European Robin 🌹

🔥 Rachel Reeves admits what many businesses have been saying for years:

Brexit damaged trade, raised costs and made life harder: especially for smaller firms.

Closer alignment with the European Union isn’t ideology.

It’s economic reality.

Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes The bill abolishes the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherit their titles through their families.

The House of Lords voted today to remove its last hereditary peers after more than 800 years:

Nigel Farage Is a 'Political Fraud' Who Must Be Exposed as an 'NHS-Privatising Putin Apologist', Says TUC Leader Attendees at the Hope Not Hate event in Westminster heard that Reform now “presents a genuine threat” to the UK

Nigel Farage Is a 'Political Fraud' Who Must Be Exposed as an 'NHS-Privatising Putin Apologist', Says TUC Leader – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/02/05/n...

Days left to act: Ban cruel cages for hens Right now we have a unique opportunity to stop this industrial-scale torture: The UK government has proposed ending the use of cages for hens, and they have launched an official consultation to ask th...

Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️

The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

A reminder that Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the entire Conservative-supporting press have spent the past week lambasting Keir Starmer for not joining the Iran war.

Here's what has happened since then to public opinion

The UK declines joining the criminal US and Israel in their illegal war of aggression on Iran.

PM Keir: “Donald Trump has plunged the Middle East into chaos. We will stand by ethics, no matter the pressure.”

Tories are just negative about everything.

Oppose everything.

Complain about everything.

Pretend they are not responsible for all the failings they caysed from their 14 years in government.

They have short memories & think we do too.

But Communities Secretary put them straight!

Nigel Farage dancing with Chagos women on a boat moored to the Thames outside Parliament YouTube video by Rich Johnston

In the last three days, the Brexiters have been losing their shit because "MPs were dancing while the war in Iran was going on."

Here's Farage yesterday.

And nothing...
youtube.com/shorts/BLG7X...

Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024

Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP

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...

Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024

Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/03/05/r...

I have good news and bad news about my friend Schrödinger's Cat...

Remember this is what Badenoch and Farage believe we should be doing.

Adolf Hitler attacked Czechoslavakia without declaring war
Hitler invaded Austria without declaring war.
Hitler invaded Poland and France and the USSR without warning.
Donald Trump invaded Venezuela without warning, he attacked Iran without warning.

oranges and oranges.

Spring in Leeds at last!

Labour MPs demand Starmer change course after humiliating byelection loss Scale of defeat to Greens has plunged party into fresh despair and again raised prospect of leadership challenge

Labour MPs demand Starmer change course after humiliating by-election loss - The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: Hannah Spencer claims REMARKABLE victory for Greens in Gorton and Denton YouTube video by Manchester Evening News

Hannah Spencer made the speech we have all been waiting for from our PM. A speech he never made & the reason he is tanking in the polls.

With this one speech @greenparty.org.uk just became the party of working people. They're not perfect. But they will stop Reform.

youtu.be/m-SV-XiBd0I?...

BADENOCH "Yes we lost spectacularly badly, and these kind of results will be what my party can expect more of under my leadership."

#GortonAndDenton

I see the Tories lost their deposit last night with less than 2% of the vote. Their candidate, a nasty little shrew of a thing, whose ONLY ‘qualification’ was leading an anti-trans hatefest in the police, was universally loathed.

BadEnoch picked her this reason. This was their worst ever result.

Turns out bots can’t vote.

"I love the smell of a Reform pile-on in the morning..."

🐢💨
#GortonDentonByElection

Public ownership of water is the only way to deliver security, efficiency, investment and value for money 37 years of privatisation has been a disaster

Dirty Business- Channel 4’s exposé of England water companies shows abuse of corporate power, failed govt policies and human suffering.

It has got worse

Thames Water may pay 2024 fines in 2030 or never. Fines on others waived.

Say NO to profits B4 people.

Let companies go bankrupt. Nationalise.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Karen Newton, 65, retired admin assistant at a primary school

A valid British passport, a tourist visa and no criminal record

Handcuffed, shackled and locked up for 6 weeks, mostly sleeping on the floor

After trying to leave the US after a trip of a lifetime

- @jennykleeman.bsky.social

Hannah the Plumber, (and now plasterer) speaking truth to power after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election by a clear margin over racist Reform, putting Labour into third place and Conservatives losing their deposit.

BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election.

Congratulations!

Gorton and Denton by-election.
Greens win. 41%
ReformUK well beaten. 29%
Labour gets a wakeup call. 26%
Tories lose their deposit. 2%

Stunning and historic result in the Gordon and Denton parliamentary by-election in the UK.

The anti-genocide Green Party led by Zack Polanski has won the seat from Keir Starmer's governing Labour Party.

Nigel Farage's Reform UK and its odious candidate Matt Goodwin beaten.

Has there ever been a more graceless and divisive concession?

Showing exactly why voters in Gorton and Denton rejected him tonight

Photograph of Green party candidate Hannah Spencer taking a selfie of her along with Green Party leader Zach Polansky after she won the by election in Gorton and Denton, Manchester. along with the caption "Green Party takes Gorton and Denton from Labour in first ever Westminster by-election win".

We can now bring you the full voting tallies: Green Party - 14,980 Reform UK - 10,578 Labour Party - 9,364 Conservative Party - 706 Liberal Democrats - 653 Monster Raving Loony Party - 159 Advance UK - 154 Rejoin EU Party - 98 Libertarian Party - 47 Social Democratic Party - 46 Communist League - 29

For Europeans looking in:

- The Greens are the only party in England advocating a new EU referendum.
- Pro brexit Labour lost.
- Pro brexit, anti ECHR and right wing Reform party lost.

This might be a big moment in Britain - turning away from the far right.