"That is why #Labour is so comfortable competing with #ReformUKLtd and the Tories over bashing migrants. It is not because Starmerites are instinctively xenophobic or racist. Most are urban middle-class professionals who find such sentiments distasteful. But if forced to choose, they would rather indulge anger directed at migrants and refugees than anger aimed at bankers and CEOs." -- Owen Jones

He's correct. I hadn't seen this before, but it rings true.

#UKPol

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/keir-starmer-gorton-denton-byelection-greens-labour

"That is why #Labour is so comfortable competing with #ReformUKLtd and the Tories over bashing migrants. It is not because Starmerites are instinctively xenophobic or racist. Most are urban middle-class professionals who find such sentiments distasteful. But if forced to choose, they would rather indulge anger directed at migrants and refugees than anger aimed at bankers and CEOs." -- Owen Jones

He's correct. I hadn't seen this before, but it rings true.

#UKPol

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/keir-starmer-gorton-denton-byelection-greens-labour

“Reform UK’s Plans For a British ICE”

by Olly Haynes in The Byline Supplement on Substack

@uk_politics
@thegreenparty

“Key figures in Nigel Farage’s party are demanding a UK version of Trump’s immigration enforcement agency, in the wake of the killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinesupplement/p/reform-uks-plans-for-a-british-ice

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #ReformUKLtd #Farage #ICE #Pretti #Good #Murder #Minneapolis #Fascism #Trump

“Reform UK’s Plans For a British ICE”

by Olly Haynes in The Byline Supplement on Substack

@uk_politics
@thegreenparty

“Key figures in Nigel Farage’s party are demanding a UK version of Trump’s immigration enforcement agency, in the wake of the killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinesupplement/p/reform-uks-plans-for-a-british-ice

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #ReformUKLtd #Farage #ICE #Pretti #Good #Murder #Minneapolis #Fascism #Trump

@cstross

We're all going to be checking @Simon_M 's list every time something like this happens, for the next month or so.

https://mastodonapp.uk/@Simon_M/115816702211645864

Leaky Sue joining Tories 3.0 is not on there.

#SuellaBraverman #ReformUKLtd #ConservativeAndUnionistParty #UKPolitics

Seeing as @BBCNews failed to quote the #GreenParty on the #6OclockNews just now (giving second place quote to #reformukltd (other political parties are available you know BBC, but you'd never guess), here is Polanski's comment from earlier today (from BSky - I know I know 🙄 I'm trolling him re fedi)

Seeing as @BBCNews failed to quote the #GreenParty on the #6OclockNews just now (giving second place quote to #reformukltd (other political parties are available you know BBC, but you'd never guess), here is Polanski's comment from earlier today (from BSky - I know I know 🙄 I'm trolling him re fedi)