Greg Tampin-Copp

Weymouths answer to a question no one asked. Persevering through the bleak misery that is my life.

[george @StokeyyG2]

You don’t get this on Sky Sports 🤣🤣🤣

[Carol K @carolka20]

Here is @Nigel_Farage vehemently saying that he would allow Afghans to stay even if they arrived on small boats. @ZiaYusufUK was even present at this press conference. So by calling @BenWallace70 a ‘traitor and a moron’, he has indirectly called his boss and colleagues the same.

[Ryan Reynolds @VancityReynolds]

Thank god they didn’t watch Chernobyl

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

Let's set aside the fact it's not that long ago Zia Yusuf and his colleagues were demanding everyone moderate their rhetoric. Ben Wallace was an officer in the Scots Guards. He served in Northern Ireland, where he was Mentioned In Dispatches. Just the latest example of how Reform's senior leadership are completely losing control.

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Zia Yusuf - who isn’t even an MP - calling a former captain in the Scots Guards who served in Northern Ireland and was mentioned in dispatches a “traitor to Britain” is, by any measure, completely nuts.

https://t.co/IQMia7u4JG

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

What happened to "if Hamas agrees to release the hostages & disarm, there would be peace immediately"?

Netanyahu is now openly rejecting Trump's plan to disarm Hamas & that crowd is completely silent! What's their next talking point?

WE told you this was NEVER about "Khamas"!

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

The reality is Reform are absolutely terrified of any investigation of their finances. Nigel Farage’s crazy Clacton stunt. The private investigators. The attacks on the NCA. This isn’t normal politics. It’s something much deeper.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

😂 @JeremyClarkson has reduced Farage’s latest grand solution to one sentence:

“You can tell ‘send in the navy’ Nigel has never driven a boat.”

🤣 Jeremy Clarkson on Farage’s grandly named “Operation Fortress”:

“While he looks like a weekend sailor, what with the blazer and the cords and so on, there’s no evidence to suggest Nige has ever driven a boat.”

And then the serious bit:

“It is of course politically colourful to conjure up the image of sleek British warships defending the realm. This sort of thing appeals to the Tommy Robinsonites.”

That’s Farage politics nailed.

Give a complicated problem a Nelsonian name, wrap it in a Union Jack and sell the image before anyone asks whether the policy could actually work.

But there’s a serious point underneath the comedy.

In 2016 Farage told us leaving the EU was the answer to immigration. We left. Free movement ended. Westminster took control.

Now that hasn’t produced the promised result, there’s another three-word solution: send in the Navy.

Politics is easy when you never have to make your slogans work in the real world. Brexit should have taught us that by now.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Elon has the biggest megaphone on earth and he just told 241 million people that follow him that Hitler was a “left-wing socialist.”

That’s not edgy. That’s historically illiterate.

The Nazis hunted down, imprisoned, and murdered actual socialists and communists by the hundreds of thousands.

They banned trade unions, outlawed the Social Democrats and the Communists, and put their leaders in the first concentration camps.

Hitler’s own words called Marxism a Jewish disease he would eradicate.

The socialist in National Socialist was a marketing scam to steal working class votes while the party crushed the left and got into bed with industrialists, the military, and traditional conservatives.

You have more money and reach than almost anyone alive. You could use it to tell the truth. Instead you push a talking point that has been laughed out of serious history for decades. That’s not free speech. That’s using your platform to launder a lie.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Nigel Farage hosts his own primetime GB News show three nights a week. GB News has paid his company over £700,000 since he became an MP, on top of a further £4,000/month for a Telegraph column. He is by far the highest-earning MP.

The Sunday Express gave him a front page splash, written up by its Whitehall Editor as straight reportage, declaring "cancel culture" is "out to destroy Reform."

This is almost the precise opposite of "cancel culture".

A man cannot be simultaneously "cancelled" and paid six figures a year for 32 hours' work/month to broadcast his opinions to a national audience.

"Cancel culture" describes the withdrawal of a platform. Farage, if anything, has too many platforms competing for his time: parliament, GB News, the Telegraph, Cameo, podcasts and YouTube videos, a US media circuit.

