Martin Coleman

Martin Coleman. Maesteg. Diver and rugby fan. West Wales. Original account lost inexplicably.

[Martin Coleman @Ceulanydd]

@Tush27J He could always offer Burnham a few mil? That's how it works, isn't it.......?

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Nigel Farage is throwing another strop. This time the sulks are because he was not invited to the cross party talks re social care.
A few tips for Nige.

a) He's not an MP.
b) He's a one trick pony.

#SocialCare

[Martin Coleman @Ceulanydd]

@McardleTrevor Some sort of fantasy politics game?

"Imagine a reform government with Musk, Trump, Orban, Attila the Hun and Goebbels? They'd sort the country out, oh yes"

Probably cracked one out after that post.

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

Andrew Tate and his brother are reportedly facing intense hostility and verbal abuse from other inmates at the Miami Federal Detention Center with their lawyer alleging that they have a "target on their backs." Has anyone told their lawyer what the two have done to women?

[NEF @NEF]

Burnham won't be able to change our social care system until he fixes one thing: private companies sucking profit out of this essential public service.

Councils spend £34.5bn a year on care, but this cash is being sucked out of the system as profit and investor returns. 1/3

[Martin Coleman @Ceulanydd]

@supertanskiii "His benefits arrive like Christmas, every month"

Did nobody proof read that?

Tidy!

[David Attenborough @fandom_david]

The world is not collapsing because we learned compassion.

It is collapsing because we keep rewarding greed faster than we reward responsibility.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

According to ridiculous NHS rules Psychiatrists with 13 years of training can’t diagnose ADHD.

But anyone who does a 4 week (120 hour) course and reads through a tick sheet can.

They charge £500 an hour, instead of the £35 it would cost the NHS.

It’s a scam.

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

How refreshing to hear a Prime Minister thanking immigrants rather than berating them.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hey, remember when Fauci privately told a reporter on Feb 7th 2020 that Covid was "more deadly than even your strenuous flus... This is deadly stuff" but then told a public press conference on Feb 27th 2020: "This is a flu. This is like a flu"?

Oh wait! That was... Donald Trump.

[The Daily Record @Daily_Record]

Tomorrow's Daily Record leads on: Far-right thug Alan Miller can today be unmasked as an evil abuser of women #tomorrowspaperstoday

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Brilliant reporting from @Channel4News - at last parts of the media are finally joining the dots between a planet on fire and the burning of fossil fuels 👇

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

It’s literally not rained for a month in southern England, and the Westminster press corps just spent weeks saying Ed Miliband is bad because he takes climate change seriously.

We are almost certainly in the foothills of really significant changes to everyday life.

[Keith Burge @carryonkeith]

Fancy

[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.

[Elliott Hughes 𓅪 @Elliottina86]

@LucyTCWife @1958carol "I didn't do this" says the person who's profile picture is her holding a book she "wrote" about sending a racist tweet and then pleading guilty to it in court.
"I'm not seeking fame, I'm just a victim... BUY MY BOOK!"

😂😂😂🤦

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Richard 'Tricky Dicky' Tice has been referred to parliament’s standards watchdog over an undeclared loan of nearly £80,000 from Nigel Farage’s convicted money launderer aide, George Cottrell.

The development opens up the prospect of ANOTHER inquiry into a Reform UK MP by the watchdog, which was investigating Farage after the revelation that he received an undeclared £5MILLION "gift" from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne.

Tice, who is Reform’s deputy leader, received what he described as a personal loan in late 2024, months after he was elected as the MP for Boston and Skegness, in a transaction that originally caused bankers to raise concerns with authorities.

However, the parliamentary standards commissioner has now been formally asked by Lisa Smart, a Liberal Democrat frontbench MP, to investigate Tice over his apparent failure to declare the loan in line with rules governing MPs’ conduct.

The watchdog’s investigation into Farage is currently paused because he is no longer an MP after stepping down as the member for Clacton, where he is fighting a byelection against Amanda dressed as a bin that will take place on 13 August.

It is alleged that Tice may have breached the MPs’ code of conduct for failing to declare the loan on the basis that the money appears to have been given at a preferential rate, and that Cottrell’s tax residency in Montenegro made him an “impermissible donor”.

In a letter sent this week to Daniel Greenberg, the commissioner, Smart wrote: “Mr Cottrell is not merely a private acquaintance of Mr Tice, he is an official adviser to Reform UK and Nigel Farage (demonstrated by his use of Reform UK business cards).

“It is highly implausible that the loan would have been negotiated without their party political connection, given this is the central basis of their relationship.”

The sum of £78,100 was paid in December 2024 by Cottrell into the account of Tisun Investments Ltd, a British company of which Tice is a director. It manages many of his financial investments.

The transaction from Cottrell, who was convicted of wire fraud in the US in 2017, was closely examined by bankers, given that the money was being received by a serving MP and came from a convicted criminal.

It was one of a number flagged to the National Crime Agency under its suspicious activity report scheme, which requires banks to highlight large transactions, particularly international ones, under anti-money-laundering legislation.

Around the same time as the loan from Cottrell, Tice is said to have sent approximately £92,000 to fund a property purchase in Dubai for a development called Peninsula Five.

In January last year, Tice gave £613,000 to Reform via Tisun Investments in a relatively unusual case of an MP donating to their own party. A month later a sum of £655,000 was paid into Tisun’s account in what was described by Tice as an overpayment for the property purchase.

Instead of paying cash for the property, he said he had got a mortgage, the Guardian understands.

Around the same time, Tice sent £80,000 from Tisun to Cottrell, seemingly repaying the loan.

However, the £80,000 loan from Cottrell does not appear to have been disclosed either in Tisun Investments’ corporate filings to Companies House or the parliamentary authorities.

Tice is understood to have paid back £1,900 more than he borrowed from Cottrell. This was a loan that appears to have been repaid on terms that were favourable to Tice, given commercial rates of interest, the difficulty in securing loans as large as £80,000 and the likely early repayment fees when paying back a loan so quickly.

https://t.co/G4Wb0bN0hh

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

The social care cure is simple, raise taxes, especially for the rich. I’d happily pay more to have not have to endure destitution if I succumb to dementia and I’m not rich. Other more progressive countries do it. If the money goes where it’s supposed to, I’d take the hit.

[Trevor McArdle @McardleTrevor]

Modern extreme heatwaves would be virtually impossible without underlying impact of climate change

I hope you’re a bot - because if not you’re a disingenuous, utterly selfish individual who doesn’t want to face up to reality

You people genuinely disgust me

(if you are people)

[Martin Coleman @Ceulanydd]

@supertanskiii Reckon you'd need a bigger hole for one of those Nigels to get his head through........