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Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.

"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."

No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".

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s/s of MEP ranking website from April 2019 showing Nigel Farage as the lowest of all 72 UK MEPs 747th out of all 751 MEPs Attended 39.78% of votes, including ones on matters that he claimed to really care about http://mepranking.eu/state.php?st=GB&order=RCVOT In 2016 Greenpeace accused Farage of "cynical opportunism" after discovering "official records show that over the 3 years Farage was a member of the influential EuroParl Fisheries Committee, he turned up for just 1 of 42 meetings" https://storage.googleapis.com/gpuk-old-wp-site/press-releases/u-skip-farages-noshow-voting-record-betrays-cynical-opportunism-20160614/index.html

Nathan Gill @NathanGILLMEP I don't think you understand what anti EU means 😁. It does not mean working to make the system work, it means working to make it not work. Simples. And why don't you grow a pair and stop hiding your identity. We politicians face the flack openly and so should our deriders. 10:20 PM Apr 11, 2019 https://x.com/NathanGillMEP/status/1116451031595003913

April 2019 I had a run-in with Nathan Gill on Twitter after pointing out how bad Nigel Farage's record as an MEP was.

He said: "I don't think you understand what anti EU means 😁. It does not mean working to make the system work, it means working to make it not work. Simples."

Enjoy prison, Nathan.

Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin

It's always the ones you most expect...
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Tweet by Jim McMahon calling for introduction of a fit and proper person test for social media owners operating in the UK

Labour MP and former minister @jimmcmahon.co.uk responds to my story about Labour MPs calling for a minister-led review of the government’s use of X

Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

Haven't seen another take that civil servant Chris Wormold was culpable for the woeful government response to Covid.
A cynic might think Sam Coates has read the #CovidInquiry report through an anti Labour and anti Starmer prism.

👁️ Useless Sam Coates #SkyNews frames his three reviews with the 200 million inquiry price and then somehow forefronts a Starmer chief advisor as a key baddie...🌨️ #covidinquiry 🇬🇧👀

Sam Coates is playing a blinder in identifying non Tory government politicians to blame on Sky News.

*Pops over to X* Has he? Has he been? YES! He's published an 1,835-word tweet rebuttal of a report he hasn't read!

#PoliticsLive
The BBC rotates between Reform UK's Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Zia Yusuf and random councillors.
They've added Danny Kruger to the roster, but Lee Anderson remains in a cage.
The way the BBC has promoted Reform UK Ltd over the past 18 months has been extraordinary.

Farage unveils his plan to fill £25bn hole in Budget The Reform UK leader has set out savings he says will make up shortfall without tax rises

Since we’re apparently talking about people who aren’t the Chancellor as though they are, I’m sure in the interests of unbiased reporting the Telegraph will ‘unveil’ Zack Polanski’s, Ed Davey’s, f*ck it why not, even my plans to fill the economic black hole in the coming days….

Kemi Badenoch seems to think she has to run the entire Conservative party by herself.

Elbowed Chris Philp out of responding to Shabana Mahmood yesterday, now treating her Shadow Chancellor like he doesn't even exist

UK considers joining agreement to boost trade opportunities for British businesses Call for Evidence opens to seek views on the merits of acceding to the PEM Convention

Well here it is!

The UK is considering joining PEM.

Not A European customs union, but offers big benefits to trade across Europe.

Not THE Customs Union, but something many people were calling for the UK to join as an alternative a few months back.

So pleased to see it being considered.

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You can be critical of this gov't - and there plenty to be critical about - without flattening everything into an unintelligible, ahistorical paste. Because doing so, is absolutely part of the problem. It enables "they're all the same" narratives, which never - ever - lead to progressive outcomes.

If you're cheering Trump on then you have no right to call yourself a patriot.

You absolute moron.

By "the left" Goodwin could more accurately say that it is "84-95% of the white British" who reject Goodwin's drift into ethnonationalism

"But we must compete with the oth-"

That's just it. You don't. You are THE public broadcaster. No other body shares your mission. Why add to the noise?

The BBC has an opportunity to say "you've heard all the breathless gossip - tune in at 6pm for the facts". To bring light rather than heat.

A particular bugbear is right-wingers complaining about the number of economically inactive people while also arguing for childcare subsidies to be adapted so more mothers (and they always mean mothers) can stay at home.

Reform's first member of the Senedd in Wales (having defected from the Conservatives) has accepted a two week suspension, after using a racial slur against Chinese people in a ("no chinky spies for me") in a WhatsApp group message with staff.

Report
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Rupert Lowe has invited Wayne O'Rourke to parliament

O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims

Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"

Reform voters are (always) different

The problem is precisely that it is normal. That's the really gutting thing about it.

Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.

Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader

His post above was on Facebook. I don't know if this means his deleted post was also.

Post from Wes Streeting

This is disgusting that racism has been directed at school children who were visiting Parliament

Wes Streeting has taken the post down to protect the children but it's wrong that he had had to

SAY NO TO RACISM! (Farage & Reform will not win)

Ending Taxpayer Subsidization Of Biased Media By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

The BBC being a very trusted news source is part of the reason why Donald Trump is seeking to harm it.

He's already taken aim at NPR and PBS by defunding them.
He only wants privately- owned media that he can pressurise to favour him and not report the truth

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Big pivot - and in the right direction. ~AA

‘Hero’ crew member injured in train mass stabbing regains consciousness Samir Zitouni was wounded as he protected passengers during attack on an LNER train travelling from Doncaster to London

“His wife has shared the wonderful news that Sam woke up briefly yesterday, and she was able to speak with him for a short time. This is a truly positive step forward, though there is still a long journey ahead in his recovery.”

Excellent news. ~AA

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Honestly, I did NOT have "punching the air and going HELL YES to Chris Patten" on my bingo card today. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly!

"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"

The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov

When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.

Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.

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