Hugh Sainsbury #FBPE
@hughdorset.bsky.social
As seen on bird site occasionally.
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Just pointing out that the UK has the highest pension and minimum wage we ever had. Also the highest level of regulatory protection.
Because it is rarely mentioned when everyone talks about how terrible everything is.
Because it is rarely mentioned when everyone talks about how terrible everything is.
December 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Just pointing out that the UK has the highest pension and minimum wage we ever had. Also the highest level of regulatory protection.
Because it is rarely mentioned when everyone talks about how terrible everything is.
Because it is rarely mentioned when everyone talks about how terrible everything is.
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Guys I'm getting the impression Trump’s lawyers are struggling
“No less an authority than the United Kingdom’s former Prime Minister, Liz Truss”
That’s a real sentence that someone wrote, which made it into Trump’s legal filing.
That’s a real sentence that someone wrote, which made it into Trump’s legal filing.
December 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Guys I'm getting the impression Trump’s lawyers are struggling
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Trump files $5bn defamation lawsuit against BBC over Panorama speech edit
The BBC did not have the rights to, and did not, distribute the Panorama programme on its US channels. While the documentary was available on BBC iPlayer, it was restricted to UK viewers. What a weak, petty man
#DefendTheBBC
The BBC did not have the rights to, and did not, distribute the Panorama programme on its US channels. While the documentary was available on BBC iPlayer, it was restricted to UK viewers. What a weak, petty man
#DefendTheBBC
Trump sues BBC for defamation over Panorama speech edit
The US president has requested $5bn (£3.7bn) in damages, according to court documents filed in Florida.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Trump files $5bn defamation lawsuit against BBC over Panorama speech edit
The BBC did not have the rights to, and did not, distribute the Panorama programme on its US channels. While the documentary was available on BBC iPlayer, it was restricted to UK viewers. What a weak, petty man
#DefendTheBBC
The BBC did not have the rights to, and did not, distribute the Panorama programme on its US channels. While the documentary was available on BBC iPlayer, it was restricted to UK viewers. What a weak, petty man
#DefendTheBBC
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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
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The views of the young should count for more than the votes of the dead.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
An anti-Brexit majority of eight million
The British electorate are now overwhelmingly pro-remain. And yet the europhobes still argue the votes of the dead count for more than the views of the young
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The views of the young should count for more than the votes of the dead.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
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Covid fraud under the Tories cost the UK taxpayer £10.9bn.
VIP lanes and crony contracts.
Lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid scheme.
Money handed out for non-existent employees
Newly formed companies got public money
No competitive tenders
Poor checks on quality.
How much would be recovered?
VIP lanes and crony contracts.
Lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid scheme.
Money handed out for non-existent employees
Newly formed companies got public money
No competitive tenders
Poor checks on quality.
How much would be recovered?
Covid fraud under the Tories cost the taxpayer £10.9 billion
The counter-fraud and error measures during the pandemic under the Conservative Government were accused of being 'so lax they may as well have left the door wide open'
www.mirror.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Covid fraud under the Tories cost the UK taxpayer £10.9bn.
VIP lanes and crony contracts.
Lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid scheme.
Money handed out for non-existent employees
Newly formed companies got public money
No competitive tenders
Poor checks on quality.
How much would be recovered?
VIP lanes and crony contracts.
Lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid scheme.
Money handed out for non-existent employees
Newly formed companies got public money
No competitive tenders
Poor checks on quality.
How much would be recovered?
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The owner of Reform UK ltd - Farage, has accepted £9m from Thailand resident Harborne.
Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia
Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia
December 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The owner of Reform UK ltd - Farage, has accepted £9m from Thailand resident Harborne.
Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia
Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations:
"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia
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Johnson described the pre-referendum Brexit Treasury report as “doom-laden” predictions as a “hoax” & “just not credible”
Farage attacked Cameron & Osborne for feeding the public “a constant diet of lies” in their arguments for staying in the EU
The report, was correct
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Farage attacked Cameron & Osborne for feeding the public “a constant diet of lies” in their arguments for staying in the EU
The report, was correct
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Johnson described the pre-referendum Brexit Treasury report as “doom-laden” predictions as a “hoax” & “just not credible”
Farage attacked Cameron & Osborne for feeding the public “a constant diet of lies” in their arguments for staying in the EU
The report, was correct
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Farage attacked Cameron & Osborne for feeding the public “a constant diet of lies” in their arguments for staying in the EU
The report, was correct
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.
I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.
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Free marketeer admits that putting up trade barriers reduces prosperity.
The economic damage Brexit has caused is undeniable - even Brexiteers are now admitting it.
https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/we-brexiteers-must-acknowledge-the-costs-of-leaving-europe-p3mhqd66f
https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/we-brexiteers-must-acknowledge-the-costs-of-leaving-europe-p3mhqd66f
We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs of leaving Europe
Breaking free from the EU has undoubtedly deepened the UK’s malaise, and it’s no use denying it
www.thetimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Free marketeer admits that putting up trade barriers reduces prosperity.
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Not main point (see my other post) but depressing that Phillips happily regurgitates entirely fictional numbers invented by far-right trolls on X and attributes them to "experts" {and Times is happy to print this slop]
archive.ph/RlXPj#select...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Not main point (see my other post) but depressing that Phillips happily regurgitates entirely fictional numbers invented by far-right trolls on X and attributes them to "experts" {and Times is happy to print this slop]
archive.ph/RlXPj#select...
archive.ph/RlXPj#select...
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Applying this to refugees already here self-evidently can't deter them from coming. But it will make their lives harder by prolonging their temporary status, making it harder to get jobs and accommodation and settle down properly. It would be a deliberate anti-integration policy. Why?
