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Eight Reform UK councils have indicated that they will raise council tax next year after struggling to find huge cuts in public spending.

That’s despite Reform UK flyers during the Local Elections criticising councils for doing just that.

Never trust a Reformer.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Meet John John credits GB News with saving his life. After being in a coma for 3 months, a nurse came in and turned his hospital TV to GB News. John promptly got up and chanaed the channel.

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YouTube video by Fallow Every Way to Fry an Egg

Fascinating guide to eggs!
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Miriam Margolyes is just a warrior woman. That's the post.

She said it all.

And some may observe that excessive drug taking affects your cognitive ability.

List of wealth taxes already introduced by Labour.

Nigel Farage Nigel Farage accuses teachers of 'poisoning our kids' on race issues Exclusive: Reform UK leader's remarks at event for private US college criticised as 'grossly irresponsible' by NEU leader

Oh look - Farage.

In the US - again. This time slagging off UK teachers. Next thing you know he’ll be there having a go at our vicars, doctors and nurses.

This man seriously, seriously dislikes Britain, doesn’t he?

This feels like a guaranteed entry into next week’s issue of Bearly Newsworthy.

Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that if it hadn't been for Brexit this type of downgrade would not have been needed - and cite official figures suggesting that if Britain had not left the European Union the economy would be about £120 billion greater by 2035 than current forecasts suggest. The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame, as the man who delivered Brexit with "easy sloganeering" then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards. Or to put it another way: Farage, not us, is responsible for putting up your taxes. The theme will tie to the main thrust of Starmer's argument at conference, that the Reform leader is selling easy solutions that are just a fantasy.

Good to blame Farage for the dull-arsed, ruinous, tedious failure of Brexit.
Not that good to keep punishing us for that failure, rather than looking to swiftly boost our prosperity by asking to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union.
But yes. It’s a start.

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Zack Polanski: I went on Question Time - I was blown away by the response The response has been quite overwhelming.

Zack Polanski: I went on Question Time, I put to Reform that their former leader in Wales was in the pocket of Putin, taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia while an MEP, they had no answer, because patriots don’t peddle for Putin. metro.co.uk/2025/10/10/z...

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Left Twitter on 20 Jan 2025.
Seemed appropriate & I haven’t missed it.
Threads was ok as a stop gap but Bluesky is a nicer platform atm.

I just had to blame lack of sleep due to small humans the previous week…😊

Train services operated by Greater Anglia will be brought into public ownership this weekend,

marking the half-way point in the nationalisation of the nation’s rail network.

Labour 👍

Promises made: promises kept

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far Clean-energy sources have powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours this year — a milestone toward 2030 targets

Great news.....

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @carbonbrief.org

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

C-SPAN caller from Missouri to Missouri Rep. Mark Alford: "I hope you, sir, as an elected official, will think of the people who are in nursing homes, their parents are in nursing homes, their Medicaid is going to be cut. What is going to happen to Missourians whose hospitals are gonna close?"

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

I did a similar thing with some accommodation.
Booked it & turned up a week early 🙄
The owner was very helpful and we were able to stay the next day for a few days.

There will be NO requirement to have the digital ID on you at any point.

The ONLY mandatory element to it is use it within a Right to Work check.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

Woo, just got my comments read out on air!

First Tom did it.

Then Shelagh.

Now James!

Going up in the world!

Excellent news!
She fought against Venezuela’s equivalent of The Orange One’s politics and won.
#DemocracyNotDictatorship

Careful… some people only read headlines and may think this nonsense is true 😳

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Zia seems to be fixated on the benefits of hypnotising tonight.
#BBCQT

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Never mind questioning those trying to get by on the safety net of benefits.

Why not question the number of people absconding with say £122 MILLION of taxpayers money and have enough spare to buy things like yachts?
#BBCQT

Emma in the #BBCQT audience thinks some people use benefits as a ‘lifestyle choice’.

I wonder if Emma has tried to live on benefits?

Interesting allegations flying around on #BBCQT tonight…
Personally, given the choice I’d rather have bigger breasts than be a fascist.

More good work by Greg Sargent

So true.
All I heard from Badenoch was tax cuts for the rich and cuts in public services - or ‘savings’ as she liked to call them.
Same old same old 🙄