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Trump shenanigans contributing to Iceland decision to hold a referendum on joining the European Union.
It will be the 11th non-EU country to apply to join.
If this continues, Britain will be almost alone in Europe in being outside the EU, isolated, poorer and weaker.

The problems with Reform UK’s immigration policy | LSE British Politics Reform UK's policy on immigration of "detect, detain, deport" will be highly costly, involve sending money to authoritarian regimes, and have uncertain results.

All the decent people are horrified.
All the racists are delighted.

Farage has modelled his own brutalising and ruinous immigration policy on Trump’s fascism.
“Operation Restoring Justice. Detect. Detain. Deport”

FGS UK. Do not submit to this horror.
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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Law firm representing Renee Good's family releases findings from independent autopsy

Renee Good was shot 3 times by ICE

The first two shots were non lethal. One to her left forearm & another to right breast

The final shot entered the left side of her head & exited the right side

He didn’t have to keep shooting. He was out of the vehicle’s path before the kill shot

That’s murder

Higher UK tax receipts leaves borrowing down sharply in December Tax revenue was boosted by increased income tax and a rise in national insurance contributions, which offset spending, official data showed

Tax revenue was boosted by increased income tax and a rise in national insurance contributions, which offset spending, official data showed

Government launches new immigration TikTok in bid to tackle Nigel Farage on social media | LBC The new profile is intended to tackle misinformation and narratives peddled by people smugglers

In polling, people report being MORE LIKELY TO VOTE REFORM directly after being shown exactly this kind of video.

Labour's plan? Let's make new accounts to pump out these videos!!!🤪🤪🤪🤪

I do worry they're just one big psy-op, sometimes. www.lbc.co.uk/article/tikt...

This is especially bad news for Leila Cunningham who has been put forward as Reform UK’s Mayoral Candidate (two and half years ahead of the election), and rather punctures her message that we Londoners must be “pitied.”

Brilliant work by our current mayor, @london.gov.uk.

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Debunking Benefit 4: The £1 Billion We “Saved” by Walking Away from Environmental Power Why celebrating the absence of a fee misses the far bigger cost of stepping outside Europe’s environmental framework.

When sovereignty means less power, less influence, and worse outcomes - all while pretending you’ve won.

Brexit Debunk 4 is now out.

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

Finally some good news!!

In case you missed it ...
"You're gonna love the Brexit Special!" 😂
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

Having nothing to say has never stopped Kemi holding a press conference | John Crace Tory leader took on Brexit, benefits claimants and grooming gangs in a presser that probably should have been an email

Here's @mrjohncrace.bsky.social on tip-top form.

What do you think?
#fightfascism #fightracism #fighttrump #fightreform

Alastair Campbell’s diary: Labour can’t beat Farage at his own game Don’t fight him where he is strong, fight him where he is weak – the economy, the NHS, Putin, Trump, climate, and yes, Brexit

Don’t fight him where he is strong, fight him where he is weak – the economy, the NHS, Putin, Trump, climate, and yes, Brexit

Cloudy skies blanketing mountains in the Appalachian chain.

Blanketing clouds in the sky.
#blueskyartshow #sky #clouds #photography #mountains #cloudy #eastcoastkin #artyear

Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.

‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU? The desperate search for economic growth is pushing the party to confront the issue that dare not speak its name

“We want growth. We know this is the single best way of getting it…
We could then challenge Farage… to either continue with our economic recovery, or to halt it in its tracks and take us backwards.”

Finally. Weaken Farage by doing something that actually works.
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This is an American patriot.

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.

Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

The GMB union's London Region has welcomed plans by MPs to bar parliamentary candidates from standing if they do not pass an enhanced DBS check.

GMB says "the status quo, which allows candidates who have been convicted of violent and sexual offences to stand for office, presents safeguarding risks"

Delighted to reveal that I will be announcing the very first winner of the LBC* Peace Prize on Monday**.

*(morning show)
**I’ll probably forget

Yes i love where this comes from but no.
Zohran who I love as a person and agree with his policies is brilliant. But we need to see him through the lense or opposition.

Absolutely wild that a teacher is having to ask people to buy things like printer ink for their class in the richest country in the world. Maybe UK schools aren't as bad as we thought...

Doing more work on abolishing effort sentences and proper rehabilitation both in prisons and in the community would be a good step

Is it just me or does the idea of abolishing even some jury trials horrify you? Seems like a slippery slope....

“This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.”

Another potential Denmark example for Labour to follow!

Animal testing to be phased out faster as UK unveils roadmap for alternative methods New plan backs researchers to seize on new and developing opportunities to phase out animal tests with specific commitments for the coming years.

Buried news of the day IMO

"Government vows to phase out animal tests as alternative methods come on stream with new strategy welcomed as ‘ambitious’ and ‘timely’ by animal welfare & life sciences organisations."

Plus new £75 million funding to bring forward new testing methods for health products

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA