MrMirth
@mrmirth.bsky.social
Centrist. London. Pro EU. Rejoiner. Democracy is under threat, not only from the dictators & authoritarians that occupy the planet, but also from within existing democracies. Private power + wealth is being used to overturn & threaten our democracy.
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That's the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025, which got Royal Assent today!
It contains extra powers for Immigration Enforcement, police and National Crime Agency to catch and arrest criminal smuggling gangs and those who help them!
Should have an even bigger impact now!
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It contains extra powers for Immigration Enforcement, police and National Crime Agency to catch and arrest criminal smuggling gangs and those who help them!
Should have an even bigger impact now!
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Major new act to disrupt smuggling gangs
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act receives Royal Assent, enhancing law enforcement’s ability to rapidly disrupt people smuggling gangs.
www.gov.uk
December 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
That's the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025, which got Royal Assent today!
It contains extra powers for Immigration Enforcement, police and National Crime Agency to catch and arrest criminal smuggling gangs and those who help them!
Should have an even bigger impact now!
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It contains extra powers for Immigration Enforcement, police and National Crime Agency to catch and arrest criminal smuggling gangs and those who help them!
Should have an even bigger impact now!
2/2
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Small boat crossings
Yesterday I posted about how measures to tackle smuggling gangs appeared to be having an effect, with numbers now down on last year, and we are now in the longest period with no successful crossing since early 2024.
But today new laws come into force!
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Yesterday I posted about how measures to tackle smuggling gangs appeared to be having an effect, with numbers now down on last year, and we are now in the longest period with no successful crossing since early 2024.
But today new laws come into force!
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December 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Small boat crossings
Yesterday I posted about how measures to tackle smuggling gangs appeared to be having an effect, with numbers now down on last year, and we are now in the longest period with no successful crossing since early 2024.
But today new laws come into force!
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Yesterday I posted about how measures to tackle smuggling gangs appeared to be having an effect, with numbers now down on last year, and we are now in the longest period with no successful crossing since early 2024.
But today new laws come into force!
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Published in 1935. He must be describing Trump and his fat-cat friends. - Venezuela is the perfect example. A country with the worlds largest oil reserves and the US military being used to muscle in and oust the leader of that country.
December 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Published in 1935. He must be describing Trump and his fat-cat friends. - Venezuela is the perfect example. A country with the worlds largest oil reserves and the US military being used to muscle in and oust the leader of that country.
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A third tanker carrying Russian oil exploded at sea
Four external explosions occurred on the Mersin oil tanker, which was carrying Russian crude, a representative of Besiktas Shipping
www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/12/01/t...
Four external explosions occurred on the Mersin oil tanker, which was carrying Russian crude, a representative of Besiktas Shipping
www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/12/01/t...
Третий возивший российскую нефть танкер взорвался в море - Русская служба The Moscow Times
www.moscowtimes.ru
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A third tanker carrying Russian oil exploded at sea
Four external explosions occurred on the Mersin oil tanker, which was carrying Russian crude, a representative of Besiktas Shipping
www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/12/01/t...
Four external explosions occurred on the Mersin oil tanker, which was carrying Russian crude, a representative of Besiktas Shipping
www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/12/01/t...
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The UK PM gave a speech today at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre on 'a Britain built for all'.
The speech (almost) in full can be read at the link.
He says "the budget was a moment of personal pride" for him and that he does "not want to see a country where children grow up in poverty"
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The speech (almost) in full can be read at the link.
He says "the budget was a moment of personal pride" for him and that he does "not want to see a country where children grow up in poverty"
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Prime Minister's speech on Britain built for all: 1 December 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer's speech at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre on a Britain built for all.
www.gov.uk
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The UK PM gave a speech today at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre on 'a Britain built for all'.
The speech (almost) in full can be read at the link.
He says "the budget was a moment of personal pride" for him and that he does "not want to see a country where children grow up in poverty"
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The speech (almost) in full can be read at the link.
He says "the budget was a moment of personal pride" for him and that he does "not want to see a country where children grow up in poverty"
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Nigel Farage’s Legacy — Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Nigel Farage’s Legacy — Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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Sick of the rank hypocrisy
Top link is bbc complaints, bottom is ofcom
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...
Top link is bbc complaints, bottom is ofcom
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...
Make a complaint
Ofcom may be able to help you complain about or report issues relating to: phone, broadband and postal services; TV, radio and on-demand programmes; interference to wireless devices; or something you ...
www.ofcom.org.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sick of the rank hypocrisy
Top link is bbc complaints, bottom is ofcom
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...
Top link is bbc complaints, bottom is ofcom
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...
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The Labour government have granted permission for the creation of another off-shore windfarm.
This one is the Morecambe Offshore Windfarm in the Irish Sea.
It is expected to have a capacity of 480MW - equivalent of over half a million homes.
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www.gov.uk/government/n...
This one is the Morecambe Offshore Windfarm in the Irish Sea.
It is expected to have a capacity of 480MW - equivalent of over half a million homes.
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www.gov.uk/government/n...
Morecambe Offshore Windfarm Generation Assets DCO decision
The Morecambe Offshore Windfarm Generation Assets DCO application has today been granted development consent by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
www.gov.uk
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The Labour government have granted permission for the creation of another off-shore windfarm.
This one is the Morecambe Offshore Windfarm in the Irish Sea.
It is expected to have a capacity of 480MW - equivalent of over half a million homes.
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www.gov.uk/government/n...
This one is the Morecambe Offshore Windfarm in the Irish Sea.
It is expected to have a capacity of 480MW - equivalent of over half a million homes.
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www.gov.uk/government/n...
