Andrew Smith

Per Lowe's Law, Kruger or Pochin are required to become independent to make way for the next Tory defection as Reform are only allowed 5 MPs at any one time.

British Council ‘selling everything it can’ to survive Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off ‘financial peril’

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.

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Racism in Britain is getting worse Racist abuse in the UK is becoming normalised - the government and social media platforms are doing nothing about it

Racist abuse in the UK is becoming normalised - the government and social media platforms are doing nothing about it

✏️ Sunder Katwala

All the parties should schedule press conferences on Mondays, it doesn't matter what subject. Then the news channels have no excuses, either they give equal coverage to all parties or they are shown to be biased charlatans. Flood the zone.

Oh look. Grooming gang victim who resigned from inquiry is doing a joint press conference with Farage.

The best chance for a generation of a codified constitution in the UK was the last election. No one saw the Brexit debacle and the Johnson government, and thought more of that please.

Labour instead saw a big poll lead and thought better not lose that. Well it's gone now.

At no point should discussions around Conservative or Reform mass deportation policies be about the "workability" or "practicality" of such policies. They should be about the inhumanity and immortality of them. They should be about the racism of them. Anything less is normalisation of xenophobia.

Reform MP Sarah Pochin: “It drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of people who are anything other than white.”

Today on the BBC, Tory spokesperson Chris Philp: “I’m not going to call her that word. I'm not calling her racist.”

The real Uni-Party.

Channel 4 News did this as well, perhaps journalists have simply become sick of the sight of Philp, I know I am.

Trying to work out whether the Shadow Home Secretary has beaten a far right racist in the race to the bottom, the state of British politics.

How Caerphilly best Farage Reform

Affiliates get a vote, as a member of a Union I received a ballot. I didn't vote, it doesn't seem sporting as a member of a competing party.

The interest here is they didn't report affiliate turnout and member turnout separately to hide falling membership numbers.

He knew this question was coming and had plenty of room to devise an answer that avoided criticizing Trump but signaled the UK's approach under a Farage government would be saner, more legal and in line with basic human decency.

It's telling he did none of that.

Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here

remove her from her job, let nobody ever forget the horrendous nonsense she came out swinging for, and take all of her printed music scores and bury them under the north sea. this person should never be put in front of the public ever again

The bleakly funny thing about this story is that visibly *this morning* the Conservative leadership had not absorbed just how crackers the policy they had signed up to was.

If "Tory officials say people will not lose their ILR for claiming the state pension", then they need to withdraw their published draft Bill and apologise, since it is carefully and precisely drafted to ensure that they would.

Sometimes you have to just gasp in horror.

It's not that she just ignores her own family history. It's that she understands it, has discussed it with her actual refugee grandfather, & still thinks he's not just wrong, but "nuts", & her vile exclusionary racism is good.

Completely conscious evil.

This is deranged and dangerous from the Conservatives, and similarly from Reform. If they could enact it, it would rip British society apart, destroy the economy & NHS, & make the UK an international pariah. Every decent politician & political journalist/commentator needs to push back hard.

The Established Church needs to find a voice on this kind of dehumanising depiction of men, women and children who have come to our country, being spilled all over the place to say the only thing that has human value is a salary above £38k and thst any foreigner who ever earns less must get out

IMHO, the way forward for Liberalism is to get back to basics.

We can't take anything for granted but we do need to be able to explain why such unfashionable notions as democracy, accountability, tolerance and equality before the law remain vital for our society.

If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.

This bill targets my wife directly, we want to bring up a child in the UK, she'd like to take some extra time off or reduce her hours to care for child. All these options denied because she doesn't want to give up her original citizenship.

This is not Britain, what has happened to this country?

Britain is in a really, really dark place.

It also shows that once you start deporting people, you very quickly get to this place

The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

Not a serious country update

Intelligence on ‘extreme’ Maccabi fans with history of violence led to Villa Park ban Exclusive: West Midlands police were told supporters randomly attacked Muslims in Amsterdam last year

Britain's politicians got this badly wrong and should be ashamed of themselves.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The biggest cultural division in the UK is between those who support xenophobia like this and those who don't.

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

🚨 Ed Davey Lib Dem Leader: “People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to ‘go home’. This is their home" - www.theguardian.com/politics/202...