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The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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ncecire.bsky.social
There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 4h
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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paulduane.bsky.social
“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”
So will being deemed a domestic terrorist by your government so that it is absolutely fine for them to shoot you dead on live TV.
January 25, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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paulduane.bsky.social
Well, yeah.
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ayoub.bsky.social elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 26, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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jeremymillar.bsky.social
Well excuse me
an image showing Dom Sylvester Houédard's *great* poem frog pond plop
January 27, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Trump says he felt worse about his thugs murdering a woman after he heard that her parents liked him. Which means that if they didn't like him, he wouldn't have felt as bad.
Who made this person such a monster? And why did 77 million people flush away their decency and vote for this?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Trump on Renee Good: "I know her parents were big Trump fans. Makes me feel bad anyway, but I mean I guess you could say even worse. They were tremendous Trump people."
January 27, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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rachelburch.bsky.social
Colour version of twisty willows near Norsworthy bridge. I love the spirals in the branches, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #moss
A green mossy willow tree with spiralling branches
January 23, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
44% of the population of Denton and Gorton are ethnic minority, the majority of them born in the UK.

Reform's candidate says those people aren't British and are liable for deportation.

It's a bold electoral strategy: vote for me and I'll throw you into the sea.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform byelection candidate refuses to disown claim that people born in UK not necessarily British
Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, said UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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kmale.bsky.social
Morning snack on Meols beach.
January 27, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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xelartz.bsky.social
Happy boulder day 2026
jimmytwohands.bsky.social Jimmy Two Hands (cozy era) @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · Jan 27
Happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day for all who celebrate
large boulder the size of a small boulder tweet from San Miguel sheriff, dated 1/27/20
January 27, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
“If [Braverman] possesses endearing qualities they’re imperceptible to the naked eye. She manages to be both malevolent and goofy, like a clown with a grenade-launcher.”
writesbright.bsky.social Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 1d
🔴 Nigel Farage is sabotaging his own party 🔴

I think the recent defections have shown that his political ambitions are entirely selfish.

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Nigel Farage is sabotaging his own party
Initial thoughts on Braverman switching teams...
writesbright.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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kevingilmartin.bsky.social
Just seen someone use the phrase "hiding behind the sofa" in relation to Doctor Who. That's a thing we used to say about classic Who, because the baddies supposedly scary. But do you know anyone who actually, literally, hid behind the sofa when Doctor Who was on? Where did that come from?
January 27, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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thewatchdogco.bsky.social
Let's get so loud about this that Congress has no choice but to impeach Kristi Noem:
Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
January 26, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Boris Johnson and Suella Braverman are constant reminders of just how deeply unimpressive you can be as a human being and still get incredible power - and how useless and complicit our supposed systems of checking are - I don’t give us long
January 27, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Now, *this* is the cut of Melania's new vanity movie I'd watch.

(I'm kidding. I wouldn't watch anything about her.)
January 26, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.
January 27, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Former Gestapo head Gregory Bovino needs to retire to a federal prison, not a lovely ranch in California.
January 27, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
Braverman says she's been "politically homeless" for over 2 years, which means she was reelected in 2024 as an MP for a party she didn't want to be a member of.

And she says Tories "failed Britain [on] Brexit and immigration". She was Brexit minister and Home Secretary. Twice.

But "vote for me!"
January 27, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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newscientist.com
Peter F. Hamilton’s new book A Hole in the Sky is set on a troubled ark ship hundreds of years into its voyage, with fantastic plot twists and turns. I'm a big Hamilton fan, but one aspect of the novel proved alienating for me, says Emily H. Wilson
Peter F. Hamilton's latest is an epic slice of sci-fi – with one flaw
Peter F. Hamilton’s new book A Hole in the Sky is set on a troubled ark ship hundreds of years into its voyage, with fantastic plot twists and turns. I'm a big Hamilton fan, but one aspect of the novel proved alienating for me, says Emily H. Wilson
www.newscientist.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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navalairhistory.com
For those outside the UK who may not have seen, we had a reckoning on media regulation 15 years ago, and the media won a decisive victory against meaningful regulation. TL;DR, they were caught hacking the phone of a murdered child, there was an enquiry, but they avoided all the recommendations…
sexabolition.blog Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 1d
The fundamental problem is that we have no effective regulation of the media here, our public service broadcaster is just very obviously regime media and our major privately run news publications are all owned by billionaires with editorial agendas that distort reality and degrade human rights.
erikfrechette.bsky.social Erik the Pleb @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 1d
Reading about the rise of Reform while living in the self-immolating US feels like an out of body experience. That anyone outside the US could look at a country collapsing in on itself and say, “Yes, some of that for us please!” is just surreal.
January 27, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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codfather.bsky.social
😂 Seems about right - lol
January 27, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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jonzoidberg.xyz
Art is everywhere if you know where to look. Just wash your hands.
A Melania movie poster where her name is crossed out and replaced with bitch. Her face is Xd out and she has horns. A Melania movie poster and someone has added "my husband fucks kids" A Melania movie poster but someone has added a hitler mustache to her and wrote Eva Braun A Melania poster improved with a smear of feces.
January 21, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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stephengallagher.co.uk
In the tradition of Nazis, Mafioso and East European mobsters, ICE will be the next class of unredeemable henchmen that a movie hero can mow down with audience approval
January 27, 2026 at 9:51 AM
geekchocolate.bsky.social
A late sixties #horror #thriller of the swinging London set restored for #Bluray, The Haunted House of Horror is tolerable only for the music, fashions and locations.

geekchocolate.co.uk/the-haunted-...

#review #classicfilm
The Haunted House of Horror | GeekChocolate
A group of friends who chose to party in an abandoned mansion are witness to murder under a full moon in The Haunted House of Horror.
geekchocolate.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
'All seats remained available for the 28 screenings of Melania at the Blackburn, Castleford and Hamilton branches."

The picture was slightly rosier at the Cineworld in Wandsworth, which had sold four tickets."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Waving British Flag GIF
ALT: Waving British Flag GIF
media.tenor.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:20 PM