Ian Fozzy Foster

As a retired maths teacher I've always been convinced maths teaching in schools should contain far more arithmetic.

Leicestershire County Council worker resigned due to the way she was ‘treated and spoken to’ by Reform councillors www.meltontimes.co.uk/news/politic...

In case you missed it ... The EU's Single Market for Energy facilitates the cheaper sale of surplus energy between member states BEFORE it reaches the open market. Thanks to Brexit, we're no longer a part of that scheme, which means we have to pay more than EU members do. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

"Lest we forgot: To congratulate any person or business who stops the [fascists] in their tracks at every given opportunity" via The UK Against Hate

There's another way of putting this: "Markets prefer fascists" www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

Love Tony's 'quote picks here' - and a reminder that the damn thing is still just 99p on ebooks but only for the next 36 hours www.tonyturton.com/notorious-by...

Agree with this completely. It's amazing how many potentially important questions are not asked as a result. "'Are you going to call an early election?’ is perhaps the most useless question that Prime Ministers get asked" libdemnewswire.substack.com/p/perhaps-th...

“For more than eight hours, we were held, interrogated and made to feel as though we had done something wrong simply by attempting to enter.” - Clive Lewis

25,000 people have signed our petition calling for Andy Burnham to block the Thames Water bailout. Add your name today. 👉weownit.org.uk/StopTheBailout👈

The Staffordshire Shitshow Reform UK Leader in Staffordshire, Martin Murray has just resigned. That’s another fash in the pan Reform UK leader.

Luckily, there’s no chance the Tories will win the next election… and their threat to leave the ECHR will be one reason why. They’re incapable of facing up to the damage they’ve already done with Brexit. And now they want to huff out of our human rights framework to abuse power more easily. Ffs.

This morning on BBC Breakfast, Nigel Farage said he had received “zero help from the state” with his security. Yet reports say he had previously received publicly funded protection and was offered a taxpayer-funded package including a bodyguard, a secure car and a trained driver.

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

Every aspect of Farage's political history needs close inspection for corruption ... "Transparency International EU calls for investigation into Nigel Farage Brexit campaign use of EU funds" transparency.eu/transparency...

Yes. We must not be pushed back into the arguments of 2016 by a media too invested in Brexit to change tack. It’s been a shitshow. The world is a very different place. Voters know this. Let’s put the ‘Brexit betrayal’ crap firmly in the bin and tell today’s story. Which is that Brexit is for losers.

It's not just about climate chaos. It's also about landscape chaos. The damage we do to the land's hydrology is layered on top of the damage we do to the atmosphere. Our mismanagement of land commits us to a cycle of flood and drought. We can change this, as explained here. Please read. Thanks.

Why are the people who accuse those talking about reversing Brexit of "living in the past" never asked about their own plans to rip up an international agreement that was first signed by the UK some 75 years ago?

Yes 👏 Finally, a Prime Minister being honest about the damage Brexit has done - and the only real option on the table. EU membership. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e36kyk1qx5o

'I will never move ahead of the British public when it comes to Brexit' Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he will not return the UK to EU freedom of movement rules without a referendum, after his call at the weekend for an “honest discussion” on the issue

The toilets on my train aren’t working but if you need to go, let the guard know & they’ll hold the train while you do your business in Leamington Spa. I feel like I’m in a Victoria Wood song.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Politico: The BBC reports that "Jack Ross, the former Tory activist who appeared to offer to “broker” the hiring of contract killers, previously worked for CCHQ undertaking social media work until earlier this year. A party spokesperson said his membership has been suspended"

“Andy Burnham admitted he is considering allowing freedom of movement… …as pro-EU groups warn Brexit has left a black hole of up to £240bn in economic growth”

“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

Meghan deserves the compassion any family would expect when facing relentless pressure—not another royal media circus. Ordinary parents worry about protecting their children; Meghan and Harry are no different. Why is basic kindness so hard when royal reputations are at stake? #AbolishTheMonarchy

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

The billionaire press always tell lies to denigrate protests against poverty so Governments aren't forced to #TaxTheRich "Lest we forgot: The majority of people protesting in Westernised nations are white – don't fall for the false right wing political and media narrative" via The UK Against Hate

Terri White, "The reality is, we have seen negative consequences (from Brexit)" "(Rejoiing the EU) will give us flexibility in terms of trade, skills" "And this is how young people, especially young working class people, used to experience the world"

The ex director of communications for David Cameron pushing the narrative that the welfare budget is out of control. Not true of course.

Reform UK Matt Goodwin warns that Labour could "crash the economy" like Truss did, forgetting - he's appeared on Liz Truss Show AFTER her budget - Nigel Farage heaped praise on Truss, called her budget the best 'since 1986' (which widened gap between very rich & poor) meme via Love Not Hate

Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

Farage has said he's not racist, the British public knows he's not racist, and he's 'never directly racially abused anybody' - so why ... "A Reform propaganda pamphlet masquerading as a newspaper features a councillor who has made vile racist comments online" via Jessica Brooking

Jeremy Hunt criticises Labour for having a million NEETs, even though 872,000 of them were under a Conservative gov He then argues against FOM because Europeans will come to Britain and take jobs, conveniently ignoring that some of those NEETs could go to other European countries to find employment

Kemi Badenoch and Jacob Rees-Mogg, both Conservatives, criticised Andy Burnham for appearing on Gogglebox Here's Boris Johnson appearing on Eastenders when he was Mayor of London The double standards are extraordinary.

1. Freedom of Movement benefits both sides. 2. It's the freedom to live, love, study, work, set-up business and retire across 30+ countries. 3. The Posted Workers Directive has been reformed, so there's no threat of EU workers undercutting British workers. 4. EU workers often only stay temporarily.

Rich Reform UK MPs love to - stimatise needy benefits claimants - claim massive "expenses" "Benefits-bashing Reform UK MP Suella Braverman claimed £45,000 in parliamentary expenses towards her water bills, newly-emerged files show - leaving the taxpayer on the hook" www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Poll finds that in a head to head Burnham would comfortably win against every other party leader.

“The evidence is really clear in terms of 20% down in exports to the EU, 16,000 businesses no longer exporting to the EU, it has been the red tape on the EU deal we got, has been damaging to the economy” Angela Rayner

And true to form, Farage and the Tories (Philp) respond by being totally dishonest about it… Freedom of movement with the EU requires EU citizenship. Immigration requires visas. Talk of ‘betrayal’ and ‘uncontrolled migration’ is the mark of a liar or a fool. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I warned 3 years ago that mink farms are a likely route to a new and horrific human pandemic, and once more I'm fervently praying it doesn't map out that way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How odd that so many Reform UK policies are just like those of the Nazis in the 1930s as they vied for popularity, before revealing their true vicious, brutal, genocidal selves ... meme via Lily Rose

Remember this? James O'Brien interviewed Nigel Farage during the 2014 European election campaign, when the UKIP leader was attracting attention for his comments about immigration and foreign languages.

We know why…..

Three Labour peers have been criticised by one of their party colleagues after speaking at the ‘Battle of Ideas’ festival It's sponsored by a Reform mega-donor and last weekend partnered with a far-right bookshop, which sells books by Joseph Goebbels and Oswald Mosley and demands "remigration now"

HMRC to deduct money directly from bank accounts of tax evaders John Healey is expected to announce changes at the budget, targeting lower-value tax-evaders who owe a total of £4bn www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The kindest thing to do now would be to ignore her, but she makes it very difficult.