Kirsty Besty

@k1rsty.bsky.social

Dog-loving, wine-drinking, book-loving, fascist-hating, woke optimist. Live in London and not murdered yet…🤪

'Solar farms are destroying our productive farmland!' cry the fossil-fuel-funded climate science deniers. In reality solar farms currently use up about 10% of the land area taken up by golf courses (0.07% vs 0.7%). And climate change is wrecking far, far more productive farmland.

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Sad to see LibDems jump on the prison panic bandwagon. "We know some prisoners must be released earlier, but not them, or them, or him, or her, or them, etc..." is an infinite loop that destroys public trust. Also potentially dangerous, as it throttles arrest/prosecution/sentencing at the other end.

Hearing the Tate bros whining and crying about how scared they are in prison because inmates are targeting them for being nonces is just absolutely beautiful.

The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.

Opposition Leader Kemi Badenoch and Shadow Home Office Secretary Chris Philp, in high-vis police jackets enjoy a photo opportunity.

Oops. I just confirmed that I discussed returning to politics before I received the £5m from my crypto chum, putting a hole in my argument that I didn't need to declare it because I had no involvement in politics at that time.

BBC News: Reform UK's Richard Tice under investigation from the parliamentary commissioner for standards Sky News: Reform UK's Nigel Farage under investigation from the parliamentary commissioner for standards BBCQT: Reform UK's Muhammad Zia Yusuf rejected by Reform UK to stand in by-elections

60K migrants who entered Spain coming our way? Bailiffs seizing your dead parents’ old car in their garage to pay an imaginary death tax? Fighting for democracy against a bin? Reform MPs’statements in the past week. Reform UK are officially the NEW Monster Raving Loony Party! 😉

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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.

Hi @andyburnham.bsky.social the daughter of a Holocaust survivor has been arrested because of a policy Starmer and Cooper rolled out which Labour Baron Hain said in the House of Lords, was shameful, and the UK's High Court initially said was 'unlawful' She says, "It's not what my parents died for"

Farage's claimed abdominal surgery just prior to the Widdicombe murder has been brought into question. Experts say he wouldn't have up for weeks, and certainly physically incapable of laying a wreath. Another pity project? Or something else? Medical issues would be great cover to quit Clacton.

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www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Just when you think the great John Crace cannot get any better than his last column, he does. This is a brutally brilliant and very funny tear-down of Honest Bob - John has torn him not just one but several new ones!

Even GB News cringes as Reform turns dementia patients into a political football | John Crace

Honest Bob was rattled at the idea of joining cross-party talks on social care. Why bother behaving as a serious opposition?

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Probably too soon to tell if the party is over for Reform but if it is, few will resist a smirk at the fate of those ex-Tories - Jenrick, Braverman, and Lincolnshire Mayor Andrea Jenkyns - who fled their own failings in govt by rushing to Farage’s unctuous embrace. uk.news.yahoo.com/collapse-far...

Collapse in Farage’s approval rating could spell the end for the Reform revolution

ANALYSIS: Nigel Farage has weathered various political storms, but political editor David Maddox explains why this crisis might be different

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