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Odd that Reform UK won't provide the evidence that Reform-led councils have saved £131milion.

I do hope those sensibles telling me that Labour's new policy was fair and sensible are enjoying Tommy Robinson's endorsement of it this morning. That's who you've joined. Tommy Robinson.

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.

Left: Boris Johnson attacking the BBC over Panorama's coverage of Trump on Jan 6th Right: Boris Johnson criticising Trump over Jan 6th A former British PM attacking the BBC, is that really patriotism?

Anyone who voted to leave the EU even if it would make our country and themselves worse off has no right to complain about tax rises to plug the Brexit financial hole.

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...

Sheffield Wednesday's administrator says they have "four or five" serious bidders for the club. Is it four or five?

Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI rents compute from Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia’s hardware, and Nvidia records huge sales. Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-cir...

Anyone who insisted we leave the EU even if it makes our country worse off has no right to complain about tax rises to plug the £40billion Brexit financial hole.

It's also not "just another" extinction, it's the first from mainland Europe in centuries. CENTURIES. And there will be others within our lifetime. That's biodiversity loss. We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK personal tax-free threshold of £12750 needs to be increased annually in line with inflation.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a proposal to “stop requiring thousands of polluting facilities to report the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that they release into the air”. Polluters will be able to break the law in secret.

Free speech: lies and misinformation are now justified.

Richard Tice, Reform’s deputy leader, last week called for the ban to be lifted, describing shale gas as “energy treasure under our feet” and saying it would be “grossly financially negligent to a criminal degree to leave that value underground and not to extract it”. And yet...

If a Secretary of State for Housing admits to not paying stamp duty on a house, should he/she resign?

Trump rules out Ukraine reclaiming Crimea.

The new left party in the UK should be called 'True Labour'.

What will Trump voters do when the 'Big Beautiful Bill' makes them significantly worse off?

How many UK personnel in US military bases in the Middle East are now at risk?

Well done to Adil Ray for pointing out the hypocrisy of the govt. When in opposition they called on the govt to publish the legal advice it had received on Israels action, but now they are in govt they refuse to publish it #GMB

Government whip Vicky Foxcroft has resigned after saying she cannot support government plans to reform disability benefit

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Two Tory things that cost way more than they should: HS2 and H2O.

AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

I told you we’d be back

The CBI are right to call this an anchor on ambition. We need to break the link - stop the price of gas setting the price of the wind and sun. It’s bonkers. In 2023 we paid £43bn more than we needed to. buff.ly/lBnuryJ

Call for British citizens to ‘have their say’ five years on from Brexit transition www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

Zsa-zsa Korda for president!

To lose one MP, Mr Farage, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose an MP and your chairman looks like carelessness.

Reform UK Party Ltd: 2 directors- Nigel Farage and Richard Tice. The 'person of significant control' is 'Reform 2025 Ltd' with 75% shares. Reform 2025 Ltd is a private company limited by guarantee without share capital. Directors are Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf. Yusuf has resigned as party chairman.

Couldn't agree more.

'Labour’s £13.2bn warm homes plan will not face cuts in spending review' >> Good to see & a victory for Ed Miliband www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My call for an independent inquiry into the UK's role in Gaza has passed its 1st reading in Parliament. We will establish the truth over the UK’s complicity in genocide - and we will bring about justice for the Palestinian people.

Trump's phone call with Putin reveals that Trump is now merely an international reporter - not a peace negotiator.

Has this Labour government ‘allowed the biggest influx of migrants in British history’? No. fullfact.org/politics/ric...

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

How much better did he say we would be after Brexit? Hmmm...

So, according to Dominic Cummings, for Farage to become PM he has to change the Reform UK Party. So the party will become something the members did not join.

Richard Tice says we need to adapt to climate change. Climate change committees and Flooding committees are set up to help us to adapt to climate change. Why are Reform led councils scrapping committees that are doing what Richard Tice wants?

Byline Times.

Er... in the 2024 general election I heard a Tory MP 'still' blaming Labour after 14 years!

Boyle: We just verified with the congressional budget office and of 13.7 million Americans who will lose their health care because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants

It's great news that this profoundly selfish landowner has been beaten in court, and many congrats to the National Park and those supporting it. But wild camping is a fundamental right that we should be able to exercise in many parts of England, not just Dartmoor. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Johnson put a border in the Irish Sea, sold out the fishing industry, all SMEs trading with the EU, our farmers, universities, musicians, young people, scientists, all of us… And now he sits in the mess he made throwing insults at those who are clearing up after him. What a monumental piece of shit.

Good old Daily Mail.