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In July, I FOI'd the Home Office for the full breakdown of spending on the Rwanda scheme

I was refused because the government planned to publish the data in future, and today is the day. These numbers are in millions
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Which SHOULD be the bigger news scandal of the last 5days?

Greg Wallace when accused of sexual misconduct, called them "middle-class women of a certain age".

Nigel Farage when asked about his MP beating up his girlfriend: "You've had your fun, Sky News. I'm off to lunch."

Which has more coverage?

Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration.

And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA

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Nigel Farage works for nomadcapitalist.com which helps millionaires/billionaires get 2nd/3rd citizenships in the UK while using Tax Havens so they don't pay any tax.

Nigel Farage loves immigration and tax avoidance, he even earns money from it.

To England, where five months after the last general election two and a half million adults (sic) have signed a petition calling for another one. Succesfully. It will be held in four years and seven months’ time. The campaign began because Labour didn’t restore prosperity in their first twenty weeks. Rumours that the petition was a ruse by an autograph hunter who specialises in simpleton signatures were not laid to rest when Reform UK threw its collective intellectual weight behind it. Labour only have themselves to blame. By annihilating the Tories at the ballot box, they killed the goose that laid the golden tractor porn eggs. Without Randox, or Chris Pincher, or shell PPE companies, or Partygate, or a vision, all they seem to offer are tax rises and warm words about Blackrock. Ideologically, this leaves them more exposed than Peter Bone talking to a junior staffer. Enter stage far-right, goosestepping, Reform UK and their cartoon Tory clones who hawk uncontested narratives about imaginary threats posed by refugees, experts and – er – trans people. The near and present dangers of climate catastrophe are meanwhile rejected. Never, they say, let the truth get in the way of a good story. In a world where mothballed Thunderbirds extra Richard Tice can become a political figure, it seems that voters are unwilling to let it get in the way of a crap one too. Insurance giant AXA has just published data which say that Tice’s constituency is the second most exposed to global warming in the UK. It’s a catchy stat, but not so catchy as Tice’s mantra that ‘Net Zero equals Net Stupid’. Perhaps the 4000 householders in Boston and Skegness who are at risk of submersion will chant this next time they’re baling turd-filled floodwater from their living rooms. Apologies, the alt text box has run out of space. Pls DM me if you were reading this way and I'll forward the rest!

NEW: I've just been passed this excellent article from the Papua New Guinea Courier's London correspondent.

On the whole I'd tend to agree, but seeing the way people talk in local Facebook groups and other platforms it would not surprise me to see Reform picking up quite a few votes unfortunately. Similarly to England, many people brainwashed and sucked in by disinformation.

Soul-destroying.

Mohamed Al Fayed may have raped and abused at least 111 women and girls, say police Scale of criminality would make Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, one of Britain’s most notorious sex offenders

Once again it all appears to have been happening in plain sight among his retinue and once again - because the offender was rich, powerful and feared - he got away with it and never faced the courts.
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Reuters 25 March 2024: British farmers protest outside parliament over food imports. With picture of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall.

BBC 25 March 2024: In pictures: Moment tractor convoy reaches Parliament. With pictures of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall.

Telegraph 26 March 2024: Tractors bring rush-hour chaos to London as farmers stage protest. With picture of a digger outside parliament.

Euronews 26 March 2024: 'Slaughtered': UK farmers protest post-Brexit rules and trade deals. With picture of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall. The front one bears a placard: "No Farmers. No Food. No Future."

Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."

Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂

Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson, the Earl of Derby – they’re up in arms about paying tax on the vast areas of land they own.

Small farmers are worried that changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) will affect them. But who are the big landowners complaining the loudest? Thread: 1/

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

As Health Secretary Matt Hancock sent Covid infected patients into Care Homes with zero protection for other residents leading to 30,000-40,000 deaths.

Now at the Covid inquiry he blames Nicola Sturgeon.

He and Johnson should be in court.

Remember all those endless stories about the 'scandal' of Labour making political appointments to temporary civil service posts after the election?

Well a new independent Civil Service Commission report finds that such appointments were "considerably" higher under the last Conservative government.

YouTube video by Henry Morris (nee Secret Tory) THE TORIES - FINALE

The Tories... Where are they now?!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Hw...

Article screenshot. Title: “Trump locks bathroom door so Musk can’t follow him in.”

The Onion. 👏😂

"What do you farm mate? Arable, beef?

"Outrage"

21% of the UK population or 14.3 million people live in relative poverty. Maybe we should talk about them for a change rather than the tax concerns of Jeremy Clarkson's wealthy children

A message from a REAL farmer who hasn’t been brainwashed by the Tories, wealthy landowners and the right wing media👇🏽
#FarmersProtest

Left: Conservative MP Victoria Atkins, "Farmers feeling betrayed.. Labour is socialist.. I've never known farmers this angry"

Right: Sky New report the Save British Farming protest earlier this year, where farmers drove tractors into London protesting against the Conservative government's policies

Victoria Derbyshire nails Jeremy Clarkson over his Inheritance Tax scam.

Hilarious to watch him squirm.

YouTube video by LBC Angry farmer who hates James O'Brien calls in to debate inheritance tax | LBC

"I'm not your mate! I hate you, I think you're an idiot!"

@mrjamesob.bsky.social hasn't had an argument like this for years...

Caller Charlie stands to inherit his dad's farm and isn't happy with the new tax changes.