Jon B 🇬🇧

Shocking but unsurprising...

Lawless London update

These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard

Why we - and the Home Secretary - disapply the ECHR at our peril By Jessica Frank-Keyes

As Labour proposes limiting the protection of the ECHR, we must remember what it was set up to do; protect us all from abuses of power by our govts.
Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next?
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...

Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.

He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist

Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers Taylor Wimpey chief Jennie Daly calls for revival of help-to-buy equity loan scheme to revive property market

Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers.

Not a word about cutting profit margins, ever rising profits, gobbling previous stamp duty support, building substandard homes, builders secretly exchanging data to hike prices.

“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips

Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government

I truly do regret to inform you that England might be good at rugby again

‘Bereavement penalty’: people who lost partners hit by insurance premium rises Campaigners claim AI algorithms are behind hefty increases in renewal quotes for home and car cover

Rip-off Britain.

'Bereavement penalty’: people who lost partners hit by insurance premium rises.

Newly bereaved customers pay more as many insurers regard a single policyholder as higher risk.

Divorced and separated couples are also affected.

Without asylum:

Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist

Queen would have been without a front man

The other queen wouldn't have had a husband

Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea

And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc

Pay back your travel expenses Jenkyns!

Reform UK’s Andrea Jenkyns is claiming travel expenses for her job as Mayor of Lincolnshire, why? Because she lives in Yorkshire (despite saying she lives in Lincolnshire on her nomination forms).

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Medway flag removals cost the council £11,000 A Medway councillor says the outlay is "money well spent" to make communities feel safer.

Flag removal costs the taxpayer over £11,000 - The people who put them up should be billed.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

21 out of 33 Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords have paid jobs outside Parliament.

Shadow ministers paid to ‘advise’ the same industries they’re meant to scrutinise. Conflict of interest institutionalized. Paymasters served.

Can't get good society without ending political bribery.

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Elon Musk's influence on British politics via X is dangerous.

Research shows:

X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content.

Right-wing voices are dominating, and the algorithm is pushing posts to new users, no matter their political views.

https://bit.ly/49BQsWf

Lib Dem beats Reform UK into second place at by-election Lib Dems retain by-election seat with more than three times the vote of Reform UK.

Reform UK lose out as Lib Dems take 53% of the vote in Tunbridge Wells council by-election

www.kentonline.co.uk/tunbridge-we...

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

It's such a pity the Lib Dems didn't become the official opposition. They'd be a million times better than the adolescent tantrum throwers who are there at the moment, pretending the last 14 years didn't happen. Democracy needs an intelligent opposition to work well.

Why tax the rich when you can pay young people less and try austerity again?

This. A thousand times this.

Nigel Farage has a new economic plan:

👔 Deregulate big corporations

❌ Scrap tax cuts for ordinary people

Because he knows that to win power in our broken democracy, you don’t need to serve the people, you just need to serve the money.

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

Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

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...

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

Jaywick named most deprived area - again A seaside neighbourhood in Essex, part of the parliamentary constituency represented by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, has once again been named the most deprived in England. The latest official data showed that an area of the coastal village of Jaywick, close to the town of Clac-ton-on-Sea in the local authority of Tendring, has been classed the most deprived neighbourhood for the fourth time. Areas of Blackpool again make up most of the rest of the top 10, along with new appearances for neighbour-hoods in Hastings and Rotherham. Yesterday's data, published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), presented relative levels of deprivation in areas or neighbourhoods of England in 2025. The data highlighted "the scale of the challenge" but does not "reflect the progress made since 2019 or the strength of the people who call Jay-wick Sands home" , the Tendring District Council website said. MHCLG said Middlesbrough, Birmingham, Hartlepool, Kingston upon Hull and Manchester had the highest proportions of neighbour-hoods among the most deprived in England.

Farage earns more than £1m a year for non-MP work GETTY IMAGES - photo of the grifter Damian Grammaticas > Political correspondent 17 August 2024 Nigel Farage has revealed he is earning well over a £1m a year from work he does outside parliament, in addition to his job as an MP. It is thought his outside income is significantly higher than that of any other member of parliament.

Compare and contrast.
Absentee MP -v- his constituency.
Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood.
He really couldn’t give a shit.
He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream.
(iPaper & BBC)

Powerful and moving interview with Virginia Giuffre's brother Sky and sister-in-law Amanda:

"He's just Andrew. He's no longer a prince... This normal girl, from a normal family, has taken down a prince. We are so proud of her."

"She was extraordinary. She did the extraordinary."

Good, about time.

Farage wants Britain to leave the European Convention on Human Rights — tearing up the protections that keep us safe.

The ECHR defends everyone's basic freedoms, we must defend it.

Leaving won’t take back control. All it will do is strip away rights that protect everyone.

Daily Mail vermin wanking again - overlooking the real political crooks doing illegal things. Like Farage, who still hasn’t explained who gave £885k in cash to his foreign girlfriend to pay for a home in Clacton. #ukpolitics