If the leave promises are undeliverable, where's the mandate?

🚨 BREAKING: The BBC has revealed the Russian Government was behind the arson attacks on Keir Starmer's home and car

Reported knife crime is rising as detection improves. But actual knife assault, as measured by hospitalisation, is at a 25-year low...

Asylum backlog falling fast...

...small boat crossings falling for first time in years...

"Where are the paeans of praise for the land of milk and honey they told us it would deliver?"

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Thanks to @DailyMail for correcting a column which claimed welfare spending has overtaken income tax receipts “for the first time”. (Welfare, which includes state pensions, has been higher for years—although income tax may overtake it this year.) fullfact.org/economy/mail-bo…

An Imam’s home was firebombed in Bolton. Fortunately he and his family are safe…. …but where is the media and political outrage? Where are the angry social media influencers? Britain is heading in a very dangerous direction if we don’t stand against ALL racism and hatred

We’ve updated our migration explainer with new data, and answered some common questions we see about these figures, including: 🔹How much immigration is “illegal”? 🔹How much is due to asylum seekers? 🔹Has there been an “exodus” of British nationals? fullfact.org/immigration/net…

We are witnessing a pogrom in Belfast The last couple of nights have seen targeted violence against minority communities on such a scale that it can be accurately described as a pogrom. Read why I think this: nicklowles.substack.com/p/we…

Odd to see Tories claim "mass migration is still happening" as if there has been no change. Here's the latest:-

Good to see Ant Middlton campaigning for Rob Kenyon in Makerfield. Who better to help push the message that Reform is on the side of local businesses than someone who lives in Dubai and is banned as a company director for dodging £1m in tax?

To be clear, Wigan Councillors that have had a DBS check have a line on their councillor profile stating that they do. Reform UK’s candidate Rob Kenyon doesn’t. He also hasn’t attended a single meeting as councillor, or signed in as a councillor. His photo here is from the 2024 general election.

Reform UK’s #Makerfield candidate Rob Kenyon is being paid £14,822 per year now he’s a Wigan Councillor. He’s not even turned up to sign in, not attended a council meeting and hasn’t even bothered to post a single thing advocating for his ward. Voted for Rob Kenyon as councillor? He conned you.

The latest asylum figures show a 58% decrease in the number of asylum cases waiting for an initial decision since Labour took office. Our updated explainer looks at the government’s progress with the asylum backlog. fullfact.org/immigration/asy…

For DBS checks to be conducted, proof of ID and address must be provided by way of original documentation. The fact Rob Kenyon will not co-operate with the process suggests something is amiss. #DBS

Please repost if you want the full restoration of our EU Freedom of Movement, which was stolen from us by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history. This is the debate that we have to win if the UK is to rejoin the Single Market or the EU. In 2016 the Remain campaign did not defend our Freedom of Movement because its spineless leaders were frightened of the right-wing press. Our freedom was robbed from us without a debate. The wave of migration from Eastern Europe is a thing of the past. Thanks to EU membership, Eastern European countries have greatly reduced the economic gap with the UK. The immigration hysteria of 2016 was a panic about a migration surge that was soon going to end, but the wretched Remain leadership failed to make that point. Indeed, given its leadership, it is remarkable that Remain got as much as 48%. Please don't do the typical thing of educated people of finding all sorts of practical reasons why this can't happen. If Brexiters had been like that we would still be in the EU. It is our job as ordinary people to make the demand as loudly as possible. It is for politicians to listen to the people and look for ways of fulfilling that demand.

On the back cover of Lucy Connolly's ghost written book the lying starts with the claim that she sent one tweet, and that it was figurative hyperbole. Your regular reminder this isn't true. 1. Her own counsel said she intended to incite serious violence - it succeeded. 2. It was viewed 310,000 times on her feed, and reposted 940 times before she deleted it. 3. Not content with making the money she got from her go fund me she's now going to profit from her criminality with this 'book' 4. She has already made more money from that tweet, mostly tax free, than she earned in the previous ten years. When they sideshow her at their conferences, Reform & Connolly always claim her conviction was an example of 'two tier justice' - perhaps they're talking about how much she's 'earned' from it? The Judge's sentencing remarks ⬇️

Farage has taken over £80,000 from the US anti-abortion lobby thecanary.co/uk/analysis/202…

1/ Facts—and the institutions that verify and communicate them—are under intense pressure in the UK. Our latest report finds the information environment is structurally weakening, putting democracy at risk. fullfact.org/policy/reports/…