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Surprise. Reform corruption already

Christopher Harborne is by far the largest donor to Nigel Farage he has donated £13.7m since 2019.

He lives in Thailand and owns QinetiQ defence company which makes Laser and AI weapons for the USA.

Nigel Farage is literally owned by the US Military Industrial Complex.

There may not be obvious parallels with Jan 6th, conduct-wise, but the message is identical: laws are to be abused in pursuit of Trump’s foes & ignored in relation to his allies. He is telling his base that they can commit crimes with impunity. Fascism 101.

Spot-on.

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

The richest 3 people have more money than the poorest 4 billion.

But the problem (according to those richest people) is the poor people.

FACT CHECK: Acetaminophen (Tylenol) has no credible link with autism. Tylenol is the leading option to combat dangerous fevers during pregnancy — fearmongering around tried and tested medicine puts pregnant people and children at risk. #impeachthequack

Anyone shocked that Reform plan to deport immigrants with Indefinite Leave to Remain hasn’t been paying attention.

Next it will be stripping citizenship from dual citizens, then deporting them.

Who do you think Reform are?

This.

This is who they are.

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice co-owns a second home purchased for £4 million in 2013, Byline Times can reveal – despite attacking Angela Rayner for supposedly owning a “property mountain”
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...

Tip for the Mail, Telegraph, etc - imagine how you’d report this if this was Angela Rayner

The snake oil salesman got his way once - the result was a disaster. Don’t let him do it again

The resistible rise of radical right influencers Toxic masculinity and political bovinity

“As soon as you hear a speaker denounce elites, assume they are lying to you. This simple move will save you so much time.”
Piece and podcast from me and @James Bloodworth on radical right influencers
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

Caroline Lucas, "Hopefully people won't forget what Nigel Farage has done with Brexit"

"He is extraordinary in how he manages to be the Houdini of politics, extricating himself from all these disasters he is causing in the country"

"Farage is exploiting grievances"

Big pay days and top of the polls: Nigel Farage’s first year as an MP In year since Reform party leader was elected at eighth attempt he has been largely absent from Commons votes and very present in the media

Big pay days and top of the polls: Nigel Farage’s first year as an MP

Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets

What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn

Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

"A much bigger danger than human immigrants is digital immigrants - AI: They don't need visas or boats, they arrive at the speed of light and take people's jobs."

Author of Sapiens, Yuval Harari tells @maitlis.bsky.social & @lewisgoodall.com people fear the wrong kind of immigrant.

2025: Zia Yusuf says it's not true that Nigel Farage is on the record saying to scrap the NHS #BBCQT

2012: Nigel Farage on the record saying he'd scrap the NHS and replace it with an insurance-based privatised health care system

Dear USA

Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.

Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland

That was such a shite game. I get the opp will stiffle them but the lack of invention and urgency is worrying. Too regimented and sideways, makes it easy for teams the what to sit deep.

Just got a rajar diary for next week..woo hoo, finally got one

Wonder how that will effect our botafogo transfers

Aren't lyon banned from Amy transfers until next summer?

Screenshot of an amendment to the King's Speech, voted on 23 July 2024. The Amendment is to abolish the two-child benefit cap and is signed by all four Green MPs.

Nigel Farage wants attention for *saying* he’d scrap the 2-child benefit cap. But in the vote against it, did he show up?

No. Zero Reform MPs voted against the cap in July.

Green MPs put it in our costed manifesto, signed the motion, and voted to scrap it. Actions not words.

Check out your bluey!

Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity (Gift Article) When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House.

TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7

0.1% - rise in GDP from UK-India trade deal

5.0% - loss in GDP from Brexit

Source: Technical note of the preliminary economic impacts of the UK-India Free Trade Agreement
Published 6 May 2025