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@chippy7

Was @johndoran1 in the other place. Woking LibDem. #FBPE

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I must apologise for Richard Stupid Tice not understanding that no gas or oil is ‘our own’ because Maggie Thatcher sold it off, so it is all sold by private companies on the global market. Norway did not sell theirs off and now have a sovereign wealth fund of £1.6trillion.

03.03.2026 20:06 👍 1021 🔁 302 💬 34 📌 8

I keep reading about EU plans to prevent new members from becoming 'another Orban problem' (phasing in voting rights etc), but it feels like a fundamental misdiagnosis when the issue is with countries who have already been members for some time

06.03.2026 13:02 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

The world health organization has found that the US and Israel have bombed several health facilities in Iran.

We have also bombed two ADDITIONAL schools this week, not counting the girls schools earlier. Making that 4 in total.

We are the bad guys in this illegal war.

#SheShed

06.03.2026 12:56 👍 193 🔁 140 💬 23 📌 17

There is no disguising it now. Mahmood (and the Labour party) are just evil bastards

06.03.2026 10:57 👍 83 🔁 41 💬 7 📌 0

Trump cut off supplies of Sidewinder missiles for Ukraine’s F-16s, which limited their ability to prevent Russian strikes on Ukraine’s cities during the dead of winter when Putin ramped up attacks. And yet, when we need help with interceptor drones for Iran, Ukraine offered them without hesitation.

05.03.2026 19:46 👍 2486 🔁 811 💬 124 📌 31

Our understanding is that the police's entire "intelligence" basis for the raid was "a social media post about targeting the rich" rather than specific plans for any protests actions.

06.03.2026 10:34 👍 48 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 4
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Trump has launched a war in the Middle East without a plan, without a strategy, and without any clear idea about where it leads or how it ends.

He has no clue what he’s doing in Iran. [Cartoon by Brendan Loper]

05.03.2026 19:45 👍 1517 🔁 424 💬 48 📌 18

This Labour government is worse than my worst nightmare. They are congenitally incapable of doing the right thing.

06.03.2026 08:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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06.03.2026 08:33 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
 This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified.

From breaking news to huge investigative proje

This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified. From breaking news to huge investigative proje

Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".

Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.

05.03.2026 16:45 👍 606 🔁 255 💬 21 📌 15
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UK Gave £90k to Sexual Violence Report Central to Israel’s Genocide Propaganda Exclusive: The Foreign Office funded a sexual violence report subsequently used in a £33m Israeli campaign to whitewash its genocide in Gaza. Rivkah Brown reports.

Mindblowing story. The UK met most of the costs of a key propaganda tool used by the Israeli Government to launder its genocide in Gaza - then tried to cover up the fact it had done so.

06.03.2026 08:04 👍 257 🔁 151 💬 10 📌 9
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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.

05.03.2026 19:38 👍 1797 🔁 1001 💬 135 📌 96

"We're sharing intelligence on a 24/7 basis in the usual way. That is the special relationship." ~ Starmer

Complicity in an illegal war.

Also, sending fighter jets to a region where Iran’s reach is limited, is not defensive; it is objectively offensive.

06.03.2026 08:05 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Zelensky has done everything he possibly can to satisfy this admin while he fights a war of survival for his people. And the Trump admin has done nothing but repeatedly treat him with disrespect, scorn & ridicule. 2 days ago, Trump called him “PT Barnum.” This is how Z responds.

05.03.2026 18:03 👍 4362 🔁 1222 💬 262 📌 81

The US has suspended operations at their Kuwait embassy so American citizens there are on their own. Not that Donald Trump will care, alive or dead, Americans mean nothing to him unless he can profit from them.

05.03.2026 20:44 👍 959 🔁 287 💬 45 📌 10
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Are they smoking crack? Israel is at fault here far. It also started wars on seven different fronts to hide its genocide in Gaza and this is the UK’s response

04.03.2026 21:33 👍 185 🔁 45 💬 21 📌 4

Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.

05.03.2026 08:22 👍 614 🔁 247 💬 23 📌 10
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Inconvenient facts for Farage Reform’s own involvement with “foreign voters”...

Welcome to Farage-land, where it's not okay for Muslims to vote in elections, but it's okay for Reform to have overseas members and foreign billionaire backers...

03.03.2026 08:46 👍 390 🔁 159 💬 13 📌 5
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04.03.2026 21:41 👍 149 🔁 51 💬 3 📌 0
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This 2020 Trump speech is going viral.

02.03.2026 22:00 👍 196 🔁 125 💬 10 📌 10

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

05.03.2026 04:33 👍 4373 🔁 1805 💬 101 📌 30
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Behold! A $3 million American missile, launched by a $200 million jet that flies at a cost of $20,000 dollars/hour to kill people who live on less than $10 a day in Iran.
Meanwhile in America, lawmakers believe that a $6.20 daily SNAP benefit is wasteful spending, #Corruption #Murphyisms

05.03.2026 02:13 👍 51 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 0
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MPs say Starmer’s UK-EU reset lacks ‘direction, definition and drive’ Foreign affairs committee report finds summit improved political relationship but efforts lack ‘strategic priorities’

“Keir Starmer’s efforts to reset the UK’s relationship with the EU are lacking in “direction, definition and drive”, parliament’s foreign affairs committee has said.
#Brexit disaster www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

04.03.2026 06:13 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1

#ToryBrexitDisaster #LabourBrexitDisaster

04.03.2026 03:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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03.03.2026 17:00 👍 129 🔁 64 💬 13 📌 3
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Montie being a plonker with a purpose.

02.03.2026 19:38 👍 393 🔁 62 💬 29 📌 15

The new " Bone Spurs".

03.03.2026 06:59 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Remember 1983

03.03.2026 07:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The infighting continues. Empty G telling Billy to pedal her tricycle over to the middle east and join in the fight

03.03.2026 07:02 👍 26 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

This is nothing. Just send Mahmood out again to announce some more anti-refugee policies and you can easily find your way to fifth place.

03.03.2026 06:50 👍 956 🔁 218 💬 41 📌 7