rob brimfield

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[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Victoria Derbyshire, "Elon Musk had already hit out, calling the UK a police state"

"Adding, the real goal is to enable the UK government to track everyone"

Speaking of tracking people, here are 30 ways Twitter does it:

1. Account activity (posts, likes, reposts, follows, replies, searches)
2. Time spent viewing specific posts
3. Clicks on links and media
4. Cookies stored in your browser
5. IP address
6. Device identifiers
7. Browser fingerprinting signals (browser type, screen size, language settings, etc.)
8. Mobile advertising IDs (Android Advertising ID, Apple Advertising Identifier where available)
9. Location data (GPS if permitted, IP-based location, Wi-Fi/network information)
10. Contact uploads (if you grant access)
11. Email address and phone number
12. Payment information (for paid services)
13. Cross-device matching (linking your phone, tablet, and computer to the same user)
14. Embedded X posts on third-party websites
15. X Pixel tracking on external websites
16. Websites using X advertising or conversion tools
17. Apps using X SDKs or integrations
18. Login with X integrations on third-party sites
19. Ad interactions and conversions
20. Inferred interests and behavioural profiling
21. Social graph analysis (who you follow, interact with, and are connected to)
22. Content analysis of posts, messages, and media
23. Network and connection information (mobile carrier, ISP, network type)
24. Diagnostic and crash reports from the app
25. Approximate location derived from activity patterns
26. Data obtained from advertising partners and data providers
27. Engagement with videos (watch time, rewatches, completion rates)
28. Search history on the platform
29. Hashtags, topics, and communities you engage with
30. Account recovery and security information

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

This could be interesting.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

THEY ARE BASTARDS!

We just got an email sent to MSE. The spelling was awful, and it was quite tough to understand. Lower down, the writer later explained she was 78 and her disability had stopped her being able to spell. So perhaps it is a stroke, or something similar.

I've tidied it and summarised below, changing some identifying details. In a nutshell, it was this...

"I invested, Martin, with Quotum when you first announced it on TV. What an opportunity for me to buy my own flat. My manager there passed me through to a nice man who asked me for £350 more. He showed me it was growing. I did what he told me to do."

She then goes on to explain how she really wanted her flat and she gave more and more money. And she has nothing left to help with her disability.

I'm honestly in tears typing this. These types of scam ads have now been going on for a decade. I have spent my career trying to help people with their finances. It feels visceral to get this, and to feel that this reputation has been perverted by criminals to steal from someone who is clearly so vulnerable leaves me feeling nauseous.

So many people, both vulnerable and not, lose money and see their lives and wellbeing destroyed. It's now seven years since I sued Facebook. And yet still nothing is being done.

Big tech makes £3bn a year from these scammers. We have a law in place to make them responsible for these ads they're paid to publish, yet it isn't implemented. How many more of these do I have to receive - and far worse, how many more people have to go through this?

This is relentless. It is wrong. Government has to take action! I wrote to the PM just two weeks ago on this very issue. I've not heard back yet.

(We are, of course, going to try and point her in the right direction to get help, but that will be stressful for her too)

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Huge 'Raise the Colours' march in Shrewsbury captured by a small child's drone. Police confirm there were no arrests (they were too busy laughing) and estimate numbers attending in the 20's. Please don't share, it will upset flag shagging simpletons, who will just shout fake news. 😂

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

So listen.

@thenerve_news has the receipts.

A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.

Please read & share.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised.

RT if you know it has to be.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Thank you everyone for sending this to 200,000 views🙏

It’s now almost caught up with Farage’s original post. Let’s call his bull**** out by making sure more see this one

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

RT if you would NEVER vote reform 🙏

[Amys Here 🇨🇦 @amys_here]

Break the internet sharing this please

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.

Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people

...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"

It's £10ph FFS!

Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger

DO YOU SEE IT NOW?

Spread far & wide.

https://t.co/rKXf1RcMT9

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

You’re absolute heroes each and everyone of you.

99,019 signatures, who’s going to number 100,00?

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Throwback to a year ago, when Vance said “I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents”

Quotes that certainly aged

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

With the local elections fast approaching this deserves revisiting:

Farage squirms as Rep. Jamie Raskin obliterates the "Putin-loving, free speech imposter, Trump sycophant".

Please share as widely as possible. The news media have a convenient habit of forgetting about Farage's service to Russia.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Ofcom claims there is no consensus to ban Nigel Farage from Presenting on GB News.

Lets show them one.

[rob brimfield @broadsword2dboy]

@SeddSezz Christ you people are so easily duped, this has been doing the rounds since 2016, they were doing yoga

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

The reality of Reform.

Word is that unelected Zia and Reform absolutely hate this being shared 🤣🤣🤣

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

This man has turned bullshitting into an art form. Admittedly it requires crayons and involves him smearing his own faecal matter across the wall when he gets cranky, but an art form nonetheless.

[Christy ✨ @WillowMantis]

Epstein has stopped trending. This is exactly what they were hoping.

Don’t forget about the victims!
#EpsteinTrumpCoverUp

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

Nigel Farage is a LIAR

#Reform #Tax