Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies? By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself. 941531426
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/06/2025EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has drawn up plans to win over Reform voters by changing its news and drama output. BBC Director General Tim Davie and other execs discussed altering "story selection" in order to win the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...bylinetimes.comBBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama OutputThe Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party 366745492
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialPolitics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Kuenssberg forgot to add: Gulping Philp was the creator of the budget Farage described as the best of his life. #ukpolitics 2010423
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/06/2025UK is corruption island, ripping you off for essentials far more than anywhere else on the planet. 16321138
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialProf John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 02/06/2025The Day After….. 015334
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Just Liz Truss at the launch party for a new whiskey being sold by a bare-knuckle boxer who only recently came out of prison after beating up a 78-year-old in a pub. metro.co.uk/2025/06/02/l...metro.co.ukLiz Truss helps boxer who beat up pensioner to launch whiskey in bizarre video 130756285
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Today's ethical question: which is worse - dodging a fare or claiming public money for the same journey twice? 951574461
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 31/05/2025The fact that someone as dishonest and hypocritical as Robert Jenrick was not long ago shamed out of public life is a damning indictment of the state of politics and media in the UK www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/robert-jen...adambienkov.co.ukRobert Jenrick's Honesty-DodgingThat someone as dishonest and hypocritical as the Shadow Justice Secretary was not long ago shamed out of public life is a damning indictment of the state of politics and media in the UK 35812227
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialLynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Pro Zionist Maria Eagle at her most disgusting!! youtube.com/shorts/3j4l5...youtube.comUK Weapons Minister at Israeli Event Boasts of Spying on GazaYouTube video by Declassified UK 1136
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 16/05/2025🔴Labour Minister Defends RAF Gaza Surveillance Flights Amid Growing Scrutiny of UK-Israel Relationship Defence Minister Maria Eagle spoke at a private Israel Independence Day meeting and said the UK would continue to back the country bylinetimes.com/2025/05/16/m...bylinetimes.comLabour Minister Defends RAF Gaza Surveillance Flights Amid Growing Scrutiny of UK-Israel RelationshipDefence Minister Maria Eagle spoke at a private Israel Independence Day meeting and said the UK would continue to back the country 92117
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialGreens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 16/05/2025On Tuesday evening, Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and Jimmy Carr attended a party hosted by the Israeli embassy, while they commit genocide in Gaza. Minister Maria Eagle gave a speech boasting of "the RAF conducting surveillance flights over the Eastern Mediterranean.” 74226
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 30/03/2025"If a multimillionaire paid 2% more in tax, they’d still be a multimillionaire. But for a disabled person losing PIP, it’s the difference between survival and destitution." A damning letter to the editor. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.ukeastangliabylines.co.ukTax the super-rich? Unthinkable. Cut disability support? Sensible.A 2% wealth tax could raise £24bn, yet we're cutting disability benefits instead. Who are we protecting? 11700292
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Kemi Badenoch accepted a £14,000 week-long "residential" for her family and shadow cabinet, courtesy of the chair of climate change denying lobbying group Net Zero Watch. Weeks later she announced that she has ditched her party's commitment to reaching Net Zero bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k... 1051671898
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialPolitics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Tory party packed with Russian money, slashed our army forces, sold off key industries to their mates, and let public services rot - now they’ve got the nerve to act like they care about national security. #ukpolitics 620273
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Northumbrian Water dumped 945,000 tonnes of sewage into sea in 2024. Every day story of England's water companies with 1,135 criminal convictions. Permitted by OFWAT to fleece customers, operate illegally, create health hazards. Govt refuses to end abuses.bbc.co.ukNorthumbria Water 'released one million tonnes of sewage' to seaThe water firm says its own estimate of discharge to the North Sea at Whitburn cannot be relied on. 22470246
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Keir Starmer's promised 'decade of national renewal' is increasingly promising to be a decade of national disappointment instead www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/austerity-...adambienkov.co.ukAusterity of ThoughtKeir Starmer's promised 'decade of national renewal' is increasingly promising to be a decade of national disappointment instead 40422100
