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#ForeverEuropean🇪🇺 Beethoven+ BayernMunchenmember #TeamGB🇬🇧 @LeicesterTigers
ExLondonSW19+Manc+NG12
#trumpfaragefascism #Cagingpeoplecreatesconflict

[paulc@sw19 @Paulcsw19]

We're not moving On.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

The scenes of anti-migrant violence in Thetford over the past few days are appalling.

Anyone who sees those images should feel a chill. Those who carried out these attacks should feel shame. Too many of them will not. We call them a minority, and they are. For now.

That may not always be so, and it means those of us who recognise racist violence for what it is must say so and condemn it without qualification.

There is a clear line between those who stand for tolerance and dialogue and those who choose violence and division.

Read my full statement here: https://t.co/fUzR0ehqkH

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Migrants - who get £49 pw, £9 if their accommodation provides food, are the reason the country is in financial trouble says man on almost £2000 per week from the taxpayer and has a 30% attendance record.

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

Eight oil giants made $42 million every hour last quarter.

Meanwhile, Europe burns🔥

Make polluters pay.

[English Lameland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @ukblok26]

@PolitlcsUK

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Political party donations in 2025

Reform UK: £22.8m (+290%)
Tories: £15.2m (-46%)
Labour: £6.4m (-84%)
Green Party: £2.7m (+8%)
Lib Dems: £2.6m (-65%)
Count Binface Party: £434.60 (-93%)

[paulc@sw19 @Paulcsw19]

@JulianW2w @King0243_PJC Sent him your money yet @JulianW2w ?
Its cheaper if you direct debit monthly , btw .
Or have you bought some unicorns online again ?

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

[Monica Harding MP @monicabeharding]

I am pleased to see Andy Burnham has agreed to meet with Archie Goodburn. This is a step in the right direction.

https://t.co/sflvusQ3Py

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

We’ve all had some experience of struggles with mental health. Maybe you’ve stood by a loved one in a time of need. Maybe you’ve been through tough moments yourself.

Too often, illness is only half the challenge, with people forced to wait too long and fight too hard to get the help they need.

Today, we’re announcing a major expansion of NHS mental health services so people can get help earlier and closer to home.

https://t.co/d4Gnc7iYDI

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Before Brexit, “taking back control” was sold as the answer to immigration.

A decade later, net migration is far higher than it was before the referendum, and small boat crossings, virtually absent from our national debate then, now dominate it.

Yet one of Brexit’s loudest champions, Nigel Farage, leads the outrage over the consequences while rarely acknowledging the role Brexit may have played in reshaping migration routes, asylum cooperation, and border management.

Whether you supported Leave or Remain, shouldn’t we be asking an uncomfortable question: why are the people who made the promises never held accountable for the results?

[Spirit Of Attlee @SpiritOfAttlee]

Lee Anderson found a leaflet telling people how not to drown in the Channel and lost it calling it an “instruction manual for invasion”.

The same bloke who once played poverty tourist on 30p meals now tours French camps for outrage clicks. Meanwhile the system that creates both the boats and the food banks stays untouched.

Reform isn’t stopping deaths. They’re monetising them. Ordinary people just want the wars ended and the country fixed. Not this pantomime.

[Elisa Mosini 🇪🇺🇮🇹 @MosiniElisa]

Ceuta:

141 estimated deaths. 78 bodies recovered on the Spanish side. 63 on the Moroccan side.

This is a human tragedy.

A full investigation into the role of Morocco and any other external actors is a moral obligation.
Those responsible must face sanctions.

[paulc@sw19 @Paulcsw19]

@tapinalbatross @SpiritOfAttlee @LeeHarris Bigger boats , sometimes called "ships",
bigger stretch of water , called
" international waters "
prior agreements and processing centres .
Appropriate naval forces available+ not actively engaged elsewhere .
Enough of these simplistic border porn diversions @tapinalbatross.

[Spirit Of Attlee @SpiritOfAttlee]

The Tories spent 14 years turning the police into a crime number call centre.

They cut 20,000 officers. Chris Philp was Policing Minister while clear up rates cratered and low value thefts got written off.

Now he and Kemi Badenoch demand mandatory facial recognition on every doorbell photo and officers knocking doors for every Find My iPhone ping.

10,000 extra cops after they gutted the force. Triple stop and search. “Take Back Our Streets.”

This isn’t toughness. It’s the arsonists turning up with a hosepipe and a selfie stick.

Crime has consequences. So does 14 years of austerity that starved the force and the communities.

Fund prevention, rebuild trust, stop the theatre.

[Monica Harding MP @monicabeharding]

An incredibly powerful message from Archie Goodburn.

In March 2024, my brother-in-law was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer. Seeing first-hand the devastating impact of this disease has only strengthened my determination to improve outcomes for patients and their families.

I have worked alongside @braintumourrsch, @BrainTumourOrg and @BrainTumourSupp, and proudly supported the Rare Cancers Act through Parliament. It is an important step forward, but there is still much more to do...

The Government must now deliver routine genomic testing, expand access to clinical trials, end the postcode lottery in specialist care, and recognise brain cancer as the time-critical disease it is.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Britain’s prisons crisis has its roots in a failure to add sufficient new places between 2010 and 2024. Just 500 places were added and 23 prisons were closed. As a result, the system is now dangerously close to capacity and we are running the risk of new offenders not being incarcerated in a timely manner.

