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I checked this too.
*20 seconds* of Reform logo display.
*No other* party logo displayed.
In local election purdah.
This is not normal. At all.
Wait a minute, is this the same Richard Tice who repeatedly called for Angela Rayner to resign over her dubious tax shenanigans? Surely not, because that would make him look like a hypocritical wanker. Oh.
Obviously right thing to do for EU & UK (for its similar agreement with Israel).
Absolutely no excuse for preferential trade agreements with a country that is deliberately defying international law to pursue systematic mass killings, war crimes & ethnic cleansing
www.politico.eu/article/spai...
Unimprovable headline
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
AI is supposed to serve people, not decide whose rights matter.
✍️ Sign the petition to demand democratic control over how AI is used in society: go.wemove.eu/Stop_Palanti...
Good explanation from @stellacreasy.bsky.social of my analysis of the government/MAC's own data on the fiscal impacts of recent immigration, as featured in today's Guardian.
""I think people are sick of being told they can't have healthy rivers and seas, just because powerful financiers want to keep making money from our water bills.
"Our government is listening to them [water companies] but not to us,""
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
👇This
8. Questions for the government This analysis suggests a number of straightforward questions which the government should address: Will the government publish a clear breakdown of the profile over time of the most likely savings and costs of the proposed reforms, before the proposals are finalised? How much of the £10bn lifetime estimate would actually be affected by delaying ILR, as opposed to costs arising later in life? What is the estimated fiscal impact of the policy over the next five years, the period relevant to the fiscal rules? Does the government expect these reforms to reduce settlement by encouraging migrants to leave? If so, what is the short-term fiscal impact of that? What are the expected savings from reduced access to benefits, in cash terms, and how do they compare to the tax contributions of this cohort? What assumptions have been made about behavioural responses, including exit and reduced inflows? What assessment has been made of the policy’s impact on higher-paid migration, which has a strongly positive fiscal contribution? These are not technical details. They go directly to whether the policy achieves its stated objective of improving the public finances
My detailed analysis is here. It includes some questions which journalists and MPs should be asking the Home Office.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
As Hungary votes, would recommend this piece about how Viktor Orban has used public money to bankroll an international ultraconservative network - including Roger Scruton cafes and €10k a month for failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
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Spanish PM Pedro calls for the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Netanyahu
He said: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.” #cdnpoli
Dear international friends,
Do not travel to the United States this summer for the World Cup. It isn't safe for us, and it's absolutely not safe for you.
Sincerely,
An American citizen
Pedro Sanchez Perez-Castejon, Prime Minister of Spain arrives to the European Council summit. (Photo by Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images)
PM Pedro Sánchez: "Netanyahu has launched his most intense attack on Lebanon since the offensive began — his disregard for human life & international law is intolerable.
It’s time to speak clearly: Lebanon must be included in the ceasefire — and there must be no impunity for these criminal acts"
It is sad when the vice-president of the United States sees his job as spreading Kremlin propaganda.
JD Vance just told us all he's a fascist.
This is the administration that people like Nigel Farage have been sucking up to for years.
#MAGA
Before posting, don't forget to let
Reform Ltd & Nigel Farage know
your heart-felt feelings about them
all over the leaflet ...
meme via Paul Hodgson
The emperor has no clothes.
Time for the #25thAmendment. Congress and the Cabinet must act.
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
Pope Leo criticises President Trump, again,
"Those who have weapons, lay them down"
"Those who have the power to unleash wars, chose peace"
We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...
The royal family can’t keep doing this.
He's repeatedly insulted our country, our leaders and our military, is pushing up our prices and threatening our national security, yet the self-proclaimed 'patriotic' right-wing press still finds a way to put themselves on his side
Marco Rubio declared that under the Constitution being born in the USA does not make you a citizen unless your parents are citizens.
Marco Rubio's parents were Cuban immigrants who were NOT citizens at the time of his birth.
Do you think Marco will now self-deport?
So as Reform UK announce their plans for the "biggest benefit cuts ever", whilst cutting taxes for the wealthiest, their Treasurer has just sold his Chelsea Mansion for a record £275million
www.ft.com/content/8daf...
Daily Mail front page attacking Keir Starmer for Donald Trump’s disgusting behaviour…
This is an extraordinary front page for a British newspaper to run. Donald Trump’s delinquency, derangement & imperilling of international security is somehow a stick with which to beat our own Prime Minister, who has negotiated the current horror show rather well. It is actually sickening.
This is absolutely spot on from Emily Thornberry 👏
“Reform’s so called great repeal bill would scrap the Employment Rights Act, would scrap the Equality Act, take away rights of millions of hard working people up and down the country”
Paul Nowak TUC General Secretary
