I wonder if Laura Kuenssberg will talk about Nigel Farage blatantly avoiding tax on her show tomorrow? She loved quizzing Angela Rayner about tax avoidance on her house @bbclaurak.bsky.social @bbc-politics.bsky.social #bbclaurak

Starmer is wilfully blind to the obvious growth possibilities should he turn his gaze to the EU and has deserted the very people who voted him in. But it’s not too late. Labour has a powerful majority and change can and must happen. It’s a fool’s errand to chase the Reform vote.

Very good news from our friends at @stopfundinghate.bsky.social who have forced The Telegraph to delete a particularly dishonest piece of journalism and pay their legal costs. stopfundinghate.info/2025/04/01/t...

Some good news. Labour getting a grip of the water companies The public however want to go further and want water re nationalised. Water is a right and it should not be for profit.

📢 UPDATE: the Home Office has signed ANOTHER contract with Fujitsu Services, this time worth £3.7m over the next 5 years. Sub-postmasters are still waiting for compensation and the government had a choice of 32 other suppliers. So why choose Fujitsu again? goodlawproject.org/it-firm-behi...

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55 Tufton Street, headquarters of the Brexit plotters, owned by a man who, according to The NY Times, both funds Farage's "Reform UK" party, and makes money selling equipment to the Russian military via an Indian broker. Bedfellows, and all that.

It stinks, #Badenoch

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The Cabinet Office is *still* trying to shut down transparency about the PPE deals that happened under Michael Gove. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Hello? Is this thing on?! 🎙️ A French scientist flew to the USA. Border Patrol seized his phone, read his social media comments, denied him entry, sent him back to France They did not like his THOUGHTS and WORDS. They refused him entry to the USA. Because of his thoughts. Orwellian Thought Police

“While drug shortages have become a problem globally in recent years, the UK is facing “a worsening situation” compared with the rest of Europe because of Brexit” Excellent work, Brexiters. Absolutely nailing our sovereign right to be self-harmingly idiotic. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Who could have predicted it? Lord Darzi, who led the rapid review of the NHS, held $500k undeclared shares & $800k undeclared share options in private health companies - all missing from his House of Lords register of interests - when Streeting appointed him. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Because of Brexit, the U.K. is blocked from the €150bn EU defence fund. Leaving the Single Market will go down in history as the greatest act of British self harm this century. www.thetimes.com/article/baae...

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

When I want to shop online, I often go to Amazon, find the product and the company selling on Amazon. Then, I search the company online and purchase directly from them. And I usually save a few bucks too

That's nuts. No commercial organisation nor any state can now justify using Starlink for anything as it could simply be taken away at any moment and leave whatever project you were using it for utterly useless. Is this Musk's Ratner moment?

I note with interest right-wing media's total absence of any concerns about prominent BBC presenter Armstrong expressing his highly political opinions. As was always perfectly clear to many of us, the problem was not that Lineker had views, but the fact they didn't approve of his views.

BBC news, reporting changes to zero hour contracts: interviews some guy from the federation of small businesses making empty threats about how they'll all stop hiring people; neglects to ask any unions or workers whether having sick pay and minimum hours might be good, actually. Balance!

Low-paid workers will finally get 80% of their wages in statutory sick pay from day one. It should be 95% of 100%, but let’s reflect on how far we’ve come—under the Tories, those earning under £123 a week got nothing. The fact we’re now arguing over how much, not whether, is real progress.

Brexit died this weekend. And Farage, by his craven silence, knows it.

Starmer has been very impressive in the last 48 hrs - calm and decisive, convening effectively and getting an agreed plan. It felt that Britain was back in its old role of leadership on European security. Many pitfalls between here and lasting peace. But crisis has become opportunity. Bravo team UK!

After a decade of decline under the Tories and the disaster of Brexit, it’s an amazing feeling to see the UK under Sir Kier’s leadership, back at the centre, influential amongst our natural allies on the global stage.

Well its taken him a while to get there, but today Keir Starmer has proved to be a true leader. I am proud today 🇬🇧 🇺🇦

Thank fuck May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak or Badenoch are NOT in charge at a time like this. The grown-ups are back in no 10.

