The UK’s laziest Councillor? Reform UK’s Councillor Shaun Knowles in Northumberland has been paid £9340.67 since becoming a councillor. An FOI has shown he’s sent 2, TWO emails since May! He’s attended just 1 meeting (in Sept) since elected. Reform UK wasting tax payer money.

Not content with howling about families being able to feed their kids, the online right turn their attention to those awful new mums wanting to keep their babies alive

Unlike the debunked “millionaire exodus”, Britain’s young workers really are leaving in droves— 174,000+ since March 2024. The motor of our economy walking away is a crisis that really should worry us. 🧵So, why are they leaving and how can we stop it? 1/9

I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance  🏳️‍⚧️ 🕯️ Trade unionism is all about solidarity, with no one left to face trouble alone. We are stronger together.  Join our networks and find support. unsn.uk/2tJY83u

Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government. Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Leicestershire County Council has announced it is to pay consultants £30m to carry out a cost cutting review. They said it would be £1.4m. They lied. They said Reform DOGE would do all this. They lied. You can’t trust Reform UK.

#TaxTheRich Rachel Reeves likes to say she aims to "fix the foundations" of the UK economy. If that phrase means anything, it MUST mean tackling poverty & inequality and investing in public services. @uklabour.bsky.social @unison.org.uk

It does make you wonder.

Farage is a disgusting piece of 💩 who has no concern for the safety of women & girls; his one concern is how he can push a racist narrative to further his own career.

REMINDER These are the rights that Farage and #RacistReform want us to surrender.

Reform MP Sarah Pochin not in the chamber today for #PMQs it must be because seeing our faces makes her mad…

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This is not an anomaly - it’s an echo of the injustices we saw in Windrush. A UK‑born child denied a British passport and asked to prove her right to NHS care is a stark reminder that UK policy still fails Caribbean communities and basic principles of equality. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Never forget - The European Convention on Human Rights exists to protect citizens from the excesses & abuses of their political leaders. If any politician wants you to surrender that protection, they are not to be trusted.

Mass-murderers sharing a light-hearted moment, talking about the #genocide they committed. #StopArmingIsrael #SaveGaza #FreePalestine #StopFundingGenocide #BDSNow

Hooray for Rylan! He, and he alone, can save the little ladies (bless 'em) from misogyny! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

1/2 Our brilliant Co-Young Members Officer, Holly addressed the rally for #Palestine in #Liverpool today & spoke about the disgraceful refusal by Merseyside Pensions Fund to #StopFundingGenocide. ✊🏾🇵🇸 @unisonglobal.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social

Renewables Are a Global Economic Engine, Not a Culture War Threat www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...

"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

All trade unions need to draw a line here; @uklabour.bsky.social must not assume that our support (and our money) will always be given, indefinitely and unconditionally.

Our thoughts and solidarity are with the victims, their families, the survivors and the wider Jewish community. We must redouble our efforts to fight anti-Semitism and all forms of racism.

Wonderful to meet with Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham today to discuss wealth inequality and how we can effectively tax wealth to address it. Huge thanks to the team involved. @mayorofgm.bsky.social @stephenstroud.bsky.social

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

BREAKING: A company linked to Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone breached a government contract of nearly £122m to supply surgical gowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, the High Court has ruled. The £121.9m sum must now be repaid by the company, PPE Medpro news.sky.com/story/firm-l...

Israeli soldiers were filmed detaining two Palestinian children in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, while demanding to know their father’s whereabouts. When a passerby intervened and urged their release because of their young age, a soldier replied, “I don’t care”.

“Fascism is a political system built on control, fear, and loyalty to a strong leader. Fascism attacks democracy.” A quick primer on fascism and anti-fascism:

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.

It is beyond disgraceful that our pension fund invests in firms complicit in #genocide. Please join us in #Liverpool to help us in our #divestment campaign. #StopFundingGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine🇵🇸 @pscupdates.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @unisonglobal.bsky.social

We condemn recent comments by Wes Streeting MP, about trans people on hospital wards. We've written to remind him that anyone staying on a hospital ward should be treated with dignity. His proposals are unworkable and would almost certainly cause harm. Statement: transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/09...

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Is Labour delivering on public transport? RMT fringe meeting at Labour Party Conference 📢 Kim Johnson MP Eddie Dempsey Maryam Eslamdoust Mick Whelan Marcus Johns 📅 September 28, 2025 ⏰ 12:30 - 2:00 pm

At our Branch Executive Committee meeting this morning, we agreed to nominate @andrea4gs.bsky.social as our candidate for UNISON General Secretary.✊🏾

Nigel Farage’s immigration plans have ‘no basis in reality’, says Rachel Reeves www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...

TAKE ACTION NOW ✍️ Our tool makes it easy to tell Reform to stop exploiting women’s safety to fuel attacks on migrants 👇 https://goodlaw.social/d82509

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. This thread explains why. 1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power. 🧵

BBC coverage of Reform is becoming increasingly problematic. And goes beyond the usual white noise. Continuous soft balling is not balance, it is a fundamental abdication of duty. Farage's tax issues, cranks given platforms at their conference, climate change denial. All need coverage. Most haven't.

TUC general secretary @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social delivered his keynote address to #TUC25 today

China postures as a neutral mediator, but it has materially and politically backed Russia’s war and profits from it.

"There is an ugliness to some of this - 𝘺𝘦𝘴 she should've done better - but it doesn’t equate to what we saw in the last gov’t with people on the make.” Angela Rayner’s resignation has provoked sympathy in some, vengeance in others.

Merseyside PCC publishes Annual Report highlighting major progress in crime reduction www.birkenhead.news/merseyside-p...

The same people who insist that the 2nd Amendment is necessary to protect from military incursions into civilian spaces are welcoming military incursions into civilian spaces

Farage got called a 'Putin-loving free-speech imposter' in Congress Why can't Labour do this instead of getting all weird about flags while pretending their houses are shrines to the Jubilee? Instead they fan Farage's flames, turn up the dial on racism & embolden his base while repulsing their own.

Farage dodged parliament, went to the US, slagged off the UK, lied to Congress, grifted for donations and hoped to persuade the US to punish us for the Online Safety Act. And got his arse handed back to him. You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.