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🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
Tommy Robinson stopped at border driving Bentley with thousands in cash' Far-Right activist insulted police officers after being arrested for refusing to give them pin to his phone, court hears
Claims he's just a regular journalist doing his journalising on behalf of the silent millions... checks out for me..
13.10.2025 15:11 — 👍 1573 🔁 534 💬 124 📌 23
Nigel Farage has finally admitted to it.
But now there's lots more questions especially considering Rupert Lowes intervention....
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nige...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Could this ever happen to Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock , Michelle Mone and the rest ?
(There’s a long list)
Or is our politics and legal system:
a) a complete farce?
b) corrupt?
c) dependent on the expensive lawyers you can afford?
d) completely transparent?
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
Times Farage to abandon manifesto's big plans for tax cuts Extracts: Farage will break with his manifesto pledges of £90 billion in tax cuts as he attempts to bolster his party's economic credibility. The leader of Reform UK will promise not to reduce taxes before reducing spending, deep cuts to the civil service and a ban on borrowing to fund government expenditure in his first big speech on the economy next month. "Reform will never borrow to spend, as Labour and the Tories have done for so long; instead, we will ensure savings are made before implementing tax cuts. I will have more to say on all this in the coming weeks." Speaking on the campaign trail before the Caerphilly by-election to the Welsh parliament on October 23, he did not respond to demands to name his shadow chancellor but suggested he would soon be able to draw on backing from the business community. Several high-profile figures from industry have privately indicated they would be willing to serve in a Reform cabinet, party officials said Farage said: "We will be launching between now and the budget, a new campaign — an economic campaign ... it's going to be very impactful. It'll another high-profile individual coming into politics from outside of politics, who's been supremely successful in their world." Promising a "total change of attitude" on the economy, he said: "We are not a party dominated by corporate thinking. The Tories and La-bour are both dominated by corporate thinking." The IFS has questioned whether Reform's economic plans are credible warning last year that the party had overestimated how much it could save through spending cuts: "Even with the extremely optimistic assumptions about how much economic growth would increase, the sums in this manifesto do not add up." Right-leaning think tanks have also urged the party to set out more credible policy. The Institute for Economic Affairs last month called for Reform to "put some serious economic policies on the table".
Corrupt chancers urged to come up with an economic plan that isn’t utter bullshit. So, no tax cuts and austerity on steroids for a country already stuck in Farage’s Brexit dead end.
But hey, some super wealthy industry big (k)nobs will come on board to help con the little guy.
(Times)
'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in.
The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight.
They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.
BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?
VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer
B: But this was a WH decision
I'm sure BBC investigative documentary strand Panorama is even now working on an incisive exposé of Reform's financial links to Russia and it's just that they haven't announced it publicly yet
12.10.2025 12:51 — 👍 500 🔁 157 💬 23 📌 4Like I never met John Thaw. 👀
12.10.2025 14:26 — 👍 494 🔁 116 💬 21 📌 6Are Labour really going to try and tie current economic damage (and hence the need for further tax rises) to Farage and to Brexit, whilst at the same time insisting that persevering with Brexit is the right thing to do?
That feels like gaslighting of the very highest order.
Some of the 100s of CDC workers "mistakenly" fired on Friday have been asked to return to work. Some were involved with the federal measles and Ebola responses.
JD Vance told CBS it was a mistake caused by "the Dems' shutdown of the Government".
The sackings were ordered by the White House.
Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds
Voters recoil at Farage’s fossil fuel funding.
Via @desmog.com @writesbright.bsky.social
Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country
BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control
For anyone considering getting on Piers Morgan, here’s some required viewing. Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social shows how to deal with uneducated culture war stooges.
@davidpakman.bsky.social
@adammockler.com
@meidastouch.com
youtu.be/1CbN6TUTRZs?...
Reform UK’s Nathan Gill met with EU President Tajani to lobby him based on Russian Bribes.
Even then, Nigel Farage didn’t bat an eyelid.
Remarkable video. He had never shown an interest in free speech related to Ukrainian TV channels before.
#ReformRussianBribes
The Guardian chooses once more to frame a story based on what suits Farage rather than what is actually going on...
If anyone still wonders why far-right politics are so mainstream, this is a good example
Private equity wrecked UK high street, says Iceland Foods boss
PE model - low wages, cut staff/investment, high debt, profiteering, tax abuse.
PE devoured Debenhams, Maplin, Byron Burger, Cath Kidson, Comet, Flybe, Poundworld, Toys R Us.
Controls care homes, vets, supermarkets.
archive.ph/tJVkV
In the UK we have Keir -island of strangers- Starmer, whose government is driving right wing anti immigrant and asylum seeker policies
In Spain, Pedro Sánchez is not only celebrating diversity, they're embracing and speaking positively about immigrants
"The government have actively avoided looking for evidence Russia interfered."
The Intelligence & Security Committee's Stewart Hosie said the government didn't investigate alleged Russian interference in the Brexit vote, and no one wanted to touch this "with a ten-foot pole".
Zack Polanski, "Reform UK's Zia Yusuf was full of b*llocks and I think it was important to call that out on #BBCQT"
"What has become clear about Reform UK, they're a bunch of cowards"
Since the Brexit referendum, the Telegraph has become the Pantomine Dame of confected outrage against the very thing it fought for and continues to uphold. The new Schengen Entry and Exit System isn’t sound border management but a “pointed insult”. Hilarious.
12.10.2025 07:50 — 👍 73 🔁 23 💬 11 📌 5
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
11.10.2025 21:10 — 👍 16190 🔁 4960 💬 286 📌 725Tax Haven Tice has hinted that he would like to become Chancellor if Reform were in government.
It would be like Liz Truss on… well, whatever it is Liz Truss is on.
One evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries consoles another evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries for not getting an award for which neither evil man is even remotely deserving.
11.10.2025 19:20 — 👍 7576 🔁 2203 💬 581 📌 157
But what about all the waste they told us about? What about all the savings DOGE was going to find? What about the promises to cut council tax?
It's almost as if they were just making shit up to fool people, like they did with Brexit.
Gordon Brown's chilling warning about what Farage as PM would mean for children
The former Prime Minister hit out at the cruel cuts pledged by Reform UK and explained this would be the equivalent of shutting down the NHS while closing schools
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
