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Remember, next time you sing the anthem, or attend a jubilee party, or visit a food bank for that matter: all this is funded by austerity...
The king and prince William dressed in preposterous costumes covered in gold braid and velvet and silk and finelky woven fabrics as they attend some propaganda parade or other designed to maintain their position of utter privilege.
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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If we don't have room in the world for people like Korben, a 16-year-old from Norfolk whose 2022 pure prom perfection was met with huge cheers from classmates and teachers alike, then we are a sadly diminished society.
A photo-montage of 16-year-old Korben, aka Miss Frou Frou, from 2022 shows three angles as he (his chosen pronoun) sports a sparkling scarlet outfit featuring sequined jacket, matching purse, bow tie and flowing prom skirt as he poses for photos before setting off for his high school prom. Korben looks amazing!
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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This is a picture of Keir Starmer lying through his teeth about this, that and everything. Can you tell he's lying?

I tried to get a picture of him telling the truth to compare it to, but I couldn't find one. #LabourLies #ALT
A head and shoulders picture of disingenuous pocket politician Sir Keir Starmer lying through his teeth. Some interesting factoids about the dishonest makeweight's personal dishonesty, as well as the dishonesty The Establishment protects him with. The first one can be seen in this picture: 1. Starmer's glasses - he didn't start wearing glasses publicly until 2024, coincidentally the same year he was elected... Now, I don't know whether these have prescription lenses, or whether they are simply a dishonest attempt to make himself look studious, but it does seem to be a remarkable coincidence that his eyes needed help just in the run up to an election... 2. About those glasses - they cost more than £2,000 (pricey!), but he didn't pay a penny. They were part of a thorough trough-snoutling he slurped up from Lord Alli which included tens of thousands of pounds worth of clothes which weren't even declared on time in the register of member's interests, a potential breach of parliamentary rules. Starmer helpfully dismissed accusations of corruption, pointing out that the issue was one of disclosure, not the acceptance of the gifts themselves, as (get this), "all MPs get gifts." 3. An Establishment lie which helps Starmer almost daily as he attempts to shore up his woeful performance, is that he won that election in 2024 "by a landslide." In fact, he won the election with the smallest vote share of any majority government since record-keeping began in 1830 - that was less than 34% of those who bothered to vote (hardly a landslide), or, around 80% of eligible voters didn't vote for Labour (hardly a landslide - and you can check that 80% on FullFact BTW). There are so many other lies, that I can't possibly cover them here. Luckily, I have a separate thread... some of the dishonest Labour Party social media ads they bombard us with are dismantled here (as usual, always read the ALT): https://bsky.app/profile/shakethescales.bsky.social/post/3loeyn5fxbc26
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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'Historic' would be the ability to take a train from London to Cornwall which arrives on time and doesn't involve re-mortgaging the bedsit...
A Labour Facebook advert claiming: 'This is historic. Labour is choosing to freeze rail fares for the first time in 30 years.'
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Labour says the exact opposite of the truth.

It would have been appropriate to have noticed this advert two likes ago...
A screenshot of a Labour Party social media advert which states: 'Labour is protecting our public services and investing to make life better for you and your family.' An in-set shows the reaction panel expanded revealing more than 4,000 of the 4,800 responses are a laughing emoji, with 79 angry emojis and 668 likes.'
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Digital ID is a tool which features heavily in Shabana Mahmood's new immigration crackdown.

It's worth looking into these plans, because Starmer is really keen to have similar data on all of us.

