Having pondered it all morning, I'm still incredulous that all that Today programme coverage of migrant hotels at no point (unless I missed it) mentioned why people were here, what they might be fleeing from etc.

Rachel Reeves should also attend the LibDems conference to understand what needs to be done. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the way.

EU and Indonesia 🇮🇩 conclude negotiations on free trade agreement ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

There is no “left” or “right”. It’s about being open or close. And the LibDems are have the most open policies at the moment, including the most pro business approach.

But the British authorities couldn’t find one single individual paid by Russia during the 2016 #Brexit referendum…

I see the CPS is desperately trying to repair the damage. The claim that their clear errors were down to "changes in definitions" is a lie. Journalists should treat any new estimates with appropriate scepticism. archive.ph/JSo7O#select...

Encouraging, but it still feels like this move has been decided by Starmer's spreadsheet not Starmer's heart.

3 years ago… youtu.be/4N1K_R6oqKA?...

Clear correlation

Mickey Mouse economics.

The Trump presidency is imploding in front of our eyes.

Anyway, Farage proposed policies to steal money from those on ILR is a very English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 tradition: to steal from foreigners: land, gold, cultural artefacts.

This is the way.

I've just finished watching a very good Darren McAffrey host the Politics Hub for Sky. @pollymackenzie.bsky.social and @cajardinemp.bsky.social were outstanding. Polly explained complex issues clearly. Christine was passionately redressing the false and negative narratives about immigration. 👏

Tomorrow night will be Jimmy Kimmel's most watched show in history - and MAGA are inadvertently responsible for that. But most importantly, Kimmel's First Amendment rights triumphed because of public pressure against Disney. Civic resistance matters. It delivers results. Keep it up, America.

Ha

Excellent 👇

Pretty disgraceful for Mason to call Davey’s criticism Trumpian given his disastrous coverage of the Reform conference among other things. Maybe do your job better instead of shooting the messenger?

Many EU citizens have done exactly that post #Brexit , net emigration from U.K. to EU is more than 100,000 per year. It’s sad, but the responsibility sits squarely with the British political class that is voted in repeatadly by regular voters… the so called “friends and neighbours”.

We agree with Ed Davey. And we are working with lawyers on possible action against Elon Musk and/or X for terrorism act offences. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Nigel Farage is wrong” Lib Dem leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk says Reform UK’s immigration plans are ‘outrageous’ and will be ‘very costly to the taxpayer’ #Peston

Thing about this sort of answer from the BBC is that I don’t remember them adjusting their coverage much in 2022-24 when the polls were in Labour’s favour. I may be misremembering, but I thought they kept to the proportions from GE2019.

Compulsory reading 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We can usher in the age of renewable abundance. With clean, affordable energy for all. With secure supply. For this, we must keep up the work. As governments and industry. And as partners across continents. → link.europa.eu/Y6jrFB

I'm old enough to remembered when the BBC based their coverage on who won relative numbers of seats at the General Election. That's the official democratic mandate. Opinion polling is unofficial. Their guesstimates are based on a handful of voters when they know that elections are years away. 😒

As Chris Farage Mason is in the news again, he can also go fuck himself.

Cravenly obeying the US on a batshit crypto hallucination, because Brexit made us desperate.

I no longer care, thank goodness. I had enough of UK shennanigans after Brexit and left. But I feel for those who stayed who are now feeling exposed.

Scotland: ‘I want my independence!’ England: ‘Now is not the time!’—while grabbing us by the arm, draining our North Sea oil billions, and forcing Brexit misery on our economy. Is this ‘union’ just economic oppression? Scots, when do we say enough? Time for #IndyRef2?

It cannot be that Russia “accidently” violates three times in two weeks European air space. Russia is testing European borders and probing our resolve. It will continue to provoke as long as we allow it. Extract of my statement at the UN Security Council ↓

While running for the leadership (with McSweeney) Starmer said he would never write for the Sun after the Hillsborough shame. He did. Labour said it planned to complete the second part of Leveson Inquiry. It dropped it. McSweeney (like Mandelson) seems to be Murdoch compliant

Unlike France the UK is a union state of four national spaces each with their own distinct politics. If Plaid and the SNP become viewed as more plausible leaders of an anti-Reform front in their nations and LibDems or Greens in specific English regions then McSweeney's strategy wipes Labour out

When the government is using *three* adjectives, it is a considerably weakness to have all three of them - "unrealistic, unworkable and unfunded" - being about how, rather than why. At least one or two of the three words should be fron the family of "unprincipled" or "extreme"

Reform is top headline on BBC. Again. Why does this continue? Why is BBC platforming this, with the vile cruel policy? Reform isn’t govt. It’s LibDem conference this week, and there’s virtually no live coverage of it, despite lots of policy announcements, and 72 MPs.

A lot of sensible people get squeamish at labelling Nigel Farage “far-right”, but his policy of cancelling the legal status of tens of thousands of settled immigrants can not be politically described as anything else. Reform are campaigning on a policy of cruelty & xenophobia.

President Macron called the European Union's remaining energy imports from Russia "very marginal." "This is not a key driver today. We decreased by more than 80% the consumption of oil and gas," President Macron said in an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation broadcast.

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

m coming around more and more to the idea that anti-immigration rhetoric and proposals should just be outright shamed in the strongest moral terms. Any responses like "It's unworkable, it's uncosted, there are rules against it" make it sound like it would be a good idea if only it could be done.

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 may very well vote for Farage’s fascism in 2029. I think Labour should allow Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland a referendum in 2026 or 2027 to decide on their future.

My parents came here as German refugees. They never became ‘citizens’; they were naturalised after 10 yrs. Technically, tho I was born here, in Nigel Shitler’s eyes I am ‘not’ properly British. glad the cancer will take me before the cattle truck.

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”. So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

I have defended the BBC again and again. No more.

.@SadiqKhan responds to Farage’s deportation plan “Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”

Ed Davey, "Nigel Farage helped cause the small boat problems, because before Brexit we had 27 return agreements with the EU" - maybe call them Brexit boats?

Labour calls the fascist move by Farage to remove ILR as “gimmick“. It’s not gimmick, it’s part of Farage‘s fascists playbook. Call it for what it is.

It was obvious when EU citizens had the terms of their settlement here retrospectively revoked that a precedent was being set and that, in time, the argument would move on to other categories of migrant, always tending towards a purity test of who is ‘indigenous’. Unless resisted.

Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler. Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”. Well sod that. Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

I think scepticism is warranted when it comes to whether Keir Starmer's team will ever fully realise that every attempt to outflank Farage on the Right will just lead to Farage escalating demands further.

We’re fighting for at least a decade trying to find the moral character in the English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 public. we need to start by saying Farage and his supporters are 1930s style fascists. Because we need to know who we are dealing with. If you are not ready to accept this, you’re not ready for the fight.