Join me for my third SEND Event on Thu 26 Feb, 6–8pm. For parent carers across the Forest of Dean, educators and SEND professionals. Hear from experts, get SEND updates and help shape change. Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mp-send-ev...

Refreshing to see a rhetorical device often used by anti-migration politicians flipped by @alanbeattie.bsky.social "More people attend English League Two football matches to watch the likes of Accrington Stanley and Crawley Town in an average week than arrived by small boat in the whole of 2025."

Clacton - take note!

And what's the solution? Spend billions revamping town centers as some sort of Potemkin village, when people continue to buy stuff from Amazon and outlet stores? Urban planners and geographers have been working on redefining what a high street is/should be for many years, if anyone would listen

Reform have no answers. Ask them how they’ll rebuild the NHS. Ask them how they’ll lower bills. Ask them how they’ll build homes. You’ll only hear slogans, blame, and outrage, because they have nothing else. They are simply: Turquoise Tories.

The differing perspectives on immigration The emotive subject of immigration has been a political plaything for too long. It’s time to confront the contradictions and nuances westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/the-...

Reform UK Councillor Mick Cockerham of Newton Abbot South making a pretty sick statement.

And still people think Farage is not in it for himself but for them?🤦🏻‍♀️

Men are using Grok to undress women, children, and babies. All the reporting focuses on Grok. It's an unthinking tool. MEN are using Grok to undress women, children, and babies.

As always, @warrenoates1.bsky.social keeps us updated on government’s latest achievements.

This five year old is still in jail

BREAKING: Minnesota's chief federal judge has demanded the acting head of ICE personally appear in court Friday to explain what the judge described as repeated failures to comply with dozens of court orders amid its enforcement efforts in the state.

Agreed, except Reform plc have absolutely no intent to fix anything. It’s all about corrupt money making, whatever they say. More will need to be broken to satisfy their greed.

For example, private equity has raised £6.5bn from asset stripping Asda & Morrisons supermarkets, according to the Financial Times.

“Coming home to Manchester” 🤣🤣🤣 He spent 3 years there as an undergraduate.

This is who Reform are putting up to represent a parliamentary seat in one of Europe's most diverse major cities

JRF can be relied on to cut through the political 🐂 💩 and remind us that the poorest in society are being hit hardest. Factors like disproportionate food price hikes.

Agreed. Sums up corporate greed. Meanwhile in 2020, Tesco was named by the UK government for failing to pay over £5 million in minimum wage to 78,199 workers. Thankfully, they have improved pay & conditions.

When only the newly formed ‘FormerTory’ party - aka dysfunctional and out of a job old Tories - tell you that Britain is broken and only they can fix it… You know you’re living in truly dystopian times…

In the face of growing global threats, it is now more important than ever to work closely with our European neighbours to strengthen our shared security. Cooperation with Europe is essential to upholding stability in an increasingly uncertain world.

As if we needed any more evidence... 😪

THE OPPORTUNIST EXTREMIST The Strange Radicalisation of Matthew Goodwin hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat...

That didn’t age well!

So he’s all for law enforcement officers operating outside the law (breaking into houses without warrants, arresting US citizens, sexually abusing people in custody) as well as showing a tendency to promote & resort to violence rather than de-escalate, make people disappear without due process, etc?

This is what America looks like. People hitting the streets in icy cold temperatures to protest against ICE. Communities helping others to get a warm meal and beverage. We are all one Human Species and we all share one little rock in the universe. Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Nearly 120,000. Come on, we can do even better!

The defection of Suella Braverman, who was sacked twice from Government in disgrace, spent £700m of taxpayers' money to send four volunteers to Rwanda on a deportation scheme that was then scrapped and has a public approval rating of minus 32 is currently being described as a "major coup" for Reform

This administration is not seeking the truth about Alex Pretti’s killing. It is trying to control the narrative before facts can surface. Smearing the dead, ignoring video evidence, and blocking investigations is not law and order. It is the erosion of democratic accountability in real time.

I doubt if anyone is surprised by any of this.🫤

What a fucking surprise Cruella DeVille has defected to REFUK Whatever happened to it not being a care home for washed up Tories ?!

Monopoly evolved from a game called The Landlord’s game devised by Lizzie Magie, patented in 1904. It was based on the economic theories of Henry George, emphasising the pitfalls of concentrating property in private monopolies.

keir is a bigger liar than boris ever was ....

A warning…

Good. I hope those who will be opposing Reform in elections are screenshotting them.

Farage pays for nothing himself. He rakes it in from media, crypto, gold bullion, X… Clacton isn’t worth his time. He’s a rep for the US christofascist far right and is being paid to bring that shit over here. It’s all a grift. A pisstake. A very sinister betrayal. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

This explains so much of the lack of understanding about medical issues like vaccination as well as the proliferation of unfounded health fads.

Good morning! Almost at 100,000. Please, help push us over the line! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...

The far right are rallying again in Central Oxford this weekend, despite their recent failures to muster more than a handful of people. Do join us 11.30am Sat 24th at Carfax Tower to prove there are many, many more of us than them, and please share.

He’s the antithesis of a decent Englishman. He’s sly, he’s divisive, he has, at best, a tenuous relationship with the truth. His avarice for wealth and power knows no bounds. Many of his acquaintances have friends who wish this country ill.

Good morning☀️ At a time when the leader of an ally speaks with dishonour about our - and all NATO - war dead, let us pause to honour those who gave their lives for the freedoms, safety, and security we enjoy today 🙏 We must never allow his dishonourable words to define us

Trump says a US "armada" is heading toward Iran. War drums push oil prices higher amid fears of supply disruption, very profitable for oil companies. UN sidelined. Like a mafia-don Trump demands obedience or regime change. There will be no peace.

genuinely stunning image

I just learned something 🥺

Of course neither Farage or REFUK paid for his latest jolly. Why on earth do so many ordinary people believe he is one if them and fighting for their interests?

So many seem to have lost sight of this basic truth (of had it beaten out of them by micromanagement and an overemphasis on targets).😢

“The hell of being raped is made worse by the hell of going through delays in the system”. Great respect for Natalie Fleet and I once made this argument, too, against jury trials in rape cases. But of course the problems the 'justice' system poses for rape victims go far beyond this.

Three errors here. First, in confusing some kind of SEND classification (20%) with EHCPs (5.5%). Secondly in assuming it gives automatic right to DLA. Though there is a strong ECHP/DLA overlap. Third in assuming that those moving to DLA to PIP never work (it's not an out of work benefit).