Catherine Smith

via Jon Taylor

I'm old enough to remember being told
that Brexit was all about us Brits
'taking back control'
(not about being brainwashed
by overseas, tax-avoiding billionaires)
#TaxTheRich

meme via Anthony Corella

Errr....bye then

Asylum changes seek to use children as a weapon, says Labour peer Alf Dubs Dubs, who was a child refugee, says Shabana Mahmood’s ‘shabby’ plans will increase community tensions

Former child refugee and a Labour peer @alfdubs.bsky.social has criticised the “shabby” asylum reform proposals as “seeking to use children as weapons”

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.

"Compared with other European countries, the UK received the fifth largest number of asylum seekers in the year ending March 2025, and the seventeenth largest intake when measured per head of population" - Home Office data
www.gov.uk/government/s...

“The number of EU students enrolling in a new course in British universities fell sharply after Brexit, declining by 57% between 2020/21 and 2023/24.”

Source @migobs.bsky.social

Minimum wage is £10 or £12.21 an hour.

How much does Farage get paid an hour?

he declared £40,075.37 for 10 hours. So just over £4k an hour. Quite probably more.

He is not on your side.

Not everything has to be cost effective. Society is about caring too!

However the estimated loss to the economy of sickness is £150bn a year

www.oxera.com/wp-content/u...

And the UK has the highest waiting lists for healthcare in the G20

There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the final year of the last Conservative Government alone.

Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government

Seventy-five years ago, Britain helped create the European Convention on Human Rights, a promise of life, liberty, and fairness under the law.

It has strengthened justice, protected victims, and upheld equality. These rights are ours to defend.

UK energy companies made £30bn profit.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn

£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.

Direct cause of inflation and poverty.

128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments

Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating.

My thoughts with all involved

The right wing halfwits who believe train drivers are overpaid need to give their head a wobble.
In charge of £ms of kit and, far more importantly, the safety of passengers is worth every penny of their £75K.

Dominic Grieve’s response to Nigel Farage’s ‘let’s leave the ECHR’ stunt in parliament is spot on.

How much trouble is Rachel Reeves in over rental rule break? - BBC News The PM may have ruled out an investigation but key questions remain about the chancellor's housing rules admission.

Reeves Estate Agent screwed up and apologised to her, end of❗️

But oh no not for BBC with today’s character assassination & scathing critique re Govt Determined to keep a non story alive

Yet they dropped Farage potentially dodging £44K stamp duty like a shot & never reported his OH’s alleged fraud🤷🏼‍♂️

Integration eh??? 🤣🤣🤣

‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

“the impact of Brexit for the City of London is clear. Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan & Paris are all doing better than they were..at London’s expense..City companies moved almost £1tn between them ~10% of the entire UK banking system – to financial hubs across the EU.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Reform Is Losing Councillors Elected In May At An 'Unusual' Rate Reform UK has lost more than 5 per cent of the councillors it had elected six months ago, an analysis by PoliticsHome has found.

Six months on from the locals…

Reform is losing councillors at an “unusual” rate

PolHome analysis finds that Farage’s party has lost over 5% of all cllrs elected in May

In Kent, its 14%

@matildamartin.bsky.social’s deep dive www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

SOME OF THE THINGS THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS GIVES US Protection from torture Right to a fair trial Right to privacy & family life Freedom of expression Freedom of religion & belief Freedom of assembly Protection from discrimination Right to free & fair elections Accountability for the state Prohibition of slavery & forced labour Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Partv, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Reminder: Here's what Nigel Farage tried to take away from you this week...

The reform party nativity scene.

No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.

And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

Of course the real threat isn't Asylum Seekers in Dinghies.

It is the people who want to leave the ECHR and take away all your Rights.

Right to trial, right to healthcare, right to sick pay, right to holiday pay, right not be discriminated against.

They can make so much profit

Matt

Intellectually dishonest from The Times' Lord Finkelstein. If you look only at a progressive tax and ignore how much more the richest earn of course you 'prove' they "bear the heaviest burden". But if you look at all taxes as a percentage of income the poorest bear a similar burden to the richest.

Food profits have increased more than 30% in Europe since 2021.

While in the US/UK they have increased nearly 200%.

There is no 'inflation' only profiteering.

This 👇

Cartilage does not grow back.

"Nazir Afzal OBE is ex-Chief Crown Prosecutor for NW England, Chancellor of Manchester University, chair of Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency.
Maybe listen to him if you won’t listen to Jeremy Corbyn, Gary Stevenson, Zack Polanski, Richard Murphy, Zarah Sultana ..."
via The Daily Politik