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

"We cannot claim to have moved on from the venal political culture that brought us the VIP Lane until the ministers involved face consequences too.” goodlaw.social/ph6f

🔴 Calls for New Inquiry Into Russian Interference After Reform’s Former Welsh Leader Pleads Guilty to Bribery As the Kremlin steps up its political interference efforts in the West, is it time for a new Russia Report? bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/c...

Who wants to see a video of Nigel Farage calling Nathan Gill a “decent, honourable man”?

You are kidding! www.ft.com/content/998e...

One key to making the ‘Reform policies are racist’ claim stick is ensuring that Labour doesn’t have any racist policies either.

Reform invited Lucy Connolly – who was jailed for inciting violence in a post calling for asylum hotels to be burned down – to be a main stage speaker at their party conference *just last month*.

It begins with chipping off Art 3 (freedom from torture) and Art 8 (right to privacy and family life) for foreign criminals to assist deportation, then it will be extended to all asylum seekers, after that - who knows? It's the thin end of the wedge. Human rights should always belong to all humans.

Don't forget why there's a by-election next week in #Corby. It's due to their Councillor Robert Bloom's resignation following the news that he shouted the ‘n’ word repeatedly at a black family who live close by to him. www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...

This is grim. Castlehill is the largest care home in Inverness. It is billed as a luxury home and charges up to £1,800 pw. Yet residents who needed help to go to the loo were left for hours until it was too late, despite repeatedly calling for help. Left unwashed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is Starmer normalising departure from the ECHR—that’s not his argument, but his take will give Farage the space he needs to push that. Starmer would do well to remember what happened when Cameron normalised the idea of an EU referendum and gave Farage that space ... www.bbc.com/news/article...

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?

With Starmer feeding Farage's narrative that human rights laws, including the Refugee Convention, are an obstacle for governments, and that migration is an "issue to be solved", here's why all he is doing is emboldening Reform👇 #r4today www.lbc.co.uk/article/keir...

If you don't read French, @lemonde.fr kindly published an EN version of my latest op-ed. "Allies must consider the cost of failing to defeat Russia in Ukraine. Without that defeat, attacks in Europe will multiply, as we'll have signaled our acceptance of subjugation." www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Any time people start talking about weakening protections for certain groups I am always reminded of this quote.

If Farage doesn't hate modern Britain, then perhaps someone could provide one single good thing he's ever said about it.

It isn't international law which is the issue. It is politicians like Starmer demonising migrants and stripping them off rights. When you start talking about reducing access to rights for one group you open the door for someone else to end them for others. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

I'm not sure Farage has the Streisand effect completely down. Should have let the Lammy comment go. He is currently trying to appeal to a generation who will have known nothing about this. Until now.

Noticing a semantic drift in “hostile environment” which serves to help no-one. It wasn’t “the vibe is anti-immigration” or “it’s hard to get a visa”, it was “the state will deputise the act of immigration enforcement to every layer of civil society”

Pete Hegseth's war speech to military leaders Not even a slow clap for the end of his pep talk Because they all know, his warmongering will get highly trained US troops killed for no reason beyond his personal political ambitions Hegseth is an idiot's idiot - and dangerous, like the rest of them

yes but you basically lead the week with "I'M GOING TO SEND THOSE BASTARDS FORRINS HOME" and then close with this - nah I ain't buy this shit, they can fuck off

Starmer's speech at Labour conference hit the right notes, it definitely upset Farage, but it takes more than words. Labour needs a serious change of direction to combat Reform. So long as he allows Labour's policy agenda to be dictated by Farage he emboldens Reform.👇 www.lbc.co.uk/article/keir...

Don’t worry, once we’ve helped them come for immigrants and trans people, they’re sure to be appeased and dedicated to solidarity in our great big tent and not come after anyone else, as history teaches

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

You also won't stop Reform by not calling their supporters racist, and it is a lot less characters than "gullible xenophobic pricks". Yes, people feel disadvantaged, and have good reason to feel that. If you support clearly racist policies though, don't get the hump if you are called a racist.

I ask Labour supporters not to list the good things, even mentioning infographics, and this is what I get. Again, what you need to do is stop the terrible, xenophobic bollocks, then we’ll see and listen to the good stuff.

“Another colleague described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views. Yet another colleague described how, at a Cadet Force camp organised by the college, Farage and others marched through a quiet Sussex village late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.” www.channel4.com/news/nigel-f...

Who do Labour think will be persuaded to vote for them by this remarkable cruelty over ILR? They’ve called Reform’s version racist, so the Reform voters won’t be persuaded, and anyone to the left of Enoch Powell just hates it.

Personally I’d like to know if there are *any* problems that are genuinely caused by immigration. None of the ones I’ve heard mentioned are.

You know, this evil applying only in the future doesn’t make it any less evil.

The second most tragic thing about this is the way that Rachel Reeves is obviously utterly unconvinced by what she's saying. The most tragic thing is what she's saying.

I'd pay good money for a reaction shot of the audience right now.

“We aren’t racists”, cry the party who not only invited Lucy Connolly, convicted for inciting racially motivated violence, to its conference, but interviewed her on stage, chat show style, as if she was the most heroic freedom fighter the world has ever seen. Sod off, racists.

Again, for those Labour supporters at the back, telling us the good stuff that Labour is doing *doesn’t help*, even if on a smart infographic, whilst the big stuff, the headline stuff, is awful. Cut out the big xenophobic crap, and we might be able to hear the good stuff.

The unpaid and effectively forced labour of immigrants on the other hand... that's just fine and dandy.

New proposal - MPs to be denied second incomes and required to volunteer 10 hours a week. Home Office Ministers to be charged a 5% extra tax for promoting frivolous legal appeals and being a negative influence on society.

“In today’s conference speech, Starmer compared Reform’s threat to WWII. But his strategy is appeasement, not rearmament. That’s a dangerous delusion” writes Prof Richard Murphy.

Delaying ILR/settlement/citizenship for this group would very likely leave them to the mercy of a future Reform/Tory govt -and to policies which Starmer and Mahmood have (rightly) explicitly described as racist. A real litmus test for Labour.

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

More than 100 charities have sent a letter to the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, calling for an end to the “scapegoating of migrants”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

You should have a word with your home secretary mate she’s introducing free forced labour for migrants

The Labour party's policy on workers' rights is that foreigners who have the right to work should also work for free, foreigners who don't have the right to work shouldn't have workers' rights at all, and disabled people who can't work should do it anyway or starve.

PM Starmer in his conference speech: "When was the last time that you heard Farage say anything positive about Britain's future?" "He can't. He doesn't like Britain, doesn't believe in Britain. He wants you to doubt it just as much as he does" Positivity is "bad for business" for populists he says

The look on his face at the end is just priceless.

Out of interest: Do top Democrats still oppose abolishing ICE? Still think it can be ‘reformed’?

THIS THIS ONE MILLION TIMES THIS

Owen Jones has been banned from 'Labour' Party conference - but Maya Forstater is welcome. And they wonder why progressive voters are deserting them in droves.

Tony Blair "should be headed to The Hague, not Gaza." My latest for Zeteo, on the former British prime minister's "blood drenched" record in the Middle East: "one of repeated failures, brazen bias, and mass slaughter". Read/share/subscribe: