fooled by the snake oil salesman.

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle... "On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.” Absolutely. Please get on with it.

Farage: epic grifter

Unbelievable what these chancers think they can get away with! This money could be so much better spent.

What I don’t understand is why the British press don’t hang Brexit around Nigel Farage’s neck like a stockade. It was the single worst act of economic self harm in modern British history. Why doesn’t the British media force him to own that?

Brexit is a complete disaster and it's high time that politicians of all parties admit it.