Richard

Last week, a close acquaintance of Farage called Kemi Badenoch a 'Nigerian scammer.' This morning, Farage was asked if he believed the comments were racist - what followed was a car-crash.

Thank you to the hundreds of devoted supporters who were there to cheer me on at the press conference today.

If these dinosaurs look a little odd, it’s because they were made before the Museum was open! 🦖 These are miniature models of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, which were created when very little was known about these beasts. Have you heard of them before?

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It won't be long before Reform supporters start bashing the Bishop.

It's unfair to compare the lives of John Cleese and Michael Palin. The fact that Michael enjoyed a long and happy marriage, a positive and interesting career, was kind, self effacing and generous might be reasons he's happy and John Cleese isn't.

Britain could move much closer to the European Union within months under a new “Switzerland plus” arrangement, according to one of the European Parliament’s most senior trade figures.

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It is imperative that our survival be disconnected from employment and connected instead to citizenship, or even better, a basic human right to existence. The arrangement we have of dependence on finding an employer to sponsor our survival cannot and should not be considered by anyone as being just.

UBI is the firmer upgraded foundation. Above that we can build a better house.

Not true. Did you read the final report? I did. There's a lot of misinformation out there that it looks like you fell for. Here's a good summary. www.mckinsey.com/industries/s...

Andy Burnham is trying to get us back in the EU, no doubt about that. Every single (normal) person in this country should get behind him.

🚨Our new research reveals the UK could rejoin the EU within a single Parliament. Reports that accession would take a decade are wide of the mark. Read more in the @financialtimes.com 👇 www.ft.com/content/3aa9...

"Tax our wealth and provide basic income and we'll all leave and everyone will stop working," says the person with way too much wealth who never stops wanting more more more more more.

Every person has worth before they have a job. When the system can't employ someone, the system has failed, not the person.

This is why, when Republicans use the word socialism to tag Democrats, it has no relationship with the actual definition of the word. bsky.app/profile/atru...

somewhere his wife is like “wait what”

Listening to Badenoch’s speech on catch up. She says she left Uni in 2003. Debated which job she would walk into. Without irony blamed Labour for all this country’s employment issues since. Pretending neoliberalism did not destroy this country. Thatcher. 2008 crash. Austerity. Brexit. Covid.

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The work that makes money relies on the vast amount of work that doesn't. Basic income recognizes both, supporting the work such as that of care, creative work, research and study, and acting in the commons.

"Being poor is living in one long emergency, with no resources." An emergency doesn't ask if you've proven you deserve help first, it demands a response. A basic income is that response, a standing floor so no one has to survive crisis after crisis with nothing to fall back on.

The hypocrisy

Jeremy Clarkson, the ardent remainer….rocks up at the Tory Party conference singing their praises? Well money and racism are just too good to pass.

You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.

Every single leader of Reform UK is an ex member of the Tory Party responsible for 14 years of austerity which killed thousands of old, poor, sick and disabled people Don't listen to their promises to make life better They are the problem "From one bin to another......" via We Demand UK

He literally set off a bomb in a UK street. If this had been the IRA Pierce would calling for them to be hung, drawn and quartered. This is domestic terrorism pure and simple. A bomb set off to terrorise with the aim of getting a government to change its policy. Literally a textbook definition.

Amazon is moving $8 billion of Nvidia chips into an investment vehicle so outside investors can own them and lease the chips back to Amazon. AI compute is literally becoming an income-producing financial asset. The government could do something similar, claim a percentage, and distribute UBI to us.

Welfare asks "do you qualify?" A right asks "are you a member of the community?" Basic income is more than money. It's a claim, a right to access, our shared share of what we all inherit and build together.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Rishi Sunak called an early election because he feared Braverman was attempting to cause civil unrest with her clampdown on protests. If that unrest followed she would have pushed her party to invoke martial law to stop the election and the Tories in power. Sunak saved us.

Senator Schmitt accuses Coach Beard of being at the Atlanta Hawks game on February 3, 2024 when he was actually at an AFC Richmond versus West Ham United game.

A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

President Macron, "Brexit has cost the UK 8% of GDP.. Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years" My view: Brexit was sold as a route to greater prosperity: less bureaucracy, more money, new trade opportunities Instead, Britain put new barriers between itself and its largest trading market.

SNAP POLL / By 48% to 28%, Britons support Andy Burnham's proposal to change the triple lock in order to help fund part of a national care service

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Ending the triple lock and how to sell it. Combine pensions with social care. Done.

It’s happening. Oxford Street is going traffic-free on Monday 26 October. The transformation of the nation’s high street into a world-class pedestrianised space will begin in earnest four weeks from today.

The food people need is in grocery stores. They just need the permission slips (cash) to access it. Food banks should not exist. They are a symptom of failed policy. They exist because universal basic income doesn't. We need UBI and it's a fight because the people doing this are doing it on purpose: