Farage has been criticised after the Reform UK’s former Welsh leader, Nathan Gill, was jailed for a decade for accepting Russian bribes. A Met Police probe is ongoing into whether the scandal runs deeper within Reform. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

“UK is costliest country to…” - build nuclear power - build fast rail - build a house - buy a house - rent a house - travel by train - buy a beer - power your home - pay for childcare - insure a car - stay in a hotel - go to the dentist - buy bog roll At least some museums are free….

This is a great thread outlining difficulties were UK to follow a CU arrangement as opposed to seeking to join SM. Pro-European MPs need to move away from this position. It is disingenuous to present customs union as a simple path to rejoining EU. @libdems.org.uk @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

This is a shocking decision by Labour, especially after what we have recently seen from Tories, with the Windrush scandal and EU Settlement Scheme. They are doing themselves no favours by aping right-wing policy. Time and again proving our two party political system is done.

It's not an "error" if you keep doing it. That's deliberate deception. He has previously failed to declare gifts & cash within 28 days as required. There should be clear and strong sanctions. Otherwise, why wouldn't MPs keep hiding their conflicts of interest? leftfootforward.org/2025/11/nige...

It's about time Reform were attacked on policy, but why are BBC giving non-elected party representatives a platform? Zia Yusuf must make an almost weekly appearance on TV. I don't recall this opportunity given to Greens, Lib Dems etc.

It's in the interests of the far right to terrify the population. They think panic will breed hatred, and that will allow them to ethnically cleanse the country - and build an authoritarian state. But it's based on lies. Lies and hatred - the eternal basis of the far right.

We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.

In the 35 years Daniel Hannan has been a member of the Conservative Party, they have been in government as the result of that problem electorate a total of 21 years.

A world without Keir Starmer: Is it time to change the Labour leader? iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...

"Public concern about immigration remains unusually high and has not yet caught up with the reality of falling immigration." ✍️ @jamesbowes01.bsky.social analyses the potentially huge fall that is coming in the net migration numbers ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?

I look forward to hearing more from what Lucy Powell has to say. Not least because she was one of the few MPs across Parliament who appeared to understand the complexities of Brexit and importance of Single Market in any future relationship with EU. Labour shouldn't shy from difficult conversations.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Important points raised by @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social - what are Governement doing about it? Out of interest, what is the daily attendance in HoL? We currently have 826 peers. Hoe is that considered feasible? Whilst there will no doubt be committees in progress, what are the others doing?

The moderate left needs to challenge this kind of nonsense. NATO is a diminished alliance that is finding its feet at a critical moment – pushing back against an actual imperialist power.

Those who protest their pride in being British might better expend their energies, not on putting up flags, but rooting for what really does (did) make Britain Great and respected in the world, starting with the BBC World Service and the British Council.

Why public safety should be an absolute priority, and risk assessments should not be gainsaid by politicians, continued. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Brexit has had a bigger impact on Britain’s economy than even critics predicted Rachel Reeves said. So Labour ignore Brexit when they think that’ll win votes and blame it the next to excuse their failures. Cynical doesn’t even begin to describe them.

“The UK has a system in which a TV channel can pay a political leader almost half a million pounds a year and give him an hour an evening to react to his rivals without breaking a single rule.”

When was the last time you heard a politician in the media asked anything like- -How will you make sure asylum seekers can reach the UK safely & refugees are protected? -How will you make sure people coming to this country to work or study are treated equally & with respect? I cannot remember.

Football. Birmingham. The 1980s. I was there. It was all white boys. They wanted to kill each other. Don't let racists like Jenrick invent a past that did not exist. www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

My own view is that we should join the Euro. But it's a complex issue – and some are intrumentalising it to sow doubt about us ever rejoining. The simple point is: members aren't forced to join the Euro, as it would be counterproductive. Article 140 states it needs to be a SUSTAINABLE convergeance.

We say goodbye to iconic actress Diane Keaton. A true original of the silver screen, the Oscar-winning screen legend stole our hearts with her quirky charm and took our breath away with her bold choices as a searing dramatic actress. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.

This really needs to be said and understood. What makes it worse, if possible, is that it is not coming out of any genuine crisis or emergency. It is a deliberate attempt to whip up anger and grievance in order to capitalise upon it & in Jenrick's case purely to advance his leadership ambitions.

