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#FBPE Retired court official. Baby Boomer who wants a future for her daughters and grandson with all the benefits she had! ❄ 🇪🇺 🦋
Reform UK Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government
BREAKING NEWS
In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt after all their policies are found to be economic fantasy.
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
14.10.2025 06:40 — 👍 884 🔁 403 💬 43 📌 23
About sums up the knuckle scrapping mobs that terrorise minorities in the UK now.
14.10.2025 06:43 — 👍 194 🔁 37 💬 3 📌 1
Holding govts to ransom.
Goldman Sachs warns Rachel Reeves against tax rises on banks.
Banks happy to be bailed out, take QE, mis-sell products, not to be prosecuted for frauds, hike charges, pay lousy rates on savings.
Need windfall taxes. Raise top rate of income tax.
Go on then Nigel Farage, keep telling us you know nothing about Russian influence…
The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
"A senior member of Nigel Farage’s parliamentary group staff in Brussels was known for making trips to the Russian embassy in Belgium and was accused of orchestrating a smear campaign against a critic of the Kremlin, the Guardian has been told."
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
“The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all. The rights within it are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice, why victims of abuse can seek safety, & why disabled people are treated with dignity in care
youtu.be/ceukUFLBrFo?...
🚨🚨"If the Tory party wants to be once more in the 21st century the party it was in the 20th — a natural home for successful people — it must again become a place in which pro-Europeans are not only welcome but can hold high office. " @stephenkb.bsky.social on #brexit & the Tory party:
14.10.2025 07:03 — 👍 59 🔁 24 💬 5 📌 2
Temu’s EU operations doubled pre-tax profits to $120m (£90m), employed just 8 people, $18m corporation tax,
It is smoke and mirrors of profit shifting, offshore tax havens.
UK High street can't compete.
Govt must review customs duty exemptions, require multinationals to show where they pay taxes.
Morning all xx
14.10.2025 07:16 — 👍 147 🔁 22 💬 23 📌 6
I can see why Reform would oppose measures to prevent money laundering. Maybe banks should check money going *into* bank accounts - particularly when it's Russian money going into Reform politicians' bank accounts...
14.10.2025 07:16 — 👍 711 🔁 175 💬 47 📌 8Lyse Doucet and Jeremy Bowen fine reporting from Middle East reminder of BBC journalism as it used to be…deeply informed, sober and balanced …sad to say marks out shallow sensationalism of BBC’s reporting of Westminster politics ….
14.10.2025 07:19 — 👍 270 🔁 59 💬 13 📌 2
Liz Truss got one thing right.
(Every single trade deal we have signed on our own has a sting in the tail.)
14.10.2025 07:31 — 👍 4917 🔁 2086 💬 141 📌 89
Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...
Nigel Farage wasn’t telling the truth on Laura Kuenssberg
Reform claim they were obstructed. There’s only one problem: they never made any inquiries.
So as our country’s key businesses are ‘cyber’ attacked by Russia and China. We have Reform and the Tories attacking everything the Labour government does. Along with their pals in the media. This is not normal. This is dangerous.
14.10.2025 07:38 — 👍 113 🔁 25 💬 9 📌 0Just had a thought, did FarRage’s bestie Tommy 10 names Robinson pay for his Frinton house? All that cash swilling around in his Bentley? Was it the left over spare change?
14.10.2025 07:45 — 👍 43 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 1Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.
14.10.2025 07:47 — 👍 730 🔁 183 💬 43 📌 10I am completely dumbfounded by Labour’s reluctance to take on these people and to apply legal restraints to foreign interference in our politics and while I’m at it do something about GBNews! Does anybody have any sensible explanation for this reluctance?
14.10.2025 08:03 — 👍 111 🔁 33 💬 22 📌 4
Bob Mortimer on WILTY
‘I was stopped by police while driving my silver Bentley stuffed with cash and I told them I’m a journalist’
14.10.2025 08:10 — 👍 298 🔁 65 💬 5 📌 2
and then I found the silver Bentley I borrowed from a friend whose name I can’t recall had £13k in used notes in the glove compartment, which was nice.
14.10.2025 08:23 — 👍 144 🔁 38 💬 5 📌 3
MI5 issues guidance on countering espionage and interference
We have seen previous cases of political interference, including most recently the case of the former Member of the European Parliament, Nathan Gill
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences.
So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.
Elon Musk's key ventures:
SpaceX
xAI
Model X
YaXley-Lennon
The truth about the green party's booming membership
Many on the right will try and belittle and undermine what’s happening.
But here’s the truth. Tens of thousands are joining Greens. Polls are at record highs. People are just starting to feel hope again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Nigel Farage can’t keep a promise longer than lunchtime.
Reform UK Party Says It Will Drop £90 Billion Tax-Cut Program
When you ride in a Tesla, you ride with Yaxley-Lennon.
14.10.2025 08:39 — 👍 607 🔁 121 💬 22 📌 8
