That lie fell apart pretty quickly

Truly revolutionary proposal by EU ministers in relation to article 8 here.

£5million. As a gift. With no strings attached. Very believable. And very in keeping with the common man persona. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

To be fair to Starmer, many have been saying he should actually listen to the Greens and Zack’s message was clearly heard and received here. The speech was definitely not half measures. It was way, way less.

I call bullshit, Nigel

I get that MPs have to be respectful in calling for Starmer to go, but surely they can think of a better turn of phrase than calling him ‘a man of integrity’ when his lack of integrity is 1 of the main reasons he’s universally disliked.

Are both the Tories and Labour employing the same strategists who keep telling them Reform votes count triple or something?

Message received and heard. Standing for something, anything, is not what voters want.

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📣📣 "We are human beings just like anyone else. Why would you want to apply it retrospectively? It is dehumanising. It shows the government does not recognise the work we put in as migrant workers." Cruel immigration policies affect human beings. Never forget that. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Love how we continue to own Brussels

Firefighters are paid around £40-50k per year. A £5 million donation would hire 100+ firefighters. I know he has a lot of houses, but that seems excessive.

I don’t really think Reform are different to Labour or the Tories in this regard. If donors pay, these parties & their leaders will dance to their tune & enact the policies they want. What amazes me though is that so many people seem to think Reform are different. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

People do not risk their lives crossing the channel for fun. They do it through lack of options. As Labour continues to prevent more people using safer routes to seek asylum, including recently Sudanese individuals using work/study visas, loss of life risks increasing. news.sky.com/story/two-wo...

In January I definitely didn’t imagine any United player speaking in 2005-8 Mourinho cult like terms about Carrick 👀

Quite aside from whether Farage broke the law by not declaring this ‘gift’, how can anyone struggling and feeling let down by the system look at a man receiving a £5 million donation and think: he gets it, he’s on my side.

The talk about shutting down pro Palestinian marches, has nothing to do with antisemitism. It does however, have everything to do with shutting down any public criticism of the Israeli regime.

Note to Starmer, if you want to condemn a party leader for social media posts, then Farage and Rupert Lowe should be your first targets before moving on to Zack Polanski. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Out of touch with voters. Ignorant about immigration. She’ll go far in the Labour Party.🎈

My piece in the @bigissue.com how not only are expensive deals with France proven to be absolutely pointless, and Labour's anti-asylum policies in general inhumane, at a time when this government is talking about "cutting benefits" and costs, they are an unconscionable waste of money.

She definitely doesn’t want a career in the law and she definitely doesn’t care about equality before the law. Least sincere lawsuit of 2026 is wrapped up 🏆 www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

Not sure if saying MPs are irrelevant and we should just let them drink and enjoy their chunky salaries is the solid defence the Sun thinks it is

I’ve never met Mandelson, so how is it possible that I was able to discover more about his relationship with Epstein through a Google search than his bezzie McSweeney could with the entire UK security apparatus at his disposal?

“We found two of the worst men in politics to replace one woman who was competently doing her job”

FML 🤦

If you’re telling people to fuck off you’ve probably lost the argument. If you’re telling people to fuck off & lying about their personal characteristics to try & strengthen your position, you’ve definitely lost the argument. Bin Mahmood & her cruel policies. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Imagine sacrificing all sense of morality by refusing to rule out sending Afghan women and girls to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and hemorrhaging votes on the left and right in the process. Labour are just smashing it 👏 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Once the British press gets the classic introspective and depressed backseat car photo of you… it is over.

A Reform government will be awful, but it’ll be far worse if Labour have given them a headstart by laying the groundwork for ICE-style cruelty and mass deportations.

I hate to talk about practicalities & wasting taxpayer money when the government’s motive is so utterly horrific, but France, like the UK, is an ECHR member. They face the exact same legal impediments as us with deporting people to Sudan, Eritrea etc. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

It just says everything about this pathetic, nasty excuse for a government that they looked at this family and thought: 1) we should plunge them into poverty by imposing NRPF Or 2) we should punish this woman & her husband by making her wait longer for settlement

The people Mahmood told to ‘fuck off’ would 100% support her against these vile racist attacks from Valentina Gomez. You cannot say the same about many of the people Mahmood is constantly trying and failing to impress with her anti-migrant rhetoric and policies.

Chelsea and Hove Albion would have gone for Hurzeler anyway, but after last night he’ll have another decade added to his contract. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Wonder if Labour will stop and reflect on whether literally and figuratively telling left wing voters to fuck off is an election winning strategy 🤔

2 things, Home Sec. 1) If it looks & sounds like a Reform MP, it’s probably a Reform MP. 2) The voters you’re telling to fuck off are exactly the people who don’t doubt you belong. The voters you desperately court are exactly the people who think you don’t belong. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Really pleased we secured this coverage about how this awful government’s cruel immigration plans will impact sick and elderly people. Sad thing is we have far more examples than those used in this article, including people with terminal illnesses who won’t live 10 let alone 20 or 30 years.

The idea that being *a member of the House of Lords* in any way means you can be trusted with Top Secret/STRAP material without proper vetting is so beyond absurd that this must surely be a joke?

Who thinks he’ll answer my question?

I mean glass houses and all that.

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1/ As someone who’s worked in the asylum sector for a decade+, I can also say without doubt that no adviser I’ve ever met would behave in this way. Like me though, many if not all will have sat face-to-face with some desperate person who’s been fleeced and screwed over by a charlatan adviser.

The BBC in their desperate attempt to mimic the Daily Mail no doubt forgot to reach out to an expert organisation for a reality check on how the UK asylum system treats people from the LGBTQI+ community. Maybe they should read this 👇👇

Hugely irresponsible from the BBC. This fans the flames of racism, jeopardises future claims from LGBTQ people & puts migrants & charities working with them at risk. They also haven’t discovered large scale fraud. They’ve found 3-4 mostly non-lawyers profiting off & exploiting desperate people.

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So we now know Labour’s earned settlement model is economically illiterate, will ruin people’s lives, won’t win over Reform voters and alienates natural Labour voters. Starmer and his team are smashing it. 👏 👏 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The human arguments against Mahmood's earned settlement model are obvious. It will make families' lives far worse & hinder their ability to reach their potential in the UK. But now the economic arguments are falling apart too. The govt must scrap these plans now. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

More lives lost in the Channel today. So-called deterrence measures have been shown time and again to not only not work, but to cost lives. Until western governments realise that safe and regulated routes are the answer, this cycle of tragedy will keep on repeating itself.

This was already in the consultation

Home Office robotically repeating its line-to-take "We must be honest about the impact" - while steadfastly refusing to be remotely honest about the impact on individuals/families, social care, or the economy and public finances. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...