More flexible, saves money, and, critically, (1) can be more trusted by the public and (2) doesn't hand sensitive private data over to actual fascists (3) preserves rather than relinquishing national sovereignty.

Labour just keep proving how out of touch they are.

Selective listening imo! "See not, hear not speak not" #uklabourparty

France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.

So, Labour tears itself apart to try to stop Farage being our next PM just as he finally faces scrutiny in a monumental corruption scandal which could… and really should…end his political career. I’d go hard on that rather than each other right now guys. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Absolutely, now is their chance .

Chair of LibDems friends of Palestine expresses frustration at Starmer wanting closer ties with the EU but not being in the Customs Union and Single Market Then asks Labour, whatever path they go on from here, to address inequality in this country and to avoid division

2017: Nigel Farage in the European Parliament complaining about perceived foreign interference in Brexit 2026: Nigel Farage saying that foreign based crypto billionaire gave him £5,000,000 as a reward for campaigning for Brexit

Left: Michael Gove, "Britain is governable. It's just been badly governed" Right: Michael Gove so utterly sozzled in parliament he can't even stand

I wouldn't trust Gove to run a bath!

Harborne gave the Brexit Party £6 million in 2019 and was mentioned in the Panama Papers but luckily the UK has the memory of a goldfish... so nobody talks about that

The Lexiter version of 'Brexit wasn't done properly', with no contrition for the fact that there was never any chance of Lexit being enacted and no recognition that the situation now isn't one in which Labour can just say "ok, let's rejoin instead": www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oh what a tangled web they weave... Farage now admits he bought the Clacton house, having told everyone last year that his partner Laure Ferrari bought the house.

How long do we have to continue with the utter farce of this deeply corrupt spiv being considered seriously for our highest political office? Farage should be nowhere near power… but it seems it’s being bought for him by a crypto billionaire who thinks everything’s for sale. Including our democracy.

As Health Secretary, Wes Streeting deepened the privatisation of our NHS and handed over our data to Palantir, a company involved in genocide. I am sure his friend Peter Mandelson is very proud. Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service — and kick Palantir out!

crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house

Rachel Reeves says growth proves her strategy is working. But GDP growth that leaves people insecure and households exposed to higher prices proves very little. An economy is not working because an aggregate number rises. It works when people’s lives improve. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

By my count this is the seventh Reform councillor suspended after being elected just one week ago*, mostly for expressing direct support for Nazism or other forms of racism.

A GB News commentator is suing 10,000 Interns over an internship scheme for Black people. She claims the scheme is "anti-white" 👀 Help us fight back 👇 https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/stop-the-far-right-attack-on-equality/

I think this could be a pretty consequential moment in national history. Our two interactions with the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards have been pretty unsatisfactory so we're going do a deep dive into the law which we'll share.

He’s on manouevres 👀

So many politicians are selling their souls for profit. This will only stop when large donations are no longer allowed and lobbying becomes a criminal offence.

🎉 Am incredibly chuffed that Khadija Sharife and I have been shortlisted for Private Eye's Paul Foot Award Three years ago Democracy for Sale didn't exist. Now we are regularly breaking major investigations and stories. A *huge* thank you to all of our supporters. 😊

The Shadow Contract is a 4-part deep dive into how a US spy-tech firm landed a £330m deal for our NHS data. It’s a story about power, privacy, and you. 🔍 Listen now 👇 https://goodlaw.social/1e69ba

Still slightly surreal, but incredibly honoured to join the Green group at City Hall after the wonderful news that @zoegarbett.bsky.social had been elected as Mayor of Hackney I’ll be serving on Housing, Planning & Police committee joining @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @carolinerussell.bsky.social

Our election campaigns were rooted in fighting to end the housing affordability crisis, and voters have spoken. Green Mayors @zoegarbett.bsky.social & @liamshrivastava.bsky.social alongside Carla Denyer MP have written to the government to demand a Rent Controls Bill in the King's Speech tomorrow

It's worth noting that he has resigned his membership, not been kicked out as despite all of Reform's claims about vetting this was a candidate they were happy to support and campaign for and who remains a councillor because of that fact. Truly vile.

Andy is from my constituency, I get on well with him, he's done great things for Manchester, and it'd be pretty cool to see a Culcheth lad in Number 10 - all this is true. Beyond that, the rest is bollocks. Can we finally put this to bed now?

I don't know how many different ways I can say this but I'm not stepping aside for Andy Burnham, and it's both very tedious for me and very demoralising for my staff to keep seeing it reported that I might be about to go when there's never even been so much as a conversation with Andy about doing so

Everyone is rightly interested in Harborne’s monetary support for Nigel Farage. But GB News provides him with an annualised salary of over a million pounds a year, 500,000 shares and unaccounted for millions in terms of free political advertising for Farage’s Party

Harborne has Crypto investments and is hoping for a large Crypto investment from the UK in the future.

Harborne owns Johnson and Farage, his motivation is not clear; except his stakes in arms companies and the huge contracts awarded to them by the governments -

This is all happens in 2023. Farage goes apoplectic on GB News about Coutts/Nat West. He is supported by Boris Johnson. GB News owner makes a mint shorting NatWest stock. Boris Johnson offered a GB News slot

As politicians they pretend to be in it for the ordinary (white) man on the street. As grifters, they couldn’t give a shit about him. Just their own bank accounts, as they rake it in and take the piss out of us, our country and our democracy.

Thomas-Symonds boasting about scrapping the two child benefit cap A reminder that the govt could have scrapped the cap in July 2024. Instead Starmer suspended 7 Labour MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap it & had to be dragged kicking & screaming to scrap it 20+ months later

In one of the most delicious ironies of recent years, the government has "taken back control of our borders" and banned 7 far right extremists from entering Britain on Saturday, and they are all losing their tiny minds....

The £1m man: why did Boris Johnson take his donor to Ukraine? | Boris Johnson | The Guardian share.google/0BnCvgWxGnJO...

It's been 16 months since I left X, and I feel so much better for it. I hadn't realised just how big an impact the daily tsunami of hate, trolling, sealioning and strategic incomprehension was having on my state of mind. I cannot understand why anyone who values their mental health is still there.

I hope he has evidence because this is huge. (Awaits the BBC, Sky etc completely ignoring it).

Produce the evidence and report to the police. Do not take no for an answer. We have enough senior lawyers in Government to make this happen. Just for once, let's see the rich and powerful suffer the same consequences as the rest of us.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @chadbourn.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @jessicaelgot.bsky.social

Let's see if the UK's intrepid newshounds pick up on this... I imagine Habib will be "unavailable for comment" if he's approached for one

It is on YouTube so, broadcast into the UK. Habib discusses the legal aspect. www.youtube.com/live/DS0jASk...

Absolutely. And if it did turn out to be true, Johnson going to jail would be extraordinarily fitting.

No, it would make sense of a lot of things. But our shock or otherwise is really irrelevant to final confirmation, and we should at the minimum expect a full investigation and consequences

If this allegation is true, it needs to be investigated by the police. Money and influence must not be allowed to influence the law yet again.

🔴 Nigel Farage is facing questions about why he did not declare his use of a donor’s helicopter to travel around Britain for multiple Reform UK rallies over the past year. New on Democracy for Sale and @theguardian.com democracyforsale.substack.com/p/farage-fac...