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[David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO @AvoidDeadEnds]

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[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

By what extraordinary coincidence are companies owned by Christopher Harborne and important figures in Farage's parties registered in a nondescript building in the small town of Tivat in Montenegro?

Is it just by chance that the office address is registered to Nino Pantovic, the son of a one-time defence lawyer for George Cottrell?

And is it just coincidence that convicted fraudster and expert in criminal money-laundering, Posh George, lives in Montenegro, where cryptocurrency is largely unregulated and transactions can take place unnoticed, and untraced?

And just why was Cottrell with Farage and Harborne in Thailand in 2022?
https://t.co/FVlt6ELc1x

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

This is well worth a listen.

Not only because @Feargal_Sharkey destroys the zombie myth that the private sector is investing to upgrade our water infrastructure over the next 5 years (spoiler: the money is coming from our bills).

But also because the BBC interviewer allowed that falsehood to go completely unchallenged.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

https://t.co/Y7YWE8gMLR

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Dear Zia Yusuf.
And that is why he was moved to Broadmoor. But you know this. You are playing political hula hoops. Spinning the yarn on an extremely sensitive subject to score points to please your lord and master. You really need to go sit in a corner and shut the f*ck up.

[Brexitshambles @brexit_sham]

Mystery deepens over Farage’s Clacton house as new business accounts for his partner, Laure Ferrari - who supposedly paid cash for the £885,000 home - show no signs of money-making. https://t.co/NLeNGxlQQt

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Journalist rumbles Jenrick's outrage, "How do you know there are no exemptions or thresholds when Andy Burnham hasn't even set it out?"

Robert Jenrick admits in his answer that Andy Burnham hasn't even said how it will be paid for

Which begs the question, why is he getting angry at something he doesn't know about?

That's the problem with Reform UK. It's not about dialogue or conversation or debate, it's just a constant churn of heated anger, division and dispute

[Sly U @SlyForTheRight]

🚨 FARAGE’S U-TURNS ARE NOW GOING VIRAL! 🚨

The clips speak for themselves…

➡️ Says he doesn’t want a tax-funded NHS… then says he never said it.
➡️ Says he’ll abolish ILR… then says he won’t because people came legally.
➡️ Welcomes foreign students… then complains universities rely on them.
➡️ Demands a grooming gangs inquiry… then quietly drops the issue.

And that’s just the start.

At this point, which Nigel Farage are voters supposed to believe? 🤔🇬🇧

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

When historians look back on U.K. politics they’ll struggle to explain why Reform, which never had more than 8 MPs, was treated as though it was a government in waiting.
Especially given that it had a deeply unpopular leader and acted like it was a front for a crime syndicate.

[Keith Nieland @KeithNieland]

There are questions to be answered by @BBCNews Why was one of their reporters on a boat in the Channel with a Tory politician (referred to by his Christian name) on what was clearly a political stunt? I pay my licence fee for news not performative twaddle like this.

[Thomas Standfield @TStandfield1789]

Tom Tugendhat bleats about defence spending.
Pity he remained silent when the Tory government he was in devastated Britain's armed forces.
Pathetic hypocrite.
@TomTugendhat @KemiBadenoch @jcartlidgemp @Conservatives

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Palantir was sold to the NHS for £330m on the promise that it would magically reduce hospital stays by 15%.

It has been found to have no impact at all.

Get Palantir out.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Meet Christopher Harborne, the billionaire bankrolling Reform UK.

He moved to Thailand in the 1990s and became a Thai citizen, but he has pumped over £25 million into UK political parties, including £15 million to Reform UK and £10.2 million to the Brexit Party.

How is he legally allowed to do this?

A Channel 4 News investigation can reveal that Harborne specifically re-registered as a UK resident to cast his vote for the Brexit referendum whilst declaring just a few months later in a UK company documents that he lived in Thailand.

It’s a move that legally enabled him to pump tens of millions into British politics. Experts are calling it a "gaping loophole".

We look into the man behind Nigel Farage's £5 million gift.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Carers' Allowance is capped at £86 a week. Or £70,000 a year if you're a private equity firm that has bought a care home.

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Looks like @Nigel_Farage is using an @Essex_CC vehicle as a prop in the middle of a by-election pre-election period.

Doesn’t it @ElectoralCommUK?

[BrexistentialCrisis @BrexistentialC]

First they came for the EU.
Then the ECHR.

They say leaving both will mean taking back control.

It’s all lies.

