Vulnerable, desperate people having to deal with endless delays, sharing rooms, inedible food & terrifying abuse from the hard of thinking, & meanwhile, some wealthy, nasty piece of sh*t is making millions at their expense.

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There is a decency agenda absolutely in tune with majority feeling in the country that would be an open goal for the government if it wasn't also inclined to lurch towards an unpleasant space. Indeed it is one Keir Starmer could have personified if he could escape "Blue Labour" unpleasantness.

Backed with record MOPAC funding, the Met is stepping up specialist operations in phone theft hotspots like the West End. This crackdown has already led to 100s of arrests, contributing to a 13% drop in personal robbery across London in the first quarter of this year.

So to summarise, this is a white politician blaming a black journalist for the racism he is now actively helping to promote, after receiving the full endorsement of his own party leader

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At our event at Conservative conference - UK and Europe: a Shared Future, Lord Heseltine said what many now know: Brexit was a mistake. Britain’s future is with our European neighbours, not apart from them.

Every mention of 'the UAE model' needs to be accompanied by a reminder that the population of the UAE is 89% immigrant and 70% male.

If you're wondering what the amount is for Spain......... €113.40 with a minimum of €1,020.60 @bremaininspain.com www.mirror.co.uk/travel/europ...

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

apple.news/A0a6RUPLMQiy... It won’t be long before Gary Neville is sacked. Voices that speak out against racism and extremism are being cancelled.

Robert Jenrick declares war on the judiciary The shadow justice secretary wants the power to appoint judges 🖊️ Ethan Croft

Shadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case." And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA

We have an independent judiciary in this country. Robert Jenrick wants puppet judges. The Conservative Party once believed in the rule of law and our shared British values - no longer.

Staggeringly, Jenrick is a qualified solicitor. And married to the daughter of Holocaust survivors…and we all know what happened to Jews (and dissidents) when Hitler turned the German judiciary into political puppets. So shame SHAME on him.

I recall a question being asked once of whether it was possible that Kemi Badenoch as Trade Secretary did not know the details of mobility discussions with India, and well, evidence like this suggests it was very likely (some of those working around her confirmed this also)

For months, Badenoch has said that she wouldn't jump the gun on leaving the ECHR, because she wanted to fully assess the implications, and within 24 hours of announcing the policy, completely on the hoof, she has also committed her party to a no-deal Brexit by default. 😂 🤡 😂 ~AA

Did you think No Deal Brexit was gone for good? I have bad news.

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

You don't need Bletchley Park to decode the real meaning of Jenrick's latest message. Make the party leader a white man not a black woman. A dog whistle to the knuckle draggers on the far right is a bonus.

Kemi Badenoch is being given what you’d think is an open goal in her #r4today interview: a chance to distance herself from rival Robert Jenrick’s dubious comments on skin colour. Yet we’ve reached a point in our politics where she, the party’s first Black leader, thinks it necessary to defend ‘Rob’.

That was sounded a few years ago.

The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits. archive.ph/vQ7Tn

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Badenoch on #r4today saying they will "have returns agreements", yet we already know that many countries won't implement them. Now spreading it to "third party countries", such as Rwanda. The Rwanda plan was not stopped "because of the ECHR". The lack of honesty about what the ECHR does is massive.

And yet, if anyone in the press calls this racist (which it patently is), they’ll face more outrage than the man who lamented a shortage of white faces. So we’ll politely rebrand it as “unwise,” perhaps “ill-judged,” or “not in keeping with the spirit of inclusivity.” Sick. To. The. Back. Teeth.

It should be neither a radical act nor difficult for journalists and politicians alike to call out Robert Jenrick’s extremism

So according to Jenrick, 'not integrated' means black/brown faces outnumbering white faces. How very dare they. Nothing to do with whether they're actually integrated – just what they look like. Absolutely shameful. He'll probably become Tory leader.

You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform announcing a series of Tory councillor defections as Kemi Badenoch begins her broadcast round. A sort of Rolling Chunder.

Starmer and Labour need to stampede in the opposite direction to Reform and the Tories, otherwise it will get very crowded on the right and further right.

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

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Oh no Kemi Badenoch is spelling out her immigration acrostic on the radio

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

Seeing lots of this tonight after that party political broadcast. The Green Party are on track to overtake the Tories in membership. Let's make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

The inaugural meeting of the Handsworth branch of the Robert Jenrik Fan Club.

The beginning of the end for CBS. There is no coming back from this. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

This was published the day after the Heaton Park terrorist attack. I find its grim combination of antisemitism, conspiracy fictions and agrarian populism deeply worrying, as this is how it all kicked off a century ago. 🧵 farmsnotfactories.org/articles/zio...

Really going hard for that Reform vote.

We're pleased that the loathsome comments carried by GB News, which equated being LGBT+ with being a paedophile, have been found in breach of the Ofcom code, following 71,000 complaints collected by @goodlawproject.bsky.social. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

EXC from @annaisaac.bsky.social The finances of one of Nigel Farage’s key confidants are being examined by the UK’s tax and revenue authorities amid questions over his income from wealth and business activities, the Guardian understands. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

A thread on the Thatcher cult. But no, not ultimately a cult of when she actually governed, but a cult of her wilderness years from 1991 until death.