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This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
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The OBR says that the VAT charge on private schools has raised more money than expected because fewer pupils have gone into the state sector
Never believe the Tories and their media.
Never believe the Tories and their media.
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The OBR says that the VAT charge on private schools has raised more money than expected because fewer pupils have gone into the state sector
Never believe the Tories and their media.
Never believe the Tories and their media.
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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“Over 150,000 Twitter accounts based in Russia tweeted about Brexit during the referendum, an investigation found..Britain "knows" what Russia is doing” but Tories were bankrolled by Russian money & compromised.
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
Russia used a network of 150,000 Twitter accounts to meddle in Brexit
Russian-based Twitter accounts focused their attention on the Brexit referendum in the days leading up to the vote, data scientists have concluded.
www.businessinsider.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“Over 150,000 Twitter accounts based in Russia tweeted about Brexit during the referendum, an investigation found..Britain "knows" what Russia is doing” but Tories were bankrolled by Russian money & compromised.
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
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And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Thx to Julie Ivory on Facebook for a great meme
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Thx to Julie Ivory on Facebook for a great meme
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Oddly enough despite the ‘toxicity’ alleged in Downing Street, Labour continue to deliver time and again every single day. These 11 are all announcements from this week.
Impressive no?
Impressive no?
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Oddly enough despite the ‘toxicity’ alleged in Downing Street, Labour continue to deliver time and again every single day. These 11 are all announcements from this week.
Impressive no?
Impressive no?
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#GVerse Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social just walked onto a plane full of veterans & thanked every single one of them: no stage, no teleprompter, no ego trip.
#MyPresidentBarackObama 🫡🇺🇸
Hit the like, & repost to show your love for this man, a true American Hero! #VeteransDay
#MyPresidentBarackObama 🫡🇺🇸
Hit the like, & repost to show your love for this man, a true American Hero! #VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
#GVerse Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social just walked onto a plane full of veterans & thanked every single one of them: no stage, no teleprompter, no ego trip.
#MyPresidentBarackObama 🫡🇺🇸
Hit the like, & repost to show your love for this man, a true American Hero! #VeteransDay
#MyPresidentBarackObama 🫡🇺🇸
Hit the like, & repost to show your love for this man, a true American Hero! #VeteransDay
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CONGRATS to The Netherlands, who just ditched their Trumpian leader, and instead just voted for the youngest and first openly gay leader in Dutch history. 💪🇳🇱
October 31, 2025 at 4:16 AM
CONGRATS to The Netherlands, who just ditched their Trumpian leader, and instead just voted for the youngest and first openly gay leader in Dutch history. 💪🇳🇱
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Though the report contains the facts, this headline and standfirst misreport what happened. The junior whip Katie Lam correctly stated the policy: revoking ILR retrospectively was Tory policy from May 5th to yesterday. The leader has ditched that policy.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Shadow minister spoke ‘imprecisely’ about Tory settled status plans – Badenoch
Katie Lam appeared to indicate that some people already granted indefinite leave to remain in Britain could have their residency taken away.
www.independent.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Though the report contains the facts, this headline and standfirst misreport what happened. The junior whip Katie Lam correctly stated the policy: revoking ILR retrospectively was Tory policy from May 5th to yesterday. The leader has ditched that policy.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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How sexual perversion flourishes in the American church.
Pastor is arrested for abuse or child p0rn.
Apologizes, says, “I sinned.”
Says, “forgive me.”
Says, “send me money.”
Rinse. Repeat.
Christians continue to act righteous in their melting pot of deviance and evil.
Pastor is arrested for abuse or child p0rn.
Apologizes, says, “I sinned.”
Says, “forgive me.”
Says, “send me money.”
Rinse. Repeat.
Christians continue to act righteous in their melting pot of deviance and evil.
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
How sexual perversion flourishes in the American church.
Pastor is arrested for abuse or child p0rn.
Apologizes, says, “I sinned.”
Says, “forgive me.”
Says, “send me money.”
Rinse. Repeat.
Christians continue to act righteous in their melting pot of deviance and evil.
Pastor is arrested for abuse or child p0rn.
Apologizes, says, “I sinned.”
Says, “forgive me.”
Says, “send me money.”
Rinse. Repeat.
Christians continue to act righteous in their melting pot of deviance and evil.
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Man in grey humiliates Matt Goodwin after his anti migrant rant #BBCQT
"Do white British people not also commit these violent crimes? Is your narrative not that these crimes are only committed by asylum seekers and refugees"
"Do white British people not also commit these violent crimes? Is your narrative not that these crimes are only committed by asylum seekers and refugees"
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Man in grey humiliates Matt Goodwin after his anti migrant rant #BBCQT
"Do white British people not also commit these violent crimes? Is your narrative not that these crimes are only committed by asylum seekers and refugees"
"Do white British people not also commit these violent crimes? Is your narrative not that these crimes are only committed by asylum seekers and refugees"
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So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
'Just getting started': Zack Polanski reacts as Greens SECOND in new poll
ZACK Polanski has welcomed a new poll putting his party in second place at Westminster.
www.thenational.scot
October 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
October 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
I really love #riotwomen it’s moving and meaningful and funny and angry and so much more
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I really love #riotwomen it’s moving and meaningful and funny and angry and so much more
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I know it’s a cliche, but…
Do you believe that the headline would be about a “nerdy scientist” if he had not been white?
