Glostermeteor 🔶
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A refugee from Twitter, now stupidly known as X. If you ban my right to reply to your posts then there is zero point me viewing your posts (block). I support Palestine action. #BollocksToBrexit #NoToAgeVerificationAndMassSurveillance #USEAVPN
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Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
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Sadly ironic that the only thing likely to force Blue Labour to change tack would be a realisation that Reform-lite Labour will *not* be the party we all end up giving our anti-Reform tactical votes.
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Sadly ironic that the only thing likely to force Blue Labour to change tack would be a realisation that Reform-lite Labour will *not* be the party we all end up giving our anti-Reform tactical votes.
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This is how the Mail has covered a 70% fall in net migration.
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is how the Mail has covered a 70% fall in net migration.
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
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Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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The problem with center-left parties embracing xenophobic politics is that they are a race to the bottom. There is no point at which the racists that you are pandering to will be okay with the level of immigration. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
The British Public Thinks Immigration Is Up. It’s Actually Down, Sharply.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The problem with center-left parties embracing xenophobic politics is that they are a race to the bottom. There is no point at which the racists that you are pandering to will be okay with the level of immigration. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
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And don't say "they use the same local services". Council tax is only slightly about local services. Mostly it's funding social care.
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
And don't say "they use the same local services". Council tax is only slightly about local services. Mostly it's funding social care.
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OBR commentary on the budget:
"The implementation of digital ID cards is provisionally forecast to cost £1.8 billion in total over the next three years".
Govt says the cost will be met from existing departmental budgets.
Which services will be cut? Will the budget overrun?
obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
"The implementation of digital ID cards is provisionally forecast to cost £1.8 billion in total over the next three years".
Govt says the cost will be met from existing departmental budgets.
Which services will be cut? Will the budget overrun?
obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
obr.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
OBR commentary on the budget:
"The implementation of digital ID cards is provisionally forecast to cost £1.8 billion in total over the next three years".
Govt says the cost will be met from existing departmental budgets.
Which services will be cut? Will the budget overrun?
obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
"The implementation of digital ID cards is provisionally forecast to cost £1.8 billion in total over the next three years".
Govt says the cost will be met from existing departmental budgets.
Which services will be cut? Will the budget overrun?
obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
Another cave from Labour. Seriously when are these people going to learn? Stop promising shit to get votes and then not deliver.
I just don't understand this. Businesses protested they WANT to be able to unfairly dismiss people for being black, gay, trans or pregnant, so Labour are letting them do so so long as it's in the first six months?!
Labour ditches day-one protection from unfair dismissal in U-turn
The right will now be introduced after six months, in a breach of Labour's election manifesto.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Another cave from Labour. Seriously when are these people going to learn? Stop promising shit to get votes and then not deliver.
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'Risks?'
It's as if Labour have used the Tory downfall as a blueprint for the end of the Labour Party.
It's as if they don't understand that Brexit ended the Tories, and it'll do exactly the same to anyone who pretends Brexit can be made to work.
It's as if Labour have used the Tory downfall as a blueprint for the end of the Labour Party.
It's as if they don't understand that Brexit ended the Tories, and it'll do exactly the same to anyone who pretends Brexit can be made to work.
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
'Risks?'
It's as if Labour have used the Tory downfall as a blueprint for the end of the Labour Party.
It's as if they don't understand that Brexit ended the Tories, and it'll do exactly the same to anyone who pretends Brexit can be made to work.
It's as if Labour have used the Tory downfall as a blueprint for the end of the Labour Party.
It's as if they don't understand that Brexit ended the Tories, and it'll do exactly the same to anyone who pretends Brexit can be made to work.
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"From Thatcher to Brexit, the Tories’ war on Europe turned a political colossus into a crippled party.
Labour risks repeating the same mistake."
Labour risks repeating the same mistake."
How Europhobia crushed Tories, and why Labour must beware
From Thatcher to Brexit, the Tories’ war on Europe turned a political colossus into a crippled party. Labour risks repeating the same mistake
bylines.scot
November 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"From Thatcher to Brexit, the Tories’ war on Europe turned a political colossus into a crippled party.
Labour risks repeating the same mistake."
Labour risks repeating the same mistake."
Absolute fucking morons. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Government to ditch day-one unfair dismissal policy from workers’ rights bill
Flagship Labour plan to be replaced with six-month threshold after Peter Kyle vows to not let businesses ‘lose’ under new law
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Absolute fucking morons. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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Tory immigration policy - ruinous, prejudiced madness.
Tory Brexit ideology - ruinous, prejudiced madness.
