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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 14/05/2025
If Reform really do turn out to be Labour's biggest threat, Labour would be better off fighting them on any battlefield other than immigration, Reform's home turf. Brexit, for example. That could make very uncomfortable going for Reform, since they'd be forced to divert and defend the indefensible.
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The argument that Starmer didn't mean to sound like Enoch Powell would be a lot more convincing if it hadn't been in a speech announcing a load of policies that Enoch Powell would have been proud of.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Private Eye on Starmer’s immigration speech Are we really meant to think he wasn’t responding to Reform? Would he really have used such toxic rhetoric if the results had been different? Does he really believe what he’s doing is fair and right? No one really thinks so Which means he loses everyone.
OH, YEAH? (Cartoon drawing of Starmer looking non-plussed)

"I know, on a day like today, people who like politics will try to make this all about politics, about this or that strategy, targeting these voters, responding to that party.
No, I'm doing this because it is right, because it is fair and because it is what I believe in." - Keir Starmer, announcing his immigration clampdown on 12 May - 11 days after elections in which Labour lost 187 local councillors, one regional mayor and an MP in a previously safe seat, while Reform UK gained 677 local councillors, two regional mayors and a new MP
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Quoting Enoch Powell is never a coincidence. The Prime Minister knew what message he was sending — and who he was sending it to. Disgraceful.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 14/05/2025
Starmer won’t be forgiven for this by swathes of people.
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FIGHTBACK WITH JOHN McPHIE @rejoincampaign.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
WILL A WEAK POLITICIAN’S FEAR OF FARAGE F*CK BRITAIN AGAIN? We don’t want a half-arsed deal with the EU which leaves us with the same £100bn bill, Brexit queues, Brexit embuggerances, no free movement, and separated from our European partners in the time of Trump! Got the massage, Prime Minister?
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Su Dharmapala ස්‍රම්‍රද ධර්මපාල @sudharmapala.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
#730abc - John Howard shat on the vision of what Australia could have been
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
You bet your ass
Screenshot of my Bluesky post about the Afrikaner so-called refugees with label of “Intolerance”
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Starmer’s “remarks are disgraceful. They are damaging in part because they validate the rhetoric and dishonesty of both Reform and the Conservatives. But, incredibly, they are also seriously damaging for the Labour govt itself” V good, clear-sighted analysis mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/star...
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Starmer’s Disgraceful and Damaging Remarks
I’m on holiday, and wasn’t going to write a blog post this week. But after a splendid day out on the Northumbrian coast I made the mistake...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/05/2025
Experts Agree Giant, Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat
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Experts Agree Giant, Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I did consider making a speech about tackling poverty, taxing the rich, nationalising utilities and properly funding the NHS and social care, but then I thought... nah, just go full Enoch Powell.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Huge thanks to the advisor who suggested I put “island of strangers” in my speech. Now Reform voters still hate me and Labour voters hate me even more.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It's a fantastic book - download it - buy it - or just borrow it and read it. The Dust Bowl Triolgy are worth the effort.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
If you wouldn't accept "we are at risk of becoming an island of strangers" from Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage you probably shouldn't accept it from Keir Starmer. Don't pretzel yourself trying to explain why it's ok from the guy in the red tie.
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Yossarian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 is @thequietamerican.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Enoch Powell: “they found themselves made strangers in their own country” @kierstarmerpm.bsky.social: “we risk becoming an island of strangers” This is the type of language I’d expect from Farage or Badenoch. This is quote is Starmer’s WMD claim and will define his Premiership.
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
WHO DID THIS?!?!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Brexit promised to “take back control of our borders” But it also created huge labour shortages So, govt issued huge numbers of visas to fill the gaps. It ended reciprocal asylum arrangements with the EU So, crossings went up. Govt response? “Take back control of our borders” Such a ruinous deceit.
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“We risk becoming island of strangers” is going to be Starmer’s “WMD being ready for use in 45 minutes” Goodbye, @kierstarmerpm.bsky.social
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
What we see in the UK today, and around the world, is a truth many people are reluctant to recognise: Centralised, hierarchical political systems are innately undemocratic, regardless of who is in charge. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Feeling the urge to take back control from power-mad governments? Here’s an idea | George Monbiot
We are told governing systems like ours are inevitable and irreplaceable, but real, participatory democracy is possible, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Perhaps we could appeal to the 80% of voters who think Nigel Farage is a scumbag? Instead of everyone appealing to the 20% who are racist morons?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Today, Starmer said he’d “take back control of our borders” and claimed that soaring immigration had done “incalculable damage” to our country. No. That damage is done by the ruinous dishonesty of our politicians and the hatred whipped up by their ugly anti-immigrant rhetoric. Shame on you, Starmer.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees. They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires. If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Immigration has soared since Brexit. If we want net migration to fall, then we should rejoin the EU's Single Market, which would return us to the flexible and efficient European labour market and restore our Freedom of Movement. #RejoinEU
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Des Ferris @dathiestferret.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Me waiting for a Labour policy that isn’t a homage to the Tories or Reform.
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a black and white photo of a young boy sitting at a desk with his hand on his chin .
ALT: a black and white photo of a young boy sitting at a desk with his hand on his chin .
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Joseph Stiglitz suggests Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer have got in wrong "To promote growth, the UK can raise taxes on capital gains" "If you raise taxes on the wealthy and expand government spending, that will stimulate the economy"
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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How the US president and his clan ushered in a new golden age of corruption | The Observer
The presidency and personal gain now go hand in hand – and no one has been able to do anything about it
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
When govts stop panicking and announcing policy to “challenge” Nigel effing Farage, we may stand a chance of fixing the mess that Nigel effing Farage helped to make. Until then, we will stay stuck in this populist dead end, loudly blowing our dog whistle at the world and wondering why nothing works.
Screenshot of Guardian headline:

