Liz McShane
@lizmcshane.bsky.social
Irish-born Hispanophile now living on the lovely Kent coast after many years in Tottenham. Labour councillor for Folkestone Central.
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Responding to the chancellor’s #Budget2025 speech, Kemi Badenoch claimed unemployment has increased “every single month” under Labour.
As we’ve explained before, that’s not quite right.
As we’ve explained before, that’s not quite right.
Unemployment has risen under Labour - but it hasn’t gone up ‘every single month’ – Full Fact
We’ve looked into the numbers after claims from a number of Conservative MPs, including the party’s leader Kemi Badenoch.
fullfact.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Responding to the chancellor’s #Budget2025 speech, Kemi Badenoch claimed unemployment has increased “every single month” under Labour.
As we’ve explained before, that’s not quite right.
As we’ve explained before, that’s not quite right.
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The UK isn’t a “soft touch” on asylum.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The UK isn’t a “soft touch” on asylum.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
You really couldn’t make this stuff up…
In a spell-binding move, Reform run, cash-strapped, Kent County Council repaints the yellow 'Keep Clear' lines outside a school that closed 10 years ago
news.sky.com/story/reform...
news.sky.com/story/reform...
Reform council repaints road markings for school which closed in 2016
Kent County Council sold the disused school site to a government agency in March, but has repainted yellow zigzags and "School Keep Clear" warnings.
news.sky.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
You really couldn’t make this stuff up…
Thank you @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social for rainy this & hopefully common sense & compassion will prevail.
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Thank you @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social for rainy this & hopefully common sense & compassion will prevail.
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A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
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Ummm, the rise in the state pension age to 67 was introduced by the Coalition Government in 2014, not Labour, and paying inheritance tax when you die doesn't affect your retirement income when you're alive.
October 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Ummm, the rise in the state pension age to 67 was introduced by the Coalition Government in 2014, not Labour, and paying inheritance tax when you die doesn't affect your retirement income when you're alive.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social just listening to your shoe today on catch up, which was buzzing & fab as usual. Just one thing, you mentioned use of the term: Trump Derangement Syndrome. Are you aware that your colleague Nick Ferrari uses it?
October 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social just listening to your shoe today on catch up, which was buzzing & fab as usual. Just one thing, you mentioned use of the term: Trump Derangement Syndrome. Are you aware that your colleague Nick Ferrari uses it?
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EUROVISION NEW: President of Spanish broadcaster, RTVE, says it is no longer correct to describe the song contest as apolitical in strong statement.
"The current events and the genocide currently taking place make it impossible for us to look the other way.”
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
"The current events and the genocide currently taking place make it impossible for us to look the other way.”
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Spain first of Eurovision ‘big five’ to say it will boycott event if Israel participates
State broadcaster says it will withdraw from next year’s contest in Vienna unless Israel is excluded over Gaza war
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
EUROVISION NEW: President of Spanish broadcaster, RTVE, says it is no longer correct to describe the song contest as apolitical in strong statement.
"The current events and the genocide currently taking place make it impossible for us to look the other way.”
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
"The current events and the genocide currently taking place make it impossible for us to look the other way.”
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Mad times when it's a British king who's trying to convince an American president to resist tyranny.
September 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Mad times when it's a British king who's trying to convince an American president to resist tyranny.
So depressing that KCC is being run by flat earthers & conspiracy theorists.
🔴Reform UK Council Backs Climate Denial Motion Saying Man Made Climate Change Is ‘Unproven’
The Reform motion denying the existence of man-made climate change was also backed by the Conservatives
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/16/r...
The Reform motion denying the existence of man-made climate change was also backed by the Conservatives
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/16/r...
Reform UK Council Backs Climate Denial Motion Saying Man Made Climate Change Is 'Unproven'
The Reform motion denying the existence of man-made climate change was also backed by the Conservatives
bylinetimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
So depressing that KCC is being run by flat earthers & conspiracy theorists.
