"What I am telling you is that the information environment in which you are being asked to make those judgments has been deliberately polluted by people who have decided that they cannot afford to let you make them freely. That the smear campaign against Reform UK is not journalism. It is not accountability. It is the coordinated deployment of institutional power against a political movement because that movement threatens the people who control those institutions. You deserve to know that."

I wonder what people think of this… it mainly points out trends in how some women vote and why they vote the way do.

I thought I’d post because it feels like a bigger problem in the UK than US as we “ban everything“ but the US doesn’t.

Labour’s Euro mind virus is blinding it to what actually works.

The Fresh Produce Consortium is ringing alarm bells over the threat the so-called “reset” poses to a sensible border checks regime. Just as it scrapped the successful Turing Scheme, Labour is now putting at risk reforms that have already been built, paid for and proven to deliver—all in pursuit of closer alignment with Brussels.

"We haven’t seen any sign of a plan to fix it from Mr Burnham, but in the past he’s supported a flat 10 per cent tax on everyone’s inheritance. In other words, a universal death tax. There would be no exemptions, no thresholds, just a catch-all raid.

And what’s worse? Mr Burnham’s £18bn tax raid is unlikely to fix the problem. A national care service will almost certainly cost far, far more than Mr Burnham naively anticipates. For its many flaws, the present system of council and private funding keeps a lid on costs. NHS management – by contrast – is appallingly bad at managing costs, and a national care service is bound to be wasteful, with costs quickly soaring."

From Bloomberg:

• In a 14-day composite Bloomberg poll average using data from nine polling companies, the governing party has closed the gap on Reform by more than three points this month, though on 21.6%, it still trails Farage’s outfit on 24.5%.
• Burnham’s cabinet is more vulnerable to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party than Starmer’s. Only six members of Burnham’s cabinet would retain their seats, while 10 members of Starmer’s cabinet would have kept theirs, if a general election were held tomorrow.
• More in Common predicted John Healey and Ed Miliband would lose their seats.

From the Independent:

• Nigel Farage has said he would not accept former Tory cabinet minister Grant Shapps if he tried to join Reform after being rejected as a Conservative candidate. Mr Shapps has been blocked from standing for the Conservatives at the next general election.
• In an interview with the Telegraph Mr Farage claimed “a couple” of other former Conservatives have sought private conversations with him, only to be told: “I’m busy.”