Iain Brodie Browne

Can we extract the Reform nonsense from Labour? These immigration proposals are obscene, but the government can be forced to think again.

This is excellent from @iandunt.bsky.social on the government's proposals on settlement: unsupported by evidence, counterproductive on integration, cohesion and economic growth.

As Ian says not too late for government to think again.

iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

Feeling quite patriotic. This is what equality under the law is meant to look like.

Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question.

Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?

listen to the Trumpian way that Farage tries to silence my tenacious colleague @annasophiegross.bsky.social

(who was politely asking a reasonable question)

''People across Britain want a Prime Minister focused on the cost of living, the NHS and social care, not on his own survival while the country pays the price.''

@libdemdaisy.bsky.social

Keir Starmer, you have two choices now – sort your warring party out or call an election | Ed Davey The country just can’t afford another three and half years of this dysfunctional soap opera, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey

The country can’t afford three more years of chaos that just strengthens the populist right and plays into Farage’s hands.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

From Blair to Putin to Starmer: PR chief Tim Allan’s CV Former New Labour spin-doctor has faced criticism over his choice of clients, including Russia’s government

a reminder that Tim Allan, who quit Starmer's Downing St today, previously spun for....not only Kazakhstan and Qatar but also Vladimir Putin’s government

www.ft.com/content/a0a8...

The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.

Tim Allan, Keir Starmer’s director of communications, has just quit his Downing Street role:

“I have decided to stand down to allow a new No 10 team to be built. I wish the PM and his team every success."

We're delighted to welcome Councillor Manu Singh who has joined the Liberal Democrats from the Green Party in Surrey! 🔶

Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client

New on FT website:

Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.

www.ft.com/content/5bba...

Another Senedd member defects to Reform as Lib Dem MP hits out David Chadwick MP says James Evans MS ‘put career before constituents’ after party switch A SENEDD member has defected to Reform UK, prompting sharp criticism from a neighbouring MP who accused him of...

"He has described Reform as a danger to national security because of its links to Russia, and warned they would push Britain towards an insurance-based NHS.

Yet the moment his own seat came under threat, he jumped ship to the very people he once said had no principles."

There’s more I’m afraid…

Andrea Jenkyns says only Reform can sort immigration

I challenge her on how, given they’ve just recruited Jenrick and Braverman who oversaw an explosion in immigration

Her response and insult speaks volumes.

Months ago, @eddavey.libdems.org.uk asked the Prime Minister a simple question: why did he keep backing Mandelson despite his Epstein links, and what leverage might the Trump administration have over him?

Instead of answering, he waved it away.

Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister.

Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed

FT exclusive:

“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”

via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues

yup

here’s our 2,000 word report from June 2023:

www.ft.com/content/0723...

Today feels like a good day to remind people that electing the House of Lords was in the coalition agreement and Labour MPs united with Conservative backbenchers to block it.

Because neither party wants the gravy train to stop.

Scotland's first deputy first minister Lord Jim Wallace dies, aged 71 The former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader was undergoing a procedure at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Very sad news that Jim Wallace, Scotland's inaugural Deputy First Minister, has died suddenly. Not only did he lead his party into government for the first time in decades, but he held down the fort after the death and resignation of the first two First Ministers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The new Liberator has dropped!

Download issue 433 from liberatormagazine.org.uk/recent-issues/

Lib Dems react:

“Farage has recruited yet another Conservative minister with selective amnesia - one who complains about broken Britain while conveniently forgetting they helped break it.

"Suella Braverman was so bad she was forced to resign from Liz Truss’ cabinet and got sacked by Rishi Sunak.”

Meanwhile, Lib Dems edging ever closer to being the Opposition party… 🤯

Tories down to 116 MPs now. Ed Davey 45 Reform defections from being Leader of the Opposition....

More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...

457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan.

Trump avoided military service 5 times.

How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.

The new prison with its circular cell layout and the central guard... The new prison with its circular cell layout and the central guard tower at Stateville Correctional Center follows the panopticon design by British philosopher and prison reformer Jeremy Bentham,...

Liberal England: Shabana Mahmood shares her vision of total state surveillance with the Tony Blair Institute

"It's hard, as a Liberal, not to conclude that Mahmood was saying the quite bit of Labourism out loud." liberalengland.blogspot.com/2026/01/shab...

Mark Carney has delivered one of the most important speeches of our era. There is a better future waiting for Britain if we dare to follow his example.

inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Appeasement hasn’t worked.

It's time to stand firm with our European allies.