Why Labour is killing itself and the country to try to soothe the unsoothable rightwing media is beyond me. Tell the goddam truth. Publish the damage. Only then can you start to fix it.
Tory Brexit ideology - ruinous, prejudiced madness.
Why Labour is killing itself and the country to try to soothe the unsoothable rightwing media is beyond me. Tell the goddam truth. Publish the damage. Only then can you start to fix it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Tory immigration policy - ruinous, prejudiced madness.
Tory Brexit ideology - ruinous, prejudiced madness.
Why Labour is killing itself and the country to try to soothe the unsoothable rightwing media is beyond me. Tell the goddam truth. Publish the damage. Only then can you start to fix it.
Tory Brexit ideology - ruinous, prejudiced madness.
Why Labour is killing itself and the country to try to soothe the unsoothable rightwing media is beyond me. Tell the goddam truth. Publish the damage. Only then can you start to fix it.
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BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
BBC presenters and journalists have been told they cannot quote a line removed from its prestigious annual lecture, in which a Dutch writer accused Donald Trump of being “the most openly corrupt president in American history”.
Rutger Bregman accused the BBC of cowardice after the decision to remove the line from the first of his Reith Lectures, which he was invited to give by the corporation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
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there's that famous left wing bias again.
this is not neutrality.
this is not neutrality.
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
BBC presenters and journalists have been told they cannot quote a line removed from its prestigious annual lecture, in which a Dutch writer accused Donald Trump of being “the most openly corrupt president in American history”.
Rutger Bregman accused the BBC of cowardice after the decision to remove the line from the first of his Reith Lectures, which he was invited to give by the corporation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
there's that famous left wing bias again.
this is not neutrality.
this is not neutrality.
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- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
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Incompetent
Rachel Reeves is asked about how the 3p a mile electric vehicle charge will work for new cars, when they don't have to have an MOT for 3 years. So who will monitor the mileage in order to calculate the tax owed during that period?
Reeves doesn't know.
Reeves doesn't know.
November 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Incompetent
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The Labour government has been so busy telling people that immigration has caused "incalculable damage" and that people on settlement pathways don't deserve it, that they've forgotten to tell the public that immigration levels have dramatically fallen under them. Oops!
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The Labour government has been so busy telling people that immigration has caused "incalculable damage" and that people on settlement pathways don't deserve it, that they've forgotten to tell the public that immigration levels have dramatically fallen under them. Oops!
Govt says it wants to fund state schools properly and then does this. inews.co.uk/news/educati...
Every state school child faces funding cut to pay for SEND provision
Parents are worried there is not enough money for the upcoming SEND reforms to be effective as Budget shakes up funding system
inews.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Govt says it wants to fund state schools properly and then does this. inews.co.uk/news/educati...
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🚨BREXIT BUDGET🚨
Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal."
"Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."
Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal."
"Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🚨BREXIT BUDGET🚨
Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal."
"Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."
Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal."
"Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."
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It's all so supine and pathologically risk averse. A government trying to survive day to day, too scared to take the kindness of big decisive action which would repair the country and win an election. An unbelievable wasted opportunity.
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It's all so supine and pathologically risk averse. A government trying to survive day to day, too scared to take the kindness of big decisive action which would repair the country and win an election. An unbelievable wasted opportunity.
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New polling from European Movement UK shows that three quarters of people who see the economic damage of Brexit now back joining the Single Market and Customs Union to cut taxes and rebuild public services. The public knows the route to recovery, even if the Government refuses to face it.
New poll shows 75% favour joining single market to lower taxes
Of British adults who feel Brexit has been harmful to the UK, over 75% favour the UK joining the Single Market and Customs Union as a way to lower the tax burden and boost money for public services.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New polling from European Movement UK shows that three quarters of people who see the economic damage of Brexit now back joining the Single Market and Customs Union to cut taxes and rebuild public services. The public knows the route to recovery, even if the Government refuses to face it.
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Simply outrageous! @goodlawproject.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org Everyone has a right to a fair trial! Despairing of these attacks on anyone against the genocide which continues in Gaza! 😡💔😞
This is why the powers introduced by the Blair era govt to label anyone they dont like as terrorists is so dangerous. It means your right to a fair trial disappears. Secret courts with corrupt decision makers www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
‘Unavoidably unfair’: the secret courts system hearing part of Palestine Action case
The CMP system means Huda Ammori will not be allowed to know what allegations were made against her
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Simply outrageous! @goodlawproject.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org Everyone has a right to a fair trial! Despairing of these attacks on anyone against the genocide which continues in Gaza! 😡💔😞