oh_no_its_john #FBPE 🇪🇺
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Francophile, 🇫🇷 forever European, 🇪🇺 classic car nut, Greyhound owner, socialist.
“Rage, rage against the lying of the right…..”
“Rage, rage against the lying of the right…..”
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Yes, who would have thought. If you adopt a bash-liberals strategy, liberal voters will vote for someone else. And despite what they think in No.10, liberal voters do actually exist.
These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Yes, who would have thought. If you adopt a bash-liberals strategy, liberal voters will vote for someone else. And despite what they think in No.10, liberal voters do actually exist.
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These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
November 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
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Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
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Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
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Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
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I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”
If they support them they will too.
If they support them they will too.
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”
If they support them they will too.
If they support them they will too.
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Voters despair at Labour’s ‘futile’ new refugee policy – except for the far right...
Labour are yet again dancing to Reform’s drum, and in the process they’re herding voters to their left and right:"
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Labour are yet again dancing to Reform’s drum, and in the process they’re herding voters to their left and right:"
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Voters despair at Labour's 'futile' new refugee policy - except for the far right
Tommy Robinson, meanwhile, has suggested the announcement is a victory for the far right. So, well done Labour - great work.
www.thecanary.co
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Voters despair at Labour’s ‘futile’ new refugee policy – except for the far right...
Labour are yet again dancing to Reform’s drum, and in the process they’re herding voters to their left and right:"
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Labour are yet again dancing to Reform’s drum, and in the process they’re herding voters to their left and right:"
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
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This won’t even work as intended. The people objecting to refugees aren’t asking for people to have to stay longer and jump through more hoops before they’re naturalised. They point blank want anyone not exactly like them kicked out.
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This won’t even work as intended. The people objecting to refugees aren’t asking for people to have to stay longer and jump through more hoops before they’re naturalised. They point blank want anyone not exactly like them kicked out.
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If Starmer wants to stop a leadership challenge, he just needs to change direction. It’s not hard. Have the brains to realise that the Blue Labour approach is failing dismally.
November 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
If Starmer wants to stop a leadership challenge, he just needs to change direction. It’s not hard. Have the brains to realise that the Blue Labour approach is failing dismally.
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The normalisation, nay, emboldenment of the far right by the Labour government continues at pace
Shabana Mahmood has vowed to end Britain’s “golden ticket” for asylum seekers by forcing people arriving illegally to wait 20 years before they can apply for permanent settlement
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The normalisation, nay, emboldenment of the far right by the Labour government continues at pace
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We endured Theresa May and her "Go Home" vans. Then we further endured Priti Patel followed by Suella Braverman and the zenophobic Rwanda debacle.
I never thought we'd have someone as nasty and zenophobic, in the same mould, from the Labour Party.
Truly appalling. 😔
I never thought we'd have someone as nasty and zenophobic, in the same mould, from the Labour Party.
Truly appalling. 😔
Thinking about my own father, who arrived in 1946 with the Free Polish Army - when would Labour have sent him back to communist Poland? How could he have done anything to build a life and have children in the UK if he had had to beg to stay every two years? Disgusting. www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
We endured Theresa May and her "Go Home" vans. Then we further endured Priti Patel followed by Suella Braverman and the zenophobic Rwanda debacle.
I never thought we'd have someone as nasty and zenophobic, in the same mould, from the Labour Party.
Truly appalling. 😔
I never thought we'd have someone as nasty and zenophobic, in the same mould, from the Labour Party.
Truly appalling. 😔
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Aside from the cruelty of this, I’d just like to know why it’s ok to ignore and disappoint liberal/progressive voters.
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Aside from the cruelty of this, I’d just like to know why it’s ok to ignore and disappoint liberal/progressive voters.
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?
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Oh great - après moi le déluge is now official government policy.
What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Oh great - après moi le déluge is now official government policy.
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
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So far the media has announced every possible tax increase. Now on the basis of the unattributed FT story they are announcing U-turns on something that has never actually been said and hysteria ensues. No wonder the vast majority of people are turned off from politics.
