@jrodge888.bsky.social
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Labour can announce all the harsher immigration policies they want but Reform voters won’t be happy until they can see no Black and/or Muslim people in their town centre some of whom have great-grandparents born in the UK
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing tougher measures on immigration to stem a record flow of arrivals across the English Channel and stave off the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party after it made sweeping gains in this week’s local elections.
Starmer Plots Harder Line on Migration to Counter Farage Threat
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing tougher measures on immigration to stem a record flow of arrivals across the English Channel and stave off the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party after it made sweeping gains in this week’s local elections.
bloom.bg
May 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Labour can announce all the harsher immigration policies they want but Reform voters won’t be happy until they can see no Black and/or Muslim people in their town centre some of whom have great-grandparents born in the UK
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The worst possible reaction. It’ve vicious, nasty, and certain to fail.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing tougher measures on immigration to stem a record flow of arrivals across the English Channel and stave off the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party after it made sweeping gains in this week’s local elections.
Starmer Plots Harder Line on Migration to Counter Farage Threat
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing tougher measures on immigration to stem a record flow of arrivals across the English Channel and stave off the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party after it made sweeping gains in this week’s local elections.
bloom.bg
May 3, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The worst possible reaction. It’ve vicious, nasty, and certain to fail.
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Starmer's pointing in the wrong direction.
Lancashire Council's new Reform overlords were voted in by just 12% of the electorate due to the very low turnout.
Starmer needs to focus on the huge number of disaffected Labour voters who think he's gone Tory and don't bother voting.
Lancashire Council's new Reform overlords were voted in by just 12% of the electorate due to the very low turnout.
Starmer needs to focus on the huge number of disaffected Labour voters who think he's gone Tory and don't bother voting.
May 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Starmer's pointing in the wrong direction.
Lancashire Council's new Reform overlords were voted in by just 12% of the electorate due to the very low turnout.
Starmer needs to focus on the huge number of disaffected Labour voters who think he's gone Tory and don't bother voting.
Lancashire Council's new Reform overlords were voted in by just 12% of the electorate due to the very low turnout.
Starmer needs to focus on the huge number of disaffected Labour voters who think he's gone Tory and don't bother voting.
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Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him
May 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him
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Yesterday Mark Carney was told, “Mr Carney, there’s a genocide in Palestine”.
“I’m aware,” Carney told the protester, “That’s why we have an arms embargo.”
This has really, really upset Benjamin Netanyahu, so don't RT unless you hate him.
“I’m aware,” Carney told the protester, “That’s why we have an arms embargo.”
This has really, really upset Benjamin Netanyahu, so don't RT unless you hate him.
April 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Yesterday Mark Carney was told, “Mr Carney, there’s a genocide in Palestine”.
“I’m aware,” Carney told the protester, “That’s why we have an arms embargo.”
This has really, really upset Benjamin Netanyahu, so don't RT unless you hate him.
“I’m aware,” Carney told the protester, “That’s why we have an arms embargo.”
This has really, really upset Benjamin Netanyahu, so don't RT unless you hate him.
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Donald Trump is having a $92m military parade for his birthday with tanks in the streets.
The liar Piers Morgan said, "In the UK we do it all the time."
There has never been a military parade in the streets for a Politician in the UK.
NEVER.
The liar Piers Morgan said, "In the UK we do it all the time."
There has never been a military parade in the streets for a Politician in the UK.
NEVER.
April 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Donald Trump is having a $92m military parade for his birthday with tanks in the streets.
The liar Piers Morgan said, "In the UK we do it all the time."
There has never been a military parade in the streets for a Politician in the UK.
NEVER.
The liar Piers Morgan said, "In the UK we do it all the time."
There has never been a military parade in the streets for a Politician in the UK.
NEVER.
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Brace yourself for public figures to be even smaller and more cowardly than you thought possible, and some neighbors and family, too. (Even if you thought they couldn't disappoint you any more than they have.) But we can't give ground. This is deliberate evil. They're testing how far they can go.
Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process.
This is not lawful.
This is not lawful.
April 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Brace yourself for public figures to be even smaller and more cowardly than you thought possible, and some neighbors and family, too. (Even if you thought they couldn't disappoint you any more than they have.) But we can't give ground. This is deliberate evil. They're testing how far they can go.
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On a train to Lincoln to honour my father’s 90th. 30 years in the RAF, MBE for service to this country — a proud son of the #Windrush generation. Yet today’s Mirror reminds us the Windrush compensation scheme remains heartbreakingly ‘broken’😢 @dailymirror.bsky.social 👏🏽 @mrjamesob.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
On a train to Lincoln to honour my father’s 90th. 30 years in the RAF, MBE for service to this country — a proud son of the #Windrush generation. Yet today’s Mirror reminds us the Windrush compensation scheme remains heartbreakingly ‘broken’😢 @dailymirror.bsky.social 👏🏽 @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Six out of every seven children in the UK's most deprived areas living in poverty.
