It's a Monica's Place Saturday Starter Pack!
I've collected a great group of Rebels, Resisters, & Democracy Defenders to introduce you to tonight! 💙
Nearly 1/3 are smaller accounts, so please make sure to check it out when you get time. Ty! 🥰
🧐, 👣 & 🔄
#StrongerTogether 💙💪💙
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REFORM UK WELSH MANIFESTO COSTED
It's another Reform UK manifesto that's all about promises and claims to be cost-neutral, but the numbers in here suggest a £200–250m annual deficit plus large infrastructure costs.
Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️
The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?
From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy.
What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.
When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.
Remember this.
This isn’t a hallucination, Michael Gove. You’ve never explained the millions you disbursed to buddies with your crony Covid Contracts.
Cashing in on the worst public health crisis in a century should disbar people from public life permanently.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...
Shocking....!! Not.
Reform’s Scottish leader may or many not be racist but he’s definitely wrong as knife crime falls in Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/03/07/r...
Ad campaign idea... "RESTORE BRITAIN; Because Tories that were too toxic even for Reform UK deserve a retirement plan."
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I've taken action for our wild places!
The UK Government is proposing changes to the National Planning Policy Framework. Help it work for nature.
action.rspb.org.uk/page/187254/...
There must be many reasons this isn’t “front page” news.
The biggest is that our leaders have consistently failed the population
On the one hand, a clearly deranged lunatic in the White House starting a dangerous illegal war on Iran with already-serious repercussions for the region and world...
Or having a pop at Keir Starmer.
You just knew which side the Right would come down on.
Imteresting that politicians or their partners are being investigated and even arrested because of alleged spying links to Russia and China. And yet Israel has actively corrupted more politicians paying bribes to them pretty much openly to do their bidding amd yet thats allowed.
Today we launch our plan for Wales, putting behind us the dark days when Nathan Gill, the Leader of Reform in Wales, took bribes to do the bidding of foreigners.
In other news, we have just had another £3million donation from a crypto investor who lives in Thailand...
“With conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer’s, artificial definitions of which services counted as healthcare and which were social care had led to institutional “bunfights” over who footed the bill, she said, “with families picking up the pieces”.
Can confirm 🫥🫥🫥
A national care service is urgently required. But do I have much hope this attempt will fare any better than Andrew Dilnot's extremely well-argued case for care funding in 2011? Not really. (It needed less than 0.25% of GDP).
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
NO MORE POINTLESS FINES
Privatised water companies see fines as the cost of doing business
Pocket change while they keep prioritising shareholders
Remove South East Water's licence, take it into public ownership NOW
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stunning victory in Stroud last night.
Look at that majority! 💚😍
Huge congratulations to @helenelliott-boult.bsky.social and the entire team!
Join our movement:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
This is what Badenoch, Farage, the Murdoch press, and Paul Marshall's stable of GB News weirdos want us to get behind, and you know what I'm good, thanks...
Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Should this be in Reform UKs manifesto?
#wales #scotland
Vote to protect yourselves.
youtu.be/BMhae-UyM74?...
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.
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
Unlock Democracy's Substack
unlockdemocracy.substack.com?r=tmht4&utm_...
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Demand better transport in new development! Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
British government urged to act as Israel confirmed to have used F-35 throughout the Gaza genocide
Anti-arms campaigners have urged the government to “correct the record” and end arms sales to Israel
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
Lockheed Martin CEO confirms data from Israel’s use of F-35 jets worth billions to the company
Comments are completely at odds with the UK government’s insistence that Israel is “minor customer” of the global F-35 jet programme.
caat.org.uk/news/lockhee...
Police trying to claim a “racial” element to this.
1. “Zionist” is not a race
2.“Intifada” is an Arabic word meaning uprising
3. Israel is an apartheid state illegally occupying Palestine and committing genocide.
Churchill statue defaced with graffiti: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Exclusive: UK charity regulator found 'mismanagement' by Campaign Against Antisemitism
CAA has previously been accused of conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism, and has now been issued with a remedial Action Plan
www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...
