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Bill removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords finally passes www.gov.uk/government/n...
“While Nige has been brown-nosing Trump with his warmongering, he’s missed that most of the country doesn’t want to follow the orange narcissist into an illegal war with no fixed objectives other than continue till The Donald gets bored”
@mrjohncrace.bsky.social
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I think we need to get real about the possibility that, for millennia, twisted assumptions about leadership have put us at the mercy of psychopaths.
A letter headed "Europe trade ties can turn our fortunes around", which was published in The Yorkshire Post on 9 March 2026. Jas Olak, Vice Chair of Leeds for Europe says Brexit has hit UK trade and the Government needs to do more to rebuild the country's economic relationship with members of the European Union.
#EuropeanUnion a great investment for Britain, Vice Chair @jazz072.bsky.social tells @yorkshirepost.co.uk: £10 back for each £1 spent
#Brexit has hit trade & deals agreed since leaving #EU won't compensate: "Is #UKLabour #Starmer doing enough to rebuild trade ties & turn economy around?"
#RejoinEU
Farage misses out on Trump meeting as their relationship cools. British populist politician aimed to reinforce his view about the UK's Chagos Islands deal in conversation with US president Reform leader Nigel Farage's failure to secure an audience with the US president underscores a weakening of ties between the two populist leaders © Ben Birchall/PA
Farage had given the impression that he expected to see Trump, telling an event hosted in opposition to UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's proposed Chagos Islands agreement with Mauritius that the president "has almost understood the deal... but I'll be dining at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow night and I will reinforce the message". But, rather than receiving a formal invite to meet Trump, Farage was in fact invited to Mar-a-Lago by a member of the club, according to multiple people briefed on the matter.
“Farage’s relationship with Trump has cooled”
Not really.
Farage’s relationship with Trump is a one-sided humiliation-fest.
Farage remains desperately needy and willing to sell us out to Trump. But Trump doesn’t see him as important right now.
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US Senator Lindsey Graham, "We're going to blow the hell out of these people"
Is this what Labour's Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper meant by defensive use of UK bases?
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.
Yes, but unfortunately too many of the press core here are cowards, interested only in self preservation or actively in support of the regime. Makes me sick.
BBC Verify has analysed verified videos and satellite imagery that show severe damage to a hospital, sporting centres, a UNESCO world heritage site and two schools since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began on Saturday, as the number of civilian casualties grows.
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Iceland to hold August 29 referendum on reviving EU membership talks. Politico, 6 March.
Remember how eurosceptics argued that if we left the EU, other countries would follow? Look how the complete opposite has happened instead...
My latest piece for the @bigissue.com is out today, on how Labour's attacks on those seeking asylum are not only inhumane, potentially illegal, and seriously counterproductive, but also politically incoherent for a party which claims to be "progressive".
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This is pretty disgraceful.
I do this all the time too!
Oh dear we only like the 'right' sort of foreign interference. This is the wrong sort. Bloody hypocrite.
Spot on ⬇️
@stellacreasy.bsky.social: "The performative cruelty of repeatedly demanding that refugees prove they are still refugees – or else face deportation – cannot be understated. It is also a waste of money given that so few refugees, when retested, will change status."
Jesus wept!
Funny that🤔
I was of exactly the same opinion. It was the start of much anxiety.
Who the hell is this guy? And what does he want as a return on his £millions invested in Reform? Because it sure as shit isn’t a fairer, more progressive, equal and prosperous UK with good public services and well-regulated consumer protections.
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This! We can accelerate towards rejoining, it is clear where our interests are, certainly not with the US.
Opinion Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won't be able to do anything else at all Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don't want extremes - they want a system that is managed and fair Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary
This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Britain told to stop being so ‘secretive’ about its Brexit reset. New report from cross-party committee of UK lawmakers says Keir Starmer is not being clear about what it’s after in its rebuilding of ties with the European Union. Politico, 4 March.
The Foreign Affairs Committee have urged ministers to publish a white paper outlining what they want the eventual relationship with the EU to look like, and also calls for the re-establishment of a dedicated European Scrutiny Committee to oversee the reset.
Reform are holding a rally in Leeds later this month…we don’t want them in our city.
I’m really happy for ex-Tory aid James Price that he has such a nice relationship with his American mother-in-law…
but frankly I don’t think that’s enough for us to be unquestioningly following Donald Trump’s America into another illegal war🤷♀️
Couldn't agree more.
At this stage it's just word salad.. or verbal diarrhea.
My much requested deep-dive into the latest immigration statistics begins!!
Part 1: What is the gender & age breakdown of asylum seekers?
Polling holds too much sway over our democracy and governance. But the G&D by-election does show that Reform’s dominance is inflated by foreign/rightwing interests, irresponsible media support and Farage’s ego.
If progressives can win despite all that, then hatred really is overpriced. Hope can win.
That's as maybe, but the Government have been hell bent on furthering our dependency on the US including it's handing over of key Defence and NHS contracts to the highly immoral Palantir. They have only themselves to blame for failing to read the room and accelerate our move away from the US.