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/03/2025"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... " www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...usatoday.comImmigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detentionNo shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations. 1219169438266
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/03/2025So tax breaks for tech bosses and welfare cuts for the disabled 2061842828
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025So nearly two thirds of Americans are not. Got it. 1485283114609
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks. 21766280013889
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Every single Democratic Senator voted for Marco Rubio as Sec of State! 569130682878
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialMax Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Incredible scoop here from Hope not Hate: 418474
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialBylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 27/02/2025"Other senior business figures, who have funded either the Leave campaigns or Brexit think tanks, made their millions in Russia or have major investments there." | Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.socialbylinetimes.comPutin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With ItPeter Jukes tracks Vladimir Putin’s long war against the West and the allies he has found in the pro-Brexit establishment in the plot to derail Britain 11348193
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialMarina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Anyone paying any attention knew this… Also, nearly half of all homes pay more council tax than Buckingham Palace …including a 3-bed terraced houses in Blackpool Council tax reform now. 541253376
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Poorest fifth in England pay 4.8% of income in council tax; richest fifth 1.5%. 27% real term cut in council funding since 2010, govt hand tax cuts to corporations/rich. Poor hit with regressive taxes VAT Fuel duty Wages taxed at higher rates than dividends, capital gains. Need tax justice.theguardian.comPoorest UK households pay rising share of income on council tax, study findsResolution Foundation report says failure to reform has ‘slowly recreated the issues that undid the poll tax’ 20634310
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialEast Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 17/02/2025Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage. By @stephenmcnair.bsky.socialeastangliabylines.co.ukGovernment is busy: but the media are not telling youDespite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage 46829
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025🇬🇧 The stone raft: stubborn isolationism or an EU reset Starmer seeks an EU reset, but sends mixed signals to the EU on trade and alliances, and clings to US ties.yorkshirebylines.co.ukThe stone raft: stubborn isolationism or an EU resetStarmer seeks an EU reset, but sends mixed signals to the EU on trade and alliances, and clings to US ties 42365109
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 16/02/2025I like that he posted a picture of a print-out of the email. 858260604369
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialPolitics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Nothing from this weasel who stalks Rachel Reeves' LinkedIn account about the 2 million extra NHS appointments delivered by Labour. #ukpolitics 1929776
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialDeclassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 06/02/2025The BBC is covering up UK support for Israel. 👉https://declassifieduk.org/national-scandal-the-bbcs-gaza-cover-up/ 913185
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/02/20252019-2024: £44bn lost to fraud in UK Govt depts under the Tories - often run by members now in Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet. Contracts for cronies, PPE procurement, COVID loans & furlough scheme, Eat Out to Help Out, R&D tax credits. Ministers ignored concerns. Who is called to account?mirror.co.ukKemi Badenoch's top team ran departments that gave £20k a minute to fraudstersNew analysis reveals that since 2019, over £44 billion of taxpayer money was lost to fraud in departments under the Tories - often while they were run by members of Ms Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet 36645387
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialYorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 02/02/2025✍️ An overview of the myriad disappointments of the Starmer Labour government, 2024-25 "You wanted hope and change and what did you get? Austerity, repackaged with a red rosette." © Steve Pottinger 2 Feb 2025 @bigstevepoet.bsky.social with cartoon by @sdupp.bsky.social 1212648
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025At home, Trump has enabled Musk to stage a coup against the government with his army of unvetted stooges taking over the Treasury. Abroad, he's shut down aid & canceled malaria/ HIV programs & put 1000s of lives at risk. Meanwhile, top Democratic leaders are tweeting about egg and priza prices. 😠 33978911723
