Pinned
That’s a sharp observation — you can’t claim a zero-tolerance stance while excusing one of the biggest traffickers on record.
Consistency matters, and this kind of contradiction raises more questions than it answers.
Consistency matters, and this kind of contradiction raises more questions than it answers.
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I feel like we're moving closer to the inevitable day when Liz Truss announces she's defected to Reform, and Reform frantically spins that she absolutely has not
December 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I feel like we're moving closer to the inevitable day when Liz Truss announces she's defected to Reform, and Reform frantically spins that she absolutely has not
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"The PM wanted today to talk about... benefits reform and the UK's relationship with the EU and about regulation, which were interesting in and of themselves, but all of the questions were about the pre-budget process."
A neat summary by Mason - but he led that questioning. ~AA #PoliticsLive
A neat summary by Mason - but he led that questioning. ~AA #PoliticsLive
December 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"The PM wanted today to talk about... benefits reform and the UK's relationship with the EU and about regulation, which were interesting in and of themselves, but all of the questions were about the pre-budget process."
A neat summary by Mason - but he led that questioning. ~AA #PoliticsLive
A neat summary by Mason - but he led that questioning. ~AA #PoliticsLive
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Evidently, Britain’s journalistic hacks see no need to scrutinise ‘Dirty Farage' his insistence that he is not a racist, his associations with Nathan Gill, or the murky circumstances surrounding the purchase of his Frinton property.
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Evidently, Britain’s journalistic hacks see no need to scrutinise ‘Dirty Farage' his insistence that he is not a racist, his associations with Nathan Gill, or the murky circumstances surrounding the purchase of his Frinton property.
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
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I've said it before, but there is no way Blair would have put up with the bs we are seeing from the bbc - exemplified by Laura K this morning. He's be going for them big time. *Rightly so*.
November 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I've said it before, but there is no way Blair would have put up with the bs we are seeing from the bbc - exemplified by Laura K this morning. He's be going for them big time. *Rightly so*.
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Look, I’m a union MP. I want the employment rights bill in full. But I am also a pragmatist. Unions sat round the table with business and ministers and hammered out a compromise which means protections from unfair dismissal come in from six months not two years and we get Royal Assent by Christmas
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Look, I’m a union MP. I want the employment rights bill in full. But I am also a pragmatist. Unions sat round the table with business and ministers and hammered out a compromise which means protections from unfair dismissal come in from six months not two years and we get Royal Assent by Christmas
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Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC 6 music is one of my favourite things
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
November 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC 6 music is one of my favourite things
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
Absolutely — it takes true journalistic grit to scour the nation for Britain’s most unheard-of, marginalised voices: wealthy octogenarians with multi-million-pound property portfolios and twenty-somethings already maxing out five-figure tax-advantaged savings allowances.
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Absolutely — it takes true journalistic grit to scour the nation for Britain’s most unheard-of, marginalised voices: wealthy octogenarians with multi-million-pound property portfolios and twenty-somethings already maxing out five-figure tax-advantaged savings allowances.
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No, I 100% agree that computer RPGs these days have too much handholding. I, too, yearn for the days of being able to spend hours crafting my perfect build from hundreds of available options, only to discover that it mathematically cannot survive the mandatory rat fight portion of the first dungeon.
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
No, I 100% agree that computer RPGs these days have too much handholding. I, too, yearn for the days of being able to spend hours crafting my perfect build from hundreds of available options, only to discover that it mathematically cannot survive the mandatory rat fight portion of the first dungeon.
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Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
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Households to save £150 a year on energy bills from next April thanks to measures in the budget.
It will happen via:
1) the Energy Company Obligation no longer being added to bills
2) a 75% reduction in the Green Obligation added to bills - with the funding replaced from general taxation.
1/2
It will happen via:
1) the Energy Company Obligation no longer being added to bills
2) a 75% reduction in the Green Obligation added to bills - with the funding replaced from general taxation.
1/2
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Households to save £150 a year on energy bills from next April thanks to measures in the budget.
It will happen via:
1) the Energy Company Obligation no longer being added to bills
2) a 75% reduction in the Green Obligation added to bills - with the funding replaced from general taxation.