What they actually plan to take away is 100+ years of hard won worker’s rights, children’s rights, women’s rights, HUMAN rights, all of which make YOUR life better.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

‘It’s irreplaceable’: Fury over Reform plans to expand quarry in ancient Kent woodland.

Reform don’t give a shit about England's gree and pleasant land.

Forty hectares of Oaken Wood could be razed after it was identified as potential site of expansion by Reform-run council

It was at the confluence of seven forest paths that Allison Sweetman came to a stop. Trees rose on all sides, save for a recently coppiced section to the north-east. The noon heat had silenced most birds, but the quiet was peaceful.

“This is what they call Seven Wents,” she said. For centuries, the people of Kent had travelled this way, from East Malling to Barming, from Ditton to Teston, for church, commerce and friends. “It’s on maps going back 400 years.”

That may be about to end. Seven Wents is part of Oaken Wood, 40 hectares (100 acres) of which is all but condemned to be razed.

Developers want the stone beneath.

Kent county council, led by Reform UK, this month voted to include it in their mineral sites plan. That makes it a potential site of expansion for the quarry next door.

The council said its decision does not yet amount to planning permission as the plan needs government approval before that can happen. However, it does mean that they have identified the ground beneath the forest as an essential source of stone for building and restoration projects. Now, campaigners are on the march.

Continuously wooded since at least 1600, Oaken Wood is a plantation on ancient woodland site (paws), which means it is the site of an ancient forest that has been replanted. For centuries it has been worked as a sweet chestnut coppice, with whole sections felled in rotation, allowing the stumps to regrow.

The sun shone almost directly overhead, but the air was cool beneath the forest canopy. Sweetman, who knows the wood intimately and is a Green party councillor for the local area, led the way through green corridors flanked by almost impenetrable stands of plantation forest to another recently coppiced site.

With her were Rachel Rodwell, also a Green councillor; Julie Read, a campaigner; and Brontie Ansell, the managing director of Lawyers for Nature, who has been supporting their campaign to save the woods.

“It takes about seven years before they’re ready to be coppiced again,” Sweetman said. “And in the time they grow they’re actually absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere than a fully grown tree… Likewise their roots continue to grow, and that absorbs the surface water from rain.”

The wood is also a critical ecological site, supporting wildlife including dormice, nightjars and owls.

Alongside the sweet chestnut coppices stand veteran trees, including old oaks. Bluebells and other wildflowers bloom here. The soil itself, bound by a mycorrhizal network that has built up over aeons, is a seed bank and a carbon sink, says Kent Wildlife Trust.

Opponents of the plan to raze the area say it is wrong to place the conservation of the built environment over the conservation of nature.

There is little to distinguish Oaken Wood from any other ancient woodland site, said Ansell. “It’s protected in exactly the same way, legally, because it’s not just about the fact that there’s newish growth of trees,” she said. “You’ve got all the soils, you’ve got the fungi, you’ve got all of the wildlife.” But, she added: “It is still irreplaceable. You couldn’t just create this somewhere else.”

The Gallagher Group runs the Hermitage quarry.

Last year, more than 25,000 voiced their concerns in a consultation on the plan. The Woodland Trust and Kent Wildlife Trust are opposed. Maidstone borough council, on which Sweetman and Rodwell sit, passed a rights of nature motion in April.

“We’re treating nature as a commodity or a resource and we’re forgetting we’re part of the same system. And it’s this sense of entitlement that we can just strip it away and plunder it,” added Rodwell. “It’s replicated across the country, across the globe.”

https://t.co/v3TCOue7Il

[Thomas Standfield @TStandfield1789]

Chris Philp:
Blah, blah, blah. Small boats. Blah. ECHR. Blah, blah. Asylum seekers. Blah, blah, blah. Rwanda. Blah, blah.
Embarrassing!
Fourteen years in government.
Keep quiet Philp.
Leave policy to the grown ups.
@CPhilpOfficial @Conservatives @KemiBadenoch @pritipatel

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

People in Manchester should vote for Reform's Sian Astley today, if they want a Mayor who doesn't even know that the Mayor has no control over pothole repairs. But she does know that the boss of JCB gave Reform £200,000 so she's desperate to give them a plug.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Alongside @Imran_HussainMP and over 80 MPs and Lords, I recently wrote to the Foreign Secretary calling for comprehensive sanctions on Israel.

The world’s top court is clear. Israel’s occupation of Palestine is illegal - and Governments must act now to end it!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Senator Josh Hawley says “innocent people don’t plead the Fifth” when describing Dr. Fauci’s testimony.

Here’s the video of Donald Trump pleading the Fifth 400 times during his civil fraud trial.