This guy utterly dismantles the populist politics of Reform and Restore in 90 seconds. Itโs actually quite beautiful.
Take decades of deep-rooted problems in Britain and convince people that a relatively tiny proportion of the population is responsible for all of them. Housing, the NHS, crime. Blame illegal migrants for everything.
Suddenly, you donโt need credible solutions to the housing crisis, NHS waiting lists or crime. You just need increasingly extreme policies on immigration.
And by the time people realise you never had meaningful answers to the vast majority of Britainโs problems, youโre already in power, handing out tax cuts to your donors.
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RETWEET if you stand with President Zelensky against Donald Trump!
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Reform UK council chief threatens to report generous cafรฉ owner who fed kids for free to police.
The cafรฉ owner served up free meals to hungry children after food vouchers were removed by Reform UK Council leaving the kids starving.
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They nailed it with this one !! ๐thedailymash.co.uk/politics/โฆ
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To open Refugee Week 2026, weโre inviting our whole Hastings & St Leonards community to come together on Hastings beach.
Take your place in a human patchwork quilt stretching from the RNLI to The Dove Cafรฉ. Wear orange. Stand together. In solidarity with refugees.
6pm, 13 June.
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Iโve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism.ย But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. Itโs stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. Iโve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnnโs @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to โsmileโ, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say โNo more.โ
Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldnโt! And neither should any of us. Itโs unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.
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Labour have halved the asylum backlog, yet the media never mention it.
Why is that?
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I know there is a lot of news around but can someone at the Beeb explain to me how a man they keep telling us might be the next PM getting an undisclosed donation of FIVE MILLION POUNDS from a Thai based crypto dealer (with a BS explanation about it being for lifelong security) is not even a news story when the man he wants to replace led the news for days over some glasses and Arsenal tickets?
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Marina Hyde nails it beautifully as usual. theguardian.com/commentisfreโฆ























