Roger

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[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

#C4News ask the Chief Executive of the Vote Leave Campaign Matthew Elliott who now sits in the House of Lords

If we gave the NHS more money in 2019, before Brexit, how can giving more money to the NHS be because of Brexit

I.e. it was a political choice to underfund the NHS, and funding the NHS better had nothing to do with Brexit

In just 43 seconds you can see how Brexit was a con

[LBC @LBC]

‘Not only an act of epic dishonesty, but it’s also an act of craven sycophancy.'

James O’Brien fires back at Nigel Farage’s claim that he is ‘the most hated politician in the country’.

[LBC @LBC]

‘This is a man who thinks the EU has blood on its hands for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, not Putin…’

Labour's Nick Thomas-Symonds explains why he thinks Nigel Farage is a 'threat’ to the UK’s national security.

[Roger @Clearbrook55]

@Imogenlemon02 Unbelievable hypocrisy from @SamCoatesSky

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Apparently 'NO ONE CARES', about an alleged £5m bung to Farage, do you?
Care - repost 'I care'
Don't care - like.
What an arrogant little man Nigel Farage is. #Farage #ReformUK

[Roger @Clearbrook55]

@E20East @MrMichaelSpicer You really think that Farage, Tice, Jenrick have the slightest interest in the working classes other than their votes?

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

Farage: I can spend my £5m on Ferraris if I want it's none of your business.

Reform voters: He's one of us.

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Andy Burnham's allies are objecting to Keir Starmer's determination to publish the Defence Investment Plan, saying that "it's a significant political decision with major national and global implications that was not Sir Keir’s to make". Yes, far better to leave it to a man who hasn't even been an MP for 9 years

[Roger @Clearbrook55]

@PippaCrerar @SueSuezep If the Parliamentary Committee reviewing this is on the fence, “none of your business” should sway them to ensure accountability is our business.

[Sam @SamCKx]

For those who doubt it, this is the timeline of corruption:

Late May 2024: Christopher Harborne secretly transfers £5 million to Nigel Farage.

3 June 2024: Days after the transfer, Farage announces he will stand for Parliament.

4 July 2024: Farage is elected MP for Clacton.

29 May 2025: Farage announces that Reform UK will become the first British political party to accept donations in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

29 May 2025: Speaking at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, Farage unveils plans for a Crypto Assets and Digital Finance Bill, including reducing capital gains tax on crypto assets from 24% to 10%, creating a Bitcoin reserve at the Bank of England, and preventing banks from debanking crypto users.

September 2025: Farage publicly namechecks Tether and Bitfinex, companies in which Christopher Harborne is a major shareholder, and says he is going to the Bank of England to argue against restrictions on crypto and against the proposed digital pound.

13 October 2025: At the Digital Asset Summit in London, Farage says he wants to “bring crypto in from the cold” and immediately halt work on a UK central bank digital currency (“Britcoin”).

25 October 2025: At the Zebu Live crypto conference in London, Farage positions himself as a political champion of the crypto industry and repeats calls for lower crypto taxation and wider adoption.

3 November 2025: In a speech in the City of London, Farage again calls for crypto deregulation and for the UK to become a global crypto hub.

If it could be proven that the £5 million secret payment influenced Farage’s actions as a sitting MP, that raises extremely serious questions. Potential issues could include parliamentary standards breaches, tax issues, bribery or corruption offences. Under the Bribery Act 2010, the most serious bribery offences carry a maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry Report includes testimony from the mother (“Sally”) of Eleanor Williams — a woman jailed in 2023 for fabricating grooming-gang rape claims and perverting justice — without sufficiently distancing it from the report’s credible victim accounts.

This is concerning because it represents a serious vetting failure that hands critics an easy pretext to dismiss the entire 219-page document and dilute the voices of genuine survivors.

It is also concerning that no mainstream news media have reported on this flaw, as it suggests either a reluctance to scrutinise a politically charged report or a broader failure of journalistic accountability on a high-profile public inquiry.

[Roger @Clearbrook55]

@campbellclaret He spent 2 months preparing THIS response - repeated at every interview?

I recall some milkshake damage to his clothes but the line that he’s the most attacked politician is egregious given the murders of Jo Cox and David Amess

Doesn’t he ever consider WHY he’s hated so much?

[Roger @Clearbrook55]

@KayBurley No the media is an arse! He’s done more to expose the stupidity of Brexit than you, your Sky colleagues, BBC & the entire media in this country. Yes he has to rely on basic tactics which make some people uncomfortable but the media with all the resources failed to scrutinise.

[Roger @Clearbrook55]

@dave43law I don’t believe Reform could have won with Starmer as PM either. The country will vote tactically to ensure it whoever is PM a the time.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

[Roger @Clearbrook55]

@LBC @NickFerrariLBC Danger to children is clearly not on Ferrari’s radar when there’s a faux outrage to be had while sitting in a nice air-conditioned studio

[Roger @Clearbrook55]

@MittensOff I can never turn on the audio to listen to his squeaky rants.

[Sam @SamCKx]

The first major wave of online misinformation resulted in Brexit, a decision that the majority of economists regard as the most damaging economic choice Britain has made in modern times, making millions of working families poorer.

Now it appears a second wave may succeed in forcing out a democratically elected Prime Minister who in a short timeframe has a track record of delivering policy designed to help millions of working families. Not a perfect man, but certainly one of the better PMs of the last 30 years or so.

A wave of gross & obvious misinformation, spread and amplified by foreign-owned social media platforms, in a deliberate campaign designed to indoctrinate UK citizens, may have toppled a British Prime Minister.

We are going down a very dark path here.

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

Rarely has there been such a contrast between a PM’s performance and public perception of it. It tells you all you need to know about the polarising & pernicious influence of our media ecosystem, including even the BBC’s own TV News.

https://t.co/D8wYlYCMUj