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Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy

Farage is just a mouthpiece for big corporate businesses and millionaires who give him money.
He doesn't care a flying fart for the rest of us.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @deadder.bsky.social )

When the GOP dismisses SNAP recipients by telling them to 'just get jobs,' they ignore that 70% of those individuals are already
employed full-time.

Reform-run Council Cancels Christmas... And, at significant cost.

I would say you couldn't make it up. But unfortunately Reform can and did. ~AA

paro paro come in Italia

In un Paese serio, dopo la trasmissione Report il Garante della privacy Stanzione e Ghiglia si sarebbero dimessi, c’è un Codice etico. Inoltre, la sanzione a Report è degli stessi giorni della candidatura di Sangiuliano, che dice di averne parlato con Arianna Meloni. Coincidenze?

Brits are pining for the pre-Brexit migration system The idea was that leaving the bloc would give the U.K. back “control” of its borders and create a fairer system. But the widespread perception is it didn’t turn out that way.

"By a whopping two-to-one margin, voters now favor the pre-Brexit immigration system to the one that has taken shape since leaving the EU."

Even among Reform UK voters, more wish they could go back to pre-2021 migration rules! ~AA

www.politico.eu/article/labo...

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

Le monde es un post fantastìque

‘Utterly shameful’: Congress to crush US record this week for longest shutdown There’s no chance for Congress to resolve the shutdown and reopen the government before crossing the historic threshold Tuesday.

The shutdown will hit 35 days tomorrow — a new U.S. record — as Congress stays deadlocked and SNAP benefits and air travel are already feeling the strain.

Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry Prime minister Keir Starmer urged to make positive case for ECHR after Kemi Badenoch pledged a Tory government would leave the treaty

Farage says leaving the ECHR is the “unfinished business" of Brexit and that the UK is "not sovereign” while we are in it.

But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread.

Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

We have reached peak "NATO expansion propaganda". Jeffrey Sachs claims he was personally told by someone he didn't meet that there was a broken promise to a person who says it wasn't made.

Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?

The online baying mob shouting "Vote Reform" after Saturday's train stabbing attack may wish to note that not a single Reform MP has turned up for the Home Secretary's statement on the incident.

So Habib thinks the police should only mention nationality of suspects in the case of migrants, to foment hatred of them? Not only ravingly xenophobic, but also absurd on its own terms (because we could deduce logically that when suspects' nationality is *not* mentioned, they must be UK citizens)

and again, the problem is not him, it’s the journalists and the media. we always had idiots and liars in the world, even in politics but at least they were treated as such by media. Now they give them credit

Never have I seen such a perfect example of Schrödinger's Migrant.

Zia Yusuf, asked whose PIP Reform would cut, talks about "foreign nationals". Less than a minute later, same "foreign nationals" are taking all the jobs and damning British youth to life on PIP.

🤡 Utter clownshow. ~AA

Zohran, Tish James and Brad Lander lead a procession of hundreds walking across the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn.

Tish James, Brad Lander, Tony Simone and Rita Joseph wait for the march on the bridge.

Zohran at a packed press conference outside city hall, Tish James and others raising their hands in the air.

Early this morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge.

As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city.

Tomorrow, we win it together.

Rando: "Communist!"
Zohran: "It's pronounced 'cyclist!"

Zohran is so good at this.
#Zohran
#NewYork

Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo. At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25 Then beneath it TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.

Britain isn't in the grip of mass violence The far right are trying to whip up fear and panic with lies

Britain is not in the grip of mass violence.

The Cambridgeshire train stabbings were horrific - and incredibly rare.

Your odds of being attacked by a stranger are much lower than they were.

Here's the facts! 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/britain-is...

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

116 killed, 26 journalists captured since Russia's full-scale invasion began, Culture Ministry reports The total of 116 journalists killed also includes those who joined the military after the invasion began.

⚡️Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, 116 journalists have been killed and 26 remain in captivity, Ukraine’s Culture Ministry says

Farage, who was paid £189,000 in January to promote gold bullion in his spare time, is currently wanging on about how out of touch the Labour frontbench is. Ok

Nigel Farage currently railing against Parliament being full of "professional politicians".

He founded UKIP in 1993 and was first elected as an MEP in 1999, twenty-six years ago. Less than 5% of current MPs (31 to be precise) have a longer career in politics than Farage. ~AA

Chart from Office of Rail and Road (HMG) showing annual and quarterly passenger rail journeys for Great Britain from April 2015 to March 2025.

In Great Britain, there are about 1.7 billion passenger rail journeys each year without serious incident (about 150 million a month). It's worth keeping perspective as news media discuss banning knives on trains or installing scanners at stations.
dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/u...

Chart showing Trump's falling approval rating by race, since January

In our polling with YouGov, since the start of his second term Donald Trump's net approval has fallen 17pts among white Americans (+17 to -1), 28pts among Hispanic Americans (-9 to -37) and 38pts among black Americans (-36 to -74)

What you say it is actually “vibe policy”. NATO expansion works for countries requesting to join because scared of Russia. If only Ukraine joined 15 years ago now there would be no war. Also there is no such a thing as no militarised security unless you live in La La Land