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Good. The government is finally catching up with where voters have long been on freedom of movement. Our polling repeatedly shows clear support for the advantages it would bring. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-uk-eu-free-movement-andy-burnham-b3073929.html
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Damian Woolfenden, an 18-year-old white supremacist from Greater Manchester who glorified notorious far-right mass murderers and wrote a manifesto contemplating a firearms attack, has pleaded guilty to twelve terrorism and hate offences searchlightmagazine.com/2026/10/teen...
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What happens if the budget ignores Britain's real debt crisis? If you listen to what he will say, you'd think the national debt is our problem. It isn't. Private sector debt is three times bigger - and that is where the debt crisis will happen. youtu.be/szmZZwwtAm8?...
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Betrayed by a pension loophole, former Welsh steelworkers continue their 24-year fight for justice after the 2002 collapse of ASW | Mark Thomas
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NEWS! Carer's Allowance Cliff-Edge to end (my instant reaction). It's one of a number of pre-budget announcements that have just come out.
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Britain First has been fined twice in five weeks by the Electoral Commission, bringing its latest penalties to £8,550. And, of course, Paul Golding’s hapless members will be asked to stump up again for his incompetence. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/10/anot...
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Yet another article where a healthcare leader acts shocked and appalled about NHS staff going on strike because the service is under enormous pressure, while failing to acknowledge that the people actually dealing with the enormous pressure are… the NHS staff. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.
“The perception that promises can subsequently be revisited by a political establishment removed from the realities of working communities has left lasting scars”, writes Labour MP @melanieonnmp.bsky.social 🗣️ EU free movement debate risks undermining voter trust www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/mela...
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CEO of scandal-ridden Deloitte gets 45% pay rise to £7.1m, 1,360 jobs cut. CEO pay = 93 times median employee pay. Firm doesn't pay employer NIC on profits shared by partners, worth £150,000 for £1m profit shared. £899m shared. 108 govt contracts in 2026, worth £650m. Friends in high places.
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UK Chancellor pledges cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package of 'everyday fixes'. Fiddling at the edges. Need redistribution of income and wealth. End profiteering in housing, energy, water, essentials. Increase tax personal allowance.
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📌 ICYMI — Three Labour Peers Spoke at a Festival Sponsored by a Reform Mega-Donor – And Which Hosted a Far-Right Bookshop — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Labour MP Phil Brickell says “no respectable person” should be associated with the event and accuses his colleagues of "legitimising" Reform's…
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Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis. They profit from polluting industries, and through the ‘adaptation economy’. Super-rich buy govts, control means of production and think tanks. Victims pay higher prices for food, homes, relocations. Who governs?
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Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social is right. By almost every economic and financial measure Brexit has been disastrous for the UK and Nigel Farage knows it
Prime Minister Andy Burnham is right. One estimate is of a long term hit of 4%. Another says it’s already been 6-8%. By almost every economic and financial measure Brexit has been disastrous for the UK youtu.be/DQRzdz-7R8U?...
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Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social was correct yesterday when he blamed Brexit for small boats crisis👇 youtu.be/A6fCl-uOEVY?...
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In today's Russian papers, surprise at the the defeat of Moscow ally Aleksander Vučić in Serbia. One paper: “Russia can expect nothing good from this.” Another: “The results benefit the EU.” But several point out: “The Serbs are dependant on Russian gas.” #ReadingRussia
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