New post just out: "The Reality Trap" On Reform's struggles running councils. What it tells us about how they'd fare if they won a general elections. And about how broken our system of local government is. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win

One of the abusers Reform will actively hide from you as he’s white,British and scum.

A poor 3rd in ultra safe Caerphilly. Terrible handling of sinister welfare cuts. Prevarication over 2 child benefits cap. Boxed themselves in on fiscal rules and EU membership. Dreadful judgement at most turns. McSweeney strategy is failing them all.

A group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian industrial and agricultural facilities in Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank, causing large fires and injuring several people.

Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country. Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...

“All that is left is shame” Last night’s shocking ITV documentary Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War had IDF soldiers & other eyewitnesses speaking out on the atrocities in Gaza. Watch on ITVX or link below and share. #Gaza #Palestinians #WarCrimes www.itv.com/watch/breaki...

Load of Kents

I hope British people are taking a note of these incredible costs, and will remember next time anyone talks about privatising the NHS.

In these times of rancour & division, it’s comforting to find things on which we can all agree: Kent County Council, for example, really does provide a perfect illustration of how well Reform would run the country. I agree with Nigel! www.bbc.com/news/article...

It was staged. The fake-blood pill was given to him from the secretary of education. There is no coverage of the shooter's funeral or the victim's funeral. The placement of the photographer and the placement of the flag. No scar on the ear that was shot.

💯 “Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They‘re the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Farage” @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 👇

Another one bites the dust at ReFUK ‘s “flagship” Kent County Council “Of the 57 councillors returned by Reform UK at County Hall after May, only 48 remain.” Just 6 months later www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news...

Now available on ITVx Israeli war crimes - broadcast in the UK

Presumably, they couldn't fit "Walter Mittys" on their jackets.

Another case of Reform saying one thing then doing the other: A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion” By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...

True dat. Look after your supporters and let your haters look after themselves. if the #BBC would only realise that it's in their best interests to cherish the people who actually don't mind being forced by law to pay for their keep, instead of behaving like a bunch of gilded entitlocrats...

The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*. The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.

Reform UK’s Linden Kemkaran branded ‘captain chaos’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I agree that the BBC should apologise to Trump for being misleading. Right after Trump apologises for the 30,573 false or misleading claims he made during his first presidency, or for each of his current daily average of 21 new lies per. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...

◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit ◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley ◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas ...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.

Trump is incredibly unpopular here! including amongst Tory voters. What are they doing?

Meanwhile, in Reform's Lancashire CC, the councillor in charge of care homes, owns a private care home, and is closing council care homes. 👀 A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA #NeverThoughtTheLeopards www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So New York billionaires are going to flock to UK to escape wealth tax, says The Times despite The Times saying repeatedly that billionaires are fleeing Britain to escape wealth tax. It’s almost like they’re just making this shite up! 🤡 www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Farage’s local refuk: Reform’s Warwickshire leader Finch wants to scrap school transport for SEND kids, forcing them to walk miles. Parents call it cruel and heartless, another example of Reform’s nasty streak, punishing the vulnerable to save a few quid. #ukpolitics

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

So what I read here is… let me buy your silence with a $2000 check while I hoard billions, have excessive parties, go golf, sleep at the resolute desk & make a mockery of our country. It will keep you happy & accepting that you no longer have any other social benefits or freedoms. Fdt

#WATCH | West Bank - Israeli army assaulted 3 Palestinians from the towns of Beit Duqqu and Beit Ur and destroyed their vehicle in Wadi Salman, northwest of occupied Jerusalem.

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Stop waiting for Labour to over-turn Brexit. They will not do it. Force them to change. Vote for pro-EU candidates only. Local elections 7th May 2026. Be heard.

Have to say.. very tired of this now. We all know Brexit is a shitshow. Nothing is better. No one is happier. No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.

GPs - ‘Lazy, laggards’ 1.3million appts take place in General Practice each day 20 x more than A&E 3.5 x more than hospital out-patients 5million more appts each month than 2019 Wes Streeting has decided he doesn’t need GPs Let’s see if people agree www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Bodies of prisoners returned by Israel show signs of torture, as 3 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes despite truce.

One of the biggest problems with mainstream media is its regular platforming of lunatic people with mad ideas. Particularly the BBC, which is meant to be about public education. UK politics is broken in large part because we have lazy gatekeepers of MSM. Which is why so many are turning off MSM.

What a flippin' nonsense😵‍💫Tesla's market cap is 1.35T (in itself an absurd number based on potential of AI). Where is the trillion coming from?! Even over 10 years and with hard targets to hit, it all sounds ludicrous! It's tulip mania reincarnate! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Tell me more about ‘Sleepy Joe.’

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Lowe doesn't need the money but the 'thrill' of engagment can be just as corrupting as the love of cash & if engagement/cash increase according to the extremity of the opinions expressed then you need integrity to resist the temptation to become ever more offensive. This is what Musk has engineered.

China is “reshaping the world’s energy outlook, geopolitics and its capacity to limit the catastrophic effects of #climatechange”, says @economist.com - "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than US makes from exporting fossil fuels' $ www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

There’s no ceasefire. Just cover for more killing of innocent people by Israel.

The relationship between top Tories and the Israeli government has been laid bare in a remarkable cache of leaked emails seen by Declassified. In one email, a Tory lord wrote to an Israeli diplomat: "If you don’t call me while you are here, I will cry"👇 www.declassifieduk.org/leaked-email...

Piers Morgan says no-one in Europe, Canada or Australia actually believes King Donald the Mad had any connections with Jeffrey Epstein. He wants everybody to move on from the Epstein files and forget about them. Pierced Organ is a moron with the news sense of a turd the size of Birmingham.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... They are. Mamdami’s policies are simply morally correct.

Dominic Cummings was always an absolute arsehole. The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.

Good Thursday Morning 😊 You want to know why all the meltdowns? False accusations? Look no further than #Mamdani #Trump and his regime don’t even come close to his/their level of intelligence & success 🇺🇸💙✌🏽 #SheShed

Great "leadership" from Reform - they genuinely haven't got a clue!

Arsenal smashing records all the time, Max Dowman is trending on Bluesky….. The first 15 year old for Arsenal to be trending on Bluesky…. 😝😜 #Arsenal #MaxDowman #AFC #Gunners #UCL