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Nigel Farage cares so much about the grooming gangs issue that he couldn't be arsed to turn up for the debate about it in Parliament yesterday.
January 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Nigel Farage cares so much about the grooming gangs issue that he couldn't be arsed to turn up for the debate about it in Parliament yesterday.
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In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now
January 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now
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Bizarre past 24 hours 👀
•Musk says “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
•Man drives car into a Christmas market in Germany, killing many.
•Musk shares claims the attack is related to Islamism/immigration.
•Alleged attacker is identified as an anti-Islamist pro-Israel pro-AfD pro-Musk Saudi dissident.
•Musk says “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
•Man drives car into a Christmas market in Germany, killing many.
•Musk shares claims the attack is related to Islamism/immigration.
•Alleged attacker is identified as an anti-Islamist pro-Israel pro-AfD pro-Musk Saudi dissident.
December 21, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Bizarre past 24 hours 👀
•Musk says “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
•Man drives car into a Christmas market in Germany, killing many.
•Musk shares claims the attack is related to Islamism/immigration.
•Alleged attacker is identified as an anti-Islamist pro-Israel pro-AfD pro-Musk Saudi dissident.
•Musk says “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
•Man drives car into a Christmas market in Germany, killing many.
•Musk shares claims the attack is related to Islamism/immigration.
•Alleged attacker is identified as an anti-Islamist pro-Israel pro-AfD pro-Musk Saudi dissident.
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Richard Tice in 2018 on George Soros' donation to UK political groups:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Richard Tice in 2024 ahead of Elon Musk's donation to Reform UK:
"If Mr Musk can legally donate... We'd be delighted."
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Richard Tice in 2024 ahead of Elon Musk's donation to Reform UK:
"If Mr Musk can legally donate... We'd be delighted."
December 18, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Richard Tice in 2018 on George Soros' donation to UK political groups:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Richard Tice in 2024 ahead of Elon Musk's donation to Reform UK:
"If Mr Musk can legally donate... We'd be delighted."
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Richard Tice in 2024 ahead of Elon Musk's donation to Reform UK:
"If Mr Musk can legally donate... We'd be delighted."
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Politico on the anti-smoking bill vote last night: "The bill was meant to be his legacy until his snap election..but Sunak didn’t vote on the 2nd reading. No word from his office last night on where the former PM was.
"Nigel Farage also was down as no vote recorded, despite his vehement opposition"
"Nigel Farage also was down as no vote recorded, despite his vehement opposition"
November 27, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Politico on the anti-smoking bill vote last night: "The bill was meant to be his legacy until his snap election..but Sunak didn’t vote on the 2nd reading. No word from his office last night on where the former PM was.
"Nigel Farage also was down as no vote recorded, despite his vehement opposition"
"Nigel Farage also was down as no vote recorded, despite his vehement opposition"
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The biggest impact of the last govt’s broken asylum system wasn’t seen in Rwanda or even the south coast, but in towns and cities across the UK.
Thousands had cases and support withdrawn in order to meet an arbitrary political target, and strained local authorities left to pick up the pieces.
Thousands had cases and support withdrawn in order to meet an arbitrary political target, and strained local authorities left to pick up the pieces.
The woman is from Eritrea and speaks no English, talking to us through a translator she explains how she was kicked out of her asylum seeker housing after being given a right to remain here as a refugee - but instantly then became homeless
She is cold, wet and terrified with nowhere to go
She is cold, wet and terrified with nowhere to go
November 23, 2024 at 8:32 AM
The biggest impact of the last govt’s broken asylum system wasn’t seen in Rwanda or even the south coast, but in towns and cities across the UK.
Thousands had cases and support withdrawn in order to meet an arbitrary political target, and strained local authorities left to pick up the pieces.
Thousands had cases and support withdrawn in order to meet an arbitrary political target, and strained local authorities left to pick up the pieces.
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What gets to me most is that the UK government enabled foreign states to loot our essential infrastructure, milking it for profit and leaving it in ruins. Those states must think we're insane.
The Chinese government would never let us walk in and seize its assets. But we've let it do just that.
The Chinese government would never let us walk in and seize its assets. But we've let it do just that.
How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example).
1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
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1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
🧵
November 19, 2024 at 10:22 AM
What gets to me most is that the UK government enabled foreign states to loot our essential infrastructure, milking it for profit and leaving it in ruins. Those states must think we're insane.
The Chinese government would never let us walk in and seize its assets. But we've let it do just that.
The Chinese government would never let us walk in and seize its assets. But we've let it do just that.
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Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
November 14, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
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New research from the IFS showing the closure of youth centres during the 2010s was shortsighted. For every £1 saved, the costs to affected users, crime victims and public spending in the police and the criminal justice system amount to £2.85
ifs.org.uk/publications...
ifs.org.uk/publications...
The effects of youth clubs on education and crime | Institute for Fiscal Studies
Using quasi-experimental variation from austerity-related cuts, I provide the first causal estimates of youth clubs' effects on education and crime.
ifs.org.uk
November 14, 2024 at 9:13 AM
New research from the IFS showing the closure of youth centres during the 2010s was shortsighted. For every £1 saved, the costs to affected users, crime victims and public spending in the police and the criminal justice system amount to £2.85
ifs.org.uk/publications...
ifs.org.uk/publications...