The lesson here is that you can get more growth pushing the green economy than opposing it

EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040 E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours Pricing to compete with low cost flights Reduce emissions by 80% Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷‍♂️

Keir Starmer needs to wake up and fix our broken voting system before the next election, or he risks letting Nigel Farage into Number 10. We will keep fighting for fair votes to make sure every voice is heard.

Nigel Farage used to believe in reforming the voting system, now he's rowed back because it no longer benefits him. We will keep fighting for a fair votes, not because it benefits us but because it's right for the country.

“Conservative governments did aspire to deregulate…That they failed was due..to reality – & the dawning realisation of the economic damage it would do. It is the very “business people” Farage claims to speak for who pushed hardest against the “Brexit opportunities” agenda” archive.ph/2025.11.04-0...

Reform UK Kent loses another Councillor. That’s 10 since May. 5% Council Tax Hikes confirmed in Kent. Leader Linden Kemkaran announced despite winning in local elections by criticising councils for raising council tax, her council will now do it. They will be making service cuts. #KemkaranMustGo

Lib Dems just beat Reform in ...Kent. www.kentonline.co.uk/tunbridge-we...

Kent County Hall chaos: Reform UK facing legal action from councillors www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/re... #KemkaranMustGo

Another Reform UK councillor gone in Kent.

oh good, wonder how much more will be found out? A criminal court in Brussels on Wednesday convicted two Polish nationals – including a current European Parliament assistant – of misusing EU funds tied to political entities associated with Brexit-backer #NigelFarage www.euractiv.com/news/belgian...

Our full report, with links, references, and one or two footnotes, is here: taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/11/06/b...

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone made £65m selling faulty PPE to the Government. HMRC now wants £39m in unpaid tax — and we think we know why: Barrowman and Mone may have avoided tax on their £65m profit.

“Hardly any of the newly-elected Reform councillors had experience of local government…a surprising number list no other source of income at all – they are not retirees but people of working age. They found themselves overseeing a council budget of £2.6bn.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/ed-jennings-...

The catastrophic mess at Kent County Council shows what happens when a populist party, with no idea how government works, gets into power ✏️ @edjennings.bsky.social

Reform is still in charge, at least on paper, but much of its authority now exists only in theory. If this is Reform’s model for government, Kent may have provided Britain with a warning. ✏️ @edjennings.bsky.social

The Trump effect.

must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Cllr Daniel Taylor, currently on bail pending trial over allegations that he threatened to kill his wife, has attended today. Given he missed every other meeting since his arrest, he would have been disqualified as a councillor had he not arrived today.

Kent County Council is getting underway. Slightly odd arrangements in place where usual press seats have been closed, leaving us in the public gallery, which has 14 seats. Far more than 14 people are here, leading to several journalists and others being left outside of the room. But we’re in.

The level of online radicalisation going on is far beyond what most people realise.

This is really excellent data journalism... Elon Musk has declared war on the British government, it just doesn't realise it.

"Trump canceled your flight" is about as easy as messaging gets.

Elon Musk's influence on British politics via X is dangerous. Research shows: X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. Right-wing voices are dominating, and the algorithm is pushing posts to new users, no matter their political views. https://bit.ly/49BQsWf

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

'Right-wing content - and extreme content - is boosted by the algorithm.' Tom Cheshire breaks down 'the X effect' - his investigation of how Twitter has changed since Elon Musk's takeover.

I don't know what is more depressing. That the BBC seems to have no clue what democratic socialism is or that someone who comments on politics for a living thinks it's the same as communism. Jesus wept, indeed. GCSE, Introduction to Politics, Chapter 1, stuff.

Think tanks... where thinking goes to tank.

Wales has been “hurt hardest” by Brexit amid a “mess” of trade barriers, cultural blockades…an “unprecedented” cross-committee inquiry which found “unanimous” agreement from witnesses that the UK-EU trade deal has not benefited Wales.” www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...

