Posts by Andrew Knowles
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms.
But we will not be silenced.
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Grok show me the Conservative Party on its knees, wearing a gimp suit. Now show it begging Elon Musk for a donation, Now do not remove any of its clothes, but do remove all decency and sense of shame.
Grok, cancel those prompts. No need.
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100,000 members! Let's put an end to environmental Vandalism and look forward to a cleaner, greener World.
Conservative MP Mel Stride claims PIP benefit is thousands of pounds per month.
No it is an absolute maximum of £720 a month, and most people only get £250 or less.
Meanwhile he claims £1,250 a month in rent on his expenses
Lying, thieving b******
Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her.
RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
🚨 BREAKING: XR disrupt Europe’s top insurance conference in Manchester
We've crashed #BIBA2025 with 1 message:
Stop insuring climate collapse #InsureOurSurvival
A new report reveals 33 UK insurance firms still back #fossilfuels & just 5 invest over $6.5billion into climate-wrecking projects
Why⁉️
🔴 NEW - Trump's ambassador to the UK made a $4 million donation to the president's inauguration fund on the same day he was nominated for the role.
📝 @desmog.bsky.social
Times headline and image of Reeves, Bessent, with the White House and American flag behind them. Will Rachel Reeves have to give up more to get a US trade deal? As the chancellor flies to Washington, gloomy financial forecasts make an agreement with the Trump administration to mitigate tariffs even more urgent
NUMBER CRUNCHING £6Bn Value of reduction in US tariffs for UK companies per year as against EU members under first Trump announcement, hailed by Kemi Badenoch, Nigel Farage and others as a Brexit benefit £100Bn Fall in UK exports per year due to Brexit
When Brexiters and right wing media, like The Times, drone on about the importance of a trade deal with Trump and how Brexit gives us an advantage over the EU (hahaha), just remember that context matters. Which is why they always dodge that part.
Private Eye is happy to help though.
Yesterday Mark Carney was told, “Mr Carney, there’s a genocide in Palestine”.
“I’m aware,” Carney told the protester, “That’s why we have an arms embargo.”
This has really, really upset Benjamin Netanyahu, so don't RT unless you hate him.
💥 I’ve just signed the petition calling for a “National Commission on Electoral Reform” - Will YOU sign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/nc...
£2million per DAY from our energy bills to subsidise burning of trees. #AxeDrax NOW
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Image of Nigel Farage and Andrew Tate together. Farage is smiling and giving a thumbs-up.
Andrew Tate who is facing charges of allegedly trafficking minors, sexual intercourse with a minor, and money laundering, asks that you stop sharing this image please. He feels that it is damaging his reputation.
New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
"There are 60,000 voters who did everything they're supposed to do, and my opponent wants their ballots to be tossed."
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs sat down with @marcelias.bsky.social to explain what's happening in the state Supreme Court race. Watch the full interview.
Tommy Robinson sent a letter to himself, he meant to log out and send it from a different account.
But he didn't.
Don't RT 🤣
Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration.
And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA
A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/
Massively important thread 👇👇👇
In 2023, Nancy Mace called herself “pro-transgender rights” and said she’s supportive of children who “wanna take on a different pronoun or a different gender identity.” She is a fraud who is grifting off hate. Despicable.
The library has been my happy place since it gave me a place to quietly read and escape not-great home as a bairn.