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In response to our reporter going undercover at #NigelFarage’s #Reform party rally we had this reply:

"The 'left' needs to admit that immigration is a problem. NOT immigrants themselves, but immigration.

With the current lack of investment in public services then continuous immigration becomes a problem. With no 'leftist' party stating that immigration is a problem then that leaves a vacuum for Farage and his party to thrive unchallenged in."

What do you think about this take?

Another 40 seconds Video clip from Peter Corr
#RejoinEU #Trump #Farage #Reform #ReformUK

#news Lemke kritisiert geplante Reform der EU-Fluggastrechte: Verbraucherschutzministerin Steffi Lemke (Grüne) wendet sich gegen in Brüssel diskutierte Pläne, Fluggästen künftig erst ab einer Vers... https://hubu.de/?p=273713 | #eufluggastrechte #lemke #reform #hubu

Notfallversorgung: Welche Probleme Union und SPD lösen müssen

Uneinheitlich, veraltet, ineffektiv: Seit Jahren kritisieren Experten den Zustand der Notfallversorgung in Deutschland. Die Ampel wollte das Problem angehen, aber zerbrach zuvor. Kommt nun ein neuer Anlauf? Von Birthe Sönnichsen.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/notfallversorgung-reform-koalitionsverhandlungen-102.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

Unfortunately populist politicians are calling the tune - be they Labour, Tory or Reform. Humanity, and even simple rationality is going by the way in a wish by many British politicians to be seen to be 'doing something'.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/the-guardian-view-on-sentencing-guidelines-rightwing-politicians-must-not-call-the-tune

Rep. Sara Jacobs: "I introduced the Delete DOGE Act, which – you guessed it – would defund DOGE." #politics #reform

The moral of the story is never trust a UK government, but then many many people and whole countries know all about that.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/05/afghan-rights-defender-told-she-faces-no-risk-from-taliban-as-home-office-denies-asylum

Perfidious Albion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidious_Albion for those who might not have come across the phrase) is well deserved. Even worse now with Labour #pandering (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pander-to ) to #Reform.

"A Reform UK candidate has been suspended from the party after posts on social media revealed his support for serial sex abuser Jimmy Savile."

Still not seeing why I should vote Reform. Ok they suspended this creep but fact he was even announced as a candidate is ick.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2xey4m2ygo

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

   All men in whose character there is not an element of hardened baseness must admit the need in our public life of those qualities which we somewhat vaguely group together when we speak of “reform,” and all men of sound mind must also admit the need of efficiency.
   There are, of course, men of such low moral type, or of such ingrained cynicism, that they do not believe in the possibility of making anything better, or do not care to see things better. There are also men who are slightly disordered mentally, or who are cursed with a moral twist which makes them champion reforms less from a desire to do good to others than as a kind of tribute to their own righteousness, for the sake of emphasizing their own superiority. From neither of these classes can we get any real help in the unending struggle for righteousness.
   There remains the great body of the people, including the entire body of those through whom the salvation of the people must ultimately be worked out. All these men combine or seek to combine in varying degrees the quality of striving after the ideal, that is, the quality which makes men reformers, and the quality of so striving through practical methods — the quality which makes men efficient. Both qualities are absolutely essential. The absence of either makes the presence of the other worthless or worse.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1900-06), “Latitude and Longitude Among Reformers,” The Century Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 2

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…

"It is infuriating to see another Labour government seek to appease a rightwing voter base by reinforcing the “tough on crime” doom loop that has gridlocked our justice system for the past 30 years. It was New Labour’s punitive posturing that drove up the prison population by 40% between 1997 and 2010"

#Sentencing #Law #Justice #LabourRight #Reform

Labour’s populist pantomime over sentencing rules plays into the hands of the right | Janey Starling | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/01/labour-prison-reform-justice-system?CMP=GTUK_email

Reformpläne von Schwarz-Rot
Wer ohne Überweisung zum Facharzt will, soll draufzahlen

Kann ich eigentlich nur begrüßen. Ich mache das als Privatpatient schon seit Jahren freiwillig so und konnte damit meine Krankenkassenbeiträge deutlich senken. Ich empfinde es nicht einmal als Einschränkung meiner persönlichen Freiheiten.

https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Wer-ohne-Uberweisung-zum-Facharzt-will-soll-draufzahlen-article25666642.html

Diese #Petition endet innerhalb weniger Tage:

Titel: #Reform des #Petitionsverfahrens des #Bundestages

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Link: https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2024/_10/_09/Petition_173200.nc.html

#news VdK-Präsidentin fordert Reform des Grundrenten-Freibetrags: Verena Bentele, Präsidentin des Sozialverbands VdK, fordert, die Ausweitung der Mütterrente mit einer Reform des Grundrenten-Freibetra... https://hubu.de/?p=272447 | #reform #vdkpraesidentin #hubu

#Reform is for people with time and foresight before problems become critical, and has a more peaceful set of potential outcomes. #Revolution is for folks that passed the fuck around stage and are in the find out stage. And #US citizens are out of time and never had foresight.

How a false #NetZero claim became ‘news’: the right-wing disinformation loop https://bylines.cymru/politics-and-society/right-wing-disinformation-loop/

"_ _ lots of people on the social media platform X suddenly became experts in electricity infrastructure, substations, and transformers."