Of course, the government would never, ever sell or abuse such data...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
199 we will roll out digital identity for all overseas citizens through the implementation of eVisas and new systems for checking visa compliance... Our ambition is to deliver the systems and capability to determine whether an individual is inside or outside the UK at any given time, and whether they have overstayed their visa. 200. Our introduction of ETA and eVisas means we now know more about everyone coming to the UK. This is already enabling us to maximise the use of upstream interventions to prevent the travel of people known to pose a risk by refusing them permission to travel... So. 201. At the border, we will use what we know about individuals permitted to travel - both what they tell us and what we already know - to determine how we manage their flow through the border and ensure checks are increasingly targeted, using improved intelligence to tackle threats. 202. We will continue to improve data on international flights and journeys within the CTA and explore new technologies to help us better manage these processes. 207. We will also continue to harness the latest developments in artificial intelligence, facial recognition and age assessment technologies to ensure that we gather the most accurate information available on each individual seeking to enter the UK. 208. Put together, the comprehensive, intelligence-led and effective roll-out of eVisas to all foreign nationals resident in the UK will have a transformative impact on our immigration controls: telling us when each individual leaves the country and when they have returned; telling us whether they have the right to work, to rent, to claim benefits or use public services and telling us how long they have the right to stay. Importantly, eVisas will make it much easier for Immigration Enforcement to identify those who try to stay and work in the UK illegally, to track them down and take action against them.
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Is it Right Honourable to blame immigrants for racism, rather than racists (and those, like Mahmood and Starmer) who whip up fear and hatred with talk of an 'island of strangers'?
www.gov.uk/government/s...
This is an excerpt from the Home Secretary's November 2025 speech introducing Draconian changes to the immigration system. Here, she blames immigrants rather than racists for racism. A link to the speech is in the post: 'But those who look like me do not have that luxury. Our lives - and the lives of our families - are more dangerous in a country that turns inwards. So, we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division? And how might this country be united? As I said earlier this week, the pace and scale of migration in this country has been destabilising.'
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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He's taking the 'relocate to a new palace punishment' well, isn't he...
A picture of the former prince Andrew sitting on horseback, reins in hand, laughing his smug, privileged face off.
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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These aren't 'underage girls', they are children...
A photogrpah of Donald Trump in white suit and baseball cap talking to a young girl with young women on either side in the background.
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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More dishonesty: Starmer is attempting to smear Zack Polanski with this ad, but he doesn't know his history. Russia, under Putin, had been decommissioning nuclear weapons for years until the USA's withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019.
warontherocks.com/2022/01/why-...
Another dishonest social media advert from the Labour Party targeting political parties on the Left and Right of 'centrist' Labour - they are surrounded! Here, Starmer tries to smear both Reform and the Green Party by suggesting they tug the forlock to Putin. The top part of the advert targets Reform and says that the party is linked to Russian bribery, which is rich (pun intended) considering the £millions Starmer and his trough-guzzling front bench have snorted up from genocidal maniacs in Israel. The lower part of the advert targets Zack Polanski, mocking him for wanting peace in Europe. Again, this is rich (again, pun intended) considering the vast amount of your money Starmer has ploughed into arming Ukraine in a bid to prolong this forever war. Furthermore, the photographs of both Farage and Polanski are carefully chosen to highlight the teeth, which have been publicly criticised in a perfect example of disgraceful ad hominem attacks. The advert reads: This Labour government has imposed 100 new sanctions targeting Russia's revenues and military supplies. Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges. BBC, September 2025 "Nigel Farage" by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Zack Polanski mocked for saying he would ask Vladimir Putin to give up nuclear weapons. Daily Express, November 2025 Promoted Hollie Ridey on Pouf of the Labour Party
