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Reform UK is far-right, at least other countries categorise them such:
From AfD to Reform UK: The far right and European politics
p.dw.com/p/4uV0R
From AfD to Reform UK: The far right and European politics
p.dw.com/p/4uV0R
From AfD to Reform UK: The far right and European politics – DW – 05/19/2025
The nationalist Alternative for Germany is shunned by other parties domestically. But elsewhere in Europe far-right parties are on the rise and some have made it into in government.
p.dw.com
May 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Reform UK is far-right, at least other countries categorise them such:
From AfD to Reform UK: The far right and European politics
p.dw.com/p/4uV0R
From AfD to Reform UK: The far right and European politics
p.dw.com/p/4uV0R
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UK govt to seek disqualification of benefit claimants from driving for alleged fraud or failure to return overpayments by DWP.
What if people don't have the money?
Loss of licence means can't work, have family life.
Same won't apply to tax dodgers, thieves. scammers, money launders.
Class war.
What if people don't have the money?
Loss of licence means can't work, have family life.
Same won't apply to tax dodgers, thieves. scammers, money launders.
Class war.
A new bill will lead to mass state surveillance for the most vulnerable. We must act.
This bill grants the government powers of surveillance on the bank accounts of the poor, old, sick and disabled people receiving specified benefits
leftfootforward.org
May 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
UK govt to seek disqualification of benefit claimants from driving for alleged fraud or failure to return overpayments by DWP.
What if people don't have the money?
Loss of licence means can't work, have family life.
Same won't apply to tax dodgers, thieves. scammers, money launders.
Class war.
What if people don't have the money?
Loss of licence means can't work, have family life.
Same won't apply to tax dodgers, thieves. scammers, money launders.
Class war.
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I can't express how bleak and horrifying it is that the prospect of starving 2 million people, half of whom are children, is only undesired because of the "practical" implications
May 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I can't express how bleak and horrifying it is that the prospect of starving 2 million people, half of whom are children, is only undesired because of the "practical" implications
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Mallory hits the nail on the head here that the Govt's acceptance of reactionary transphobia has reached such an extreme they cannot even be bothered to engage with the kind of symbolic pinkwashing they used to rely on.
May 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Mallory hits the nail on the head here that the Govt's acceptance of reactionary transphobia has reached such an extreme they cannot even be bothered to engage with the kind of symbolic pinkwashing they used to rely on.
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Kendall caught misleading parliament four times in 23 minutes over DWP PIP cuts
She misled the House of Commons four times - by repeatedly claiming DWP PIP cuts were somehow linked to getting people into work
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
She misled the House of Commons four times - by repeatedly claiming DWP PIP cuts were somehow linked to getting people into work
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Kendall caught misleading parliament four times in 23 minutes over DWP PIP cuts
Kendall misled the House of Commons four times - by repeatedly claiming DWP PIP cuts were somehow linked to getting people into work
www.thecanary.co
May 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Kendall caught misleading parliament four times in 23 minutes over DWP PIP cuts
She misled the House of Commons four times - by repeatedly claiming DWP PIP cuts were somehow linked to getting people into work
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
She misled the House of Commons four times - by repeatedly claiming DWP PIP cuts were somehow linked to getting people into work
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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The UK fishing industry has been hugely damaged by Brexit. It's been an absolute fucking catastrophe for them.
THAT was the betrayal.
But for the CULT of Brexit truth is always a second ranking issue.
THAT was the betrayal.
But for the CULT of Brexit truth is always a second ranking issue.
May 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The UK fishing industry has been hugely damaged by Brexit. It's been an absolute fucking catastrophe for them.
THAT was the betrayal.
But for the CULT of Brexit truth is always a second ranking issue.
THAT was the betrayal.
But for the CULT of Brexit truth is always a second ranking issue.
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The USA must free itself from the clutches of #Zionism.
GWU is investigating this student for her grad speech—
"I cannot celebrate my own graduation without a heavy heart knowing how many students in Palestine have been forced to stop their studies, expelled from their homes, and killed for simply remaining in the country of their ancestors."
Excerpt:
"I cannot celebrate my own graduation without a heavy heart knowing how many students in Palestine have been forced to stop their studies, expelled from their homes, and killed for simply remaining in the country of their ancestors."
Excerpt:
May 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The USA must free itself from the clutches of #Zionism.
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“We have a situation where leading supermarkets are calling out for a deal on things like food and drink products, why, because we have lorries stuck for sixteen hours and food rotting”
Nick Thomas-Symonds
Nick Thomas-Symonds
May 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“We have a situation where leading supermarkets are calling out for a deal on things like food and drink products, why, because we have lorries stuck for sixteen hours and food rotting”
Nick Thomas-Symonds
Nick Thomas-Symonds
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Young mum Antonia Wall has launched a petition calling for fixes to social housing after bed bugs in her home bit her young son.
Mum's fury after baby son is bitten by bed bugs in London horror home
www.bigissue.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Young mum Antonia Wall has launched a petition calling for fixes to social housing after bed bugs in her home bit her young son.
