Rick Lehane
@ricklehane.bsky.social
Centre left. Awake to systemic injustice. Pro Europe. Dyslexic (their/ they’re/ there will be typos) Will occasionally post about the Arsenal (unless we win in which case, will mostly post about the Arsenal)
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Labour are basing their new asylum policy on lies. I cannot support this.
The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Labour are basing their new asylum policy on lies. I cannot support this.
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It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
You just couldn't fucking do it could you
Ok Labour. It's time to stop being shit. Come the next election it's starting to look like a straight choice. Stop. Being. Shit.
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
You just couldn't fucking do it could you
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
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Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.
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Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
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 10:29 AM
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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No Shabana Mahmood.
It is not.
Global finance tore Britain apart in ‘08. We let them off, let austerity ravage it for years, completely f*cked it with Brexit, then Covid added a rancid cherry.
What’s tearing Britain apart is scaremongering about illegal immigration.
You should be f**king ashamed.
It is not.
Global finance tore Britain apart in ‘08. We let them off, let austerity ravage it for years, completely f*cked it with Brexit, then Covid added a rancid cherry.
What’s tearing Britain apart is scaremongering about illegal immigration.
You should be f**king ashamed.
Home Secretary to quadruple qualification period for settlement to 20 years for asylum seekers arriving illegally
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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 8:20 AM
No Shabana Mahmood.
It is not.
Global finance tore Britain apart in ‘08. We let them off, let austerity ravage it for years, completely f*cked it with Brexit, then Covid added a rancid cherry.
What’s tearing Britain apart is scaremongering about illegal immigration.
You should be f**king ashamed.
It is not.
Global finance tore Britain apart in ‘08. We let them off, let austerity ravage it for years, completely f*cked it with Brexit, then Covid added a rancid cherry.
What’s tearing Britain apart is scaremongering about illegal immigration.
You should be f**king ashamed.
Are any of our 'leaders' actually going to stick up for British cultural sovereignty?
Trump says he will sue BBC for between $1 billion and $5 billion despite apology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president told reporters on Air Force One that he will take legal action against the broadcaster and will call Sir Keir Starmer over the weekend.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Are any of our 'leaders' actually going to stick up for British cultural sovereignty?
Anyone else getting death of Stalin vibes from this?
Dr Oz talking about obesity, diabetes and dementia while Trump is slumped over like a man minutes from death is supremely funny content
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Anyone else getting death of Stalin vibes from this?
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The unwillingness of a great many people to call racism racism because doing so is seen as rude or uncivil is hugely problematic.
October 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The unwillingness of a great many people to call racism racism because doing so is seen as rude or uncivil is hugely problematic.
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Harry Eccles
I think that
@BBCNews
,
@SkyNews
@ITVNewsPolitics
and
@Channel4News
should all be reporting on Reform UK and Russian bribery.
RT if you agree!!
Why are the media ignoring such a blatant story?!
I think that
@BBCNews
,
@SkyNews
@ITVNewsPolitics
and
@Channel4News
should all be reporting on Reform UK and Russian bribery.
RT if you agree!!
Why are the media ignoring such a blatant story?!
October 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Harry Eccles
I think that
@BBCNews
,
@SkyNews
@ITVNewsPolitics
and
@Channel4News
should all be reporting on Reform UK and Russian bribery.
RT if you agree!!
Why are the media ignoring such a blatant story?!
I think that
@BBCNews
,
@SkyNews
@ITVNewsPolitics
and
@Channel4News
should all be reporting on Reform UK and Russian bribery.
RT if you agree!!
Why are the media ignoring such a blatant story?!
Can we all just accept that the stuffed crust experiment has failed. Sure, more cheese being better is close to an axiomatic truth but let's be honest here, it's closer to mashed potato than it is to cheese and what psycho wants a pizza with mash rolled into the crust. Stop it.
October 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Can we all just accept that the stuffed crust experiment has failed. Sure, more cheese being better is close to an axiomatic truth but let's be honest here, it's closer to mashed potato than it is to cheese and what psycho wants a pizza with mash rolled into the crust. Stop it.
youtu.be/HIjdlLSOtvE?... I've been saying for ages that AI won't make a dent in the music industry. Why would anyone press play on AI gen music? I was wrong. This is why. This is better than the original. Holy fuck.
Megafunky Holy Wars... The Punishment Due"
YouTube video by Fake music
youtu.be
September 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
youtu.be/HIjdlLSOtvE?... I've been saying for ages that AI won't make a dent in the music industry. Why would anyone press play on AI gen music? I was wrong. This is why. This is better than the original. Holy fuck.
What you hear now is the sound of Burnham sharpening a knife
September 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
What you hear now is the sound of Burnham sharpening a knife
I think this twat could actually launch a nuke
September 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I think this twat could actually launch a nuke
My daughter has decided she's too old for hey duggie. Wasn't prepared for how hard that hit. Really want to watch the new episodes.
September 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My daughter has decided she's too old for hey duggie. Wasn't prepared for how hard that hit. Really want to watch the new episodes.
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Far right protest today:
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested
Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested
We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested
Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested
We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
September 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Far right protest today:
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested
Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested
We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested
Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested
We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
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British fascists are on the move again
Yet Starmer does and says nothing except echo anti-migrant rhetoric and talk of a land of strangers
It is dereliction of duty, and despicable politics
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Yet Starmer does and says nothing except echo anti-migrant rhetoric and talk of a land of strangers
It is dereliction of duty, and despicable politics
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Crowds gather in London for ‘unite the kingdom’ march featuring Tommy Robinson – UK politics live
March expected to be Britain’s largest far-right rally in decades, and will include speakers from Britain, the US and Europe
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
British fascists are on the move again
Yet Starmer does and says nothing except echo anti-migrant rhetoric and talk of a land of strangers
It is dereliction of duty, and despicable politics
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Yet Starmer does and says nothing except echo anti-migrant rhetoric and talk of a land of strangers
It is dereliction of duty, and despicable politics
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
The world's gone mad. I've just seen the headline of the daily mail and I agree with it 100% Mandelson should be removed immediately and I'm starting to think Starmer backing him is making his position untenable. What a massive political fuck up Starmer is turning out to be.
September 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The world's gone mad. I've just seen the headline of the daily mail and I agree with it 100% Mandelson should be removed immediately and I'm starting to think Starmer backing him is making his position untenable. What a massive political fuck up Starmer is turning out to be.
New York's paper of record asks with a straight face "Can the president of the United States successfully cover up his complicity in a child sex abuse scandal? The answer may not surprise you but can he stop us uttering an impotent hmmm?" What fucking cowards
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The debunking narrative may succeed in burying some Epstein theories,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes. “But there is still a mystery here, a strong hint of something important we don’t know.”
“The debunking narrative may succeed in burying some Epstein theories,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes. “But there is still a mystery here, a strong hint of something important we don’t know.”
Opinion | Can Trump Deflate the Epstein Birthday-Book Scandal?
Even compelling debunkings don’t eliminate the mystery.
nyti.ms
September 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
New York's paper of record asks with a straight face "Can the president of the United States successfully cover up his complicity in a child sex abuse scandal? The answer may not surprise you but can he stop us uttering an impotent hmmm?" What fucking cowards
Mandelson needs to go now followed by any labour politician stupid enough to defend him.
September 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Mandelson needs to go now followed by any labour politician stupid enough to defend him.
Here's my beer and here's the pitch. God bless the WSL :)
September 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Here's my beer and here's the pitch. God bless the WSL :)