Pete Clifford

Polling shows immigration concern ‘manufactured’, say campaigners A YouGov poll found only 26% of people said immigration and asylum was one of the three most important issues facing their community.

Our latest polling shows concerns about immigration are manufactured

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An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs.

Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.

Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.

Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

Major travel group quits London and moves to Europe because of Brexit A move to Madrid is considered to be a likely alternative - although options in Switzerland, Italy or elsewhere in Spain may be considered.

The latest casualty of Brexit gets reported in the Daily Mail….

www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/artic...

Lib Dem Leader slams Reform UK’s ‘links to Russia’ at PMQs Ed Davey called for an investigation into Russian meddling in UK politics after ex-Reform politician Nathan Gill was convicted for taking pro-Russia bribery

Lib Dem Leader slams Reform UK’s ‘links to Russia’ at PMQs @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
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Ed Davey called for an investigation into Russian meddling in UK politics after ex-Reform politician Nathan Gill was convicted for taking pro-Russia bribery
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Ironically, Katie Lam was named "Parliamentary Newcomer of the Year" last night by the Spectator.

It's an example of the "Boris Johnson" problem in British politics: that being loud, self-promoting and outrageous brings prizes and name-recognition.

Learning your stuff & being thoughtful does not.

This is indeed good to hear. Principles matter. This is an important one. Would be good now for media to ask other leading Tories whether they support such principles, and also whether Badenoch feels those who question such principles can remain Conservative frontbenchers.

Interesting. It's almost as if focused outrage and the conscious maintenance of social norms works.

Shaheen has held academic posts more recently and is more engaged with actual academic work right now yet is not described as an academic? Come on. Bad enough to elevate Goodwin, who ceased to be credible years ago. But to apply such an obvious double standard is very poor judgement.

This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?

Don't be fooled, Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk are playing you The message the hate engine transmits is simple: asylum seekers are not really people in need

Robinson, Musk and Badenoch are all part of an industry of grievance, a machine designed to spread hate which now operates across the British right – from respectable print outlets to wild-eyed online fascists

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Schrödinger’s Britain..

Both bursting at the seams with brown people, yet somehow “overrepresented” in ads

Make your minds up, Reform!

We dissect this, the Caerphilly wake-up call, Starmer’s dodgy response & why we’re no longer P..P..picking up Penguins.

🎧 New ep below!

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

About 40% of those arrested in the Farage riots had previously been reported for domestic abuse.

If the far-right want to protect British women and children, they should start by looking at their own ranks.
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Keir Starmer's failure to stand up to this man is a cowardly and suicidal calamity

I knew it was my last year at Charlton Kings Juniors, and should have realised it would have been before the New Year. 🤦‍♂️

16th November 1968- FA Cup First Round, Cheltenham Town 0 Watford 4 Sunday Mirror, 17 Nov 1968 Sunday People, 17 Nov 1968 Watford Observer match report

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Recall, but it clearly, obvs. Apparently it was 1968 and 0-4.

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

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If you're mad at the poor for receiving SNAP benefits, but not at billionaires for not paying taxes, you're a victim of THEIR propaganda.

Time to fix your priorities.

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My earliest FA Cup memories are all disappointments. I don’t believe we ever beat a League club in the Cup in my lifetime (I’m old, but not old enough to remember Carlisle in the 30s!) while in Non-League. 0-5 against Watford in 1969 first one I recall.

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand Wind power has cut at least £104bn from energy costs in the UK since 2010, a study has found. Users of gas have been among the biggest beneficiaries, the research suggested. Continue reading...

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds

Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55% Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour

The Farage Factor.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Cheltenham 2 Burnley 1. Also, first 80ish minutes vs Man City. Got to think we could have won that had there been fans in the ground?!

@vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Offered. Accepted?

@amsterdammed.bsky.social I’m guessing I won’t be the first pedant to mention this, but my understanding is that gold prices are quoted in dollars per *troy* ounce, which is roughly 31 grams, not 28.

Leaving Bickerstaffe on proved to be a piece of Cotterill tactical genius.

We remember
#RejoinEU

Thank goodness Brexit reunited the country and saved the Conservatives party! 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️😡

PR NOW!