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Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’ Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements

This article is from The Times which is behind a pay wall but here's the details of the story from the Guardian www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What did Nigel Farage know about this?

How can #Reform accept such crimes in their senior ranks?

Why is this story not all over the BBC or @skynewsrss.bsky.social ?

We can't let #Putin and #Russia ride rough-shod through our democracy, we need to stand up to treason against the UK.

I flipping love the Ryder Cup! ⛳️

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 33% (-1)
LAB: 17% (+1)
LDM: 16% (+3)
CON: 14% (-2)
GRN: 12% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 24 Sep.
Changes w/ 17 Sep.

We're delighted to have so many colleagues from local partner organisations joining us for the Cherwell Voluntary Sector Forum.

On the agenda are speakers from Oxfordshire Community and Voluntary Action, Age UK Oxfordshire, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and the Fire & Rescue Service.

Very proud to have been invited to chair @cherwellcouncil.bsky.social Volunteer Sector Forum this morning.

Thanks to all the speakers and to all the volunteer organisations that attended. You all help make Cherwell an amazing place to live!

Bloody Foreigner!

Coming over here, demanding to know what love is!

Great to see @calummillerld.bsky.social on #Newsnight speaking very eloquently about Ed Davey’s BBCTrump boycott over Gaza.

How much better is the #bbc when it remembers to invite LibDems every so often!

Tice on the BBC again!

It’s an absolute disgrace. What has him and Farage got on them?

That’s a strawman argument - no one has mentioned either of those things. Read Calum’s letter, he makes it very clear that Farage’s plan will cost the UK billions.

Agreed sadly.

Yes I saw Sean’s letter. Hadn’t realised he’d not had any response but I can’t say I’m surprised.

Spoiler alert - he’s making it up.

At least the staff at the Bull gave JD a good flavour of the local sentiment towards him 🍻

Dear Mr Farage Welcome to Oxfordshire. You came here to talk about “mass deportations” but made no effort to understand the people or challenges of this community. Your proposals offer no costed plan. Daily flights, new detention centres and vast surveillance systems would cost billions. Empty slogans are not a substitute for serious policy. It did not go unnoticed that you spoke just minutes from Campsfield House, where a detention centre is being rebuilt despite local opposition and past scandals. Yet you chose not to meet residents living with those consequences. You often invoke Winston Churchill, born here in Oxfordshire. He spent his career grappling with difficult truths and forging alliances in our national interest. Instead of sowing division, we should build on that legacy. Our immigration system is broken after years of Government failure. It needs urgent, practical reform: fair, managed migration to meet workforce shortages, a faster asylum system and support for those fleeing war and persecution. That requires cooperation and honesty, not division. If you return, I would be glad to show you Oxfordshire’s real story: businesses thriving thanks to home and overseas talent, health and care services desperate for staff and residents supporting refugees with compassion. You would see a community interested in solving problems, not fuelling conflict. Yours sincerely Calum Miller MP

I have written to Nigel Farage in response to his visit to my constituency of Bicester and Woodstock today.

lol very true Jim! I feel like madness had started to set in by that point for me so I wasn’t much practical use to anyone.

This photo was taken at about 4am exactly a year ago - sat in Spiceball Sports hall in Banbury waiting on the result to find out if @calummillerld.bsky.social was about to become the first ever Libdem MP for Bicester and Woodstock.

(Spoiler alert: he did!)

Hey BBC QT & Laura Kuenssberg

This graphic may come as a shock to you but please look at it when booking panellists.

People are getting v. bored with you booking the same Tory & Labour drones each week.

Clue - the huge blob of gold are LibDems

Credit @electionmaps.uk

Absolutely horrendous news coming out about Diogo Jota and his brother. My heart goes out to his family.

lol fair point, after all I’m apparently only about 2 foot tall 🇵🇪

I’ve been absolutely stitched up by the close captions at last night’s exec meeting… 🧸

Reeves ‘failed’ to back English councils in spending review, MPs warn Woking MP Will Forster called on the Chancellor to ‘justify’ a ‘lack of investment’ into local government.

The chancellor missed the chance to support councils in the spending review this week.

Years of cuts into District & County councils budgets means that services could be affected without urgent action.

Great comments on this from @willforster.bsky.social

www.standard.co.uk/business/bus...

Honestly, I don’t think you get to call yourself a British patriot if you’re funded by Russia to espouse distinctly un-British viewpoints.

Two party politics is back.

Aggregate Result of the 21 Council By-Elections Since the 2025 Local Elections:

LDM: 10 (+3)
RFM: 9 (+9)
LAB: 1 (-6)
SNP: 1 (=)
LOC: 0 (-2)
CON: 0 (-4)

Holy moly….

(Can’t say I’m shocked though!)

#elonmusk #donaldtrump #epsteinfiles

Whilst all this is going on with Trump and Musk, Tesla has lost 12% of its value today - that loss is approximately worth about US$100bn.

I believe Musk personally owns about 20% of the stock so he personally has lost US$20bn today!

100%

If the world didn’t know that Elon was a buffoon before they certainly do now, and there’s no way that genie is going back in the bottle.

Sooo….

Do we think this is real or is Musk just trying to rehabilitate his shattered reputation by pretending he’s had a fallout out with Agent Orange?

Not wanting to sound too cynical, but I wonder if it’s worth checking what stocks have been sold this morning, prior to this announcement by friends and family of Donald Trump?