Every personal attack. Every attempt to distract or to divide. It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement. Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.

The Danish Social Democrats whose immigration policy the Labour Party wants to copy are the red line that starts at 35% in 2019 and ends at 21% in 2025

Labour: "We couldn't possibly begin negotiating with the EU to eventually rejoin. That would make the next GE all about Brexit." Reality: "Yes, and so what? At the moment everything is about immigration, and you are LOSING very VERY badly indeed."

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Why not vote for progressive politics instead of the status quo

If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.

And Reform UK would get sod all in transfers. open.substack.com/pub/ewanhoyl...

I mean the Welsh elections are proceeding under a new electoral system that was agreed without a referendum or prior manifesto commitment, and no one cares. Likewise Scotland has STV in local elections that was pushed through without a referendum or prior manifesto commitment, and nobody cared

Oh 💯 I genuinely believe a significant reason we haven’t descended into fascism yet is that we have PR-STV in Ireland.

Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time. I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.

The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia. This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give. How are Reform getting away with this? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

"By a whopping two-to-one margin, voters now favor the pre-Brexit immigration system to the one that has taken shape since leaving the EU." Even among Reform UK voters, more wish they could go back to pre-2021 migration rules! ~AA www.politico.eu/article/labo...

We don't need more effectless talking shops. The Speakers' Conference of 1917 recommended PR by STV. Everything since has been kicking it into the long grass. Just enact it, and without a bloody referendum.

Heroes

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇 1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK 2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves 3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

Now out in Party Politics 🎉 Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing. 👉 A legitimisation effect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The great journalists at @propublica.org did the hard work to compile a list of US citizens who have been detained by ICE. Kristi Noem is a liar. And a sadist (remember her CECOT glamor shots?) And a fool. And a puppy killer. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

More cruelty is not the answer. The Govt must end its dehumanising policies, introduce safe asylum routes & give asylum seekers the right to work. ‘Keir Starmer tries to look tough on immigration - and exposes himself as a coward’ from @zoejardiniere.bsky.social: metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

The results of the Dutch experiments were that dropping work requirements and instead trusting people to find work didn't decrease work and also led to increased trust in return, plus better health. Not clawing back benefits as income increased led to more employment. Combine those, and that's UBI.

Really important piece

Keir Starmer is rattled by the @greenparty.org.uk and so he is lying about the Green Party. Not a great way to win people back.

Younger people who voted Labour are going Green, young people who couldn't vote or didn't vote are going Green. Many uncertainties in politics but here's one sure thing: this group will be bigger at next GE than now - voting age going down and more people becoming eligible.

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

I'm enormously proud of the analysis and polling that I have caused to happen over the last few weeks. My obsessive pursuit of understanding of tactical voting has finally yielded the insights that I believe should transform the prospects for electoral reform in this parliament.

This is the BNP 2005 manifesto: it is a much more moderate proposal than that of Chris Philp and Katie Lam for the 2025 Conservatives since BNP accepted that people settled here legally have legal status (which the 2025 Conservatives do not recognise) and so proposes voluntary incentives to leave.

Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun? Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage

People aren't leaving the Labour Party. The Labour Party have left them. I spoke today with Sky News - live from Swindon. youtu.be/hJ0EJTakhxU?...

We had a NATO coalition and tens of thousands of troops in Afghanistan for 20 years and never managed to stop the cultivation of opium. I have no idea what sort of brain damage the Trump administration has that makes them think they’re going to drone strike their way into ending cocaine use.

Via Martin Wolf, here is what happens when populists take control. on.ft.com/47fVDsb Maybe the UK was pitched exactly onto this curve. We got Brexit and Johnson, and it dropped our GDP by 4% relative to not doing that. Elect another populist government in 2029, and maybe we'll get the next 6%

Warning: fascism-in-the-UK alert

Update: 128,000. Accept this is slightly wild now. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Zack Polanski has said he would look to rejoin the EU as soon as possible. Green Party the only English party that is promising to rejoin the EU.

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

@hopenothate.org.uk would it be possible to talk to someone about some polling that isn't getting enough attention? d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Gr...

I genuinely believe we've uncovered evidence that the Greens have been a major UK party for a few years (according to public favourability) and that targeting only 4 seats in 2024 was a major strategic error...

Bloody brilliant 👇

Sky News, "If the government agrees, with everyone from the Bank of England, to the OBR, to their own treasury research, that Brexit is a drag on economic growth" "And that Labour's number one priority is that very growth itself" "Why not do something about it?" #RejoinEU

"Another Reform MP has been accused of being in breach of Parliamentary rules, after its deputy leader Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality he received from Lubov Chernukhin – wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister" leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...

The Green Party has never seen membership growth at this scale. Ever. 5,000 members per day is becoming an ordinary figure. Next goal: The Tories.

Party social media posts that actually make me laugh 😃

I joined the Green Party last month. I did that after asking someone to have a look at some data that I suspected would show them having overtaken the Labour Party. I think the 100/1 odds on them being the largest party after the next election are generous. ewanhoyle.substack.com/p/green-part...

This conversation. Thank you, #BBCWest / #BBCBristol - it's good to see you can still do it.

Farage's mate Nathan Gill & his Putin-linked handlers were part of a much bigger network – one responsible for subverting and destabilising democracies on two continents. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social reports for the excellent new @thenerve.news. www.thenerve.news/p/reform-uk-...

The message from Robert Jenrick has been clear. If you’re a far-right thug threatening migrants, refugees, or Muslims, then your rights to protest are to be protected at all costs. If you’re not then they won’t www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-descen...