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Retired Jack of no trades. UK/Scottish politics, other politics, Football, Cricket (UK), almost any sport, Science, History and other random stuff. Views my own. Inc the above view from my upstairs window.

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Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill Three more British MEPs from Nigel Farage’s bloc are alleged to have “followed the script” given to a colleague who was being bribed by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors, as a police investigation into the affair continues. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has named Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe, saying they followed the script provided to Nathan Gill by Oleg Voloshyn when giving interviews to 112 Ukraine, a pro-Russian TV channel in March 2019. Continue reading...

Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script

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Labour are committed to getting some money back. But I want to see measures put in place to stop corruption in our future Governments. Tax Payers should be protected from incompetence and wilful theft from people in power.

07.12.2025 06:46 — 👍 194    🔁 76    💬 12    📌 1
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More of this !!

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Warren Oates | Substack Click to read Warren Oates, a Substack publication. Launched a day ago.

I've now started publishing most of the things I post here over on Substack as well.

You can find it here:
warrenoates1.substack.com

Let's see how this goes!

(I also post most things on Threads as well)

07.12.2025 13:30 — 👍 18    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Were you for or against these policies?

07.12.2025 15:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Which policy stances?

07.12.2025 14:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Are you saying it's Zack who is lying when he says his policy is to leave NATO?

07.12.2025 14:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Indeed. Stay in and then leave.

Pretend to leave to get the "left" vote but stay in just now because leaving is nuts.

It's the NATO Hokey-Cokey.

07.12.2025 14:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Thanks for the heads-up Zack. I looked up the video and y'know, she's dead right.

Which is probably why you're upset and she has got under your skin.

07.12.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anarchy in Londonistan.

07.12.2025 12:24 — 👍 384    🔁 133    💬 28    📌 20

So he's not lying?

07.12.2025 14:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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BBC, BylineTimes

07.12.2025 14:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Green leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs Zack Polanski speaks to BBC South East on the party's new approach ahead of the party's conference.

And drugs ...

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

07.12.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Zack Polanski's NATO Shuffle: How To Sound Radical While Promising Nothing - Heartlands It takes real political agility to say you want to leave NATO whilst promising to stay in it. But that's exactly what Green Party co-leader Zack Polanski

It's the NATO hokey-cokey.

labourheartlands.com/zack-polansk...

07.12.2025 13:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

But he's telling the truth AFAICS.

07.12.2025 13:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

You do want to leave nato, abolish our nuclear deterrent and legalise all drugs. Used to be in the party and they were the polices.

07.12.2025 12:25 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0

AKA Facts and evidence, logic and reason.

07.12.2025 13:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

What policies is he lying about?

Leaving NATO?

07.12.2025 13:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I hope the media keep the pressure up, the £850,000 house purchase story has withered already. Why? 🤔

07.12.2025 08:27 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Politics that makes a difference Over half a million children, lifted out of poverty

open.substack.com/pub/keirstar...
An informative substack from our PM setting out his thinking behind Labour policies, choices available in the budget & the reasons behind the choices made. I agree with the option the Gov took. If I have to pay a bit more I'm happy with it. I want a fairer society.

07.12.2025 10:04 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Police search for Nigel Farage whose not been seen since an unhinged rant about Bernard Manning, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, and The Black & White Minstrals Show as concerns grow over his mental state..

“It’s so strange he didn’t appear on Kuenssberg this weekend for the second week in a row” a PC said

07.12.2025 10:28 — 👍 228    🔁 61    💬 16    📌 4
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This. ⤵️

'If Europe won't deploy Russia's frozen assets, it must use its own balance-sheet. That means common borrowing: Eurobonds, strategic-autonomy bonds, whatever label is politically palatable. Ukraine needs multi-year financing: a five-year package it can count on.'
archive.is/2025.12.03-2...

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Young people on benefits to be offered construction and hospitality work The government says it will fund training and work experience for 350,000 not in work or education.

Bad article by the BBC here on a hugely important policy announcement from the Labour government.

"Young people on benefits to be offered construction & hospitality work"

Truth: they are 2 example sectors for 1 part of the plan, which has at least 6 different types of bespoke support.

1/2

07.12.2025 11:02 — 👍 63    🔁 23    💬 6    📌 1
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Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.

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Drag him.

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Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’ Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets

Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground:

“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

06.12.2025 20:58 — 👍 396    🔁 183    💬 29    📌 4

It's Fuseli.

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Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need more of this.

www.ms.now/news/minneap...

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Nigel Farage’s shifting answers on school-days racism claims – a timeline Reform UK leader’s responses to allegations of racist and antisemitic behaviour at Dulwich college have varied over time

#Farage can't even keep his answers about him being a #Racist straight.

Nigel Farage’s shifting answers on school-days racism claims – a timeline

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

06.12.2025 10:52 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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How Farage’s response to racism claims is straight out of Trump’s populist playbook Reform UK leader’s legal threats, denials and attacks on the media are tactics often deployed by US president

This from the Guardian is absolutely on the nail. #Farage'd response to claims of racism is word for word right out of the #Trump playbook.

How Farage’s response to racism claims is straight out of Trump’s populist playbook

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

06.12.2025 10:45 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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