Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱

Event organiser, architecturalist. Often spotted at vintage and antique markets.

[Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 @olanlad]

@KayBurley Unrelenting attacks since day one from across the media, the right, far right, left and the US, I think it’s taken its toll.

[Politics In The U.K. @politixintheuk]

Times columnist Fraser Nelson pointed out over the weekend that new Home Office statistics paint a striking picture: net migration has fallen dramatically since Labour entered government, now sitting around 80 per cent below the record highs reached under the Conservatives.

And it is not just the headline figure shifting. Remove international students from the equation and long-term immigration levels are now “probably at a multi-year low”, Nelson wrote on his Substack — a remarkable turnaround after years of Tory chaos, broken promises and soaring numbers.

The asylum backlog is also being rapidly reduced under Labour. After ballooning in the aftermath of Covid while successive Conservative ministers appeared paralysed and unwilling to grip the crisis, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has begun making serious progress in clearing the system.

Away from the Westminster psychodrama and endless Reform stunts, an uncomfortable reality is emerging for Labour’s opponents: the Government may quietly be delivering results where the Tories failed for years.

Source: The London Economic

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

This is a brilliant investigative piece on Farage, the dark millions behind him and the double standards of so much British journalism. Read and retweet! Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power https://t.co/zHuVfDV8dh

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Farage may struggle to close this down, especially when so many questions remain. Who else in Reform has received a 'personal gift' from crypto kings?

My column on the link: https://t.co/maRks88jMO

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

Nigel Farage could disagree with himself in an empty room.

[Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 @olanlad]

@Zero_4 Calls herself a journalist…

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

2012. 'Comedian' Jimmy Carr was involved in a 'legal' tax avoidance scheme.
There was public/media outcry.
Carr apologised.
He pulled out of the scheme.
He paid the tax bill of £500k.

Richard Tice avoided £600k in taxes. Where is the media coverage?
#BBCBreakfast #GMB #r4today

[Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 @olanlad]

@Nigel_Farage @DailyMirror Take a map in case you get lost.

[Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 @olanlad]

@GoodwinMJ Austerity, Brexit and Trump are the reasons you’re looking for, not Labour.

[Beth Rigby @BethRigby]

Well, with country in a state of high anxiety over the war in Iran, Badenoch chooses to go on the attack. She piles into Starmer asking why UK is not carrying out defensive bond raids on Iran, pivots to defence spending and calls him 'pathetic and weak'.

Starmer is absolutely excoriating in return as he takes the high ground: "I spent the week protecting British lives and our national interests. Moments like this define a leader of the opposition. They can either step up, act in the national interest and show that they're fit to be Prime Minister, or they can expose their utter irrelevance. She has chosen the second."

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Independent MP Ayoub Khan says rubbish is "building right beneath my very nose" as he looks down at the Reform MPs sitting below him

"It's becoming a serious problem in Birmingham"

#PMQs

[Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 @olanlad]

@godheiz @createstreets Prefer the original.

[Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 @olanlad]

@campbellclaret @Imogenlemon02 True. I expected his report to focus on the growing existential crisis the Tory party are facing, but no; they’re relaxed about it and doing quite well apparently!

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

@Nigel_Farage One of them's standing next to you in that picture

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: All of Reform's 12 councils will raise council tax this year despite pledging not to in campaigns

Some of the planned rises include:

Worcestershire - 10%
Derbyshire - 4.99%
West Northamptonshire - 4.99%
Kent - 3.99%
Staffordshire - 3.99%

[@thetimes]

[Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 @olanlad]

@createstreets You find this pleasing? The rebuild isn’t bad, but the new addition on the far left is a 3-course dogs dinner. It blights the street composition and sticks two fingers up to the careful efforts made next door.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

According to a new study from a respected US think tank, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Britain’s decision to leave the EU has meant that its GDP is between 6 per cent and 8 per cent smaller than it would have been.

[Nick Lloyd @Civil_War_Spain]

New map produced by RTVE, Spanish national TV, of the 6000 mass graves in Spain. In the last 25 years some 17,000 bodies of men, women and children have been exhumed out of the ~120,000 dumped in mass unmarked graves by the Franco regime.
https://t.co/9eqDGtp73T

[Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 @olanlad]

@bigzbloy @RupertLowe10 Just you