I’m not in America and by no means a political expert, but I have been predicting this since Trump got his second term. Thread.

This, from Barnard Castle boy, is simply astonishing. The naked facism and the complete lack of self awareness.

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.

they’ll sell off the care homes and get a one of payment of a few mill The residents will no doubt be put in private homes At 2-3 times the price of the council run homes And no doubt some of the money will make its way to the councillor for social care Who- oddly enough - owns private care homes

Zohran Mamdani in New York Catherine Connolly in Ireland Rob Jetten in the Netherlands Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly The rise of the far right is not inevitable. If we work together, we can dare to hope.

Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani. Hope wins - and it resonates far beyond New York. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

I hope Starmer as much as Farage is watching this.

Wait a god-damn minute, are you saying that you can win elections even if you don't blame immigrants for every little thing that is wrong with your country?! No way!

My new DAB radio is amazing. Can actually hear Justin Webb sobbing in the background as news of the Democrats' election success is read out. #r4today

So, Farage, in the same breath, has stated that: Minimum wage should be cut for young people (currently at £10 an hour - oh the largesse!) And Young people earning over £100k a year should get tax cuts. That tells you just about everything you need to know about where his priorities lie.

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Reform UK's Matt Goodwin's response to Prince Andrew and Epstein is to talk about Pakistani grooming gangs preying on white girls Far right populists don't care about rich white men in grooming gangs abusing white girls #BBCQT

● Andrew Windsor remains 8th in the line of succession. ●King Charles III will privately fund his new living arrangements despite Andrew being very rich indeed ● Actually we don't know how wealthy Andrew is because his mother's will is sealed for 90+ years ● Sleep well serfs. ● Know your place.

The flags have never been about celebration, they are put up to intimidate and confront those who disagree with their racist and anti migrant message.

Politico: "Reform UK will hold its third press conference in three days at 10 am. Head of policy Zia Yusuf and welfare spokesperson Lee Anderson will pledge £32 billion of cuts to disability benefit PIP" Why so many press conferences? Answer: Because they know the broadcasters will keep showing up

This is free, often uncritical publicity. It allows Reform to keep dominating the news agenda. As Trump found, even the odd awkward stories/Qs that may come out of it keep Reform and its issues front of mind. A no brainer for the party, and Britain's media are knowingly going along with it.

People believe that when one thing is cut there will then be money for something else. But in reality when one thing is cut, it gives them an excuse to cut something else. And all the 'savings' fall into the blackhole of tax cuts for billionaires.

Michelle Mone has just bought a £10m home in Florida, even though she has yet to repay a penny of the £122m PPE Medpro owes the taxpayer. Good job she hasn't committed housing benefit fraud, because she might have been prosecuted then.

We must make racism disgraceful again. This kind of shameless ugly inadequacy from Pochin should be career-ending, not career-enhancing. Honestly… the Little England nastiness is repulsive.

Keir Starmer shouldn't wait until the likely fiasco of the May local elections. If he has any concern for party and country, he should step aside now, giving his successor as long as possible to undo the damage of his disastrous premiership and restore hope in politics.

There’s no solidarity quite like that between client journalists, the government and their billionaire backers. It’s all one big club. This so-called “journalist” called for me — a British MP — to be deported because I’m Muslim. Yet somehow he’s the victim. Cry me a river.

Labour doesn’t really have a ‘dilemma’. It has a choice: change direction or die. Keep chasing Reform voters and Labour will be wiped out in the local elections and then wiped out in the general election. Remember that they’re supposed to be on the left, and they could still win it all again.

Oh thank goodness they’re looking after Oxford and Cambridge, as a resident of the north and outskirts of a city up here that’s having its public transport project turned down by Labour I’m so relieved they’re putting that money where it’s really needed.

if Katie Lam is the future of the Tory party then the future of the Tory party is to become the BNP

Ms Lam seems to have forgotten she's the product of immigrants too. Why is it that the worst fascist rabble rousers always seem to come from an immigrant background themselves?!

Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.

This really highlights how shit Starmer is. He didn't have to weigh in on the Villa game, but he did. And now this happens, making his position ridiculous.

Dear Britain, I am a wanker.

If they had a Left wing person on Question Time every single week like they have a Reform person, the polls in the UK would be completely different. But of course they only put a Left wing person on once every blue moon to prevent this. #bbcqt

The BBC's justification for platforming Farage beyond the actual significance of his small parliamentary party are his polls. A rather cynical explanation, for he wouldn't be where he is without the constant, uncritical appearances he's given on the BBC. It's a (literally) vicious circle.

I see that most of the "OMG Javier Milei has performed an economic miracle in Argentina OMG I Heart Maggie" crowd - predictably, since it did the same with Lis Truss - has switched to "tEh PrObLeM iS MiLEi wOz NoT fRee mArKet eNouGh". How many times must these utter fools fail before they get it?

Bob Jenrick seems like the person who goes to France on holiday & seeks out the most English part of the Dordogne where the mummies wear Jaunty Boden Skirts and shriek to Tabitha to stop fingering all the peaches. Naturally while accusing others of not integrating.

Gary Neville, "Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country" "The messaging is getting dangerous" "All these idiots out there spreading hate speech in any form, abuse in any form, we must stop promoting them" "And get back to a country of love, peace and harmony" "And become a team again"

Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers. Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

There are clear links and continuities between the trajectory of Jenrick's rhetoric and the increasingly warlike language used in the US by MAGA Trump figures against their perceived enemies

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

Immigrants migrate to areas where they have family, friends, or citizens from the country they left behind, where there are shops that sell goods/foods they are familiar with. It's the same all over the world. They also migrate to places within their price range - often poorer, more deprived areas.

He doesn't want areas where there is a 'preponderance' of one race over another. My kids school in rural Suffolk had one black family in a school of 1200 pupils. But that's not what he means, is it?

This is shocking racism from Jenrick and Badenoch should sack him immediately. No further comment necessary. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The far right, & I include today's Tories in that group, look at what Trump has done in the US with envy, but also see it as a blueprint. They tried to copy his assault on cultural institutions, & they will attack the independence of the justice system if they ever have power again. #r4today

“Some suggest are racist”??????? Of course it’s bloody racist.

We've already seen judges and lawyers being targeted as "enemies of the people". This increases risk of threats/attacks, while undermining judiciary as a whole. Couple it with Tory plans to scrap immigration tribunals and legal aid for people seeking asylum and it shows utter contempt for the law.

And yet, if anyone in the press calls this racist (which it patently is), they’ll face more outrage than the man who lamented a shortage of white faces. So we’ll politely rebrand it as “unwise,” perhaps “ill-judged,” or “not in keeping with the spirit of inclusivity.” Sick. To. The. Back. Teeth.

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

Tories preparing to rip families apart and pull children from their beds in swat type raids...... sounds like a real vote winner to me!

I'm. Going. To. Fucking. Well. Scream. 🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬

In shocking: "most people want to eat competitively priced, good quality fresh food and don't care where it comes from or what Nigel Farage thinks" news.

I see it's going to be a day of dishonest hand-wringing, massive exaggeration, and false equivalence across the media. At times like this, why is all sense of perspective lost when it is needed most? #GMB #r4today