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Nigel Farage is in Mar-a-Lago tonight (not Clacton, obvs). Via Politico: "What Farage should be doing: Sorting out his Reform documents with Companies House. The party is overdue on submitting a [legally mandatory] statement."
In case you missed it ...
🌻 The Greens want to rejoin the EU. Their only question is "What would be the best first step?" Very sensibly, they want to speak to the EU about that, to find the best and quickest solution for both sides. This open letter is from June last year.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Hope is rising across East Anglia. Campaigners from Herts to Norfolk are back on the streets with Brexitometers, marches and a renewed push to move Britain closer to the EU...and it's happening across the country.
The 10-year anniversary could be a turning point.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
There is “no evidence that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is overdiagnosed in the UK” and the condition could even be “underdiagnosed”, a team of experts has said
www.itv.com/news/2026-03...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
And Labour expect us to vote for them!
No. Bloody. Chance!
I try to stay a bit onside sometimes with Labour - because they’re slightly better than Reform or Tories (although ARE they? No!) but I can’t.
No one in my family will vote Labour now.
The government has promised to deliver “higher living standards” in the UK by the end of the Parliament.
We’re now rating this pledge as ‘appears off track’, as RHDI per head has decreased since Labour took office.
💥 WOW - this is HUGE news!
See —> www.ft.com/content/e5cb...
Why is the Home Sec so intent on copying Reform immigration policy? 🤔
If the Govt is looking for a popular policy that will actually help fix the UK's problems...
A #WealthTax is backed by
61% Reform voters
81% LD voters
63% Tory voters
85% Green voters
88% Labour voters
I see Farage is off to Mar-a-Lago to talk down Britain and suck up to Trump.
There's nothing patriotic about cheering on a foreign leader whose illegal war is sending British families’ energy bills through the roof.
Can someone remind me again how many pay rises MPs have had in the past 15 years? 12? 13? Meanwhile, look at this (from the Nuffield Trust: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/ho...)
Our data belongs to all of us. We need to know how the NHS deals with our data. We need the right to say no. No to sneaky data grabs and no to Palantir 👇
https://goodlaw.social/3gc7
Billionaire brothers who backed Tories give Reform £100k Oliver Wright Extracts Britain's second-richest family have begun giving money to Reform UK after years of supporting the Conservatives. A company linked to the property tycoons David and Simon Reuben donated £100,000 to Nigel Farage's party the first time the brothers have given to any party other than the Tories. Reform has also received £3 million from Christopher Harborne, 63, an entrepreneur who now lives in Thai-land, adding to the ty million he gave in August. At the time, that was the biggest single donation to a UK political party by a living donor. In the last quarter of last year, Reform received more than £5.4 million in do-nations, the Conservatives were given £2.4 million and Labour received £1.9 million. The Reuben brothers - David, 87, and Simon, 84, who own property including Millbank Tower and Admiralty Arch in London — have donated almost El million to the Conservative Party since 2008. They also supported Boris Johnson after he left No 10, giving him office space worth £85,000. Their family wealth was put at £26.87 billion in The Sunday Times Rich List last year. Reform UK has its headquarters in Millbank Tower, but it is not known whether the brothers donation linked to reduced rent payments. Other Reform donors include David John Grainger, the co-founder of a biotech firm, and Gary Dutton, a double glazing entrepreneur, who both gave the party £250,000. Reform also received £100,000 from Isabel Goldsmith, sister of the former Tory minister Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park. Her father, Sir James Gold-smith, was seen as the godfather of British Euroscepticism. For the second quarter in a row Lord Bamford, the chairman of JCB, gave £200,000 each to the Conservatives and Reform. At the time of his first do-nation, the company said he was "sup-portive of pro-business political parties that create the conditions for these businesses to grow and prosper".
More billionaire cash bankrolling Reform.
JCB’s chairman, Bamford, said he was “supportive of pro-business political parties that create conditions for these businesses to grow and prosper."
Reform wants to repeal the Equality Act.
Prosperity for them means loss of rights and pay for us.
(Times)
Image of the start of the latest blog post
Real war and culture war. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog analyzing the Brexit imprint of domestic responses to the Iran crisis, the hypocrisy & sectarianism of Reform's response to the by-election and the questions it poses for Labour: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/real...
I've already made my feelings about this abhorrent policy clear but one antidote is to repost this piece I wrote last year about one refugee's story
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
What we see here is Donald Trump, acting as he always does, as a global chaos generator.
The further we stand away from that, the better off we will be.
Well said @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👏
#bbcqt #IranWar
You can take the Ayatollah out of Iran, but you can't take Trump out of the Epstein Files. My favourite quote of the day.
An excellent letter, showing humanity and compassion and demonstrating how MPs can change their views once they get a cabinet position in a party of hate and division.
this is a masterclass response to Mahmood's latest hate mongering from Zack.
Untrue - the Convention provides both for the possibility that protection might cease to be necessary (ie the cessation clause: refugee status ends if there's a change in circumstances) AND the possibility it might need to be long-term (ie references to facilitating citizenship of the refuge State)
WAR CRIME BY THE US.
An unarmed Iranian ship was takIng part in an Indian naval exercise, alongside the US.
The US withdrew and torpedoed the Iranian ship.
THEN the US refused to rescue the sailors, letting them drown.
This is treachery, cowardice, cruelty and a war crime of the highest order.
Absolutely outrageous. Political parties should be answerable first and foremost to the public - not to the agenda of uber-wealthy donors. We urgently need a cap on political donations and a ban on crypto donations.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
One backbencher said the changes to the immigration system mimicked Donald Trump and another claimed they would lead to a Windrush-style scandal
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Farage: - Cut Benefits. - Cut Minimum Wage. - Raise Retirement Age. - Means Test Pensions, - Privatise NHS - Oppose a Wealth Tax. Yet we are told he is on the side of the WORKING-CLASS?
Keep Farage as far away from power as possible!
#NeverVoteReform
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Love the sound of it, but curious about how a wealth tax would work in practice?
Here's everything you need to know, from who would pay it, to how it would be collected:
tinyurl.com/mu2skjtp
1. Thread 🧵
Freedom of Movement wasn’t just a policy.
It was a simple freedom: the ability to say yes.
• Yes to a job.
• Yes to love.
• Yes to a new life in another country.
When that freedom disappeared, something subtle but important changed.
To make the case for rejoining the EU you need to pick campaign areas that are universally indisputable:
- better pay
- more jobs
- fewer queues
- reduced cost
- more protection for workers
- reduced red tape for entrepreneurs
- safer food
- better defence
- more freedom
- high living standards
The Home Secretary’s own MPs see through this. She is desperate and dangerous.
People are joining the alternative:
join.greenparty.org.uk
"Numerous MPs across parties called for a move to PR, or at least a National Commission on Electoral Reform, arguing FPTP is unfit for a multi-party political landscape.
@appgfairelections.bsky.social and Make Votes Matter are among those planning to keep up the fight."
@josiahmortimer.bsky.social
