Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

Reform-led Kent county council is set to increase council tax next year. It's almost as if the 'wasteful local authority spending' Farage keeps banging on about isn't really a thing.

England households could bigger water bills as the competition regulator prepares to give verdict on industry appeal. 36% rise already approved by OFWAT. People will continue to be robbed. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders get returns. End the scam. Nationalise water.

There's a disturbing pattern of omission when it comes to dissenting voices, and especially voices like Zack's who are offering refreshing alternatives to the neoliberal corporate political model our main parties are following to the letter. Go Green!💚 bsky.app/profile/euro...

I'd actually forgotten how extraordinary it is that when I won the leadership - I wasn't interviewed as it was too close to our party conference interviewed. And then refused a second time! Part of the antidote to all of this is creating our own media platforms. Hey @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👋🏼

Watching The Handmaid's Tale starting with the first season because I want to watch the last season and can't remember all the stuff. It hits a lot differently now than it did in 2017/2018. Christian nationalism is some scary shit.

What's happening behind those relentless headlines about immigration? A Silent Coup where US corporations are restructuring the British State and commodifying the entire public sector. open.substack.com/pub/european...

My Barber is a super nice Romainain guy, his wife is an NHS nurse there Daughter has just qualified as a Radioligist They came here under Blair they work hard and have paid in from day one ,what a way to treat them .

On the plus side, at least people like him have the option - the rest of us are stuck on the sodding island thanks to the stupidity of the same people who are now making leaving an attractive proposition even to the most "English" of us ...

We can't tax billionaires, because they might take their tax avoidance to another country. But we can drive out brilliant people who do much-needed work, contribute to our society and culture, pay tax, create jobs, and have done nothing wrong. That's fine, apparently.

Just got a haircut, and my lovely barber, a Turkish guy who employs 6 people, and has a wife who's an IVF technician, is shutting up shop and moving to another country because his Indefinite Leave to Remain is under threat by these venal, stupid, posturing politicians, left and right.

“There’s a baby!” Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

On reports the Tories will back leaving the ECHR, Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: “Kemi Badenoch has chosen to back Nigel Farage and join Vladimir Putin by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights – a proud British creation championed by Churchill that protects everyone's rights and freedoms."

UK workers using food banks, bosses feast. Melrose CEO, 1,112 times the average employee wage. Tesco, 375 Person, 355 Compass, 330 Marks & Spencer, 261 British Associated Foods, 218 Sainsbury's, 195 Can't rebuild economy/society without equitable distribution of income and wealth.

As Kemi Badenoch rightly points out, America and Australia are not in the European Convention on Human Rights. I should just add here that El Salvador is not in the African Union, either.

The leader of the Conservative Party helpfully pointed out on television this morning that the US, Australia and Canada are not in the European Convention on Human Rights. I guess the clue is in the name, Kemi.

Convinced that most British people want to live in a functioning, decent country where government improves stuff and everyone can thrive. The vast majority want nothing to do with this imported hate and atmosphere of violence directed at people just trying to live their lives.

“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose” Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

About 50 cops to arrest one man in a wheelchair. I'm glad we have our priorities right. 🙄

Goodnight

One-third of UK children grow up in poverty, higher risk of dying young. In some areas 62% of children live in poverty. Children’s education, health, future employment prospects destroyed. Caused by govts - austerity, low wages, spending cuts, fiscal rules. Poverty is a political choice.

I feel the the need to check... are the British audience now so desensitized to how far down down the road to authoritarianism the Americans are, that we've now switched off?? Because Trump isn't normal & we all need to remember that & neither is his protégé Farage.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Nigel Farage Broke Britain.

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies. Reform says something unhinged ⬇️ Labour counters with their own unhinged policy ⬇️ Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged ⬇️ Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response ⬇️ And repeat...🔁

UNRWA says Israel has now forced two million people into an area smaller than Manhattan The UN says that 82% of the Gaza Strip is now in some way under Israel's control - and it issued an urgent humanitarian warning again www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Why do we have so much stuff but don't meet needs? youtu.be/sPMKp1MkAiA?... John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society asked a question that still matters: how can we live with private luxury alongside public squalor?

Please share the fruits of your labour. “Show me your papers!” was something I thought we crushed 80 years ago!

