GeorgeGCastle
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@GeorgeCastle13
Proud Welsh Woman. Female. Feminist. Socialist. Philosophy of One Love. Ymlaen! No pronouns needed 🏴🇪🇺 🦖
Back in February 2022, @drdavidbull and I spent weeks in Erdington leading a newly rebranded Reform UK. My team and I knocked on thousands of doors in all weathers, speaking to anyone who would listen, putting everything we had into that campaign. In the end, we received just 293 votes, and it was a tough result to take. Yesterday, I returned to Erdington and everything had changed. The support, the recognition and the mood was something I had never quite seen before. On May 7th, this part of Birmingham is extremely likely to elect Reform councillors, and in a general election it could go even further and elect a Reform Member of Parliament. That possibility felt distant four years ago. It does not feel distant now. It is the result of people refusing to give up when the easy option would have been to walk away. From 293 votes to this moment, that is what resilience looks like. That is what belief looks like. And it is only just beginning. Vote Reform. Get Starmer Out.
A difficult question for Plaid Cymru: What if the data now shows you’re not the only party that can beat Reform? If their whole campaign rests on a false narrative then how long before it starts to unravel?
Reform UK has pledged an immediate review of all asylum claims from the last five years should the party win the next general election. Home Affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf told #BBCBreakfast around 400,000 people would be liable for deportation under the plans bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
🧵Our First Holyrood MRP, out today estimates the balance of power on a knife edge between pro independence & pro unionist majority. With the Scottish Greens winning their first constituency seats, Reform UK breaking through in Scotland and many constituency seats on a knife edge
Implied vote shares 🌼Plaid Cymru 25% (+4) ➡️Reform UK 25% (+24) 🌹Labour 21% (-15) 🌳Conservatives 11% (-14) 💚Greens 10% (+6) 🔶Liberal Democrats 7% (+3) Change with 2021 Senedd election regional vote.
'Last year Richard Tice said Angela Rayner should resign if she had any moral decency after she'd underpaid stamp duty, should he also resign then by his own standards?' Zia Yusuf from Reform UK was questioned on #BBCBreakfast over reports the Deputy Leader Richard Tice had underpaid corporation tax bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cg…
💥 Looks like Farage and Reform might have committed more breaches, this time linked to fundraising trips to UAE 😬 Impermissible donor? Missing register of interests? Covert fundraiser by GB News? 🧵 🔗open.substack.com/pub/onefinance…
602 migrants on nine boats were brought to Dover yesterday - the second busiest day for crossings this year.
