Phil Redshaw

LibDem Ward Councillor. E. Yorks. Retired Export Sales Manager. Happily married / Hull City / Rory Gallagher. Prostate Cancer survivor. @ldphil.bsky.social

[Phil Redshaw @LDPhilLD]

My LD_Phil account on X has been hacked, so please ignore this and do not click on any links.
I can now be found at @LDPhilLD

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

You have to ask yourself why MSM isn’t reporting this… indeed imply the opposite. … I don’t like being played…

[Phil Redshaw @LDPhilLD]

@Nigel_Farage Personally, I blame Brexit for the small boats!

[Reuters World @ReutersWorld]

How Brexit is estimated to have hit the UK economy https://t.co/crXes9ItfH https://t.co/crXes9ItfH

[Phil Redshaw @LDPhilLD]

https://t.co/CxQNcKNnBx

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: Lib Dems will call for UK to immediately begin talks to rejoin the single market in notable strengthening of party position.

In a speech today, Ed Davey will challenge PM to scrap Labour’s red lines - including on free movement - and end what he describes as “torpor and timidity” towards EU.

He will also argue for a new European security council to counter mounting threats from Russia and unreliability of Donald Trump.

https://t.co/e4zhj8lijO

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

A REMINDER: Pre-Brexit, UK net migration was 100-200k a year, mostly from the EU.

Nigel Farage pushed hard for Brexit to “take back control”. It happened under the Tories.

Then numbers exploded to 900k. Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick ran the Home Office and ramped up migrant hotels.

Now in Reform UK they blast the very immigration crisis they helped create.

They blame the migrants, pose as the only saviours, and dodge all responsibility.

This is classic Reform gimmick: Create the problem, jump ship, then sell the outrage.

Only a fool falls for it. It is a CON job. Don’t fall for it. #ReformUK

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

Farage’s policy of kicking people with indefinite leave to remain out of social housing and threatening them with deportation if they don’t find private accommodation within three months is a truly despicable - and likely unworkable - idea.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Suella Braverman, a trained barrister, is peddling a dangerous, deliberate lie to scrap the Equality Act.

This Act explicitly bans positive discrimination and quotas, it protects everyone, including white men, from unfair treatment on race or sex grounds.

She knows this. She’s weaponising the very real fears and frustrations of uninformed white working class men, pretending to champion them while cynically exploiting them for votes.

Disgusting. It is divisive poison from a politician happy to rip the country apart and let bad bosses discriminate freely, all for her own political resurrection.

Don’t let this grifter play you for fools.

[Phil Redshaw @LDPhilLD]

@SkyNews Less harshly? Black and Mixed ethnic groups are overrepresented in the prison population relative to their share of the general population.

[Phil Redshaw @LDPhilLD]

@TheNewsAgents @lewis_goodall @jonsopel What scrutiny?

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Reform don’t do the job.

Rob Kenyon, #Makerfield Reform UK candidate was elected a Wigan councillor a month ago. He’s not attended a single meeting or done a single piece of work on it.

Nigel Farage was elected MP for Clacton. He’s spent 2 years anywhere but Clacton.

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🔴 GB News Presenter Denied Racist Violence in Belfast Was a ‘Riot’ and Claimed ‘Not a House Has Been Burnt Down’ — @josiahmortimer

Bev Turner told her viewers that the Belfast violence amounted to mere 'skirmishes' despite hundreds of masked men…

https://t.co/ysorNAFnyq

[Phil Redshaw @LDPhilLD]

Change disabled toilet signs to be more inclusive - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/Knt2ArSm1i via @UKChange

[HUMAN WA$TE @Dplanet]

🚨🇬🇧 A man in Bolton allegedly tried to burn down the home of a local Imam while his young family were inside.

Not shouted abuse. Not a nasty tweet. Not “concerns about immigration.” A man in a motorbike helmet tried to set fire to a Muslim family’s home with children inside.

And this is exactly why Tommy Robinson’s rhetoric is so dangerous.

When you tell angry crowds that Britain’s towns are being taken over by “Pakistani Muslims,” “race gangs,” and hostile minorities; when you take a murder with no Muslim connection and deliberately drag Muslims into it; when you tell people they are under attack in their own country - you are not “just asking questions.”

You are painting a target on innocent people.

Tommy Robinson does not need to personally hand someone a petrol can for his rhetoric to matter. This is how incitement works in the real world. You create the enemy. You repeat the lie. You tell people they are victims of a conspiracy. Then some coward in a helmet decides an Imam’s family home is a legitimate target.

That is not patriotism.

That is fascist politics: collective punishment, racial paranoia, religious hatred, and violence against innocent families for the supposed crimes of people they have never met.

If this Bolton attack is confirmed, it should be treated with the full seriousness it deserves: an alleged attempt to burn a Muslim family alive in their own home.

And every politician, pundit and “free speech” grifter who has spent years demonising Muslims should be asked one simple question:

How many more homes have to burn before you admit what your words are doing?

[Kernow Q @KernowQ]

A good moment to remind everyone that the tories increased national debt from 1tn to 3tn.
The interest on this alone costs nearly twice the defence budget.
They also slashed the defence budget.
The tories are responsible for the dire state of the uk.

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

Ten years ago next week, the Labour MP Jo Cox was stabbed and killed by a white supremacist born in Scotland who hated her support for remaining in the European Union.
Farage and his far-right supporters didn’t give a damn.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

“I only got three things from the house… the letters my children wrote for me when I was leaving them back home.

My passport, laptop and uniform because I have to go to work. Will I be safe? Just know I’m scared.”

This is an Ugandan nurse who left her kids thousands of miles away because the UK government begged for nurses like her when we needed the help most.

Now racist thugs, idiots and street urchins are burning homes and profiling people by skin colour, forcing her to flee in terror.

This is a pogrom.

Every last one of you causing this violence, you are the cowards. These women came to care and contribute to the community.

We will not let you destroy them.

[Phil Redshaw @LDPhilLD]

@MittensOff How can they still claim not to be fascists!

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

There it is. Vote Tory get Farage. Vote Lib Dem to stop them both.