Result of political choices - low wages, austerity, unchecked profiteering, benefit cuts, inequitable distribution of wealth.
Future blighted.
Govts listen to donors/rich, ignore the rest.
Result of political choices - low wages, austerity, unchecked profiteering, benefit cuts, inequitable distribution of wealth.
Future blighted.
Govts listen to donors/rich, ignore the rest.
Six out of seven UK kids live in poverty - map shows how your area fares
A record-high 4.5million children across the country were found to have been living in poverty in the year ending March 2024 - 121,000 more children than the year prior
www.mirror.co.uk
April 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Six out of every seven children in the UK's most deprived areas living in poverty.
Result of political choices - low wages, austerity, unchecked profiteering, benefit cuts, inequitable distribution of wealth.
Future blighted.
Govts listen to donors/rich, ignore the rest.
Result of political choices - low wages, austerity, unchecked profiteering, benefit cuts, inequitable distribution of wealth.
Future blighted.
Govts listen to donors/rich, ignore the rest.
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"We can rely on [the EU]. We aren't going to be at the mercy of them changing their minds every few hours as Trump does."
Our CEO @pimlicat.bsky.social at expertly sums up why we need to prioritise trade with the EU over the US on @lbc.co.uk with @mrjamesob.bsky.social. 👏
Our CEO @pimlicat.bsky.social at expertly sums up why we need to prioritise trade with the EU over the US on @lbc.co.uk with @mrjamesob.bsky.social. 👏
April 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"We can rely on [the EU]. We aren't going to be at the mercy of them changing their minds every few hours as Trump does."
Our CEO @pimlicat.bsky.social at expertly sums up why we need to prioritise trade with the EU over the US on @lbc.co.uk with @mrjamesob.bsky.social. 👏
Our CEO @pimlicat.bsky.social at expertly sums up why we need to prioritise trade with the EU over the US on @lbc.co.uk with @mrjamesob.bsky.social. 👏
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The British government doesn’t get it. Brexit was the first step in the populist crapshow that has weakened Europe as a whole vis a vis Trump and Putin. Reducing the harm of Brexit is the first step to Europe recovering
Asked whether Trump's trade war means the UK will now consider re-entering a customs union with the EU, Keir Starmer's spokesman replies that "we're not going backwards when it comes to Brexit"
April 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The British government doesn’t get it. Brexit was the first step in the populist crapshow that has weakened Europe as a whole vis a vis Trump and Putin. Reducing the harm of Brexit is the first step to Europe recovering
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‘Petty, simplistic and vindictive.’
@mrjamesob.bsky.social thinks the world should stop trying to explain Donald Trump, and should instead look to his ‘narcissistic’ personality.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social thinks the world should stop trying to explain Donald Trump, and should instead look to his ‘narcissistic’ personality.
April 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
‘Petty, simplistic and vindictive.’
@mrjamesob.bsky.social thinks the world should stop trying to explain Donald Trump, and should instead look to his ‘narcissistic’ personality.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social thinks the world should stop trying to explain Donald Trump, and should instead look to his ‘narcissistic’ personality.
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By ‘noteworthy’, you mean, of course, ‘disgraceful’.
There aren’t a lot of countries Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, can visit without risking arrest by the International Criminal Court. This makes the red-carpet treatment he received in Hungary and the U.S. all the more noteworthy.
Red Carpet for an Accused War Criminal: Why is the I.C.C. Under Fire?
The leaders of Israel, Hungary and the United States have moved to neutralize the judiciary both at home and abroad.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
By ‘noteworthy’, you mean, of course, ‘disgraceful’.
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I think Ive figured out Trump's policy. As he was so bad at business and went bankrupt regularly, he assumed everyone else is as economically ignorant--and if cut out of the US market, they will fold. What he has forgotten, is that others are not as ill prepared or foolish as he.
April 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I think Ive figured out Trump's policy. As he was so bad at business and went bankrupt regularly, he assumed everyone else is as economically ignorant--and if cut out of the US market, they will fold. What he has forgotten, is that others are not as ill prepared or foolish as he.
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Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms.
NO.
People suffering cuts in benefits; NHS queues; crumbling infrastructure whilst the richest rewarded.
Mustn't capitulate to Trump's bullying.
archive.ph/AjYc7
NO.
