@lamourna.bsky.social
Former NHS Director & Senior Civil Servant. Interests: Health Policy, Genealogy, F1. Sometimes found on a Dutch barge in France
So, I don't think the police are going to have to work all that hard to gather enough evidence to make arrests regarding breaches of election law...
09.12.2025 18:58 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to ยฃ10 billion with a central estimate of -ยฃ5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
I find it very hard to 'respect the opinion' of anyone who admires Nigel Farage.
Surely even the most gormless twit can see what he's doing.
โEurope is done being polite.
Ukraine isnโt backing down.
And Russia is running out of time,and options.
The war isnโt ending on Trumpโs terms.
Itโs ending on Ukraineโs โ backed by a Europe.
This is what happens when democracy stops negotiating with bullies and starts acting like it intends to win.
When voters in #Clacton voted Farage in as their MP, a seven times loser, thatโs exactly what they got to not represent themโ๏ธ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ
09.12.2025 13:05 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Why are Reform voters pretending Farage is being โset upโ for arrest? Give us a break. HIS OWN campaign manager on SECRET CAMERA admitted they spent DOUBLE the legal limit.
Stop building this weird messiah fantasy around Farage. Heโs not a victim.
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09.12.2025 20:47 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Nigel Farageโs campaign manager casually saying he spent 2x the election spend limit.
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09.12.2025 17:21 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Great speech by @alpinkerton.bsky.social in support of a new Customs Union with the EU. He also clearly set out the immense damage Brexit has caused.
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09.12.2025 17:09 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Presumably, Reform will claim this was all years ago, and while he's completely innocent, "everyone" had massive presidential style election campaigns in Clacton back in the long distant er summer of 2024
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
โThere was nothing available to Reform on the ground before Farage came in. Absolutely nothing,โ said Mack....
Between all of that, as well as the furnishing and use of a building which became their HQ, venue hire and the postal campaign, it was hard in my view to come in under budget,โ he added.
So, Farage whoโd previously failed 7 times to be an MP, decided that in Clacton heโd rely on his old Brexit friends - cheating (and racism) - to get him his win.
With millions now pouring into Reform, itโs beyond time to properly investigate this grubby little man
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
How well did you know Steven Woolfe, the MEP now the subject of CPS interest over Russian Bribes, Nigel?
Oh yes, this wellโฆ
#ReformRussianBribes
'UK has too many ADHD diagnoses' doesn't pass the smell test as explanation for UK's rising number of young people not in education, employment or training - ADHD diagnoses have gone up at similar rates across our peers, but the UK's rising NEETs are a UK issue.
07.12.2025 23:44 โ ๐ 323 ๐ 58 ๐ฌ 23 ๐ 7It's being reported internationally. In the UK, mostly, silence.
"Representatives from the crypto industry have held meetings with Reform feeding into the partyโs strategy... Farage has championed several industry causes since including picking a fight with the Bank of England over regulation." ~AA
Another Brexit economic verdict arrived last month in the form of an 83-page NBER working paper - and it is devastating.
What shocks me more is how politely politics continues to look away from the person who drove the bus.
Given a) Farage's past; b) the expanding story about Russia and former MEPs; and c) media enthusiasm for "what influence is being bought?" questions, if anyone to left of Mussolini is gifted so much as a cup of sugar, why is Reform facing no such questions about Friday's ยฃ9m crypto-bro donation?~AA
08.12.2025 15:30 โ ๐ 524 ๐ 217 ๐ฌ 18 ๐ 6Farage is in the mud again: police reports over ยฃ9k dodgy spending - a refurbished HQ he โforgotโ to declare, an armoured Land Rover shoved into โnationalโ costs, and missing receipts everywhere. Add it to the pile: Russian cash, extremist bile, antisemitic bullying - now alleged fraud too.
08.12.2025 11:50 โ ๐ 432 ๐ 175 ๐ฌ 48 ๐ 10Image is picture of Nigel Farage looking perplexed
Spare a thought for Nigel Farage whose feeling sorry for himself
Exposed as schoolboy racist & bully โ
Under spotlight over Russian links/bribes with further 3 excolleagues exposed as following Nathan Gillโs pro Russian script โ
Under investigation for alleged election fraud โ
Oh how delicious๐คญ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐
Anyone remember when Keir Starmer got free tickets to the footy and everyone kicked off?
08.12.2025 18:16 โ ๐ 147 ๐ 59 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 5That unelected bureaucrat Muhammad - from a party full of Kremlin-loving MAGA rats - needs to chill, me think. He is a proper shitweasel calling a veteran treacherous.
08.12.2025 20:18 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Staggering - the effort and resource *still* being invested in keeping the Brexit shitshow on the road.
No oneโs held to account.
No oneโs fallen on their sword.
No oneโs got the guts to really speak out.
So, on we go, protecting this huge and ruinous lie, because telling the truth is too difficult.
Even when he has nothing new to announce, he usually has no shame in saying something heโs said before many times. He likes the attention. Makes him feel valued. Satisfies his rampant narcissism.
08.12.2025 19:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Police look into claims Reform UK broke electoral law in Farage campaign www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
08.12.2025 17:39 โ ๐ 140 ๐ 42 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1Narcissistic Personalities are vengeful when challenged, fragile egos & a distorted sense of self importance.
They are toxic in public office.
Three quarters of Labour members identified the Conservative-Lib Dem Coalitionโs austerity policies (75%) and Brexit (74%) as being responsible for the ongoing problems faced by the Treasury.
labourlist.org/2025/12/aust...