Anne G

So @bylinetimes.bsky.social is planning a Christmas cracker box - all Farage’s pro Putin statements - do share and add any you find to this thread

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.

It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

Apprenticeships only work if the employer understands their responsibility and values the individuals. We have senior aerospace engineers now who can as apprentice technicians - because we don’t see them as cheap labour and we do invest in their development. Just making more spaces is not enough

Erm, what?

This is 100% not ok. If they can’t say they support a duly ejected Mayor what can they say.

Europe must stand together.

"If Europe is to survive a future attack by Russia — and that is the kind of language being used — its big players must behave in a way they haven’t done before. They must be joined at the hip."

https://politi.co/4iIsk6W

The EU is the bastion of democracies, law and human rights.

They are all the things Tories, Farage, Putin & Trump reject in unison.

& the only reason they hate those rights in society - they can't get away with murder, theft, rape, genocide, fraud in those nations no matter how much they try.

Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...

If MPs represent their constituencies, this should be a free vote

Predictably it entirely fails to mention that those on Universal Credit are overwhelmingly British nationals.

UK charities face ‘culture of fear’ as threats and violence surge Exclusive: Charity Commission chief condemns public hostility towards staff helping women and refugees and at places of worship

No good deed, thanks to the vicious propaganda campaigns of the billionaire media, now goes unpunished.
They hate it when anyone tries to make life better for vulnerable people.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Starmer urged to let Labour MPs back vote on joining EU customs union – UK politics live Lib Dem leader Ed Davey says backbenchers should be allowed to support party’s 10-minute rule bill Badenoch accuses Labour of making it harder for people to employ people with its taxes on business. She says Labour is defending its proposals on the grounds that it will cut poverty. Continue reading...

Starmer urged to let Labour MPs back vote on joining EU customs union – UK politics live

UK charities face ‘culture of fear’ as threats and violence surge Exclusive: Charity Commission chief condemns public hostility towards staff helping women and refugees and at places of worship

This is horrifying and cannot be allowed to become normal.

"A surge in death and rape threats and harassment has created a 'culture of fear' at charities serving women and refugees, and at mosques, churches and synagogues."

https://bit.ly/44irJTE

Reform campaign for Farage’s Clacton seat was a ‘juggernaut’, say candidates Defeated Tory and Labour rivals describe force of Reform ‘machine’ as police assess claims of overspending

Presumably, Reform will claim this was all years ago, and while he's completely innocent, "everyone" had massive presidential style election campaigns in Clacton back in the long distant er summer of 2024

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Newshound Chris Mason has seemingly lost his sense of smell at the revelations of Farage's alleged election law breaking.
Strange that...

Oh... who take complete advantage of potentially vulnerable people until they get caught

Seaham Reform councillor's firm fined over illegal worker Durham councillor Andrew Harrison says the worker was legal and he is appealing against the fine.

Reform UK councillor Andrew Harrison's business was fined £40,000 for hiring an "illegal immigrant."

Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it

www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's being reported internationally. In the UK, mostly, silence.

"Representatives from the crypto industry have held meetings with Reform feeding into the party’s strategy... Farage has championed several industry causes since including picking a fight with the Bank of England over regulation." ~AA

Given a) Farage's past; b) the expanding story about Russia and former MEPs; and c) media enthusiasm for "what influence is being bought?" questions, if anyone to left of Mussolini is gifted so much as a cup of sugar, why is Reform facing no such questions about Friday's £9m crypto-bro donation?~AA

Farage’s “Armoured Land Rover”
All perfectly normal

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The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT)

The price of aid cuts.

I'm old enough to remember when Gordon Brown was forced to apologise to a woman for calling her a bigot.

The very least we should expect is that Nigel Farage apologises for being one.

This story more than any other disgusts me.

Yinka was a little 9 year old boy

Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17

We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too

Hey UK Labour government! Is this really who we want running our NHS data management systems?

People should note that Voloshyn tried to disguise Gill’s bribes as ‘media payments’

Do we know how much Farage received for his regular appearance on RT/Russia Today around the time of Brexit?

Nigel Farage under pressure over crypto links as MPs call for investigation The Electoral Commission has been asked to investigate the situation after Reform declared a £9million donation from crypto investor Christopher Harborne in August

More Reform sleaze… Farage under more pressure after Electoral Commission asked to investigate his links and promotion of cryptocurrency Tether after Reform declared a £9million donation from Thai based Tether investor, Cryptopher Harborne. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.

At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...