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  • ‘We have to break the Tory-Labour duopoly and we will’

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/we-have-break-tory-labour-duopoly-and-we-will

     From left to right: La France Insoumise deputy leader Nathalie Oziol, Die Linke general secretary Janis Ehling, Workers’ Party of Belgium general secretary Peter Mertens, British-Palestinian activist Leanne Mohamad, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana

    Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana discuss the formation of a new leftwing party 

    THE Tories and Labour’s grip on power must come to an end, people attending The World Transformed Festival 2025 in Manchester heard today.

    A massive queue wrapped around the Niamos Radical Arts Centre in Manchester’s Moss Side in the afternoon as people waited eagerly to join a panel discussion with former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and independent MP Zarah Sultana focused on the formation of their new political party.

    “For too long, our politics has been trapped in a cycle: the same two parties, the same tired promises, the same broken failures; a nightmare that keeps us stuck divided and ignored,” began prominent British-Palestinian activist Leanne Mohamad.

    “The truth is that the two-party system has failed us all,” she said. “Everything that these two parties touch is corrupted. And that is why we have to break this duopoly and we will.”

    Ms Sultana began a passionate speech by first addressing the new party’s rocky start. “Obviously, you’ve all seen what’s happened over the past few weeks,” she said. “But I’m here to tell you, the show is back on the road.”

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    Continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/we-have-break-tory-labour-duopoly-and-we-will

    Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership all feel a small part of Scunthorpe.
    Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership all feel a small part of Scunthorpe.
    Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza's hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
    Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
    UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch explains her reality that the Earth is flat, the Moon is made of cheese and that she was born from Unicorn horn dust
    UK Conservative Party leader Kemi ‘not a genocide’ Badenoch explains her reality that the Earth is flat, the Moon is made of cheese and that she was born from Unicorn horn dust

  • Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple

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    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/10/nigel-farage-nathan-gill-ex-reform-uk-wales-leader-bribery-bad-apple

    Nigel Farage meets members of the public during campaigning in Caerphilly, south Wales. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

    Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements

    Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him.

    The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill.

    Gill, who led Reform UK in Wales in 2021, last month admitted taking bribes to make statements in favour of Vladimir Putin’s Russia while he was a member of the European parliament.

    His activities were said to include making pro-Russian statements about events in Ukraine in the European parliament and in opinion pieces to news outlets.

    Questioned by reporters before walking through Caerphilly town centre, Farage said he was shocked by Gill’s admissions. He said: “Any political party can find in their midst all sorts of terrible people.

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    Gill, 52, pleaded guilty last month to eight counts of bribery between 6 December 2018 and 18 July 2019.

    He was leader of Reform UK Wales from March to May 2021.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/10/nigel-farage-nathan-gill-ex-reform-uk-wales-leader-bribery-bad-apple

    Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
    Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
    Orcas discuss how Trump was re-elected and him being an obviously insane, xenophobic Fascist.
    Orcas discuss how Trump was re-elected and him being an obviously insane, xenophobic Fascist.
    Nigel Farage reminds you that he's the man that brought you Brexit and asks what could possibly go wrong.
    Nigel Farage reminds you that he’s the man that brought you Brexit and asks what could possibly go wrong.

  • Five water firms to raise bills after appeal

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     A water bill from Southern Water

    PLANS to allow water firms to increase bills yet again, despite decades of mismanagement and ongoing pollution, were condemned by campaigners today.

    Five firms are set to raise charges by up to 5 per cent above the limits initially set by regulator Ofwat.

    The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) confirmed that Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, South East Water, Southern Water and Wessex Water have been permitted to hike their tariffs following an appeal.

    The firms argued that Ofwat’s original decision left them unable to meet the regulatory requirements set out for them.

    It follows a ruling in December, in which Southern had already been allowed to increase bills by 53 per cent over the next five years.

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    Kirstin Baker, who chaired the independent group of experts appointed by the CMA to consider the price controls, said that the request for significant bill increases were “largely unjustified.”

    River Action CEO James Wallace said: “Once again, water bill payers are forced to shoulder the cost of decades of failure.

    “Millions of households in England face higher bills while rivers continue to suffer from mismanagement by privatised water companies.

