Vijay - /ʋɪd͡ʒjeɪ/
@vijaychopra.uk
Work for a FinTech, used to work in EdTech but had to pay the bills. | LibDem, News junkie, Urbanist. | Hobbies include TTRPGs, Comics & Star Trek. | Support SaintsFC & The Sirens. | Aspie & a host of neurological disabilities that it's brought alongside.
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What would be hilarious is it Labour continue to collapse, but people still turn out in droves for "Not Farage" & we end up with a Lib Dem-Green led government. Given the way Reform councils are performing, and that they can't defend a by-election, I'm not sure if I'm even joking.
You know what - the more I think about it, the more this absolute banter result at the next election seems underpriced. If the Caerphilly style result ends up happening everywhere at the same time. It'd be hilarious & you read it predicted here first!
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When reality bites: the rapid rise and chaotic fall of Reform UK in Cornwall
When reality bites: the rapid rise and chaotic fall of Reform UK in Cornwall
Resignations, suspensions and infighting lead to party losing crown of highest number of seats in the county
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
When reality bites: the rapid rise and chaotic fall of Reform UK in Cornwall
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Watching a number of Labour supporters defend Mahmood and this government over their sickening anti-immigration/asylum rhetoric when they would have been hollering against it if it was the Tories or Reform saying it. It doesn't matter which party it is doing this, it should be condemned. 1/
Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
Home Secretary orders police and border 'hit squads' to Albania to stamp out people smugglers | LBC
Shabana Mahmood will send hit squads of police and border force teams to Albania in a fresh drive to stamp out people-smuggling gangs upstream.
www.lbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Watching a number of Labour supporters defend Mahmood and this government over their sickening anti-immigration/asylum rhetoric when they would have been hollering against it if it was the Tories or Reform saying it. It doesn't matter which party it is doing this, it should be condemned. 1/
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Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
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This week, I am not impressed by a 'leaked internal poll says...' story.
Read all about it from 6pm: theweekinpolls.substack.com
Read all about it from 6pm: theweekinpolls.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This week, I am not impressed by a 'leaked internal poll says...' story.
Read all about it from 6pm: theweekinpolls.substack.com
Read all about it from 6pm: theweekinpolls.substack.com
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Labour: our extermination campaign against trans people is all about protecting women and girls
Also Labour:
Also Labour:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Words fail. Well, nothing says, "We care about children" more than criminalising the parent trying to protect them from further trauma, eh?
Do we learn absolutely nothing from one year to the next, as a nation?
Do we learn absolutely nothing from one year to the next, as a nation?
Domestic abuse victims who flee with children overseas to be criminalised under new law
Change to crime and policing bill backed by fathers’ rights groups seeking support in cross-border abduction cases
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Labour: our extermination campaign against trans people is all about protecting women and girls
Also Labour:
Also Labour:
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Vending Machine.
November 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Vending Machine.
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100%. The vanguard already has an element of this, but Farage will always have to appeal to relatively mainstream voters, and the interests of his bloc and donors in a way they are uninterested in.
i suspect that if Farage remains the leader when it comes to the next general election, people to the right of him will consider it the same
it's interesting that the intellectual wing of the New Right basically sees Trump as incapable of bringing about the national revolution they were hoping for
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
100%. The vanguard already has an element of this, but Farage will always have to appeal to relatively mainstream voters, and the interests of his bloc and donors in a way they are uninterested in.
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Pro-Starmer Ultras are such a funny concept. Like being really into the queue at the post office, or lukewarm tap water.
There is a small subset of pro-Starmer ultras on here who either genuinely don’t understand that budget stories *are directly briefed out by the Treasury, with permission* or pretend not to know that. And so they claim the plans never existed, haven’t changed, etc. It is maddening, and dumb as fuck.
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Pro-Starmer Ultras are such a funny concept. Like being really into the queue at the post office, or lukewarm tap water.
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Has a government with a large majority ever *tried* less to impose itself and change the terms of debate?
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Has a government with a large majority ever *tried* less to impose itself and change the terms of debate?
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The first Thatcher govt had a majority of just 43.
Thatcher, like Starmer, was not a natural orator, but she recognised that the battle of ideas mattered.
She saw it as part of her job to go out & win the argument: to shape public opinion, not just react to it.
That's almost wholly missing today.
Thatcher, like Starmer, was not a natural orator, but she recognised that the battle of ideas mattered.
She saw it as part of her job to go out & win the argument: to shape public opinion, not just react to it.
That's almost wholly missing today.
Has a government with a large majority ever *tried* less to impose itself and change the terms of debate?
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The first Thatcher govt had a majority of just 43.
Thatcher, like Starmer, was not a natural orator, but she recognised that the battle of ideas mattered.
She saw it as part of her job to go out & win the argument: to shape public opinion, not just react to it.
That's almost wholly missing today.
Thatcher, like Starmer, was not a natural orator, but she recognised that the battle of ideas mattered.
She saw it as part of her job to go out & win the argument: to shape public opinion, not just react to it.
That's almost wholly missing today.
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Russia launched three ballistic missiles over Ukraine during overnight attacks from Friday into Saturday, as the death toll over the past 24 hours rose to nine, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Russia launches three ballistic missiles in overnight attacks
Russia launched three ballistic missiles over Ukraine during overnight attacks from Friday into Saturday, as the death toll over the past 24 hours rose to nine, according to Ukrainian authorities.
l.euronews.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Russia launched three ballistic missiles over Ukraine during overnight attacks from Friday into Saturday, as the death toll over the past 24 hours rose to nine, according to Ukrainian authorities.
