MattB@Bluesky.
@mattb3993.bsky.social
"I read the news today, oh boy" Lennon/McCartney
🔴 NEW 🔴 Campaigners are now demanding a parliamentary investigation into Reform MP Sarah Pochin following a donation to her office by food industry millionaires. 📝 @desmog.com & @goodlawproject.org report 👇🏻
Investigate Reform MP Over Donation, Campaigners Demand
Sarah Pochin, Reform UK MP for Runcorn and Helsby, is facing pressure over a £5,000 donation from food industry millionaires that stand to benefit from her campaigning. According to an investigation ...
desmog.com
We have released an updated and more accurate version of Operation Fortress.
Finally a glimmer of humanitarian compassion from Zia Yusuf. Or maybe not. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former navy officer criticises Reform plan to use military to stop small boats
Retired commander says policy lacks substance as party accused of trying to distract from Nigel Farage’s scandals
theguardian.com
Diane Abbott here speaking at a Stop Some Wars rally, calling Putin's continuing brutal war against Ukraine "the NATO campaign against Russia". FFS. youtu.be/SMBjoiMskxA?...
Diane Abbott MP
YouTube video by StoptheWarCoalition
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As suspected, the "millionaire exodus from the 🇬🇧 UK" turned out to be yet another right-wing media myth. The data suggest that millionaire emigration is, in reality, negligible close to 0% rather than the mass flight so confidently proclaimed.
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · last wk.🔎 From the archive: The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social 🔁 Relevant again: As the right wing think tank propaganda about 'losing millionaires' returns
Nigel Farage: the controversies A chronology of claims, contradictions and crookedness.
Anyone watched BBC TV’s show ’Play School’? Here’s an unsolved mystery… She first appeared in 1964, and last appeared in 1986. She appeared in perhaps 6,000 episodes. She is, of course, the doll ‘Hamble’! Can anyone tell me where she is? (This is worse than Paul McCartney’s lost bass guitar)
NEW: How a small network of high-profile, right wing accounts systematically floods the digital landscape with coordinated, manufactured and often inaccurate, misleading narratives. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/07/21/f...
Flood warning - How manufactured outrage on social media travels faster than facts – HOPE not hate
Today, more people consume news through social media than through traditional journalism. Therefore, the information that influences public opinion is increasingly shaped by algorithms, engagement, an...
hopenothate.org.uk
I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot
Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot
theguardian.com
I meet people every week when out vox popping who are completely convinced that small boat crossings are rising exponentially. They aren’t - they are falling substantially. Journalists and politicians have a duty to get this message across. Some are mendacious, others just incompetent.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w agoSmall boats to UK now down 45% year on year to mid-July. The BBC continues to (mistakenly) tend to hypothesise a weather effect. It is neither weather nor UK govt policy. It is a change in EU-wide flows.
Not bin a good few weeks for Farage. leftfootforward.org/2026/07/coun...
Count Binface has 12-point lead over Nigel Farage, according to latest head-to-head poll
Could it happen?! Could Nigel Farage’s publicity stunt backfire and result in him losing his seat to novelty candidate Count Binface? According to a poll carried out by IPSOS, Count Binface has a 1...
leftfootforward.org
Reform UK ~ funded by Russia Restore - bought and paid for by an American trillionaire GB News - owned by a hedge fund in Dubai The Daily Mail - registered in Bermuda. Is that Patriotism? #NotOnOurSide ⤵️ #ReformUKLtd 🇷🇺 #RupertLowe 🇺🇸 #GBNews 🔥🇬🇧 #DailyMail 🔥🇬🇧 www.facebook.com/share/p/1H1z...
"More Reform corruption uncovered in [today's] Sunday Times...... Why don't they just admit the grift is over. It's finished, jail the bastards......." via We Demand UK
How do you resign from a job you weren't actually doing? Asking for a friend
"In what must rank as one of the most self-pitying, self-obsessed pieces of political rhetoric we’ve heard from a politician since Boris Johnson’s myriad attempts to justify himself back in 2022, Nigel Farage surprised absolutely no-one..." Me for @uk.theconversation.com this arvo.
Why Nigel Farage is resigning as an MP, only to stand again – expert analysis
Nigel Farage is triggering a by-election, appearing to be pitting people against ‘the establishment’.
theconversation.com
Whatever the hell that statement from Farage was meant to be, it wasn't Prime Ministerial.
This is Reform UK’s Leader of Warwickshire Council, George Finch. Frankly embarrassing to watch.
Andy Burnham should introduce a cap on all political donations as prime minister, @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social says leftfootforward.org/2026/07/chri...
Christopher Harborne has exposed the flaw in Labour’s political donation policy
A universal cap on political donations is simpler, fairer and far harder to sidestep.
leftfootforward.org
It's not "just weather". It's verified scientific evidence, confirmed by 95 - 97 % of all climate experts and scientists worldwide. And it's bloody terrifying, especially for future generations. youtube.com/shorts/xt8kI...
NASA's Climate Spiral: Visualizing Global Warming #nasa #shorts
YouTube video by Lifeverse
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'The party said its plans for Staffordshire County Council would be a blueprint for other authorities it controls across the country.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform plan to scrap 'woke' diversity schemes in Staffordshire
Reform UK says plans in Staffordshire are a blueprint for all its councils, but issues few details.
bbc.co.uk
Calls for proportional representation are growing among Labour MPs
Over 80 Labour MPs sign electoral reform amendment
The demands for electoral reform are growing, with more than 80 Labour MPs, 20 per cent of the Parliamentary Labour Party, now signing an amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Refor...
leftfootforward.org
It’s far too hot, far too early, and it’s only getting worse. Thankfully, Jerry on Twitter is on hand to explain that 1976 was hotter, his nan wore a bikini for three months straight, he inhaled fifteen ice lollies and everything was fine. Jerry is, unfortunately, also talking out of his bum.
“Remember ’76?” Isn’t a Climate Argument
Britain is boiling, but some people still think a hot summer in 1976 disproves climate change. It doesn’t.
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