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Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 4h

Hoping they will pick this up soon.

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Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 4h

😂

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Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 4h

No but I’m going to watch it.

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Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 6h

This is a must read. Journalists should be asking Farage questions about his involvement with Nathan Gill and Russia. Something isn’t adding up.

#Farage

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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 3d

Britain isn’t broken. Farage just loves talking our great country down.

Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 3d

Loving Natasha Clark’s positive spin on Kemi Badenoch’s speech while James OB listens in disbelief. Her speech was bloody awful! 😂

Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 3d

Facts @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) mobility component. Eligibility is not based on ADHD itself, but on meeting the criteria for these specific benefits, which require demonstrating that you have a severe walking disability

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 3d

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 3d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 3d

This is an easy to read tracker of where the Labour government are in delivering its manifesto. I think it’s around 57 of the 83 pledges in total either delivered or in progress or on track. 🌹

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Government Tracker – Full Fact

Full Fact is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises

fullfact.org

Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 3d

Brexit really is the gift that keeps on giving 😬

#Brexit

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

EU steel tariff hike threatens 'biggest crisis' for UK industry

The EU is the destination for 78% of steel products made in the UK for overseas markets.

www.bbc.co.uk

Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 4d

About time 🔥

#Reform

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Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally

Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

www.theguardian.com

Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 5d

👏

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 7d

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 5d

Yup.

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 5d

if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future

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Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 5d

The rancid GB “news” channel needs to be shut down.

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GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including 'paedos' in breach of Ofcom code

A GB News presenter saying “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom said.

pressgazette.co.uk

Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Brexit 🙄

#BrexitReality

www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

EU entry-exit system: Czechs join exclusive club of nations ready from day one

Exclusive: Authorities in Prague urge British travellers to ‘be prepared, be patient’

www.independent.co.uk

Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 5d

“Concerned citizens” alert 🚨

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Epping hotel protesters jailed for violent disorder - BBC News

The three men were "motivated by hostilities" towards asylum seekers, a court is told.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 5d

The Tories have yet to take ownership of their 14 yrs of austerity yet alone apologise to the public. They inflicted Boris Johnson on us and then Liz Truss. She tanked the economy and added hundreds of pounds a month onto mortgages. Never trust a Tory.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5d

Tories tout £47bn in spending cuts in bid to reclaim fiscal reputation on.ft.com/4nFRFjM

Tories tout £47bn in spending cuts in bid to reclaim fiscal reputation

Shadow chancellor says he will target welfare spending, overseas aid budget and civil service staffing to find savings

on.ft.com

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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 6d

Billy Bragg has started a ‘reclaim the lampposts’ campaign and is happy to supply these stickers for you to attach to lampposts with flags on. If you want to call the Xenophobes out then send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Billy Bragg at Bragg Office PO Box 6830, Bridport DT6 9BH

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 7d

Lucky for Nigel Farage that he never met that bloke who took bribes from the Russians, otherwise the media would be all over it.

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Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 6d

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

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Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 6d

The Tories are irrelevant and also unelectable.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Conservatives pledge to remove 750,000 migrants under borders plan

The party unveils new policies on illegal migration as its annual conference begins in Manchester.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Christina @christiiiiiinax.bsky.social · 7d

This is a must read. Facts matter.

#ECHR

Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 7d

Explainer: Does the European Convention on Human Rights really stop foreign criminals being removed from the UK? Hardly!

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Explainer: Does the European Convention on Human Rights stop foreign criminals being removed from the UK? - UK in a changing Europe

Joelle Grogan, Alice Donald and Victoria Adelman examine the relationship between the ECHR and immigration law.

ukandeu.ac.uk

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 7d

A hideous, and for traumatised British Jews profoundly unhelpful, expression of allyship & agreement with a violent, racist, serial criminal & former member of an avowedly anti-Semitic organisation from the *Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs* and so, as Sunder says, the Israeli government. 1/3

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8d

Trump has shuttered the office responsible for providing oversight of his activities, separate from the ongoing shutdown. The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE),

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 9d

The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.

The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism

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There is a more pressing issue. Ministers must ensure that the vast numbers of immigrants who arrived in the so-called Boriswave of 2020-21 are not automatically absorbed into the permanent population. They are about to cross the the five-year threshold into ILR, yet Labour continues to dither. Ms Mahmood must freeze the status of this huge cohort while a new residency regime is finalised. A million or more extra permanent residents in these islands, let in on the nod, is simply unacceptable. Finally, the home secretary must acquaint herself, and the public, with an accurate estimate of the actual number of foreign nationals living here, what taxes they pay and what services they consume. Without hard data, all the political parties are fumbling around in the dark.

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