If there was credible evidence that “Christians turned his stomach” or that he fantasized about driving into a Church and turning them into mincemeat?
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Do you believe that the headline would be about a “nerdy scientist” if he had not been white?
If there was credible evidence that “Christians turned his stomach” or that he fantasized about driving into a Church and turning them into mincemeat?
6/9
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I know it’s a cliche, but…
Do you believe that the headline would be about a “nerdy scientist” if he had not been white?
If there was credible evidence that “Christians turned his stomach” or that he fantasized about driving into a Church and turning them into mincemeat?
6/9
Do you believe that the headline would be about a “nerdy scientist” if he had not been white?
If there was credible evidence that “Christians turned his stomach” or that he fantasized about driving into a Church and turning them into mincemeat?
6/9
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Evan Davis misrepresents the Rwanda scheme, as many others do.
Rwanda wasn't "offshore processing". It was offloading.
And the way Evan Davis describes a proposed Kosovo scheme, that wouldn't be "offshore processing" either.
And Reform can't vote anything down. There's five of them.
#BBCPM
Rwanda wasn't "offshore processing". It was offloading.
And the way Evan Davis describes a proposed Kosovo scheme, that wouldn't be "offshore processing" either.
And Reform can't vote anything down. There's five of them.
#BBCPM
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Evan Davis misrepresents the Rwanda scheme, as many others do.
Rwanda wasn't "offshore processing". It was offloading.
And the way Evan Davis describes a proposed Kosovo scheme, that wouldn't be "offshore processing" either.
And Reform can't vote anything down. There's five of them.
#BBCPM
Rwanda wasn't "offshore processing". It was offloading.
And the way Evan Davis describes a proposed Kosovo scheme, that wouldn't be "offshore processing" either.
And Reform can't vote anything down. There's five of them.
#BBCPM
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I've written for the Metro on how Starmer's latest attempt to look 'tough' on asylum seeker hotels has exposed him as a coward.
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward
The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.
metro.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I've written for the Metro on how Starmer's latest attempt to look 'tough' on asylum seeker hotels has exposed him as a coward.
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
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“Racism has become thoroughly detached from “serious” politics”
It has been reduced to language.
So, instead of fearing accusations of racism, politicians now exploit them as petty, name-calling distractions from what really matters.
It’s an ugly, cynical deceit.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It has been reduced to language.
So, instead of fearing accusations of racism, politicians now exploit them as petty, name-calling distractions from what really matters.
It’s an ugly, cynical deceit.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
No shame, no opprobrium: racism is priced in now. Of all the right’s victories, this one has been critical | Jason Okundaye
In this age of Tory nativism and Faragist populism, the question isn’t ‘is this person a bigot’? Now it is ‘does that matter at all?’ says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
“Racism has become thoroughly detached from “serious” politics”
It has been reduced to language.
So, instead of fearing accusations of racism, politicians now exploit them as petty, name-calling distractions from what really matters.
It’s an ugly, cynical deceit.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It has been reduced to language.
So, instead of fearing accusations of racism, politicians now exploit them as petty, name-calling distractions from what really matters.
It’s an ugly, cynical deceit.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Costs of asylum accomodation are down to firms making vast profits off of providing poor quality for people seeking safety and Home Office cruelty and ineptitude. It is not the fault of those forced into using them by a system which doesn't give them a choice. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Home Office 'squandered billions' on asylum accommodation, MPs say
"Flawed contracts" and "incompetent delivery" left the department unable to cope with demand for asylum accommodation, a report by MPs suggests.
www.bbc.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Costs of asylum accomodation are down to firms making vast profits off of providing poor quality for people seeking safety and Home Office cruelty and ineptitude. It is not the fault of those forced into using them by a system which doesn't give them a choice. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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“we’ve paid billions to banks for money we created during QE. That waste ends today. The Bank will adopt a tiered-reserve system, saving taxpayers £20bn a year. This will help to end austerity and fund public services. And, yes, we will introduce a bank tax.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the budget: what a Labour chancellor should really say | Editorial
Editorial: Rachel Reeves needs her address to restore confidence, rebuild capacity and bury the tired orthodoxy that has held Britain back
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“we’ve paid billions to banks for money we created during QE. That waste ends today. The Bank will adopt a tiered-reserve system, saving taxpayers £20bn a year. This will help to end austerity and fund public services. And, yes, we will introduce a bank tax.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is a good example of the "very clear" rule of political interviews.
When a politician says "I've been very clear" it always means they're wildly obfuscating. Never fails.
When a politician says "I've been very clear" it always means they're wildly obfuscating. Never fails.
Lewis Goodall pressing Chris Philp on the difference between what Sarah Pochin said and what Robert Jenrick said about 'white faces'.
October 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This is a good example of the "very clear" rule of political interviews.
When a politician says "I've been very clear" it always means they're wildly obfuscating. Never fails.
When a politician says "I've been very clear" it always means they're wildly obfuscating. Never fails.
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"..our health & social care system only functions bcs nursing staff of every ethnicity, nationality & faith make it so. We're urging govt & politicians of all parties to recognise their role in tackling racism...that must include an end...of anti-migrant rhetoric"
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%
Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"..our health & social care system only functions bcs nursing staff of every ethnicity, nationality & faith make it so. We're urging govt & politicians of all parties to recognise their role in tackling racism...that must include an end...of anti-migrant rhetoric"
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...