Caroline Jackson
@cejax74cj.bsky.social
UK Baby Boomer, living in hope for a world gone mad. Left leaning🌹 Interested in Politics 🇪🇺 The Arts, Drawing & Painting, Food,Travel,Culture + whatever takes my fancy..in no particular order.
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One line stuck out for me in @stephenkb.bsky.social 's excellent morning email today - "No other government since 1970 would have suggested that such a direct linkage between “immigration policy” and “the safety of ethnic minorities in the UK” was something we should accept." Not so sure on this.1/?
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
One line stuck out for me in @stephenkb.bsky.social 's excellent morning email today - "No other government since 1970 would have suggested that such a direct linkage between “immigration policy” and “the safety of ethnic minorities in the UK” was something we should accept." Not so sure on this.1/?
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Can those in Commons and media holding govt to account please keep asking this Q until we get a clear answer?
'will you be deporting thousands of children to a place they've never been minister' is a big enough & obvious enough Q that govt has to know the answer to it before they unveil the whole package - it surely has a material effect on costs, numbers, political impact, maybe legality. So either..
November 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Can those in Commons and media holding govt to account please keep asking this Q until we get a clear answer?
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Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.
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Rule of Law died in America 😕😠
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Rule of Law died in America 😕😠
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This, Labour, THIS.
We cannot make integration as difficult as possible and then blame immigrants for not integrating.
November 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This, Labour, THIS.
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I can’t quite believe that I’m reading this.
“GB News has been accused of risking inflaming tensions over crime committed by migrants after presenting unscientific research that counted the number of defendants with “foreign-sounding names”.”
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Ofcom receives complaints over GB News item on defendants’ ‘foreign-sounding names’
Lib Dem MP says way figures were compiled on ‘non-British-sounding’ surnames in court was ‘frankly racist’
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I can’t quite believe that I’m reading this.
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With less than six weeks before a key set of Affordable Care Act premium subsidies expire, congressional Republicans are scrambling to come up with a plan to address the pain of health care premiums skyrocketing for roughly 22 million Americans.
Republicans are racing to find a plan for enhanced ACA subsidies. Here’s what they are considering | CNN Politics
With less than six weeks before a key set of Affordable Care Act premium subsidies expire, congressional Republicans are scrambling to come up with a plan to address the pain of health care premiums s...
www.cnn.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
With less than six weeks before a key set of Affordable Care Act premium subsidies expire, congressional Republicans are scrambling to come up with a plan to address the pain of health care premiums skyrocketing for roughly 22 million Americans.
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A late night comedian makes a joke and they try to destroy his career.
Megyn Kelly says it’s OK to rape 15 year old girls and … yea, we’re still waiting for the outrage.
Megyn Kelly says it’s OK to rape 15 year old girls and … yea, we’re still waiting for the outrage.
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
A late night comedian makes a joke and they try to destroy his career.
Megyn Kelly says it’s OK to rape 15 year old girls and … yea, we’re still waiting for the outrage.
Megyn Kelly says it’s OK to rape 15 year old girls and … yea, we’re still waiting for the outrage.
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Some 24 million US people are facing very large increases in their health insurance bills.
My newsletter examines how these price increases will show up in US inflation.
on.ft.com/47MdE2Z The unhealthy state of US price statistics
My newsletter examines how these price increases will show up in US inflation.
on.ft.com/47MdE2Z The unhealthy state of US price statistics
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Some 24 million US people are facing very large increases in their health insurance bills.
My newsletter examines how these price increases will show up in US inflation.
on.ft.com/47MdE2Z The unhealthy state of US price statistics
My newsletter examines how these price increases will show up in US inflation.
on.ft.com/47MdE2Z The unhealthy state of US price statistics
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
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New MRI, please.
Trump: "They had restrictions on water. It comes down from heaven. You want to wash your hands, or like me, you wash your hair. I lather up. There's no water. I won't mention the 3rd item in the bc I always get criticized. If you don't know what I'm talking about you shouldn't be owning a McDonalds"
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
New MRI, please.
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These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
November 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
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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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If we think there is let’s change our tax rules and make them like the USA - citizens pay tax back home wherever in the world they choose to live. Problem solved.
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If we think there is let’s change our tax rules and make them like the USA - citizens pay tax back home wherever in the world they choose to live. Problem solved.
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A tiny 2% tax on wealth above £10m, is a drop in the ocean for just 20k Brits - but would raise £24Bn with which we could do so much. Rachel Reeves needs to be brave, understand the people want this - even millionaires want this and there’s nothing to fear.
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A tiny 2% tax on wealth above £10m, is a drop in the ocean for just 20k Brits - but would raise £24Bn with which we could do so much. Rachel Reeves needs to be brave, understand the people want this - even millionaires want this and there’s nothing to fear.
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Trump really shivved JD Vance when he endorsed Tucker's interview w/Nick Fuentes, who had been mocking Vance and making racist comments about his wife. Trump basically dumped the Fuentes mess on him.
@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social nails the dynamics in this exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social nails the dynamics in this exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Trump really shivved JD Vance when he endorsed Tucker's interview w/Nick Fuentes, who had been mocking Vance and making racist comments about his wife. Trump basically dumped the Fuentes mess on him.
@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social nails the dynamics in this exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social nails the dynamics in this exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
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Classic line on #PoliticsLive
You can’t tax the rich because they’re too good at hiding their money.
Ex.Fucking.Actly.
You can’t tax the rich because they’re too good at hiding their money.
Ex.Fucking.Actly.
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Classic line on #PoliticsLive
You can’t tax the rich because they’re too good at hiding their money.
Ex.Fucking.Actly.
You can’t tax the rich because they’re too good at hiding their money.
Ex.Fucking.Actly.
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Excellent column from @stephenkb.bsky.social on what
@alanmanning4.bsky.social refers to as the “infernal circle” of immigration policy www.ft.com/content/1144...
@alanmanning4.bsky.social refers to as the “infernal circle” of immigration policy www.ft.com/content/1144...
Labour needs a way out of the infernal circle of immigration policy
Politics today is about ‘open vs closed’, but the UK government’s approach risks appeasing no one
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Excellent column from @stephenkb.bsky.social on what
@alanmanning4.bsky.social refers to as the “infernal circle” of immigration policy www.ft.com/content/1144...
@alanmanning4.bsky.social refers to as the “infernal circle” of immigration policy www.ft.com/content/1144...
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Kash ordered a team of FBI agents to go through the Epstein files many months ago to redact Trump’s name based on FOIA exemptions 6 and 7. It is highly unlikely they are going to be unredacted before they are released. ONLY victim info should be redacted, but much more will be.
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Kash ordered a team of FBI agents to go through the Epstein files many months ago to redact Trump’s name based on FOIA exemptions 6 and 7. It is highly unlikely they are going to be unredacted before they are released. ONLY victim info should be redacted, but much more will be.
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Why would Jeffrey Epstein kill himself in jail if he had this much leverage of the one person who could give him a full pardon?
November 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Why would Jeffrey Epstein kill himself in jail if he had this much leverage of the one person who could give him a full pardon?
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Peel loses multi-million pound Liverpool waterfront battle
Peel loses multi-million pound Liverpool waterfront battle
Judge finds in favour of Romal Capital in case revolving around city's Central Docks site
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Peel loses multi-million pound Liverpool waterfront battle
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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The tone of an organisation is set from the leader on down, and the tone of Keir Starmer's leadership has always been 'say it if it is convenient'.
The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The tone of an organisation is set from the leader on down, and the tone of Keir Starmer's leadership has always been 'say it if it is convenient'.