Dame Meg Hillier on #R4Today giving Emma short shrift over her questions on the media’s current focus (replacing Starmer with Burnham). She reminded her she was trying to tackle poverty and was not interested in personality.

Well there's a shock. The Env Agency, massively defunded by the Tories, is unable to respond to most incidents. 🙄 #r4today

Nigel Farage won’t say 'privatisation' out loud, but his plan would collapse the NHS via a staffing crisis. 1 in 5 NHS staff are non-UK nationals. Farage wants to scrap funding the NHS through taxes. His alternative is clearly privatisation. #r4today #BBCBreakfast #GMB #SkyNews

I really don't understand why these two grotesquely sycophantic tweets by Farage are ignored. We have a rhetorical hammer with which to beat Farage. Let's use it.

Excellent point. I think in both cases, this is often a case of appeasement of the ‘I’m not racist/sexist but…’ crowd for votes, but the ultimate result is the same.

@peterstefanovic.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social @westenglandbylines.co.uk @vicderbyshire.bsky.social @drpam.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social Nobel laureate Maria Ressa who warned in 2016 of 🇺🇸 descent into fascism & Cambridge analytica links. Please watch & share.

And on, and on, and on….

I think it is important that as many British people as possible hear this, too. This is the pit we are staring into, people, where that chatty bloke Nige down the pub would take us to, if we gave him the chance.

It is staggering to me that his party *appears* to be polling so well. It’s also incredibly disappointing. That Farage wouldn’t condemn such a RIDICULOUS statement about paracetamol, just proves how keen he is to curry favour other that bloated moron in the White House.

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This is what Starmer should be doing.

I'm not generally the sort of person who says "follow the money", but... follow the money. Pro-Trump Americans don't have to be directly funding Reform, for Farage to have a financial interest in not upsetting them. Just think of those cryptocurrency and gold bullion promotion deals, for a start.

The Lib Dems going all-in on attacking Reform is excellent news. Partly because someone is finally sticking up in public for the sane, majority view rather than chase Reform voters. Partly because it puts Farage on the thoroughly-justified defensive.

What's Farage's links to insurance companies? He doesn't care about the NHS, he couldn't care less about your health. UNLESS it benefits his pockets.

My husband can tell you the truth about Farage’s migration policy www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

As ever, looking for photos to delete from my always full iPhone storage. Came across this from September 2018 - ‘Planet Farage’ by Jackie Kay.

Has Farage ever had an original idea or is he just a DT tribute act?

Really sensible approach by the Lib Dems to link Farage with Trump. Trump is unpopular here right across the political spectrum.

Schools need to work in partnership with parents. The good ones are helping a lot where help is needed. Treating parents like pupils, and dictating rules, is not going to work- it simply alienates the parents.

Nice to see Ed Davey come out swinging

Doesn’t this tell everyone who supports Reform everything they need to know about their glorious leader? I.E. that he will follow the Trump playbook into all the circles of hell into which it leads.

I blame it on environments that are less and less suitable for children. You can only stuff so many of them on desks too early and make anything joyful like reading a chore. The rest rebel against the machine.

I have been reading old school log books from around 1900 and some parents have always been difficult. I was told as a pupil that in the ‘old days’ parents always backed up the school. I now know this wasn’t true.

Ed Davey has done more to attack Farage in one speech than Starmer has ever dared to do. He should be kicked out and replaced with Burnham or Streeting. The 2024 US election shows us that rhetoric > delivery. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

If they can get this message to the mainstream - that the Lib Dems are the anti-Reform - it will have been a very successful conference.

Can’t wait to hear from Farage who has disappeared from the face of the earth

Ed Davey’s speech very good I thought. I would have no problem voting LibDem if I thought they were the best chance of beating the Right

#Tories vs #LibDems

At the last GE I was one of a team ringing round to promote tactical voting between Labour & Lib-dems with some success ,to combat the Tories At the next election the enemy looks like being Reform in which case tactical voting would play a major part My enemy’s enemy is my friend 🤝

I’ve been as depressed by last 10 years of uk politics as anyone else Not always shocked, but depressed But I will die on this hill. Reform will get nowhere near power come next election Ppl on the right: stop pretending Ppl on the left: stop being afraid and fight Other ppl: stop paving

Yeah, at this stage Corbyn is doing much more harm than good.

🗣️ “What’s wrong with the Liberal Democrats is they do so much policy substance". Former Lib Deb policy chief to Nick Clegg, Polly Mackenzie, argues the media should focus more on substance, while the party needs to work on its ability to dominate the news agenda. 👇🏼

Reform is racist. Let’s just say it. Loudly and often. They’re racist. Don’t take them on on how they plan to fund their nonsense. They don’t care. They don’t say it because they’ve worked it out. They say it for headlines and for voters who want prejudice as policy. They’re racist. They’re failure.

Seeing how they are calling for crimes against humanity, maybe it’s time to proscribe Farage and the Reform Party

Tried 30 secs of BBC News Gave up after Chris Mason tried his pro-Reform bantz with Ed Davey.

A quick reminder that Reform UK holds only 5 seats in the House of Commons.

Farage will easily get 30/35% at the next general election if this is the spin he gets from the media 🤦‍♂️

Of course it is. It's just more headline-chasing from gobshite Farage, a deeply unserious but relentlessly attention-seeking grifter.

This is the problem with our media. Farage is not announcing a crackdown. He has no power to do so. He has 5 MPs. There is no election for 4 years. The constant framing of anything he says as some kind of policy that is going to affect our lives is infuriating. Get a grip.

BBC News: Starmer on Palestine - 30 seconds. Charlie Kirk memorial - 15 minutes with every possible speaker.

@skynewsrss.bsky.social increasingly alarmed by how your commentators refer to anti-immigrant rhetoric in euphemistic terms. This AM’s press review of Farage’s statement about removing Indefinite Leave to Remain from migrants was framed as a “policy view”, stripped of its racist implications. 1/2

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www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s... So much for Farage and Reforms, braying about freedom of speech. Utter hypocrisy. Just imagine if Farage ever became PM.

This beggar thy neighbour politics from Farage is as dangerous as it is ridiculous. HM Government really needs to challenge the narrative.

How is a criminal deported from three countries allowed to whip up hatred at a rally in London. Police arrest people at Palestine protests for sitting down, it’s time Starmer got real. www.thesun.co.uk/news/3678730...

Farage the nastiest virus to enter British politics

The fundimental issue with article has with the Lib Dems is, erm, that they're liberal

Ed Davey, "Politics can be depressing, divisive. I think a little bit of joy is not a bad thing, a bit of a smile" Davey then criticises the Labour government for not allowing Palestinian students coming to the UK to bring their families with them

Explaining the hard left Corbyn cultists better than I ever could.