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May 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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The view from the stage at our huge National Demonstration for Palestine today. The streets are with Palestine! #SanctionsNow #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
May 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The view from the stage at our huge National Demonstration for Palestine today. The streets are with Palestine! #SanctionsNow #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
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"Eurovision Muted Sounds of Crowd Booing, Chanting 'Free Palestine!'”
I don't know why people don't wanna boycott this liberal bullshit and genocide-supporting song contest!
Yet more confirmation that everything the west, especially western liberals accuse China of, is pure projection. Everything!
I don't know why people don't wanna boycott this liberal bullshit and genocide-supporting song contest!
Yet more confirmation that everything the west, especially western liberals accuse China of, is pure projection. Everything!
Audio Analysis: Eurovision Broadcaster Muted Sounds of Crowd Booing and Shouting “Free Palestine!”
Despite Eurovision denials, an audio analysis shows booing and a "Free Palestine!" cry during Israeli singer Eden Golan’s 2024 performance.
theintercept.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"Eurovision Muted Sounds of Crowd Booing, Chanting 'Free Palestine!'”
I don't know why people don't wanna boycott this liberal bullshit and genocide-supporting song contest!
Yet more confirmation that everything the west, especially western liberals accuse China of, is pure projection. Everything!
I don't know why people don't wanna boycott this liberal bullshit and genocide-supporting song contest!
Yet more confirmation that everything the west, especially western liberals accuse China of, is pure projection. Everything!
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📣 The government is spying on children. Yes, really.
Under the "Prevent" duty, children in schools are being reported to counter-terror police, instead of being supported.
This needs to stop.
Help us to scrap the “Prevent” duty: amnesty.org.uk/actions/scra...
Under the "Prevent" duty, children in schools are being reported to counter-terror police, instead of being supported.
This needs to stop.
Help us to scrap the “Prevent” duty: amnesty.org.uk/actions/scra...
May 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📣 The government is spying on children. Yes, really.
Under the "Prevent" duty, children in schools are being reported to counter-terror police, instead of being supported.
This needs to stop.
Help us to scrap the “Prevent” duty: amnesty.org.uk/actions/scra...
Under the "Prevent" duty, children in schools are being reported to counter-terror police, instead of being supported.
This needs to stop.
Help us to scrap the “Prevent” duty: amnesty.org.uk/actions/scra...
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It’s plain for all to see.
May 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It’s plain for all to see.
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When will Labour MPs & Councillors
on the verge of losing their jobs
because of Starmer's Tory & Reform policies
finally grow the guts to rebel ...
on the verge of losing their jobs
because of Starmer's Tory & Reform policies
finally grow the guts to rebel ...
May 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
When will Labour MPs & Councillors
on the verge of losing their jobs
because of Starmer's Tory & Reform policies
finally grow the guts to rebel ...
on the verge of losing their jobs
because of Starmer's Tory & Reform policies
finally grow the guts to rebel ...
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Starmer denigrates Covid heroes
"These are just 33 of the doctors who died trying to save patients during Covid, Keir Starmer.
All but two were migrants, or the children of them.
They didn’t take time off work & stay out of danger.
They gave their lives for us.
WERE THEY STRANGERS?"
via Louise Raw
"These are just 33 of the doctors who died trying to save patients during Covid, Keir Starmer.
All but two were migrants, or the children of them.
They didn’t take time off work & stay out of danger.
They gave their lives for us.
WERE THEY STRANGERS?"
via Louise Raw
May 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Starmer denigrates Covid heroes
"These are just 33 of the doctors who died trying to save patients during Covid, Keir Starmer.
All but two were migrants, or the children of them.
They didn’t take time off work & stay out of danger.
They gave their lives for us.
WERE THEY STRANGERS?"
via Louise Raw
"These are just 33 of the doctors who died trying to save patients during Covid, Keir Starmer.
All but two were migrants, or the children of them.
They didn’t take time off work & stay out of danger.
They gave their lives for us.
WERE THEY STRANGERS?"
via Louise Raw
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Powerful hearing international nurses and nursing support workers responding to Kier Statmer at RCN Congress.
His words hurt. His anti-migrant rhetoric has been labeled a 'betrayal'.
We called, they came. Thank you to all our international colleagues.
#RCN25
His words hurt. His anti-migrant rhetoric has been labeled a 'betrayal'.
We called, they came. Thank you to all our international colleagues.
#RCN25
May 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Powerful hearing international nurses and nursing support workers responding to Kier Statmer at RCN Congress.
His words hurt. His anti-migrant rhetoric has been labeled a 'betrayal'.
We called, they came. Thank you to all our international colleagues.
#RCN25
His words hurt. His anti-migrant rhetoric has been labeled a 'betrayal'.
We called, they came. Thank you to all our international colleagues.
#RCN25
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The problem is not arriving by dinghy. It's arriving by private jet. 👇🏽
May 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The problem is not arriving by dinghy. It's arriving by private jet. 👇🏽
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Thames Water’s CEO defends £195,000 bonus just three months into the job.
