Rob Weaver
@robweaver.bsky.social
🐺🍐🇬🇧🇪🇺🏏⛳️🏃♂️Former Worcs Half-Marathon team gold medallist. Cynophobic
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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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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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A reminder that almost all of the "migration crisis" of the last 18 months is a manufactured one – and probably says more about how much X has poisoned our politics than anything about realities on the ground.
NEW: Net migration falls sharply to 204,000 in the year to June.
That’s a fall from 649,000 in the year to June 2024. It is a drop of nearly 80% from its 2023 peak.
That’s a fall from 649,000 in the year to June 2024. It is a drop of nearly 80% from its 2023 peak.
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A reminder that almost all of the "migration crisis" of the last 18 months is a manufactured one – and probably says more about how much X has poisoned our politics than anything about realities on the ground.
I thought, given the paucity of ambition, and the terrible inheritance it was actually an okay #budget. Where is the mission and vision?
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I thought, given the paucity of ambition, and the terrible inheritance it was actually an okay #budget. Where is the mission and vision?
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Serious howls of outrage in the media this morning at what is a relatively modest Budget from Labour that does nothing more than fiddle around the margins.
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Serious howls of outrage in the media this morning at what is a relatively modest Budget from Labour that does nothing more than fiddle around the margins.
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
Well said deputy speaker. Media vox popping the shit out of #thebudget and G briefings pre budget day was always going to heighten risks of leaks like this. G and Media has to do better.
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Well said deputy speaker. Media vox popping the shit out of #thebudget and G briefings pre budget day was always going to heighten risks of leaks like this. G and Media has to do better.
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This is absolutely magnificent!
Listen to the rapturous applause as a student does the job our press and media won’t, and holds Reform UK’s Richard Tice to account over his lies RE his connection to ex-REFUK Wales leader Nathan Gill, recently jailed for 10+ yrs for taking Russian bribes as an MEP.
Listen to the rapturous applause as a student does the job our press and media won’t, and holds Reform UK’s Richard Tice to account over his lies RE his connection to ex-REFUK Wales leader Nathan Gill, recently jailed for 10+ yrs for taking Russian bribes as an MEP.
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This is absolutely magnificent!
Listen to the rapturous applause as a student does the job our press and media won’t, and holds Reform UK’s Richard Tice to account over his lies RE his connection to ex-REFUK Wales leader Nathan Gill, recently jailed for 10+ yrs for taking Russian bribes as an MEP.
Listen to the rapturous applause as a student does the job our press and media won’t, and holds Reform UK’s Richard Tice to account over his lies RE his connection to ex-REFUK Wales leader Nathan Gill, recently jailed for 10+ yrs for taking Russian bribes as an MEP.
Great innings by Head, obviously. But going to bumpers 8 overs in after failing to leave balls when batting. Basically fed him 90 of his runs...inexcusable from England. Cricket isnt ice skating. You dont win marks for artistic impression. Pretty angry tbh. Brainless. #theashes #ashes
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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England bowlers forgetting what they did in the first innings.
#TheAshes
#TheAshes
a man in a suit and tie is holding a device that says starz on the bottom
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a device that says starz on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
England bowlers forgetting what they did in the first innings.
#TheAshes
#TheAshes
This is nowhere near good enough. Giving bowlers just 30 overs of rest means far less chance of them achieving pace and bounce of 1st innings. Bazball will have to go down as an entertaining failure if this goes the way it looks to be. #theashes
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is nowhere near good enough. Giving bowlers just 30 overs of rest means far less chance of them achieving pace and bounce of 1st innings. Bazball will have to go down as an entertaining failure if this goes the way it looks to be. #theashes
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England's two innings in Perth lasted a combined 405 balls - the fastest they've been bowled out twice in a Test match since 1904 😳
November 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
England's two innings in Perth lasted a combined 405 balls - the fastest they've been bowled out twice in a Test match since 1904 😳
We. I.e the UK need a proper grown up conversation about pensions. Inter generational fairness but also private vs public. You could give many in the public sector a pay rise today and boost economy if you cut their pension entitlement to something a bit more realistic.
Junior doctors in England could get a guaranteed pension of nearly £125,000 a year once they retire, analysis has suggested ⬇️
Junior doctors could get guaranteed pension of £125,000 a year
www.thetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
We. I.e the UK need a proper grown up conversation about pensions. Inter generational fairness but also private vs public. You could give many in the public sector a pay rise today and boost economy if you cut their pension entitlement to something a bit more realistic.
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We await your response Mr Farage
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We await your response Mr Farage
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"Taking back control"
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"Taking back control"
I'd need to hear more about the @greenparty.org.uk policies on the 3 P's that continue to undermine our ability to grow, protect the environment and create intergenerational unfairness and inequality. Planning, Pensions, population. Getting close to getting my vote.
November 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I'd need to hear more about the @greenparty.org.uk policies on the 3 P's that continue to undermine our ability to grow, protect the environment and create intergenerational unfairness and inequality. Planning, Pensions, population. Getting close to getting my vote.
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A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Fascinating that the cause of collapse of both major parties has not just been basically identical (cost of living and service failings creating unpopularity, chasing radical right tail on immigration fuelling in-bloc schism), but that doubling down has persisted long after failure became clear.
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Fascinating that the cause of collapse of both major parties has not just been basically identical (cost of living and service failings creating unpopularity, chasing radical right tail on immigration fuelling in-bloc schism), but that doubling down has persisted long after failure became clear.
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Labour’s *real* core voters are middle class liberals and ethnic minority voters.
At least when Corbyn supporters said “fuck off and join the Tories” the leadership didn’t actually endorse it. Number 10 seems actively determined to show how much it despises its voters’ values right now.
At least when Corbyn supporters said “fuck off and join the Tories” the leadership didn’t actually endorse it. Number 10 seems actively determined to show how much it despises its voters’ values right now.
November 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Labour’s *real* core voters are middle class liberals and ethnic minority voters.
At least when Corbyn supporters said “fuck off and join the Tories” the leadership didn’t actually endorse it. Number 10 seems actively determined to show how much it despises its voters’ values right now.
At least when Corbyn supporters said “fuck off and join the Tories” the leadership didn’t actually endorse it. Number 10 seems actively determined to show how much it despises its voters’ values right now.
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This genuinely baffling as well as appalling. Just really stupid politics. Makes me laugh that the people behind policies like this really believe they're the cleverest in the room. Just so dumb and gifting Reform the next GE by amplifying their only real talking point.
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This genuinely baffling as well as appalling. Just really stupid politics. Makes me laugh that the people behind policies like this really believe they're the cleverest in the room. Just so dumb and gifting Reform the next GE by amplifying their only real talking point.
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Mo Farah would not have been a British citizen for the 2012 Olympics if Labour had introduced their new asylum plan.
Mo Farah, trafficked to UK aged 9 in 1992. Teacher Alan Watkinson secures citizenship after 8 years here, 2000 (aged 17) so he could travel abroad as GB athlete
Under future rules
Renew status? 1995, 98 x6
Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012)
Citizenship 2013
news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...
Under future rules
Renew status? 1995, 98 x6
Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012)
Citizenship 2013
news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...
Sir Mo Farah reveals 'the truth' about how he came to the UK
The Olympic star was warned speaking out could put his British citizenship at "real risk" - but it is understood the Home Office is taking no action against him.
news.sky.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Mo Farah would not have been a British citizen for the 2012 Olympics if Labour had introduced their new asylum plan.