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Emma Trimble, "1 in 12 people in London are illegal immigrants" Professor Jonathan Portes, "Emma has taken that figure from a story in The Telegraph.. That story was a lie.. The Telegraph has corrected it, The Times has corrected it.. The Sun has corrected it.. And The Daily Mail has corrected it" 1582430706
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialfife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025BBC: Welsh Refugee Council staff 'harassed' after Musk shares X post www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWelsh Refugee Council staff 'harassed' after Musk shares X postStaff at the charity say some colleagues have had death threats after Musk shared the post on X. 22921
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Greenland would now vote to join the EU. I wonder what's caused such a big shift? 🤔 1183320840
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/01/2025British people now dislike Elon Musk more than ever with more than 7 in 10 having an unfavourable opinion of him. Even Reform voters are now turning against him 36790165
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialBremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 12/01/2025As turmoil hits the markets with the UK being hit harder than most, Chris Blackhurst looks at why saying Brexit is to blame for much of the difficulties we are in is still a taboo and why unless we confront that reality, Keir Starmer will find it hard to move on www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...independent.co.ukBrexit has done enormous harm to the UK – Starmer needs to urgently repair the damageAs turmoil hits the markets with the UK being hit harder than most, Chris Blackhurst looks at why saying Brexit is to blame for much of the difficulties we are in is still a taboo and why unless we co... 917371
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 12/01/2025“With Labour maintaining a single-digit lead in the polls at the best of times and not having risen above 30% since October, there is every chance that Reform UK could take the lead.” Nigel Farage’s party poses a great threat to Britain’s future | James Jobsonnortheastbylines.co.uk‘The unknown threat of Reform’Nigel Farage’s party poses a great threat to Britain’s future 207923
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 12/01/2025The claim that Musk would like to buy LFC did not go down well with fans. Elon does not have a good enough track record as a businessman for this particular fan | Craig Melianorthwestbylines.co.ukMusk claim a stinker with fansThe claim that Musk would like to buy LFC did not go down well with fans. Elon does not have a good enough track record as a businessman for this particular fan 1014327
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialStay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 12/01/2025There's some rewriting of history going on today where people are saying: oh, Labour is struggling with the economy too, maybe it wasn't all the Tories' mismanagement...? The answer is that it's Brexit. It's Brexit! You can't fix the economy until you confront Brexit! 720659
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialStay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Brexit funder Arron Banks can't get a visa to the US. Wonder why? Something raising security issues in your files, Arron? 🤔indy100.comArron Banks denied entry to US for his own Donald Trump inauguration partyArron Banks, the former UKIP donor and businessman who co-founded the Brexit campaign group Leave.EU with Reform UK’s Richard Tice, will be unable to celebrate Donald Trump’s inauguration at his own p... 410422
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/01/20252016: Nigel Farage says MEPS have "never done a proper job in your life" 2025: The people of Clacton must be proud that their MP who doesn't hold in person surgeries, like every other MP in the country, manages to find time for nine jobs 921691627
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 12/01/2025So concerned were the Reform MPs at child abuse, as they claimed, that none even bothered to turn up to the Commons debate. So notes Pecksniff, East Anglia Bylines acerbic diarist. Read this and his cutting views on other news stories from this week. ⤵️eastangliabylines.co.ukPecksniff: So concerned were Reform MPs at child abuse, none turned up to the Commons debateIn which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life 15563222
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025"Once a hub for news, debate, and connection, Twitter has devolved into a cesspit of hate and chaos. Today, I’m sending my final tweet."northeastbylines.co.ukGoodbye to Twitter. Good riddance to X."Once a hub for news, debate, and connection, Twitter has devolved into a cesspit of hate and chaos. Today, I’m sending my final tweet." 1512926459
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 11/01/2025"Once a hub for news, debate, and connection, Twitter has devolved into a cesspit of hate and chaos. Today, I’m sending my final tweet." | Mark Fergusonnortheastbylines.co.ukGoodbye to Twitter. Good riddance to X."Once a hub for news, debate, and connection, Twitter has devolved into a cesspit of hate and chaos. Today, I’m sending my final tweet." 17430100
Reposted by @dazh68.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025You have to admire the chutzpah of Ted Cruz attacking Karen Bass and Dems in LA right now. Ted Cruz wasn’t on an official trip out of town when Texas snow storms hit & shut down his state - he fled to Cancun AFTER the crisis began, to stay at the Ritz & have a nice time. 250+ people died in Texas 37547881022