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It is hardly needed but this is yet more evidence in favour of the blindingly obvious
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
UK Ambassador Told Epstein ‘I Think the World of You,’ Emails Reveal
Peter Mandelson, the prominent Labour politician who was named British ambassador to the US this year, expressed steadfast support and offered to discuss Epstein’s now-infamous 2008 case with his cont...
www.bloomberg.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It is hardly needed but this is yet more evidence in favour of the blindingly obvious
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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The grift goes on.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The grift goes on.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Johnson’s corruption know no bounds
September 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Johnson’s corruption know no bounds
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Polly Billington MP, the Labour MP for East Thanet, said Cllr Kemkaran was risking lives in Kent by questioning the safety of clinically tested and approved vaccines:
September 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Polly Billington MP, the Labour MP for East Thanet, said Cllr Kemkaran was risking lives in Kent by questioning the safety of clinically tested and approved vaccines:
A very important read. Thank you @liamthorp.bsky.social
I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred
I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇
I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇
We escaped war and torture but now we feel unsafe in Britain
Special report: Amid protests and rising aggression towards asylum seekers across the country, we spoke to those being targeted
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
A very important read. Thank you @liamthorp.bsky.social
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"So, the very same day free speech champion Nigel Farage denied banning critical journalists from his events, his team did exactly that.
"In theory, this could be more than just painfully ironic for Farage. Evidence sessions to Congressional committees are given under oath…"
"In theory, this could be more than just painfully ironic for Farage. Evidence sessions to Congressional committees are given under oath…"
Did Farage just lie to US congress under oath?
At a hearing in DC, the leader of Reform said that he does not ban journalists from his party’s conference - just hours after his party banned The New World
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 7:03 AM
"So, the very same day free speech champion Nigel Farage denied banning critical journalists from his events, his team did exactly that.
"In theory, this could be more than just painfully ironic for Farage. Evidence sessions to Congressional committees are given under oath…"
"In theory, this could be more than just painfully ironic for Farage. Evidence sessions to Congressional committees are given under oath…"
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As others have pointed out "anarcho-tyranny" is a contradiction in terms. How can a cruel oppressive government impose non existent laws.
Allister puts the moron in oxymoron.
Allister puts the moron in oxymoron.
September 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
As others have pointed out "anarcho-tyranny" is a contradiction in terms. How can a cruel oppressive government impose non existent laws.
Allister puts the moron in oxymoron.
Allister puts the moron in oxymoron.
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Angela Rayner’s stamp duty & what happens when Nigel Farage isn’t permitted to bullshit his way through an interview. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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Listen back to all the highlights in a 60-minute bite sized chunk of his show with new episodes ever...
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September 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Angela Rayner’s stamp duty & what happens when Nigel Farage isn’t permitted to bullshit his way through an interview. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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Oh.
“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Oh.
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The whole story in three posts.
If Rayner had set out to minimise her tax bill, she could have waited til her son turned 18 before buying the Hove house. She didn't because she wasn't trying to minimise her tax bill.
September 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The whole story in three posts.
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"There is an ugliness to some of this - 𝘺𝘦𝘴 she should've done better - but it doesn’t equate to what we saw in the last gov’t with people on the make.”
Angela Rayner’s resignation has provoked sympathy in some, vengeance in others.
Angela Rayner’s resignation has provoked sympathy in some, vengeance in others.
September 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"There is an ugliness to some of this - 𝘺𝘦𝘴 she should've done better - but it doesn’t equate to what we saw in the last gov’t with people on the make.”
Angela Rayner’s resignation has provoked sympathy in some, vengeance in others.
Angela Rayner’s resignation has provoked sympathy in some, vengeance in others.
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Ours does 👇🏻
Climate Deniers to Converge on Reform Conference
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is hosting a number of radical anti-climate groups at its conference this weekend, DeSmog can report. They include the Heartland Institute, a group close to Donald Trump’s adm...
www.desmog.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Ours does 👇🏻