Ed Honnegan 🐝 #FBPE #RejoinEU

Richard Tice was on @lbc.co.uk with @lewisgoodall.com saying exactly that earlier.

Well, that the UK should be supporting Trump, and how Iran needed rescuing, etc.

Funny how he’s only interested because it affects Dubai.

Otherwise he’d be saying “not our problem”.

Will he welcome refugees? 🤔

Let me guess, wealthy people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying taxes now want the countries they moved from to protect them?

As Nigel Farage is now so concerned about the influence of "foreign-born voters" can he finally explain why a Kazakhstan-born billionaire appears to be bankrolling his own political party?

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

"Trying to compete with Reform not only feels inauthentic... but a betrayal of what Labour is supposed to represent. We must address the concerns and fears of voters, not play on them."

Damning stuff from Sadiq Khan

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Mail on Sunday peddling Farage’s racist, fascistic, undemocratic agenda is hideous. Howling to disenfranchise voters. And wanting to remove our rights to make sure we can’t object.
Ask yourself whether this is an admirable response to losing?
Or the ugly tantrum of vengeful, entitled bigots.

Of the 3, going forward irritates me the most

With the assistance of Peggy the Dog I opened an interesting box…

Out in hardback on 12 March! #Elemental

Trump 2.0:

-Bombed Iran (twice), Venezuela, and Yemen
-Allowed Israel to repeatedly violate a ceasefire and kill civilians
-Ripped healthcare and SNAP away from millions
-Deployed masked ICE agents to terrorize American cities

The "Peace President."

Great to see so many much-loved wildflowers coming into bloom again, now Spring is here. At last!
Huge thanks to everyone who shared pix for #WildFlowerHour tonight.
Remember to keep an eye on @wildflowerhour.bsky.social to see what the 1st challenge of 2026, set by @botanybeck.bsky.social, will be!

The first day of meteorological spring & it seems the flowers have got the memo! It’s looking like spring out there! Thank you so much for sharing your gorgeous photos & bringing joy to our Sunday evening. The weekly challenges are back this week - keep a lookout for the first one!!! ☺️

Very good

Yup

But I thought Lucy Connolly was all in favour of burning down hotels full of foreigners

The Trump administration has unfurled banners on the Department of Education building featuring Booker T. Washington, Catharine Beecher, and Charlie Kirk. Washington and Beecher were influential figures in American education whose legacies shaped schools and teaching nationwide.

Always worthwhile

I'm going to have to watch In The Loop again aren't I.

www.rottentomatoes.com/m/in_the_loop

There's no big mystery.

This wasn't "electoral fraud" or "postal votes" or "family voting" or "sectarianism".

Reform's platform is all about shouting at foreigners and Muslims.

And a diverse, young, well-educated population told them where to go.

It was no deeper than that!😆

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Reform ran a hateful, divisive campaign, with an out-of touch, Southern, elite, academic turned TV presenter, who made his distaste of Muslims and clear.

In a constituency with a diverse population.

The Greens put up an energetic, likeable, local, working class woman.

And they won🤷‍♀️

Screenshot from Twitter: Brexit Party 'lodging legal petition' to investigate Peterborough by-election. Brexit Party Chairman Richard Tice said he hopes that it will "shine a spotlight on the postal vote system" and the real concerns raised across the country.. westmonster.com/brexit-party-l... 4:58 PM • Jun 24, 2019

Screenshot from Twitter 2024 "This has not been a free and fair election" says Richard Tice. He points to the number of postal votes as evidence, but cannot explain to me why this means the election wasn't fair. #RochdaleByElection

UKIP's Nigel Farage claims election was rigged after losing out Dec 04 2025 Photo of Farage pulling a sad face UKIP leader Nigel Farage has made allegations of electoral fraud after his party failed to win a by-election.

He and his mates obviously have form for crying "cheat" when they don't win.

As predictable as it is tragic.

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The Mail on Sunday headline: FOREIGN-BORN VOTERS STOLE BY-ELECTION BLASTS FARAGE Amid rising alarm over suspected poll fraud, EXCLUSIVE Reform leader says allowing non-British citizens into ballot booth threatens democracy

And several days on, he said the quiet bit out loud🙄

It was the foreigners what done it.