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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A Downing Street source reports that Morgan McSweeney is on the verge of sacking Shadow Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in favour of a lifeform not based on cardboard. Frontrunner, and famous shit-in-a-sock, little Wesley Streeting apparently fits the bill being mostly composed of oil.
A photograph of little Wesley Streeting holding tightly on to a red document folder bought using your taxes from Barrow Hepburn & Gale for several hundred pounds, standing beside the heavily decorative wrought iron gates paid for by your great, great grandparents’ taxes, outside an elaborately pillared cloister on the palace estate, paid for by your great, great, great, great grandparents’ taxes. He wears a bland blue business suit, with a bland blue shirt, and a bland blue tie (all almost certainly paid for by your taxes, or, failing that, by any one of a number of corporate business tycoons desperate to prise free-at-the-point-of-use from between the desperately clinging fingers of our #NHX, which lies gasping on a trolley in a dark corner of every hospital corridor pleading through dimming eyes for a shot of medicine as the Secretary of State for Healthy Profit slides by on a tiny, humming e-scooter while desperate consultants and administrators trip over patients and porters as they sprint to keep up) to complement his bland, blue politics. The execrable git sports an excitable grin about his mirthless, and merciless face. His tiny little fist is clenched because he cannot quite believe that his unremarkable brand of obsequious, cow-towing has landed him here, at the very heart of official corruption.
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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And here we have a perfectly-dressed, brass-necked, performative, genocide-enabling hypocrite dishonouring the dead... #GuessWeForgot
Sir Keir Starmer carrying a huge wreath of poppies, dressed in an immaculate black suit and overcoat, feigning solemnity as he waits to perform one of the most hypocritical acts of his premiership. That knocking and grating sound you hear is the bones of all the war dead spinning in their graves.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Dr. McMillan research here: mcmillanresearch.com
A flowchart showing the triggers for Severe Covid-19 response: Autoimmunity Flowchart Elevated levels of serum ACE-2 N Y Prior Coronavirus T-cell immunity MILD N Vitamin D N COVID-19 deficiency Y Currently on Y immunosuppresants N SEVERE COVID-19 MCMILLAN Vejon RESEARCH
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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What's up indeed...?
A Venn Diagram for the UK Right-wing shows three concentric circles around the heading 'fascism' - the key shows the blue circle representing the Conservative Party, the red circle representing the Labour Party and the outer circle circle representing Reform essentially shoing complete crossover and no differences between them.
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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The Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue...
A mock-up of a famous image from the movie The Shining showing Donald Trump rather than Jack Nicholson with his face pressed up against a hole he has just axed into a door with the text: 'Here's Donny...' instead of 'Here's Johnny...' and 'Still here for the foreseeable future.'
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Which is which?
A picture of Fred West, serial killer, on the left and Tony Blair, mass-murdering war criminal, on the right, with the text: Separated at birth: One of these two became a mass murderer. #TheHague'
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Two images of Corbyn approaching the cenotaph with a wreath of poppies on Remembrance Day's before elections in which he ran for prime minister along with text highlighting the newspaper smears he endured. The text reads: We've heard it all before... The British media will stop at nothing to undermine Jeremy Corbyn - that includes shamelessly and repeatedly politicising the deaths of millions of service men and women. HOME » NEWS » POLITICS » JEREMY CORBYN Jeremy Corbyn criticised for not bowing deeply enough at Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday Sir Gerald Howarth MP, a former Conservative defence minister, said that remembering Britain's war dead 'requires complete commitment' 'Scruffy' Corbyn wears a hooded anorak at Cenotaph - 37 years after Foot's donkey jacket 2015 REMEMBRANCE SMEAR Jeremy laying a The Lab 'NOT BOWING LOW ENOUGH' Photo: CAMERA PRESS Hope, Victoria Ward and Joe Shute The Telegraph World Sport Business Money Comment Culture Travel Life Women Fashion Luxury Tech Him 2018 REMEMBRANCE SMEAR 'WRONG KIND OF JACKET' laying a traditional wreath of poppies. Mail Online News
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Remember right-wing newspapers politicising remembrance?
