Labour haven't learned a thing. Still pinching (bad) ideas from Reform, despite Starmer's ridicule of their racist policies. labourlist.org/2025/09/labo...

A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS. Will government listen? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

100 charity organisations- it's about time this government stopped blowing their own trumpet as Rachel Reeves did today! Stop picking on refugees.

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

Exactly 💯

Brexit is a con. #RejoinEU www.bestforbritain.org/new_polling_...

3% more and this Labour Government need to worry more about the left - than the right. Lower bills. Protect the NHS. Nationalise our public services. This is how we start to turn our country around. Join.greenparty.org.uk

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 very little, and more or less within the margin of error, but after Reform's figures have stalled, this week they fall by three points, while Labour’s have risen by the same three points. @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

Get people dependant on some wonder drug- Then put the price up by a whopping 170% Just as they are successfully providing the #NHS and the private sector. Wes must be delighted with himself. #obesity 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lovely, that's a long walk from the airport to the beach , gorgeous afternoon there. Love shot.

Why was Galloway in Moscow? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

It’s obvious to most - A network of far-right Facebook groups is exposing hundreds of thousands of Britons to racist & extremist disinformation & has become an “engine of radicalisation” The groups are a hotbed of hardline anti-immigration, racist language, where online hate goes unchecked

Absolutely, I couldn't believe my ears when I heard the results, how could they be so stupid, were my first thoughts 🤔

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

Nigel Farage's attendance record as an MEP was 748 out of 751, yet he turned up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian disinformation. Now one of his MEPs has admitted taking bribes to spread Russian propaganda. Why is this not all over the media?

A goose on the beach at Bundoran.. I did this one a couple of years ago - now tidied up for clarity.. I have some photos and artworks available as prints (great Christmas presents) - please take a look at the links in my biog or send me a message.. @sligogirl.bsky.social #bundoran #ireland #print

That's a beauty John.

Yes, yes and yes. You don’t beat the far right by pandering to it, you beat it by challenging it at every turn.

Very good answer by Starmer. No hint of saying we should 'listen to the genuine concerns of the Far Right'. Reform should be exposed for the racists they are, so that people have no doubt what they are voting for.

“You mentioned your grave concern about the Reform policy to deport people who already live here. Do you think that’s an amoral policy?” @bbclaurak.bsky.social “Yes I do” - Keir Starmer 👏 “They are our neighbors..they are apart of who we are. It will rip this country apart”

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

It exploded because we no longer have a returns agreement - www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre... To think it has nothing to do with Brexit is dismissive of reality.

Denying that the increase of small boat crossings is nothing to do with us not having a returns agreement is a denial of reality. Brexit impacts not just the economy. Farage has created these issues to make himself look electable. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...

One of the tame robins that hangs out near the hide at Oxford Island, Lough Neagh - it popped down to say hello when we visited on Thursday. We didn't see an of the kingfishers this place is famous for - but the robin was nice though.. @sligogirl.bsky.social #northernireland #robin #wildbird

"She directly referenced the threat of the Far Right as a reason that Labour need to get a grip on immigration." How? By echoing the far right? Get a grip on reality Labour - before Brexit there was no immigration problem. #Brexitboats www.lbc.co.uk/article/mahm...

A tragic reminder that the migrants crossing to England are families, women, children and elderly, not just “undocumented men of fighting age” as per Reform BS rhetoric Two women die during failed Channel crossing attempt 😢

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We spent a few days in Northern Ireland this week - so here is one of the more famous landmarks.. Click my name and look at my biog for links to my print shops and contact details for commissions.. @sligogirl.bsky.social #darkhedges #got #watercolour #ireland

The Irish Passport "it has a superpower no other document has: unfettered access to both the UK and the European Union, with no need to get an online permit in advance,"  UK tourists urged to use 'superpower' travel document to skip EU airport queues. share.google/pHlZ3p0frVv6...

Keir Starmer says he's offering us "patriotic renewal" to "build our country." But we know the fundamental problem is a tiny few have the wealth and power. Time for us to take it back.

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Actions speak louder than words. Arrest him. "More than 100 diplomats from more than 50 countries walked out as Netanyahu entered the hall, according to a tally by the Washington Post." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Never really got the outrage about ID cards when they were first proposed 20 years ago and get it even less now that almost every single human interaction is mediated, tracked and authorised on a second-by-second basis through our phones, anyway. What do people think it would really change?

Privatisation. Did Sid win after all? Privatisation facilitated suppression of wages (see🧵). The British public has paid nearly £200billion to the shareholders who own key British industries since they were privatised. @northeastbylines.co.uk

This exactly how fascism always works. They make you feel threatened. They tell you the solution is to stop caring about a particular group of people. They strip those people of their rights. They manufacture another crisis to make you feel threatened. Rinse & repeat. In the end they come for you.

I have a feeling the digital ID stuff will burn Labour badly. Logic: 1. A lot of people hate the idea. 2. A lot of people who don't hate the idea "in theory" will hate the specific way that Labour have chosen to frame it all about immigration. That doesn't leave much potential for happy people.

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?

Brexit: How Britain was out-negotiated Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, kept a secret diary of the talks. Published in 2021, it revealed in painful detail why Britain lost so badly at the negotiating table @jondanzig.bsky.social eu-rope.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/09/25/b...

Calling something people in Northern Ireland will be required to have a ‘Brit card’ doesn’t sound sensible to me. Maybe it won’t be required in NI or maybe someone needs to spend 10 seconds thinking about these things before they blabber to the press.

Spot on. The good Friday agreement allows people from NI to identify as British Irish or both.

🔴Where Is the Opposition to Nigel Farage’s Immoral Mass Deportation Plan? Keir Starmer’s refusal to explicitly condemn Farage's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/09/22/w...

Absolutely - just like the stupidity of make Brexit work, it's making Farage work too.

Putting all this together, @lgilbert.co find the following. It's not that Farage is (just) exaggerating/overstating - he is simply lying about migrants, jobs, wages and benefits. Media should be very clear about this. www.laurenpolicy.com/p/are-recent...

As well as the fantasy £234 bn, journalists should also be clear Farage's claims most new migrants don't work, and those who do are on low wages, are entirely false. In fact, 1.8 million recent migrants are on payrolls (others will be self employed). migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy. Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.

The Reform Party policy of abolition of indefinite leave to remain is supported by 3% of the public

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!" #BrexitBrokeBritain

"As soon as those flags went up, something changed in the wind, something didn't feel right." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...