Reform

"Security measures for MPs will be bolstered with a £31m package including a dedicated police contact for elected politicians to liaise with over safety issues, the Home Office has said.

MPs will have a dedicated police contact for safety issues as part of a £31m package to boost security measures for elected politicians.

Home Secretary James Cleverley said no MP should have to accept threats as "part of the job", following fears some have been targeted by demonstrators demanding an end to fighting in Gaza.

Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the home of Tory backbencher Tobias Ellwood earlier this month - with police warning his family to "stay away" as arriving could "antagonise" the situation.

Dorset Police said officers attended the scene to ensure people could exercise their right to protest legally and safely without causing significant or ongoing serious public disorder.

It also comes after the House of Commons Speaker broke with precedent last week out of concern for MP safety during a vote related to the war in the Middle East."


Sky News

It's absolutely not racist if he, Anderson, has any evidence whatsoever to back up those remarks. If he does not, then it is racist and Islamaphobic.

I don't know, it I bet he does not. Not a scrap.

Happy to be proved wrong... anyone?

Some good ideas here?

None.
No context and zero effort at cash flow forecasting. Just a list,a list containing dog whistles and right wing tropes.

Ah yes. Let's try to deflect and bring up Right-Wing Extremism. Yes, there are a few oddballs out there. There always are in any society, but what people are seeing is what needs to be addressed. To even compare the right-wing threat with the Islamic threat is pure nonsense.

Andrew Neil on X:-
"The journalist, widely regarded as the UK's toughest political interrogator, warned the country is "drifting" and "unhappy".

Andrew Neil has warned of a "dangerous vacuum" developing in UK politics.

The veteran broadcaster said the UK is in a "morass" and "desperate for strong leadership and guidance".

He said the public has "lost faith" in institutions like the police, while there is "despair" at Westminster over its priorities such as the "obsession" with Lee Anderson who is at the centre of an Islamophobia row.

But Mr Neil said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer are "incapable of speaking up for the moderate majority".

In a post on social media platform X, Mr Neil said: "The UK is drifting, unhappy, losing faith in previously respected institutions (like the police), buffeted by extremists (often allowed to run amok), dismayed by decline, angry at the inability of the political class to do anything about it, despairing that the Westminster politico/media bubble pursues an agenda, issues and priorities (look at the obsession with Lee Anderson) which are not most people’s — and had enough of being lectured to by a disconnected, de haut en bas chattering class.

"Yet we have a Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition incapable of speaking up for the moderate majority, who still have pride in their country and are desperate for strong leadership and guidance through the current morass — plus some hope/sign things will get better — all within the bounds of traditional British tolerance and fair play. This vacuum is dangerous."

I think there are some very good points raised there. Why don't you tell us which ones you don't like? It's called debate.

If there is no attempt to debate, and no attempt to consider an opposing view, then it is a waste of time trying to engage. 

I will debate, but nobody raises a debating point.
I say the Reform policies will cause a ballooning of the PSBR, Nobby says they won't do it straight away.

But never says when, no forecasting, no hint of how they will phase their proposals.

There is no technical point to debate.

Other Reform supporters say nothing at all

It's laughable

Oldie, your response to the list of things in the Reform manifesto was "No context and zero effort at cash flow forecasting. Just a list,a list containing dog whistles and right wing tropes.". You made no attempt to debate any of the points raised.

Can you tell us what policies you think are 'dog whistles' and which are 'right-wing tropes' ?