Government just voted with majority of 53 to strip amendment 16 from #AgricultureBill, which would have safeguarded food standards in trade deals - demonstrating beyond doubt that their promises are totally utterly & completely worthless - even when enshrined in their manifesto👇

Inviting the foxes to help guarding the henhouse - what a brilliant idea 🤮

Cutting it very thin... EU citizens covered under the Withdrawal Agreement are still entitled to an European Health Insurance Card beyond December 31st. All cards already issued will become invalid. The system for EU citizens to apply for a new card only opens on December 16th

How can you name and shame someone who has no shame? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This is massive, and horrific. National Farmers' Union is secretly lobbying the government to allow #neonicotinoid pesticides to be reintroduced after Brexit. It tells its members: "Please refrain from sharing this on social media." On the contrary, please RT. campaigns.nfuonline.com/page/72051/pet…

Habemus Brexit Deal! bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-p…

Max Hastings: "The great political success of the Brexiters is that they convinced a narrow majority of the British people that most of their woes, even the weather, derive from Europe. In truth, scarcely any do, but foreigners make convenient scapegoats." bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

I just stumbled across this very good German documentary about Brexit and who’s behind the mess we are in. ardmediathek.de/ard/video/Y3Jp…

With all the red lights flashing at the state of the UK’s democracy, I’ve seen it said we shouldn’t assume the next general election will even happen. The issue, though, isn’t whether an election will happen (it will). It’s whether it will be free and fair (it won’t). THREAD

Quick! Let’s do it, while they all look elsewhere!

Listeners have branded this James O'Brien’s best monologue yet as he explains every twist and turn of the deceit and dishonesty engulfing the government. James O'Brien

80 years ago today, German ministries, SS and NSDAP discussed how to organise the systematic murder of all Jews in Europe. The so-called "Wannsee Conference" shows how the civil service became instrumental in implementing the unique crime against humanity that was the Holocaust.

Abhorrent. This is how a totalitarian state begins. Blatant, targeted and physical abuse against opposition members. Then blatant, targeted and physical abuse against anyone who dares oppose them. This is not fiction. Nor even far fetched. This, THIS is it.

📢 Britain’s train operators will provide free onward travel for 🇺🇦 Ukrainian refugees who arrive in the UK. Retweet to spread awareness of the scheme to help those in need 🔁. nationalrail.co.uk/ukraine

If this doesn’t scare you, I don’t know what will. Christofascist indoctrination ceremony:

It’s taken a German journalist ⁦Annette Dittert ⁩ to write the most clear-eyed assessment yet of the UK’s political and economic catastrophe. People will try to dismiss her words or ignore them. Don’t make that mistake newstatesman.com/comment/2022/0…

Wondering why your energy bills keep going up? It's simple. It's because Europe's energy market is a scam! Here's Yanis Varoufakis on why it is so and what we can do about it. diem25.org/yanis-varoufak…

Suella Braverman is what happens if you feed Priti Patel after midnight. #CPC22

1. I've long wondered how nations slide into authoritarianism. Why do people accept the loss of their freedoms? Why do they not rise up together against oppression? Now that it's happening in the UK, I think I have an answer. Thread/

In 2017, I started studying THAMES WATER because I was looking for a British version of VW's "DIESELGATE" and suspected that the discharge of billions of litres of raw SEWAGE into our rivers was a symptom of financial distress and perhaps fraud. Little did I know...