Time to Ban X in the UK? Probably.... But How Do You Stand Up to a Trillionaire?

Wrote a thing about why it’s probably time to ban X in the UK - substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Government recovers £74m from asylum hotel firms The amount recouped remains a small percentage of the overall cost of asylum accommodation.

The government has recovered £74m from excessive profits made by companies running asylum accommodation, the BBC can reveal.

The Home Office said it had recouped the money following a review of contracts after Labour came to power last year.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Headline: Elon Musk is booting the British right- and this shows how

Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country.

It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.

Powerful

I saw it a while ago
but hadn’t had a chance to show you.

🇺🇦 Viktor Sydorenko
From the series ‘Flashes of Chernozem’, 2024

Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy

Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

And let’s not forget… we bring 100% of the world’s children into existence. 👇

Nigel Farage supports lowering the minimum wage, opposes taxes on the wealthy.

So whose side is he on?

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?

The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia.

This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.

How are Reform getting away with this?

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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.

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

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

This time last year Sausage was living in a car park, we rescued her and this year she is safe from the fireworks #Caturday

Nigel Farage facing calls to apologise to female survivors of grooming gangs A group of women have said it was “categorically untrue” for Farage to have said they were not victims of grooming gangs

Farage’s desperate use of the grooming scandal to political point score has backfired. ReformUK are not interested in the welfare of women

Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison

Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting.

Important story from Byline Times.

Handing out contracts to those with connections rather than to experts had deadly consequences for our loved ones.

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...

Never forget!

Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’

Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Farage www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Nigel Farage loses major vote as he's accused of 'making career by damaging UK' Nigel Farage's call for the UK to leave the European Convention for Human Rights (ECHR) was voted down by MPs, with Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey branding it "un-British"

Nigel Farage loses major vote as he's accused of 'making career by damaging Britain'

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’

What a hideous man he is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Zia Yusuf complaining about councils being underfunded

While sitting next to Danny Kruger who since 2019 was part of the government that underfunded the councils Yusuf is complaining about

#caturday

Kwasi Kwarteng Wealth taxes will make the UK poorer Labour's logic appears sensible but it defies economic reality

Sorry @theipaper.com but WHY is this guy talking to us about what will make the UK poorer? He was happy to grenade our economy twice…
Brexit and then his batshit budget with Truss.
He should be in political oblivion for the mess he made and the price we all have to pay for his party’s failures.

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.

I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

COINCIDENCE CORNER 3 October: The Observer contacts Reform UK leader Nigel Farage for comment over why he has not updated his register of interests since May, despite continuing to work second jobs and parliamentary rules requiring interests be declared within 28 days. A spokesperson for Farage responds: “All declarations have been made for any earnings outside of Parliament.” 3 October: Farage registers more than £120,000 of earnings, from making speeches in May and June and presenting shows on GB News in July and August, which he received more than 28 days earlier (ie before 5 September) – meaning he is in breach of parliamentary rules.

Nigel Farage has, very clearly, broken parliamentary rules. Will any journalists challenge him on it? Via Private Eye

👀WATCH👀

Earlier today, consumers challenging the Chief Operations Officer at Ofwat.

We say NO to 15 more years of pollution.
We say NO to rewarding Thames Water's failure.

Special Administration Now!

That image and text carry a lot of emotional weight.

The flag means something different for everyone, but for so many, it represents both the sacrifice that shaped this country and the ongoing fight to protect the democracy those sacrifices were made for.👇

Prince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after 'discussion with King' In a statement, the prince says:

Has he had to give up his 10,000 men too?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

Nigel Farage Has Once Again Blamed The West For Putin's Invasion Of Ukraine Although he has conceded that the Russian president is "a bad dude".

“Having called Putin the leader he most admired and with his close associate, former Reform Leader in Wales.. taking bribes to praise Russia, Nigel Farage is now panicking and desperately trying to backtrack”
@annaturley.bsky.social calls it exactly as it is.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...

THE AUTUMN BUDGET What you will see Daily Mail CARNAGE - REEVES BREAKS BROKEN BRITAIN The Daily Telegraph Worst budget ever in history of budgets - entire country to leave country DAILY & EXPRESS BREXIT BETRAYED - GHOST OF DIANA SLAMS REEVES FOR BUDGET PENSION CUT THE TIMES How the budget will affect the average 94-year-old billionaire Sun REEVES GRIEVES AT BUDGET BODGE-IT The Guardian Corbyn budget better FT FINANCIAL TIMES FTSE up and down 2.5% as Bitcoin bites Dow Jones STAR IAN BOTHAM HAS ALIEN IN FRIDGE

Private Eye doing an excellent job of predicting the forthcoming budget headlines in each paper… showing just how ridiculous they can all be.
Top prizes - *of course* - to the Telegraph, Mail, Times and Express.

Let's make sure everyone knows about the activities that senior Reform members have gotten up to.

These are not people we can trust to run out country.

Make sure people never forget!

(Originally posted by the Labour Party on Instagram)