Thousands of Ukrainian children have been taken from their homes by Russia. In a landmark vote, the UN adopted a resolution condemning these abductions and demanding that the children be returned to Ukraine. We will continue our efforts until every child is safely home.

Well now that’s quite a Brexit win eh!!!** **sarcasm font

This is only happening because of Brexit! 😡 "Ministers have been accused of caving in to US demands to spend billions a year extra on drugs after pressure from Trump. The UK has agreed to pay 25% more for new medicines by 2035 as part of a US-UK drug deal estimated to cost an extra £3bn a year."

This is bilge. The asylum pact actually *speeds up* refugees getting an EU long term residence permit after 5 years (because time spent as an asylum-seeker now counts in full). Member States can still issue a national long term residence permit on more favourable terms.

Look how visibly excited Robert Jenrick is by his brilliance as a statesman; how high on his own supply. It is astonishing that this bitter, angry, talentless bingo-caller is considered a serious prospect in a major party. If he or Badenoch are the best they can do, what does it say about the rest?

On the one hand, anything to distract from reports of his increasingly well-documented, lifelong racism. On the other, if he's told some donors this (& the FT will have sourced this properly) you can be sure that he'd've told others the polar opposite if he thought that's what they wanted to hear.

Another 15 per cent are under 3 and in single parent families where all too often the children are too young - or child care is too expensive - for the mother to work.”

“The picture they are painting is completely wrong. Untrue. They are peddling lies. "The majority - 60 per cent - of children affected by the rule have a parent in work.

Gordon Brown on 2-child benefit: “Kemi Badenoch plans to run a nationwide campaign from here to the next election about what she calls ‘Benefits Street’ - telling hard pressed working families that their taxes are paying for 'welfare scroungers' to 'game' the social security system.

Is it too much to ask there will be an apology and a very long period of silence from every media outlet and journalist who accused the Chancellor of lying. I won't hold my breath.

The revision of underlying productivity trend did worsen the forecast. It is the size of the "black hole" and need for higher taxes that is denied - but those were extrapolations. Read the 4/11 transcript. Productivity downgrade was one of many factors and she simply did not rule out tax hikes.

This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post. "Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀

So much for all that bleating about being misled by the Treasury from the BBC's political editor Chris Mason ..... www.ft.com/content/48c2...

Anyone have any suggestions about surviving the death of my beautiful Dutchess? 3 weeks and I can't stop crying😭

❗️"Russia started this war, and Russia is the only country that can stop it," – Zelenskyy.

I am totally fed up with the British media as well as the politicians. They miss the actual important subject and the opportunity to inform every time as they are so intent on finding and breaking the next gotcha moment of a political figure!

I have not been informed or educated and I definitely haven't been entertained.

Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.

Well at least they have stopped talking about immigration for a minute but the serious issues that affect everyone, climate change consequences, cost of living, education, health, all still appear to be absent in parliament and in the media in favour of attacks on Reeves.

The OBR is run independently from Government. It literally was somebody else's fault. You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not

Stunned. What WERE the chances?

Canada agrees deal to participate in EU defence scheme www.politico.eu/article/cana...

So Canada can manage to negotiate involvement in the EU's SAFE defence procurement scheme and yet the UK can't

And nothing from Starmer on this 👇 bsky.app/profile/cati...

👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽 Music to my ears. ~AA

Imagine wanting this as your king

It's not easy to single-handedly save an entire council.

Preparando para una clase encontré este cuento sabio!

Jonathan Gullis, the baboons arse has joined Reform UK Ltd. There is always a tweet.

"My first reaction was that, after what happened on Wednesday, the OBR has earned itself a period of silence. It should be putting its house in order, instead of briefing against the Treasury."

It's the lack of courage of the Labour government that's most disappointing. Get on the front foot and defend tax rises, immigration etc. Stop following polls and focus groups.

New polling by Opinium on behalf of @europeanmovement.co.uk shows that, among British adults who felt Brexit had been harmful to the UK, more than three-quarters favoured the UK joining the Single Market and Customs Union as a way to lower the tax burden and boost money for public services.

Or maybe stop talking about migration altogether and start talking about the more important issues, the climate crisis, costs of housing, education, healthcare, international relations etc etc

An excellent question. Only it’s not us that satisfy these people imo but our politicians, because money talks & donations can help sway elections?

Dubai dwelling miniature Action Man made life - Ant Middleton, who is standing to be Mayor of London - thinks he's going to end up in the House of Commons if he wins the mayoral election.

If Alina Habba's family was trying to escape Iraq now Alina Habba would not let them in

Morning everyone. Why do we spend so much wasted energy satisfying the crappy agenda set by billionaires who want don’t want to contribute anything to society, when we are facing such severe problems posed by climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good morning. Gonna have a pop at multi-millionaire Dicky Tice this morning. The same Dicky Tice that hates foreigners in our country, hates muslims, is an MP for Boston & Skegness but lives in Dubai under SHARIA LAW! Having a pop at children wearing ear defenders because he's a class 1 knobhead.

Reform = Disaster

Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is an excellent, level-headed, informative piece. I'd kill for a government which could discuss the issue with the same sense of objectivity and calm.

PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

During this season of giving, let’s do what we can to give back to the communities that have given us so much. From our family to yours, have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

What did I tell you?

YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!

*GARGANTUAN* 💥 Economist for Brexit admits 🟥 Brexit made Britain poorer 🟥 Biz investment collapsed 🟥 Productivity weakened 🟥 EU-facing firms cut jobs & spending 🟥 Trade barriers drag economy down 🟥 Brexit deepened fiscal crisis 🟥 No meaningful upsides 🟥 The damage undeniable in data 🧵

Little rant alert Yet more mansplaining in the real world! “I am sorry I couldn’t be there but I hope it was explained to call the ambulance before CPR starts” FFS DO YOU THINK WE ARE IDIOTS!!! The workshop was being run by health professionals, of course it was all f@@king explained!

On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism". These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.

Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.

"The budget still weighed down by Brexit" was just said on @franceinter.fr Yep..you got that right! "Le budget toujours plombé par le Brexit"