"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

Brexit has "cost us tens of billions of pounds in trade."

"For musicians touring, there has been no resolution of the problems. The cabotage, the need for a visa waiver agreement, the 90 and 180 day limit"

"Bands can't afford to tour, income and opportunities lost."

I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up.

Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.

You have to love the Brexiters losing their collective shit over Gibraltar becoming part of the Schengen Area.

It's happening BECAUSE of Brexit which has made life very difficult on the Rock and that's why 95.9% of Gibraltarians voted remain.... but apparently Starmer is giving it away

💥"Analysis from Frontier Economics has suggested that deep alignment between the UK and EU on goods and services could offset the impact of tariffs on the UK and even help our economy to grow by 1.5%."- @philbrickellmp.bsky.social

Read the full report: bestforbritain.org/growth_report

Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights

That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK.

THIS IS WHY

youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...

This is a real tweet from the White House. Still up.

You can go triple check it just like I did.

This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning.

He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.

Musk did not buy X to protect free speech. He bought it to promote the far-right. It is now being used to silence dissenters against authoritarian government.

www.politico.eu/article/musk...

The US Director of National Intelligence is retweeting a far-right conspiracy theorist based in Malaysia.

Last month I did a little experiment.

I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.

The results were...interesting...

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BREAKING: Global economic growth has been downgraded by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - as the impact of US President Donald Trump's tariffs becomes apparent

Major economies including the UK will have lower rates of GDP

news.sky.com/story/tariff...

All I can say at this stage is…

FINALLY! 💥

Managing Director of Food at M&S comes out with a PUNCHY statement on how Brexit bureaucracy is impacting their business.

Most of the English press is still hopelessly hooked on the idea that politics is a 24hr soap opera-cum-skip fire, as typified by Westminster for 8 years between 24 June 2016 until 4 July 2024.

These so-called journalists don’t know how to report politics in any other way.
bsky.app/profile/rost...

In early 2020, a pandemic was spreading. The UK’s PM went on a 10 day half-term holiday during which he was uncontactable and the government went into panic mode, focusing, as Hancock related to the COVID enquiry, on buying enough body bags. 1/8

We have had a press briefing with senior police officers and commissioners about the ongoing investigations into the riots that followed the Southport attack

Here are the key updates:
🚨1,590 arrests, 1,015 charges
👮‍♂️17% of those arrested were children, 46% were 18-35 years old