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Poorly written BBC article. Either the subjects came to the uk under SKW visa or they came as students and switched to GIR . Cant be both. If already on skw can they not Extend as already in jobs before new wage level requirements were applied?

Support - Glencoe Mountain Rescue Despite the fact that team members are unpaid volunteers, it still costs tens of thousands of pounds every year for the team to operate. A very small part of this funding comes from the Scottish Execu...

Shout out to the Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team, a dedicated group of unpaid 24x7 volunteers, who are having a fundraising family fun day and raffle at the village hall in Ballachulish. If you are in the area, please pop in between 11am and 3pm or donate at www.glencoemountainrescue.org.uk/support/

David Lammy: "We must also praise the courage of ordinary Russians taking to the streets of Moscow, in St. Petersburg and beyond, under the threat of repression, to show their opposition to this despot"

YouTube video by Garys Economics How to convince your friends to back wealth taxes

How to convince your friends, family and networks to support wealth taxes. A step-by-step guide

A gif of Met police carrying away and arresting an elderly woman today in Parliament square

Shame on Labour for putting our police in this position

A gif of Met police arresting a blind man in a wheelchair in Parliament square

Shame on Starmer and Cooper for putting our police in this position

BREAKING: Heroic police officers have saved the public from a terrifying terrorist who is blind and disabled but has opinions the government dislikes. I can only assume these officers will be given medals for their bravery x

Someone burgled my house and the police said they couldn't send anyone so I told them the burglar was wearing a Palestine Action t-shirt. Three minutes later, a riot van and five police cars were outside my door 👍

Every. Word.

The UK's State Pension is the lowest in Europe with one of the highest starting ages.

If it is unaffordable, why can all the other countries afford much better ones?

Hint - The problem isn't the pension cost.

‘A duty to intervene’: the former UK government lawyer at centre of pro-Palestine protests Tim Crosland’s arrest for allegedly showing support for Palestine Action went viral and his Defend Our Juries is calling for more protests on Saturday

Tim Crosland’s arrest for allegedly showing support for Palestine Action went viral and his Defend Our Juries is calling for more protests on Saturday

“We are talking about deeply peaceful, principled people who are trying to stop atrocities,” - Crosland

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

£10 billion wasted because we walked away from working with Europe on energy and the environment.

Add your name to call for a UK-EU partnership that protects our planet and cuts bills.

www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...

HOME SECRETARY URGED TO STOP COVERING UP GOV’S SUPPORT FOR GENOCIDE

Ahead of tomorrow’s Lift the Ban protest, Defend Our Juries has written to both Yvette Cooper & Sir Mark Rowley.

The letter to Cooper:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Letter to Rowley:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

And as it descends into fascism, the people who oppose it.

How we can fight back against the right-wing coup For a better future the power of corporations and wealthy elites must be curbed and reversed

The UK is in the grip of an ongoing right-wing coup.

It is the main cause of economic decline and social tensions.

Successive govts have been enrolled to make us subservient to corporations and the rich.

Corporate power must be curbed/reversed for a better future.

Become a Member Today - Join The RNLI's Lifesaving Family Love the RNLI? Proud of our crowd? Find an RNLI membership that’s right for you and join our lifesaving community of over 150,000 members today.

Even if it’s just to annoy reform Ltd types. 👇

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Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature pa...

I'm sure many have seen this, but just in case, resharing for anyone not in the know yet: www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR by Our Apocalypse Staff HELENA HANDCART THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode. It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services, not to mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed). Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

Defend Our Juries on Met Police plans for mass arrests at the Palestine Action demo this Sat in SW1

"Is [Met boss] Rowley really going to spend his political capital, credibility [and] public resources arresting more grandparents & NHS workers under the Terrorism Act in front of the world’s press?"

The Post Office & government
have so far spent
more than £350million
on lawyers
to deal with the postmaster scandal

Meanwhile many postmasters
who were wrongly convicted
and spent time in jail
have yet to receive a penny

via Private Eye

Twenty seven people who donated £50m in total to the last Tory government were given seats in House of Lords. And some still argue against an elected second chamber.

Made it into the new Private Eye @privateeyenews.bsky.social Now I can retire.

Not disagreeing with the point behind this story, but they werent thrown out. They were legally informed by a more than minimum notice period that the tenancy was being ended. See also Labours housing/rent bill to become law

Rushanara Ali is facing growing calls to resign after The i Paper revealed that she threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse – only to relist it weeks after they left for nearly £700 more a month in rent

Read more: trib.al/vkHXof9

It has been revealed that Nichola Shaw, the Chief Executive of Yorkshire Water, has received £1.3m in previously undisclosed extra pay from an offshore parent company.

Together with my colleagues, I have written to Vanda Murray, the chair of #YorkshireWater, demanding an explanation.

Ha ha

Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increased rent by £700 a month Rushanara Ali, who has spoken out against 'unreasonable rent increases', relisted her four-bedroom townhouse in east London for £4,000 a month

UK Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increased rent by £700 a month.

Rent increased from £3,300 to £4,000 a month, 21% increase.

As Mahatma Gandhi said: "Be the change that you wish to see in the world".
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Rushanara Ali: "The average monthly private rent in London increased by 9.7% in the last year and is over one and a half times higher than the average monthly rent in England"

At the time people probably assumed Ali meant this was a bad thing. It turns out she was boasting!

Bernie Saunders with mittens on sat at change my mind meme table with text " Bottled water companies do not produce water, they produce plastic bottles. Change my mind"

FRIENDLY REMINDER: There is too much plastic in the water because we keep putting water in plastic.

Right now, we have a vital chance to cut plastic production - through a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty.

But plastic loving lobbyists are trying to sabotage the treaty. ⁠

ealth Taxes introduced by Labour to date 1. Companies House confirms identity verification rollout from 18 Nov 2025. 2. Changes to make Land Registry transparent on land/property ownership 3. Increase stamp duty on purchases of 2nd homes up to 5% from 3% in total 4. Abolishing Non Dom status 5. VAT on private school fees 6. Changes to pension inheritance tax 7. Increase to Capital Gains tax 8. Discussions with Isle of Man and HMRC to stop tax avoidance and loopholes 9. New HMRC team focused on ensuring the wealthy pay the correct amount of tax 24/25 yields additional c£1.5bn 10. New powers in Companies tackling economic crime and improving data 11. Air passenger duty on private jets up 50% 12. Changes to IHT on agricultural estates

Some quiet changes that are targeting the wealthy and creating lots of angst in the media. Labour are focused on equality and moving the benefits to ordinary people. What’s not to like?