And don’t forget TBI and Oracle… bsky.app/profile/pete...

I expect you know this book - Vassal State: How America Runs Britain, by Angus Hanton. It chilled me to the bone how much of the UK has been sold off to the US. Palantir is evil. Thank you for your work.

Like it or not the UK is becoming inextricably linked to the USA. It was underhand & with deceit that the UK was pulled out of Europe & since Bush & Blair every PM except for Brown has aligned him or herself with the USA against the wishes of grassroots UK we really need a referendum rejoin or not.

It doesn't much matter if it's Palantir or not. If #BritCard is implemented using any US tech platform the data can be accessed by the US adminstration at will without any UK oversight. We really are cedeing our sovereignty bit by byte. We need to resist. listed.to/@eco_g/64300...

#BritCard #Palantir #DigitalSurveillance #FOI #Privacy #MassSurveillance #DigitalRights

This isn’t immigration control - it’s INFRASTRUCTURE for a surveillance state. When the same company tracking CIA targets builds your “ID card” system, you’re not getting documentation - you’re getting MONITORED. Please repost TO SOUND THE ALARM

✅ What surveillance capabilities are being built? ✅ Where are the privacy safeguards? ✅ Who else is profiting from this scheme? ⏰ URGENT: Starmer announces this TOMORROW ⏰ Government has 20 days to respond under FOI law ⏰ Every UK adult will be forced onto this database

Given this EXTENSIVE presence across UK institutions, Palantir involvement in Brit Card is not just possible - it’s PROBABLE. MY FOI DEMANDS ANSWERS ON: ✅ Is Palantir contracted for Brit Card technology? ✅ What’s the contract value & scope? ✅ How will our biometric/personal data be used?

PALANTIR’S TRACK RECORD: •Built CIA’s tracking systems •Created NSA mass surveillance tools •“Predictive policing” = racial profiling algorithms •Founded by Peter Thiel (Trump mega-donor) •Profits from border surveillance & deportations •Turns citizen data into surveillance gold

🏥 NHS - patient data analytics 🛡️ Ministry of Defence - military intelligence 👮 Police Forces - “predictive policing” systems 🏛️ Cabinet Office - cross-govt data platform 🏘️ DLUHC - local authority surveillance 🏛️ Coventry City Council - citizen monitoring

I have just submitted an FOI to the Home Office demanding FULL TRANSPARENCY on Palantir’s role in tomorrow’s “Brit Card” mandatory digital ID scheme 🚨 WHY THIS MATTERS: Palantir already has its surveillance tentacles deep in UK infrastructure with 24+ government contracts including: Thread

NHS increased use of the private sector under Labour govt. Private sector delivered 22.1% of ophthalmic, 20.5% of orthopaedic procedures. Numbers of NHS patients treated by private sector up by 10%. With profit margins of up to 40% money buys less. More efficient to expand NHS capacity.

Violent thugs are terrorizing Americans and they were sent by the White House.

Don't forget the HoL. Full of donors and scammers like Mone and Harding, with no mandate from the voting public, but an enormous appetite for our tax money. At least with the Commons we get a chance to vote them out.

The problem is, and always will be, the 650 self-serving arseholes sitting in Westminster.

With better social media regulations and removal of non dom owners of media organisations we might be able to shift the conversation but that seems like that is too big a fight for a government with a massive majority.

Well, I voted remain in England. ‘We’ as in the UK. As decided by a tiny handful of the worst politicians ever to be in govt, who muscled us out of the EU without the permission of Scotland, NI and (by the time they actually did it, on the shitty terms they’d come up with) most of the rest of us too

Brexit was the slap that knocked us off course, leaving the ECHR is the chainsaw to the knees. Farage’s asset stripping private healthcare MAGA billionaire mates are salivating over it 99% of us are really going to hate what happens outside the ECHR & by the time we all realise, it’ll be too late

Not all boomers. Can't help when I was born, but I make my own decisions & 'forrins' are not the problem.

The same people who would have us leave the ECHR, are those who would, in the blink of an eye, advocate that we should copy the USA and have a UK version of ICE "thugs" rounding up people on the streets of the U.K. It's utter madness and I will fight this as best I can with every fibre in my body.