Sue Pedley

But what about all the waste they told us about? What about all the savings DOGE was going to find? What about the promises to cut council tax?
It's almost as if they were just making shit up to fool people, like they did with Brexit.

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

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YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic 🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced

The ECHR has protected British people from abuses of power by its own government

We must protect it, not leave it

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We spent hours one evening searching for Felix, the next morning he emerged from our neighbour’s garage. I was beside myself all night and so relieved to see him the following morning. He had sneaked in and the neighbour hadn’t seen him but he could hear him the next morning.

England's hotel protesters say we should house the homeless rather than migrants. So where were these protesters when, in 2020, the pandemic protection ended for homeless people and they were chucked out of hotels and back on the streets?

Exactly.

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The global far-right is brainwashing a town near you 📝 A guest essay...

🔴 The global far-right is brainwashing a town near you

Fascist memes are changing Britain, and the government is totally out of its depth.

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Yeah, Keir Starmer is an exasperated manager, Nigel Farage a golf club bore, Ed Davey an incompetent cuddly uncle but Kemi is every work colleague you’ve ever had who thought themselves to be superior to everyone around them, on steroids.

I’ve got an idea Kemi and Keir - instead of trying to outfvck the fvckery of Reform or Trump, why don’t you try sone unification policies, some nice words and an opportunity to bring back hope?

Or is that asking too much?

The closer than the Tories get to Reform, the more it makes sense for Labour to leave them to it and head back towards the centre. Stop bashing immigrants 24/7 and concentrate on the important stuff.

The US provides the most advanced case of what that can lead to. It is worth remembering that Farage could not even bring himself to criticise Trump's comments on paracetamol. I strongly urge everyone *not* to assume that this type of escalation cannot happen here - it already is in some areas.

London is, and always will be, a place for everyone.

A city where people of all backgrounds live side-by-side, and where our differences are not just tolerated, but celebrated.

Nigel Farage's Reform a Bigger Far-Right Threat Than the BNP, Says UK’s Leading Anti-Racism Campaigner Hope not Hate's CEO Nick Lowles says Reform's rise is mainstreaming ideas that were previously taboo even on parts of the far-right

🔴Nigel Farage’s Reform a Bigger Far-Right Threat Than the BNP, Says UK’s Leading Anti-Racism Campaigner

Hope not Hate’s CEO Nick Lowles says Reform’s rise is mainstreaming ideas that were previously taboo even on parts of the far-right

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The Kew Gardens are still going strong. My granddaughter made this small posy from them for the bud vase.

The last of the Boscobel roses for this year.

The last of the Boscobel roses for this year.

I feel like you’ve just described the way UKIP framed the EU referendum, same people different name.

Where Is the Opposition to Nigel Farage's Immoral Mass Deportation Plan? Keir Starmer's Government's refusal to explicitly condemn the Reform leader's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues Adam Bienkov

Why Keir Starmer's refusal to explicitly condemn Nigel Farage's immoral plan to tear thousands of families and communities apart will only help clear the Reform leader's path to Downing Street
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When the most powerful man in the world goes about the place spreading very dangerous nonsense about paracetamol and vaccines, millions of people will sit up and listen.

It's consequence free for him but this is going to kill a lot of kids and make a lot more children very ill indeed.

More lies and bullshit from Farage.

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.

They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.

Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

This is not some misguided attempt at ‘balance’. It’s a deliberate policy of promoting Reform. Labour should have made it a priority to clear out the Tory and reform entryists at the BBC. They still could.

Are they covering the Lib Dem conference?

When has a British journalist ever confronted Farage over this? God knows how many of his interviews I've seen, because he's never off our screens but I don't recall this happening once.
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Where Reform is headed is very much in line with the new right, that in order to save western democracy it must be destroyed. Patriotism as nihilism. Culture wars to become real ones.

Very dangerous stuff.

NUMBER CRUNCHING "Yvette Cooper and Labour thought they could dump immigrants into communities and turn a blind eye... empty hotels are being filled overnight with young foreign men." - Shadow home secretary Chris Philp, Daily Express, 20 August 56,042 Asylum seekers being housed in hotels in September 2023, when Philp was a Home Office minister 32,059 Asylum seekers being housed in hotels in June 2025, the most recent month for which data is available

Private Eye, 6-18 Sept edition