People suffering cuts in benefits; NHS queues; crumbling infrastructure whilst the richest rewarded.
Mustn't capitulate to Trump's bullying.
archive.ph/AjYc7
Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms
PM says digital services tax and Online Safety Act formed part of talks with White House over deal to avert tariffs
inews.co.uk
April 9, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms.
NO.
People suffering cuts in benefits; NHS queues; crumbling infrastructure whilst the richest rewarded.
Mustn't capitulate to Trump's bullying.
archive.ph/AjYc7
NO.
People suffering cuts in benefits; NHS queues; crumbling infrastructure whilst the richest rewarded.
Mustn't capitulate to Trump's bullying.
archive.ph/AjYc7
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If I wanted to help the Chinese economy, arguably the best thing I could do was decouple the US economy from the rest of the world, put up crippling US trade barriers, destroy the US reputation for business sense and cooperation, and force US allies to do more trade with China.
April 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
If I wanted to help the Chinese economy, arguably the best thing I could do was decouple the US economy from the rest of the world, put up crippling US trade barriers, destroy the US reputation for business sense and cooperation, and force US allies to do more trade with China.
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I think this nails it.
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I think this nails it.
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It doesn’t and, in short, it won’t. If one market, even a large one, puts up barriers to trade while others, also large ones, don’t, then it’s not so much a global trade war as a unilateral trade suicide. Like water, trade will find a way around the obstacle and keep flowing.
You know what? There are not that many people in the US as a proportion of the world. Only 3 to 4%. It doesn’t have to have the role in global trade that it has had.
April 3, 2025 at 6:45 AM
It doesn’t and, in short, it won’t. If one market, even a large one, puts up barriers to trade while others, also large ones, don’t, then it’s not so much a global trade war as a unilateral trade suicide. Like water, trade will find a way around the obstacle and keep flowing.
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You can explain it to them but you can’t understand it for them.
-We may have a 10% Brexit 'dividend' but the cost of that dividend is the significant lost output since Brexit and trade dislocation with the EU, which the somewhat more generous US treatment does not even nearly compensate for.
April 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
You can explain it to them but you can’t understand it for them.
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The American Brexit is here. An own goal of epic proportions.
Prices were too high, so they… elected a guy that will send them through the roof.
Putin and those rooting against us are no doubt extremely pleased.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Prices were too high, so they… elected a guy that will send them through the roof.
Putin and those rooting against us are no doubt extremely pleased.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
April 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The American Brexit is here. An own goal of epic proportions.
Prices were too high, so they… elected a guy that will send them through the roof.
Putin and those rooting against us are no doubt extremely pleased.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Prices were too high, so they… elected a guy that will send them through the roof.
Putin and those rooting against us are no doubt extremely pleased.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Wanted war criminal Netanyahu has arrived in Hungary. Hungary is signed up to the ICC but they've refused to enforce the arrest warrant issued by the court
And before we in the UK feel all superior, a reminder our govt has refused to confirm whether it would enforce the warrant
And before we in the UK feel all superior, a reminder our govt has refused to confirm whether it would enforce the warrant
April 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Wanted war criminal Netanyahu has arrived in Hungary. Hungary is signed up to the ICC but they've refused to enforce the arrest warrant issued by the court
And before we in the UK feel all superior, a reminder our govt has refused to confirm whether it would enforce the warrant
And before we in the UK feel all superior, a reminder our govt has refused to confirm whether it would enforce the warrant
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BREAKING: Australians Just started an official Government Petition asking the Government to permanently ban Trump, his family, and his administration from Australia
Petition "Australians have VALUES of mateship hard work righting wrongs, and fighting for the underdog
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
Petition "Australians have VALUES of mateship hard work righting wrongs, and fighting for the underdog
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
e-petitions
e-petitions
www.aph.gov.au
April 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
BREAKING: Australians Just started an official Government Petition asking the Government to permanently ban Trump, his family, and his administration from Australia
Petition "Australians have VALUES of mateship hard work righting wrongs, and fighting for the underdog
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
Petition "Australians have VALUES of mateship hard work righting wrongs, and fighting for the underdog
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
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The UK exports £360bn of goods to the EU, on which we now struggle with big non tariff barriers, compared to £60bn to the US. Imagine looking at this sh1tshow and thinking it vindicates Brexit in any way.
April 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The UK exports £360bn of goods to the EU, on which we now struggle with big non tariff barriers, compared to £60bn to the US. Imagine looking at this sh1tshow and thinking it vindicates Brexit in any way.
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Bloody hell. What a point.
Can u imagine this amount of coverage about the economic costs of Brexit?
Sigh.
Sigh.
April 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Bloody hell. What a point.