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
So far the media has announced every possible tax increase. Now on the basis of the unattributed FT story they are announcing U-turns on something that has never actually been said and hysteria ensues. No wonder the vast majority of people are turned off from politics.
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I find the endless, often pointless drama that has typified UK politics coverage for a decade as draining & unedifying as anyone. But, *as of now* & by every relevant measure, Starmer’s position is perilously close to untenable. Of course people are planning for a future where he’s no longer leader.
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I find the endless, often pointless drama that has typified UK politics coverage for a decade as draining & unedifying as anyone. But, *as of now* & by every relevant measure, Starmer’s position is perilously close to untenable. Of course people are planning for a future where he’s no longer leader.
Tell me again how it’s all about “Patriotism” or “legitimate concerns”…..
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Tell me again how it’s all about “Patriotism” or “legitimate concerns”…..
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I don't often call for resignations. But Sir Robbie Gibb's role in the BBC boardroom coup makes his continued role there untenable. He must resign or be removed
‘Gibb’s supporters say he is trying to save the BBC from itself; he was also heard last year to say that if he didn’t get his way, he would “blow the place up”.’
“a group of politically-appointed directors has forced the hand of Samir Shah,the chair, and the departure of the two most senior people in the organisation. Their resignations should be called out for what they are: political interference..”1/
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I don't often call for resignations. But Sir Robbie Gibb's role in the BBC boardroom coup makes his continued role there untenable. He must resign or be removed
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Irony: People saying the BBC is biased towards the left when a big part of why they’ve all been radicalised to vote Tory and Reform is BECAUSE of (yes you guessed it) the BBC’s right wing bias.
Couldn’t make it up.
Thicker than a submarine door.
Couldn’t make it up.
Thicker than a submarine door.
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Irony: People saying the BBC is biased towards the left when a big part of why they’ve all been radicalised to vote Tory and Reform is BECAUSE of (yes you guessed it) the BBC’s right wing bias.
Couldn’t make it up.
Thicker than a submarine door.
Couldn’t make it up.
Thicker than a submarine door.
I’m not in America and by no means a political expert, but I have been predicting this since Trump got his second term.
Thread.
Thread.
THREAD 🧵: Yesterday was the municipal election in Pennsylvania where we chose judges and local politicians.
Republicans got their asses kicked, even in red counties.
Americans are stressed out, broke, and pissed the fuck off - and yesterday was a loud referendum on the MAGA junta.
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Republicans got their asses kicked, even in red counties.
Americans are stressed out, broke, and pissed the fuck off - and yesterday was a loud referendum on the MAGA junta.
(1 of 13)
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I’m not in America and by no means a political expert, but I have been predicting this since Trump got his second term.
Thread.
Thread.
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This, from Barnard Castle boy, is simply astonishing. The naked facism and the complete lack of self awareness.
For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This, from Barnard Castle boy, is simply astonishing. The naked facism and the complete lack of self awareness.
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Dominic Cummings was always an absolute arsehole.
The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.
The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Dominic Cummings was always an absolute arsehole.
The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.
The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.
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they’ll sell off the care homes and get a one of payment of a few mill
The residents will no doubt be put in private homes
At 2-3 times the price of the council run homes
And no doubt some of the money will make its way to the councillor for social care
Who- oddly enough - owns private care homes
The residents will no doubt be put in private homes
At 2-3 times the price of the council run homes
And no doubt some of the money will make its way to the councillor for social care
Who- oddly enough - owns private care homes
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
they’ll sell off the care homes and get a one of payment of a few mill
The residents will no doubt be put in private homes
At 2-3 times the price of the council run homes
And no doubt some of the money will make its way to the councillor for social care
Who- oddly enough - owns private care homes
The residents will no doubt be put in private homes
At 2-3 times the price of the council run homes
And no doubt some of the money will make its way to the councillor for social care
Who- oddly enough - owns private care homes