David Hartwell

Ex MoD/Jane’s now OSINT. Cornish and European. Music is life; Life member of Jilted Generation; Spurs for life; views own; RT not endorsement. On Bluesky.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

I assume you'll be suing the Murdochs at any second now.

An easy win for you if you're sure it's libellous, right?

RIGHT?

[The Accidental Disruptor @The_A_Disruptor]

It’s all part of the con. A con which the media have been complicit in up until a few weeks ago

https://t.co/LP02mTFNTo

[Shafeeq @Y2SHAF]

future historians are going to have a nightmare trying to explain why we ran out of drinking water because we needed to cool down the machines generating 4K AI fruit videos

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

Russia will eventually try to keep people in, not out.

For us 80’s kids, we’ve seen this before.

[Bruce McD @brucemcd23]

Dan’s right

This has been Farage’s game plan from the point the murder of Anne Widdecombe was announced. Farage’s fallacious logic is :

A Reform spokesperson has been murdered

It must be politically motivated

Therefore Farage is at risk , and other Reform MPs ( and apparently Yusuf) are at risk of copy cat attacks

And Reform will have to put in security because the parliamentary authorities won’t ( which is a lie)

And therefore Farage was right all along to accept the secret £5m gift

Desperate and cynical attempt to use Widdecombe’s murder to try and get Farage off the hook for taking a secret £5m gift.

Because he really thought he could get away with it

Just like he has with everything else in the past

[Dr. Dan Lomas @Sandbagger_01]

How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain https://t.co/QYURa1HjdY

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Of course Farage turned down Close Protection from the Metropolitan Police’s Protection Command. They are POLICE OFFICERS. The last thing Farage wanted was policeman aware of where he was going and who he was meeting.

[David Hartwell @DaveHartwell1]

He was a real one.

[Sam Neill @TwoPaddocks]

Brexit simplified.

[Mark Hammond @MarkHam80780803]

“So let me get this straight, Mr. Trump. You’re going to charge everyone 20% for you to open a stretch of water that’s only closed because you started a war in the first place?”

[caroline wheeler @cazjwheeler]

Exclusive: Nigel Farage turned down taxpayer-funded security including a bodyguard, car and trained driver last year, The i Paper has learned. 

The Reform UK leader was offered the protection following police advice on the threats he faced.

He had already been receiving publicly-funded security prior to this, and felt that his package had been downgraded.

It would have given Farage a similar level of security to Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and some high-profile Cabinet ministers.

Farage declined the offer because he considered the protection to be inadequate.

A Reform spokesman suggested Farage needed stronger protection than the leader of the opposition, telling The i Paper he is “the most targeted politician in Britain and the only party leader who actually goes out to meet the public in huge numbers on the campaign trail”.

The spokesman also denied that Farage rejected protection, adding: “He declined a downgraded and inadequate package.”

By @singharj w/ myself and @kitty_donaldson

[David Hartwell @DaveHartwell1]

Exactly.

[BIG Tizzy @TSpursfan]

Santos and Tielemans is what Tottenham would've signed if Daniel Levy was still in Charge.

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

It actually means don't do anything that could jeopardise a criminal trial, but whatever.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

Reform politicians and commentators have spent today trying to spin legitimate criticism of Farage’s photo opportunity, a blatant attempt to turn a woman’s murder into content, as a threat to their safety. That is absurd.

Before any facts had been revealed, and against the wishes of Ann Widdecombe’s family and the police, Farage went on camera to speculate about motive. The Mail on Sunday reports a source close to the family saying they did not want her death hijacked for political purposes.

This is precisely the pattern that led to the Southport riots, people took the words of Farage and others online and used them to justify the violence that followed.

Words have consequences, and within moments of his comments, people online were repeating them almost verbatim. The police asked Reform not to speculate, so Reform attacked the police. The family asked, so they attacked the family. Friends asked, so they attacked them too. Journalists reported it, and they got attacked as well.

Reform is attempting to paint any criticism, valid or not, as a direct threat to their lives. I’m sorry, this is patently absurd. They’re a major political party leading in the polls, and that comes with scrutiny. Almost everything revealed in the past few months about Farage and his less than convincing stories about his finances, is fair, legitimate scrutiny.

All of this is an attempt to shut it down, to avoid scrutiny, and to paint the media and opposition voices as a threat. They don’t want scrutiny, they don’t want people able to speak about them online or in the media. This is Trumpian, it’s the populist, far right handbook of old. It’s what Orban did, and it’s what Reform will do if they ever achieve power.

Don’t give in to this attempt to silence you. Don’t allow their framing of this to take hold. Farage acted like the self-styled social media influencer he claims to be, and took advantage of a death for political ends. Don’t forget that fact.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Sorry to be a stuck record. But as I said. Reform - and Nigel Farage's - priority in all of this is Nigel Farage.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

Last time, speculation caused rioting in Southport and across the country. It’s utterly irresponsible, and it has real world consequences.

But you don’t care about the real world impact of your words. You want to whip people up into a frenzy so you can continue to score cheap political points.

This is thuggish politics and it’s reprehensible.

[Shashank Joshi @shashj]

Imagine trying to explain to 2012 Bibi that 2026 Bibi was attempting to install Ahmadinejad as Iranian president in a post-war regime.

[Alice Vinten @AVintenAuthor]

‘First class honours maths student, Poppy Devey Waterhouse, murdered by jealous ex boyfriend.’

Fixed it for you, @DailyMirror.

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

There is a level of cynicism about the way Reform spokespeople and supporters are campaigning for us to believe a particular version of the murder of Ann Widdecombe - in advance of the evidence and against the advice of the police - that I haven't quite experienced before.

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Good to know the police’s plea that no one speculate on the motive behind Ann Widdecombe’s alleged murder is being heeded.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

If people had only listened to @carolecadwalla - we could have saved a few years!