BBC News have got their new bone to chew on. Again their lead non-news, is Starmer & Reeves & the budget. They are just stirring it up, trying to make life uncomfortable for the Govt. The question is, how long they flog this nonsense?. Mason is there pontificating, as usual. It's all very tiresome.
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
BBC News have got their new bone to chew on. Again their lead non-news, is Starmer & Reeves & the budget. They are just stirring it up, trying to make life uncomfortable for the Govt. The question is, how long they flog this nonsense?. Mason is there pontificating, as usual. It's all very tiresome.
The bloated salaries of the BBC need reducing. There is no justification for such huge numbers. A 50 % cut and they're still overpaid.
December 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The bloated salaries of the BBC need reducing. There is no justification for such huge numbers. A 50 % cut and they're still overpaid.
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Brexit postage stamps 😊
December 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Brexit postage stamps 😊
The budget effect. A shift of wealth, from top to bottom.
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The budget effect. A shift of wealth, from top to bottom.
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Netanyahu has formally requested a pardon from President Isaac Herzog.
In a statement he said: “The security and political reality and the national interest require the immediate termination of the trial.”
The aim of the carnage all along,
In a statement he said: “The security and political reality and the national interest require the immediate termination of the trial.”
The aim of the carnage all along,
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Netanyahu has formally requested a pardon from President Isaac Herzog.
In a statement he said: “The security and political reality and the national interest require the immediate termination of the trial.”
The aim of the carnage all along,
In a statement he said: “The security and political reality and the national interest require the immediate termination of the trial.”
The aim of the carnage all along,
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Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. He’s unqualified for this job. I think he is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in the history of our country by far. & this President thinks he can bully & intimidate people? He’s not gonna stop me from speaking out & holding him accountable”
November 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. He’s unqualified for this job. I think he is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in the history of our country by far. & this President thinks he can bully & intimidate people? He’s not gonna stop me from speaking out & holding him accountable”
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Russian state media is leveraging Putin's recent statements to intensify the false narrative that the frontline in Ukraine will imminently collapse, likely in an effort to coerce the West and Ukraine into capitulating to Russian demands:
www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...
www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...
November 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Russian state media is leveraging Putin's recent statements to intensify the false narrative that the frontline in Ukraine will imminently collapse, likely in an effort to coerce the West and Ukraine into capitulating to Russian demands:
www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...
www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...
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Before the Budget I told you the Chancellor was going to do 3 things with it:
💷 Tacking the cost of living
✂️ Cutting NHS waiting lists
📉 Driving down borrowing and debt
How did I know?
Because if you ignore the media and listen to what the government said, they told us.
And she delivered all 3.
💷 Tacking the cost of living
✂️ Cutting NHS waiting lists
📉 Driving down borrowing and debt
How did I know?
Because if you ignore the media and listen to what the government said, they told us.
And she delivered all 3.
November 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Before the Budget I told you the Chancellor was going to do 3 things with it:
💷 Tacking the cost of living
✂️ Cutting NHS waiting lists
📉 Driving down borrowing and debt
How did I know?
Because if you ignore the media and listen to what the government said, they told us.
And she delivered all 3.
💷 Tacking the cost of living
✂️ Cutting NHS waiting lists
📉 Driving down borrowing and debt
How did I know?
Because if you ignore the media and listen to what the government said, they told us.
And she delivered all 3.
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The steps that would see UK troops deployed to war – and conscription return
With tensions escalating with Russia, multiple nations are re-introducing conscription to ease pressure on the professional army – but would the UK?
archive.is/2025.11.30-1...
With tensions escalating with Russia, multiple nations are re-introducing conscription to ease pressure on the professional army – but would the UK?
archive.is/2025.11.30-1...
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The steps that would see UK troops deployed to war – and conscription return
With tensions escalating with Russia, multiple nations are re-introducing conscription to ease pressure on the professional army – but would the UK?
archive.is/2025.11.30-1...
With tensions escalating with Russia, multiple nations are re-introducing conscription to ease pressure on the professional army – but would the UK?
archive.is/2025.11.30-1...
A rare picture of Daily Mail hacks reporting on the Budget. Never in the field of non-reporting, has so much muck spread by so few.
November 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A rare picture of Daily Mail hacks reporting on the Budget. Never in the field of non-reporting, has so much muck spread by so few.
The difference between the French and British press, summed up nicely.
November 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The difference between the French and British press, summed up nicely.
Fat chance. A large group are dead and many are heading towards voluntary dementia. It still doesn't stop the rest, still wanting Reform to carry the torch in wrecking process of the UK and enriching those who spread their nonsense.
November 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Fat chance. A large group are dead and many are heading towards voluntary dementia. It still doesn't stop the rest, still wanting Reform to carry the torch in wrecking process of the UK and enriching those who spread their nonsense.
True. In fact it has never been so blatently right-wing. That now includes the TV 'news' coverage.
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
True. In fact it has never been so blatently right-wing. That now includes the TV 'news' coverage.
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worth reposting
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
worth reposting
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... Trump 'funneling' donor money into his bank account?. Well, blow me down with a feather.
MSN
www.msn.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... Trump 'funneling' donor money into his bank account?. Well, blow me down with a feather.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... _ Nearly there.
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... _ Nearly there.
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Good piece by Lloyds Register about its relationship with Viola-Dias: hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/sto...
The Story of Viola: Lloyd’s Register and The Ghost Ship of Grytviken
On the foreshore of the South Georgian whaling station of Grytviken lies an old trawler. Launched in Beverley in 1906 as the Viola, she remains the oldest steam trawler with her engines still intact a
hec.lrfoundation.org.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Good piece by Lloyds Register about its relationship with Viola-Dias: hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/sto...