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Following their recent elections, the extremely proportional Dutch voting system has been in the news, but how did they end up adopting this system?

Israel still blocking most Gaza aid as military carries out more attacks Gaza Government Media Office says just 24 percent of agreed aid allowed into Gaza since ceasefire deal came into force.

Gaza Government Media Office says just 24 percent of agreed aid allowed into Gaza since ceasefire deal came into force.

The Government Media Office in Gaza says Israel continues to choke the flow of aid into the besieged enclave, stating that it has been breaching the ceasefire agreement.
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BBC R4 pro reform bias is on steroids today!

Repeated comments from Reform saying how credible their idiotic economic platform is, all without any challenge, meaningful question or push back.

Pathetic, transparent far right bias from the 'national broadcaster'.

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

YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.

Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people

...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"

It's £10ph FFS!

Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger

DO YOU SEE IT NOW?

Spread far & wide.

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Farage can get in la poubelle www.bestforbritain.org/farage_s_bre...

No migrants have been recorded crossing the English Channel for 11 days, the longest gap without an incident so far this year.

Maybe even asylum seekers now realise what a shit place the UK has become?

Who would have guessed

“Nigel Farage tries to claim he’s got the answers to the problems this country faces - but he created one of the biggest economic issues by championing Brexit, and now he wants to take more risks with people’s financial security," says Best for Britain's Tom Brufatto. 1/2 ~AA

US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.

🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

On Nigel Farage’s speech today, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak said:

“The cat is well and truly out of the bag - Reform is the party of austerity...Farage wants to finish what the Tories started.

“After 14 years of cuts that gutted our schools, hospitals and councils, he’d slash even deeper."

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

Who would have thought that Nigel Farage's prescription to grasp the "opportunities of Brexit" would be to slash protections, wages and welfare support of ordinary people, in order to cut taxes on millionaires?

Farage wants a UK safe for oligarchs and despots.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Cut benefits, cut minimum wage, raise retirement age, means test pensions, get rid of the NHS.

Why are you voting for Farage?

This is a question the BBC needs to answer. The continuous platforming of Farage in the build up to Brexit Ref by the BBC gave the man way more credibility than he and his rhetoric deserved. And now it's happening again

‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

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It's official. You can mention the B word again... even to Keir Starmer.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Lack of anaesthetists hampering bid to cut surgery waiting lists – study An audit by the Royal College of Anaesthetists suggested there is a 15 shortfall in their numbers across the NHS.

Patients are “paying the price” for a shortage of anaesthetists, experts have warned as a report laid bare the “growing scale of the workforce challenge” facing UK hospitals

www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/nationa...

Bloody hell.

How is this still possible?

‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

"More than 440 City companies have moved almost £1tn — or roughly 10% of the entire UK banking system — to financial hubs across the EU because of Brexit."
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache

Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

🤔Tax the Brexit promoters!
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Surely ANY person, irrespective of their politics, is suspicious of Nigel Farage?

His Welsh bloke was a Russian Spy!

Rob Jetten & Husband. Winner of Dutch Elections

WINNER of Dutch elections shows the rest of Europe it is possible to beat the mendacious Anti-Islam populist movements if you campaign with a positive message.

RobJetten's message:
"Yes, we can"

We can stop Farage & Reform in their tracks long before 2029

Farage took away your freedom of movement and now he wants to remove your protection from torture, what could possibly go wrong.