Bob Ashworth 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺 #FBPE

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#VSO Ghana & Zambia, lived in Netherlands and Chiclana, España - Hablo español. Older not wiser. Used to have hair. #FBPE. Left Twitter! Politics are an obsession. Podcast listener. No bio, no posts, no follow!

RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.

Map showing the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa.Screengrab from Politico piece that explains, citing Reuters, that 48,300 of the 50,000 recent crossings have already been expelled or voluntarily returned to Morocco.BBC report on Friday, still echoing the RW disinformation - or at the very least not challengning it sufficiently.

"Spain's PM blames traffickers after 60,000 migrants reach Ceuta from Morocco
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What triggered the mass migrant crossings into Ceuta?
Sofia Ferreira Santos and Sarah Rainsford, Southern and Eastern Europe
correspondent
31 July 2026
Spain's prime minister has blamed trafficking gangs after about 60,000 migrants crossed into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco. At least 57 people died during the surge, according to local media."Daily Mail and Daily Express from this weekend, with front page headlines "Ministers MUST stop the Spanish border invaders reaching UK" and "SPANISH BORDER CRISIS IS 'WAKE-UP CALL' FOR UK", respectively.

Exclusive: Some EU citizens in the UK have been contacted by the Home Office to say they were granted settlement status after Brexit "in error". If you know anyone this happened to contact me on lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain

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Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

Telegraph article: John Cleese: I trust Rupert Lowe more than any other leader
Monty Python star backs the Restore Britain founder in a series of social media posts

How about politicians, Nigel? Do you think that MPs and party leaders who consort with and promote rapists and paedophiles should also be jailed ... meme via The Raging Left

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I'm old enough to remember when Nigel Farage would hold a press conference at the drop of a hat. So why is he now launching his divisive policies in a blog post from the safety of his keyboard? I can think of 5 million reasons why…

"Across a series of on-air discussions and articles, the BBC sought to examine and “debate” Farage’s claims of institutionalised anti-white “two tier policing” in the UK. To be clear these claims are completely without evidence." open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

The BBC’s ‘Two Tier’ Journalism Boosting Reform and the Far-Right

Why is our national broadcaster giving so much oxygen to the racist fantasies of the far-right?

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Politicians endlessly blame immigration for their own failures. So, when immigration is reduced, their ‘success’ isn’t recognised. No one’s life has particularly improved. Because no one’s life was ever going to improve by reducing immigration. Because our problems were never caused by immigration.

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So we have full 2025 immigration stats - Total net down by 2/3rds in 2025 (3/4 from peak) - Small boat arrivals in 2026 down 40%. Asylum backlog down 48%; returns up 9% - Asylum seekers in hotels down 35% (down 48% from peak) YET PUBLIC PERCEPTION 49% think 2025 saw increase; only 16% know it fell

Graph showing total net migration fell by two thirds in 2025.

From Private Eye. Bit of background on the poisonous prat with two names who Tice called an upstanding British citizen, a bit like Dubai Dickie he chooses to live anywhere but Britain.

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The BBC are trying to create news as per usual. Chris Mason is Jizzing himself at the thought of more cabinet members quitting, they are fucking pathetic. Sky too are useless. All of them want a RW government. Stand firm Starmer and come out fighting.

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

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😂 Sam Coates makes an ABSOLUTE TIT of himself. Calls PM photos "fake news" then finds out they're from the Press Association. If you make a spurious, inflammatory point you never made about any official photograph before, to pitch yourself as the only reliable source, at a minimum check your facts.

Vamos! From tomorrow, one of largest trading zones in the world, comprising of 700 million people, is open for business! #EU #Mercosur agreement is exactly the right remedy in economically challenging times. Strategic signal against isolationism, in favour of partnership and rules-based trade. 1/2

For a long time it was thought in trade policy circles that the EU Mercosur trade deal would never happen. Now suddenly it enters force tomorrow. Incidentally the UK does not have a similar trade deal.

Bernd Lange MdEP@bernd-lange.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Vamos! From tomorrow, one of largest trading zones in the world, comprising of 700 million people, is open for business! #EU #Mercosur agreement is exactly the right remedy in economically challenging times. Strategic signal against isolationism, in favour of partnership and rules-based trade. 1/2