Rachel Reeves is right to blame Brexit – now she needs to fix it After years of silence, Labour’s leaders are finally naming Brexit as a key cause of Britain’s malaise, writes Chris Blackhurst, but honesty must now lead to action

www.independent.co.uk/voices/rache...

“They crashed the economy, inflation went up to 11%, mortgages went through the roof, welfare spending went up £33bn, & they want to give us advice"
Keir Starmer
#PMQs

“The government is leaving no stone unturned to investigate and recover public funds lost to fraud and error during the pandemic… Recovery action has resulted in some PPE suppliers being referred to the National Crime Agency for suspected fraud”

www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=20...

Reform’s Kruger under fire for warning of ‘LGBT-supporting’ left-wing parties East Wiltshire MP Danny Kruger said the UK could be led by an ‘appalling Hamas-supporting, LGBT-supporting nationalist party’.

Reform UK copies Trump

Promises to ignore international law
Mass firing of civil servants - which jobs/regulations would go?
Cronies would be hired.
Attack trade unions, employment rights
Attack LGBT rights, anyone who shows solidarity

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here", said Shakespeare.

Why the banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty Despite making record profits and paying record returns to shareholders it resents paying taxes.

UK banking industry opposes tax rises, says it pays tax at the rate of 46.4%, and last year paid £43.3bn.

Absolute lie.

At best banks paid £23.1bn, corporation tax was only £8.8bn.

Banks silent on public subsidies they get.

Tax banks. End their subsidies

We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Spectator and others have chosen (deliberately I suspect) to interpret this article as a desire to stop a future Reform UK government from legislating. My purpose is to stop *any* government crushing our fundamental rights. It’s just more urgent now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fab study, delivers truth to the lies of the right wing. Its fossil fuels driving bills up and green drives them down, you paying attention Tony, Nigel, Kemi.....?

buff.ly/uvJ952M

The Sheer Scale of Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed Billions of pounds were wasted by successive Conservative Home Secretaries on a chaotic and costly system that left vulnerable people at risk, according to a new Parliamentary report

The Sheer Scale of Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed

Billions of pounds were wasted by successive Conservative Home Secretaries on a chaotic and costly system
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/27/t...

Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."

This is a good example of the "very clear" rule of political interviews.

When a politician says "I've been very clear" it always means they're wildly obfuscating. Never fails.

It happened there: how democracy died in Hungary A new kind of authoritarianism is taking root in Europe — and there are warning signs for America.

Orbán dismantled Hungary's democracy: silencing media, rigging elections, taking over courts, attacking pro-democracy non-profits, stoking fear of immigrants, crushing academic freedom, and enriching cronies.

Sound familiar?

It's a chilling playbook — and Trump took notes.

Anonymous. @YourAno... • Oct25 g... Kremlin's servers are under our hands. #OpRussia

Subnets

Anonymous has hacked all Kremlin servers.

Anonymous is applying its own digital sanctions on Russia. We demand they surrender and fully leave all Ukrainian territory. #OpRussia

Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.

Follow the example

This!

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

I hope Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and Xi are watching

A tweet from BrooklynDad_Defiant! says: “No words. If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research... I have nothing left to say to you.” The image shows an illustration of a bald child in a hospital gown, holding an IV pole and looking into an opulent golden ballroom filled with formally dressed adults.

It’s more than just bad priorities. It’s about lack of basic decency.

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

True

Starmer hasn’t the guts to get it undone.

Adil Ray, "Prince Andrew has given £12 million of his mum's money to someone he has never met before"

"Has renounced all his titles for something he didn't do"

"With the same person he's never met before"

"At the house of someone he was only friends with"

"To be polite"

#HIGNFY

Brexit was when British politics became untethered from addressing actual grievances and became dedicated to fictional ones instead—and the whole point about fictional grievances is that they can never be fixed. We're still there now and it's why the national discourse constantly feels so surreal.

This is located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, close to Fullerton and Sheffield. It's a densely populated area near DePaul University. I'm pleased to see the community standing up against these despicable individuals.

This is an era of geoeconomics.

And we must use our geoeconomic weight to protect our strategic sectors and supply chains

It’s a matter of national security.

And Europe has what it takes to thrive in this new confrontational world ↓

link.europa.eu/hvyWFM

Critical raw materials are the lifeblood of our industries.

With RESourceEU, we will ensure our access to them.

It’s our new plan for boosting our domestic production, joint purchasing, stockpiling, recycling and expanding our partnerships.

We are taking decisive action.

The Prime Minister of Albania knows this, but so long as we have a government that insists on trying to "make Brexit work" - despite recognising that it's a disaster - he has a point.

And you could add:

You left Europe because you wanted more ‘control’.
You have far less control.

You left Europe because you wanted more ‘sovereignty’. You always had it, just shared a little, but now you’ve lost all influence on your own continent.