The situation must be gripped and that is what I have done in my first days as Prime Minister. But I have done so by trying to put myself in the shoes of victims of crime and seeing things through their eyes. My approach has been to maximise support for them and minimise the risks to public safety.

For someone trying to rebuild their life after a traumatic experience, few things could feel more unjust than learning the person responsible for their suffering would be released earlier than thought. Yet that has been the painful experience of many victims.

I understand their anger and anxiety. More than that, I share it. Because of that, one of my first decisions as Prime Minister was to pause the plan for early release in September and order an urgent review of the scheme.

That has now concluded and, as a result, I have decided to make some significant changes to the plans I inherited. Sentences for rape, serious child sex offences and other grooming offences will now be excluded from the changes. This will be on top of the offenders who are already blocked because they have been deemed by the courts as the most dangerous prisoners.

The truth is I wanted to go even further. I know there will be concerns about who will still be released early for other offences. I have pushed to the very limits of what is possible to do. I know I can look people in the eye and say to them there is nothing more I could have asked for without risking the prison system reaching capacity and collapsing within months.

Such an outcome would expose the public to enormous risk. Police would be unable to make arrests. Courts would be unable to send new offenders to prison. Our justice system would grind to a halt. All this is the reason why sentencing changes were rightly introduced in the first place.

However, I am determined to do more to support victims and the public. So, as well as excluding those sentences for rape, serious child sex offences and other grooming offences, we will be introducing much tougher community measures. Nearly all offenders released will be tagged. The period of supervision will be toughened. And we will be imposing new conditions for offenders, including restriction zones agreed with victims. As part of the changes, we will be giving probation officers the power to ban offenders from driving, pubs and community events.

There will also be a new package of support for victims because they must be placed at the heart of the justice system. This will be backed by £10 million in new funding to provide trauma-informed contacts for victims, alongside a new national helpline.

The Government I lead will work to fix the prison crisis once and for all. I will not leave the same problems for my successors. We will deliver the fastest prison building programme since the Victorian era, with 14,000 new places expected by 2031.

To avoid a repeat of this situation, I have also asked the Justice Secretary to identify other ways to free up prison capacity that will be more palatable to the public.

First, I have asked him to review the indefinite sentences handed out between 2005 and 2012, called Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP). This has left many hundreds of people in prison since they were young but without any prospect of release despite having already served very long sentences.

Second, I have asked for the early release of more women prisoners to be considered, and to look at converting more of the women’s prison estate to hold male prisoners, given the lower risk they generally pose.

Third, I have asked officials to consider faster returns of foreign national offenders to their country of origin.

I have spent much of my political life campaigning for victims, from the families of the Hillsborough disaster to those affected by the infected blood scandal. I have seen the pain caused when people are let down by the very institutions meant to protect them.

The changes we are announcing today will make a difference, but I do not pretend it is a perfect solution or that it goes as far as I would like. My commitment over the months and years ahead is to rebuild our justice system so that it commands the confidence of the public. This will not happen overnight and nor without difficulty. But we will deliver a justice system that the British people expect and deserve.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

You can see exactly what kind of friendship Refom would cultivate with our European neighbours and partners if they were in Downing Street.

These wrecking balls must never be handed power.

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Like many Europeans, I felt deep unease, not only at the deaths in Ceuta, but at Europe’s dehumanised response.

EU leaders fell into the trap of treating the crisis as an invasion, despite signs that it had been fuelled by a third-country-led social-media campaign intended to provoke precisely that reaction.

By embracing this dystopian narrative, they turned desperate people into invaders, abandoned European solidarity and helped create the image Europe’s worst enemies want: a frightened, divided continent betraying its own values under pressure.

Ceuta did not threaten Europe. Europe’s response did.

As EU Interior Ministers meet today #EUCO, READ my latest https://t.co/ebuofYbso2

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Nigel Farage says Reform UK would use the Navy to stop people asking questions about their financial scandals.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

This right here is one of the reasons our country is in such a mess.

Reform UK have re-announced this same 'policy' seven times in the past three years. Seven.

But Sky News treat it as new and describe it as 'daring'.

Rinse and repeat. Every time Reform need to regain narrative control, roll out the Navy in the Channel story, let the media get overexcited like they've eaten too many sweets, and send out Zia Yusuf and Laila Cunningham to shout over presenters when they dare to challenge it.

There are so many extremely serious news stories to be covered, but Reform dominate the headlines.

Our planet is on fire, literally … small boats.

Trump is more than halfway to becoming a fascist dictator in the US … small boats.

Our country's infrastructure is at the brink of collapse and people can barely afford the little food we see in the supermarkets … small boats.

Our news media's response — let's waste time talking about Reform's 'daring' plan. Again.

It's utterly unacceptable that we are being fed this malign news, day after day, instead of the real stories.

When Reform UK collapse into insignificance after Farage is found guilty of hiding millions of pounds in donation cash, we need to set a precedent.

Never let one party control the story. We're missing so much important news because of Reform UK and their perpetual tantrums.

Stop.