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Likely to be posting/commenting on UK politics, Ireland, EU, sports and occasionally family @UKLabour @MUFC #RejoinEU @IrishRugby

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Epstein celebrated Brexit and ‘return to tribalism’, emails suggest Millions of emails released on Friday show the influence of disgraced paedophile Jeffrey Epstein over the world’s most powerful political figures

Jeffrey Epstein celebrated Britain’s decision to leave the European Union in the wake of the 2016 referendum, hailing a “return to tribalism”, newly released documents suggest.
Epstein celebrated Brexit and ‘return to tribalism’, emails suggest
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

04.02.2026 09:23 — 👍 61    🔁 32    💬 2    📌 6

They are all #PutinsPuppets

03.02.2026 22:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Robert Jenrick accepts £25,000 from Ukraine-sanctioned Leonard Blavatnik Blavatnik is sanctioned by Ukraine and made his first fortune in post-Soviet Russia

Farage isn’t the only Reform grifter in Putin’s pocket. “Moscow Bob” Jenrick likes a rouble or two.

www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/10/17/r...

03.02.2026 22:23 — 👍 16    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0
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Sir Keir Starmer and his pragmatic leadership is exactly what we need right now and is in the best interests of the UK.

In a statement in the Commons just now, he has laid out just how he was able to raise many areas of disagreement with China on his recent visit.

Jimmy Lai

Xinjiang & Tibet

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02.02.2026 16:08 — 👍 116    🔁 28    💬 5    📌 5

Absolutely 💯 there was never such a thing as a “good” Brexit….

02.02.2026 09:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Photo of Starmer speaking 

Starmer signals closer alignment with EU's single market to ease harm caused by Brexit
Starmer attacks Farage over
'botched' Brexit
The Labour leader has outlined the party's ambition for closer cooperation with Europe

Photo of Starmer speaking Starmer signals closer alignment with EU's single market to ease harm caused by Brexit Starmer attacks Farage over 'botched' Brexit The Labour leader has outlined the party's ambition for closer cooperation with Europe

"He said if we left the EU there would be less red tape for trading into Europe
- try telling that to any business that is trading into Europe.
"He said if we left the EU regular migration would go down - it quadrupled under the Boris wave. So I wouldn't listen too much to what Nigel Farage has to say about this."
Sir Keir described the previous government's Brexit deal as "botched" and highlighted Labour's efforts to negotiate new arrangements, including on food and agriculture, which he said
"lead to lower prices in our supermarkets".

"He said if we left the EU there would be less red tape for trading into Europe - try telling that to any business that is trading into Europe. "He said if we left the EU regular migration would go down - it quadrupled under the Boris wave. So I wouldn't listen too much to what Nigel Farage has to say about this." Sir Keir described the previous government's Brexit deal as "botched" and highlighted Labour's efforts to negotiate new arrangements, including on food and agriculture, which he said "lead to lower prices in our supermarkets".

Not sure ‘botched’ Brexit is the way to go. Particularly as Farage agrees, blames the Tories and threatens to make it even worse.
At some point you need to tell the truth. It’s not botched. It’s exactly what you get when you prioritise prejudice over pragmatism.
app.independent.co.uk/2026/02/01/2...

02.02.2026 07:43 — 👍 928    🔁 310    💬 63    📌 17
Churchwarden linked to
foreign-born billionaire is
behind £200k Reform gift
The man whose firm made the donations will
not discuss where the money came from, nor
his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not
hold citizenship


Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor
Saturday January 31 2026, 8.00pm, The Sunday Times


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A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works
for the family of a highly secretive,
Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as
the man behind £200,000 of donations to
Reform UK.,


John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old

Churchwarden linked to foreign-born billionaire is behind £200k Reform gift The man whose firm made the donations will not discuss where the money came from, nor his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not hold citizenship Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor Saturday January 31 2026, 8.00pm, The Sunday Times Share A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for the family of a highly secretive, Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as the man behind £200,000 of donations to Reform UK., John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old

Why isn't this a major news story?

02.02.2026 07:53 — 👍 2092    🔁 1096    💬 118    📌 62

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Parents to save £450 a year as major expansion of free breakfast clubs unveiled Free breakfast clubs will roll out to a further 500 primary schools from April - with a £6,500 yearly funding boost compared to last year’s phase

Free breakfast clubs will roll out to a further 500 primary schools from April - with a £6,500 yearly funding boost compared to last year’s phase
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

02.02.2026 08:03 — 👍 262    🔁 71    💬 8    📌 2
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The EU's so bitter about
Brexit it's trying to destroy the UK car industry - it's pathetic

The European Union has plans for strict new manufacturing rules, which could leave UK brands at serious risk, says Luke Chillingsworth.

