Right, that's it. I'm founding a new populist party of the centre called Go Outside!

The Tories oversaw the near collapse of the criminal justice system which effectively decriminalised rape, they have nothing to say to rape victims & survivors who are being repeatedly failed so blame foreign perps, even when the perps are British, & ignoring how rape is about violent men not race.

As James says, a remarkable piece. Striking that these people cannot *even* take the low-hanging fruit of “unlike Labour we would not nationalise the railways“.

A family’s world has been turned upside down and potentially destroyed because America’s dipshit cops thought a famous Yves-Saint-Laurent perfume was a narcotic.

You gotta know the guy who pitched this had the best meeting of their life

this is actually extraordinary and a lot of it's been done just by asking people to drive basically any car produced since 2007. almost no cars later than that (and some earlier) comply with ULEZ - it's not forcing everyone into a Tesla, it's incredibly basic improvements

This is why a shutdown kicking the country into a recession is a good thing for us.

Implicit in all of these arguments is the idea that the British government, with a huge majority, has no power to shape opinion, and must therefore simply meekly accept growing extremism.

The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)

In addition, I think also: politics is about argument! When I say 'the free movement of services, goods, capital and people is good for growth', I am not saying it because it is popular, but because it is true. It is in fact racist to say that mixed-race people should be deported!

this is not the point I know but I looked up who wrote this and I'm not familiar but why does his byline photo make him look like one of those 68 year old men who takes selfies from straight on and then replies to pornbots with things like "hullo prety lady"

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

Says the party that has been constantly pandering to right-wing populism. You people have embarrassed yourselves with the flag craze and the fixation of appearing ‘tough’ of immigration. It’s Labour, via the Hard Labour/Blue Labour nonsense, which is taking our country down a dark path.

What gets me about the merger of the neo-Powellites and the Thatcherites is that they're genuinely incapable of actually providing a program for economic reconstruction and growth in the UK short of "let's do shock therapy but with a immigration police state"

close-knit communities where everyone knows everyone and everyone is involved in everyone are basically a panopticon of curtain-twitchers leveraging the threat of total ostracism over anyone who goes against the grain

One of the best things about Liberalism is that it freed people from the tyranny of communal and traditional rule.

Getting mighty tired of the meme on here of “oh, it is just so difficult for the government to set the agenda”. The government (which literally employs thousands of press officers) is setting the agenda - it’s just that it is setting it on toxic ground it can’t win.

If you picked *at random* from Labour‘s 2001 manifesto and 2025 programme for government you would have a better hit rate at finding collateral for “Labour is more leftwing than it was in 2001” than Matthew Syed has got *by choice*!

The thing that gets me is it’s Hong Kong people and Ukrainians, two groups we were repeatedly assured Britain welcomed, but make them a line on a graph and now they’re the Enemy

Think this is absolutely true - so much is written about boys and Andrew Tate - Tate is more popular with grown men than boys!

If only we had a Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. It would be really nice if that position existed and its occupant could use their position to hold the BBC accountable for serious racism-minimising nonsense like this!

The fear among higher ups at the BBC whenever they have to accurately describe far right policies tells you they know no matter how many soft brush portraits of sex offenders & wife beaters they do the vast majority of people will hate them so they won’t win. Clear the whole lot out yesterday

If they don’t pull someone in & fire them by the end of today over this then they might as well give up now. Mass deportation plans are how Reform describe them so this is clearly a sweaty failure panicking at his people finding out what his special friends are actually like

Once again the right see betrayal rather than their own failure. He didn’t abandon your ideas he implimented them - the reason nothing works now is because your ideas are worthless

And what happened to progressive internationalism? Did we just decide it's too much like hard work to see foreigners as people too? Just... setting fire to 200 years of what being "on the left" centrally meant...

Every time i see a starmer interview i have the sense hes a fundamentally normie labour voter whos very frustrated there isnt a "fix this" button that you press and it fixes the country

The desperate need of the respectable racist class for a champion they're not embarrassed of, and the media's hunger for a MAGA voice that speaks in full sentences without explicitly mentioning the 14 words, has elevated the most pathetic scrappings off the bottom of the world's saddest barrel.

He should’ve said this last week. Then again, cowardice is a pattern with Starmer.

How exactly do you even go about proving "social worth" in a manner which doesn't base rights on earnings and which everyone, including Brits, would meet the standards of? I know I would definitely struggle.

So... you can pay your taxes and abide by the laws like all British nationals but unless you're doing something EXTRA (undefined) that those British nationals prob aren't doing and aren't expected to do, you can't stay? Nice loophole in human rights law she's found there. What a fascist asshole.

The radicalisation happening of UK elites is bad, bodes ill for the future, but is also, to be clear, really really funny quite a lot of the time.

So we should laugh about it. But it demonstrates how a lot of people are consuming and feeding a toxic misinformation environment that won’t always be a laughing matter.

Funny but also illustrates how conspiracy mentality sends people completely mad - and this is very dangerous for a mature, civil democratic politics.

At this point someone in the Labour leadership needs to call out Farage's devotion to an American government that seems to be hellbent on waging war against American cities

The death of shame and its consequences, especially for public figures, is a huge reason why we are in this place as a country. Shame as a concept is imperfect and can be abused, but we should absolutely be able to say that people with horrific, hateful beliefs must be made pariahs.

Do not surrender. Do not log off. Do not permit Lord Glasman to have sex with his wife

it is utterly wild how Labour just is incapable of viewing people they think are part of the "woke" PMC as *part* of their voter base honestly

Increasingly I'm just a bit like, I don't think of myself as a vanguard of some PMC liberal metropolitan elite. I'm a middle-class but struggling at times tranny academic who lives in Newport. I'm not really at the centre of anything. I just believe in things.

Not the point of this piece exactly but a great example of how chatbot validation could increase polarization www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...

In defence (?) of the author of this dreck, they have arguably worked their way into a more coherent and intellectually defensible position than the “Farage is right, don’t vote for him!” Blue Labour line in that they are closing in fast on “Farage is right, do vote for him”

... what

sorry, do we believe in rehabilitation or not? this seems absolutely designed to make anyone who has committed an offence into a pariah and further cement the cycle of resentment, exclusion and offending www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

Nearly half of British adults believe a majority of immigrants to this country in the last year came here illegally. Just under a third (32%) believe the majority came here legally and a further one in five (20%) don't know.

It's kind of insane how you can split opinion on the British immigration system into "people who know *anyone* who has to interact with it" and "everyone else"

I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have

I think at this point the mantra that applied to the US media - they like Trump and want him to win - also applies to our media with Farage.

The way pwople cover these drives me crazy. Theres litwrally no new information here.

Aside from anything else, I do not understand why Labour feel the need to issue mea culpas on their immigration stance when they weren’t in power from 2010-2024.

Well, this is a hot mess of dog whistles and utter nonsense. For a speech claiming to tackle "toxic" and "poisonous" rhetoric Starmer leans heavily into pandering to the usual misinformation about migrants and portraying anti-immigration ideals as "patriotic" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...