So #Reform want to cut the price of a pint by 5p. Laudable, you might think, but wait til you hear how they'll pay for this. They plan to fully fund this promise by reinstating the two-child benefit cap. This gives an insight into the minds of Farage's heartless Party, & the lengths they will go to if they think there's a few votes in it. This heartless policy would be paid for by returning 450K children to poverty. Reform have already demonstrated their heartlessness by their treatment of care home residents, now they propose to increase inequality in an already inequitable & cruel society. Shame on them!! #RejoinEU
Chewie
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Jake Broe’s dire warning to #europe
If we elect far-right parties like #NationalFront in France, #Reform in the UK, #AfD in Germany, there’s a good chance they will emulate what Trump has done and go ahead and claim the #elections where they get voted out as fraudulent.
These parties are tied to both #MAGA & Russian oligarch funding, and also would have no problem of requesting military support from USA to help them overthrow any election result they don’t like!
9.88 Benanas
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@katemorley/115938309822510419
Tip for @randahl #greens take seat instead of #reform Also the #UK is in danger of falling to extreme right, but there is an alternative.
It’s only a single council by-election, but Tuesday’s Green gain from Reform feels symbolic — the Greens received 44% of the vote, Reform 35%, and the traditional parties only 19% between them: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2j42dgy5o
Chip Butty
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Quelle surprise!
"Reform UK council chair resigns after ‘illegally renting out unsafe properties’."
#UKpol #Reform
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/29/reform-council-chair-resigns-illegally-renting-two-unsafe-properties?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Quelle surprise!
"Reform UK council chair resigns after ‘illegally renting out unsafe properties’."
#UKpol #Reform
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/29/reform-council-chair-resigns-illegally-renting-two-unsafe-properties?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
happyborg
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#ICE is using Palantir to mine Medicaid data for deportation targets - https://boingboing.net/2026/01/26/ice-is-using-palantir-to-mine-medicaid-data-for-deportation-targets.html and #reform will do this with #NHS data if #palantir is given contracts to manage it
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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“Always keen for a rebrand, Nigel #farage could try Conform as his next incarnation, since 14 members of the former #Conservative government have now tied their flag to the #Reform UK mast.
#Conform is also apt since it is very much an establishment party conforming to a harsh free market ideology, with its belief in a low-wage, low-tax, low-regulation economy and pushing austerity, privatisation and cuts to the public sector and welfare.”
Zack #Polanski, #greenparty
“Always keen for a rebrand, Nigel #farage could try Conform as his next incarnation, since 14 members of the former #Conservative government have now tied their flag to the #Reform UK mast.
#Conform is also apt since it is very much an establishment party conforming to a harsh free market ideology, with its belief in a low-wage, low-tax, low-regulation economy and pushing austerity, privatisation and cuts to the public sector and welfare.”
Zack #Polanski, #greenparty
#ICE is using Palantir to mine Medicaid data for deportation targets - https://boingboing.net/2026/01/26/ice-is-using-palantir-to-mine-medicaid-data-for-deportation-targets.html and #reform will do this with #NHS data if #palantir is given contracts to manage it
GeofCox
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We. Are. Going. To. Copy. ICE.
"We will establish a UK Deportation Command and use all the available levers of the state to identify illegal migrants and deport them, including rapidly building Secure Immigration Removal Centres with capacity for up to 24,000."
We. Are. Going. To. Copy. ICE.
"We will establish a UK Deportation Command and use all the available levers of the state to identify illegal migrants and deport them, including rapidly building Secure Immigration Removal Centres with capacity for up to 24,000."
Jake Broe’s dire warning to #europe
If we elect far-right parties like #NationalFront in France, #Reform in the UK, #AfD in Germany, there’s a good chance they will emulate what Trump has done and go ahead and claim the #elections where they get voted out as fraudulent.
These parties are tied to both #MAGA & Russian oligarch funding, and also would have no problem of requesting military support from USA to help them overthrow any election result they don’t like!
Matt
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The #GreenParty has gained a council seat in Derbyshire from #Reform UK in the first gain of its kind in England.
Lian Pizzey beat Juliette Stevens 1,341 votes to 1,091 in the by-election for the Horsley ward for Derbyshire County Council, which Reform gained at the local elections last year.
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The #GreenParty has gained a council seat in Derbyshire from #Reform UK in the first gain of its kind in England.
Lian Pizzey beat Juliette Stevens 1,341 votes to 1,091 in the by-election for the Horsley ward for Derbyshire County Council, which Reform gained at the local elections last year.
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Angela Antunovic
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Tackling the negative effects of Social Media the UK and beyond
And by extension outlining many of the reasons that supine politicians in the UK will not (maybe never) get around to it). A thoughtful article. We lost a young niece to suicide almost 6 years ago in circumstances that were similar to Molly Russel’s story
