The Government proroguing of parliament was illegal.
The Government announced it was going to break the law ‘in a limited way’.
Eleven Tory MPs have now broken the Ministerial Code at least once.
Voter suppression, gerrymandering & the criminalization of protest is under way.
£Billions in taxpayers' money has been handed to Government friends & supporters without any transparency or oversight.
Government gross incompetence has led to 128,000 largely avoidable deaths.
The Government commissions reports that have no intention of finding the truth.
The Government appoints ideological extremists & supporters to important institutional roles & positions which require nuance & independence.
The Government appointed a Goldman Sachs hedge funder who gave the Government £400,000 as @BBC Chair & wanted Paul Dacre for Ofcom Chief.
The Government relentlessly attacks decent charities & organisations such as the National Trust – which just 4% of the population have a negative opinion of – because they give an honest & balanced account of history.
The Government has destroyed Britain's global reputation.
The Government pushes populist nationalist rhetoric in ways that resemble the most tyrannical dictatorships in history.
The Government denies the reality of structural racism which has resulted in a disproportionate amount of minority ethnic deaths during the pandemic.
The Government has created the conditions in which the wealth of Britain’s billionaires - many of whom fund the Tory Party because they prioritise & protect their interests over the interests of ordinary people - has increased by £100 billion in the last twelve months.
The Government has a huge majority despite just 29% of the electorate voting for them.
The Government still demonizes the EU & talks about "the will of the people" in relation to Brexit, despite just 26% of the current UK population voting to leave the EU.
The Government are determined to destroy the @BBC despite the revolving door between No 10 & the BBC, & despite its enormous help over the last decade, especially in treating Jeremy Corbyn completely differently to Boris Johnson in the context of alleged antisemitism & racism.
The Government have pressed ahead with privatizing the #NHS & lied about it.
The Government lied about the number of new hospitals.
The Government will shortly begin selling the confidential medical records of over 50 million NHS patients in England to commercial third parties.
Despite being the sixth richest country on earth, during a global pandemic the Government is to significantly cut foreign aid.
The Government have already broken many manifesto promises, including about food standards in a deal with Australia that will devastate British farming.
Boris Johnson met & works closely with anti-democratic far-right authoritarian racist Viktor Orban, despite the Biden administration calling Hungary a totalitarian regime.
The Government is supported by a global network of free market think tanks funded by foreign billionaires.
The legal system is on the verge of collapse, with 56,000 Crown Court cases backlogged, & people waiting years.
The Law Society has warned that the Government's judicial review "would allow unlawful acts by Government or public bodies to be untouched or untouchable".
The Government demonizes minorities, young people, Universities, schools, footballers, Unions, Black Lives Matter, judges, feminists, environmentalists, scientists, the NHS, BBC, & National Trust, public sector workers, charities, foreigners, historians, the poor, & the Left.
They don't care about the honesty or truth.
They don't care about bodies piled high.
They don't care about poverty.
They don't care about the law.
They don't care about voters.
And they certainly don't care about YOU.
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Tommy Robinson claimed his protest drew “three million patriots”. The Met Police reported 110,000.
Prof Milad Haghani, an actual world-leading expert on estimating crowd sizes, estimates “about 56,000... However I run the numbers, it’s very difficult to make it to 100,000.”
Unlike shameless liar and multiply-convicted violent far-right coke-snorting thug Tommeh, Prof Haghani is a world-leading expert on estimating crowd sizes. He leads geospatial transport planning initiatives, and is an expert in crowd dynamics.
Tommeh is a world-leading grifter.
Compulsive shameless liar Tommy Robinson made the laughable claim that his 'Unite (Divide) The Kingdom' rally was “officially the biggest protest in British history.” 🤥
In reality, as only about 56,000 people attended, it struggled to scrape the top TWENTY. 😂
To spell out why, we need to unpack both the underlying implication of Andrew Doyle's argument and the reasons why it fails to adequately account for contemporary political dangers.
Andrew Doyle asserts that the term "fascism" is misused to the point of recklessness, echoing George Orwell’s 1944 observation that the word had been rendered meaningless. Doyle’s concern is not uncommon—but imho, it’s ultimately misplaced, especially in today’s context.
