Jonathan
@callimachus05.bsky.social
Classicist and Lawyer. Staunchly anti-Brexit 🇪🇺. Time for PR (2 party politics are obsolete).
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Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he is not comfortable with the prospect of families with children being deported - but insists it is the 'right thing' to do.
Appalling
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Appalling
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Wes Streeting admits he is not comfortable deporting kids under new asylum plan
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he is not comfortable with the prospect of families with children being deported following a backlash - but insisted it is the 'right thing' to do
www.mirror.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he is not comfortable with the prospect of families with children being deported - but insists it is the 'right thing' to do.
Appalling
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Appalling
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Everything is the fault of foreigners, everything can be fixed by penalising foreigners. To call them Little Englanders is generous and euphemistic.
Reform’s £25bn p/a savings plan. A theme emerges:
- ending foreign aid
- increase immigration health surcharge paid by foreigners
- deport foreign criminals
- end UC payments to foreign nationals
- ending foreign aid
- increase immigration health surcharge paid by foreigners
- deport foreign criminals
- end UC payments to foreign nationals
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Everything is the fault of foreigners, everything can be fixed by penalising foreigners. To call them Little Englanders is generous and euphemistic.
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Nigel Farage has been accused of risking a trade war with Europe over plans to strip European Union citizens for claiming benefits in the UK
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Reform UK 'risking trade war' with plan to strip EU citizens of benefits
Labour claimed Reform UK's move to strip Universal Credit payments would lead to a trade war between the UK and Brussels - pushing up prices on the shelves for British shoppers
www.mirror.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Nigel Farage has been accused of risking a trade war with Europe over plans to strip European Union citizens for claiming benefits in the UK
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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As Labour proposes limiting the protection of the ECHR, we must remember what it was set up to do; protect us all from abuses of power by our govts.
Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next?
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...
Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next?
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...
Why we - and the Home Secretary - disapply the ECHR at our peril
By Jessica Frank-Keyes
bestforbritain.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As Labour proposes limiting the protection of the ECHR, we must remember what it was set up to do; protect us all from abuses of power by our govts.
Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next?
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...
Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next?
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...
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Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
When is this government going to acknowledge that it has nothing to offer, that it is not up to the job, that there is no question to which it is the answer?
November 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
When is this government going to acknowledge that it has nothing to offer, that it is not up to the job, that there is no question to which it is the answer?
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Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
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Remember when they insisted that Starmer's 'island of strangers' speech was a mis-step or just misunderstood? They were wrong.
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Remember when they insisted that Starmer's 'island of strangers' speech was a mis-step or just misunderstood? They were wrong.
Beginning to wonder if Brexit-Labour has anything more to offer. There is certainly not much legislation to show for its tenure so far. Just lots of raised taxes, Reform style rhetoric, plot conspiracy, likely to be missed targets (housing, growth …). Not sure this is the desired “Change”.
November 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Beginning to wonder if Brexit-Labour has anything more to offer. There is certainly not much legislation to show for its tenure so far. Just lots of raised taxes, Reform style rhetoric, plot conspiracy, likely to be missed targets (housing, growth …). Not sure this is the desired “Change”.
Astonishing to see Brexit-Labour once again devoting time, energy and resources to tackling a Reform agenda at the expense of almost everything else. Reform voters will want the “real thing” (Farage). Labour’s base will rightly look elsewhere.
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Astonishing to see Brexit-Labour once again devoting time, energy and resources to tackling a Reform agenda at the expense of almost everything else. Reform voters will want the “real thing” (Farage). Labour’s base will rightly look elsewhere.
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Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
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Congratulations to whatever party this Government is.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Congratulations to whatever party this Government is.
Anyone else out there wanting up see the back of this dismal Labour government? Across the range (fiscal competence/tax, Brexit, green policies) it has absolutely nothing to offer to the centre-left voter. On immigration/protest it is another RW rump eager to appeal to Reform voters and failing.
Scrapping green subsidies is short-termist sabotage – and as usual the consumer will pay | Camilla Born
Scrapping green subsidies is short-termist sabotage – and as usual the consumer will pay | Camilla Born
Weaning ourselves off gas is the only way to reduce energy bills long term. Cutting support for this is exactly the ‘sticking-plaster politics’ Labour promised to end, says CEO of Electrify Britain Camilla Born
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Anyone else out there wanting up see the back of this dismal Labour government? Across the range (fiscal competence/tax, Brexit, green policies) it has absolutely nothing to offer to the centre-left voter. On immigration/protest it is another RW rump eager to appeal to Reform voters and failing.
