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peterwalker99.bsky.social posted on Reform UK's press conference: We've had questions from three broadcasters so far, and they have all been about the practicalities and costs. None has asked about the legal/moral issue of retrospectively changing laws so huge numbers of people who have made their lives in the UK will be expelled. 11:54 23 Feb 2026

This. @peterwalker99.bsky.social here with an excellent point.

From Brexit to Rwanda, from Reform to Labour to UK media, the focus on financial aspects of policies that violate human rights & hurt the lives of innocent people seems cynical & callous & an already shift of our values.

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Same problem as w/training doctors. Increasing # of medical places at unis, only creates more bottlenecks when new doctors want to grow in their chosen fields, but arn't finding the routes to progress. Unless more training places are created post-graduation, we will be educating doctors for AU & NZ!

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

Time for constitutional reform! They can continue to play out the soap opera that is British monarchy, but their constitutional role along with exorbitant share of the public purse must end! Alongside stopping the circus of HOL appointments and FPTP. Proportional Representation + elected HOL!

ICC judge sanctioned by US urges EU to fight back Nicolas Guillou said the Trump administration’s use of sanctions undermines European democracy and called for Europe to curb reliance on American tech.

“The greatest risk to democracy is the internalization of fear,” Guillou said.

“That public decision-makers start censoring themselves & fail to apply the law as they should... that is how judicial systems typically function in authoritarian countries.”

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UK migration could be negative this year – how will that hit the economy? Universities, builders and health trusts are feeling the squeeze, as thinktank says effect of zero net migration could be similar to Brexit

"The UK is moving towards a “guest-worker approach” where immigrant workers have little chance of becoming permanent residents."
Guest-worker approach works for Swiss, where they cross the border for the day, then go back home. How is it going to work in the UK?🤔
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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

The picture alone should be enough to dissuade anybody from voting for him🤢

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.

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Playing to their target market, I suppose! Why create any expectations for your own performance when you can just slag off everybody else!

Oh, did the wrong person stray into the taxpayer-sponsored duck house territory? Shame on him! A dishevelled individual who looks "like someone who could be violent" is no match for a well turned out gobshite who is a certified crook!

Race to find source of carcinogenic Pfas in Cumbria and Lancashire waters Exclusive: High levels of banned ‘forever chemical’ have been detected in rivers and groundwater at 25 sites

A business has wrecked the environment & endangered health of innocent bystanders, then was sold on. The new owners say they made changes but are not responsible for what came before them! That's all very well, but what are ppl who can't drink their water to do?!🤬
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Plan 2 student loan interest is unfair, says Lucy Powell Deputy Labour leader says her son is in ‘egregious’ scheme under which many graduates face repayments that allow the debt to grow

Plan 2 student loan interest is unfair, says Lucy Powell

Deputy Labour leader says her son is in ‘egregious’ scheme under which many graduates face repayments that allow the debt to grow

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

Fact-checking Jim Ratcliffe's immigration and benefit claims BBC Verify has been examining some of the Manchester United owner's claims.

Why, when the BBC's own fact-checkers had shown that Ratcliff's figures were gross exaggerations, was Nigel Farage allowed to repeat them, unchallenged, in an interview broadcast on the Today programme?

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Sir Rattail really ought to stfu and crawl back under his rock. We have enough resident rodents, reptiles and amphibians to muddy our excrement-infested waters.

The stark contrast is set to raise a simple but incendiary question: who is truly paying for Britain?
Racist POS Ratcliffe, or people coming here from all over the world helping to build Britain? #UKNews

"History is women following behind with the bucket."

So Morgan McSweeney has been replaced by Jill Cuthbertson and Vidhya Alakeson. Antonia Romeo is about to take over from Chris Wormald. Steph Driver may return to fill Tim Allan's vacancy.

Sense that now there's a mess to mop up, get the women in

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The biggest problem in our society is that people were not taught to think but allowed to vote! Everything that's happening right now is down to complete ignorance of voters who were utterly failed by the education system & by politics for telling them that there is a 3-word solution to everything.

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

#Brexit and lack of understanding, care and strategic thought on the part of multiple UK govts are destroying the UK's higher education sector! Another nail in the coffin of a small island which used to punch well above its weight🤬
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Steve Bannon boasted about Farage ties in exchange with Epstein Revelation comes as image surfaces of Bannon with Matt Goodwin, candidate for Farage's Reform UK in crucial Gorton and Denton by-election

Our media rightly rages about the already-disgraced Mandelson and Andrew but wrongly fails to hold others in that murky moneyed network to account.
Our democracy is under attack from these dismal people right now. Do not be exposing that a decade too late.

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I would think that there isn't much about #Brexit that's botched. It turned out exactly as designed (perhaps, fartage et al wanted it to happen quicker, but other that that...) If Starmer keeps sitting on the fence, his tush will become very sore. He needs to grow a pair & apply to #RejoinEU!

Gosh, a public apology! Why so little? A billion pounds would be better, wouldn't it?🙄

Islam and Marxism - the most instinctive bed buddies😂

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I agree, they should just call it that. According to govt web site, though, the SLC is acting of behalf of govt, is not-for-profit and the repayments go back to the treasury. That said, the whole system is f****d! We now have lots more money paid at the top of unis for a lot poorer education options

This is income tax though, nothing to do with wealth. So, not really a blueprint for a wealth tax or anything else, apart from increasing said wealth of those on the receiving end of the extortionate interest payments.

Not really. You'll HAVE to repay the bank loan. Student debt gets written off eventually. Just view it as a graduate "tax". It's probably better for one's mental health that way.

Indeed! My daughter is graduating this year, & in addition to worrying about exams, she is stressing about post-F2 situation! And that's on top of the debt. Streeting needs to sort out the career progression business. + it is odious that extortionate interest rates are applied to the student loans.

Ditto. 100% agree! Exceptionalism of any kind has no place here!