And of course, the election was "stolen"

FFS🙄

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Express Headline: Nigel Farage pledges postal voting ban and end to Commonwealth voting rights The Reform UK leader claims postal voting has turned elections into a 'laughing stock'

Screenshot from news reporting about leader's voting in 2024: Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer voted in the west of England. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage voted by post.

🚨Postal Votes

Farage is also blaming Postal votes...

Side note - Farage voted by Postal Vote in the 2024 election.

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Screenshot from the Telegraph: Election-cheat monitors told to be sensitive to 'cultures and customs' Electoral Commission guidance revealed amid reports of widespread illegal family voting in Gorton and Denton Picture of Goodwin and Farage

Guidance for election observers: Maintain proper personal behaviour Observers must maintain proper personal behaviour and respect others, including exhibiting sensitivity for United Kingdom cultures and customs, exercise sound judgement in personal interactions and observe the highest level of professional conduct at all times, including leisure time.

Just a quick side bar on this particular Telegraph headline🙄

That line comes from guidance for election observers:
"Observers must maintain proper personal behaviour and respect others, including exhibiting sensitivity for United Kingdom cultures and customs"

Basically don't be a 🍆

And let's be clear what's being suggested...

That Muslim wives and daughters are going into the polling booth wanting to vote REFORM but their dominant controlling Islamic husbands demanded they voted for the unmarried, white woman plumber, in a party led by a gay Jewish man.

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Screenshot from a Facebook page showing a woman posting her and her Mum's postal voting slip with a cross in the Reform box for Matt Goodwin

I'm sure Reform are equally concerned by this kind of "Family voting"!😆

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Screenshot from news reporting: The official responsible for running the by-election rejected the claims, saying no reports of family voting had been made by polling station staff. A spokesperson for the acting returning officer said polling station staff are trained to "look out for any evidence of undue influence on voters" and said "no such issues" were reported on Thursday. They said: "If Democracy Volunteers were so concerned about alleged issues they could and should have raised them with us during polling hours so that immediate action could be taken. "We have operated a central by-election hub which has been rapidly responding to reported issues during the day, in liaison with the police - who had a presence at every polling station - where necessary. "It is extremely disappointing that Democracy Volunteers have waited until after polls have closed to make such claims."

Screenshot from news reporting: Democracy Volunteers responded by saying it followed the "international best practice of not interfering with the electoral process" and issued its findings after voting closed to "ensure we did not disrupt the administration of the election" The group signalled it was not planning to report incidents to the police, telling the BBC "it is not our job to administer the elections, purely to observe". They added: "We saw police present in many polling stations yesterday to check whether staff were having any issues."

And polling station staff reported "no such issues"

The Returning Officer also rejected the claims

Police were present in many polling stations and they also didn't raise this as an issue - despite it being against the law...

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Screenshot from news reporting: They observed a sample of 545 individuals casting their vote and saw 32 cases of family voting in total, including nine cases in one polling station.

Screenshot from news reporting: The group said four observers attended 22 of the 45 polling stations in the constituency, spending 30 to 45 minutes in each. Of the 22 polling stations observed, volunteers reported potential family voting in 15.

🚨Family Voting

A group called 'Democracy Volunteers' claimed they observed 545 individuals across 22 polling stations and saw 32 cases of "family voting"

This is where 2 voters confer, collude or direct each other on voting

However they didn't tell anyone what they saw until AFTER voting closed

Conservative Campaign Leaflet for London Mayor 2016 pitting the British Indian community against Labour and Sadiq Khan

Or when Zac Goldmith sent out a campaign leaflet targeting Indian voters with a very unsubtle anti-Muslim message with its digs at Sadiq Khan?

P.S. The Johnson 2019 campaign ad aimed at Indians in Hindi was apparently not an "official" Tory ad, so I won't include it!

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And when Vote Leave put these ads out in 2016?

Was that a problem?

Or is it only a problem when a left/progressive party do it?

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Multiple images of Matt Goodwin campaigning in the Gorton and Denton by-election with a series of men wearing turquoise turbans next to the reform campaign bus.

🚨 But the Greens put out two 'foreign' campaign videos!

Yes they did. They put out many, many English ones too...

🚨But they shouldn't 'target' specific nationalities or ethnicities!

Oh really? So what was this all about then?👇

The argument appears to be that everyone can vote for who they like and who best represents their interests.

Unless you're Muslim.

In which case, if you don't vote for the party that calls you dangerous and wants to send you 'back home' on any given day, this must be sectarian voting🤷‍♀️

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