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Scrapping green subsidies is short-termist sabotage – and as usual the consumer will pay | Camilla Born
Scrapping green subsidies is short-termist sabotage – and as usual the consumer will pay | Camilla Born
Weaning ourselves off gas is the only way to reduce energy bills long term. Cutting support for this is exactly the ‘sticking-plaster politics’ Labour promised to end, says CEO of Electrify Britain Camilla Born
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Scrapping green subsidies is short-termist sabotage – and as usual the consumer will pay | Camilla Born
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No — it’s an anti-Brexit win. ✊
UK scores Brexit win as EU fast-tracks electricity trading talks
The breakthrough comes after days of wrangling in Brussels over the extent to which London might be expected to pay for access to the EU’s single market.
www.politico.eu
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
No — it’s an anti-Brexit win. ✊
Once again Brexit Labour, which asks taxpayers to fund commercial aviation tax breaks, whilst backing airport expansions and taxing EVs, makes clear its position that tackling climate change and backing the environment is just not a priority.
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: chancellor plans to fund energy efficiency levies via warm homes plan as part of drive to lower energy bills
Hundreds of thousands of homeowners will lose their right to subsidies for eco-friendly heat pumps as a result of government plans to bring down energy bills at the budget.
Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is planning to announce a series of measures to bring down energy bills amid concerns the country’s stubbornly high cost of living is driving millions of voters to Reform UK. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Once again Brexit Labour, which asks taxpayers to fund commercial aviation tax breaks, whilst backing airport expansions and taxing EVs, makes clear its position that tackling climate change and backing the environment is just not a priority.
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Did you know the government spends £2.7 billion a year on tax breaks for oil & gas companies?
I've written to Rachel Reeves to tell her to end this scandal: stop propping up declining oil & gas companies and back workers instead
Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en... @38degrees.bsky.social
I've written to Rachel Reeves to tell her to end this scandal: stop propping up declining oil & gas companies and back workers instead
Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en... @38degrees.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Did you know the government spends £2.7 billion a year on tax breaks for oil & gas companies?
I've written to Rachel Reeves to tell her to end this scandal: stop propping up declining oil & gas companies and back workers instead
Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en... @38degrees.bsky.social
I've written to Rachel Reeves to tell her to end this scandal: stop propping up declining oil & gas companies and back workers instead
Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en... @38degrees.bsky.social
All I see here is Labour’s disarray and the fast emerging absence of any shred of competence in office. Certainly nothing I see here even remotely inspires me to vote this party back in power in 2029 or any intervening election.
Keir Starmer has launched an investigation to find the No 10 adviser who briefed that Wes Streeting was plotting against him
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
All I see here is Labour’s disarray and the fast emerging absence of any shred of competence in office. Certainly nothing I see here even remotely inspires me to vote this party back in power in 2029 or any intervening election.
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⬇️ Brexit has led to 1.8 million fewer jobs in the UK.
🇪🇺 Want better jobs? Encourage investment from business and knock down our disastrous trade barriers with our largest and closest market.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxrp7znkdlo
🇪🇺 Want better jobs? Encourage investment from business and knock down our disastrous trade barriers with our largest and closest market.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxrp7znkdlo
UK unemployment rate rises to 5% as jobs market weakens
Latest official data ahead of the Budget later this month shows it is the highest rate since 2021.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
⬇️ Brexit has led to 1.8 million fewer jobs in the UK.
🇪🇺 Want better jobs? Encourage investment from business and knock down our disastrous trade barriers with our largest and closest market.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxrp7znkdlo
🇪🇺 Want better jobs? Encourage investment from business and knock down our disastrous trade barriers with our largest and closest market.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxrp7znkdlo
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“tell the nation not only that it is time we recognised the folly of Brexit but also that it is in our trading and budgetary interests to apply to rejoin the single market and the customs union.”
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Reeves can no longer ignore ‘mammoth in the broom cupboard’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“tell the nation not only that it is time we recognised the folly of Brexit but also that it is in our trading and budgetary interests to apply to rejoin the single market and the customs union.”
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
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It can’t make any sense to tax electric car drivers for not burning fossil fuels while allowing people that fly to pay no tax for burning fossil fuels. The answer is simple, extend the charging per mile to the airline industry. Fair, climate effective and tax raising - all at the same time.
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It can’t make any sense to tax electric car drivers for not burning fossil fuels while allowing people that fly to pay no tax for burning fossil fuels. The answer is simple, extend the charging per mile to the airline industry. Fair, climate effective and tax raising - all at the same time.
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That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership
Difficult to fathom the rationale for this proposal. In the meantime one notes that aviation fuel duty relief remains untouched, the government gives the green light to airport expansion plans, no wealth tax on extreme personal wealth … more disappointing news from Labour.
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Difficult to fathom the rationale for this proposal. In the meantime one notes that aviation fuel duty relief remains untouched, the government gives the green light to airport expansion plans, no wealth tax on extreme personal wealth … more disappointing news from Labour.
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants