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Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 2h

'Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in.'
When you say things like that, we get scenes like this.

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Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 18h

This is the result of Farage and Jenrick’s far-right, divisive rhetoric. Hard working, responsible people feeling afraid for their future.
Disgraceful.

Doncaster chippy owner 'scared for his children' after vandalism - BBC News

Poseidon's Fish Bar had the word "England" painted on its front, says Iraqi-born owner Darin Ahmed.

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Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 3h

Spot on.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14h

Given Kemi Badenoch has supposedly renounced Trussonomics, there’s an awful lot of multi-billion pound tax giveaways, predicated on *extremely* optimistic cuts and savings.

Almost as if she knows she’s never going to have to try to actually deliver any of this.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 14h

So Badenoch’s a Blair fan?

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15h

"We used to ring up our GP and get an appointment on the same day," says Kemi Badenoch. She does not add: we're all looking for the guy who did this!

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Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 3h

Right!

Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 3h

Jenrick wants to judge a whole city by the colour and not the character of its residents.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14h

Kemi Badneoch ends her speech by saying she stands for a country "where people are judged by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin"

Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 3h

'"Entrenched" wealth gaps mean that who your parents are - rather than how hard you work - has grown in importance in shaping living standards over a lifetime, the foundation said, with families who already have assets benefiting disproportionately from Britain's wealth boom.'

Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 11h

Ways to Get Rich in the UK (2025 Edition)

1⃣ Be born into a rich family
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Inequality is obscene and becoming more and more entrenched. We need a #WealthTax.
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Almost impossible for Brits to work their way to being rich, says report | LBC

The average worker would need to toil away and bring in more than a lifetime's worth of earnings in order to become wealthy, according to analysis by a think tank.

www.lbc.co.uk

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Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 3h

I mean really? Poland never left the EU so of course they are growing twice as fast as we are!

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 1d

Make no mistake - not one defection to Reform is about policy or leadership. It’s about hanging on for all it’s worth to the prospect of a job. These defectors - no matter which party they are coming from - have all the fvcking morals and principles of an alley cat!

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Politics latest: 20 Tory councillors defect to Reform - as Jenrick defends 'didn't see another white face' comment

20 Tory councillors have announced they are defecting to Reform today. It comes on day three of the Conservatives' annual conference in Manchester. Meanwhile, shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick h...

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Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 1d

When public servants make "private" comments they haven't realised that they are no longer private citizens.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

Regardless of how private or thoughtfully you say racist things, they still remain racist and it’s right to be called out on them.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Shadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case."

And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

Heseltine at the Tory conf:

"Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

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Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 1d

So, the journalist is the problem not what he said.

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

This is what the far right do when confronted with their toxic hate .. they respond in feigned outrage repeating learned rhetoric while ensuring the person questioning them can’t get a word in edgeways so it looks like they’ve won

You see it from Trump, Farage, Tice, Tommy Robinson - It’s textbook

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 1d

When you're not in anyone's tent any more, you become the lions' chew toy.

We would have no worries as EU members.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 1d

He said those words so what else are the papers supposed to report?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

Dan thinks Jenrick's words have been outrageously misinterpreted. And yet other Tories like Mel Stride and Andy Street are distancing themselves from Jenrick.

There is nothing wrong with Pippa's summary.

Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 1d

'But Jenrick's remarks show that we are, in 2025 in an even worse place. The comments are a symptom of a new cult of ethno-nationalism, imported from the USA and supercharged by bad actors in social media.'

Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 1d

How refreshing to read a politician who is not afraid to say what might cause DM readers outrage.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“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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Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 1d

If only this type of view was typical. Imagine the strength in that unity to hold MSM and politicians to account.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet

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Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 1d

'It was vile and mendacious for the BBC to suggest that, when he talked about the colour of people’s skin, he was making a point about race. Perhaps he’d just been saying it would be a bad place to open a tanning salon.'

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

"The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something." Absolutely fantastic sketch by @roberthutton.co.uk. Every line is a banger:

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting…

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Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 1d

'After the BBC had played that recording to Jenrick, he complained that they had cut off the final part where, after complaining about the lack of white faces in Handsworth, he explained that he wasn’t making a point about skin colour.'

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

"The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something." Absolutely fantastic sketch by @roberthutton.co.uk. Every line is a banger:

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting…

thecritic.co.uk

Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 1d

'Badenoch, characteristically, told everyone that you couldn’t believe anything you read in the Guardian. The only way that this would make her look stupid was if there was a recording of Jenrick saying the words, clear as a bell.'

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

"The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something." Absolutely fantastic sketch by @roberthutton.co.uk. Every line is a banger:

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting…

thecritic.co.uk

Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 1d

"I am actually in a very good position to know what I alone think" is what she should have said since I'm pretty sure black people don't all think the same way.

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 1d

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

If only someone had warned us that leaving the world’s biggest single market might make us vulnerable to, you know, markets.

But we wanted to “take back control.”

Congratulations - we’ve taken it all the way back to the 1970s.

British steel faces 'biggest crisis in its history as EU imposes 50%
tariffs
The European Union has said it has no choice but to protect its own industry from a glut of cheap Asian steel diverted to the continent by President Trump's tariffs

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