“PPE Medpro, linked to Michelle Mone & Doug Barrowman, has entered administration with debts exceeding £188 million, including £39 million owed to HMRC & £148 million in damages for supplying non-sterile gowns” Public money siphoned off facilitated by the Tories. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

ReFUK “suspended [yet] another member of its “flagship” county council in Kent…departure of Isabella Kemp, who had also worked as a data protection officer at Reform’s HQ, means party’s lost NINE of 57 councillors elected during the local elections in May.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Mega-rich corporations which prioritise financial engineering and playing the tax system end up ripping off the UK and everyone who lives here. Phil White, @patmillsuk.bsky.social #UNtaxConvention #TaxJustice2025 bit.ly/taxjustice25

For many countries, revenue losses under the current international tax system are not just a fiscal issue — they are a human rights crisis. Sarah Saadoun, @hrw.org #UNtaxConvention #TaxJustice2025 bit.ly/taxjustice25

Patriotic Millionaires UK's Executive Director Rebecca Gowland is on the latest episode of 100 Campaigns that Changed the World, chatting about what we do and why. Give it a listen 🎧 https://100campaigns.pulse.ly/qw4tjto6ln

The names of multinational corporations that cheated on billions in tax in the UK was kept from the public. Our gov’t had the tax records but didn’t make them public. Doing so could’ve recovered £11BN #NameTheTaxCheaters #TaxJustice2025 bit.ly/47HfT6g bit.ly/43ccXxe @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social

“Almost all UK’s international peers levy an "exit tax" on gains of people who cease to be tax resident. This includes Australia, Canada, the US, France, Germany & Japan…Within the G7, Italy is the only other country which doesn’t have CGT on emigrants.” #TaxTheRich www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...

Labour must address that a 'possible £30 billion shortfall' in the Autumn Budget is directly linked to the £30bn per year lost to Brexit, Scotland’s Finance Secretary has said 👇

Is anyone surprised? For years the BBC’s coverage of the EU has been too negative. Between 2001 and 2016, the BBC’s coverage of the EU veered between disinterest and EU-bashing. Reports about the EU were so negative that Brussels came off worse than Putin. #Brexit www.politico.eu/blogs/on-med...

Yeah - give them a heads up why don’t you🙄 #TaxTheRich

Rachel Reeves says we have a £25 billion black hole Rachel Reeves knows Brexit makes us £40 billion poorer Rejoining the EU would give us a £15 billion surplus Why doesn't Labour want what's best for the UK? Tax rises? That'll be Brexit

She is telling an accurate story of recent history - the triple punch of austerity, Brexit and covid. It's spot on. But it is terribly strange to say it now in government when you were not prepared to say it in opposition.

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“Nige got under way. His main theme was that the country was basically fucked. Largely because of Brexit. Weirdly, he has no memory of being the main architect behind the Brexit vote….He has literally done nothing more than be a gobshite.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Great reflections on Brexit from @anandmenon.bsky.social 'It is hard to imagine a worse moment in the history of international trade to have decided to leave a continental-sized economy to go your own way, because of the direction of international trade thereafter.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...

Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Reform UK's Muhammad Yusuf when asking about Nathan Gill who was bribed by Russia to speak anti-EU things

Student, "How would you, if in power, create closer relationships with Europe?" Zack Polanski, "In the long term we need to rejoin the European Union" "So people your age, and students, can have the same experiences and freedoms that I had when I was a student"

ReformUK, the Russian spy, and the rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill : www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

I note that many of the most vocal who had much to say within minutes of Saturday’s appalling events are rather quieter today. But they’ll be back. I wrote about the radical right misinformation machine centred on X in @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/opinion/a-su...

Make no mistake, the Chancellor is laying the groundwork for her budget as hard choices for everyone but the wealthiest.⁣ ⁣ 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 on taxing extreme wealth, 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 on shifting the burden onto those with the broadest shoulders.⁣

Spoiler alert: none of it is going to be 'inherited' by you or me. A wealth tax is the only way to close the inequality gap and fund our services properly.