Press Gang

Press Gang

@pressgang.bsky.social

Edited by investigative journalist and current affairs television producer, Paddy French, Press Gang tells untold stories. Emphasis on new research rather than armchair rehashing of material already in the public domain. paddyfrench.substack.com

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1 week ago
Reform fury as someone else wins
by Our By-election Editor
Tim Shipsink
The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost
comprehensively to someone else.
"It's totally unfair and rigged,"
said Goodwhinge.
"I shouldn't
be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost."
Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me.
Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X.
"We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families."
Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice.
They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green."
Reform leader
Mr Farage,
speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said,
"It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either."

PLUMBER DEFEATS
MATT GOODWIN

Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… 
I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

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1 week ago

Every word of this.
A hundred times — this.

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1 week ago

MAGA “clerics” puts it very nicely.

Knowingly going along with a Zionist Israel that made nuclear bombs in breach of international law.

US says they’ve no evidence of this …

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Absolutely ace cover!

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Breaking

Uk lawyers for Israel’s Natasha Hausdorff is suing Piers Morgan.

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The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.

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We have madness across the pond.

Why can’t we have Hugh Grant as PM telling the US president to “fuck off”?

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His grandfather was a draft dodger in WW1 … went to US to avoid serving in the army.

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There ought to be a scale which would flag up these derisory sums.

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@reformexposed.bsky.social

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Exclusive: Nigel Farage — Multi-Millionaire NEW FIGURES released today show that the Reform leader — fresh from the party’s defeat in yesterday’s Gorton and Denton by-election — added half a million pounds to his wealth last year.

open.substack.com/pub/gangpres...

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Exclusive: Nigel Farage — Multi-Millionaire NEW FIGURES released today show that the Reform leader — fresh from the party’s defeat in yesterday’s Gorton and Denton by-election — added half a million pounds to his wealth last year.

EXCLUSIVE — Nigel Farage — Multi-Millionaire

As Nigel Farage licks his wounds after the defeat in the Manchester by-election, he can console himself with new figures which show that he's now worth more than £3m

open.substack.com/pub/gangpres...

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2 weeks ago
Manchester Green Party graphic on a green background with hannah spencer. it’s a green win! the gorton and denton residents chose hope, not hate. here’s to change. thank you very much to all of our volunteers that helped elect hannah, our 5th Green MP and 1st in the north!

✅ Hope HAS WON!

💪 Only the GREENS can take on Farage

🇬🇧 Politics has changed forever

🪠 Hannah the Plumber is now Hannah Spencer the MP for Gorton and Denton!

🐝 The FIRST NORTHERN GREEN MP

🥀 Labour have been replaced

🚫 Reform's rise has been halted. Hate has been defeated.

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Woman. Plumber. Plasterer. Local. Unifier. Quite something.

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Trump style.

Note the insistence that Goodwin, who was absolutely rejected by voters in Gorton and Denton tonight, was a "great candidate"

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This is really shocking and profoundly disturbing.

We are on the foothills of fascism …

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Just two days to go!

Vote Hannah Spencer on Thursday and make hope normal again.

💚

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3 weeks ago
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The House of Farage WHO REALLY owns Nigel Farage’s Clacton residence?

THE HOUSE OF FARAGE

Is Nigel Farage telling the truth about the house in Clacton his girlfriend bought?

There’s a way for him to prove he isn’t lying.

But he refuses to take it.

We’ve launched a petition to force him to do so …

gangpress.substack.com/p/the-house-...

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Join the Green Party Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

Reform are always obsessively challenging others to debates.

But my invitation to debate Nigel Farage - leader to leader - still hasn’t been taken up.

What are they running from?

The Green Party will stop Reform.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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1 month ago
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State of HATE 2025: The Opportunist Extremist: The Strange Radicalisation of Matthew Goodwin Once a respected academic studying the far right, Matthew Goodwin has become one of its most influential figures. Now a GB News pundit and Reform UK fanboy, he’s traded scholarship for reactionary gri...

So Matthew Goodwin is Reform's candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election. I wrote this last year about how there is nothing he won’t say if he thinks it will get him more views and paying Substack subscribers. He’s an opportunist extremist. hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat...

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3 weeks ago

These people have no moral compass.

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What offends me about this is just that it's so fucking stupid. Every time some group brutalizes another, the brutalizers conclude the people they're brutalizing are inhuman savages. It's happened 100,000 times before in history. Congrats to Brianna on being 100,001st, what an achievement.

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Political cartoon by Geoff Dan zinger titled "The Shit Post," written in a Gothic, newspaper-style font. Letters from The Washington Post newspaper have fallen leaving just 'The... shi.. t.... Post', Bezos and Trump are laughing down below.

#WashingtonPost #Bezos

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1 month ago
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Someone should remind Maguire (and other commentators) that people voted Labour because they wanted a ‘soft left’ government and gave Starmer a huge majority.

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The Israeli Spyware Firm That Accidentally Just Exposed Itself The Billion-Dollar Surveillance Pipeline: From Occupation Technology to Global Control

open.substack.com/pub/ahmedeld...

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Breaking: New Gordon Brown evidence against Rupert Murdoch "being assessed" by Scotland Yard A POWER struggle is taking place between former prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Metropolitan Police.

open.substack.com/pub/gangpres...

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Hey, Sunday Times, rich people don’t ’give’ tax, like a gift to the poor. That’s not how it works.

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3 months ago

Member Paddy's new book now out!

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1 month ago

Report to Ofcom … useless but keeps the pressure on the British Buggered Corporation.

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