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It is slightly irritating that the Guardian uncritically reports his claim that taxpayers are spending "an ever increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits” without pointing out that it is, in fact, false.
February 10, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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We need constitutional reform.
January 31, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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So much admiration for those out protesting in freezing conditions. This is what standing up against authoritarianism looks like.
Wow
Minneapolis today
January 24, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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Amnesty has issued a report about rising #authoritarianism & #humanRights violations in #USA, incl enforced disappearances, restrictions on #freeSpeech incl the media, increased #corruption, militarisation of law enforcement, mass surveillance, weakening of rule of law www.jurist.org/news/2026/01...
Amnesty International warns of rising US authoritarianism and human rights violations
Amnesty International published a report on Tuesday, warning about rising authoritarian practices in the US and detailing numerous ways how the rule of law and human rights are being threatened. The r...
www.jurist.org
January 22, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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not only is this an appalling take which attacks Starmer for the actions of a lunatic and not the lunatic, but also strays well beyond ‘unbiased’ reporting
January 20, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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This is (1) disgraceful at a moment of national danger, (2) laughably unserious and (3) deeply unwise when the President is obviously becoming incapacitated and the most unpopular person in the whole UK. Utterly disqualifying.
January 20, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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All of these people - Mogg, Farage, Carswell, Jenrick, Hannan and the rest need to be forever reminded of what they backed and supported
January 18, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Watching GB News or reading the Telegraph you realise there is a slice of right-wing opinion that would happily betray this country.
January 18, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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Labour can extend this beyond X and start going after Reform politicians making money from the site. "Will Farage give back the money he made from this sex offender site?" Etc...
Has there ever been any poll showing the public this united? yougov.co.uk/technology/a...
January 13, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Total and utter and unmitigated bollocks. Luke and his destructively factional, entirely deluded mates are steering Labour to electoral wipe out and the country towards the catastrophe of nationalist right-wing government. This is exactly like Brexit: a car crash happening in slow motion.
January 9, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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I mean they do lose when their polls go down. Belief and nerve aren't much use in winning elections if no one votes for you.
Keir Starmer has this morning urged Cabinet to keep its nerve amid grim opinion polling (today’s YouGov put Labour in third place behind Reform & Tories)

“Governments do not lose because polls go down. They lose when they lose belief or nerve. We will do neither,” he said
January 6, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Starmer's tweet couldn't be clearer but a bit awkward when one of the main government comms platforms literally does this as a feature now
January 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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What will it take, Prime Minister? What territory does Trump have to take by force before you stir yourself?

Greenland? Shetland? The Isle of Wight...?

www.lbc.co.uk/article/star...
Starmer faces Labour revolt as MPs demand PM condemns Trump's attack on Venezuela | LBC
Sir Keir has resisted calls from within his own party, as well as some opposition critics, to take a tougher stance on the US president
www.lbc.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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This is a very simple coordination problem.

No one Labour MP can solve it. But No. 10/the government could, tomorrow, with one letter from the Cabinet Secretary.

Both in their own self-interest and for the sake of our democracy, they should.
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Very good by @rmcunliffe.bsky.social. This country's deternination to consume its own young is both disgusting and, i suspect, self defeating.
Rachel Reeves hits young graduates with a double stealth tax
The Chancellor plans to raise as much money from freezing loan repayment thresholds as from the mansion tax
www.newstatesman.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".

Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.

Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.

These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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“A vote for Labour is the only way to stop Reform”

Or

“Labour can actually do what Reform only claims it can do”

The government needs to pick one strategy, not both. The government seems unaware that voters can actually hear it trying both messages at once.
November 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.

How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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No, Home Secretary. Migration is being used by racists as an excuse to sow division - which is their sole purpose in life. And they must be delighted with your words.

How did the Labour Party sink so low... 😢

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
Laura Kuenssberg: Illegal migration 'dividing our country', home secretary says ahead of asylum policy shake-up
Shabana Mahmood says the government
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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A reminder that this is the same Rishi Sunak who when he was Prime Minister raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years
October 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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This man is a deeply mediocre grifting spiv but sees himself as a mighty political figure. Only in a country where the media has given in to sensationalism rather than scrutiny and politicians have become shameful cowards could naff little Nigel’s ego be this absurdly, delusionally huge.
October 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Yorkshire Water requires a lot more than a bit of improvement. It needs to be fiercely regulated so that consumers aren't expected to pay for being ripped off for 30 years as profits were extracted as casually as water was taken from our rivers and sewage pumped into them
Yorkshire Water “requires improvement”

In its annual environmental performance report, the Environment Agency calls for a “fundamental shift in culture and behaviour”

By Brian McHugh
@brianmchugh.bsky.social
Yorkshire Water “requires improvement”
In its annual environmental performance report, the Environment Agency calls for a “fundamental shift in culture and behaviour”
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM