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Chris Mason, "You said that the Leave campaign peddled nationalist phish during the Brexit referendum. Did you vote for Brexit?" Reform UK's candidate for Makerfield Robert Kenyon, "100% hand on heart I voted for Brexit" Chris Mason, "So who was peddling nationalistic phish? Nigel Farage?"

The cut to the audience showing almost every woman absolutely stony faced at this was quite something.

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The aftermath of last night’s riot in Southampton. Certainly doesn’t look like a peaceful protest. (photo by my friend Chris WINOBS)

A “pure, cold rage” has once again enveloped a community - leaving 11 police officers injured, a family with no new answers, and everyone talking about everything except how Henry Nowak, and so many others before him, were failed in the first place.

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

Nigel_Farage you asked for "pure cold rage." Here you go. Henry's father begged for unity. You demanded division. That's not leadership. That's incitement. And history won't be kind to those who lit the match and called it passion. 🔥

The guy in the suit at the front is part of the National Rebirth Society. An actual far right movement whose followers have a habit of dressing up like retro fascists.

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

Who the hell does Farage think he is “addressing the nation”? And why the hell does he think he has the right to trample over a family’s grief and turn their tragedy into the Farage show? What a truly despicable, deeply racist little man. There can be no pride in a country where he has power.

“Reform has the most extreme policy on energy and climate the UK has seen since modern science on the subject began. The party opposes solar; it opposes wind; it opposes batteries… Once again: Reform is largely funded by fossil fuels” Private Eye on the anti-thought, pro-corruption threat of Reform

When he was an MEP, Farage excused his absences on basis that it was an illegitimate government and that sovereignty should reside in Westminster. He's now an MP in Westminster And he's been absent for 77 Parliament votes in a row. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...

Absolutely this.

Great to see Trafalgar Square come to life for today’s Eid on the Square celebrations. Bringing together Londoners and visitors from all backgrounds to celebrate the capital's Muslim communities. Eid Mubarak! ☪️

There’s a simple reason there’s been no full inquiry into Russian interference in UK politics - money and Brexit open.substack.com/pub/thenewwo...

He intends to be an MP in 3 weeks time. If he has not read his own party manifesto and cannot commit to his view what makes anyone think he can function as an MP?

Today I will mostly be pretending that two juries of twelve people reaching the same conclusion means that the judge is in the government's pocket.

It seems so easy to find dodgy stuff on almost every Reform candidate. You could conclude their vetting is terrible but I suspect it’s worse: they do the vetting and these are precisely the kind of people they’re looking for.

Least of issues I know but this "veteran" campaign strategy really winds me up. Kenyon isn't a veteran and was never mobilised. He was in the British Army Reserve. People like my father meanwhile fought in actual wars - and though my dad also served as a councillor he'd never ever mention it.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

"English Women don't care about their bodies and just walk around with their fat bellies and odd shapes pushing a pram at 16 in their PJ’s." Robert Kenyon - Reform candidate for Makerfield. Patriot. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.

Presumably this Russian assault on him will encourage Farage to call for a full inquiry into every aspect of Russian interference in our democracy??

Not sure anything symbolises the mind-crushing tedium of Brexit more than these queues whenever we try to get away in the summer. What an utterly pointless waste of everyone’s time. “Nimble global trading nation” What horseshit. 1970s backwater more like. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Farage shouldn’t be able to control the media in this way, promoting himself when he wants to and running away when’s he’s in the shit. Stop letting him call the shots. Empty chair him. End the interview if he lies/wont answer. Refuse to be his propagandists. www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel...

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This is why Vox Pops are an absolute menace. Most people simply don't understand the true picture and yet their opinions continue to feed the narrative.

He's doing this because polls show more people in favour of Mahmoodism than against. And from a purely political POV (leaving aside morality and, yknow, thinking) that sounds sensible. But it isn't. It's spineless and moronic. Quick thread >

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BBC's second top story at 6 o'clock was the Chancellor getting heckled by some shouty twat. Not even news. Let alone top news. Into the actual item, mentioned almost in passing, the fact gov't has frozen fuel duty. It is impossible to deny the bias. You have to REALLY not want to see it.

I’ve written about Lisa Nandy’s response to the rejoin argument. She said, “If rejoining the EU is the answer, then essentially what we’re saying to people is life was fine in 2015, we just need to go back there”. But that’s not the point pro-EU folks are making 👇 open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...

For Farage, Brexit “is a reminder of how mangled his judgement is. For decades he told us Brexit would solve our problems. In fact, it impoverished us further. Labour would do well to call his bluff” The media should too. Come on, Nigel, let’s talk about Brexit. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/442...

"Coming over here, taking our jobs" update

If a candidate cannot talk about this in a Leave area, then that isn’t democracy. It’s Brexit authoritarianism. And no reputable media outlet should pander to that. If Burnham runs scared in Makerfield, is he fit to be PM? Is anyone fit if they can’t take on the Brexit shitshow?

Farage almost never talks about brexit any more. He's pivoted entirely to the issue of "illegal" migration which I a bit ironic because one of the main planks of his own leave campaign was that Brexit would stop "illegal" immigration...

How to change this debate. " Being outside the EU costs every UK household an average of £8,300 every year. But being inside again would only cost each UK household £38 every year. Do you still think we should stay out? "

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

One of the biggest mistakes by the government was to tolerate and pander to this group. Far right extremist thugs posing as patriots, who should have been clamped down on from day one www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Brexiters said we had to leave the EU in order to get all of this ... 👇 ... that the EU now has too (and on better terms). So what the hell was the point of Brexit? 🤬🤬🤬 #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

👀 WATCH Reform voters waking up to Reform policies, brilliant 🤩 Privatising NHS… Oh Jesus no. Reducing min wage… It’s not worth working as it is. Conclusion: “They’re trying to reform like a Dickensian authority where we are living in smog and no one has any rights unless you’re rich or white.”

One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.