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.
Greens: Here are the things we stand for please vote for us.
Voters: OK ✅
Matt Goodwin: THAT'S CHEATING
If you want to see what the UK would look like under Reform, look to the USA.
Reform UK has today unveiled Donald Trump-style ICE plans.
In the meantime UK news shows continue to fail to call out Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s completely untrue claims.
If UK media can’t get the job done let’s do it ourselves
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
But it's not "a cheap stunt."
Farage won't have flown economy, or alone and if there was "an aid boat" that will have cost money too.
It's expensive flying to the Maldives.
Where did he stay?
How long is he staying?
How much did it cost?
Who picked up the tab?
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
If you have a Royal Family, you have deference.
If you have a Royal Family, you have a class system.
If you have a RF, you essentially say, "These people are better than everyone else by dint of birth & should maintain enormous influence, wealth and power."
Why would anyone want that at all?
At this very moment both the BBC News and Sky News channels are yet again showing a live speech by Nigel Farage. When will they start showing every speech by @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @eddavey.libdems.org.uk live as well?
Read and share all over..he nails it
It's the world view of rich white men who employ nannies and send their kids to boarding school
Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Johnson partied as pensioners died alone. Why didn't Johnson get this pressure to resign. Farage appointed a Russian Agent as the leader of Reform UK in Wales. Why doesn't Farage get this pressure to resign The answer is the Tory Press.
Very good from @verybrexitproblems.bsky.social
God Farage is a bore. He voted against improving workers’ rights. He doesn’t want us to have control over our lives. He demands that we live within the stifling confines of his stale old prejudices and resentments.
Fewer rights. Less protection. More exploitation.
That’s his plan for the rest of us.
List of Tory scandals between 2011-2024
A reminder to the media and others trying to claim this Government and Starmer are worse than anything they've ever seen, a Government which has only been in power for 19 months. Here's a handly list of the scandals we had to endure from the Tories between 2011-2024.
It's not been a good week for Reform.
Here are some of the disastrous headlines they have had across many councils they run - in just the last few days!
The last story is one you don't want to miss...
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Vive la France!
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
For every Reform voter.
Remember when the Tories were fvcking everyone over including you, and you believed that only Farage could save you?
Well, now he’s the leader of the new Tory party. The same party that wrecked the country for 14 long years.
Let’s see how that works out for you.
Of course Suella Braverman has joined Reform.
Reform is the last refuge for disgraced failed Tories, it is the political equivalent of fly tipping.
If the UK media now do not apply equal harsh measures to Nigel Farage than they did to Angela Raynor, then they are complicit in
a) a Mysoginist narrative where men are forgiven and women 'should have known better' and
b) are actively saying they are okay with Farage in charge.
All of this 👌👌👌
Never forget the most ironclad rule of politics:
Every abuse you justify against another will be weaponized against you in time.
To cheer abuse, violence, or the suspension of others’ rights is to cheer the abuse, violence, and suspension of your own.
At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater need for citizen journalism
Who funds us? No one...except you. Become a friends of Bylines supporter:
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X’s UK revenue dropped by 60% over the past year as advertisers withdraw. But what sort of companies remain using a site that now makes income from child porn and the sexualising of people’s images without consent?
No one should wait for Ofcom. Now is the time to leave X.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your desire to have a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, endless cups of tea, a riveting novel, a plate of freshly-baked emotional support scones, and a bookshelf with a rolling ladder doesn’t make you “too needy."
Nigel Farage confirms that Reform UK will vote *against* the bill to lift the two child cap, keeping hundreds of thousands of children in poverty.
The Lie of the Land: who really cares for the countryside?
Shrubsole's book 'The lie of the land' provides a compelling catalogue of the loss of Britain’s natural environment
westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/environ...
The weirdest thing about Americans is how many of them think their laws apply to every person in the world.
But they're certain other countries' laws don't apply to them.
