Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If Ed Davey put out a statement but refused to attend Parliament, refused any questions from journalists but demanded coverage quite rightly #bbcnews would point that out. Why are different rules applied to Mr Farage?

Fair enough although hope not re: title (especially now we've got a mole 👌 ⚽)

Getting journalists off X would probably move UK political debate significantly closer to the centre ground. It slightly terrifies me how much a single extreme MP, Rupert Lowe, is influencing the political narrative right now.

A statement from Sikh MPs on the murder of Henry Nowak.

I've seen quite a lot of 'this is all because Restore have spooked Reform' posts today. But Restore didn't exist in summer 2024 and the playbook really doesn't look all that different to me.

Have already identified outright neo-Nazis at the Southampton rally supposedly about Henry Nowak (his family have been clear they don't want hate & division). Also aware of at least one prominent activist there who has a weapons conviction.

2026-06-02: Armed Forced Bill Committee: New Clause 6 The 98 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 6,991,431 voters. The 363 MPs voting 'No' represented 12,006,770 voters. No majority = 5,015,339 See ALT text and 🧵

Henry Nowak’s family asked us not to use his murder to ‘create further division, hatred or tension.’ Nigel Farage completely ignored them… open.spotify.com/episode/1vWM...

If you fancy reporting the offending listing, you'd be doing us a solid. Love you. x www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

The Southampton rally (ostensibly) about Henry Nowak, ft Tommy Robinson tonight, is a far right hate fest. Paul Golding and UKIP leader Nick Tenconi among those present so far (Tenconi has been speaking). They are treating this as a recruiting ground.

Fuck's sake, seriously. Anyway, if you want a real one, fill your boots. Off for a cry. What a shit week. noscoredraws.com/collections/...

2026-06-02: Armed Forces Bill Committee: New Clause 5 The 169 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 10,684,072 voters. The 299 MPs voting 'No' represented 7,170,447 voters. Aye majority = 3,513,625 But result was No because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵

The timing of this is also important as it was just after the French AI Action Summit, at which the UK declined to support the summit agreement and instead made it clear that our national alliances were with the US rather than Europe.

Suddenly us white people with Eastern European surnames and UK citizenship are British. We weren't last week and won't be next week. `

Shameful from Reform and a good example of why you should never share anything by that godawful aggregator account, which just happens to be run by a Reform councillor. Obviously prostate cancer is a particular problem for black men, who are twice as likely to suffer from it in their lifetimes

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Had high hopes for Peter Kyle 😒

The owner of X is calling for violence (again). If you have not stopped using this site already, today is a very good day to do it.

If you don't know what could kill you, you won't die, right?

As horribly grim as it all is, there's a positive read on Farage/Nowak. He's getting desperate. He's realising what a tiny landing area he now has, what with a bit more (not enough!) scrutiny of his financial affairs and the threat from Restore. Where does he fit? I suspect he doesn't quite know.

Literally agog at this 👇

LibDem spokesman Max Wilkinson argues that most MPs have responded with sensitivity, but he strongly criticises Clacton MP and Reform leader Nigel Farage as an exception, saying that "his actions are divisive, dangerous and fundamentally and un-British.

Reform and the Conservatives want you to think it’s a choice: economic growth or Net Zero.🌱 It's not. The UK’s green economy already generates over £100 billion a year and supports 1.1 million jobs. Net Zero isn’t holding our economy back - it’s one of our biggest growth opportunities.

Nothing is "worth it" if you're doing it to enter the labour market at location X and turns out the economy is flatlining and so there's no way to get in. University isn't unique in this - its X is just meant to be higher as a cost justification. But is this actually what university is *for*? 1/

Farage’s demand for “pure cold rage” isn’t a dog whistle, it’s a klaxon.

Henry Nowak was from a Polish-British immigrant family, the kind who Nigel Farage spent all of Henry's 18 years constantly denouncing them ever having been allowed to live in this country and demanding they be deported.

A small but telling detail from the Mandelson papers: the email signatures on government emails repeatedly single out Elon Musk's X for special promotion, mentioning it while omitting mention of other social media services.

If you’ve been telling yourself that Reform are only surging because people are unhappy with what the Government hasn’t delivered, Sir John Curtice has bad news for you... @nndroid.bsky.social, @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com and @rafaelbehr.bsky.social find out why. ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

Henry Nowak's father: "This is not a case about Sikhism. This is not a case about racism. This is a case about murder." Farage: "Nah, it's about racism. Have at it, boys!"

An avowed white supremacist political organisation is currently leading in the UK opinion polls. The UK media enabled this.

This sort of Reform messaging is interesting in the context of this report, which suggests the party are increasingly reliant on socially conservative culture warriors for support – which might put a cap on their appeal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Not very long ago, this sort of sentiment would be seen only on the openly racist far right.

Another mob of locals about to secure criminal records for themselves as he sits happily at home with his feet up.

In terms of the level of fascist emergency facing us, Stamer & co appear oblivious. Properly dealing with multipronged influence attacks on our country does not seem to be a concern. The current affairs dept of our national broadcaster looks compromised, but the Culture Secretary is immobile.

The situation is slipping completely out of the hands of this govt... they've gone the absolute wrong way about countering it (by - actively! - not countering it).

"The fact that the party which is leading in all of the national opinion polls is now using the sort of rhetoric previously reserved for the very fringes of the far-right is deeply alarming – as is the fact that this rhetoric is being publicised and normalised by Reform’s media supporters."

It'd be like Boris Johnson on steroids. The utter deafness to appeal, the complete disregard for the norms we all rely on to feel confident and secure in our democracy. Ruling for the few and the rest of us left largely politically impotent.

Yes, have been saying this for a long time, and it is basically the result of lots of people looking for an ideological gloss to put on the failings of what might just be a failing organisation which is incredibly self-defensive and treats all criticism as invalid.

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

We keep talking about them like they are some spontaneous upswelling of popular discontent rather than well-funded groups whose aims are to weaponise discontent in all its forms to disrupt the orderly workings of the state and cannibalise civil society so that they can strip the carcass.

Government can’t simply give a speech condemning the latest example of hateful, divisive rhetoric from the usual suspects. It needs to stop framing its own agenda around small boats and net migration. It needs to be a constant champion of Britain’s diversity rather than excusing parts of the bigotry

Point about Farage’s drift from xenophobia to outright racism is that the Tories wilfully threw open the Overton window - and Labour have refused to redraw the norms clearly. And now every tragedy will be forced into this frame and we have to keep fighting a rearguard action to condemn the rhetoric.

All going to plan it seems bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

He's achieved his goal though: #R4today is lapping it up and has adapted its content to amplify and have guests discuss Farage's views as legitimate concerns. I'm sure they won't be the only ones.

I really, really don't want to have to get used to this 😩

Seems the 'battle for the soul of the country' has, all this time, been being fought out, not on the field of left vs. right, but on that of libertarian vs. authoritarian... The 'Hitler was very particular to Germany' indoctrination probably hasn't done us many favours in the long term.

Internationally, the Radical Right votes exists everywhere at very similar levels regardless of the public services and economics of a state (or immig) - until recently, they were strongest in Hungary and Poland who have had incredibly economic growth and in HU's case dramatic transfers from the EU.

Yeah, basically. The Reform vote in concentrated in retired Boomer cohort where the labour market is least likely to be an issue, that experienced substantial rises in benefits and has the highest concentrated of home ownership.