Ken Bardsley

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Asylum seekers living in hotels do not receive £70 a week – Full Fact Thousands of people have viewed a video supposedly featuring a former ‘migrant hotel employee’, who makes a number of incorrect claims about what government support asylum seekers receive.

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He makes a great Point

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Nick Timothy did delete his post but did not apologise.

More fundamentally, Timothy was criticising the police for protecting the delivery person from a racist mob.

Not sure how, if he *had* been working illegally, that makes it ok?

Nuanced polling shows the complexity of opinion, compared to opinion-directing polling and reporting that seeks to oversimplify immigration debates to suit the aims of Farage etc. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk

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Only 4% of total immigration figures relate to small boat arrivals. Yet our suborned media is absolutely obsessed by them. Why ?

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Immigration has already dropped by half under Starmer. Check it out. The media aren't telling people that. They're obsessed with people coming on boats. Starmer is tackling that problem at every point in the chain. This approach will of course be successful, but it takes time.

Donald Trump is a complete fraud. Always has been.

YouTube video by MeidasTouch Trump Gets BOOED LOUDLY at SOLD OUT WWE Event

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Wow.

Holy shit this is real Soviet/N. Korean style stuff. After the dismal jobs report Trump is going to fire people who compile the data and replace them with hacks. The markets and American people will never be able to trust these numbers again.

I do wonder whether a point will come when ‘dealing’ with Trump will be rendered an irrefutable & catastrophic mistake & the Mark Carney approach will be utterly vindicated. (Don’t @ me if you think it *already* looks like a catastrophic mistake. I used ‘irrefutable’ for a reason!)

It’s been obvious for some time that Musk’s platform is deliberately & dangerously hideous. There is nothing to stop politicians, up to & including the government, removing themselves from it entirely. Their every utterance would still be reported, regardless of how it entered the public space.

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

“Firing the top statistical official sends a clear signal to others across the government that you are expected to compromise scientific integrity to appease the president… This puts us in dangerous territory far from an accountable and reality-based government.” @peterbakernyt.bsky.social