Agreed. No dog can have 2 masters!

YouTube video by Sky News Elon Musk, X and the shaping of British politics

An investigation by Sky News has shown how Elon Musk's X platform pushes right-wing and extreme content to British users - whether they want it or not

youtu.be/xq6M4kaEFBY

A small gradual increase in general taxation from 2010 onwards to continue to maintain/improve public services would have been much more beneficial than the deplorable Austerity rubbish.

What a load of bull. FIFA are bringing the game into disrepute!

Honestly TELL THE STORY. Won’t someone just tell the fucking story of how Brexit created this economic hardship, how a Muslim immigrant just saved the lives of those commuters on that train, won’t someone in politics or even media just connect the fucking dots and TELL THE STORY. IT’S RIGHT THERE

He'll be on EastEnders next week in a starring role!

Farage is a total charlatan - not fit to be anywhere near politics near politics - he sold Brexit on lies n it’s been detrimental to the UK on all levels

Agree totally. But the question is "how much extra" and "which Taxes"?

Eg. How much more would you pay per month if IT rose by 1p...20% to 21% and 40% to 41% etc.

Or should VAT rise to 25 or fall to 15? Each will have a drastic impact.

It's not an easy set of choices

I agree totally but in my view you need to be more realistic on timescales. It takes miles and miles of water to turn around a tanker. Repairing the damage done over the last 14 years will take time.

That seems extremely simplistic. We had 14 consecutive years of the dreaded 'austerity' that ripped the heart out of every facet of our society. To improve people's lives at a stroke is impossible. But Lab have made numerous mistakes I grant you which is why I want to specifics from them.

I like this kind of messaging but it needs to go further. An an example, under NHS, 1000 new GPs this year. It's November so roughly how many have we got new and what's the net gain? I just want Labour to explicitly "show" everything it claims to do.

And they are ALL perfectly correct.

Farage says he’s “sad” his constituency tops the deprivation charts, yet he’s done nothing to change it. A hollow Putin's pet posing as a patriot, more interested in gold ads, crypto and GB News than Clacton’s struggles. All bluster, no backbone. The people deserve better than this racist fraud.

FT graph of relative popularity of different countries for immigrants

What could have possibly happened in 2016 to result in such a steep decline? Who could possible know…

Jaywick named most deprived area - again A seaside neighbourhood in Essex, part of the parliamentary constituency represented by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, has once again been named the most deprived in England. The latest official data showed that an area of the coastal village of Jaywick, close to the town of Clac-ton-on-Sea in the local authority of Tendring, has been classed the most deprived neighbourhood for the fourth time. Areas of Blackpool again make up most of the rest of the top 10, along with new appearances for neighbour-hoods in Hastings and Rotherham. Yesterday's data, published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), presented relative levels of deprivation in areas or neighbourhoods of England in 2025. The data highlighted "the scale of the challenge" but does not "reflect the progress made since 2019 or the strength of the people who call Jay-wick Sands home" , the Tendring District Council website said. MHCLG said Middlesbrough, Birmingham, Hartlepool, Kingston upon Hull and Manchester had the highest proportions of neighbour-hoods among the most deprived in England.

Farage earns more than £1m a year for non-MP work GETTY IMAGES - photo of the grifter Damian Grammaticas > Political correspondent 17 August 2024 Nigel Farage has revealed he is earning well over a £1m a year from work he does outside parliament, in addition to his job as an MP. It is thought his outside income is significantly higher than that of any other member of parliament.

Compare and contrast.
Absentee MP -v- his constituency.
Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood.
He really couldn’t give a shit.
He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream.
(iPaper & BBC)

What, you mean we won't get the same rebate?? 😂😂😂

That's my concern! We have totally abused our relationship with member states over 2 decades. Johnson and Farage most especially. They may well miss some trade with us but would they welcome us back?

Food is too expensive, controlled by billionaires.
Energy is too expensive, controlled by billionaires.
Housing is too expensive, controlled by billionaires.
Wages are too low, controlled by billionaires.

I'm going to blame... immigrants.

We are worse in defence now than at the height of Rooney. Shocking. Shocking display

I know there's injuries etc but TC just hasn't brought us anything since his appointment

The Sheer Scale of Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed Billions of pounds were wasted by successive Conservative Home Secretaries on a chaotic and costly system that left vulnerable people at risk, according to a new Parliamentary report

🔴The Sheer Scale of Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed

Billions of pounds were wasted by successive Conservative Home Secretaries on a chaotic and costly system that left vulnerable people at risk, according to a new Parliamentary report

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/27/t...

Yet more clear evidence that the severe damage to our Public Services and overall poor wages is entirely caused by Cameron and Osborne Austerity plan. And they're sitting on their piles of money so couldn't give a fig!

He's lit the fuse then scarpered.

So true.

Blimey. I'm struggling to remember what I pop upstairs for 😂😂😩😩

Proper social housing, paid from the public purse, is what kept the price of private housing in check. With the market now controlled by developers and private landlords prices will only stay high.

Sorry. I speak for the whole of the UK.

An elected MP, Reform’s Sarah Pochin says there are too many Black and Asian people on TV - so plain racism - and the coverage of it is buried. Silence and ignorance is complicity, causing lasting damage. When we see racism it’s what we do next, individually and collectively, that matters.

Yep. Nowadays the racism expressed is overt and accepted. Unless we call it out each and every time we will allow it to become the norm.

Problem is "the poor" now consists of 2/3rds of the population. In my view we have to spend on public services. And spend big. Roads, Schools, Hospitals, Social Housing, Defence etc etc. Don't be afraid of debt. It's not what it's all cracked up to be!