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Sign the petition: Stop Royal Mail leaving our letters undelivered! Royal Mail are putting profits first and prioritising parcels instead of letters. It means people are missing things like NHS appointments and bills that need paying. Enough is enough, sign the petiti...

Royal Mail are putting profits first and prioritising parcels instead of letters. It means people are missing things like NHS appointments and bills that need paying. Enough is enough, sign the petition now to stop Royal Mail's greedy actions: 38d.gs/rm_letters_df

Record levels of funding to the police from City Hall means more money to tackle:

🚔 Phone thefts
🚔 Criminal gangs
🚔 Violence against women and girls

Making London safer is my top priority.

Grim. One can only imagine what passes for ‘banter’ or ‘locker room talk’ when these ghouls converse in private.

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Nearly 100k people have joined our call to get dangerous US spy tech firm out of our NHS.

Palantir's founder has called for the NHS to be ripped up. Now his company has access to millions of patient records.

Tell the government to end the contract!

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Young people did not have a say in the Brexit referendum but have to live with the consequences. It's not surprising that a staggering majority of them would want to rejoin the EU.

https://www.itv.com/news/2026-02-19/over-80-of-16-to-24-year-olds-would-vote-to-rejoin-the-eu-itv-poll-finds

Labour is lifting half a million children out of poverty.

Reform wants to put them straight back there.

Nigel Farage should be ashamed.

With American interest in European security now so unpredictable, European leaders are right to be acting with urgency on this. And Keir Starmer's strong commitment to Britain playing a central role - as one of Europe's larger military powers - is welcome and timely. Sir Nick Harvey CEO of European Movement UK, Former MP, and Former Minister of State for the Armed Forces

Read our full statement from the CEO of European Movement UK, Sir Nick Harvey, on Sir Keir Starmer's recent announcement, at the link below.

Starmer: Britain must move closer to EU single market. Britain must align itself more closely to the EU single market as soon as this year, Sir Keir Starmer has declared. The Telegraph, 14 February.

Aligning with the Single Market isn't enough - fully joining both the Single Market and Customs Union would reduce duplication, cut costs, and help UK businesses trade more easily and confidently across Europe. The longer we delay taking action, the longer businesses are going to suffer.

83% of 16-25 year olds would vote to rejoin the EU. Savanta for ITV Youth Tracker, Sample Size: 1,040 UK based 16-25 year olds, Fieldwork 4-9 February

A recent poll by Savanta on behalf of ITV Youth Tracker found that 83% of 16-25 year olds would vote to rejoin the EU. Young people are the future - it's time we listen to them and ensure that future generations are not held back by the disastrous decision to cut our ties with the EU.

Keir Starmer is right to embrace our European future. In defence and economics, Britain's interests lie in closer cooperation with its neighbours. The Independent, 14 February.

By strengthening cooperation with Europe on defence, including through an Administrative Arrangement with the European Defence Agency, and on the economy by rejoining the Single Market and Customs Union, the UK can begin to reclaim the opportunities and advantages it has lost.

Ten years on from Brexit - our futures are as bound as ever. So, it is in our common interest to be ambitious about our partnership. Because the EU, the UK - in fact all of Europe - we are in this together. And we will always stick together. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission

The UK’s rightful place is at the heart of Europe. Let’s return.

Britain courts France to stay in 'Made in Europe' club. Trade Minister Chris Bryant is heading to Paris next month to court France, the EU's toughest industrial hawk, in a bid to ensure new EU procurement rules don't harm British manufacturers. Politico, 16 February.

British officials fear that a new 'Made in Europe' initiative will "freeze UK companies out of key supply chains, just as the reset gathers pace". The answer is simple - let's rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union.

Well, I think Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, and any measure, whether it's economically, socially, culturally. And actually, I think right now we should be talking about rejoining the customs union. But more widely, I do want to see us back in the European Union. Zack Polanski, Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales

2026 marks 10 years since a referendum that devastated our economy, businesses, and our freedoms. Repairing our relationship with Europe, and working constructively together, is the only way we're going to undo the damage, and regain our rightful place at the heart of Europe.

Rachel Reeves has said that our future is "bound with Europe's future" - it's time to turn this into reality, and start cooperating with Europe to ensure we are not left behind.

And that is because we know that in a dangerous world, we would not take control by turning inward. We would surrender it. Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Keir Starmer's words at the recent Munich Security Conference is a reminder that a secure nation lies in cooperation, not isolation. The new UK-EU Security and Defence Partnership, is a positive step, but it must ensure it delivers real cooperation that strengthens our shared security.

Putin murdered Alexei Navalny in the most disgusting and performative way.

He's a psychopath and a monster.

Now look at politicians in Britain, Europe, and America who are either looking the other way - or engaging in abject whataboutery.

Andy Burnham, Lucy Powell and Ed Milliband campaigning in Denton today with Labour’s by-election candidate Angeliki Stogia

Well said!

@elliechowns.bsky.social: "Reform, and before it the Brexit Party, and before it UKIP have been busy for many years fomenting his idea that immigration is the problem in this country.

"It's completely untrue."

On the rare occasions that Farage is challenged in an interview he displays his fragility.

‘Nothing says love like chemicals’: Valentine’s roses often covered in pesticides, testing finds Bouquets imported to Europe found to be heavily contaminated, often with chemicals banned in EU and UK

#Pesticides are far from romantic - yes, a risk to the recipient, but even more to the workers growing them and their communities

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Nigel Farage is a high class spiv, a thief for his American masters.

Vote him into power and we will be the USA's slaves forever.

Everything is for sale.

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

Zelenskyy in Munich: “The Ukrainian Army is the strongest army in Europe, thanks to our heroes.

“And I think it is simply not smart to keep this army outside NATO.”

And yet another Reform councillor goes: buff.ly/AJbGOZ8

Full list, updated yet again, here: buff.ly/ux3FagH

HALFTIME: Ireland 5-10 Italy

Putin's actions are a warning and threat to others - never admit to the crime but make it obvious .

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once said "they know we know they are lying" about the Soviet era - however Putin has a similar methodology - lie and use plausible deniability but still make it obvious.

Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate Nigel Farage's party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics

ICYMI: "Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the Russian interference debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics"
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What the EU’s X Decision Reveals About How the DSA Is Enforced The European Commission's €120M fine against X exposes how it enforces the DSA, targeting design, transparency, and data access failures across the platform.

Interesting analysis of the recent Commission fine imposed on X for breaching the EU Digital Services Act

www.techpolicy.press/what-the-eus...