Still can’t quite believe this happened but I got to spend a sunny morning at Ian McKellen’s home.
We chatted Pride, the incredible achievements of the LBGTQ+ community and its future for @MetroUK
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What the fuck is wrong with you?
You have no idea who this woman was. You have no idea what she believed. You have no idea what an actual investigation might show. A 37-year-old American citizen was killed. Her 6-year-old son has been orphaned. Her family and friends are going through the worst moment of their lives. And all you can do is call her a "deranged leftist"?
Seriously what the fuck is wrong with you?
This is blood thirsty Nigel Farage, photographed while heading out to support a Boxing Day hunt.
People say he cares about the British countryside. He does not. He supports policies that weaken environmental protections, backs deregulation that harms habitats, and publicly aligns himself with blood sports that most of the country opposes. That is not stewardship. That is destruction dressed up as tradition.
Foxes are not pests. They are a vital part of the British ecosystem. They control rodent populations, help balance local wildlife, and have lived alongside humans in Britain for thousands of years. Fox families are tightly bonded. Parents raise cubs together. Cubs play, learn, and explore just like puppies. They feel pain. They feel fear. They suffer.
Fox hunting is not wildlife management. It is cruelty for entertainment.
If Nigel Farage truly cared about rural Britain, he would support farmers, protect land and rivers, and defend biodiversity. Instead, he sides with those who want to strip protections, pollute waterways, and turn the countryside into a playground for the privileged.
He would hate it if people shared this.
He would hate it even more if people signed the petition calling for a proper, enforceable ban on fox hunting.
So do both.
Because loving the countryside means protecting it.
Not tearing it apart. https://t.co/JYAz9Gfdv9
This is the lovely Nigel Farage. The photographer gave him a message before he went to support the Boxing Day hunt.
He’d hate it if people shared this and signed the petition for a proper ban on fox hunting - https://t.co/DsoK2CdZQE
Alice Litman, Jason Pulman, Leia Samson-Grimbly, and Charlie Millers are 4 young UK trans people who have died by suicide, where the coroner identified lack of trans healthcare as a contributing factor to their deaths.
Their families will miss them every Christmas, forever.
I want to say something many will hate but it needs to be said. I have met Nigel Farage. I do not know him well but I know the world he moves in. We move in similar circles sometimes. The kind of private rooms and members clubs that most people in Britain will never see. I know how the rich speak about ordinary people. They laugh. They joke about how easy it is to wind you up. They know exactly which buttons to press. They know you are angry and tired and struggling and they know you want someone to blame. That is why they point at boats while they pick your pockets.
I did not grow up rich. I did not grow up in privilege. I understand struggle and the real world. But my life changed and now I see both sides. I sit with billionaires and politicians and decision makers and I hear conversations you never will. I know the truth. They do not care about you. They do not care about your future. They care about profit and control. They see ordinary people as tools or distractions. I am telling you this because I am tired of watching good people being manipulated.
Look at your life before Brexit and look at it now. Look at your shopping bills. Look at what food costs in Europe right now. Look at how much tax you pay on imports. Look at your wages and energy prices and mortgages. Look at the 10,000 NHS staff we lost when freedom of movement ended. Look at the ambulances that do not arrive. Look at nurses and teachers using food banks. Tell me honestly. Are you better off?
Nigel helped build the crisis you are living in. Then he pointed at immigrants and told you to blame them. That is the con. He pulled the UK out of the Dublin III agreement which means we cannot return asylum seekers to Europe anymore. He created the boat chaos then told you to panic about it. Someone who worked in immigration for more than ten years told me they saw it coming. It was planned. It is a strategy. And you are falling for it.
Now he wants austerity again. He wants to cut wages for young people. He wants to rip up workers rights. He wants private health insurance and a French style NHS where the rich get treated first and the poor get nothing. He wants you fighting each other so you never see who is robbing you. If you vote for him you are voting to destroy your own life. Not mine. Yours.
None of this affects me personally. I drink champagne with the people who control the money. I will be fine no matter what. Reform will not hurt me. Reform will hurt you. It will hurt your children. Your parents. Your future. I am telling you because I care. If I did not care I would stay silent and watch you suffer.
You think I am your enemy because I make you uncomfortable. I am not. Your enemy is the one who lies to you and blames the vulnerable while he empties your pockets.
Reform will not save you. Reform will finish you.
Think. Before they take everything.
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Imagine winning a stonking great majority after the country is fed up with the populist cruel and outright sinister Conservative party run of 14 years
Then, when you have the opportunity to be open, considerate, strategic and forward thinking, you chose instead to be even worse than the Conservatives and Reform UK combined
Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper and Shabana Mahmood are all a disgrace
As is any Labour MP who supports this cruel, inconsiderate and frankly inhumane approach to managing our asylum system
My dislike of the Labour party is now at peak Boris Johnson partying in Downing street and telling lies about it levels
Shame on them for prostituting their integrity to appease the populist far right - how utterly disgusting, pathetic and sad
*The most pathetic thing I've seen in parliament, ever*
Dawn Butler MP says Sarah Pochin MP's iss racist
Deputy Speaker tells her off and tells her to withdraw the remark
Butler repeats, Pochin is racist
Deputy Speaker tells her off again for calling another MP a racist
Butler repeats what Pochin said and says that is a racist comment
Deputy Speaker says its not the comment, but the fact that you called another MP racist
Butler, "You're giving me deja vu. I appreciate in this house we have to be respectful and not call MPs what they actually are. The comment is a racist comment. It's strange I can't call her out for being a racist, having made a racist comment"
Deputy Speaker, "Please, time and time again, please consider withdrawing the comment about a member of this house being a racist"
Butler, "I don't want to be thrown out of parliament again. So I will withdraw the fact that I am referring to the member of parliament as a racist because of her racist comment"
Deputy Speaker waffles on for a bit
How tragic for our democracy that it is more important to be polite about an MP than to point out that the MP is a racist based on actual racist remarks from said MP
What utter dickheads we are…
Rayner fought for workers: sick pay, maternity rights, protection from unfair dismissal
Farage and his MPs voted it down
No sick pay from day one. No protections.
Rayner gets binned over £40k in stamp duty
Farage dodges £44k, shrugs & strolls on
Well done bellends, the ultra wealthy win again.
The trans employee at the centre of the M&S controversy speaks out
It’s an anon Reddit post, so unverified, but provides a lot of granular detail that could be independently verified by those in the know
Great piece from our lovely Adam @babbedout
'I quit watching #EastEnders but Zoe Slater's return will bring me back' https://t.co/tTapq1mxD2 via @MetroUK
Imagine seeing this headline and not being concerned for gynecological healthcare access and instead making this about your hatred of trans people.
Joanne - instead of blaming them not using the word woman (they did), why don’t you actually advocate for women to get screened.