Shadow Home Secretary

I agree, except "immigration that works for the UK" sounds too much like Theresa May, architect of the Hostile Environment, and that DOES give me the heebie jeebies.

How about "We'll treat immigrants as human beings, instead of lying to you that they're to blame for the UK's political failures."

Crypto investor based in Thailand donates further £3m to Reform Christopher Harborne’s gift is latest to party’s election war chest and comes amid calls for cap on political donations

Who the hell is this guy? And what does he want as a return on his £millions invested in Reform? Because it sure as shit isn’t a fairer, more progressive, equal and prosperous UK with good public services and well-regulated consumer protections.

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Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

This made me smile. He has my vote too.

I'm in the UK. Last summer, I became a member of the Green Party so that I could vote for Zack as leader. It's my privilege to be able to use my vote in support of trans people everywhere. I'm just so glad there's a party that speaks for me on this and other issues.

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

Which could open up this interesting possibility...
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It's clearly a front for far right hate speech, rather than a legitimate business. The fact OFCOM still allows it to continue tells you everything you need to know about the UK's broken media.

50 changes in 5 years sounds like an awfully large waste of money. Money that's desperately needed across UK councils and services.

I read that as "parasitic"... and I stand by it.

I meant the teachings ascribed to Jesus.

He wasn't enamoured with the religious leaders of the time and called them out on their greed and hypocrisy. He was crucified for going against the status quo. As I said in the earlier tweet, it's probably easier if you leave religion out of it.

When I say Christianity, I mean following the ways of Christ. Something that's probably easier to do if you aren't swayed by a particular religion.

It will only end once the government has reinstated all of the money austerity took from us. That means massive pay rises and a much higher minimum wage. Joining the EU would really help in this as it would boost the UK's economy whilst lowering the cost of most goods.

These people just use religion as a form of coercive control. Christianity it ain't.

I like it. If it was just the cuttings it would jar my OCD, as I'd feel like I wanted to pick them up and rearrange them. The dark lines and triangles somehow fix everything in place... as if inside an exhibition case. The result is an interesting mixture of feelings: it's chaotic yet reassuring.

Surely the people you film need to give consent. If not, people need a cheap way of securing their image rights so they can class action any data handling company that views them. The people who use the glasses may automatically give consent just by buying them, that doesn't apply to everyone else.

Even I know, in these conflicts, it's not about winning the war, it's about winning the peace. If you have no plan for peace, you have no legitimate reason to be there.

Ironic that the leader of the Board of Peace, knows fuck all about how to achieve it. Orwell must be spinning so hard right now.

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How I arrived on Bluesky

She was always such a smiley, photogenic girl. It used to make my day to see her having fun with Nash. 🐾🥰

They're the BEST people! 🐾🥰

He thinks he's the king of the fucking world!

Would be good karma for him to be arrested on foreign soil for international war crimes and then have the whole of the US just shrug and say "Well, you are guilty." when he expects rescue and retribution.

I joined last Summer. Same.

When Lisa Nandy turned up on my doorstep, during the council by-election, I told her that I believe in traditional Labour values... which is why I joined the Green Party.

Labours attitudes towards water companies is one of the starkest examples of how they'll do anything to protect the status quo.

The case for water nationalisation is so bloody obvious to everyone - yet they'll do anything they can to keep the failed privatisation experiment.

Hmm imagine what that’d feel like.. 🤔 a job where you’re paid £110,000 a year plus generous expenses.. you’d be happy right 🤷🏼‍♂️

Which makes it infuriating some MPs have second or third jobs..

And obscene that Farage has 10 plus extra jobs making him £1 million yet hardly shows up to work at HOP

It's very on brand for Farage: accuse others when it's your own party's behaviour that's questionable, then avoid the part where you might be asked awkward questions or be forced to confront reality.

(See also EU Fisheries Committee meetings)

Really quite something that Farage spent 4 days whining and making wild unfounded accusations of election fraud, then completely skips the commons debate on the elections bill.

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Yay! De Squad is back! I wondered what happened to you guys. Kinda lost touch after we all left the other place.