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Andrew Robertson
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Escaping X for lovely Blue Sky and Sunshine. Steam engines, transport books, photography. My avatar is Popeye from Lings Moonrocket at the Fairgrond Heritage Trust, Lifton in Devon.
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So Peston failed to ask

"No British government has ever revoked permanent status retrospectively. has it"

"Has ANY government done this since Idi Amin?"

"So you want to deport most nurses who aren't citizens, simply because they don't earn enough money. Do you think that is fair play?"
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again I return to the v senior political journalist who once very happily told me me that he'd never spoken to a clerk in all his years in the lobby

I still think of it often because boasting about your lack of curiosity is just......such a weird thing to do
Good thread on how a big part of the problem of British politics is big media figures with no real interest in being across the details.
Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?"

This does not look like faux naivety.
He should know the answer!

She misleads in her answer to him.
So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.
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New Reform MP and former Tory Danny Kruger says the police in England and Wales would lose ‘operational independence’ and be put under the control of any Reform government. This is how MAGA fascism creeps in.
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Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?"

This does not look like faux naivety.
He should know the answer!

She misleads in her answer to him.
So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.
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The more I think about her actual words, and how appallingly under-reported/understood they still seem to be, the more shocked & disgusted I am.
Given Lam's appalling comments, the UK government needs to make it free for those with permanent leave to remain to obtain British citizenship, to promote people making the change, and to make it quicker.

They need to do that to remove understandable anxiety.
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1) Also, the ‘health’ surcharge isn’t. It’s not hypothecated revenue
2) It’s upfront not PAYE (outsiders often surprised by that)
3) You can’t ‘go private’ instead of paying it
4) This is part of why moving ILR qualification from 5 to 10 years is also a money spinner on.ft.com/4oyDMnB
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"As it turned out, she was texting me about a criminal case she is pursuing against one of the president’s perceived political enemies: New York Attorney General Letitia James."

"Over the next 33 hours, Halligan texted me again.

And again.

And again.

And again."
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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Wait, the guy who acted as Andrew Tate's lawyer/hype man, and who was also accused of cancelling a female colleague's hotel reservation so she had to stay in his room... also admits he has "a Nazi streak" in him? How... unsurprising.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

www.npr.org/2025/05/30/n...
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The man emits divorced energy like radiation. Read too many of his posts and you pick up an ex-spouse just through contact.
Someone please nominate this two-sentence short story for a Nebula.
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Seems a long way to go to give Melania an excuse not to live there for a while but sure, I guess.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
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the real story of Elon Musk is the story of every person who has had the man's metaphorical balls in a vice and then backed off, this latest case being but a minor entry in this lengthy and ignominious genre
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Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this
A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported
Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’
www.theguardian.com
It's going to be a tacky theme park Versailles.
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The executive has rather awesome powers in emergencies. If you then give the executive "great deference" in judging what constitutes emergencies and how to use those powers - to the extent that protesters in chicken costumes require the internal use of a federalized military...
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Now it's the White House, next the American Constitution.
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What about free speech? I thought Farage is all about free speech. Clearly he thinks some UK citizens shouldn’t have their own opinions
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Is what Zack Polanski and Green candidates in wobbly Labour seats are asking
If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?
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Sounds like the sort of person who would never get involved in fraudulently buying a house in Clacton to avoid tax.
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Which Im pretty sure is a massive Anti-Deficiency Act violation all around as the ADA specifically provisions for "you can't just solicit donations to supplement your appropriation if Congress didn't give you money/say you could to begin with".
It's a criminal fucking felony under 31 U.S.C. § 1350!
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The @libdems.org.uk and I have written to the Conservative leader urging her to condemn the comments by one of her MPs who said large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported
Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’
www.theguardian.com
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every documentary about Trump ever made is going to use the image of him literally tearing the White House apart
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
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I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
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Compare Trump’s (unusual) level of empathy for Argentina — vs. Ukraine.

@atrupar.com