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sc0tty62.bsky.social @sc0tty62.bsky.social · 16h

Why are the media treating her comments in any way other than pointing out their vile racist nature?

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

SPOILER ALERT: The number one reason for voting Brexit was to "control our borders".
"Asked if there were any examples where Brexit has helped the UK 'control our borders', both the Border Security Commander Martin Hewitt and the Director General of the National Crime Agency Rob Jones were stumped.”

Borders chief can’t name a way Brexit has helped UK control its borders

The new border security commander, Martin Hewitt, said he did ‘not immediately’ have an answer

www.independent.co.uk

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Mr Peter Lyall @missedmycue.bsky.social · 2d

Why is the Reform Party's Russian links not a major news story?

Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 2d

Given how much the China spy case has dominated headlines, it really does beg the question: why is our political-media class so uninterested in Nathan Gill, his Russian bribes, his once close associate Nigel Farage, and Reform UK?

Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 17h

Just ignorant, ahistorical rubbish from Blair.

The average burden of direct taxes (income tax and employee NICs) has barely shifted in two decades. Was 21% of gross incomes in 2004, was 21% last year.

archive.ph/MVNMw

The authors of the book write: “Even Sir Tony Blair, a Labour prime minister, argued that if you look at the levels of direct taxation for people, they’re really high, and in historical terms, they’d be considered extremely high, and people feel they’re getting taxed highly

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 17h

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 17h

ICYMI Green Party membership numbers have now overtaken the Conservative Party's! 🎉

📈 125,000 members and counting.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
MORE MEMBERS than the Conservatives
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Eddie Mair @eddiemair.bsky.social · 1d

How is York coping without a Duke and Duchess? Will people in York be ok? Are the jobs advertised locally or will they go again to outsiders?

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 1d

A bleak dystopia where Sharia law predominates, while economic and cultural divisions mean that the different communities live parallel, segregated lives.

Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

Mind how you go...

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sc0tty62.bsky.social @sc0tty62.bsky.social · 1d

I'd have thought a rather high percentage of bigots actually enjoy both on a Friday or Saturday night 😂

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 1d

great joke from @zaltzcricket.bsky.social on the news quiz this week: “statistics are like comedians at the riyadh comedy festival: treat them right and they can be made to say whatever you want them to say”

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Penny Pepper @penpep.bsky.social · 2d

Proud of this piece. It IS the reality. These "foreign" workers have given me so much when others failed me. #hopenothate #disability #writerlife

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2d

🔴 We Are Utterly Reliant on Immigrant Workers – But Who Cares About Reality?

"Politicians in general – and the right-wing ones in particular – rarely have a clue of the realities of frontline work in the broader care industry" @penpep.bsky.social

We Are Utterly Reliant on Immigrant Workers – But Who Cares About Reality?

Penny Pepper shares her experiences of recruiting migrant care workers, who can find themselves enduring exploitation and abuse for their efforts

bylinetimes.com

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sc0tty62.bsky.social @sc0tty62.bsky.social · 1d

'never had a curry or a kebab ', don't think she understands her base at all ...😂

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense".

Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 4d

The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 9d

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 7d

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 7d

More than just a bad apple: why we must look closer at the Nathan Gill scandal

New evidence connects the Ukrainian politician who paid bribes to Gill - Reform UK’s former leader in Wales - to a campaign to destabilise the US election

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social reports