Ofcom rules appear weak on socialisation of hatred and violence.
GB News appears in systemic breach of "due impartiality" in its coverage of many topics
- integration, especially Muslims
- immigration
- asylum
- Trump
- London Mayor
- Govt
Persistent 75-25 or 90-10 skew right on contested issues.
What a spectacle of incoherence.
Reform’s Welsh leader promises not to go down the NHS/insurance route…while Farage keeps that option open for the rest of us. Probably because he’s already committed to selling us out.
Corruption and betrayal nailed on with this lot.
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Five parties in double digits.
All below 25%.
With polling like this, First Past the Post = chaos.
It would be even more of a mystery & a scandal if the UK govt had followed that numpty Andrew Neil’s advice & given Trump’s mad scheme its full-throated backing.
I don’t know if there’s something wrong with Andrew Neil’s memory or if he thinks there’s something wrong with ours.
Labour government's comms have been woeful, and they've got a lot of stuff just plain wrong. But also:
The Treasury Committee has launched an inquiry into student loans amid widespread dissatisfaction over repayment terms. The committee plans to assess whether Rachel Reeves’ decision to freeze repayment thresholds is fair and whether repayment terms are reasonable.
Source: Politico
Labour MP & former pollster Chris Curtis: “I can always tell when a party is on the ropes, because they start lashing out at pollsters. Farage is just the latest to look at a bad poll and decide the fault lies with the tape measure, not the waistline”
The UK Tories are finding out what happens when you let someone whose brain has been poisoned by Twitter run the party.
Someone should reduce this to 20 or so tweets that Badenoch might read. Though we’d then need a bot army to get it sufficient likes.
Left: Rachel Reeves says post Brexit trade deals - which add 0.47% to GDP - are helping economic growth
Right: Keeping the UK outside the EU costs us 6-8% GDP
Only Keir Starmer's and Rachel Reeves's Labour could think that 0.47% is better than 6-8%
Breaking news: Nigel Farage arrested for a breach of the peace having been involved in a violent scuffle with himself. He is receiving emergency counselling by phone from his hero and mentor Donald “turn on a dime” Trump.
One of the most powerful speeches I've seen in the UK parliament. Wow.
I'm gonna guess this happened to her around the time in 2021 when she stepped down from a front bench role in the opposition, due to "personal reasons".
How the times have changed for Starmer's Labour... just awful
it’s imperative these shameless buffoons not be allowed to wriggle out of this www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“Last week, Farage had been all in favour of bombing Iran. Whatever the Americans wanted, Nige would give it to them. Never mind the cost. Never mind the bodybags.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage working for his Russian and Israeli handlers.
So a cordial (rambling, unscripted, incoherent?) hour-long call with Putin but a terse (probably rude) twenty minute call with Starmer.
Perhaps the King should cancel his state visit to the US next month (plenty of plausible excuses available)?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Elephant remains in the room, looming large. Sir Keir Starmer - Common Sense dictates an effort to REJOIN now makes sense.
UK households that use heating oil face ‘frightening’ surge in bills over Iran war
So how do we all feel about one of our main news channels being owned by a far right agitator and pumping out extreme, racist filth, while OFCOM, the govt, the opposition and the rest of the media just sit blankly staring at it, as if they were watching the hands of a clock go round ?
BREAKING: @andyburnham.bsky.social says the Duchy of Lancaster is treating people in the north as “second-class citizens” after failing to support the clean-up of a huge illegal waste dump near Wigan
An investigation by Ch 4 News uncovered that the estate of King Charles is connected to the site
‘Farage and his Reform Party and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories are desperate for Britain to fall into step behind America. They are backed by the entire British right-wing media – the same newspapers and commentators who cheerled for the disaster of the Iraq War’
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
This is insane.
Blair is the last person who should be piping up.
I dip in to GB News and Talk because it's important to see what they are saying and getting away with.
My impression is that both are pushing the boundaries of "acceptable discourse" well beyond the limits.
Stuff like this has become normal, and it's frightening.
Explosive details 13-year-old Trump accuser confirmed by local reports
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released additional photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein including ones of Donald Trump.(img: Epstein Estate/House Over. and Reform Comm)
www.alternet.org/jeffrey-epst...
Yet more evidence of how Reform voters tend to be political outliers on a series of issues. Challenge for Farage et al is to keep these core supporters sweet while not putting off others. Thus far they seem to be mainly leaning into a core vote strategy.
Social Cohesion Action Plan statement in the Commons now