Excellent! To those who think Starmer is doing too little he’s playing a blinder imo. www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/...

I’m 60 years of age and honestly I’ve never felt real pride in a British PM but I feel properly proud of Starmer right now. He knows how to play a long game, and he’s smart.

It’s not grovelling or ‘taking the knee’. It’s called…DIPLOMACY! And so far, Starmer is doing it, brilliantly!

The headline 'Number of young people not in work or education at 11 year high.' Try it the other way round 'Not enough jobs, education places or funding for young people at 11 year low.' Tories removed grants, funding and places followed, Brexit killed further opportunities. Lost generation.

Because they get to flounce around in stoat fur, then get paid to sleep in the House of Lords?

The Murdoch press decides what is “newsworthy “, and they have had their knives cut for Starmer and his ministers ever since the 5th July.

New poll for @techneUK sees an increase in support for Labour. Happy Friday. Labour: 26% (+1) Conservatives: 22% (-1) Lib Dems: 12% (-1) Reform UK: 25% (=) Greens: 8% (+1) SNP: 2% (=) Others: 5% (=) Fieldwork: 12-13 Feb

Reminder that Farage, for all his bleating about “winning the next election” doesn’t beat any current party leader for “who’d make the best Prime Minister”.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Rachel Reeves expenses is a non-story. Pathetic, Tory supporting lap-dog rubbish. Compared to the stupidly easy ride over blatant corruption from Johnson, Truss and even Sunak. You wouldn't know impartial journalism if it bit you.

On these numbers a Reform Con pact is likely. The only way for Labour to win the next election is to make voters more prosperous. That can only happen by aligning closely with the EU and then rejoining. @labouruk.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/blogs/ec_vip...

Starmer should now say the truth; the world has profoundly changed, we cannot rely on the US anymore, and we should rejoin the EU. Negotiate re-entry with the EU soon, and then put those terms to a referendum. He'd win.

I agree that Rachel Reeves is leaving much to be desired as Chancellor, but having an error on her LinkedIn profile looks like it was just a minor oversight. Why, therefore, is it the first item of debate on Question Time this evening? #bbcqt www.bbc.com/news/article...

Waiting list falls as NHS staff treated record numbers last year www.england.nhs.uk/2025/02/wait... UK economy grows in q4 2024 www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-... The BBC - ‘What about Rachel Reeves Linkedin profile?’

👇🏼BBC News & Co all over Rachel Reeves re her LinkedIn profile Odd they weren’t re Sunak👇🏼when PM over him poss exaggerating his roles in finance working for hedge funds as he was in fact juniour Only the INews Paper reported.. that’s all Very much like they hate Labour and Love Tories 🤔 🤷🏼‍♂️

Boy, has the BBC got it in for Rachel Reeves today: the ‘CV’ nonsense leading news bulletins all day, all over the website - 2 of the top 3 stories - and now the first question on #BBCQT. Get a grip - away from this tittle-tattle the world is sliding into disaster.

BBC's coverage of the Rachel Reeves story today is nothing short of a hatchet job to amplify right wing Tory smears. With only one fact (a date error on a cv), they have filled their fantasy story with gossip and smear at every opportunity on radio and tv, all day. #Newsnight #bbcqt #peston

Tories may be out of government- but still run the BBC.

The autodisassembly of Kemi Badenoch has become an excruciatingly painful spectacle.

It's also, and I know this seems petty of me, the bloody law that companies should file accounts. If the Government isn't going to actually enforce the law (and they don't), the least they could do is NOT GIVE MONEY TO PEOPLE WHO BREAK IT.

Large businesses are very wary of dong business with companies that haven't been filing their accounts. Governments should take the same approach.

Of all the fake companies we've seen, this is one of the most worrying and bizarre: 1 Stallion Ltd. Check out the contrast between the accounts - which say it's a £12.5bn oil/gas company - and the flimsy website...

There are companies worth £50bn* based in this terraced house in Bolton. Turns out they also have a bank. With a valid VAT registration number. (*on paper)