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Farage - grifting multimillionaire and highest earning MP
Tice - family money multimillionaire
Yusuf - multimillionaire
Jenrick - millionaire
Zahawi - multimillionaire
But they want to cut the National Minimum Wage down from ยฃ12.21 per hour. (It goes up 50p in April.)
God, theyโre hideous.
Problem is, Jenrick, you can go on #r4today and bemoan the state of the economy and the cost of living, you can claim to be oh so concernedโฆ but we all know youโre full of shit. We know you donโt care. You spent years failing us as a Tory. Youโve swapped rosettes, not had a personality transplant.
19.02.2026 08:06 โ ๐ 1408 ๐ 354 ๐ฌ 59 ๐ 7Now the rest of them. Not just the sex offenders, but all those named in the Epstein files whoโve used their power and influence to undermine our democracy and sell the country out.
Investigate them all.
I know it's ridiculous to have any hope in this world, but I hope Andrew squeals like a pig and dobs everyone else in it.
19.02.2026 11:18 โ ๐ 952 ๐ 102 ๐ฌ 35 ๐ 15๐ดAndrew Mountbatten-Windsor Arrested for Misconduct in Public Office as Epstein Files Undermine His Virginia Giuffre Denials
Virginia Giuffre alleged she was raped by Andrew when she was 17. Key emails in the Epstein files โ first revealed by Byline Times โ add weight to these claims
โWe need a proper, Mueller-style probe into what happened in 2016 and since.โ @elliechowns.bsky.social
19.02.2026 11:36 โ ๐ 91 ๐ 38 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 8#EpsteinFiles #Andrew arrest "Holding on to small and significant truths in our lives.....It was what Virginia #Giuffre did, at huge personal cost, because she had no other choice" #HaulThemAllToJustice
19.02.2026 12:42 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Sounds familiar.
โBut because the powerful believe there will be no consequences, and rely on the public believing that their impunity cannot be checked, we all (have to) go along with this systemic denial โ the perpetrators, the public, and the survivors who must live with the truth.โ
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.
19.02.2026 07:14 โ ๐ 3743 ๐ 863 ๐ฌ 84 ๐ 87Leading Reform politician Nadhim Zahawi spoke today of an horrific encounter with a man who looked tired and threatening, and who typified the dystopian nightmare that is Broken Britainโฆ
From the new Private Eye, out now.
Busy day at the White House where Trump has no need to worry about any unmarked FBI vehicles suddenly rolling into the driveway. Mine for @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk
๐ง: audioboom.com/posts/886321...
Picture of Tony Blair in one please.
19.02.2026 14:33 โ ๐ 357 ๐ 54 ๐ฌ 40 ๐ 5No evidence 75% of Englandโs mayors are Muslim.
fullfact.org/culture-and-...
Sir Jim Ratcliffeโs recent comments about migration werenโt just wrong, or offensive, they were a distraction.
Thereโs a reason billionaires keep stoking anti-migrant sentiment, hereโs what they donโt want you to realiseโฆ ๐งต1/10
Inside the summit uniting the worldโs most successful far-right activists.
In Brussels, the far right blamed the left for attacking democracy. The Epstein files told a very different story.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/far-right...
The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs โ around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
19.02.2026 15:05 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Urge Your MP to Attend the Brexit Referendum Anniversary Debate
nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...
Attempts to scare us into silence wonโt work. But a weak draft anti-SLAPP law would help the bullies, not the defenders. Tell Berlin to fix this now. โ๏ธ
rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13...
UK biggest companies rack up debt to pay dividends to private equity owners.
$2.7bn debt-fuelled dividends over the past 5 years.
Darktrace, Aggreko, Homeserve and Signature Aviation facing higher debt.
Courting disaster.
Successive govts failed to reform corporate governance.
archive.ph/0qIvA
Hazardous substances found in all headphones.
These include chemicals that can cause cancer, neurodevelopmental problems and the feminisation of males.
Don't manufacturers do research?
Never seen a list of ingredients on the boxes. No health warnings.
Expect lawsuits.
Road to the next financial crash.
Regulators fret about banksโ rising use of credit risk transfers.
Barclays and Raiffeisen Bank International are among the lenders using fast-growing technique to transfer credit risk and cut capital requirements.
Deregulation encourages games.
archive.ph/hhz45
Suella Braverman says Reform would scrap the Equality Act 2010.
Law prevents discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender, marital status, race, religion and sexual orientation.
Reform taking us back to Victorian era, removing hope.
Our predecessors fought hard for social rights.
To appease bosses UK govt plan to increase youth minimum wage may be delayed.
Young workers pay full cost of essentials. Their output is not sold at a discount but are denied full minimum wage.
Govt can help. Adopt Scottish policies. Abolish uni fees, provide free bus travel for young people.
One in nine new homes in England built in areas of flood risk.
People live in constant fear, difficulty in getting affordable insurance and selling the property.
Planning laws being weakened, developers not held to account. Must invest in flood defences.
Political donations = corruption.
Super-rich buy influence and power.
Parties reward them - organize threatening issues off the agenda, provide tax perks to the rich, crony contracts, VIP lanes, honours.
Can't have democracy without banning political donations.
Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question.
Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?
My local hospital(s), of which I am a frequent visitor, would not function without immigration. I owe my life and my daughterโs life to these people. Play assistants, porters, consultants, neurologistsโฆ So many not born here have saved my family.
18.02.2026 11:38 โ ๐ 78 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1And letโs not forget the Saxons, Danes, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Anti-migrants seem to ignore their own migrant histories. Humans have always moved; and also will.
18.02.2026 11:32 โ ๐ 54 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0