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Remembering Aberfan – ‘All I saw was a mound of black’ www.channel4.com/news/remembe...

This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.

BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.2 billion in the three months to the end of June. These are the profits of war and climate chaos. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.

Southport murders. Farage ignores victims' parents. Riles up his base. Riots. Henry Nowak murder. Farage ignores victim's parents. Riles up his base. Riots. Murders by white people. Silence. If that's not a pattern of racially motivated incitement to riot, I don't know what is.

“Wah wah wah!” screech Reform. Spitting blame and resentment. Come on voters… don’t judge them on how they are when things are going their way. Judge them on how they cope with adversity. They have a wild and monstrous tantrum. Now, imagine that running the country. Unthinkable.

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🎄 At last night’s @bradfordcouncil.bsky.social meeting, #Bradford Conservatives brought forward a proposal to bring #Christmas Cheer ... by cutting Council Tax Support for the most vulnerable in our district ... 🗣️ I was lost for words. Luckily I had a poem prepared ... #WealthTaxNow

“Je suis Bernard Manning,” claims Nigel Farage. And so he is. But not quite in the way he meant. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uki...

On Nigel Farage's racism, of course it is possible that someone can believe one thing when they're a teenager and something completely different when they're an adult. But where is the evidence that has happened in this case? Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction

Dear Mahmood/Labour, Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X. Yours The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK

Which one is more English?

BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service. Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

Compare and contrast. Absentee MP -v- his constituency. Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood. He really couldn’t give a shit. He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream. (iPaper & BBC)

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right… What a grim betrayal of our democracy. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Hardly “well”, Peter Kyle. Get a bloody grip @labouruk.bsky.social You have a massive majority. Keep pandering to the Tories and ReFuk. And, guess what? They don’t like you any better for it. Meanwhile you are squandering the votes of those who would customarily support you. IDIOTIC.

“Nigel Farage says….” has been the headline of the decade. Look at what he does, ffs. Look at his tax affairs. Look at his grifting. Look at his lies. Look at his prejudice. Look at his allies. Look at his manifesto. Look at his Brexit. He is the embodiment of personal greed and national failure.

I've a feeling Mr Farage might very much be regretting his trip... round about ... Now 👇

Any fool blithely saying they’ve now had a bit of a think about the ECHR and we should leave - is part of why we’re now stuck in the mess of Brexit, being told by the far right to hand our human rights over to them to administer. FFS people. Have you learned nothing from the last decade of failure?

Farage’s “probity and judgment were sold as the product called Brexit. It turned out to be a piece of shit.” And, unbelievably, this Labour govt finds itself trapped because it has refused to call this out. What a profound - and now dangerous - political failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

FFS - ignoring them doesn’t make them go away. And the vacuum is filled by ever more angry bile. Farage needs to be challenged at every step - the snake oil salesman who promised leaving the EU would “give us back control” (that went well) now promising that leaving the ECHR will do the same…

The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists

Ah, there it is. The first angry "Muhammad" is the most popular baby name" tweet of summer." Just another two months til they moan about Halloween, a brief self-indulgent wallow in poppy outrage, and it'll be time for "the wokes are trying to cancel Christmas" again

Marina Purkiss, "We have a declining birthrate, an aging population, we either have immigrants and have NHS and social care, or we don't" "I can't believe Labour are making it more difficult for the social care sector to hire people. We have 131,000 vacancies"

Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

V good letter in The Guardian on Labour’s flailing hopelessness in the face of Reform. Come on, Labour. The country is crying out for better. We’re sick of this ugly rightwing agenda. It brings nothing but failure. It’s disloyal to your voters and to the country. You’ve got power and time. Use them.

Brexit hurt our economy more than COVID and PUTIN combined #RejoinEU is the biggest boost poss to our economy. In the face of cuts, when there's clear alternatives is unforgivable, and will further push people to Reform. We can't afford Brexit. Pls sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Dear Keir Starmer and John Healey Please make sure you don't spend UK taxpayers' money on sub-standard shit. Thank you

Farage's pitiful political operation is coming apart at the seams inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

I am reflecting that Trump is making a better, more colourful, more emotionally connected, louder positive case for the UK rejoining the EU than I have heard in the nearly 9 yrs since the referendum. It isn’t a question of THINKING about it. It is FEELING the project’s purpose from which it arose

Rediscovered, a young English novelist’s warning of the Nazi threat

Oh please. Since when has out-bastarding Farage ever worked? You just pull political debate to the right, punch down on the vulnerable, whip up prejudice and actually deliver naff all. Look at the last 14yrs of Farage-induced failure. For love of god, be better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Morning BlueSkyers If any of you enjoy The Trawl @thetrawl.bsky.social please can you repost this request to @bsky.app for a bookmark tab Would hugely help not having to look at the hellhole that is X 🙏🏻

The government response to the #RejoinEU petition is just as pathetic as the last government's responses. Click the link to read the response, and please sign while you're there! We need to take it out the hands of the cabinet office... petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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