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The EU didn’t cause our problems
Leaving hasn’t solved them
We should be tackling rampant poverty, housing, low productivity, health, climate and education
Leaving hasn’t solved them
We should be tackling rampant poverty, housing, low productivity, health, climate and education
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If Canada can see the writing on the wall, why can’t the UK?
A federation of similar sized nations (like the EU) gives us an equal voice.
Kowtowing to the US - which will always be far bigger than we are - guarantees underling status.
A federation of similar sized nations (like the EU) gives us an equal voice.
Kowtowing to the US - which will always be far bigger than we are - guarantees underling status.
“That’s the way back to Africa,” said a 17-year-old Nigel Farage to a 9-year-old black kid.
When will he be challenged on this by Chris Mason or Laura Kuenssberg?
When will he be challenged on this by Chris Mason or Laura Kuenssberg?
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
“That’s the way back to Africa,” said a 17-year-old Nigel Farage to a 9-year-old black kid.
When will he be challenged on this by Chris Mason or Laura Kuenssberg?
When will he be challenged on this by Chris Mason or Laura Kuenssberg?
Trump and Vance want to break up the EU and install regimes favourable to their ideology in every European nation. They say it out loud.
🚨🚨 God #America, this is grim and a very stark wake-up call to European political ledaders on the (non) future of the "transatlantic alliance":
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Trump and Vance want to break up the EU and install regimes favourable to their ideology in every European nation. They say it out loud.
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At his press conference, Nigel Farage is ranting about the Black and White Minstrel Show, Alf Garnett and It Ain't Half Hot Mum in - as far as I can tell – an attempt to justify his "banter" when a schoolboy. He is very much not going down the Richard Tice, "lies" route.
December 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
At his press conference, Nigel Farage is ranting about the Black and White Minstrel Show, Alf Garnett and It Ain't Half Hot Mum in - as far as I can tell – an attempt to justify his "banter" when a schoolboy. He is very much not going down the Richard Tice, "lies" route.
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This is the problem I have with Starmer on this stuff. You can't just give a speech, box ticked, you have to go for these people. Sack Nandy put someone in post who will go 'no, actually, GB news, you don't get to broadcast this filth', for a start. Go for X, Facebook, the lot.
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is the problem I have with Starmer on this stuff. You can't just give a speech, box ticked, you have to go for these people. Sack Nandy put someone in post who will go 'no, actually, GB news, you don't get to broadcast this filth', for a start. Go for X, Facebook, the lot.
Russia will only accept capitulation from Ukraine. And Ukraine will never capitulate. The rest of Europe will step up because we cannot allow another dark age to engulf our continent.
NATO is reportedly preparing a “Plan B” if U.S.-led peace efforts on Ukraine fail, Svoboda reports. Eight alliance diplomats say Europe doubts any deal is possible. If talks collapse, the fallback is clear: more weapons for Ukraine, stronger economic support, and tougher sanctions against Russia.
December 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Russia will only accept capitulation from Ukraine. And Ukraine will never capitulate. The rest of Europe will step up because we cannot allow another dark age to engulf our continent.
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The economy isn't something abstract. It isn't just about offices and factories and businesses. The economy is all of us. We're all part of it. In our work, our private lives, our retirement, our studies, our leisure. So when we hear that Brexit is really hurting our economy, it's hurting all of us.
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The economy isn't something abstract. It isn't just about offices and factories and businesses. The economy is all of us. We're all part of it. In our work, our private lives, our retirement, our studies, our leisure. So when we hear that Brexit is really hurting our economy, it's hurting all of us.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Farage rarely turned up to vote when he was an MEP.
But, he did turn up to vote against the EU’s anti-Russia interference motion.
He said it was a “hoax”.
He voted against strengthening Europe’s defences against foreign interference.
Why?
But, he did turn up to vote against the EU’s anti-Russia interference motion.
He said it was a “hoax”.
He voted against strengthening Europe’s defences against foreign interference.
Why?
December 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Farage rarely turned up to vote when he was an MEP.
