Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved. New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Amazing deflection. At no point did he say “no”

Now’s probably a good time to remind the world that the denials don’t stretch to Farage’s racism and pro-Russian talking points in the UKIP era and now. And time to share this interview with Alan Sked www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Want to know why everything’s fucked? Same reason we’ve been saying for the last 10 years. Never forget.

Robbie Gibb once suggested that reporters should reflect if they were getting more retweets from one side than the other - a braindead analysis that ignores that fair and impartial reporting of education might get more Tory retweets than say, criminal justice.

Been waiting to hear this for approximately 37 years….

Matt Goodwin’s stance on migration is pretty much indistinguishable from that of the BNP in the past 1990s and not a million miles from that of the NF in the 1970s.

I am also disappointed to hear that the EHRC guidance has been delayed by a year, when it should have been thrown in a bin and set on fire.

Happy Roky Erickson Day! youtu.be/0PJ21m2PfhU?...

Except it’s missing Haverfordeast….

At last, something vaguely sane is written about this shitshow.

Monday ambience

Local Airbnb host goes for planning

Can’t be unseen. And for that reason, can be shared: widely.

If Starmer wants to ban inflammatory chants I suggest he start with ‘Vote Labour’

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmoud has clarified that British people are allowed to protest as long as they don't protest too often, their protests aren't seen by anyone, and they are completely ineffective. Anything else is un-British and basically terrorism x

I love this. The purest essence of Kemi - incredibly wrong, bizarrely belligerent about it, and also wrong in a way where you just go “have you considered reading anything other than your Twitter feed?”

Never mind engaging with constituents, here’s the latest pearl of wisdom from possibly Britain’s most irrelevant MP.

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

Woman who lives in a castle or on a yacht rants about "real life" 🤣

“The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to bribery charges relating to making statements in favour of Russia while being an elected member of the European Parliament.” 1/

Happy LSD Day! #timmy

Nothing wrong with people asking where the £885,000 came from. Everything wrong with none of those people being HMRC, the police and the National Crime Agency.

Here's a Danny Kruger story we all seem to have forgotten. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_poli...

What is your body language?

Better sack a few more cleaners now Jim.

Peter Kyle is entering rhyming slang territory

"for each Labour defector who has shifted to the right bloc, you would expect that at least four are liable to remain in the left bloc. Meanwhile, the bulk of Reform’s gains have come either from deserting Tories, or from habitual non-voters." www.economist.com/britain/2025... From The Economist

BREAKING Met arrest 900 violent racists for rioting and assaulting poli….. oh wait

I don’t think the gulf between the heavily online & the rest of us has ever felt wider than this morning. And the nature of the former experience has changed beyond recognition since Musk gifted Twitter to the far right. So those of us who have left the platform don’t fully grasp what’s going on.

BREAKING: Keir Starmer somehow comes up with the one thing that will make him less popular than he already is x

Nice timing that Tim Allan has been brought in as Director of Comms a week before this blows up given he was deputy comms director for Blair when Mandelson was getting into trouble the first time around.

Oxford is to get a congestion charge of £5 per car per day, starting this autumn. Charges will be levied for driving past one of six camera sites. The decision, intended to accelerate bus services and encourage cycling/walking, was taken at an Oxfordshire County Council cabinet meeting this morning.

Cue the theme tune. Lachlan inherits the crown. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Whenever Nigel Farage is properly challenged, he reminds me of those 1920s burlesque entertainers, whose act consisted of swapping the position of fans or balloons, really fast so nobody could catch a glimpse of their fanny.

There’s already evidence that immigrants pay more into the tax system than they receive, at least in the UK: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/... It doesn’t matter because politicians won’t admit it. None of this is about what’s “good” for the country; all of it is about leveraging racism.

BTW, if you think that's bad, read THIS! bsky.app/profile/flyi...

"We will police the streets and not the tweets" says Nigel Farage, who previously demanded the police arrest a comedian for making a joke about him

What's the oddest thing to see in UK politics this morning? My contribution would be the new Leader of the Green Party, leading a choral rendition of "Lib Dem fightback", at Lib Dem conference 10 years ago.

Can we just skip straight to the Jacob Rees-Mogg and Liz Truss defections and get it over with

Well this is a good opportunity to wheel out Jonathan Gullis's Desecration of War Memorials bill. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

Classy.

Yvette Cooper looked at current British asylum policies and thought, what we need is for *more* children to die in the English Channel

Proof that Labour has been captured by the transphobes.

Transfer Deadline Day NEWS! Angela Rayner, 2 Pads➡️3 Pads Nigel Farage, Reform➡️Germany 1939 Liz Truss, Lettuce➡️Bananas Chaka Demus, Pliers➡️Chisel Michelle Mone staying put. Daily Telegraph, Newspaper➡️Toilet Paper Rylan, ITV➡️GB News Prince Andrew, Royal Family➡️Royle Family.

Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.