I wonder if Laura Kuenssberg will talk about Nigel Farage blatantly avoiding tax on her show tomorrow? She loved quizzing Angela Rayner about tax avoidance on her house
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Starmer is wilfully blind to the obvious growth possibilities should he turn his gaze to the EU and has deserted the very people who voted him in. But it’s not too late. Labour has a powerful majority and change can and must happen. It’s a fool’s errand to chase the Reform vote.
Very good news from our friends at @stopfundinghate.bsky.social who have forced The Telegraph to delete a particularly dishonest piece of journalism and pay their legal costs. stopfundinghate.info/2025/04/01/t...
Some good news. Labour getting a grip of the water companies
The public however want to go further and want water re nationalised. Water is a right and it should not be for profit.
📢 UPDATE: the Home Office has signed ANOTHER contract with Fujitsu Services, this time worth £3.7m over the next 5 years.
Sub-postmasters are still waiting for compensation and the government had a choice of 32 other suppliers. So why choose Fujitsu again?
goodlawproject.org/it-firm-behi...
How
55 Tufton Street, headquarters of the Brexit plotters, owned by a man who, according to The NY Times, both funds Farage's "Reform UK" party, and makes money selling equipment to the Russian military via an Indian broker.
Bedfellows, and all that.
It stinks, #Badenoch
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The Cabinet Office is *still* trying to shut down transparency about the PPE deals that happened under Michael Gove. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Hello? Is this thing on?! 🎙️
A French scientist flew to the USA. Border Patrol seized his phone, read his social media comments, denied him entry, sent him back to France
They did not like his THOUGHTS and WORDS. They refused him entry to the USA. Because of his thoughts. Orwellian Thought Police
“While drug shortages have become a problem globally in recent years, the UK is facing “a worsening situation” compared with the rest of Europe because of Brexit”
Excellent work, Brexiters.
Absolutely nailing our sovereign right to be self-harmingly idiotic.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Who could have predicted it?
Lord Darzi, who led the rapid review of the NHS, held $500k undeclared shares & $800k undeclared share options in private health companies - all missing from his House of Lords register of interests - when Streeting appointed him.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Because of Brexit, the U.K. is blocked from the €150bn EU defence fund.
Leaving the Single Market will go down in history as the greatest act of British self harm this century.
www.thetimes.com/article/baae...
In a world of Matts, be a Derek.
When I want to shop online, I often go to Amazon, find the product and the company selling on Amazon. Then, I search the company online and purchase directly from them. And I usually save a few bucks too
That's nuts.
No commercial organisation nor any state can now justify using Starlink for anything as it could simply be taken away at any moment and leave whatever project you were using it for utterly useless.
Is this Musk's Ratner moment?
I note with interest right-wing media's total absence of any concerns about prominent BBC presenter Armstrong expressing his highly political opinions. As was always perfectly clear to many of us, the problem was not that Lineker had views, but the fact they didn't approve of his views.
BBC news, reporting changes to zero hour contracts: interviews some guy from the federation of small businesses making empty threats about how they'll all stop hiring people; neglects to ask any unions or workers whether having sick pay and minimum hours might be good, actually. Balance!
Low-paid workers will finally get 80% of their wages in statutory sick pay from day one. It should be 95% of 100%, but let’s reflect on how far we’ve come—under the Tories, those earning under £123 a week got nothing.
The fact we’re now arguing over how much, not whether, is real progress.
Brexit died this weekend.
And Farage, by his craven silence, knows it.
Starmer has been very impressive in the last 48 hrs - calm and decisive, convening effectively and getting an agreed plan. It felt that Britain was back in its old role of leadership on European security. Many pitfalls between here and lasting peace. But crisis has become opportunity. Bravo team UK!
After a decade of decline under the Tories and the disaster of Brexit, it’s an amazing feeling to see the UK under Sir Kier’s leadership, back at the centre, influential amongst our natural allies on the global stage.
Well its taken him a while to get there, but today Keir Starmer has proved to be a true leader. I am proud today 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
Thank fuck May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak or Badenoch are NOT in charge at a time like this. The grown-ups are back in no 10.
Excellent! To those who think Starmer is doing too little he’s playing a blinder imo.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/...
I’m 60 years of age and honestly I’ve never felt real pride in a British PM but I feel properly proud of Starmer right now. He knows how to play a long game, and he’s smart.
It’s not grovelling or ‘taking the knee’.
It’s called…DIPLOMACY!
And so far, Starmer is doing it, brilliantly!