The amount of coverage given to the Green Party, who have so far won 159 seats in these elections, compared to Reform UK, who have won two, has been quite something

It means a nation once proud to stand against the abuse of human rights has surrendered all of its principles for vain political reasons.

'It seems as if every day something new we hadn't thought of comes us...' said someone on UK side Brexit negotiations.
From start to finish Brexit was ill thought thru... except for those profiting from abandonment of EU financial regulations.
Sold us a unicorn. Gave us a slug.

Deeply disturbing allegations of “ cabinet ministers” and “CCHQ staffers” secretly supportive of Anderson
The party Conservatives must either openly deny these allegations or root out the rot of racism from our ranks.
We cannot have colleagues sitting at the Cabinet table…

From an NHS stand point would it have been better financially for taxpayer if NHS had invested in the properties Prem Sikka Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 Richard Murphy Russ Jones NHS England Russell England 😷💉💙🇪🇺🧳🌻🇺🇦🗿 ? Presumably NHS beholden to rent increases with little say...

Sending the first 300 migrants to Rwanda costs £1.8m each. To put that in context, school funding is around £7,600 per child per year. So the cost of sending one migrant to Rwanda would get 234 children education for a year. Is that a good use of money?

This continues to be one of the most under-reported scandals in our immigration system.

45,000 visas for essential jobs in UK farming in 2023.

Workers then trapped with employers who underpay or dont give them enough work to pay off debts. Complain & you could be deported.

Boris Johnson said in 2004 that he would eat his ID at a polling station in protest if the law ever required it.

In 2022, he passed a law requiring ID to vote and dismissed criticism it would stop people voting.

In 2024, he forgot his ID when trying to vote and was turned away.

I’ve been asking this question since 2008 and the percentage of Western politicians who realize it’s a war has grown fractionally and slowly even as the evidence has become overwhelming. It was corruption and wishful thinking, now it’s pure denial. #ItsWar

People in Norfolk have some great lib dem candidates to choose from today- whether that's in local elections in Norwich, the by-election in Hermitage, or my colleague John Crofts for Police and Crime Commissioner.
Make it count -use your vote! 🗳️🚓🔶

Quite something when former PM Boris Johnson - who introduced voter ID requirement - is turned away from his polling station after forgetting to bring his 🤦. Sky News

Brexit is exacerbating drug shortages, causing patient alarm. Without action and EU/UK cooperation it will get worse.

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Ever wondered what's inside a dalek?

This Thursday 2 May sees local and Mayoral elections across many parts of the country.

The Woodland Trust🌳 and our supporters are asking candidates to recognise the value of woods and trees where we live

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Excellent article by Ben Smith - Why are Brits fairly passive in their protest? Signing petitions, liking Facebook gripes, moaning on twitter but rarely really making a noise ala the French way.
Is this why MPs ignore us?
#PublicProtest #CivicEngagement
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I think we sometimes forget about the torrent of hate and lies poured out against immigrants from the EU and elsewhere poured out by the tax-dodging Brexit billionaire press during the Brexit debate.

It wasn't news. It wasn't comment. It was pure fascist hate propaganda. Had it…

'Public spending is not limited by tax receipts, it is only limited by resources & skills upon which it could be spent. Post-war we spent lots of ££... things got built, people got paid, services were funded'. Then money was taxed back as so few fat cats or vulture capitalists.

James Cleverly brought up the attempted genocide of 800,000 Tutsi people in 1994, to suggest that Rwanda could do with a re-population programme, & the government’s plans to fly refugees there would help. All 300 of them…

-- Pecksniff has a view

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Cordial and unlikely meeting with Stanley Johnson at the home of mutual friends in the French and angevine branch of his family . He knows, better than others in the UK, the reality of the single market and also measures the concrete consequences of Brexit ... We evoked, with our…

Whenever you think you have reached the point where you can no longer be surprised by how low the Conservative Party has sunk, it proves you wrong. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…