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Have to say I find the proposals to take away the route to permanent settlement of refugees both shocking and repulsive. It's code for 'whatever you do and contribute you can never become one of us so we won't allow you to try.' Racism, pure and simple.
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Have to say I find the proposals to take away the route to permanent settlement of refugees both shocking and repulsive. It's code for 'whatever you do and contribute you can never become one of us so we won't allow you to try.' Racism, pure and simple.
This. Honestly, what even is the point in this? The few people who it might appeal to are never voting Labour & probably quite like Ukrainian refugees. It's been my experience that the UK public is generally more liberal than politicians give them credit for. No one wants this.
Question on Monday
Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?
Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?
November 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This. Honestly, what even is the point in this? The few people who it might appeal to are never voting Labour & probably quite like Ukrainian refugees. It's been my experience that the UK public is generally more liberal than politicians give them credit for. No one wants this.
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Immigration policies should be debated on their merits but it is worth repeating that the Social Democrats are on 21% in Denmark and the Greens are on 13% (with other far left parties on another 9%). They're not exactly politically triumphant.
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Immigration policies should be debated on their merits but it is worth repeating that the Social Democrats are on 21% in Denmark and the Greens are on 13% (with other far left parties on another 9%). They're not exactly politically triumphant.
Will they ever realise that the alternative to Reform is to challenge their narrative, not reinforce it.
What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".
November 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Will they ever realise that the alternative to Reform is to challenge their narrative, not reinforce it.
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imagine trying to defend labour and ending up at the tory's hostile environment skype family defence
Firstly they'll be grateful that they've been given sanctuary in a safe & secure country. Secondly, no one is saying they can't make friends and have relationships. Partners could potentially travel back with them & it's easy these days to keep in touch with people from the other side of the world.
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
imagine trying to defend labour and ending up at the tory's hostile environment skype family defence
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A levy on foreign students is one of the closest things you're going to see to tariffs on services - except the UK will be putting it on its own exports...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Levy on international students’ tuition fees not in best interest of UK, says leader of top university
Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A levy on foreign students is one of the closest things you're going to see to tariffs on services - except the UK will be putting it on its own exports...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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the video goes on and on about illegal immigration and yet the new proposal will target legal migration by confirmed refugees
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
the video goes on and on about illegal immigration and yet the new proposal will target legal migration by confirmed refugees
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This is the Home Secretary's video about "why"
A government which had the principle of *defusing* the salience by getting a grip with control, while maintaining compassion, would not use the rhetorical devices here to stoke up the salience of the issue they hope to defuse
x.com/ShabanaMahmo...
A government which had the principle of *defusing* the salience by getting a grip with control, while maintaining compassion, would not use the rhetorical devices here to stoke up the salience of the issue they hope to defuse
x.com/ShabanaMahmo...
Shabana Mahmood MP on X: "On Monday, I will announce the most significant changes to our asylum system in modern times 👇 https://t.co/eXAVYdD4kD" / X
On Monday, I will announce the most significant changes to our asylum system in modern times 👇 https://t.co/eXAVYdD4kD
x.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This is the Home Secretary's video about "why"
A government which had the principle of *defusing* the salience by getting a grip with control, while maintaining compassion, would not use the rhetorical devices here to stoke up the salience of the issue they hope to defuse
x.com/ShabanaMahmo...
A government which had the principle of *defusing* the salience by getting a grip with control, while maintaining compassion, would not use the rhetorical devices here to stoke up the salience of the issue they hope to defuse
x.com/ShabanaMahmo...
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"The era of permanent protection is over"
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Refugees from 7 decades gather to commemorate 70 years of refugee in protection in the UK
YouTube video by Refugee Council
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"The era of permanent protection is over"
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
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Why! Sorry, but why? Labour's anti-asylum, anti-immigration, policies are the antithesis of anything anyone who genuinely supports human rights should be defending. They're absolutely inhumane and condemnable. Anyone supporting them can't claim to be "progressive"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Why! Sorry, but why? Labour's anti-asylum, anti-immigration, policies are the antithesis of anything anyone who genuinely supports human rights should be defending. They're absolutely inhumane and condemnable. Anyone supporting them can't claim to be "progressive"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I've been using the same pro forma cover letter for decades & it's never really had any sort of impact - there's lots AI will impact - generating CV cover letters probably isn't going to be noticed by many
AI-written cover letters mean employers find it harder to spot good candidates, so offer lower pay across the board www.economist.com/finance-and-...
How AI is breaking cover letters
And leading to lower pay
www.economist.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I've been using the same pro forma cover letter for decades & it's never really had any sort of impact - there's lots AI will impact - generating CV cover letters probably isn't going to be noticed by many
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Miya Wilkes, 29, called an ambulance after suffering a fall at home. When paramedic Avery Mann, 39, arrived on the scene and asked her to describe where it hurt, Wilkes gave a heavy sigh before listing off every source of physical, emotional and psychic pain in her life to date.
Autistic woman asked where it hurts gestures vaguely at entire life
An autistic woman asked to describe the source of her pain has no idea where to begin, it has been reported. Miya Wilkes, 29, called an ambulance after suffering a fall at home. When paramedic Avery…
thedailytism.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Miya Wilkes, 29, called an ambulance after suffering a fall at home. When paramedic Avery Mann, 39, arrived on the scene and asked her to describe where it hurt, Wilkes gave a heavy sigh before listing off every source of physical, emotional and psychic pain in her life to date.