The Brexit "Fwee trade" & "Let's go WTO" crowd have gone very quiet since Trump came to power & fucked both.. They now talk up the relative (higher tariffs on UK goods than under the Biden regime) scraps Trump might throw our way if we sufficiently kiss the ring & open our market to US shittier food

Of course the Blair conspiracy theory was big on X. I can no longer trust people who regularly use X to know what’s true and what isn’t. They may think they’re smart enough to see through the far-right fog but that’s a delusion

Press Association quoting my comment, also Baroness Warsi. Would be good for some MPs to speak up for what most people in this country will think so that gets reflected in the coverage www.eppingforestguardian.co.uk/news/nationa...

A hideous, and for traumatised British Jews profoundly unhelpful, expression of allyship & agreement with a violent, racist, serial criminal & former member of an avowedly anti-Semitic organisation from the *Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs* and so, as Sunder says, the Israeli government. 1/3

Labour embedded hard Brexit in its 2024 manifesto. No single market, so no free movement of labour. Pro-Europeans in Labour and elsewhere need to stop the attempts at cherry-picking and get back to first principles. You can’t simultaneously endorse a policy and decry its consequences.

London Heathrow airport owned by private/state investors from Australia, China, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain. Similar to steel, auto, ports, shipbuilding, care homes, hospitals, GP surgeries, veterinary services. Dividends not taxed in the UK. Govts have fewer economic levers.

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Keeping Up Appearances star Dame Patricia Routledge has died

Really interesting by @hannecl.bsky.social and Jon Stone. It was always the case that the 'Singapore on Thames' lot were totally out of touch with the views of them majority of Brits. We are in fact quite European in our attitudes on regulation www.politico.eu/article/uk-w...

@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"

To constantly sh*t on those who make the choice to contribute to the UK rather than somewhere else — now pushed on to such an extent that we need to prove special worth beyond that choice and contribution …. Anger is to weak a word to describe it all.

Can't speak for Ed Davey, but personally I find the insinuation that the current government has anything resembling a vision more offensive than the 'fat bloke' comments

Great (and simple) explanation from Matthew Blakemore of why ID cards are a ‘good thing’ and better than NI numbers or other forms of ID for both ‘Brits’ and foreign nationals who have a legal right (eg visa) to be in the UK. #DigitalID #IDcards #Starmer #politics #Labour

Could we have a standing petition that just says: "NO to anything new, despite not having any detail. IT IS WOKE/IT WILL HERALD FASCISM/PALANTIR WILL STEAL MY BRAINWAVES/IT IS MARXISM/IT IS AI-ADJASCENT [delete as appropriate]. But mainly because WE ARE BRITISH and didn't think of it first."

Another great piece from @bylines.scot The Farage ‘mirage’: how the media is warping our politics bylines.scot/news/the-far...

Today’s digital ID announcement yet another example of how X being the main platform for political discourse will inevitably throw the MSM’s coverage off course, because online right opinion is fevered/way off the beat with the public. Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.

Red Kite found dead in Perthshire confirmed to have been poisoned (banned pesticide + rodenticides) – Raptor Persecution UK raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/24/r...

Awful Chris Mason interview with Ed Davey. Deliberately misinterprets Davey's comment that it is 'almost as if' Reform press releases are cut and pasted to point out that they are not actually cut and pasted. The guy should not be on air. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Recognising Palestinian self-determination has been long overdue. It is a welcome step, yet it must be the start, not the end. We need a ceasefire, an end to the cycle of violence and real progress towards a two-state solution.

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

"Migrants try to move from Germany and other European countries to Britain partly because of Brexit. After Britain left the eu in 2020, it lost access to the Eurodac fingerprint database that shows whether an asylum-seeker has previously applied in another country" Oh my goodness

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’ Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros. The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

📣 Join us at the counter-protest on 20th September to say NO to the far right in Glasgow! Buchanan Galleries Steps Sat 20th Sept, 12pm We showed them in July and we will show them again: Glasgow is ANTI-FASCIST ✊✊✊ @lghr.bsky.social @standuptoracismuk.bsky.social @uniteagainstfasc.bsky.social