Kendall caught misleading parliament four times in 23 minutes over DWP PIP cuts Kendall misled the House of Commons four times - by repeatedly claiming DWP PIP cuts were somehow linked to getting people into work

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From AfD to Reform UK: The far right and European politics – DW – 05/19/2025 The nationalist Alternative for Germany is shunned by other parties domestically. But elsewhere in Europe far-right parties are on the rise and some have made it into in government.

Reform UK is far-right, at least other countries categorise them such:

From AfD to Reform UK: The far right and European politics

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A new bill will lead to mass state surveillance for the most vulnerable. We must act. This bill grants the government powers of surveillance on the bank accounts of the poor, old, sick and disabled people receiving specified benefits

UK govt to seek disqualification of benefit claimants from driving for alleged fraud or failure to return overpayments by DWP.

What if people don't have the money?

Loss of licence means can't work, have family life.

Same won't apply to tax dodgers, thieves. scammers, money launders.

Class war.

I can't express how bleak and horrifying it is that the prospect of starving 2 million people, half of whom are children, is only undesired because of the "practical" implications

Mallory hits the nail on the head here that the Govt's acceptance of reactionary transphobia has reached such an extreme they cannot even be bothered to engage with the kind of symbolic pinkwashing they used to rely on.

Kendall caught misleading parliament four times in 23 minutes over DWP PIP cuts Kendall misled the House of Commons four times - by repeatedly claiming DWP PIP cuts were somehow linked to getting people into work

Kendall caught misleading parliament four times in 23 minutes over DWP PIP cuts

She misled the House of Commons four times - by repeatedly claiming DWP PIP cuts were somehow linked to getting people into work
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The UK fishing industry has been hugely damaged by Brexit. It's been an absolute fucking catastrophe for them.

THAT was the betrayal.

But for the CULT of Brexit truth is always a second ranking issue.

The USA must free itself from the clutches of #Zionism.

“We have a situation where leading supermarkets are calling out for a deal on things like food and drink products, why, because we have lorries stuck for sixteen hours and food rotting”
Nick Thomas-Symonds

Mum's fury after baby son is bitten by bed bugs in London horror home

Young mum Antonia Wall has launched a petition calling for fixes to social housing after bed bugs in her home bit her young son.

If you say you love freedom but you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom. It’s privilege.

@governorwalz.mn.gov

The view from the stage at our huge National Demonstration for Palestine today. The streets are with Palestine! #SanctionsNow #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Audio Analysis: Eurovision Broadcaster Muted Sounds of Crowd Booing and Shouting “Free Palestine!” Despite Eurovision denials, an audio analysis shows booing and a "Free Palestine!" cry during Israeli singer Eden Golan’s 2024 performance.

"Eurovision Muted Sounds of Crowd Booing, Chanting 'Free Palestine!'”

I don't know why people don't wanna boycott this liberal bullshit and genocide-supporting song contest!

Yet more confirmation that everything the west, especially western liberals accuse China of, is pure projection. Everything!

📣 The government is spying on children. Yes, really.

Under the "Prevent" duty, children in schools are being reported to counter-terror police, instead of being supported.

This needs to stop.

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It’s plain for all to see.

When will Labour MPs & Councillors
on the verge of losing their jobs
because of Starmer's Tory & Reform policies
finally grow the guts to rebel ...

Starmer denigrates Covid heroes

"These are just 33 of the doctors who died trying to save patients during Covid, Keir Starmer.
All but two were migrants, or the children of them.
They didn’t take time off work & stay out of danger.
They gave their lives for us.
WERE THEY STRANGERS?"
via Louise Raw

Powerful hearing international nurses and nursing support workers responding to Kier Statmer at RCN Congress.

His words hurt. His anti-migrant rhetoric has been labeled a 'betrayal'.

We called, they came. Thank you to all our international colleagues.

#RCN25

The problem is not arriving by dinghy. It's arriving by private jet. 👇🏽

Thames Water apologises to customers but defends bonuses Bonus payments were defended by company management as the chief executive can receive up to 156% of their salary as a bonus, while frontline workers can only earn between 3% and 6%.

Thames Water’s CEO defends £195,000 bonus just three months into the job.

Shameless.

The cult of bonuses is nothing to do with performance. It is for boosting profits by fleecing customers.

Nothing will change until water is nationalised and customers vote on exec pay.

EXPOSED: the public is paying for Keir Starmer's in-laws to live virtually rent-free in London Keir Starmer's in-laws live in his house for less than a social housing tenant would pay. That is, we're saving them at least £42k a year

EXPOSED: the public is paying for Keir Starmer's in-laws to live virtually rent-free in London

Starmer's in-laws live in his house for less than a social housing tenant would pay. That is, we're saving them at least £42k a year - all because WE pay for HIM.

FFS.
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Keir Starmer’s anti-immigration rhetoric isn’t just a dog whistle — it’s a foghorn to the far right.

It echoes Enoch Powell & fuels hate. Last summer, a hotel housing asylum seekers was set on fire. This is the deadly cost of pandering to racism.

Shame on the Prime Minister.

My Dad died 15 months ago & spent last year of his life in a London nursing home. He was bed bound, blind, deaf, with dementia and various health issues.

Almost all his carers & nurses were non UK born and they were all brilliant. They treated my mother like family (and still do to this day) 1/3

Despair at Starmer’s ‘divisive’ language as he clamps down on immigration Backbench Labour MPs, unions and charities criticise the PM, who is urged to apologise for his ‘dangerous’ comments

Keir Starmer immitates Reform in his divisive speech.

Accuses immigrants of causing “incalculable damage”, making the UK “an island of strangers”.

Rightly faces backlash from unions, employers, MPs.

Silence on class war, inequalities, profiteering, lack of public services, fuelling frustrations.

I'm listening to Sadiq Khan, London Mayor, squirming and prevaricating on the @mrjamesob.bsky.social show, as to whether the slaughter of thousands of innocent children and babies in GAZA, is GENOCIDE.

He made sure he mentioned Oct 7th . . . of course he did.

Slightly amended so I can fit this here: I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame! I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one. I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country. This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong. Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues. I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean? Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens.

This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way. You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position. Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces. What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly. The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy. Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed. Tanja Bueltmann

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.

‘Cheap foreign labour’ – this is how Keir Starmer denigrates the migrant carers looking after your loved ones The government’s claims about immigration driving down wages are so demonstrably untrue, it’s hard to feel the appropriate level of outrage

The great @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social is so damn right about this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

American Christians spending millions to push religious conservatism in the UK Humanists UK has raised alarms over the growing influence of ‘dark money’ and other funding from American sources in UK politics, particularly influencing debates on abortion, LGBT rights, assisted dy...

I'd rather the Americans kept their hate & religion to their own country.

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