1/2
It will happen via:
1) the Energy Company Obligation no longer being added to bills
2) a 75% reduction in the Green Obligation added to bills - with the funding replaced from general taxation.
1/2
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes.
Keep out: what flags mean to community NHS workers
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes
centralbylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes.
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we're still paying off PFI-1
PFI is a underhanded way of privatising the NHS
NHS should be publicly owned, publicly funded, free for the public to use
PFI is a underhanded way of privatising the NHS
NHS should be publicly owned, publicly funded, free for the public to use
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
we're still paying off PFI-1
PFI is a underhanded way of privatising the NHS
NHS should be publicly owned, publicly funded, free for the public to use
PFI is a underhanded way of privatising the NHS
NHS should be publicly owned, publicly funded, free for the public to use
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Not only did Brexit not provide any extra money for the NHS - as liar-in-chief Boris Johnson promised - but Brexit is impoverishing the UK each year by an amount of money not far off the annual NHS budget.
Thanks Farage.
Thanks Farage.
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Not only did Brexit not provide any extra money for the NHS - as liar-in-chief Boris Johnson promised - but Brexit is impoverishing the UK each year by an amount of money not far off the annual NHS budget.
Thanks Farage.
Thanks Farage.
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Good to hear Rachel Reeves finally attack the 2 child benefit cap - but if Labour were so much against it, why’s it taken them so long to scrap it? And why were Labour MPs suspended for saying *exactly* the same last year? There’s no moral high ground here #budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Good to hear Rachel Reeves finally attack the 2 child benefit cap - but if Labour were so much against it, why’s it taken them so long to scrap it? And why were Labour MPs suspended for saying *exactly* the same last year? There’s no moral high ground here #budget2025
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Labour are going to be so embarrassed when they find out they suspended 7 of their own MPs for supporting Labour Party policy.
This has been a Labour policy since the Tories introduced it, so don’t go rushing to claim credit for it because the majority of the Labour backbenchers have been pushing this for a long time. Now they’re in government and in a position to remove it and they have done so.
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Labour are going to be so embarrassed when they find out they suspended 7 of their own MPs for supporting Labour Party policy.
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Alongside many campaigners, the Green Party have absolutely dragged the Labour Government to finally end the child cap.
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Alongside many campaigners, the Green Party have absolutely dragged the Labour Government to finally end the child cap.
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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You have to wonder what happens to UK government tax and housing strategies if it turns out that property prices have been underpinned by unsustainable financial market bubbles
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
You have to wonder what happens to UK government tax and housing strategies if it turns out that property prices have been underpinned by unsustainable financial market bubbles
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My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
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Farage has a long history of racism.
Chris Mason will be along later to explain that “this is why Starmer must resign”.
Chris Mason will be along later to explain that “this is why Starmer must resign”.
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Farage has a long history of racism.
Chris Mason will be along later to explain that “this is why Starmer must resign”.
Chris Mason will be along later to explain that “this is why Starmer must resign”.
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Keir Starmer has called for an investigation into Reform's ties with Russia.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social is 'surprised' about who he’s called upon to lead it.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social is 'surprised' about who he’s called upon to lead it.
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Keir Starmer has called for an investigation into Reform's ties with Russia.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social is 'surprised' about who he’s called upon to lead it.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social is 'surprised' about who he’s called upon to lead it.
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“Starmer does 67” is a fucking Churnwell post jfc
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
“Starmer does 67” is a fucking Churnwell post jfc
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I thought I had low expectations for Kier Starmer but he is like an order of magnitude worse than I expected. arguably worse than his Tory predecessors on several issues www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I thought I had low expectations for Kier Starmer but he is like an order of magnitude worse than I expected. arguably worse than his Tory predecessors on several issues www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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EveryDoctor has started gathering testimony from NHS staff about what’s actually happening on the NHS frontline, & we’re going to do this all winter to bring info into the public domain &hold Starmer+Streeting to account. Millions of patients+staff are being profoundly failed 🚨
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
EveryDoctor has started gathering testimony from NHS staff about what’s actually happening on the NHS frontline, & we’re going to do this all winter to bring info into the public domain &hold Starmer+Streeting to account. Millions of patients+staff are being profoundly failed 🚨