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Reform Splurged £1.3m on Right-Wing Newspaper Adverts During Election Nigel Farage’s Reform UK paid almost £1.3 million to conservative publications during the 2024 general election campaign. The right-wing populist party, which frequently claims to be a victim of media...

Nigel Farage‘s Reform UK funnelled £1.3m into right-wing tabloids during last year’s general election campaign.

Roughly 25% of the party’s £5.5m election spend went on buying adverts in the Daily Mail, The Sun, and the Daily Express.

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Reform has now admitted that Zia Yusuf’s big ‘local waste’ claims are nonsense Turns out he hit ‘tweet’ too soon...

Turns out the claims made by Zia Yusuf about Kent council spending were actually total bullsh*t, and the party knows it 👇🏻

The minitrumps are showing the same traits as their cousins across the pond.

Reform has now admitted that Zia Yusuf’s big ‘local waste’ claims are nonsense Turns out he hit ‘tweet’ too soon...

Turns out the claims made by Zia Yusuf about Kent council spending were actually total bullsh*t, and the party knows it 👇🏻

Today my barber and an acquaintance (now a former acquaintance and former barber) have been openly racist.

The radicalisation of Britain is happening at a frightening speed and it’s disgusting. This isn’t the country I grew up in.

98%

That's the decrease in the annual number of single-use plastic bags in the UK since a 5p charge started 10 years ago (it's now 10p)

Not all environmental problems are that easy to tackle, but change is possible

Resharing the Mail's 2015 splash, which has aged well

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"This guy is supposedly the big business genius who will turn around the economy under Prime Minister Farage and make sure every pound of taxpayer money is spent wisely.

All I can say is: God help us."

Reform has now admitted that Zia Yusuf’s big ‘local waste’ claims are nonsense Turns out he hit ‘tweet’ too soon...

Reform has now admitted that Zia Yusuf’s big ‘local waste’ claims are nonsense

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I'm now supporting Sam Bright on Substack.

Sam is an investigative journalist focusing on Reform UK's lies and manipulations.

His latest digging into Reform's lies about Kent County Council convinced me to support his work to help protect the integrity of our democracy.

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This litany of errors should be forced to be covered on @gbnews.bsky.social!

Reform has now admitted that Zia Yusuf’s big ‘local waste’ claims are nonsense Turns out he hit ‘tweet’ too soon...

🔴 NEW - Reform has now admitted that Zia Yusuf’s big ‘local waste’ claims are nonsense

Turns out Farage’s DOGE genius hit ‘tweet’ too soon...

@desmog.com should be on there!

Reform Splurged £1.3m on Right-Wing Newspaper Adverts During Election Nigel Farage’s Reform UK paid almost £1.3 million to conservative publications during the 2024 general election campaign. The right-wing populist party, which frequently claims to be a victim of media...

Good story from @desmog.com on Reform’s electoral cash splurge with right wing newspapers during the general election. Featuring a comment from… me www.desmog.com/2025/07/28/r...

Reform Splurged £1.3m on Right-Wing Newspaper Adverts During Election Nigel Farage’s Reform UK paid almost £1.3 million to conservative publications during the 2024 general election campaign. The right-wing populist party, which frequently claims to be a victim of media...

🔴 NEW - Reform paid almost £1.3 million to right-wing newspapers during the 2024 general election campaign - roughly 25% of its total budget.

📝 @desmog.com scoop with @adambarnett.bsky.social 👇

Like if we’re talking about limiting social media access for the under-16s, surely we should be considering the same for the over-70s?

A 75 year old is way more likely to fall for fake news AI slop than a 15 year old

I’m increasingly convinced that a large number of Britain’s problems can be explained by intergenerational inequality and the attitudes of older generations - yet we’re not talking about them because virtually all journalists and politicians are scared of addressing the elephant in the room

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

There’s a sick, twisted irony in the far-right protesting against asylum seekers for their alleged involvement in crimes, when 41% (!) of those arrested at last year’s far-right riots had previously been reported to the police for domestic abuse

Institute of Economic Affairs Under Investigation by the Charity Commission The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) pressure group, which campaigns against clean energy policies, is being investigated by the charities regulator. The Good Law Project (GLP), a legal advocacy gr...

The same IEA that is currently under investigation by the Charity Commission

I see BBC Newsnight had an IEA staffer on again last night - alongside Kim Darroch and Jon Sopel.

It’s ridiculous that the BBC continues to platform the IEA’s extreme, economically ruinous agenda. It’s like the Truss fiasco never happened.

Reform’s DOGE unit is a major corruption red flag Farage is sending a secretive squad to take over local councils...

🔴 NEW - Reform’s DOGE unit is a major corruption red flag

Farage’s council hit squad is opaque, corporate, and fundamentally anti-democratic 👇

A front page of the Guardian newspaper is entirely given over to the famine in Gaza. A large photo shows a mother holding her emaciated child’s body. The banner headline says, “We have faced hunger before, but never like this'

Tomorrow’s Guardian front page

Would be interested in co-publishing with DeSmog if / when you find out more, Leigh!

Reform’s DOGE unit is a major corruption red flag Farage is sending a secretive squad to take over local councils...

🔴 NEW - Reform’s DOGE unit is a major corruption red flag

Farage’s council hit squad is opaque, corporate, and fundamentally anti-democratic 👇

Reform’s latest recruit, Senedd member Laura Anne Jones, said a few years ago that she “would like to do a spot of chav shooting” - adding it’s “a shame that isn’t legal”.

Farage really can pick them

Absolutely smack on the point article from @writesbright.bsky.social here.
How do we stop Rachel Reeves allowing city sharks to rip the country apart?
@mattbishopmp.bsky.social THIS IS NOT WHAT I VOTED FOR.

Thanks Jacky 💪🏻🙏🏻

Rachel Reeves’s biggest mistake yet Yes, I think it’s even worse than the winter fuel debacle...

🔴 NEW - Rachel Reeves’s biggest mistake yet 👇🏻

Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study Reform UK’s policies to “scrap net zero” would cost more than 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion off the UK economy, according to a new study. Nigel Farage’s party — which took control of 10 councils in...

Reform’s clean energy crackdown would cost 60,000 jobs, wipe £92 billion off the economy, and raise bills, says study

New Providence Wharf had everything — until the fires started How a series of blazes changed the lives of residents in a luxury east London block

New Providence Wharf is a luxury block in Canary Wharf with a gym, pool and valets.

It has also set on fire three times in the last four years.

I found out what's been going on for @londonermag.bsky.social

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Between 2019 and 2024, Reform received more than 90% of its funding, £2.3 million, from individuals and companies linked to polluting industries and climate science denial.