Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso www.nber.org/papers/w3445...

Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance. on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT

Reform UK Kent ➡️ Kicked Out Brian Black Oliver Bradshaw Paul Thomas Bob Ford Bill Barratt ➡️ Defected Amelia Randall ➡️ Suspended Maxine Fothergill

The UK now spends more per week on extra ("red tape") import/export customs declarations, alone, from leaving the customs union, alone, than it did on its weekly EU contribution... although that is falling as UK export trade into the EU continues to fall away.

'Vote Reform to die horribly in a sovereign Britain increasingly cut off from the world'. Old people need to start understanding that Farage's immigration approach would directly impact the health service upon which they rely.

BBC newsnight. I do think Rory Stewart has a point. The world is going to hell in a handcraft and the Prince Andrew affairs whilst hugely important is not the most urgent item that the UK govt has to deal with.

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Nigel Farage claim: "We are not the world's food bank, it is not for us to provide welfare to people coming in from all over the world" Reality: The average migrant on the Skilled Worker visa had a net fiscal impact of +£16,300 in 2022/23. In contrast, the average UK-born adult had about +£800

There's a moral confusion in this kind of coverage. Anyone can condemn the killing of people they like.What matters is that we condemn the killing of those we dislike & disagree with (as Maguire does). We blur that message if we insist on making those killed into saints or try to silence criticism

Outrageous bollocks from a pathetically thin skinned Government which is willing to humiliate Britain on the international stage to brown nose one of the most dangerous men the world has ever known. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"If you've had enough of politicians, if you don't trust Westminster, join us." What a revolting, cynical statement for a man who was an MP of the party that ruled for 14 years until five minutes ago - and David Cameron's speech writer before that. What contempt for voters. ~AA

I know London has a sewage problem. But bloody hell!

First Past the Post cannot handle this level of fragmentation. It will produce completely freak results. We can grasp this problem now, or wait for the train to crash.

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

Trump is already using ICE and the National Guard like two private armies, and Congress and the Courts are nodding along with rather than checking and balancing each abuse of executive power. Yet the Speaker telling elected civil politicians to "yield" to military force is a dark, telling moment.

What on earth has possessed people to believe that Reform’s motley collection of our most abysmal, prejudiced and corrupt politicians - all with a proven track record of epic and piss-taking failure would be a remotely credible government? Seriously people… and media… you’ve lost your goddam minds.

Reform has 4 - yes 4, that's FOUR MPs. Wtf are we doing?

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

If Rayner had set out to minimise her tax bill, she could have waited til her son turned 18 before buying the Hove house. She didn't because she wasn't trying to minimise her tax bill.

This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

FFS - ignoring them doesn’t make them go away. And the vacuum is filled by ever more angry bile. Farage needs to be challenged at every step - the snake oil salesman who promised leaving the EU would “give us back control” (that went well) now promising that leaving the ECHR will do the same…

Individuals, not a dehumanised mass. Shouldn't take a political genius to say that. Or to realise that the key is to isolate the likes of Farage as extremists against this country's values.

Reform and Farage only survive (and thrive) on the oxygen of publicity. The airtime they are afforded is off the scale. Every single one if their back-of-a- fag-packet policies can be discredited. The media supply the oxygen and oxygen fans flames.

Can govt please explain to those of us who aren’t racist or anti-immigration, who’ve protested peacefully in far greater numbers against Brexit and in support of Palestine… why we are not worth representing at all? Why is it ok to doggedly ignore us in favour of a minority of ignorant haters?

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

Listened to BBC R4 on the cost of renewables. All about the cost, but doesn't factor in the human cost of not going the renewable route. Not just energy security but global warming and extreme weather events. That's huge and to not include that aspect is a very, very skewed argument.

There have always been Trumps, as there have always been Johnsons and Farages. None are particularly complex or interesting characters. What needs understanding is how the barriers that shut them out have collapsed, and why - in the case of the first two - established parties have knelt before them.

Here's a fact for you all. Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK. Not ONE. This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit. But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.

It's time to work with our biggest and closest neighbour with a bespoke UK-EU customs union, to turbocharge our economy, bring in billions to rebuild our public services and protect household budgets.

I was never sure what Brexiters meant by “Vote Leave: Take Back Control” but standing in a queue for the privilege of handing over personal data to authorities outside the UK strikes me as the oddest definition of control I’ve heard. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

If only the Lib Dem’s and Greens had this much exposure.

Well done to the MPs from Labour and Libdems who have spoken up about this act - of what would be economic vandalism from Reform. It's a shame that our media isn't challenging this more, but let's make sure we challenge and have a more balanced debate here. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If they think Superman is woke, wait until they learn about Jesus.

Welsh First Minister goes further on Gaza than I’ve heard any senior Labour figure go. Eluned Morgan says she defers to Helena Kennedy in her view that Israel is engaged in genocidal behaviour against Palestinians.

Can Winbledon NOT choreograph the post presentation. So stuffy. Let it be spontaneous. It's as boring as hell for the crowd (I've been there) and you can tell by the muted response.

And then we have to get to Brexit. British children are not stupid. They know they now have less freedoms, protections and (in some cases) opportunities than most of their European neighbours. And the only ones in Europe who have less of that all than their parents. 29

“We’re doing COPD, Pneumoconiosis and Silicosis”

Journalists at the Farage press conference repeating Reform's framing of this policy as "robin hood" because the non-dom fee will be redistributed to poorer workers, whilst missing the fact that it hands tens of billions of pounds in tax cuts to the wealthiest people already living in the UK

Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

In grim "there's always a tweet" news.

In a more serious country, unilaterally withdrawing from the JCPOA would have immediately ended Trump's first presidency & destroyed the GOP's reputation on national security policy for a generation 🧐

I don’t know what the polling is on allowing asylum seekers to work, but anecdotally I’ve had conversations with many people who assume asylum seekers don’t work because they don’t want to and are surprised to find out they aren’t allowed to

This is truly astonishing

@itvnews.bsky.social were apparently streaming Farage’s speech in Wales on TikTok today. So we can now expect Ed Davey, Adrian Ramsey, John Swinney and Rhun ap Iorwerth’s speeches being streaming too can we? This is now propaganda and has to stop. Sign petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Why is Kuenssburg using the term the threat 'we are told we face'? She's the journalist.