No evidence of family voting in by election
Farage claims whitewash after police found no evidence of Gorton family voting.
Reform offered hate. We offered hope. Hope won.
The police say his accusations of cheating are baseless. Farage is a bad loser.
NHS 'came close to collapse' during COVID-19 pandemic, inquiry finds Systems only survived thanks to the extraordinary efforts of healthcare workers, Baroness Heather Hallett has claimed.
“No shit, Sherlock” feels like an insufficient response here.
🎡London’s economy is;
📉 £30 billion smaller than if the UK had stayed in the EU
💼 Employment in the capital is down 230,000 jobs
👪 The average family is about £3,500 worse off, he argued.
You know all those people who support Reform & the now far right Tories, and who the media loves to say are just the "left behind" with "reasonable concerns" about immigration?
What would they, and their friends in the media, have done in Germany in 1936?
#r4today
This chart is a proportional recount of a vote in the House of Commons. The top two bars show the number of MPs from each party who voted Aye or No in the division. The bottom two bars show the number of voters those MPs represent. For example, if a party won two million votes in the general election and half of that party's MPs voted in the division, that would represent one million voters. 2026-03-09: Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: to disagree with LA 106 The 295 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 7,056,111 voters. The 174 MPs voting 'No' represented 11,232,453 voters. In many cases, more voters are represented by the MPs on the losing side. This is because seats don't match votes with First Past the Post (FPTP). Recounts are shown in terms of ideal MPs who all represent the same number of people. The method is not a simulation of a PR elected Commons. It is intended to highlight the distortion of FPTP. For more details, see the FAQ: https://tinyurl.com/4hxyc8e7
2026-03-09: Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: to disagree with LA 106
The 295 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 7,056,111 voters.
The 174 MPs voting 'No' represented 11,232,453 voters.
No majority = 4,176,342
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes.
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Thank you Nadia Whittome 👏
Hope everyone had a Happy International Women’s Day 💜
Our taps were pouring @IWCBD beers, we had a free talk in the marquee (3–5pm), & the pub was full of lovely people celebrating together.
Worth remembering women weren’t allowed to drink in public bars of UK pubs 'til 1982. Not so long ago.
Over 1000 civilians dead, and we're letting Trump use UK bases to further his war.
Britain should stand firm against Trump's illegal warmongering, and stop these bombers landing on UK soil.
The lying, racist Mail on Sunday going Full Trump after its Far Right candidate got spanked in the by-election.
We need proper controls on dishonest journalism that peddles racial hatred.
Get Palantir out of the UK.
Protect our NHS.
Protect our country.
www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...
Politicians tell us they can fix poverty with economic growth, or labour market reforms, or easy money.
But all of these fixes just obscure the fact that the poverty of those at the bottom is a direct consequence of the wealth of those at the top. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-uk-is-...
Regardless of which party you support, this is a key point by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social:
"With Proportional Representation, no one would ever need to worry about splitting the vote again. We could vote for the parties we actually wanted."
Wouldn't that be nice? To vote with hope, not fear?
Water bills up again.
The Green Party will lower bills by ending the privatised water company rip off. Water must be taken into public ownership now.
Reform UK is unfit to govern. It shows.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/national/25752367.f...
Let me get this straight in my head.
Trump would have us believe that his morality is of a higher standard than the rule of International Law?
Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is truly brilliant!👏👏✨
I wondered why I disliked Trump so much……🤭
londondaily.com/british-writ...
Worlds richest families have never been richer - Walton's lead with net worth of $513bn
This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
Since David Frost has NEVER been right about anything at any point when it comes to Brexit, this feels like a strong endorsement for our participation in Erasmus.
The govt says it’s taxing the super-rich… but it doesn’t seem to know what that means.
Last week the Chancellor was asked about her Budget's impact on the richest 1%, she said they only analyse impact by deciles (10% slices of the pop).
🧵Here's why that's a BIG problem... 1/9
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Kingsbridge this morning. 90 minutes.
Again, look at personal impact of immigration. One person.
Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Graphic saying: Live music from The Small Strings at the taproom
Last gig of the year! Come along to the Double Barrelled taproom this from 7pm evening for our festive shindig. Gonna be a lot of fun. Book your table if you want a seat as it's likely to be a busy one :-)
Well, will you look at that! Great news for our gig at @southstreetarts.bsky.social in March... not so great if you didn't manage to get a ticket...
*signs up to become a police officer*
“I’m going to protect people and keep them safe!”
BOSS: I need you to arrest those protestors who want us to stop selling death bombs that are used to kill babies.
Brexit dividend: our swimming waters are MUCH more polluted than any EU country's because we no longer have to follow EU environmental law since Brexit so water companies can get away with just about anything.
(Just one of many pesky EU rules Brexiters hated.)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Another day, another attack on immigrants. Not by the mobs swilling outside of asylum hotels, but by the Prime Minister.
Britain. Lovely place.
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