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/five-water-firms-raise-bills-after-appeal

    April 2023 Surfers Against Sewage and Extinction Rebellion protests in St Agnes, Perranporth, Truro and Charlestown which unveiled spoof Blue Plaques to the MPs and Conservative Government who allowed raw sewage to be dumped in the sea (Image: Surfers Against Sewage)
    April 2023 Surfers Against Sewage and Extinction Rebellion protests in St Agnes, Perranporth, Truro and Charlestown which unveiled spoof Blue Plaques to the MPs and Conservative Government who allowed raw sewage to be dumped in the sea (Image: Surfers Against Sewage)

  • Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

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    Boris Johnson refused to answer specific questions posed by the watchdog or provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking. Photograph: Imageplotter/Alamy

    Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

    Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop the abuse of contacts and access made in public office, an ethics watchdog has found.

    Last month the Guardian published revelations about Johnson’s conduct since leaving office. The Boris Files, a trove of documents from the former prime minister’s private office seen by the Guardian, suggested he repeatedly broke rules forbidding him from exploiting for private gain contacts made in office.

    Leaked documents suggested Johnson secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture, amid plans to use an influential contact he had repeatedly hosted in No 10, and used senior contacts in the Saudi government he had met as prime minister to pitch the services of a consultancy firm.

    After the Guardian’s stories were published, the Whitehall watchdog, the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), wrote to Johnson asking him to explain what he had done for the companies.

    Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

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    Continues at https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/10/boris-johnson-breached-rules-designed-to-stop-abuse-of-contacts-made-in-public-office-watchdog-finds

    Image of Elmo and former Prime Minister Tory idiot Boris Johnson
    Image of Elmo (left) and former Prime Minister Tory idiot Boris Johnson (right)

  • ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van

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    Original article by Brad Reed republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

    Federal law enforcement agents stand guard as they are confronted by community members and activists for reportedly shooting a woman in the Brighton Park neighborhood on October 4, 2025 in Broadview, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

    WGN says it “is aware of this situation, and we are actively gathering the facts related to it.”

    A longtime TV news producer at Chicago-based station WGN on Friday was forcefully pinned to the ground and then hauled off in an unmarked van by masked federal agents.

    As reported by the Chicago Tribune, WGN producer Debbie Brockman was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a law enforcement action in the city’s Lincoln Square neighborhood on Friday morning, purportedly on the grounds that she was obstructing their work.

    Video of the arrest taken by an onlooker showed ICE agents handcuffing Brockman after they forced her to lie on her stomach. As the agents were detaining her, Brockman told the onlooker her name and asked him to let her employer, WGN, know what had happened to her.

    She was then placed into an unmarked silver van and taken away to an unknown location, according to the Tribune.

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1976704790148071812

    In a statement given to the Tribune, WGN said that it “is aware of this situation, and we are actively gathering the facts related to it.”

    Josh Thomas, a local resident who witnessed the arrest, told the Tribune that he walked out of the door of his condominium and saw Brockman “laying on the ground in the street and they’re wrestling with her, trying to get her hands behind her back.”

    “They said they were detaining her for obstruction,” Thomas added. “She said, ‘I didn’t obstruct.‘”

    The arrest of Brockman comes one day after a judge responded to ICE agents’ recent violence in suburban Broadview by barring all federal officials in the Northern District of Illinois from using riot weapons “on members of the press, protestors, or religious practitioners who are not posing an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer or others.”

    Federal immigration officials have been employing increasingly aggressive and violent tactics in the Chicago area in recent weeks, including attacking a journalist and a protesting priest with pepper balls outside the Broadview ICE facility; slamming a congressional candidate to the ground; dragging US citizens, including children, out of their homes during a raid in the middle of the night; and fatally shooting a man during a traffic stop.

    Original article by Brad Reed republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

    Donald Fuhrump says that Amerikkka doesn't bother with crimes or charges anymore, not being 100% Amerikkkan and opposing his real estate intentions is enough.
    Donald Fuhrump says that Amerikkka doesn’t bother with crimes or charges anymore, not being 100% Amerikkkan and opposing his real estate intentions is enough.
    Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.
    Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.