While it’s true that “fascism” is sometimes deployed rhetorically or hyperbolically (eg by Trump), Doyle’s framing dangerously downplays the genuine resurgence of fascist-adjacent movements across the Western world and undermines the analytical clarity necessary to confront them.
Boris Johnson appears to have had a secret meeting with billionaire Peter Thiel - perhaps the most fanatical of the libertarian Oligarchs and co-founder of the controversial US data firm Palantir, the year before it was given a role at the heart of the UK’s pandemic response.
The hour-long afternoon meeting on 28 August 2019 was marked “private” in a log of Johnson’s activities that day and was not subsequently disclosed on the government’s public log of meetings.
Elon Musk has been amplifying far-right accounts again, including Tommy Robinson, Rupert Lowe, and numerous anonynmous known #disinformation superspreader accounts like 'End Wokeness'.
Let's examine the context for yesterday's march in Richard Tice's constituency, #Skegness.
After decades of neglect, Skegness (pop 20K), stands out on key socio-economic markers on national averages: residents are older; whiter; lower full-time employment; higher rates of few/no qualifications; and concentrated deprivation - it's far-more deprived than most of England.
History repeatedly teaches us that burdening already struggling communities is a recipe for disaster.
These communities have been crying out for help for DECADES, but successive UK Govts have largely ignored their pleas, and continued to increase inequality, which harms us all.
🧵 @Rylan Asylum seekers coming here aren’t technically "illegal." International law (the 1951 Refugee Convention) allows people to seek asylum in any country regardless of how they arrive or how many countries they pass through, as long as they're fleeing persecution or danger.
Allow me to explain why asylum seekers aren’t “illegal”, and how misinformation and nasty demonising and scapegoating rhetoric by certain politicians and media, including news media, has made some British people less welcoming of asylum seeekers.
@Rylan
People fleeing war, torture, or persecution have the legal right to seek asylum.
The 1951 Refugee Convention, which the UK helped write, says anyone escaping danger can apply for asylum in another country no matter how they arrive: claiming asylum isn't a crime.
Farage's illiberal, immoral, & unworkable authoritarian plan involves ripping up human rights laws forged after WWII, which protect British people, & wasting £billions of UK taxpayers' money, giving some of it to corrupt misogynistic totalitarian regimes. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
Leaving the #ECHR, repealing the Human Rights Act and disapplying international conventions
The UK would be an outlier among European democracies, in the company of only Russia and Belarus, if it were to leave the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Opting out of treaties such as the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, the UN Convention against torture and the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention would also be likely to do serious harm to the UK’s international reputation.
It could also undermine current return deals, including with France, and other cooperation agreements on people-smuggling with European nations such as Germany.
The Society of Labour Lawyers said the plan would “in all likelihood preclude further cooperation and law enforcement in dealing with small boats coming from the continent and so increase, rather than reduce, the numbers reaching our shores”.
Farage said he would legislate to remove the “Hardial Singh” safeguards – a reference to a legal precedent that sets limits on the Home Office’s immigration detention powers – to allow indefinite detention for immigration purposes. This would be highly vulnerable to legal challenge.
Many of the rights protected by the ECHR and the Human Rights Act are rooted in British case law, so judges would still be able to prevent deportations, even without international conventions.
Reform UK’s grotesque far-right mass deportation plan is not just economically and socially illiterate (Britain an ageing population and low birth rate) rely on striking “returns agreements” with countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Eritrea and Sudan, offering financial incentives to secure these deals, alongside visa restrictions and potential sanctions on countries that refuse.
These are countries where the Home Office’s risk reports warn of widespread torture and persecution.
It would risk the scenario of making payments to countries such as Iran, whose regime the UK government has accused of plotting terror attacks on British soil.
The Liberal Democrats called the payments “a Taliban tax”, saying the plan would entail sending billions “to an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought and died to defeat”. They said: “Not a penny of taxpayers’ money should go to a group so closely linked to terrorist organisations proscribed by the UK.”