But, he did turn up to vote against the EU’s anti-Russia interference motion.
He said it was a “hoax”.
He voted against strengthening Europe’s defences against foreign interference.
Why?
But, he did turn up to vote against the EU’s anti-Russia interference motion.
He said it was a “hoax”.
He voted against strengthening Europe’s defences against foreign interference.
Why?
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Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.
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The tide is turning. Even the Telegraph is now admitting the damage the Brexit deal has done to the economy.
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The tide is turning. Even the Telegraph is now admitting the damage the Brexit deal has done to the economy.
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A reckoning for the Far Right.
The Putin Domino Theory
When one man goes, everything changes
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A reckoning for the Far Right.
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🎯 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "We can judge Farage not just by the words he, allegedly, shouted as a child, but by the words and actions he has chosen to broadcast as an adult..."
"But will he ever take any responsibility for anything he says? I seriously doubt it."
"But will he ever take any responsibility for anything he says? I seriously doubt it."
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🎯 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "We can judge Farage not just by the words he, allegedly, shouted as a child, but by the words and actions he has chosen to broadcast as an adult..."
"But will he ever take any responsibility for anything he says? I seriously doubt it."
"But will he ever take any responsibility for anything he says? I seriously doubt it."
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New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
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Hey Labour!
Dutch public broadcaster NOS quits X over disinformation reut.rs/3KpybRU
Dutch public broadcaster NOS quits X over disinformation
Dutch public broadcaster NOS on Tuesday said it had stopped posting on Elon Musk's social media platform X, as it said it did not want to facilitate the spreading of disinformation.
reut.rs
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Hey Labour!
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American foreign policy is now Putin's bitch.
Look how Putin's guy pats Witkoff on the head like a good boy.
Look how Putin's guy pats Witkoff on the head like a good boy.
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
American foreign policy is now Putin's bitch.
Look how Putin's guy pats Witkoff on the head like a good boy.
Look how Putin's guy pats Witkoff on the head like a good boy.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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‘Brexit isn’t in the past. It is present in every overstretched council budget, every cancelled infrastructure project, every school without enough teachers, every struggling business wondering how to cope with higher costs and lower demand.’
Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
‘Brexit isn’t in the past. It is present in every overstretched council budget, every cancelled infrastructure project, every school without enough teachers, every struggling business wondering how to cope with higher costs and lower demand.’
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Kremlin ideologue Alexander Dugin claimed Ukraine will be absorbed within two years, stating teams are preparing textbooks, mass "rehabilitation" programs and renaming territories "Old Lands" while debating abolition of what he called a "Russophobic dialect".
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Kremlin ideologue Alexander Dugin claimed Ukraine will be absorbed within two years, stating teams are preparing textbooks, mass "rehabilitation" programs and renaming territories "Old Lands" while debating abolition of what he called a "Russophobic dialect".
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Farage told many proven lies about the benefits of Brexit. He now wants us to leave the EHCR to stop the boats, this is another lie it won’t . Before Brexit we could send many asylum seeker back across the channel automatically.
Farage and his lies stopped that. Small boats are Farage’s legacy.
Farage and his lies stopped that. Small boats are Farage’s legacy.
October 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Farage told many proven lies about the benefits of Brexit. He now wants us to leave the EHCR to stop the boats, this is another lie it won’t . Before Brexit we could send many asylum seeker back across the channel automatically.
Farage and his lies stopped that. Small boats are Farage’s legacy.
Farage and his lies stopped that. Small boats are Farage’s legacy.
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Russia Implodes As Putin Makes His Final Gambit
YouTube video by Jay in Kyiv
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Essential (but grim) reading.
In which the brilliant @mollymckew.bsky.social dismantles the "peace plan" proposed by Trump's overmatched emissary, which, go figure, is nothing more than capitulation to the Kremlin.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
28 Points Later
A definitive guide to the Russian zombie diplomacy of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine — aka what happens when you let the Russians eat your brains
www.greatpower.us
November 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Essential (but grim) reading.
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Translation in the comments
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Translation in the comments
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Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since