Bratters

An article “More than one million foreign nationals are receiving benefits” (March 17, 2025) referred to the number of “foreign nationals” receiving benefits, and gave the rate of benefit claims for various nationalities. In fact, the particular DWP data on which the article was based recorded the nationality of claimants when registering for a National Insurance number, rather than the nationality at the time they were claiming benefits, so that some claimants might have since acquired UK citizenship, and would not be foreign nationals at the time they were claiming benefits. This correction has been published following an upheld ruling by the Independent Press Standards Organisation. Advertisement

Fully *one year later*, the Telegraph has been forced (by @ipso.co.uk) to admit that it was lying about foreign nationals claiming benefits.

Would this be the same Iran conflict Kemi Badenoch has just spent an entire week calling Keir Starmer a coward for not wanting to join?

Auditor for collapsed £2bn shadow bank had just two employees.

Yet authorised to conduct audits.

No transparency about the conduct of audit.

At BHS, PwC partner was budgeted to spend two hours on audit, 31 hours on consultancy. Collapse exposed botched audits.

No reforms.
archive.ph/9XJUM

Petrol forecourts 'profiteering' as fuel prices jump nearly 9p a litre Lib Dems urge watchdogs to warn fuel giants that they could be on the hook for hefty fines 'if they are found to be ripping off consumers'

Petrol forecourts 'profiteering' as fuel prices jump nearly 9p a litre.

Opportunistic profiteering

Companies quick to increase prices, slow to bring them down.

Govt must act. Also clawback excess profits through windfall taxes.

How democratic is the UK? The UK has a crisis of democracy

Who voted for this?

Water companies dump sewage in rivers. Execs get bonuses for destructive practices. Shareholders got £85.2bn in dividends.

6.17m people in England await 7.29m hospital appointments. 300,000 a year die prematurely.

Policies made to appease corporations and super rich.

When Brexit was slammed for being an act of pure prejudice, all the Brexiters howled about ‘sovereignty’ and ‘taking back control’.
Now, the very same people howl that we should just obey Trump and put our country in the firing line.
They lied about everything. All of it. Every single part.

Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.

Mason - forever the negative source for every story.

Iran Crisis: They Wanted Sovereignty. Just Not Like This If anyone has ruined the special relationship, it's not Starmer- it's Trump

No legal basis. No clear objective. No exit. And much of Britain’s political class spent the week calling Starmer a coward for noticing.

Latest substack from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

This is almost exactly what I said would happen on yesterday’s show. The conflicting & contradictory reasons given for the war, coupled with client journalists & pusillanimous politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, will enable him to claim ‘success’ when nothing remotely successful has happened.

Who better to accuse others of being a laughing stock than the sexually incontinent compulsive liar who can't dress himself and combs his hair with a balloon?

I would now invite you all to look at the graphic on the left and the reality of the situation and ask you to join me in laughing your head off.

Dubai influencers share near-identical videos with footage of Dubai crown prince | LBC Videos featuring the caption ‘I know who protects us’ have been circulating on social media

I had no idea until this all started that the UAE licences and pays many influencers to live there and write positively about the regime.

That puts a whole new spin on things.

Propagandists in pocket of regime.

It's why all the messaging is the same.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/duba...

On the TV and radio explaining how our economic plan is working - with support on the cost of living and unlocking investment.

In an ever volatile world, we are building a modern Britain that is richer, fairer and stronger.

Britain's 'patriotic' press cheering on the latest attacks on us by a hostile foreign leader

National Trust membership was £63 ten years ago. Now it’s over £100 The charity has lost more than 119,000 members since 2023

Cover price of The Times has more than doubled from £1.40 to £3.20 over the same period.

www.thetimes.com/money/family...

Has there ever been a flimsier basis for a headline?

Many in America are saying they’ve been dragged into a war by Netanyahu. Only 21% agree with the war. Therefore, have they, the UK and others joined a war led by a man wanted for arrest by the ICC for war crimes, and whose actions the ICJ agreed made a plausible case for genocide?

Badenoch cites Trump to attack Starmer:

"The President of the United States has taken the extraordinary step of rebuking the Prime Minister... You don't need international law to say whose side you're on."

Shameful to exploit Trump's thuggery against our country.

Politics over national interest.

Any voting irregularities should be investigated. It’s a really important issue

But the idea that 4k+ votes were ‘stolen’ is Trump level nonsense

V worried British media could end up in same place as US, legitimating ‘stolen votes’ claims by parroting BS lines from Farage and Co

“Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton”
Sadiq Khan

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Kemi Badenoch, conducted herself with all the grace and decorum of a woman squatting over a cavernously deep field latrine." STEWART LEE on the right's social media excrement

New Stewart Lee column.
"The clods of filth are Badenoch's obvious and clanking attempts to attach the phrase 'paedo protectors' to the Labour government."

Pecksniff: Greens get it, but have the others lost the plot? In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

Greens win Gorton & Denton. It’s now OK to vote Green – and win * Tories slump to 1.9%. Once titans, now irrelevant * Reform officers allegedly replaced by ex-Tories. Restore delighted.

Read the acerbic scribblings of Pecksniff's Diary here ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.

Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

‘Dirty Business’: is this the whole story? Channel 4’s new series about sewage in our rivers and beaches will rightly make people angry. But it fails to recognise that things have changed already.

Yes, Thatcher’s privatisation. Yes, Blair’s deregulation. Yes, the 2010s “bonfire of red tape”. But does Channel 4’s Dirty Business ignore what’s happened since 2024? Here’s what’s changed ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

It's easy to forget that Sadiq Khan personally sets the drinks prices in every bar in London. Thank goodness Lucy is on the ball!

Tom Kerridge, "Immigration is constantly used by political parties for masking years and years of underfunding in infrastructure, health, housing, employment, education" #BBCQT

"It is not the fault of immigration, it's the fault of poor spending, poor money management"

Reform UK by-election activist suspended over posts Adam Mitula, who has been campaigning ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election, made the posts on X.

What could possibly have attracted this racist Holocaust denier to Matt Goodwin? Truly, it is a mystery..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Join us at our next press conference, when Zia Yusuf will be pretending to be the Secretary-General of the United Nations.