EXPRESS The EU's so bitter about Brexit it's trying to destroy the UK car industry - it's pathetic The European Union has plans for strict new manufacturing rules, which could leave UK brands at serious risk, says Luke Chillingsworth.

A certain type of divorced guy who can’t move in with his life and so invents grievances about his ex in an attempt to convince himself that she’s still thinking about him.

02.02.2026 08:10 — 👍 131    🔁 25    💬 12    📌 0
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The man behind donations of £200,000 to Reform is a church warden from Potters Bar, who just happens to work for a billionaire from Kazakhstan. But it's definitely not money laundering or interference in UK politics by a foreign national.

02.02.2026 08:20 — 👍 550    🔁 272    💬 26    📌 8

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01.02.2026 19:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Andy Burnham out today giving his full backing to Labour candidate Angeliki Stogia for Gorton and Denton.

Andy was clear - we are united against the division of Reform

01.02.2026 18:34 — 👍 316    🔁 48    💬 27    📌 2

🙏🙏🙏🌹👏👍

01.02.2026 19:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UK should consider resuming talks on EU defence pact, Starmer says PM says Europe must ‘step up’ and signals he wants to work more closely with other states to build military capability

NEW: UK should consider re-entering talks for defence pact with the EU, Keir Starmer has said, arguing that Europe needs to “step up and do more” to defend itself in uncertain times.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

01.02.2026 19:25 — 👍 388    🔁 64    💬 29    📌 11
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Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein

Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon & convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

By @peterjukes
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

01.02.2026 15:29 — 👍 45    🔁 34    💬 2    📌 2

This absolutely stinks and needs proper detailed investigation

01.02.2026 16:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Well this is dodgy as fuck

01.02.2026 15:52 — 👍 251    🔁 100    💬 17    📌 4
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Keir Starmer calls on Andrew to testify in US over Jeffrey Epstein links Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his royal titles last year, features heavily in the latest tranche of the Epstein files

Keir Starmer has said Andrew Mounbatten-Windsor should testify before US Congress about links to late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

01.02.2026 08:05 — 👍 226    🔁 40    💬 43    📌 3
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✅ Clarkson is right, people aren’t voting Reform for policies 👉there aren’t any.

It’s a protest vote powered by nostalgia not a plan for future.

Reform use farming as a prop. Their real plan is USA trade deal, hormone-treated imports and they’ve appointed Ben Goldsmith
🔗 archive.ph/2026.01.31-0...

01.02.2026 07:45 — 👍 453    🔁 165    💬 42    📌 17

Awkward for Farage because a good number of Clarkson's many hardcore fans are natural Reform voters and will listen to him.

01.02.2026 08:21 — 👍 667    🔁 191    💬 50    📌 6
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No one knows what Reform's policies are…voting for Farage won't solve anything I’VE got my crystal ball out and here’s what it’s telling me: If and when Reform win the next general election, the army of people who voted for them are going to end up sorely disappointed. Bear...

Jeremy Clarkson: Do you know what Reform’s policies are? Neither do I… So here’s why voting for Farage won’t solve any of your problems

01.02.2026 08:24 — 👍 145    🔁 51    💬 18    📌 3

What a pathetic manbaby he is…

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Goodwin literally had a hissy fit when Alan Rusbridger & David Aaronovitch went for dinner after an event they all did together & chose not to ask him. He’s palpably desperate to go to fictional dinner parties that exist only in his warped imagination. Instead he gets to suck lemons with 30p Lee.

01.02.2026 08:25 — 👍 1257    🔁 228    💬 56    📌 6
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High streets to receive £150 million to restore community pride Multi-million-pound package to turn the tide on ailing high streets, targeted in places most in need of support

Our Labour government are doing so much to help support and improve our high streets.

The latest announcement today is of £150m targeted fund to help restore community pride in areas most in need.

This is the first step in the new High Streets Strategy, which will launch soon.

But....

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01.02.2026 08:27 — 👍 74    🔁 26    💬 6    📌 0

Who on earth does he think he is

01.02.2026 09:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Starmer vows to take UK deeper into EU single market Seemingly buoyed by a positive reception and a smaller-than-anticipated backlash, the British PM is now doubling down on his Brexit reset.

This all sounds extremely positive and in line with @bestforbritain.org recommendations www.politico.eu/article/keir...

31.01.2026 22:42 — 👍 275    🔁 60    💬 13    📌 1

The latest episode of the Brexit tragicomedy “You Couldn’t Make This Shit Up” 😂

31.01.2026 16:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Let me get this straight. Boris Johnson is backing a campaign to deliver the ‘proper Brexit’ that Boris Johnson didn’t deliver whilst in power?

31.01.2026 14:49 — 👍 140    🔁 43    💬 27    📌 4

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