Surely this is not hard to fix? All it needs is a clause in the legislation that permits an organisation such as a union to collect any number of individual donations below a defined cap and pay the aggregate to a political party. PROVIDED such contributions are auditable and fully voluntary.

Andy #Burnham took over as PM he made noises about capping political donations to £500K, then reducing further. He now seems to be resisting pressure to carry this out We must stop characters like #Harborne & #Farage using politics for their own ends. shorturl.at/JvbF4 #MoralityinPolitics

Burnham accused of U-turn after initially backing political donations cap to fall below £500k

Exclusive: Campaigner says PM wrote in email he believed £500k cap should be reduced over time to guard against undue influences

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The brass neck of #Farage & the Tories knows no bounds. They want to subject immigrants to punitive measures when they are responsible for the problem. The botched Brexit deal has resulted in over 200K people having crossed the Channel in small boats, up from zero before the referendum. #RejoinEU

Lobga #Rangzen joins the bravest of the brave. This amazing human being, a #FreeTibet activist, set himself on fire and died a terrible death to draw attention to the repression going on in Tibet. phayul.com/solidarity-a... #Freedom #Empathy #Liberty, #Fraternity phayul.com/solidarity-a...

Solidarity actions sweep Dharamshala to honour late martyr Lobga Rangzen  - Phayul

Phayul.com is one of the most popular & successful Tibetan news website in English. With daily readers touching over 12,500 and still growing. It features news and views on Tibet.

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“No amount of headline-chasing, or following Reform to the extremes can hide the damage the Tories did to our housing system” So v bored of the rightwing elbowing each other out of the way to be the most racist, the most vengeful. It’s all so deeply inadequate. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Tories unveil ‘unworkable’ plan to evict foreign nationals from social housing

Conservatives accused of copying controversial Reform policy while government data shows nine out of 10 social lets already go to UK nationals

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Jon King probably has all the pillow cases and duvets he needs and then some. He won’t have racist thugs terrorising him in his home, threatening to burn it down. He won’t be permanently worried sick and fearful for himself, his family and his future. Still not sure how he sleeps at night though.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

Jon King of the Express has contributed this news report amid the vigilante mob violence in Thetford www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2237...

Hahahaha. Farage now whining that he was badly advised by his overpaid team into calling his stupid by-election. Confirming then that he’s incapable of working it out for himself. Too busy counting his money. Honest to god, Clacton. Don’t be the constituency dunces he needs you to be. (Times)

Whilst Andy Burnham has found the time to opine on such vital issues as 'vertical drinking', and whether a bread roll should be called a ‘barm’, he has not found the time to comment on some of the worst racist violence on Britain's streets in the postwar period www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/illegitima...

Illegitimate Concerns: Andy Burnham's Non-Response to the Thetford Pogrom Is His First Big Failure

Whilst happy to opine on 'vertical drinking' and whether bread rolls should be called 'barms', our new PM has had nothing to say about three days of horrific racist violence on our streets

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Farage should be in prison. Lowe should be back in obscurity, chuntering around his land and moaning that his life of staggering privilege is being messed up by having to see some brown people. And Musk - who pays Lowe to foghorn out his fascism - should…. I’ll leave it there.

“Lowe's language is the language of expulsion… So while Lowe struts around his acres, people in Thetford are having their windows smashed and facing chants of "we want them out".” It’s Farage’s language too though. Two cheeks. Same arse. www.independent.co.uk/voices/ruper...

Rupert Lowe is becoming the most dangerous useful idiot in Britain

Nigel Farage has been given some brief breathing room in the race to the bottom of Britain’s far-right thanks to his nemesis, Rupert Lowe, writes David Aaronovitch

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I understand the softly-softly-red-lines-in-our-manifesto approach but I also think it’s tediously prolonging the agony of this game of let’s-pretend-Brexit-wasn’t-a-monumental-fuck-up. The world is very different to 2016. Brexit Britain is going nowhere fast. Time to get real and say so.

Ultimately, our shared interests and responsibilities are far better served within the EU than without it. Prosperity, opportunity, defence, climate change, migration…are all issues better tackled together than constantly knocking on the door, asking to be let in. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“But just hours after Farage suggested the possibility of working with Estonia on this, the nation ruled out any deal”… confirming that, yet again, Farage is just making up shit as he goes along… Frankly embarrassing to ever believe a single word he says. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...

Reform's prisons policy already falling apart as nation rules out deal

The Estonian government has ruled out working with Reform on their plan to deport foreign criminals in UK prisons.