A screenshot of an image of Jeremy Corbyn outside number 10 speaking from a podium with a banner headline proclaiming a Labour landslide election victory with red and white poppies top right. The text (with links to newspaper smear reports after each date sub-heading, reads: Remembrance Day Smears Against Corbyn 2015 SMEAR - Not bowing low enough at cenotaph https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/08/jeremy-corbyn-cenotaph-bow-scrutinised-social-media-remembrance-sunday 2016 SMEAR - Pictures cropped to suggest he is 'dancing a jig' https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-corbyn-dancing-remembrance-sunday_uk_58299981e4b09ac74c52d3be 2017 SMEAR - Accused of opposing commemoration altogether https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy Corbyn/11968548/Jeremy-Corbyn-questions-why-Britain-commemorates-the-First-World-War.html 2018 SMEAR - Wearing wrong kind of jacket and poppy at cenotaph https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6377075/Scruffy-disrespectful-Corbyn-slammed-looking-like-tramp-Cenotaph-service.html 2019 - Prime Minister Corbyn lauded by ex-servicemen and women for sweeping changes to their support as gutter press scrapes around for ways to undermine him. BBC LIVE Downing Street ELECTION LABOUR LANDSLIDE Corbyn: There is now more hope than ever for Britain in this time of crisis. UK SEATS LAB 361 CON 158 SNP 35 LD BBC NEWS 12:51 22 APNI GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKE The Emerge Agency ©
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Nobody resigned over this...
A screenshot taken from a 2018 Newsnight segment in which Emily Maitlis interviews guests in front of a backdrop depicting Jeremy Corbyn as a Soviet-era, Russian double-agent, in Russian fur hat, with communist iconography and images from the Kremlin - that's right between two elections in which Jeremy Corbyn was leading a super popular opposition Labour Party on a manifesto promising systemic change for the many, rather than the few.
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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One rule for us, no rules for them...
A montage of stories showing how 'elites' can do what they like and face no consequences at all. Picture 1: features a story that the MET Police will not investigate (then) Prince Andrew for alleged rape of a minor. Picture 2: features a story in which president Trump pardons Rudi Giuliani following his conviction for a plot to overturn the 2020 election in the USA. Picture 3: features a story in which ex-French president Sarkozy is released from trial after three weeks despite his conviction for massive fraud.
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Imagine blending from left to right; he'd look like a ghost... #fingerscrossed
A famously viral image of Donald Trump from the side with an incredibly clear tan-line dividing his face - fake tan to the right, white as a ghost to the left.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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This one's too tricky - no one seems able to join the dots...
A partially completed dot-to-dot puzzle with 20 points to join, completed to point 9. It looks like it might end up being a swastika...
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Here's the BBC publishing without comment or context a map in which Gaza is reduced by half. Note the source...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A map sourced from the Israel Defence Force depicting the Gaza Strip reduced by half as it shows the 'yellow line' by which Trump's so-called 'ceasefire' rewards Israeli genocide by transferring control from Palestinians to Israel. The area outside the line is even coloured yellow, similarly to the wider area marked 'Israel' to further suggest that large parts of Gaza are now effectively part of Israel.
November 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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The Labour Party website has a tab entitled: 'What we've delivered' linking to a whole section of blatant lies.

Labour is using semantics in order to claim policies have been delivered when they actually haven't. Example: the word 'eligible' is important here; the kids are still hungry. #LabourLies
A blurred background, possibly featuring a plate of school dinners, but it's hard to tell due to the blurring - this is incredibly apt, or devastatingly ironic, perhaps both. The text is disingenuous, reading: ' Labour 500,000 more children eligible for free school meals MISSION: Breaking down barriers to opportunity England We have extended eligibility for free school meals to half a million more children, lifting 100,000 children out of poverty and putting £500 back into parents' pockets every single year.'
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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How do 'centrists' think Labour's 'free breakfast clubs' are going in primary schools?

The tense used in the phrase 'Labour has delivered...', means this must be benefitting millions by now, right?

Fact is, even after all this time, only a few pilot schemes have even started yet... #LabourLies
A dishonest claim from Labour stating: BEST START IN LIFE ROLLING OUT FREE BREAKFAST CLUBS Labour has delivered on its manifesto promise to roll out free breakfast clubs - with two million meals already served to school children across England. The programme is boosting children's life chances and parents' work choices - helping kids start their day ready to learn, and saving parents an estimated £450 a year.'
November 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM