Andrew Lawrence
@altimeuk.bsky.social
Opinions based on fact; Brexit is nonsense.
Quite impressive to completely undermine your own defence and insult most of your party's elected officials in the same sentence.
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 12h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
A new government sets its direction early. I've just signed European Movement UK's petition asking Andy Burnham to drop the red lines on Europe and set out a real plan for the UK's European future. Add your name: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/5_asks_for_a...
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Andy Burnham must seize the moment to build a bold, forward-looking agenda for his administration to lead the UK towards a new European future.
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NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
Liddle to be celebrated
An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
The US has now used up 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during the Iran war, Reuters World News reports.
"Harsh?" via Anti Fascist League (but you can try to provide Reform voters with all the facts and evidence - which contradict GBNews & Daily Mail - of Reform anti-worker, anti-women policies, racism, incompetence, corruption to help them change their minds)
1/14 A brief break from #TheHormuzCrisis. I've never really explained why the phrase "put the Navy in the Channel" to stop #SmallBoat crossings isn't, in itself, a serious maritime strategy. It sounds decisive. From a maritime perspective though, it raises far more questions than it answers.
Former Royal Navy Officer Brands Reform's Small Boats Plan 'A Crock Of Shit' www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-croc...
'A Crock Of Sh*t': Former Royal Navy Officer Slams Reform's Small Boats Plan
The French government has also rejected the policy.
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Of course Farage's 'policy' doesn’t work. It isn't intended to work. It's meant to cause a splash in the unthinking press (and GMB) and thereby get Doris at Number 33 Lambert Road, Peterborough to go 'Ooh at last someone is trying to do something about these awful boat crossings.' That's it.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoFormer navy officer criticises Reform plan to use military to stop small boats
Opinion | Lowe has done to Farage what Farage did to the Tories: outflanked him from the right and left him with almost no good options Read more: trib.al/nNjb8vh
Weirdly, despite repeated requests, I haven't had any invitations to Reform press events since I asked a month ago whether Farage was scared of questions about his finances.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d agoNigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta
We’ve seen this before.
theatlantic.com
Sorry but unless you, as a media outlet, have managed to get someone from the Navy (probably a former sailor because those currently serving maybe disbarred from commenting) to explain that this is extremely unlikely to happen for legal reasons, then, arguably, you haven't really done your job.
Politics latest: Reform wants to use Navy to stop small boats after Burnham vows to be 'relentless' in tackling crossings
Reform UK says a Nigel Farage-led government would send the Royal Navy into the Channel to intercept all migrant boats - and is accused by Labour of "reheating" old proposals. Follow the latest.
news.sky.com
Rupert Lowe pitches a deal from Restore to Farage's Reform. His conditions are full adoption of Restore's policies on mass deportations" including "millions must go" slogan on legal migrants + his policies on Islam + a referendum on death penalty + the ditching of Rupert Jenrick & Suella Braverman
Farage struck secret Reform comeback deal months before election
Farage struck secret Reform comeback deal months before election | LBC
Negotiations with Richard Tice were supervised by George Cottrell, raising fresh questions over Nigel Farage’s account of when he decided to return to politics.
lbc.co.uk
If you watch anything on #Moroccans coming to #Ceuta, make it this report. CBS News have interviewed some of them & they confirm that social media posts on Facebook & Instagram told them Spain had opened its borders. They're playing with people's hopes & lives. It's awful. We must combat fake news.
I'm absolutely furious that facts and information like this are allowed on social media while every Reform MP is working so hard to spread misinformation and lies and stir up our gullible supporters who will believe any old bollocks.
I'm not saying I'm desperate, but I'm relying on dick pic enthusiast Jaymey McIvor and entitled gobshite Laila Cunningham to help me fight a bin.
Remember that these scaremongering Reform folks are doubly untruthful: overlooking the huge numbers of immediate returns and falsely implying that the migrants can enter Schengen
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 5d agoBraverman: "make no mistake, these men are on their way to the UK right now" Farage: "before long, many will be crossing the Channel" [Would see big spike in Moroccan boat arrivals + asylum claims in next 3 months if true. V unlikely to be true].
Why the questions about Reform UK and its wealthy donors won’t go away
Why the questions about Reform UK and its wealthy donors won’t go away
Reform leader Nigel Farage is attempting to win the Clacton byelection.
theconversation.com
Todd Blanche quite obviously lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he told them this was dead. It was never dead. It was just on hold until he was confirmed.
"Sinking in Polls, Farage Plans Week of Attacks on Immigration" Reform plan to make next week Immigration Week It could finally be the moment for broadcast media to notice the > 75% drop in net migration since 2024. There is also a 42% drop in boat crossings
Robert Jenrick (7pm) tweeting about "30,000 military age men rampaging through Spanish territory" long after the return rate was over 90%
As the Reform UK leader’s approval rating hits a new low, our readers are split – some think this is finally the end, others aren’t so sure trib.al/u4zllHm
‘I’m fairly confident that he’s over’: Readers react to Farage’s poll collapse
As the Reform UK leader’s approval rating hits a new low, our readers are split – some think this is finally the end, others aren’t so sure
trib.al
This is changing pretty fast as people pay attention. Farage now at his lowest level since the General Election.
