Anthony Toole

I agree that the coverage and comments have been terrible, though as the BTP have said the arrested man is black British male I think we can trust that. So many rumours and lies have been spread, best to not be part of that.

Petition: Cut VAT for local hospitality – for Pubs, Cafes & Restaurants Across the UK, our cafes, pubs and restaurants are more than just businesses. They are the beating heart of our communities, the places where we celebrate milestones, share a quiet pint or coffee with...

Sign and share please.

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

Ed Davey has written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join him in condemning Elon Musk's remarks yesterday

They're not from here, they don't share our values and culture, they don't respect women and most of them are violent criminals.

The far right should leave London.

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law.

These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Yesterday: Nigel Farage says Reform UK "will detain and deport absolutely anyone that comes via that route.. Yes, women and children"

Today: Nigel Farage, "Deportation of illegal immigrants, we were not even discussing women and children at this stage. The news reports who said that were wrong"

The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Patriotism is about caring for your fellow citizens – all of them, not just the ones who buy peerages. It is about decently funding our national institutions and investing in our collective futures. It involves delivering a full and enriching education for the next generation, and providing decent care and respite for the elderly and vulnerable. It’s about ensuring we have a capable and well-founded health service, a justice system that is open to all – and which applies equally to all. Patriotism is about ensuring equality of life chances, and the possibility of a home and a family. It recognises that it doesn’t matter what colour, faith, gender or sexuality you are: every person in Britain is equally British, and division demeans us all. But simply being British isn’t enough. We live on this planet with billions of other people, and we have to make it work. So patriotism is building sound and convivial relationships with our neighbours and allies. It is tackling global climate change in congress with the entire world, not seeking ways to screw our rivals and condemn our grandkids to a terrifying heat death. Patriotism is about crushing corruption and fostering decency, rather than the other way around. Those things are patriotic. Not flags. Fuck your flags. Flags are just the wrapping paper around those things, and nothing more. Yet increasingly they’re wrapped around a hollowed-out nation.

Wrote this about flags and patriotism in 2021 (in The Decade In Tory). Stand by every word now.

🚨An important reminder of the trauma faced by asylum seekers.

Not just in fleeing persecution abroad.

Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores.

But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.

Zoe Gardner: asylum seekers should be able to work while their claims are processed. Yes!

It was the last Lab govt that removed their right to work, talked about bogus asylum seekers swamping our schools, introduced vouchers & opened Yarls Wood. And here we are #GMB

jrb-84.bsky.social. For now deactivated but I don’t know if that was the troll’s choice or not, so they may come back.

@skbeerfestival.bsky.social @stymiesi.bsky.social @bridewell.bsky.social @pilotbeer.co.uk @beersmanchester.bsky.social @salfordbeerfest.bsky.social You might want to look at the account that is trolling people who've raised legitimate concerns relating to behaviour at beer festivals.

OK, one of those accounts I vaguely know and they have now unfollowed since I pointed it out. Most of the others are probably the same - accounts that auto follow back or do it because they have mutuals. I suggests those accounts take a look at who they are following, I'll tag them in a reply.

They are following 65 accounts I think, only 15 follow them. But that is 15 too many for the reasons you’ve given

This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper.
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Given everything that has happened on Twitter/X in the last 2 years it is astonishing that the govt hasn’t even reviewed its use of the platform

NEW: Landmark decision on UK's failure to investigate Russian interference to be handed down tomorrow.

A five-year legal battle in UK and European courts comes to a head: will we finally - learn the truth about the Kremlin & the Brexit vote?

a bill from HMRC sent to Andrea for almost £9,594.79. Andrea never owed HMRC any tax.

Last year Andrea* received this from HMRC. £9,595 penalties for not filing a tax return

But Andrea suffered from mental health difficulties for years, earning almost no income. She owed zero tax

Over the last 5 years, 600,000 penalties have been issued to people like Andrea

Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets

What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn

Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

I welcome the govt’s embrace of rooftop solar: it's a key way to ensure new homes are truly fit for the future. However the govt must also prioritise energy efficiency and ensure the Future Homes Standard delivers genuinely zero-carbon homes—saving money now and avoiding retrofits later.

Correlation vs causation. Reform is what happens when a minor party (without even a napkin scribble of a manifesto) gets endless media coverage. Green is what happens when competent politics gets no reasonable media coverage. LDs is what happens when you pull the ladder up on graduates.

You are never going to win an argument about who should it shouldn’t make the cut with me. I would push for UBI. Sadly nobody will vote for me as supreme leader.

When will he learn that good vibes aren’t a thing at to run a fucking government. Feeling superior isn’t enough. You need concrete and funded ideas. Fucking hell, what a prick.

You know well that the change has caused a huge uptick in pension credit applications. So money has been targetted to those that need it. I’m all for UBI but don’t pretend than every pensioner *needs* a few hundred quid. Entirely disingenuous and doesn’t help your cause.

3 from Herts - all reform councillors. The meeting times are planned well in advance - I suspect most weren’t expecting to make it!

Boris Johnson 2019: police funding is being "spaffed up the wall" investigating historic child abuse.

Boris Johnson 2025: “I don't know why we don't have a national inquiry [into the grooming gangs]…”

From the party of cash saving we bring you: hugely expensive by-elections because our candidates are clueless.