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Crime and the perception of crime: @jburnmurdoch.ft.com via @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9623...

Obvious point this, but people need to stop believing what they are told by Farage, GB News, and the general declinist and alarmist media narrative and start paying attention to what is really going on regarding crime in this country.

The BBC and mainstream media have a duty to get the truth out.

Labour are the Party who're putting right the years of Tory corruption & incompetence that created the mess they inherited. Labour didn't create that situation, the Tories did. If you’re someone who doesn't get that, then I suspect you probably don't get much of anything, really.

Starmer vows to uphold diversity amid rising fears over racism, immigration "Britain is, and always will be, a multicultural, diverse country"

Keir Starmer tells Eastern Eye that calling out racism must be part of cohesion.

"When people are being abused because of their background, or businesses feel they’re better off elsewhere, we must ask ourselves - what kind of Britain are we building?”

www.easterneye.biz/starmer-upho...

Good news for Rayner - house building figures show promise  - Estate Agent Today There's a 4% rise quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year

Good news for Angela Rayner – house building figures show promise

www.estateagenttoday.co.uk/breaking-new...

I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?

So much this. You have to presume that Brunel & co pissed a lot of their contemporaries off with their bridges etc…

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

There’s a sick, twisted irony in the far-right protesting against asylum seekers for their alleged involvement in crimes, when 41% (!) of those arrested at last year’s far-right riots had previously been reported to the police for domestic abuse

Labour promised 1,000 more GPs this year.

Labour have delivered double that.

2,000 new GPs hired

delivering millions more appointments

making sure the NHS is there for everyone, whenever they need it.

Labour's Plan for Change in action.

Better with Labour 👍

Right, the BBC’s platforming of Farage is getting completely out of hand. On the left, the 4 stories mentioning Ed Davey on the BBC News app since April 1st. On the right, some of the 40+ stories about Nigel Farage in the same period.

Excellent piece from @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social . Was saying "avowed intent" consciously channelling Bunyan - the concept of a very British pilgrim? And I'd suggest that Starmerish would land better domestically if he didn't always have to fight to the death with naysaying MSM lions.

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys UK Lawyers for Israel

🚨UK Lawyers for Israel Ltd has tried to silence various voices supporting Palestine. Their charitable wing has made public statements rejecting international law.

Activist Em Hilton is on the Charity Commission offices to ask for an investigation.

youtu.be/Ui70R8PCkJ4

Plans for direct train to Berlin in new UK-Germany treaty It comes as Friedrich Merz makes his first official visit to the UK as German chancellor.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

MPs to tighten laws allowing foreign donations to influence UK elections Exclusive: changes will end illegitimate funding via shell firms and subject donors to enhanced tests, backed by stronger fines

BREAKING: Ministers to tighten laws allowing foreign donations to influence UK elections

Changes will end illegitimate funding via shell firms and subject donors to enhanced tests, backed by stronger fines 👏

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Not like me to RT the Lib Dem’s but this is absolutely spot on. Well done Ed Davey. 👏👏👏👏

Watch @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk call out the BBC for their failure to hold Nigel Farage to account.

The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.

To those who question what Labour stands for – look at Best Start. It will change Britain’s future | Polly Toynbee Sure Start was New Labour’s finest achievement, and the Tories destroyed it. Now it’s back with a mission to put children at the heart of everything, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Labour putting children rightly at the heart of their aims. Best Start Family hubs will lift children and young families out of inequality. This is the narrative of the Labour Party. Equality benefits everyone.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour vows to protect Sure Start-type system from any future Reform assault Exclusive: Education secretary says scheme will be so deeply embedded that no rightwing party can unpick it

This is an outstanding policy and the thinking on how to Tory/Farage-proof it is very sensible

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

When you hear ‘Labour are just more Tory’. Remind them of these:

- Family Hubs
- Renters Rights
- Workers Rights
- Nationalising rail
- investment in buses/trams
- Nationalising Steel
- Greatest investment in NHS

True Labour priorities

Under Labour there have been 4.2 million additional appointments in the NHS since July last year.

That’s double the target, and 100,000 more appointments a week than the Tories were doing.

And waiting lists are down by almost a quarter of a million, the lowest level in two years. Not bad eh ?

Government revives family services, supporting 500,000 more kids Up to 1,000 Best Start Family Hubs to be rolled out across the country to provide wide-ranging help for families, such as parenting and early development.

Sure Start is coming back.

The Labour government is to open 1000 Best Start Family Hubs covering every local authority. The first will be in place by April 2026 & all by 2028.

They will combine existing Family Hubs & the Start for Life programme & also cover areas without these services.

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Reform MP James McMurdock suspended after Sunday Times investigation He is alleged to have borrowed tens of thousands of pounds under the government’s Bounce Back loans scheme during the Covid pandemic in 2020

These are extremely serious allegations which expose - once again - my concerns about the last government’s use of money during the pandemic and the need for far greater supervision around MPs’ outside interests.

The Parliamentary Conmissioner for Standards must investigate immediately.

Public Service Announcement for “Journalists”

It’s been one year.

One.

The sheer scale of the economic disaster and utterly destroyed EU relationship inherited by Labour is impossible to underestimate.

That was NEVER going to be fixed in one year.

Difficult decisions are being made.

Ends

One year ago today, on 4th July, we went to the polls.

We ended the disaster that 14 years of Tory rule had brought on us.

Steadily, things are improving.

You don't have to like EVERYTHING the Labour government does, but they are doing SO MUCH to improve our country.

And I am grateful for that!

The importance of protected cycle lanes.

180,000 new social homes for rent, way more then the Tories.

Labour has a plan to build over 180,000 social homes for rent which is six times more than the Tories delivered.

#Labour #KierStarmer

Trying to understand changes in government policy from mainstream media alone is literally impossible. All coverage is about low politics / ‘control’ / ‘power’ / ‘humiliation’ etc. My only salvation has been NGO briefings and listening to policy people I know personally. Ridiculous state to be in!

The sooner the haters admit the truth the better. The markets have confidence in Rachel Reeves. They like what she’s done. And they like what she plans. The blip was the fear that she may go. Says they trust her. And for what it’s worth so do I.

Disability benefits have seen the biggest rise since Covid