What the Express headline actually describes is criticism of someone unusually well resourced to withstand and respond to it. Calling that "cancellation" only works if the word has been hollowed out to mean nothing more than "being disagreed with while famous."

What Linguists call 'victim-perpetrator reversal' is the engine of the whole story.

Farage is the most disproportionately covered and platformed political figure in modern British history relative to his party's parliamentary weight: seven MPs (1% of total MPs), elevated to a level of airtime and front-page coverage most cabinet ministers would envy.

The Express headline inverts that actual power relationship. The man with the microphone, the column, and endless front pages becomes the one under siege, and a national newspaper reports his self-description as fact rather than interrogating it.

The Express states Farage "won't be cowed," casts "cancel culture" itself as "hellbent" on wiping out his party, and describes "hundreds" of threats in "a rough game" that is "really, really nasty." Every phrase implies underdog or dissident in respect to a multimillionaire party leader who is neither.

All MPs receives threats. That deserves to be taken seriously; Jo Cox and David Amess were murdered in office. Diane Abbott receives more online abuse than any other MP, by a wide margin. That is real, measurable, and worth reporting as its own story.

What the Express does instead is fuse Farage's account of death threats directly into "cancel culture out to destroy Reform" in the same sentence, so that a real safeguarding issue and ordinary political criticism become rhetorically indistinguishable. They are not the same thing: one is a policing matter that applies to all politicians. The other is people disagreeing with him.

The Express wouldn't run "CANCEL CULTURE OUT TO DESTROY LABOUR" over an interview with Abbott describing the abuse she receives, despite her case being more extensively documented. It wouldn't frame scrutiny of her as an organised plot.

That selectivity is revealing: "cancel culture" here is not a description of anything actually happening to Farage. It's a framing device, applied only to politicians the paper favours, that recasts scrutiny of the best-platformed man in UK politics as an act of violence against him.

This isn't news: it's Farage narrating his own coverage, and a friendly paper printing his narration as fact.

The front page's own layout makes the point without meaning to. Boxed in beside a headline five times its size sits a genuine, developing story: counter-terror police have reopened an investigation, tied to Ann Widdecombe's murder, into allegations of an undisclosed 'incendiary device' sent to one of Farage's homes in 2025, with a conduct referral made to the police watchdog. That's what an actual political-violence story looks like. It got a small corner.

A press genuinely concerned with politicians' safety would report threats against MPs of every party as a standing story about political violence, separated cleanly from any single leader's grievances about his own press. That story would not need Farage to write it for them.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Elon just called Hitler a socialist again, and every time he does this, Grok corrects him and points out that Hitler was a fascist.

Never deleting this app.

[Richard Osman @richardosman]

A very brief history of modern capitalism via snooker sponsorship.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Like all entitled pricks who think the rules don't apply to them, our first reaction to the slightest bit of legitimate scrutiny is to play the victim and threaten to take legal action.

[Eric Hovagim @EricHovagim]

Here’s the owner of the New York Post hanging with his best friend Ghislaine Maxwell

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

@RupertLowe10 As someone who self identifies as a farmer, will you condemn this member of your community for his horrific crime? What are you and other farmers doing to prevent a repeat?

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

“I didn't vote for this!”
Yes you did. You just voted for it to happen to someone else. Not you.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi Senator, thanks for the quote-tweet, but why are you so full of bile and hate against Muslim-Americans who aren't terrorists and have never harmed you, while sycophantic to the man in the Oval Office who called your wife ugly and said your dad killed JFK?

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Rupert Lowe keeps quoting a “report” from Matt Goodwin (GB News presenter & failed Reform candidate) claiming white Brits will be a minority by 2063.

That same report defines a “white Briton” so narrowly that King Charles doesn’t even qualify, because Prince Philip was born in Greece.

Asked repeatedly on the BBC if the King counts under this definition… Lowe completely bottles it. Can’t say yes, can’t say no, just “we can split hairs” 😂😂

When your blood purity test comes from a GB News host and locks the actual monarch out of the club, the whole thing is pure comedy.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

How shitt faced on drugs do you have to be to actually humiliate yourself on camera like this ?

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

None of this is true, of course.

What is true though is that Ted Cruz supported a violent insurrection against the US government and should’ve been ejected from the Senate.