Lisa G.

Very strong statement from the First Lady of Iraq:

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Badenoch corrected Nick Robinson, saying the “orcs” and ”goons” she was referring to were in Tolkien.

Of course we all remember the famous goons of Goondor, don’t we?

Didn’t she say she never has to apologise because she never makes a mistake?

And not only that but MISREAD it.

Today, joining the list of things that never happened...

Migration is part of what makes this country great.

We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.

The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.

NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.

Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.

This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

The Western media is bending over BACKWARDS as a propaganda machine for this war.

Let's keep the convo going #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinCoverupWar

Love the energy! Respect ✊

if you are still asking for the Epstein Files, you haven't been paying attention. even in the tiny trickle, trump is all over them, as a child rapist, as a payer of abortions, as an abuser. time to move on to ACTING on the Epstein Files. www.justice.gov/epstein

The local elections are in 2 months and Reform UK are begging people to stand.

Recruitment must be going poorly, they’ve probably realised they don’t have enough former Tories to fill their candidate list.

If it’s true Reform UK’s Treasury spokesperson Robert Jenrick told a business audience last night that renewable companies are "screwed" if Reform get in, it tells you everything about their readiness to inflict national self-harm in pursuit of ideological war on climate action.

“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”.

Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US...

But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage?

I see the papers which screamed ‘tAKe bACK ConTRol’ now want the UK to be nothing but an obedient servant of the USA

You'd think Iran had started the war!

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

I think the Greens’ ‘fantasy’ drug policies make sense – and I’m a doctor As doctors, we are trained to follow evidence, not ideology, which is why I think Zack Polanski’s signature policy is worth sensible examination, says NHS doctor Holly Tarn

Good piece. Decriminalisation makes sense, it's backed by evidence and isn't the same as legalization.

That it is often claimed the greens are in favour of legalization shows how deeply unserious and petty UK politics is.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/nhs-d...

Farage was mates with the Russian Traitor ….

The choice is stark. Reform are the party of foreign wars and high bills.

The Greens want de-escalation and energy security through renewables. Solar and wind prices don't fluctuate when rogue US presidents launch illegal bombing campaigns.

Reform are not the Opposition. They have had fewer MPs elected than the Green Party, which had five elected under their banner in this Parliament alone.

STOP. MAINSTREAMING. REFORM.

If the BBC had given them coverage proportional to their actual significance, we would barely know who Farage is.

Hell of a legacy you’re building there, dummy. It doesn’t matter how many times you plaster your name on buildings and ballrooms in tacky gold letters. Your grave will be one big beautiful public urinal.

As the world monsters - Putin, Netanyahu, Trump… - continue to show, there is no limit to the number of lives they are willing to sacrifice for their own survival.

Chris Murphy: "It won't be the billionaire children of Donald Trump and his buddies that die. It's going to be the children of middle class and poor families all across this country that are gonna die for a war of choice, a war of vanity, an illegal war."

Oh fuck off with your performative racism Labour and Tories. The full on racists are voting Reform no matter how much you try and appeal to them. How about trying to appeal to the 70% of the public that aren’t irredeemably racist?

Farage has 41 mentions in the Epstein file

Apparently someone from Reform is going after Rachel Reeves for having dodgy mates?

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

Not satisfied with casting racist aspersions on nonwhite voters in Gorton & Denton with claims of “family voting” Farage now accuses them of being workshy❗️

It can’t be long before he also says they’re mainly LBGTQ too so support Zak Polanski..

It’s almost as if he’s taken it very personally 😂😂