The i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Applying this to refugees already here self-evidently can't deter them from coming. But it will make their lives harder by prolonging their temporary status, making it harder to get jobs and accommodation and settle down properly. It would be a deliberate anti-integration policy. Why?
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
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One of the many reasons extending settlement qualification period to 10 years is a terrible idea. Precarious status makes it harder to get training, better jobs, etc. The policy is economic as well as social self harm. on.ft.com/49vTQC8
Why the job ladder matters for migrants
Obstacles in progressing are important both for people and for the economy
on.ft.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
One of the many reasons extending settlement qualification period to 10 years is a terrible idea. Precarious status makes it harder to get training, better jobs, etc. The policy is economic as well as social self harm. on.ft.com/49vTQC8
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3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward
The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.
metro.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
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The Tory media's shift from hysterically claiming that Starmer *did* intervene in the China spy case to hysterically claiming that Starmer *should* have intervened in the China spy case is a thing to behold.
October 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
The Tory media's shift from hysterically claiming that Starmer *did* intervene in the China spy case to hysterically claiming that Starmer *should* have intervened in the China spy case is a thing to behold.
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This is the inevitable outcome of relentless anti-immigration political rhetoric and a media environment which disproportionately amplifies the voices of racists, giving the indication that they are the "voice of the public" rather than the minority they are.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers
Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This is the inevitable outcome of relentless anti-immigration political rhetoric and a media environment which disproportionately amplifies the voices of racists, giving the indication that they are the "voice of the public" rather than the minority they are.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
Tough new conditions to be imposed on migrants who want to settle in the UK will not apply to more than a million people who arrived in the UK under the post-Brexit immigration surge
Labour’s tough new rules will not apply to migrants already in UK
www.thetimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
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Introducing slightly less cruel/damaging version of Farage's plans would not "outmanoeuvre Reform";would be an economic/ political own goal
Far better to attack Reform/Tories for Powellite ethnonationalism & say migrants who come here, contribute & *choose* to stay are welcome -and become British.
Far better to attack Reform/Tories for Powellite ethnonationalism & say migrants who come here, contribute & *choose* to stay are welcome -and become British.
The current Home Secretary who identifies as 'Blue Labour' was put in place precisely to outmanoeuvre Reform to the right on immigration so we can be fairly certain more costly and lengthy/conditional routes to citizenship will be announced in due course.
This excellent piece by @liamthorp.bsky.social focuses on Farage.
But as it correctly says, the much more immediate threat is that *Labour* will move the goalposts.
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
But as it correctly says, the much more immediate threat is that *Labour* will move the goalposts.
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
September 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Introducing slightly less cruel/damaging version of Farage's plans would not "outmanoeuvre Reform";would be an economic/ political own goal
Far better to attack Reform/Tories for Powellite ethnonationalism & say migrants who come here, contribute & *choose* to stay are welcome -and become British.
Far better to attack Reform/Tories for Powellite ethnonationalism & say migrants who come here, contribute & *choose* to stay are welcome -and become British.
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“I don’t know enough about them” by far the largest reason given and the MSM - like Sky & BBC are doing their best to keep it that way by loading coverage onto ReFuk with fewer than 1% of U.K. MPs.
The Lib Dems won 13% of the vote share in GB* at GE2024, but still only have 14% despite the collapse of the Lab and Tory vote shares - so what is holding Britons back from voting Lib Dem?
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
September 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“I don’t know enough about them” by far the largest reason given and the MSM - like Sky & BBC are doing their best to keep it that way by loading coverage onto ReFuk with fewer than 1% of U.K. MPs.
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Brexit Britain pays the bill so Donald Trump can lord it over us.
🇬🇧 UK exporters: $1.36bn in tariffs in just 4 months under Trump deal.
🇪🇺 France & Spain: less under the EU.
💷 🇬🇧 farmers/manufacturers foot the bill while elites roll out red carpet.
Had we rejoined Europe, we’d be so much better off.
🇬🇧 UK exporters: $1.36bn in tariffs in just 4 months under Trump deal.
🇪🇺 France & Spain: less under the EU.
💷 🇬🇧 farmers/manufacturers foot the bill while elites roll out red carpet.
Had we rejoined Europe, we’d be so much better off.
September 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Brexit Britain pays the bill so Donald Trump can lord it over us.
🇬🇧 UK exporters: $1.36bn in tariffs in just 4 months under Trump deal.
🇪🇺 France & Spain: less under the EU.
💷 🇬🇧 farmers/manufacturers foot the bill while elites roll out red carpet.
Had we rejoined Europe, we’d be so much better off.
🇬🇧 UK exporters: $1.36bn in tariffs in just 4 months under Trump deal.
🇪🇺 France & Spain: less under the EU.
💷 🇬🇧 farmers/manufacturers foot the bill while elites roll out red carpet.
Had we rejoined Europe, we’d be so much better off.
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We’ve seen social media posts claiming 70% of those arrested at the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march were counter-protesters.
There’s no evidence for this. The Met Police said only one of the 24 arrests was someone believed to be involved in the counter-protest.
There’s no evidence for this. The Met Police said only one of the 24 arrests was someone believed to be involved in the counter-protest.
What do we know about the arrests at the ‘Unite The Kingdom’ march? – Full Fact
Claims that most of those arrested were counter-protesters don’t tally with what the police have said.
fullfact.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We’ve seen social media posts claiming 70% of those arrested at the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march were counter-protesters.
There’s no evidence for this. The Met Police said only one of the 24 arrests was someone believed to be involved in the counter-protest.
There’s no evidence for this. The Met Police said only one of the 24 arrests was someone believed to be involved in the counter-protest.