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[T. Bernadetti @MrsRoyKeaneo]

3 white English boys raped a young girl at knifepoint. Judge Nicholas Rowland let them walk free, telling them "you done very well."

No outrage from the "English patriots?" The "Reform voters?"

No outrage & even less news coverage. Why?

Because they are white, English rapists.

[Mohammad Alsaafin @malsaafin]

There was a point, 3 yrs ago, when Israel felt compelled to explain its attacks on hospitals. Then it realized Western govts aren’t fussed about such war crimes & Western media was happy to justify them. And so here we are: dozens of hospitals bombed in Gaza, Iran & Lebanon.

[The National @ScotNational]

Tomorrow's front page 📰

Labour condemned over "attack on freedom to criticise Israel" after banning pro-Palestine commentators from entering UK

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Horrific scenes from Tyre, South Lebanon.

Israel is raining bombs on civilian areas in Bourj al-Shamali — wiping out residential block after residential block.

Rescue teams are still searching under the rubble for people buried alive.

This is not a ceasefire.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

They want to distract you with stories about Trump yelling at Netanyahu while, in the real world, Israel is destroying southern Lebanon.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel is explicitly warning Christian residents in southern Lebanon not to welcome Muslim residents among them, threatening to bomb Christian neighborhoods.

Israel is now searching for Muslims hiding in the attics of Christians. It’s not 1944. Read that again.

The goal isn't military. It's destabilizing social stability in Lebanon.

[Prof Colin Talbot (rerum cognoscere causas) @colinrtalbot]

Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.

Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison

Huge coverage of both

Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.

Media coverage? You judge.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

While we’re talking about document releases… Back in 2025, Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle, was allowed to block emails he sent to Israeli politicians from being published. This process created a clear conflict of interest. No wonder public trust in our political system is on the wane.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Can you imagine a situation where our current UK politicians put embargo’s on sending weapons to Israel?
Because that’s what happened in the 1970’s.

Edward Heath halted weapons supplies during the October 1973 war. After that, Margaret Thatcher imposed an embargo that lasted 12 years until 1994, triggered by Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 — she even withdrew Israel’s invitation to a British Army Equipment Exhibition.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Israel having killed every child, every sheep, every dog and cat. Having destroyed every tree, every road, every building in southern Gaza

Is now bulldozing the remnants.

Every gravestone, every sign that anyone ever lived here.

It's a holocaust

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel just carried out another horrific massacre in South Lebanon.

Dropping massive bombs near Jabal Amel Hospital in Tyre — wiping out 3 apartment blocks full of civilians.

People are still buried under the rubble.

This is an American-backed, American-funded genocide.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote in Parliament for the last 11 weeks.

During that time he will have collected about £50,000 in wages and expenses.

But he will tell you Disabled People and immigrants are the problem.

No, it's rich lazy parasites like him.

[Cherry @Cherryopenmind]

Do you really think this man is one of you? A champion of the working class?

Let us look at what Nigel Farage's millionaire 'powerhouse' Zia Yusuf is actually like behind the curtain.
A major BBC investigation has just exposed his true character.

Before he bought his way into Reform UK with a six-figure donation, he ran a luxury concierge business catering exclusively to the wealthy elite.

Former employees and political veterans paint a picture of a toxic, domineering boss who leads through fear and unpredictability.

He treats people like dirt, showing zero empathy. He sacks loyal staff members who gave up twenty years of their lives for the cause by delegating the phone call to someone else, refusing to look them in the eye.

This is a man so detached from regular, decent behaviour that he routinely let his own dog defecate on the office carpets and left his employees to live in the stench.

He was so enamoured by celebrity and a lavish lifestyle that his company spent millions on supermodels and private villas while ordinary people struggled to pay their bills.

When Farage itself admits that Zia has a 'Goldman Sachs mentality' and cannot handle relationships, you know exactly who he is.

He is not a man of the people. He is a ruthless corporate shark playing a role on a public stage.

How can a multimillionaire who treats volunteers like dirt and leaves a trail of fear behind him ever understand the dignity of an ordinary British worker?

He cannot.

This is the Trump playbook copied to perfection, but the British public can see right through the facade

https://t.co/J2hFLYlZBl

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

It's coming up on one month in which Nigel Farage has not made any public appearances.

There are no minimum attendance rules for MPs in Parliament, so he can, legitimately, just not turn up to work.

His party is arguing in public freely, and he cannot put himself under questioning because he has lied now, five times, about the £5M donation from Chakrit Sakunkrit/Christopher Harborne.

Has he finally dug himself a whole so deep, he can't talk his way out of it? Even with the help of majority of the media that keep 'forgetting' to mention it.

Farage's head is well and truly buried in the sand — alongside those of his media pals.

[Waqas🔶️ @m0w4q45]

I was a prison officer, Nick. You can't preach "tough on crime." Your lot cut nearly 7,000 prison officers since 2010 and handed our jails to G4S and Serco. You broke the system, then act shocked it doesn't work.

You know what actually works? Lads out on licence getting their track tickets, learning a trade, coming home as taxpayers instead of reoffenders. That's using human capital, not warehousing it. A lad sat in a cell doing nothing helps nobody.

