Special needs support in England faces 'total collapse', councils warn The government is facing political pressure as it tries to reform the

Morning all
How about we don't 'reform' SEND?
How about we recognise + embrace all young people with additional needs + fund the system properly?
A true Labour government would boost support + recognise squeezing LA funding has gone too far...
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On my dog walk I often chat with right wingers. I pretend I am an ex-Reform voter put off by the utter fuck up of our county council. Then they see me as one of their own, don't get defensive and shouty, and start to question their own opinion of Reform. Honey, not vinegar.

If we rely on Americans for our security, we are doomed

Caerphilly by-election: Just like that! In Tommy Cooper's birthplace, Farage nowhere to be seen as Reform loses The joke among Plaid supporters at the count was that long before the declaration Mr Farage was halfway down the M4 on his way back to London, Jon Craig writes.

The joke among Plaid supporters at the count was that long before the declaration Mr Farage was halfway down the M4 on his way back to London. news.sky.com/story/caerph...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

Throwing myself into researching Farage’s Russian links including Nathan Gill’s treachery, which the mainstream press is refusing to cover.

@bylinetimes.bsky.social is though.

The self proclaimed patriots are traitors. Obviously.

This is a must read 👇🏼

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“Clever, isn’t he?”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Spotted in Lidl today…

‘We have to tell an alternative story’: Green leader Polanski chats to Nigel Farage’s constituents Visit to Clacton-on-Sea part of social media strategy that Zack Polanski feels can rebut Reform’s rhetoric

Zack Polanski has already spent more time in Clacton than Farage has since the last general election. And Zack Polanski has already done more to try and engage positively with Reform’s voter base to try and make a change than any other political party leader ever has.

466 arrests by the Police yesterday for holding cardboard signs, the most they have ever done in one day at one location.

Not a single actual crime was committed.

They must be so proud.

One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"We’re on the edge of the most far-reaching technological and economic transition in 250 years — since we learned to burn the coal and gas and oil that’s killing us now. Energy from the sun is now cheaper than any other power."

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Angela Rayner decided that NE Security Ltd, a private security company run by a known cocaine drug trafficker who is currently in prison, doesn't need to be audited. The company is part of corporate corruption scandal at Teesside Freeport/SEZ.

If I said, "That old hag who stole all our stuff and sold it."

Everyone would know who I was talking about, right?

#BookSky

Water companies have ‘cheated us out of £84 billion’ – Feargal Sharkey We spoke to water campaigner and Undertones frontman, Feargal Sharkey.

Water companies have ‘cheated us out of £84 billion’ – Feargal Sharkey

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UK water companies had no debt when they were privatised. They've not invested in a single new reservoir in 40 years yet have acquired truly crippling debts by borrowing money to pay out huge dividends. Let them go bankrupt and nationalise the assets not the debts.

Printed words that read: "We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Louis Brandeis

Per Jane Mayer's Dark Money:

Imagine you and 12 mates are going out. Three of you want to go have a cappuccino, three want lattes and three want flat whites. You all want coffee but can't quite agree on which specific one, but broadly you are in agreement on what you want to do. But imagine that the remaining four want to go out to get out and get battered on Special Brew and smash up a bar. Under first-past-the-post, because there are more people wanting Special Brew than cappuccino, lattes or flat whites respectively, you are all condemned to go out on the piss. Under the Welsh setup, and frankly those of most healthy democratic systems (like

Will Hayward describes our ludicrous electoral system in one glorious paragraph. ☕️ 🍻 💥
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Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches - Updated June 2025

Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches

8 June 2025 – Gloucestershire: Exhibition shines light on River Wye pollution.

7 June 2025 – Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimes.

3 June 2025 – Failing water sector needs stronger regulation, says damning review.

the energy you carry shapes the space around you

You would think most immigrants to the UK were asylum seekers if you listen to the Media but it is less than 4%.

And the housing shortage?

1945-1979 - 5,000,000 council houses built.
1980-2025 - 250,000 council houses built.

That's why.

Europe's Moment? Thoughts on Spain's remarkable recovery, can the EU revive its flagging economy, can German stocks continue to outperform, and why British talk of mandatory investment would be an act of self-harm

Spain is doing well.

Booming economy very much aided by immigration

Renewables 56% of energy mix, giving Spain some of the cheapest electricity on the continent

A measure of how far Spain has come in minds of investors - today its 10-year bonds trade at just 0.6 % point higher yield than Germany

Today in Nice, France, the 2025 UN Conference on the Ocean has opened — a key moment for international diplomacy 🌊
President Macron is right: the time has come for an agreement to protect our oceans — covering two-thirds of our planet and representing one of humanity’s most vital ecosystems. 1/2

Greta Thunberg is a hero, she is the ONLY western celebrity brave enough to go to Gaza to try break Israel's blockade.

Israel has now kidnapped her and is keeping her as a hostage.

Release Greta Thunberg, stop the Genocide.

Whiteknights Primary School in south Reading is now solar powered! It's one of the first 11 schools in the country to get rooftop solar panels installed by the Labour government's Great British Energy - saving up to £4,500 a year.

This means more money for education, not energy bills.

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins