Pat Brown 🇦🇪 🍉

@patalextea.bsky.social

Retired Alexander Teacher but kept Twitter handle so hopefully people can find me here Socialist Sing/arrange/compose Volunteer young people, people with HIV, Catholic Women's Ordination Crazy about The Archers

😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇

This would be economically illiterate & environmentally disastrous - and makes us less secure: undermining efforts to reduce energy bills by reducing dependence on gas, increasing vulnerability to global dictators, driving climate emissions & knee capping a market that’s just beginning to take off

Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say

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We’ll tell you what’s boring, Farage and the BBC… honking out Reform’s latest anti-asylum seeker bollox, as if it’s workable or wanted, and without any meaningful scrutiny. Yusuf on #r4today like a firehose of fascist idiocy, when this is the ugly truth behind their desperate outburst…

Mirror headline: 

Nigel Farage's latest announcement comes as Reform UK continue to struggle with falling poll ratings (O Gary Oakley/PA Wire)
Nigel Farage hits panic button and vows to ban all asylum seekers for five years after Reform poll plunge

The BBC is already giving Nigel Farage coverage for a speech he hasn’t even delivered. Report on what he says tomorrow, by all means. But previewing it now gives him free publicity and lets him set the agenda before anyone can scrutinise his words.

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