Utterly shocking events in North Manchester. We’re not all that far from there and both schools have communicated with parents and reassured us that their lockdown procedures weren’t needed but were in place & GMP has been in contact. So from that point of view, at least we know the GMP comms works

Off to see #DeaconBlue at the Nynex, no the MEN, no, the AO Arena! Really rather close to the front!!!

Just this. .over and over

The BBC is still parroting Farage - they are like his fan club. #FarageBoats

Definitely the #FarageBoats hashtags needs a lot more use.

'Farage Boats' is a useful term and should be normalised.

Voted for more…..

Reform UK have quietly reinstated the councillor that threatened the Prime Minister (and WAY more), without explanation. northumberland.moderngov.co.uk/mgUserInfo.a... hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/19/s...

Hot topic on #Radio2 right now: Should you store potatos in the fridge? Yes. Really.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Reform say it is "disgusting and libellous" to suggest that Nigel Farage flirted with Hitler Youth when he was young. Here's how a former teacher at his school remembers it

How do 1800 disappear?

Being a person with autism has not been easy but the reason it hasn't been easy- is because non-autistic people are not taught how to interact with autistic people. Autistic people are expected to socially mask & neurotypicals generally don't have even a base idea of how autistic people communicate.

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

Right-wing media fluffs Farage for years, to the point where he now leads the polls, and then start whining about Starmer being 'obsessed' when he starts telling some long overdue home truths. It's actually hilarious.

When David Lammy says Nigel Farage flirted with Hitler Youth, he’s referring to the fact that teachers from his school described him as a Fascist and recalled how he marched through a Sussex village singing Hitler Youth songs. Sounds pretty flirty to me.

Farage says Starmer’s speech ‘threatens the safety of Reform campaigners” No love, that’s how YOUR supporters act towards those different to yourselves. It’s not how decent people act.

Zia Yusuf knows less about his own party than I do. Gill is not some rando who once met Nigel. Gill was Reform Leader in Wales and a close ally of Nigel Farage for over a decade before that across two other political parties. This is not something that can just be brushed away.

Part of what kills me about the absolute need for autism grifters to blame mothers is that a not-inconsiderable number of mothers are autistic themselves but most probably never got diagnosed. No support for autistic mothers, and blame for their kids' needs. The misogyny combo special.

Now that’s more like it..!

Richard Tice with his Reform chum Nathan Gill, who has just admitted taking bribes for spreading Kremlin misinformation. What could be more patriotic than that?

Carmoola or something equally naff advert: definitely for twenty somethings cos it’s idiotic. I’m not the target audience !

Nigel Farage's attendance record as an MEP was 748 out of 751, yet he turned up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian disinformation. Now one of his MEPs has admitted taking bribes to spread Russian propaganda. Why is this not all over the media?

That Gusto ad is terrible. Man in shop incapable of choosing a meal … rings wife to ask what he should buy. THAT RIGHT THERE IS PUSHING MENTAL LOAD ON OTHER HALF! Grow up, choose something and don’t waste your money on home delivery .

Had to switch radio stations cos radio 2 are doing their ‘love letters’ feature. I just don’t understand why people do ‘public displays of affection’ and can’t just tell each other they love them. The rest of us don’t care.

“The number of necessary troops is zero.” Portland Mayor Keith Wilson

Something inside so wrong: Labi Siffre tells Tommy Robinson to stop using anti-apartheid anthem

Currently explaining drag queens, trans people and campness to my 12 year old who knows a little but wanted to know more. (Totally non-negative way). Liking we can talk about people’s differences really easily and naturally. Loving all the different representations on #Strictly this year

All the GenX and Boomers are singing along with the Neighbours theme tune right now … #Strictly2025 #Strictly

The media has helped to normalise far right politics. Compare the number of times Farage (5 seats in 2024) has been on Question Time compared to Ed Davey (72 seats).

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

Happily click accept, accept, accept to get to their free app. (The owner v of which they have absolutely NO idea). But an ID card with a govt which already tracks where they live, work, earn, save, illnesses, education, travel overseas... No Way. Straight to Sovereign City-Zen mode.

It’s amazing how people will consent to all kinds of surveillance and consent to all kinds of terms and conditions they never even read in the uk. But if you suggest an id card they lose their shit. People have lost their fucking minds.

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

Nish Kumar, "What is the Green Party's vision for how we redraw the economy of this country?" Zack Polanski, "The first thing is to have a big conversation about public ownership" "Nothing we need, and need to use, should be in private hands. All of our utilities should be nationalised"

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm sick and tired of people in politics telling us they 'accidentally deleted' 5000 WhatsApp messages, 'forgot' they owned seven flats, 'couldn't recall' taking a £6m loan or didn't declare £700,000 in donations due to 'administrative error'. What do they take us for?

Went to a high school open evening specifically for look at their SEN dept. Both the SEN dept and the library decided not to participate in the open evening, so that was a wasted journey. Plus the ‘greeter’ at the door was mega patronising. Fun evening. Not.

I do hope this grifting xenophobic wretch meets a suitable end, taking his criminal mates with him.

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It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

Semi-regular reminder that a sane country would have already impeached and removed. But then again a sane country wouldn’t have elected a maniac criminal twice in the first place.

The perennial myth about migrants eating swans stretches back to at least 2003 when the Sun printed it as a front page story. It was later obliged to clarify that it had zero evidence. Farage must be fairly desperate to be trotting that one out www.itv.com/news/2025-09...

“If this man cannot be trusted on the simplest matters of health or truth, then how can he be trusted to run a country? We must ask: if he’ll lie today, what will he lie about tomorrow?” Farage falsely accuses eastern European migrants of eating swans from royal parks

Release the Epstein files. The Tylenol "speech" is to distract the public from the refusal to release the Epstein files. The proper response to "Tylenol is dangerous" is "Release the Epstein files." Why won't he release the Epstein files? The failure to release the Epstein files is unacceptable.

One day historians will explain how it was possible, at the beginning of the 21st Century, with unparalleled technological level and universal access to education and information, that the world was run by morons.

Farage is so determined to suck up to the Trump administration that he's willing to put the nation's risk at health through dangerous insinuation. That's what is really going on here and its disgusting.