@carolecadwalla Former BBC staff revealed that an internal investigation into Arron Banks was stopped by Robbie Gibb, a senior BBC editor at the time. #r4today https://t.co/e7WyATtGFv
Wow. All the chickens are coming home to roost. To everyone who believes the current story about Farage’s £ is magically different from the one I was destroyed over - & a large chunk of UK press remained completely silent about - please take a long hard look at yourself
Arron Banks Reform’s Brexit millionaire hired private investigators to dig into the Sunday Times journalist who exposed Farage’s secret funding from convicted criminal “Posh George”.
His defence: “You live by the sword, you die by the sword.”
When the light hits their dirty money and jailbird mates, the private eyes come out. These aren’t anti elite. They’re the elite protecting themselves.
You're right to be furious. Towns hollowed out, wages stuck, rents through the roof, NHS on its knees.
The far right didn't cause that. Forty years of asset stripping did while the centre told you to shut up and like it.
Farage doesn't threaten the people who own the country. He protects them.
Look at the real parasites, water companies dumping sewage for dividends, landlords pricing families out, private equity gutting care homes and high streets, the City extracting every last drop.
Farage points at the boat so you never look at the offshore account.
The man selling this story owns five homes, banks twenty two grand an hour flogging gold, and took a five million gift he said he could spend on Ferraris or the horses.
He's not the bloke in the pub. He's the landlord class with a flag and a pint.
When Britain was on its knees after the war, Attlee and Bevan took the commanding heights into public hands, built council houses at scale and created the NHS.
Security and dignity starved the demagogues of oxygen. Austerity and privatisation reopened the wound.
The only thing that ends the cycle is giving ordinary people real power again. Public ownership of energy, water and rail, mass council housing, wages that actually rise.
The people who own the country or the people who keep it running which side are you actually on?
@MsPocketRocket I'd forgotten the character's name, but recognised Peter Vaughan straight away. He was the master of the sinister gangster role. Fine actor.
@Mariehaley13131@Hepworthclare@StecEng22 You're obviously a good person and I know there are many good people in the Labour Party and amongst those who have left for principled reasons. I just hope we can work these things out without knocking lumps off each other.
Good night.
I respect your loyalty over all those years, Marie. I am also a long time Labour voter (starting with the 1970 GE). We've seen a lot of Labour leaders, not all of them to everyone's taste, but I hold to the idea that the aims of the party are infinitely better than those of our right wing opponents.
It may go against the grain if you dislike the man or the means but let's not lose sight of the end....to keep the likes of the Tories and the even more right wing parties from power.
Why are the media giving Burnham the light touch yet crucified Starmer. The policies are much of a muchness. The Party is pretty much the same. Only the people have changed. How is Burnham seen as preferable? And my fav question. Why?
@Mariehaley13131@Hepworthclare@StecEng22 The polls are shifting in Labour's favour. KS was stuck behind Reform. Let's just support the party and ensure the real enemy - the right wing parties - don't get in.