Shameless.
The cult of bonuses is nothing to do with performance. It is for boosting profits by fleecing customers.
Nothing will change until water is nationalised and customers vote on exec pay.
Shameless.
The cult of bonuses is nothing to do with performance. It is for boosting profits by fleecing customers.
Nothing will change until water is nationalised and customers vote on exec pay.
Thames Water apologises to customers but defends bonuses
Bonus payments were defended by company management as the chief executive can
receive up to 156% of their salary as a bonus, while frontline workers can only earn between 3% and 6%.
news.sky.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Thames Water’s CEO defends £195,000 bonus just three months into the job.
Shameless.
The cult of bonuses is nothing to do with performance. It is for boosting profits by fleecing customers.
Nothing will change until water is nationalised and customers vote on exec pay.
Shameless.
The cult of bonuses is nothing to do with performance. It is for boosting profits by fleecing customers.
Nothing will change until water is nationalised and customers vote on exec pay.
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EXPOSED: the public is paying for Keir Starmer's in-laws to live virtually rent-free in London
Starmer's in-laws live in his house for less than a social housing tenant would pay. That is, we're saving them at least £42k a year - all because WE pay for HIM.
FFS.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Starmer's in-laws live in his house for less than a social housing tenant would pay. That is, we're saving them at least £42k a year - all because WE pay for HIM.
FFS.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
EXPOSED: the public is paying for Keir Starmer's in-laws to live virtually rent-free in London
Keir Starmer's in-laws live in his house for less than a social housing tenant would pay. That is, we're saving them at least £42k a year
www.thecanary.co
May 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
EXPOSED: the public is paying for Keir Starmer's in-laws to live virtually rent-free in London
Starmer's in-laws live in his house for less than a social housing tenant would pay. That is, we're saving them at least £42k a year - all because WE pay for HIM.
FFS.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Starmer's in-laws live in his house for less than a social housing tenant would pay. That is, we're saving them at least £42k a year - all because WE pay for HIM.
FFS.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Keir Starmer’s anti-immigration rhetoric isn’t just a dog whistle — it’s a foghorn to the far right.
It echoes Enoch Powell & fuels hate. Last summer, a hotel housing asylum seekers was set on fire. This is the deadly cost of pandering to racism.
Shame on the Prime Minister.
It echoes Enoch Powell & fuels hate. Last summer, a hotel housing asylum seekers was set on fire. This is the deadly cost of pandering to racism.
Shame on the Prime Minister.
May 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Keir Starmer’s anti-immigration rhetoric isn’t just a dog whistle — it’s a foghorn to the far right.
It echoes Enoch Powell & fuels hate. Last summer, a hotel housing asylum seekers was set on fire. This is the deadly cost of pandering to racism.
Shame on the Prime Minister.
It echoes Enoch Powell & fuels hate. Last summer, a hotel housing asylum seekers was set on fire. This is the deadly cost of pandering to racism.
Shame on the Prime Minister.
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My Dad died 15 months ago & spent last year of his life in a London nursing home. He was bed bound, blind, deaf, with dementia and various health issues.
Almost all his carers & nurses were non UK born and they were all brilliant. They treated my mother like family (and still do to this day) 1/3
Almost all his carers & nurses were non UK born and they were all brilliant. They treated my mother like family (and still do to this day) 1/3
May 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My Dad died 15 months ago & spent last year of his life in a London nursing home. He was bed bound, blind, deaf, with dementia and various health issues.
Almost all his carers & nurses were non UK born and they were all brilliant. They treated my mother like family (and still do to this day) 1/3
Almost all his carers & nurses were non UK born and they were all brilliant. They treated my mother like family (and still do to this day) 1/3
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Keir Starmer immitates Reform in his divisive speech.
Accuses immigrants of causing “incalculable damage”, making the UK “an island of strangers”.
Rightly faces backlash from unions, employers, MPs.
Silence on class war, inequalities, profiteering, lack of public services, fuelling frustrations.
Accuses immigrants of causing “incalculable damage”, making the UK “an island of strangers”.
Rightly faces backlash from unions, employers, MPs.
Silence on class war, inequalities, profiteering, lack of public services, fuelling frustrations.
Despair at Starmer’s ‘divisive’ language as he clamps down on immigration
Backbench Labour MPs, unions and charities criticise the PM, who is urged to apologise for his ‘dangerous’ comments
www.independent.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Keir Starmer immitates Reform in his divisive speech.
Accuses immigrants of causing “incalculable damage”, making the UK “an island of strangers”.
Rightly faces backlash from unions, employers, MPs.
Silence on class war, inequalities, profiteering, lack of public services, fuelling frustrations.
Accuses immigrants of causing “incalculable damage”, making the UK “an island of strangers”.
Rightly faces backlash from unions, employers, MPs.
Silence on class war, inequalities, profiteering, lack of public services, fuelling frustrations.