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@petergyang Speaking from the UK, it’s the same reason we don’t own snow chains for our tyres. We might only need to use an air conditioner one or two weeks a year. Even that is a very recent change.
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The beginning of civil disobedience & rightly so. Why is this not a National Emergency? Only @reformparty_uk & @ZiaYusufUK take this issue seriously enough to act. How is this normal or right for a thousand men being housed in an open site? There are at least 200,000 more men who have come illegally! How is that not a national security threat. The system will break. The UK is broken. Reform will fix this and the UK will be all the better for it.
Times Radio@TimesRadio
This village in Oxfordshire has voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence from the UK in a fight against Westminster. Following a government proposal to house 1,250 male asylum seekers at a nearby military facility, a vote at Piddington's village hall saw 96 per cent in favour of a referendum to leave the UK. “Put Piddington on the map!"
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@TheExtremeMusi1 Missed a couple…
Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello
Wooden Ships - Crosby Stills & Nash
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Mexico v South Africa: Pre-Match Analysis
Here is your guide to the Opening Match of the 2026 World Cup.
Mexico will be in a 4-3-3:
> Lots of Central Combinations
> Wingers Moving Inside
> Fullbacks Overlapping
> Crosses in for Jimenez
> Real Threat from Corners
South Africa will be in a 4-2-3-1:
> Brave in Building Out
> Risks & Quick Play in Front-Line
> Wingers 1v1 and Crosses
Absolutely buzzing for this 👇
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@DPJHodges Who’d have thought welcoming crap tories would cause Reform problems later on?
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OK, this is significant. It appears the alleged Belfast attacker was actually fast-tracked through the asylum process by Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick.
I've just found the following letter from Jenrick to the UK statistical authority on 17 April, 2023
It says:
"We are taking urgent action to accelerate decision-making and speed up processing times. We are simplifying and modernising our system, including introducing shorter, more focused interviews; making guidance more accessible; dealing with cases more swiftly where they can be certified as manifestly unfounded; recruiting extra decision makers; and allocating dedicated resources for specific nationalities".
uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/correspondence…
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Burnham turned away from grooming gang victims
Burnham failed the victims in Greater Manchester
Burnham is not fit to lead
mol.im/a/15859323
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Son, I’m 30. I only went with your mother cos she’s dirty.
Genius@Genius
what’s the greatest opening line to a song?
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@paulmasonnews your near-term prescriptions stand. But by 2030-2040, the horizon you hand to “the next generation”, AI either rescues the productivity base or it doesn’t, and that determines whether the entire zero-sum frame still holds. A Labour strategy needs AI at its centre.
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@paulmasonnews Agree with almost all of this, especially the bond market discipline and the universalist language point. One gap though: AI is the only credible counter to your zero-sum diagnosis. The productivity gains won’t help with this summer’s food prices or autumn’s gilt auctions, so
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Warnings of a fiscal crisis as markets spooked by Labour chaos
30 yr gilt yields at 28 yr high at 5.8%
10 yr gilt yields soar to 5.1%
I’ve been warning of this for months
Labour are making us poorer newspaper.mailplus.co.uk/data/7781/read…
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@jamesnewton @paulmasonnews Great list. And one that needs to be absolutely hammered at every mps meeting with the press, similar to how the tories did with their lists… those actually hit home through repetition.
Particularly love #6 the northern renewal.
Social care needs to be cross party.
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@paulmasonnews Starmer IS the problem and the sooner you accept that, the quicker we can move forward.
What the electorate needs to see happen is:
1. Remove the price tether between gas and electricity thereby reducing costs substantially and easing ‘the cost of living’ pain…
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@adamndsmith @mehdirhasan Even if I agreed with her nonsense I couldn’t listen to her. She sounds like a quids worth of pennies in a washing machine.
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The look that she gives when she says how the Prime Minister and the Metropolitan Police only mentioned two Jewish men stabbed, not the Muslim man stabbed
And then Ashok points out that she’s a journalist and should be asking more questions x.com/broseph_stalin…
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Morning,
On the show:
🇪🇺Brussels tells UK to pay £1 billion a year for further access to the EU single market
🦠Second hantavirus case confirmed after three die in suspected cruise ship outbreak
🎙️I'll speak with online safety campaigner Lauren Cowell
@LBC 0345 60 60 973

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@SophyRidgeSky Nigel Farage £5mill donation?
Reform threatening potential Green voters with detention camp sites?
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If you want to make a formal complaint about reforms new immigration policy the email is complaints@electoralcommission.org.uk
Feel free to use this template.
Dear Electoral Commission Regulatory Team,
I am writing to formally lodge a complaint regarding the campaign tactics recently announced by Reform UK on May 4, 2026.
The party's home affairs spokesperson has publicly committed to a policy of "prioritising" the placement of migrant detention centres, with a proposed capacity of 24,000 individuals specifically in constituencies and council areas that vote for the Green Party. Conversely, the party has "guaranteed" that areas electing Reform UK representatives will be exempt from these facilities.
I believe this constitutes "Undue Influence" under the Representation of the People Act, as it uses the threat of infrastructure placement to pressure citizens into voting a certain way or to penalise them for their existing political affiliations. This tactic appears designed to:
* Intimidate voters by threatening negative local consequences for their democratic choices.
* Incentivise votes through the promise of specific geographic exemptions that are not based on administrative or logistical necessity, but purely on partisan alignment.
Threatening to punish specific geographical areas based on their voting record is a violation of the principle that elections should be free from coercion. I urge the Commission to investigate whether this policy breaches the Electoral Code of Conduct or the legal prohibitions against intimidatory behaviour in campaigning.
I look forward to your response regarding the steps being taken to ensure the integrity of the 2026 local and further national elections.
#ReformUK #Farage
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The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓@MittensOff
This is jaw-droppingly disgusting. Threatening the electorate can't be legal can it? Yusuf isn't even an elected politician. #ReformUK
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