And funny how quiet you all go on the tax dodgers and the oligarchs bankrolling Putin's war. Boris took a Russian ex-KGB man's hospitality at his Italian villa, dodged his own officials, then made the son a Lord. Where's your "lock them up" energy for that?

[The Receipts UK ♿ @david_hollas]

Reform UK claims 268,000 members. Each pays £25 a year. That's potentially £6.7m in annual subscription income. Before you pay, there's something you should know about what you're actually buying.

Reform UK is not a traditional political party in any constitutional sense. It is a private limited company. Two private limited companies, in fact, nested inside each other.

Understanding the structure matters because it determines who controls the party, who benefits from your money, and what rights you have as a paying member.

The main vehicle is Reform 2025 Ltd, company number 11694875, incorporated in 2018. It is a company limited by guarantee, meaning instead of shareholders, it has guarantors who effectively own and control it. The two guarantors are Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf. They are also the sole directors.

Sitting above Reform 2025 Ltd is a second company, Reform UK Party Limited, incorporated 18 February 2025, company number 16260766. This is listed as the Person of Significant Control of Reform 2025 Ltd. It controls the main party vehicle. Reform UK Party Limited itself claims it has no Person of Significant Control. Nobody formally owns the company that owns the party.

In a traditional political party, Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens, membership means something. Members vote on policy. Members elect the leadership. Members have constitutional rights enshrined in a rulebook. The party is an unincorporated association collectively owned by its members.

Reform's structure is fundamentally different. When you pay £25 to join Reform, you are not becoming a member of a democratic organisation. You are subscribing to a private limited company. Your £25 buys you no vote on policy. No vote on the leadership. No right to stand for internal office. No constitutional protection if the leadership decides to change direction overnight.

In February 2024 Farage announced he was handing over control of Reform. A new constitution was published. But the Companies House filings tell a different story. Under that constitution, Farage retained the power to appoint the majority of Reform's executive committee. The governance reform was announced publicly. The control was never actually transferred.
Farage is the sole person with the power to select candidates for elections. There is no primary system, no member ballot, no democratic selection process. The candidate in your constituency is whoever Farage decides it will be.
The 268,000 members have no formal mechanism to challenge or change that.

This matters in Makerfield specifically. Robert Kenyon was selected as Reform's by-election candidate. His record, the comments about women, the electoral roll discrepancy, the Manchester Arena post, all of it emerged after his selection. Under a traditional party membership structure, members would have a mechanism to raise concerns, call for a review, or trigger a recall. Under Reform's structure, there is no such mechanism. The leader selects. The membership subscribes.

Reform claims to be the voice of ordinary people against an out of touch establishment. But its own internal structure concentrates absolute power in two individuals at the top of a private limited company, with no democratic accountability to the people paying £25 a year for the privilege of calling themselves members.

Labour members elect their leader. Conservative members elect their leader. Liberal Democrat members elect their leader. Green members vote on policy. Reform members elect nobody and vote on nothing.
268,000 subscribers. £6.7m. Zero democratic rights.

That is what Reform membership actually is. The receipts are on Companies House. They always are.

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

Being transgender is biological. So is being intersex. So is being non-binary. Science explains all of it and has done for decades.

The brain and the genitals develop in separate windows in the womb on different hormonal timelines. When those timelines differ the result is a transgender person. This is documented embryology. It is peer reviewed. It is published in journals that have been around longer than most of the people arguing against it.

Some people are too stupid or too frightened to want to learn that. Those are two different problems with the same result.

Being transgender is more scientifically documented than any religion ever invented. More peer reviewed. More replicated. More verified across independent research teams in multiple countries over multiple decades.

You do not have to believe in transgender people the way you believe in a God.

You just have to read…

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

A former senior colleague of Raffi Berg, now the BBC's Middle East online editor, forensically analyses his output as a BBC writer.

It shows a consistent pattern of humanising Israeli soldiers and settlers while dehumanising Palestinians, and burying information that might place Israel in a bad light – talents that seem to have led to his promotion to BBC editor.

Martin Asser concludes: "The world Berg presents in his early BBC features is a rich source of misinformation and / or disinformation."

This article should prove useful to Owen Jones' legal team as they fight Berg's defamation case. Jones cited 13 BBC journalists who accused Berg of skewing the corporation's coverage to make Israel look good.

More here: https://t.co/IcsHVGiCNw

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Nigel Farage - the leader of Reform UK - is under investigation for failing to declare a £5 million 'gift'.

Please RT this until the BBC gives this story the same level of blanket coverage - as it would for the leader of any other UK political Party.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 Juliet Lamont, an Australian documentary filmmaker and Gaza flotilla activist, speaks to Double Down News about being raped by Israeli soldiers after the aid vessel she was aboard was intercepted earlier this month.

Lamont says soldiers pulled down her trousers and underwear and that an Israeli soldier forcibly penetrated her vagina while she was in detention. She was among more than 450 activists seized when Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud flotilla in international waters. Organizers say at least 15 detainees reported sexual assault or rape while in Israeli custody.

Full interview is linked below.