Mike Taylor

They want to ditch the #ECHR to "assist with forced removals and #Immigration."

Do you how many UK forced removals the #ECHR have stopped?

4. In 4 years.

It's not about #Immigration. It's about ALL THE OTHER RIGHTS they want to strip you of.

Yes, we should harmonise taxes so that income from wealth is charged at the same rate as paid work. Currently, many business owners pay themselves more in dividends than salaries to minimise tax.
So, the best off pay proportionately less. Which must end, however much the establishment complains.

Jenrick hits out at Truss’s ‘careless’ mini-Budget: Politics live The shadow justice secretary said the party must be ‘honest’ about its mistakes to rebuild public trust

Robert Jenrick has slammed Liz Truss’ mini-Budget as “careless” and “unconservative” as he said the Tory party must accept its mistakes.
Interestingly, that's the budget that Nigel Farage praised that led to national crisis and Truss being ousted.
#CPC25
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Making a drama about refugees could defuse anti-migrant anger in UK, says Jonathan Pryce Actor says ‘people aren’t aware of the facts’ and the realities for people living in migrant hotels

As politicians threaten to leave the ECHR over immigration, award-winning actor Jonathan Pryce suggests that a compelling drama about refugees living in Britain could be one way to defuse the rising anger and anti-migrant sentiment in the UK.
Yes, please.
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I realise that there are lots of erudite and entirely correct reasons against leaving the ECHR, but surely the main one to be repeated ad nauseam is "from the people who told you Brexit would solve all of your problems - how did that work out for you?"

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes

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A Particular View A Particular View eBook : Taylor, Mike: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

I put out a new book recently, A Particular View. There are a few contemporary ghost stories, some that are sinister in other ways and a few more everyday tales.
It's 99p on Kindle.
#writingcommunity
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Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

The absolute state of political debate about asylum and immigration. A global reality that has no obvious "answer" leading to various unconvincing solutions more or less nasty, more or less likely to achieve their goals.

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Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Absolute credit to Wes Streeting for directly contradicting the poison that comes from Nigel Farage, by welcoming and thanking people who make Britain their home to work in our health and social care systems.
Reform would send them packing and collapse the NHS.
#LabourPartyConference

UK to fund lifesaving assistance to over 500,000 Rohingya refugees The UK will provide food, shelter, clean water, and other life-saving services to half a million Rohingya refugees displaced from Myanmar by conflict and persecution

While the UK public remain entirely focused on the Middle East, the UK government is yet again showing it is looking at the whole world...

...this time in announcing support for 500,000 Rohingya refugees displaced from Myanmar by conflict and persecution.

1/2

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A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation of our media.
It's long overdue.
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Reminder: Nigel Farage will keep every penny of his EU pension when he turns 63 in three years The man who lambasted the EU for wasteful spending and bureaucracy will happily receive the £73,000 annual pension.

Reminder: Nigel Farage, having lambasted the EU for wasteful spending, intends to keep every penny of his £73,000 EU pension when he turns 63.
He didn't even do the job!
That's Reform for you.
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Labour conference live: Reeves hints at tax rises in Budget Keir Starmer dismisses Labour calls to oust him as ‘navel gazing' and says battle with Reform UK is ‘fight for the soul of our country'

Nick Robinson pushing Rachel Reeves not to scrap the 2 child benefit limit on #r4today. He's openly taking a right-wing perspective and peddling dishonesty.
The cap has to go and ordinary people having more money will directly help the economy.
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Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

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Nigel Farage on Russia Today with a moustache.

It seems many people need reminding that Nigel Farage made 17 appearances on Kremlin-backed RT (Russia Today) 2010-14, and yes, at one point he had a moustache.

He is a sabateure and traitor of Great Britain.

Of the two boys with smallpox, the one who had been vaccinated has very few pox while the other is horribly disfigured.

1901, photograph by Dr. Allan Warner of two 13 year old boys both infected with smallpox on the same day, one vaccinated as an infant and one not.

Johnson says he will never use government ID

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

I've put out a new story collection. A Particular View includes a few ghost stories and others that may be sinister or unsettling in different ways. A couple have been published before, including one in @underbellypress.bsky.social.
My partner says it's good...
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People can say that flying the flag is a positive statement, they can say it's about pride in a place, but it is also coninciding with, and symbolic of, a period of more hostility, meanness and racism.
Digital ID won't help. Properly ending austerity and standing up to the far right should.

Brexit: How Britain was out-negotiated Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, kept a secret diary of the talks. Published in 2021, it revealed in painful detail why Britain lost so badl

Brexit: How Britain was out-negotiated
Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, kept a secret diary of the talks.
Published in 2021, it revealed in painful detail why Britain lost so badly at the negotiating table
@jondanzig.bsky.social
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Starmer has a v. unhealthy obsession with immigration. It flies in the face of all evidence & reason. There are millions of people in this country, who were not born here, and they are fearful about their future & that of their families. Starmer has lost his moral compass.

Backlash from Labour MPs to Andy Burnham leadership ambitions The majority of Labour MPs contacted by the BBC say they are against Andy Burnham challenging Keir Starmer.

The BBC has used one negative MP interview all day to undermine Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham's leadership hopes.
But a pollster now says a Burnham led Labour would be leading in the polls.
#bbcpm
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Andy Burnham says Britain needs ‘wholesale change’ as Labour MPs prepare for conference – UK politics live Manchester mayor urges Keir Starmer to reveal plans to deliver reform but denies he is plotting to replace PM

Andy Burnham favours a business-friendly socialism that retakes public control of essential services, from housing to transport, making life “doable” for those trapped in the insecure world of Britain’s outsourced economy.
Yes, please. That'll beat #Farage.
#bbcpm
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Pat McFadden, "The last thing any of us want to see if young people graduating from school and going onto benefits"

"I'm here to announce £25m investment to double the number of youth hubs so we can have more of them around the country"

Something positive from Labour 👏

‘Your countries are going to hell’: Trump attacks European leaders and United Nations in fiery general assembly speech – live US president lambasts UN for lack of help in peace deals; Trump also scolds European migration and US allies that are supporting Palestinian statehood

'Your countries are going to hell’, Trump tells European leaders and the United Nations in a speech that should have led to him being taken away and held securely somewhere.
From autism to wars via immigration, he spouts rubbish.
#TrumpisaNationalDisgrace
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Ignore Trump claims on paracetamol and autism, Streeting tells pregnant women ‘Don’t pay any attention whatsoever’ to US president’s advice on medication, health secretary urges Britons

Ignore Trump's ridiculous claims on paracetamol and autism, says Health Secretary Wes Streeting.
Imagine if Farage was PM: he'd be parroting Trump’s dangerous madness.
#WATO
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