Gary Neville said let’s“get back to a country of love, peace and harmony" What does anyone object to about that?

How to lose friends and alienate people

Incredible how all the commentators are jumping on Gary Neville, yet they had no questions about how Farage paid for his Clacton house or Gill’s links to Russia. Almost like they can only process the bits of the truth they like…

Stephen Yaxley Lennon. Convicted for… - assaulting an officer in 2005 - assault at a neo-Nazi rally in 2011 - football hooliganism in 2011 - using a false passport in 2013 - mortgage fraud in 2014 - contempt of court in 2019 - stalking a woman in 2021 - libel in 2024 What a patriot.

An appreciation post for Maia Sandu. Stands up for democracy and stood up to Moscow. The more leaders like her, the stronger Europe will be.

Whatever people think, Rachel Reeves is right when she says this. The greatest threat to working people’s way of life is Nigel Farage and Reform. When Labour delivers an upgrade to workers’ rights, Reform try to block it. When Labour stands with allies, Reform sides with Putin.

Trying to catch Starmer out on buying a field when there were hardly any questions about Farage’s Clacton house is quite the irony #bbclaurak

Reform UK's former leader in Wales has admitted taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia while being a Member of the European Parliament. Yet this is the party of patriotism apparently?

Respect Ange for showing working class people can make it in politics and inspiring many

Stunning to see so many people praising Farage for flying to another country to attack his own country.

Increased instances of this is partly a result of Farage and divisive media rhetoric. Division benefits their narrative. The irony is the nurse has contributed far more to society through her work than these two ever will.

Interesting polling from More in Common on Lucy Connolly More than half think sentence was too lenient or about right. Only a third it was too harsh. Only 18% think politicians should associate themselves her, 51% think they should distance themselves from her Lessons for Reform and Conservatives?

So Reform, the so called champions of free speech, on the back of their Nottingham Live ban debacle now say they would consider banning “any other media outlet” which they “consider to be consistently misrepresenting” them. Is that democracy? Free speech works both ways.

Now is the time for Labour to take on Farage, before the media narrative becomes too hard to reverse. Brexit has cost the UK 4% of GDP, his Net Zero scrapping is unworkable, his deportation plans unfeasible and his economics a fantasy. Obvious targets - they need to use them.

When will the media realise that just because Farage says something is an emergency, it doesn’t mean it’s the gospel truth and needs to be covered like that.

Why are people wilfully pushing misinformation that the government sentence and lock people up - we don’t have political prisoners and we should be glad about it. They should look at countries where governments do lock people up and feel glad the UK isn’t like that.

This encapsulates one of the biggest challenges Labour faces. It’s not their policy, it’s disastrous Conservative policy that Labour are trying to fix. Would the headline be the same if Labour had been in power for the previous 14 years and the Conservatives for one?

Reform UK’s home shirt is made in Britain. Most of its other merchandise is not. For a party that wants to repatriate supply chains, this is an oddly export-oriented wardrobe.

Incredible you have idiotic, despicable people like this in 2025. Bravo Semenyo - show them up with your talent!

Farage warns Britain’s "lawless” and "near collapse”. Meanwhile violent crime halved, robberies down 60%, burglary down two-thirds, air and water cleaner, road deaths and killer diseases halved. Britain has positives, the govt need to show it Farage's arguments falling apart.

Reading X, you’d think no asylum hotels existed until Labour came to power last year Numbers in asylum hotels have fallen since 2024. There’s more to do, but the hypocrisy of some like Jenrick who could’ve addressed this is an astounding combination of hypocrisy and opportunism

By 2030 it is estimated Brexit is likely to have cost the UK around £1,000 billion in aggregate lost GDP based on analysis of sources including OBR, NIESR, LSE, and Rabobank. Would you trust Farage with the economy when he championed an act of such economic self harm?

Just had a very uneventful day in London - work, cycled, played football and all was calm and pleasant. Much more boring and than many would have you believe, but don’t let the doom, gloom and a big helping of lies get you down.

Yes immigration needs to be addressed, but how come you never see Farage and his media grandstanders talk about the progress the UK has made from climate to air quality to reducing crime. The numbers leaving are at record lows. They talk the country down to further own agenda.

Farage loses to both Davey and Starmer. He’s a good campaigner, but do people see him as a leader? A sign of the Conservatives woes that Farage beats Badenoch though.

