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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 10h

anyone who suggests that “british people “ should be doing the dead end,low paid jobs immigrants come here to do needs to lead from the front and sign up their kids first

saying that terms and pay need to improve is a cop out not a solution

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10h

Michael Gove wants to talk non-prescription psychotropics with me and the weight of the irony is crushing me.

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Powerful stuff this guy must be on. Does it need a prescription?
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I notice most of the brave hacks, Guido alumni, and Tory mouthpieces, who manufactured a scandal - a dangerous one to national security - out of gossip, supposition, and sticky tape, have gone quiet now the witness statements were released and are exactly as the PM detailed.
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Powerful stuff this guy must be on. Does it need a prescription?
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I notice most of the brave hacks, Guido alumni, and Tory mouthpieces, who manufactured a scandal - a dangerous one to national security - out of gossip, supposition, and sticky tape, have gone quiet now the witness statements were released and are exactly as the PM detailed.
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Tories on Tuesday: GOV'T WAS WRONG TO INTERFERE IN CHINESE SPYING CASE.

Wednesday: Turns out gov't did not interfere.

Tories on Thursday: GOV'T WAS WRONG NOT TO INTERFERE IN CHINESE SPYING CASE.

Clowns.
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Diane Messias @comedywriter.bsky.social · 10h

Wow.

#NigelFarage #DaphneGalizia

Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 17h

How Malta’s Assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia Connects to an Organisation Close to Nigel Farage.
Turlough Conway shows that two men associated with the murder of Malta’s most famous journalist were also key donors to Nigel Farage’s pan-European political project
bylinetimes.com/2019/12/03/h...

How Malta's Assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia Connects to an Organisation Close to Nigel Farage

Turlough Conway reports on two men associated with the murder of Malta's most famous journalist, who were key donors to Nigel Farage’s pan-European political project.

bylinetimes.com

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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 11h

Ink pot mushrooms #Cornwall

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 12h

This is such a good corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "working-age welfare spending is exploding/out-of-control" narrative that more & more people seem to see as an incontrovertible fact www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15h

Reform UK has been forced to reject more unlawful donations than any other British political party in 2025

the party has had to give back almost £200,000 this year from 18 impermissible donors, according to Electoral Commission data

www.ft.com/content/5392...

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 16h

NEW

What the Chinese spying case witness statements reveal

The Crown Prosecution Service appears to have made at least one serious error, while the government's position now makes sense

By me

emptycity.substack.com/p/what-the-c...

Yesterday this blog sought to make sense of the decision to drop the Chinese Spying prosecutions on the information then available, and averred that both the positions of the government and the Crown Prosecution Service did not make sense.

Now the government has published three witness statements, the picture now changes. The government’s position now makes sense, and the CPS looks as if it made at least one serious mistake and possibly another.

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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 14h

It filled gaps in high streets that even vape shops and Turkish hairdressers turned their noses at I always suspected the landlords lobby also had a hand in that policy decision and wonks faced with two winners rarely look twice

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 14h

Glad to hear this. I maintain that one of the worst, but definitely the most overlooked, thing Blair did was a completely unnecessary liberalisation of gambling laws that allowed bookies to flood the market yet provided no benefit to the British people themselves.

@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 15h

What were the odds of that happening?

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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 14h

It's difficult to see how Labour’s war on the sick and disabled will insert so many round pegs into square holes that are showing no sign of rushing to employ them another tabloid friendly welfare policy doomed to fail

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 1d

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 14h

Fraser Nelson is the perfect example of a polemecist masquerading as a journalist he takes a tiny metric in a sea of data and manufactures a false crisis completely unchallenged by his peers in the media which then becomes gospel

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 20h

Someone send this to Fraser Nelson please (who keeps talking about a workless crisis)...

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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 19h

That's flag sales isn't it? 🎂🎂

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Politicians really shouldn't be allowed to present 'current affairs' or news programmes (what really is the difference these days?). It's obvious, and the public agrees.

GB News viewers more likely to wrongly believe net migration to UK rising, study finds

Research also finds majority of people are against letting politicians front current affairs programmes

www.theguardian.com

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 1d

🔴 NEW - How a ‘Pro-Climate’ Charity Channelled Cash to a Koch-Funded Think Tank

Opaque funds are masking donations to political causes.

📝 @mc00.bsky.social

How a ‘Pro-Climate’ Charity Channelled Cash to a Koch-Funded Think Tank

A UK charity that portrays itself as a climate leader facilitated a £830,000 donation to the Mercatus Center, a conservative think tank heavily funded by U.S. oil billionaire Charles Koch, DeSmog can ...

www.desmog.com

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Callum Parrish @callumparrish.bsky.social · 1d

In initial comments at #PMQs, very good to see Keir Starmer clearly and comprehensively outline why the baseless claims against the Government on the China spying case are just that; baseless.

It took place under the Tories, and therefore the case had to judge on the previous Government's advice.

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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 1d

Does it make you smile(y)

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Legalise *and* regulate drugs.

This morning on @jeremyvine.bsky.social:

youtu.be/kBjqQAFdBRQ?...

Should we legalise all drugs? feat. Zack Polanski & Carole Malone | Jeremy Vine

YouTube video by Jeremy, Storm & Vanessa On 5

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Paul @warne567.bsky.social · 1d

Here we go again with the ‘only high earners work hard’ BS. Straight from Tory Press Office this one.

Something smells very off with this whole piece. Most of those cited were born around/after when Thatcher resigned, so have no personal experience of her.

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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 1d

#Trump

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 1d

This , u til we acknowledge that lawson and lamont are the architects of our decline no forward movement can happen and the ppl who profited most from that own most the media inc this one

Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 1d

You know what's a big factor in the perpetuation of the #doomloop? Journalists who are determined to prevent any prospect of an sober and coherent public discussion of fiscal policy and public finances.

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride claims UK in 'tax doom loop' and Reeves to blame
In his Sky News interview with the chancellor, Sam Coates put it to her that the UK was in a “doom loop” where the government needed to come back every year with higher taxes to fill a black hole in the public finances. Rachel Reeves replied: “Nobody wants that cycle to end more than I do, Sam.”

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 1d

Chasing farage has been very unpalatable for left leaning people like me and when I saw the greens labouresqe manifesto while miliband was faffing about with those silly stones a while back I started looking closer

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 1d

It's too little too late they've already ceeded that ground

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