Starmer to toughen migration rules in challenge to Reform

(Please go to Guardian for the story)
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Yossarian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 is @thequietamerican.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
As somebody who grew up to value and defend social justice. But let’s call a spade a spade, listening to Starmer this morning, I can only come to one conclusion, he’s a CUNT.
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This is a political time to wake up EVERYDAY prepared to Speak Truth to Power!
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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Yossarian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 is @thequietamerican.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Labour reducing migration to those sectors that rely on immigrants. This is such a local election knee jerk reaction. I was going to say Starmer is a cheap version of Farage, but let’s face it both are as cheap as each other.
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Yossarian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 is @thequietamerican.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Although this is meant to be facetious, it is very accurate. Reagonomics and Thatcherism is destroying society slowly, the result is oligarchs dictating how people live. The middle classes are being squeezed. And Dems or Labour have never reversed the policy for fear of backlash.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Ffs Yvette. You may think this ‘we will train our own’ argument persuades voters but it isn’t reality. You don’t have the money or the training programmes in place. The shortages are now. The care profession is in a state of dire neglect. Get fucking real and stop with the hideous cynicism.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Another week. Another ‘crackdown’ on immigration. Because Brexit exploded it. It created labour shortages and ended our shared EU arrangements. Then all the far right uglies went to town whipping up anti-immigrant sentiment for power. Until govts are honest about this, they will continue to fail.
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Melody Hamby Goss @melodygoss111.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"Brexit was a con."
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
“Starmer earned a goodwill dividend by virtue of not being a Tory but he overestimates the leverage that gives him as an architect of future relations when his successor could feasibly be Farage” Making the case for better terms with the EU has to start in the UK www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Keir Starmer can’t build a stronger European partnership by stealth. He has to declare it aloud | Rafael Behr
Britain has ‘reset’ relations with the EU, but with Farage ascendant again, our politics must be cured of the Brexit virus, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Not much point having power if you use it to further the agenda of your opponents… The Brexit mindset is a dull-witted and dangerous dead end. Beyond time to make the case for a more grown up, prosperous and cooperative relationship with our European neighbours. (Letter, Times)
Sir, As one of Jake Richards's Rother Valley constituents, I was pleased to see his Thunderer ("Brexit voters can see the need for deals with the EU", May 7). I welcome his focus on the need to rebuild relationships with the EU, especially in the light of global financial and political turmoil, and I accept that rejoining the EU is off the agenda.
However, even though he is an impressive, active local MP, I fear he underestimates the enthusiasm of his constituents (and others in similar constituencies, many of whom did not vote Labour in the local elections) for reworking our relationship with the EU.
Labour should emphasise historic and future connections to Europe rather than allowing the populist right to dictate what matters, but this will need bold, confident, collective promotion as well as clear explanation of the party's policies.
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Apparently @uklabour.bsky.social Starmer needs to sit down and rest after being rawdogged by Trump … again!
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I, for one, welcome our new overlord.
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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It’s true.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/05/2025
God Loses $400 Betting On Cardinal Tagle
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God Loses $400 Betting On Cardinal Tagle
THE HEAVENS—Cursing aloud the moment news of Leo XIV’s election arrived on His phone screen, the Lord Almighty told reporters Thursday that he had lost $400 Thursday betting on Cardinal Luis Antonio T...
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Starmer swapped the Cow for magical beans, which turned out to be useless rabbit shit. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trump and Starmer put lipstick on a pig of a trade deal
With a recession looming, imports flagging and inflation knocking at the door, Trump needs more than one deal to reverse the damage done by ‘Liberation Day’, Richard Hall writes.
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 08/05/2025
1. Brexit does not stand up to scrutiny 2. The more scrutiny is placed on Brexit, the worse it looks 3. Strong majority already think Brexit is going badly 4. Immigration skyrocketed since Brexit 5. Labour can't fight Reform on immigration 6. So why not force Reform to defend Brexit? Winnable!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Is it time to ban Israel from Eurovision? 70 artists have signed a letter saying yes.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I've just been told about this, and I'm honoured to be on the list. Far be it from me to seek to influence your vote, and there are other good people here ... but I trust, as ever, in my readers' impeccable judgement 😉 www.amnesty.org.uk/cast-your-vote
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Cast Your Vote for the Amnesty UK People's Choice Award
Cast your vote in the first ever Amnesty UK People's Choice Awards. Which UK journalist do you think made the greatest impact in their tireless reporting on human rights?
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I wonder how much chlorinated chicken Starmer will make us eat to appease Trump. news.sky.com/story/politi...
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Politics latest: UK and US have agreed trade deal, Sky News understands
A trade deal between the UK and the US is expected to be announced today. A source in Downing Street has told deputy political editor Sam Coates that a "heads of terms" agreement will be revealed late...
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