Nigel Farage is NOT on your side ... (unless you're one of the millionaires who's paying him £££££ to buy Reform policy)

Is it going to be another Farage Fest on the BBC today? Probably. #socialistsunday #UKPolitics #bbclaurak #skynews

Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else. Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

A - freaking - men this should have torpedoed his presidency in and of itself

Jeremy Corbyn on the non-existent ceasefire in Gaza

ICYMI: Boris Johnson responded to the Covid Inquiry via his Telegraph column - he failed to apologise Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice: "It is beyond contempt that he has chosen to respond to the Covid Inquiry by attacking the Covid Bereaved for "wrangling" about the deaths of our loved ones"

Sounds Reasonable Today......

Boris Johnson can moan & whine, accuse us of ‘wangling on’ about deaths, & try to re-write history, but there’s no way back from this: @cbffjuk.bsky.social

Trump is so far detached from reality it’s absurd. It’s past time to talk seriously about the 25th Amendment.

At the Vatican, I joined a Ukrainian delegation working to return tens of thousands of Ukrainian children taken from their families by Russian forces. I joined these brave parents and children to meet with Pope Leo XIV about efforts to bring these kids home.

Step forward Man-Of-The-Rich-People Nigel Farage! meme via People's Chancellor - Economics For The Many

That's not what she said, Boris. She said long lockdowns could have been avoided & their downsides mitigated, if you had taken earlier, more decisive action. Delaying the first lockdown by a week caused 23 000 avoidable deaths.

#ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

"Yeah, just keep your kids off school so we can protest at Asylum seekers being taught English" . Who the fuck do these gobshites think they are?

Apparently, Stephen Miller cosplayed a “many great legal scholars” last night.

#asylumseekerswelcome #refugeeswelcome #yourparty #corbyn

Challenges deepening across the charity sector. Rising demand, falling income, fewer volunteers, and growing regulation are pushing charities – especially small ones – towards crisis.

The UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark.

We have some questions for Michael Prescott: Can you define a “political agenda”? Does promoting Israel’s genocide, attacking trans people and supporting Donald Trump count as politics? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jepgyl2jwo

We need bold action to ensure oligarchs pay their share of wealth, speculators pay tax on transactions and to control fossil fuel companies. All Starmer and co seem capable of supplying is platitudes about austerity. My latest for @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

Mahmood would rather soothe the racists than do the “hard work of confronting the economic failure… and cowardice that has enabled the rise of the far right.” As if making life even worse for immigrants will make our country happier and better off. It won’t. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Bishop of Norwich has taken aim at the Home Office’s asylum reforms, warning they’ll make integration harder and deepen division. A rare intervention – and a sharp one.

More wonder less republicans

Bring Energy companies into public ownership. Wasn't that a pledge by @uklabour.bsky.social ? Average Cost of 1 unit of electricity UK 30p France 20p Spain 18p Japan 17p USA 14p China 6p

"Nothing but respect [for Yehuda Atlas] who said this back in March 2019" via Norman Finkelstein

I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*. Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”

Except that’s not true. Gill was the head of Reform UK in Wales only a few years ago - in 2021. Gill was constantly seen by Farage’s side since his first election - as a UKIP MEP - in 2014. Reform must come clean with their Russian connections.

Very proud of former Reform MP, James McMurdock. Who better to stand up for women and girls than a man sent to prison for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend?

He should already be in prison for the treason he committed during his first term, but now we can add human rights abuses and war crimes to the charges. #truth #Politics #Government #Corruption #Crime #President

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

£25bn of imagined savings, real-world cruelty and mathematics that should come with a trigger warning.

This is what rock-bottom polling does to a man with a fragile ego.

... not to mention policy-buying bribes from fossil fuel billionaires. land & property billionaires, media tycoon billionaires, tech mogul billionaires ... (you get the theme) meme via Anthony Corella

Holding power to account! Spanish court ruled on Thursday that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, must pay €479 million to national media organisations for what it determined to be ‘unfair competition’, along with an additional €60 million in accrued interest.

Truth! And it is embarrassing for our nation!

Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else. Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.

£37 BILLION WOULD BUILD THREE CHANNEL TUNNELS! It’s IMPOSSIBLE to spend £37 billion on something that hardly happened! Germany had a highly efficient system and spent £13 billion. THERE’S A MASSIVE FRAUD STARING US IN THE FACE AND IT’S BEING SWEPT UNDER THE CARPET!

Came across a cooked centrist who called Zack Polanski standing up to Starmer "infighting". Two options here...if he thinks the Greens opposing Labour is infighting he's wrong coz they're two different parties. If he thinks it's the LEFT infighting, well, Labour hasn't been the left for years now.

Dividends are taxed at marginal rates of 8.75%, 33.75%, and 39.35%, no national insurance is levied. Wages taxed at 20%-45% +NIC. Aligning taxation of dividends with wages could raise £6bn a year. Even higher if national insurance is also charged.

Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has warned that growth will be downgraded “every year for the rest of the Parliament” londonlovesbusiness.com/economic-gro...

One of the terrible ironies is that Reform’s leader, Nigel Farage, is now capitalising on the unpopularity of a government whose laudable aims have been frustrated by the economic damage caused by a Brexit behind which he was the prime mover.

Really excited for the double bill this week! 👇🏼

Extraordinary (from BBC). Can any journalist really think this is what's going on?!