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Nick Thomas-Symonds MP: "It is in our country's interests to have a stronger trading relationship and stronger security relationship." 🇪🇺

Sign the Petition Katie Hopkins is not welcome in Wimborne!

The groundswell of anger against Katie Hopkins touring Britain like she's just some normal celebrity grows.

Well done to local people in Dorset who aren't taking it lying down.

www.change.org/p/katie-hopk...

Incredibly telling Kemi Badenoch interview on Today:
- can’t say what she’d actually want UK forces to do
- no idea what objective her proposed military action is to achieve
- hides from reality that single biggest constraint on British military = her govt’s defence cuts

U.S. Support for UK and Mauritius Agreement on Chagos Archipelago  - United States Department of State Today, the United States welcomed the historic agreement between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Mauritius on the future of the British Indian Ocean Territory—specifically, the Chagos Archipela...

"President Trump expressed his support for this monumental achievement during his meeting with Prime Minister Starmer at the White House."

March 2025.

Still live on the website of the US government.

www.state.gov/u-s-support-...

Reform ARE shameful. And racist.

They will push hundreds of thousands of children in to poverty.

They will cut wages for millions of workers on or close to the minimum wage.

They want to deport our teachers, doctors, friends, neighbours, even our families, because they were not born here.

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Reform’s white nationalism will extinguish everything good about Britain If they gain power people will realise – but far too late

Heartbreaking from @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social on the very real damage Farage and Reform are doing to our country and shared future.

“Brexit was the first, deep cut into that optimistic, multiracial Britain. What has followed was entirely predictable.”

liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/424...

The Green Party has shared a a video interview with 5 Pillars. It features the leader, Zack Polanski, Deputy Leader Mothin Ali and Gorton & Denton candidate Hannah Spencer

"5 Pillars" runs a Podcast called "Blood Brothers", which has hosted some of Britain's most notorious neo-Nazis & far right activists, like Nick Griffin (BNP), Mark Collett (Patriotic Alternative) & Jayda Fransen (ex-Britain First), to rant about Jews.
Now the Greens are cosying up to them.

In addition to promoting entertainment, X's feed algorithm tends to push more conservative content to users' feeds. Seven weeks of exposure to such content in 2023 shifted users' political opinions in a more conservative direction, particularly with regard to policy priorities, perceptions of the criminal investigations into Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. The effect is asymmetric: switching the algorithm on influenced political views, but switching it off did not reverse users' perspectives on policy priorities or current political issues.

We show that exposure to algorithmically curated content led users to follow conservative activist accounts. In contrast, when the algorithmic feed was switched off, users continued to follow the accounts they had engaged with previously. This indicates that exposure to feed algorithms has a lasting impact on users' feeds and their political attitudes.

This is a very interesting new paper in Nature about the role that feed algorithms on X play in influencing political attitudes.

No paywall: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Five charged in people smuggling investigation after Rotherham arrest Five people have been charged as part of a people smuggling investigation, including a man arrested in Rotherham.

“Smashing the gangs” slightly closer to home than I might have expected > Five charged in people smuggling investigation after arrest in Rawmarsh, Rotherham
www.thestar.co.uk/news/courts/...

Ken Murphy is Tesco’s UK CEO and the highest paid supermarket boss.

He gets £9,930,000 a year, but is registered to pay tax in the Republic of Ireland.

Yet today he complains about his workers wages being too high.

It is essential to call out every newspaper that is lying. However small, however large. We must not allow them to lie. Whether they call amendments UTurns or as in this piece say Streeting is on manoeuvres. The media are liars.

Jim Ratcliffe went on a racist rant today claiming the UK has been colonised and spreading lies that immigration is 5x higher than it is.

All this coming from a man who claimed to live in Monaco so he could dodge £4bn in tax.

HMRC should bill him, then deport him.

Wanted: Regional Director to work for an organisation opposed to home working. The successful applicant will be expected to work from home.

BREAKING: Rachel Reeves insists Labour can win political argument for closer relationship with EU, calling it “biggest prize” for UK economic growth 👏

'UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe In an interview with Sky News's Ed Conway, Sir Jim says Britain faces profound political, social and economic challenges, among them an unprecedented rise in immigration in recent years.

Disgusting remarks, and that’s before you note this is someone who moved to (colonised as he would put it) a tax haven news.sky.com/story/the-uk...

Pam Bondi has been a complete and total failure at her job. The Epstein survivors showed more courage just by being in that room than she did under oath. She refused to answer questions and chose complicity.

America deserves better.

Which government are you talking about ???

So glad to see George Cottrell being named in parliament yesterday. He was Farage’s head of fundraising when he convicted of an offence related to money laundering & is still close to & funding Farage. Crypto is an urgent democratic threat to the UK

Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy has emails in the Epstein files In the emails he asks for Ghislaine Maxwell’s email address and phone number and mentions that he'll be in New York

Absolutely no mention of this in the right wing press leftfootforward.org/2026/02/refo...

Unfollowed and blocked as bad as the mail lately and I don’t wanna see it, @labourlewis.bsky.social is an absolute disgrace he should be hoofed out of the party and go and sit elsewhere

Can’t wait for this day….
#SaveFOM #RejoinEU

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year.

Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.

🚨 The German government published this video on its official X account. As a Brit, I’m proud they included Keir Starmer on the penguin bag. They’d never put Badenoch or Farage there. For sure. #UKNews

See you are exactly what’s wrong with this country and I ain’t explaining why because I can’t be arsed and you are too thick to understand

Blah blah blah !!! That Green gobeen leader is as bad as farage

What a load of tosh !!! Polanski is another Farage