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Good to hear Rachel Reeves finally attack the 2 child benefit cap - but if Labour were so much against it, why’s it taken them so long to scrap it? And why were Labour MPs suspended for saying *exactly* the same last year? There’s no moral high ground here #budget2025

Great moments in football programmes, part 7235253 This week: the Grand Medieval Gala Day advert, and the clash of traditional rivals: Luton Town vs the Playboy Club XI #LutonTown #LTFC (From the Luton vs Bolton football programme, 13/09/1975)

If you need proof that when Reform UK politicians wave the 🇬🇧Union Flag🇬🇧, it's not patriotism, it's just manipulation. The Reform Party leader, waving the Union Jack in this photo was literally a Russian Spy.

Acid test of the UK voting public in the next few polls and locals: do they give a fuck that Farage is an unapologetic racist? I'm not that hopeful.

The silence about Nigel Farage's anti-Semitism from so many of those who attacked Jeremy Corbyn over his connections to anti-Semites is absolutely deafening. It's almost as if they were never actually bothered about anti-Semitism, isn't it?

Happy days. A spirited Luton performance and victory under the Kenilworth Road floodlights. Plus some delayed karma has been delivered. #ltfc

Promoting hate to win votes, draconian laws to stop protest, are two common policies of all fascists currently being enacted by Starmer's Labour meme via Expose Racism

Your Shoot! profile of the day This week: Jimmy Husband of Luton Town If I had a nickel for every time someone wanted to meet Enoch Powell etc etc...... (From the Shoot! Summer special, 1974) #Shoot #Shootmagazine #LutonTown #LTFC

What we are witnessing is the rise of the ABC - the Average British Cunt. They’ve always been around, the ABCs. A dull, resentful, grumbling presence in the background of national life. But now they’ve been radicalised, organised, mobilised. The ABCs dictate the agenda about literally everything.

🏁 FULLTIME — Barnsley 4–0 Luton. League One #barnsley #luton #leagueone

This is outrageous from Keir Starmer. ‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ?? news.sky.com/story/starme...

Dale is right of course however, I fear the likes of Farage, Tice etc have made the subject of immigration so toxic that a sensible, reasoned debate is out of the question.

Big Mick's had a great day's cricket to enjoy in Perth with the Hatters Down Under supporting England in the #Ashes2025 🏏

Reform voters don’t care that Farage said racist things, because they’re racist. The left aren’t convinced by this performance of outrage because Labour are enacting racist policies while calling Farage a racist. This is for no one.

I am astonished. Only one paper has this astonishing story that Starmer has defected to the Green Party! #SyntaxMatters #Illiterate

UK and Norway won nature's lottery in 1970 - found oil/gas in the North Sea. UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations. Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies. Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis. UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.

One of the finest songs to come out of Luton. Lol Turvey is no longer with us, but one of the things about creatives is that you can live on through your work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiyL...

What the Labour Party used to understand was that it wasn’t that immigration was tearing the country apart, but that immigration was what was holding the country together. Immigration kept our NHS going, our transport system going, our education and much more. It’s still true. They must know it.

Farage latest:

Or what Labour voters have to say about these matters. So if you're not doing it for Reform voters, and you're not doing it for Labour voters ... who the fuck are you doing it for?

Sammy Pinnington signs Newcastle United contract as teenage winger hits 17 https://www.eucup.com/1371483/ Sammy Pinnington has signed his first professional contract for Newcastle United. Arriving from Luton Town three years ago, the teenage winger signing this new deal as he turns 17. Sammy …

Shout it loud

July 2024 - Labour are elected on the basis of Starmer being a dull but competent PM. No drama just focused on fixing the basics. November 2025 - Now the least popular PM ever Starmer announces plans for mass deportations, the seizure of immigrant wealth and the indentured labour of migrants.

As much as I love a good deal, I absolutely love this from Union St Gilloise 👏👏

The brutal truth is Labour and Tories over the last 40 years have basically wrecked the UK and we’ve let them or actively encouraged them.

Labour look far worse than the Tories. At least the awful Tories told us they were evil. Labour lied to all of us. Why would anyone vote for a racist Labour Party? Proper scum

and even the Romans couldn't cope with it and it was just left as a blank spot on all their maps of Londinium. HM Revenue And Customs also only has a few sentences from the Domesday Book of the 11th century when dealing with all statistical questions involving Luton.

Farage/Robinson et al are incredibly quiet about the continuing scandals of abuse in churches and schools. Almost as if the victims don't matter to them. Wonder why? 🤔

Sadly Farage’s supporters will never see this

AI-generated nazi and racist songs are "flooding" Spotify. There are many alternatives to Spotify, which offer just as much choice (in better audio quality) and reward musicians more fairly. Buying physical albums and CDs? Even better. Staying on Spotify is no different to staying on X.

Of all the people I'd have on a list to be plotting against Kier Starmer, I would never have put the moral-free vacuum in human form that is Wes Streeting on it.

OTD 120 years ago (11/11/1905) the United League game between Luton Town and #CPFC was abandoned after 85 minutes due to bad light. Palace led 1:0 (Watkins) and it was the first of 16 Palace games (to date) to be abandoned. Palace won the replayed game 2:1 (Needham, Thompson G) 100 days later.

‘We never had much fun – we were angry’: Eve Libertine on life with anarcho-punk pioneers Crass

The Statics and The Friction:

@billybragg.bsky.social for BBC DG.

So, last night at the Hat Factory. Forgive my language (and also that I missed Stockport (a). FUCKING MAGNIFICENT. @bedlambaby2024.bsky.social

Which one is more English?

Yes Luton are scum. With you on Everton and Sunderland.

X is designed to radicalise people. The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain. Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

We see something similar in the UK. Most benefits go to people IN WORK. Because there are not enough properly paid jobs. Rather than insisting employers pay decent wages, governments use taxpayers’ money to subsidise employers who don’t. Welfare was not meant to support employers. This is wrong

Clear as day now. Not a single UK government department, local authority or institution should be still on X by the end of the week

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Vacancy: Social media manager at Luton Town FC careers.lutontown.co.uk/jobs/6715471... #mediajobs

[August 16th, 1980] West Ham's poor first-half finishing cost them as Luton Town won 2-1 in a match featuring three penalties, with David Moss scoring twice for Luton.

Nakamba to Host European Trials for Three Bulawayo Youngsters BULAWAYO – Zimbabwe Warriors captain and Luton Town midfielder Marvelous Nakamba has announced that he will be facilitating football trials in Europe for three talented youngsters from his hometown of Njube, Bulawayo — a gesture that…

Of all the things that are holding back the economy, the national debt is not one. That Reeves thinks she should focus on this shows that she's taking her agenda from the Tories, not from reality. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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