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Firm leading council savings review could receive £30m The county council currently needs to plug an expected £90 million gap in its day-to-day spending

Reform UK Leicestershire are crooks.

They announced consultants Newton would do a £1.4m savings review.

That’s ballooned to £30m in 6 just days.

Leader Dan Harrison is a con man.

Leicestershire you’ve been had.

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#ReformLies

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few

This is the rule of law in the UK.

20 years in prison for stealing a phone.

8,493 persons serving indefinite prison sentences, often for petty crime.

No one charged for the Post Office scandal, Grenfell fire, cladding scandal, mortgage prisoners, banking frauds.

Who does the law serve?

Farage’s local refuk: Reform’s Warwickshire leader Finch wants to scrap school transport for SEND kids, forcing them to walk miles. Parents call it cruel and heartless, another example of Reform’s nasty streak, punishing the vulnerable to save a few quid. #ukpolitics

Mick Waddington is Reform UK's candidate in the Barnoldswick, Pendle by-election.

He's "campaiging to protect Pendle's care homes".

No one seems to have told him that Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close their care homes and day centres:
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Reform UK suspends another member of Kent county council Isabella Kemp’s departure means party has lost nine of 57 councillors elected in May, including four after video leak

Reform says Kent CC is their "shop window", where the country can see what a Farage gov't would be like.

Well... chaos, suspensions, defections, paralysis, zero "DOGE" savings, tax rises, and a leader making mad-dictator speeches, sounds about right. ~AA

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Johnson attempting another comeback is at the forefront of the power grab of the BBC no doubt backed by the US far right. He seems to be on every right wing media at the moment.

Employee of the month goes to baggage handler Lee Kwan! Found out his wife was getting a bigger package from someone else yet he still turned up for work. You'd never have known. Top lad. 🏆

Farage and Reform row back on tax cuts pledge Farage retreats from Reform UK’s bold tax-cut vows, casting manifesto pledges as “aspirations” amid pressure for credibility.

Farage retreats from Reform UK’s bold tax-cut vows, casting manifesto pledges as “aspirations” amid pressure for credibility. | Peter Sagar

Will he ever be brought to account?

The Reform UK DOGE lie.

Derbyshire Council’s Reform cabinet meeting on Thursday 13 November has a little surprise.

Members are being asked to approve measures to employ outside consultants a transformation and efficiency programme. The cost of this? Up to £5 million.

Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres to sell off land Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s Reform cabinet member for social care owns private care company

Who said “Reform Councillors are all as dodgy AF”❗️

Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to turf old ppl out closing 5 council-run care homes & 5 day centres to sell off the land for £4 million

And get this - a cabinet member owns a private care company with his wife so could make £’s from it
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Blatant disgusting corruption, Reform will do it better than anyone else.

Hanging Out The Washing, painting by Spennymoor-born Norman Cornish (1919-2014).

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone made £65m selling faulty PPE to the Government.

HMRC now wants £39m in unpaid tax — and we think we know why: Barrowman and Mone may have avoided tax on their £65m profit.

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Reform UK Council Grifter in Northumberland.

Councillor Shaun Knowles turned up to a meeting yesterday for the first time in just under 6 months.

This means he avoids disqualification by just a few days and keeps his councillor salary.

Farage is now facing an Official Parliamentary Standards investigation over funding , records, donations from foreign sources.

So crooked , if he swallowed a nail he would shit a corkscrew.

75 years ago, the ECHR was signed after the horrors of the war.

Today, Nigel Farage and many Westminster politicians want to tear up the laws that protect our basic human rights.

Our rights are not Westminster’s to take away. We will stand firmly against that.

Reform UK Councillors

Kicked Out, Suspended, Resigned, Defected
(Updated with new resignation).

➡️ Kicked Out
Brian Black
Oliver Bradshaw
Paul Thomas
Bob Ford
Bill Barratt
Ed Hill
James Regan
Mark Broadhurst
Paul Bean
Adam Smith
Daniel Taylor
John Allen
Nicole Brooke
Patrick Lambert

There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the final year of the last Conservative Government alone.

Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government

Train hero who saved passengers during attack named ‹ LNER Samir Zitouni is credited with saving lives on the train

A day of huge mourning for the Far Right in the UK. Not only was the Huntingdon train stabbings not the terrorist/asylum seeker/immigrant atrocity they’d hoped and prayed for, here is the hero of the day:

Nigel Farage, whose own adviser was convicted of fraud after admitting to advertising money laundering services on the dark web, is now complaining about banks having to implement "money laundering directives"

I hope the BBC will challenge Nigel Farage today over the economic damage caused by the Brexit he championed.

He needs to be held to account for the damage he's done instead of always being given an easy ride.

I had to switch off BBC TV News this morning due to Farage spouting his economic plan only to switch on Radio 5 Live at 11.30 to hear what seemed like a party political broadcast from him. Switched that off too. What is going on?

Challenged on whether he questioned Gill over the statements, Farage said: "I didn't know anything about it; all I knew was that he'd been to Ukraine. I told him not to go, he defied me and went, I was completely unaware of any statements that he made." However, multiple sources who worked with Farage and Gill in Brussels and Strasbourg said the two men had been close. (Photo of Farage and, behind him, Gill after a historic vote for the Brexit agreement at a session of the European parliament on 29 January 2020. Photograph: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images) Gill was described variously as Farage's "enforcer" and "right-hand man" by some who recalled they had adjoining offices. One former Ukip MEP from that time told the Guardian: "Gill was in the thick of organising. He was the right-hand version of Farage. His office was right beside Farage's."

Can we please not have Farage wriggle out of this one. His denial is not where this should end. He’s up to his grubby neck in dodgy shite. Beyond time our media stopped handing him free passes and started to properly scrutinise him.

Why is Reform’s Zia Yusuf the second major interview on the Laura Kunesburg Sunday programme this morning? Shouldn’t we be hearing from our 3 biggest UK parties on the morning of a potential terror attack? @kierstarmermp.bsky.social @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

I knew Gill and Farage and the rest of the UKIP crew in the European Parliament

They were crooks and shysters to a man

They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today

UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy

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Stop shady crypto cash flooding our politics 🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. That's why I've signed the petition to stop s...

Stop shady crypto cash flooding our politics

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Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.