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First we have the Farage-attention-seeking-fanfare press conference to allow him to announce some steaming horseshit policy. Then we have the ‘why it’s steaming horseshit’ aftermath. But it’s already too late. Much like the filth pumped into our rivers and seas, our politics is hideously polluted.

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

If he wants the investigation stopped, presumably he now wants to lose the by-election. What a disaster. He resigned, then said he would fight the by-election; none of the other parties turned up to play his game, and if he wins, he still gets investigated. What a cunning stunt.

bsky.app/profile/neil... Yes! Complete BBC BS! Wasn't the BBC supposed to be too woke and intelligent to fall for Farage's distractions. Unbelievable 🤮🤮🤮🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

Neil Brand@neilkbrand.bsky.social · last mo.

What the hell is the BBC 6pm news doing leading with Farage's clickbait about using the Royal Navy to stop immigrants? An absurd soundbite from a tiny party with a disgraced leader and that's the most important news in the UK today? Dear God. The rot has truly gone deep.

French authorities have to waste their time rubbishing Reform’s ‘policy’ — announced by 2 people at a press conference that are not even MP’s, Farage and Yusuf — which they hastily put out to distract from massive scandals that would massively damage any other Party.

France hits out at Reform UK plan to return migrants using Royal Navy

It comes after the party said it would override French objections to return migrants to France.

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What's Farage and Yusuf gonna do when the French navy faces down the Royal Navy in the Channel? Honestly, this whole thing is complete bullshit, but the kind of cowpat that Reform voters love to swallow whole, and unquestioningly. #C4News

Matthew Stadlen @matthewstadlen.bsky.social · last mo.

Nigel Farage taking time out from campaigning against a bin to claim a Reform government would land Royal Navy boats on French beaches without French consent.

Nigel Farage - Under investigation Richard Tice - Under investigation Robert Jenrick - Under investigation Anyone else?

The European mind cannot comprehend this

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters The plastic, non-lethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers will be at the ready at certain schools in Colorado, Florida and Georgia www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Palm Warbler - summer Canada, N. America, migrates Central America and Caribbean European robin UK, European European Chaffinch - Europe, W Asia, N Africa

New polling by ECFR shows UK voters see #Brexit as a disaster.2016 politics of “leavers” & “remainers” far behind, now split into “Optimists” (for confident reintegration), “Realists” (negotiated closer relations) and “Loners” (for continued distance). shorturl.at/cPgBv

Brexit isn’t working: British voters are ready for a European future – European Council on Foreign Relations

Ten years on from the referendum, the British electorate has moved on from its old divisions and—in a world of crisis—is embracing an ambitious move back toward

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The UK needs connectivity, such ideas as these should be researched with the results being put before the UK public. www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/130bn...

£130bn The Loop could be a ‘true northern powerhouse’, says Riba chief | New Civil Engineer

The proposal would see the construction of a futuristic, interconnected high-speed railway for the North of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Northern

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shorturl.at/4GA2Q #Farage has many instances where he should have declared cash. One of the doners, Cottrell, is an aristocrat with a criminal record. It's reported he’s currently angling for a pardon from Trump. Trump & Farage are buddies. Charlatans must be exposed. #RejoinEU

Farage ‘finished’ following new undeclared benefits scandal

While we can't say this will be the final nail in Nigel Farage's coffin, we can say this; there are an awful lot of nails at this point

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shorturl.at/Wj30u Closer scrutiny is making #Farage sweat. Many are finding out that the title 'snake oil super salesman' is pretty near the mark. 73% of Britons describe Nigel Farage as sleazy 56% think he is *very* sleazy #Reform's sleaze up 18 points #RejoinEU #StandwithUkraine #ClimateCrisis

Most Britons say Nigel Farage is ‘very sleazy’

Belief Reform UK is sleazy has grown in the last two years, and is now seen as sleazier than the Labour government

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🇪🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 European officials fear that Trump could again attempt to control the Ukraine negotiation process, sidelining European allies and jeopardizing their strategy of maximum pressure on Russia and full support for Ukraine, - Politico.

Ten years of solitude: why it’s time to take our seat at the European table again

Ten years of solitude: why it’s time to take our seat at the European table again

Going it alone hasn't made us stronger; it has simply made us smaller

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Great discussion with Mark Carney in Évian. Canada is truly the most European of the non-European countries. We are working together on digital trade, critical raw materials, and defence.

Brexit, the worst self inflicted injury in history. Reduced UK GDP by 6%-8% by 2025 compared with if Britain had remained in EU Productivity & employment reduced by 3%-4% Investment reduced by 12%-18% Stanford Uni, B of E, Deutsche Bundesbank, King's College London & Uni of Nottingham. #RejoinEU