He’s not wrong and for all of those who will criticise, a customs union would be one of the most straight forward ways to get economic growth

Worth remembering Johnson’s Brexit aimed to control borders by ending EU free movement, but tackling illegal immigration has got tougher Losing EU cooperation like the Dublin Regulation and limited returns (only 5 to EU in 2021) has actually helped increase small boat crossings

The faux outrage on Peter Kyle's comments vs. the free pass Farage gets from a lot of commentators is quite something to see. If Farage had said it, they'd be praising and championing free speech. Double standards?

Yessssss!!!

The interesting thing about the polls is that if Reform win Wales, they'll have three years before the next election to show if they can deliver. The evidence to date suggests they're going to be found out.

Great to see the historic UK-India trade deal signed. Potential to boost trade by £25.5B, create 1000s of jobs and reduce tariffs on UK goods. A government win for growth, innovation and stronger ties with the world’s fastest-growing economy.

Can anyone explain how Farage got on #bbclaurak again?

I get the tube pretty regularly and am still yet to see one of these graffitied carriages GB News presenters post. Where are they finding these trains?

Two contradictions with tariffs 1. Tariffs on some goods are a tax on producing others. Hit steel or aluminum with tariffs, and you raise costs for US manufacturers, making their products less competitive globally. 2. If goal is to counter China, why slap 25% tariffs on Japan and South Korea?

Today’s confirmation of the Afghan data breach reveals one of the worst security failures in recent memory, where up to 33,000 Afghans who aided UK forces had their details exposed. Lives were put at risk and a super-injunction hid it Accountability now must follow.

You won’t have seen it widely covered, but yesterday Labour launched the £500 million social impact fund to transform children and youth services and into which social investors may add an additional £500 million. Another brilliant initiative to help future generations.

The hypocrisy from Farage and Braverman on immigration should be explained They campaigned for Brexit, but ironically when the UK was in the EU it could return asylum seekers to the first EU country they arrived in. With Brexit, the right was lost They seem to avoid this point

Solid performance from Starmer this #PMQs Still very unclear what the Conservative vision for the UK is or what they’d do differently

Lisa Nandy is set to tell the Israeli Ambassador she believes the BBC is “institutionally antisemitic”. Interesting take as recent analysis by the Centre for Media Monitoring showed the opposite, coupled with refusal to show the documentary on Gaza hospitals that C4 did.

Worth noting Labour bringing back Sure Start should be getting more headlines. A brilliant Blair-era policy scrapped by successive govts. It gave kids the best start in life, backed by evidence, and its removal hit families hard. Good to see it return. Credit where it’s due.

Worth noting the economy is growing at 0.7%, inflation is down from 11.1% down to 3.6% and the UK is the fastest growing economy in the G7 9(albeit growth needs to increase), Sharing to balance out the constant criticism of the government.

Interesting data - In 2022, Israel authorised 4,427 new housing units on the West Bank. A year later it was 12,349. This year it’s expected to be around 50,000, the highest number since 1993, 40% of which will be entirely outside Israeli border areas.

Nobody comes out of the welfare debate well. Conservatives let it balloon whilst pushing more people out of the economy. The government will need revisions to get it through. In its current state, the welfare state is unsustainable, but changes need to be fair. #PMQs

The 9 year Brexit anniversary was an odd mix of vote leave figures saying it’s been a great success despite no evidence to support this and others who said if they were delivering it, it would have been a success None of them seem feel a sense of accountability for the negative impacts it has had

Just watched the Grenfell Tower documentary on Netflix - moving and heartbreaking. Having grown up near it, it’s beyond belief there hasn’t been more people held accountable for it. Hopefully this can keep up the pressure so one day there is justice.

Becoming more relevant after today #bbclaurak

Where to begin…

Mel Stride can say Reeves has a spend now, tax later policy, but Johnson was the one of the most careless spending PMs in history - a new project or funding any time he was in trouble Govt needs to show there’s a growth agenda - cuts and taxes only gets you so fat #bbclaurak

Very odd the BBC wanted to prioritise content for Reform. Everyone pays an equal license fee so why should one group get priority in content. What exactly will the output be? Endless would I lie to you reruns and Farage highlight reels from Question Time?

Oh the irony of Farage. He goes to Port Talbot today and says he stands with the workers. Rewind to 2023 - he was happy to let British Steel go bust. He doesn’t have any interest in Port Talbot or steel workers. Just his own profile.