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Policy Lead at Chartered Institute of Housing and chair of trustees for Worcester and Herefordshire Citizens Advice. Views my own.

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Labour straight up copying BNP policies yet still baffled as to why everybody hates them now

05.03.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

NEW BLOGPOST: Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty

For any MP unsure of how to vote on the government’s proposals to restrict trial by jury.

07.03.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 609 πŸ” 344 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 37
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Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

07.03.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 1766 πŸ” 476 πŸ’¬ 73 πŸ“Œ 47

Fair play to the Quakers for being seen as a threat to the English state for a solid 375 years.

07.03.2026 09:48 πŸ‘ 478 πŸ” 134 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 8
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β€˜Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they won’t β€˜just do things because of their background’

Children need their families. Refugee children are no different.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

09.02.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 517 πŸ” 202 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 6
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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧡 1/5

06.03.2026 08:53 πŸ‘ 1539 πŸ” 881 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 131
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"It's performative cruelty."

@rachelmillward.bsky.social speaks to Sky about Labour's lurch to the right on asylum policy - and why the Green Party is focused on real solutions to the cost of living instead.

06.03.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 220 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
Chart showing average real-terms gross household income from benefits among non-pensioner families, by whole-population income vigintile.

Chart showing average real-terms gross household income from benefits among non-pensioner families, by whole-population income vigintile.

Benefitting less 
Looking across the poorest half of households, average benefit income rose by Β£1,900 a year in real terms between 1995 and 2010, before falling by Β£1,600 between 2010 and 2024.

Benefitting less Looking across the poorest half of households, average benefit income rose by Β£1,900 a year in real terms between 1995 and 2010, before falling by Β£1,600 between 2010 and 2024.

Benefitting less?

The richer half of the country actually saw a bigger proportional increase in their benefit income (of 14 per cent) than the poorer half (of 4 per cent) over the past three decades, and the bottom quartile experienced a real terms fall in benefit income (of 13 per cent).

06.03.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what any sensible politician should be saying in the face of Labour's hostile policies against those seeking safety. Home Secretary, and others in Labour, have flat out lied today, and previously. They've lied about those seeking asylum, migrants in general and those defending their rights.

05.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 176 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Abolish the Home Office

05.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) begins her remarks to Noem with:

"There's an old adage that states, 'There are no bad dogs, just bad owners.'"

😬

04.03.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 702 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 16
Screenshot of an X post by Senator Tom Cotton saying Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years and that the president was right to act. Below is a Fox News segment with Cotton speaking while footage labeled β€œU.S. Central Command – Unclassified” shows a strike.

Screenshot of an X post by Senator Tom Cotton saying Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years and that the president was right to act. Below is a Fox News segment with Cotton speaking while footage labeled β€œU.S. Central Command – Unclassified” shows a strike.

β€œImminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

04.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 12378 πŸ” 2119 πŸ’¬ 949 πŸ“Œ 192

This is the point about Labour introducing retrospective changes to the immigration system. They set the precedent for any Govt. to say that they can go back on promises to migrants and people of colour as far back as they want.

04.03.2026 12:24 πŸ‘ 191 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2
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Spanish PM SΓ‘nchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

04.03.2026 11:24 πŸ‘ 8347 πŸ” 2882 πŸ’¬ 201 πŸ“Œ 450
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Alex Pretti and RenΓ©e Good were murdered by federal agents. Soon after, Secretary Noem labeled them 'domestic terrorists.’

I gave her the chance to recant and apologize for the pain she's caused their families with these outrageous lies. She refused.

04.03.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 3616 πŸ” 1178 πŸ’¬ 221 πŸ“Œ 66
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Habeas corpus writ not to be used to challenge bail conditions - Free Movement In a very firm judgment in a case called R (On the Application Of CHK) v Secretary of State for the Home Department EWCA Civ 207, the Court of Appeal

From yesterday: Habeas corpus writ not to be used to challenge bail conditions | Colin Yeo

04.03.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The far-right content creator Shabana Mahmood is providing exclusive content for GB News.

02.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 74 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 64
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Can we extract the Reform nonsense from Labour? These immigration proposals are obscene, but the government can be forced to think again.

No administration with a moral core would have put these plans forward, let alone try to enact them without a vote. Once these proposals are in place, they will not be reversed. Make them think again iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

02.03.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 257 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have β€˜voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

02.03.2026 07:57 πŸ‘ 5333 πŸ” 1147 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 21

There’s something deeply odd about how β€œthe Greens are just the same as Reform” is treated as obviously true by so many within Labour when no one else believes this - and evidence no one believes this is not hard to find

28.02.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 330 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 2

The irony of the party which is actively campaigning on scrapping the Equality Act and pushed a candidate who has, repeatedly, stated some fairly significant misogynistic ideas is trying to claim that "family voting" swayed the election. This is what they want, for men to control households.

27.02.2026 09:55 πŸ‘ 154 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1

This. So much.

27.02.2026 10:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Our party has just come third in Gorton and Denton, a previously safe Labour seat - an area where we haven't lost an election since 1931.

It is those running our party who are to blame. We need change at the top and serious lessons need to be learnt:

27.02.2026 07:38 πŸ‘ 979 πŸ” 196 πŸ’¬ 179 πŸ“Œ 92

Be more Labour!
@unitesharon.bsky.social on #GortonandDenton ⏬

27.02.2026 08:23 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

they must have been very large families, mustn't they

27.02.2026 04:33 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m sure that β€˜We will ensure you can be sacked and/or evicted at a whim’ will be a huge vote winner.

Nice of Tice to highlight this Govt’s achievements, when the Govt has been reluctant to do so.

23.02.2026 22:55 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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'Climate action is common sense and our duty to our children and future generations' AS a Green councillor in Worcester, I am alarmed by Reform UK’s claim that net zero is a β€œwaste of money” and by Conservative politicians who…

Councillor @karenlewing.bsky.social has a vital letter in today’s Worcester News on the danger of ignoring action on climate and the risk it poses to our communities:

www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2587391...

23.02.2026 12:07 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Churches need to come out against these proposals massively.

23.02.2026 12:20 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am so ANGRY watching this Reform press conference. How can we just let them get away with saying they will deport "hundreds of thousands" of people here "illegally" and in the same breath say that they will make it illegal to simply be here. These policies are horrifically racist and DANGEROUS.

23.02.2026 12:19 πŸ‘ 160 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Nearly 100k people have joined our call to get dangerous US spy tech firm out of our NHS.

Palantir's founder has called for the NHS to be ripped up. Now his company has access to millions of patient records.

Tell the government to end the contract!

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

19.02.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 1278 πŸ” 660 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 19