Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

I, for one, am shocked* that those in the wheelhouse of this iteration of the Labour party would massively misread the room, and blatantly and dishonestly mischaracterise the speech of a true leftwinger. *I'm really not shocked at all

Utterly despicable.

Adil Ray, "Some people are confusing Israeli policy as representing all Jews, or that Hamas represents all Muslims. How do we address stereotypes?"

It’s increasingly clear that convicted Russian influencer Nathan Gill was a senior member of Farage’s entourage. (Banks and Wigmore were also in and out of the Russian embassy sharing FBI files, RT talking points, and discussing gold and diamond privatisation deals)

Another excellent (long) read on Starmer and how this is all ultimatively still (yes) tied to Brexit, by the never tiring @chrisgrey.bsky.social 👇

No other country set up a VIP Lane during the pandemic. No other European country came close to spending the £14billion we spent on PPE. £10billion of PPE has been written off. Over 1million pallets of unused PPE have now been incinerated! £billions literally up in smoke.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "I think its really problematic if someone is trying to weaponise the attack that happened yesterday to try and silence protest in this country against the genocide. They're separate issues.. we need to be clear what this govt is doing"

Being Jewish does NOT mean you support what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank. These are entirely different people. Taking out your anger with Israel on Jews living in a different country shows your ignorance - faith and nationality are two very separate things.

#WATCH | Thousands of people are heading towards the European Parliament to protest against the Israeli attack on Global Sumud Flotilla 👇

I love this. The purest essence of Kemi - incredibly wrong, bizarrely belligerent about it, and also wrong in a way where you just go “have you considered reading anything other than your Twitter feed?”

"PPE Medpro didn't exist prior to the pandemic." 'VIP Lane' author @russellscott1.bsky.social and @mrjamesob.bsky.social on Westminster's COVID opportunism. Russell's book (the basis of the five-star 'Covid Contracts' documentary) is available now. 👉 subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/vip-...

UPDATE — Israel has intercepted another boat on the Global Sumud Flotilla. They continue to intercept and board ships on the flotilla in international waters, preventing international peace volunteers from delivering aid to starving Palestinians

Amazing nuggets in the PPE Medpro High Court ruling The company was incorporated on 12 May 2020 and referred to the Covid "VIP lane" by Michelle Mone *the same day*, despite having no track record in manufacturing PPE Who could have predicted that anything would go wrong?

The Radio Times described me this week as a "man on a mission." That missions about to step up a gear. 👇🏼

Panorama tonight And that wasn’t a one off incident. Or just one rogue officer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Problem faced. Policy applied. Policy worked. Politics can work.

Conspiracy theories and accusations fly as Labour’s Farage fever rattles Reform | John Crace

Dido Harding next & this crook that enabled it all 👇🏻

Looks like Michelle Mone is going to have to sell that yacht (from Feb 23)

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?

Think Michelle Mone should be thrown out of the Lords? Drop the Forfeiture Committee a line. Their e mail is: [email protected] www.gov.uk/guidance/hav...

It's her own fault, I have zero sympathy for Michelle Mone, but she's in the headlines now because she's always chased the headlines. However, she is the tip of the VIP lane iceberg, most of them connected to the Tory Party. Utter corruption. Read these 8 pages from The Decade In Tory 1/2

Well yes. England in particular remains in thrall to the wholly artificial "class system" and its an absolute menace.

Abuse of detainees amounting to “disgraceful, criminal misconduct”, racist & misogynist comments, & support for Tommy Robinson… The good old institutionally racist, sexist & homophobic Met that keeps Londoners safe is in fine form I see. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I tell you what.. if we defrauded over £100 million from the Tory Government when they were in power we’d have been banged up in prison years ago.. But if you’re a Tory Peer… it’s a different type of fraud.. the nice, decent, posh type so there’s no rush old boy❗️😡

i have to say, I was truly taken aback by the ugliness of the American crowd and turning on one of the players' wives? golf used to be a spectator-quiet sport... MAGA corrupts and contaminates everything

I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades. One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.

That's not an opinion, it's counting.

Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?" Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country" Labour have gone utterly bonkers

Oh.

The ten year policy in particular is abysmal, as is the mandatory volunteering idea, which has the additional benefit of being absurd. You can imagine them thinking they're bring terribly clever and mapping a middle way. I suspect it'll just make everyone hate them.

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

Great thread on the depressing direction of Labour towards a Reform Govt due to their blinkered view on immigration and pandering to racists

That is also why the trajectory is so clear: Labour are literally paving the way for Reform and the last few days have made crystal-clear that most in Govt do not understand this *at all*. They still think McSweeney's approach is right when it is literally the opposite of what should be happening.

Compulsory 'voluntary work' is just unpaid Labour. Effectively they want to make migrants do community service for the crime of wanting to live in the UK

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

Labour looking at Reform's racist policies and saying "we"ll have some of that". These aren't just discriminatory, by making migrants meet higher standards than the average person, they automatically treat migrants as if they are criminals on community service. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Kier Starmer effectively endorses Reform, telling UK voters you are justified in voting for a far-right anti-immigration party. 🫩

Farrige gives the impression he doesn’t trust scientists, but was willing to believe a taxi driver in Buckinghamshire, that Sharia Law is coming to Britain. This guy wants to be PM?! You must be joking! Nice one @billybragg.bsky.social 👏 #bbcqt

What is the MATTER with these people? This is what Nazis did to Jews arriving at concentration camps - tearing children from their parents arms. I can’t believe these scenes. Why aren’t there mass protests? Why is Congress silent?

Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Steve Bannon are in the Epstein Files. TY to the Estate of Epstein for cooperating with this investigation and releasing info.

From the newly released Epstein docs submitted to congress "Elon musk to island Dec. 6"

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Netanyahu: "Would a country committing genocide plead with the civilian population that it is supposedly targeting to get out of harms way? Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave? Of course not" Actually, encouraging Jews to emigrate is exactly what the Nazis did 1933-39. Ignorant of Jewish history.

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

What's remarkable here is Starmerism is falling into the same trap as "citizens of nowhere" which at a stroke managed to wreck Theresa Mays credibility with practically anyone whose roots didn't date back to the Norman Conquest

It would be nice if Keir Starmer could outline a vision for Britain that would inspire the public and create hope, yet all he does, and is, is to constantly be on the back foot feeling he has to counter Reform propaganda. Such a strategy does nothing to inspire anyone. Such a failure