Lexi Hector

Bitter and twisted chore Dodger.

[Grouse Beater @Grouse_Beater]

DATA CENTRE RESISTANCE

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Please repost if you want Andy Burnham to work to restore our EU Freedom of Movement as soon as possible. It was robbed from us by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

How many Reform UK voters know that Robert Jenrick once worked in Moscow as a corporate lawyer for firms handling oligarch clients?

This Private Eye item from 2020 reads somewhat differently now. At the time it was a minor scandal: 'Honest Bob' Jenrick, a Moscow-trained corporate lawyer turned MP, accepted £5,000 from Alexander Knaster, the former CEO of Alfa Bank, in the run-up to the 2015 election, the only time Knaster had ever donated to an individual MP's office despite being a long-standing Tory donor.

Jenrick's wife, Michal Berkner, had been a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, acting for the Alfa Group at one point, before later moves to Cooley, McDermott Will & Emery, and now Baker McKenzie.

The piece's closing line, about "a certain suppressed report on Russian influence in British politics," was a pointed reference to the still-unpublished Russia Report.

What has happened since gives the story more weight than Private Eye could have known.

After the 2022 invasion, the US and UK sanctioned Alfa Group's principals, including Mikhail Fridman, the bank's co-founder, who was arrested by the National Crime Agency at his London home that December. He left the UK for good in 2023 and now lives in Moscow.

Knaster's own firm, Pamplona Capital, was drawn directly into the fallout: Goldman Sachs and Kirkland & Ellis both cut ties once it emerged that roughly 80% of Pamplona's funds traced back to Fridman's LetterOne vehicle, and Pamplona has since moved to wind down and buy out those stakes.

Knaster himself was never sanctioned. But the wider network his 2015 donation sat within has since been treated by Western governments and banks as exactly the kind of Russian-adjacent capital the original piece was needling at.

It's also worth noting the company Jenrick now keeps.

As Reform UK's Treasury spokesperson, he sits in a party whose former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, was jailed for ten and a half years in November 2025 for taking bribes from a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician to make pro-Kremlin statements in the European Parliament, a case serious enough to trigger a government review into foreign interference in UK politics.

There is no suggestion that Gill and Jenrick's paths crossed on this. But a party built partly on hard sovereignty rhetoric now has, in its recent history, both a convicted case of Russian-linked corruption and a senior figure whose early career was boosted by Kremlin-adjacent money.

That pattern, not any direct link, is the point worth making.

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Dear Robert Jenrick
As you are blaming benefit claimants for absolutely everything, can you explain how during your time with the Tories, an extraordinary £100 billion was wasted by said Tories.

#BBCBreakfast #r4today

[Oliver @OWS1892]

Starbucks paid zero tax in 2025 on sales of £556.3m. They got a £13.7m tax credit instead.
What's the benefit of having Starbucks in the UK?
Either tax them on their sales or give the sites to independent British cafes instead.
Stop letting foreign multinationals plunder our country.

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

After the referendum, the BBC chief Lord Hall ordered the BBC to treat Brexit as a done deal, a decision which all but wholly excluded Remainer opinion from the BBC for around 2 years, thus grossly biasing the Brexit debate. It was a grotesque abuse of democracy.

The BBC justified its policy on the grounds that it was simply going back to devoting most of its coverage to the two main parties, which by coincidence had both become militantly pro-Brexit. So the roughly 50% of the public who supported Remain were almost totally silenced.

Contrast that with the treatment of Farage who has had very few MPs and far less support than Remain had, and yet the BBC has given him a very high level of coverage. The standards it applied to silence Remainers, it completely abandoned in its promotion of Farage.

The BBC's double standards perverted the Brexit debate, and very likely influenced the final outcome. And while it suppressed Remainer voices the BBC eagerly took over from Russian TV in promoting Farage.

The BBC's subservience to a right-wing, and at times, fascist agenda, has done immeasurable damage to our country.
https://t.co/yxl7hxliwB

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Britain’s only desalination plant remains idle during drought."

Yep, built at a cost of £250 million to Thames Water customers and it doesn't work.

https://t.co/S7vMXT5R8E

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Once again BBC News prepares to broadcast a Reform UK press conference

They don't do that for the LibDems or the Greens

And you have to wonder why our national broadcaster is doing so

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Well, well, well…

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Thames Water's finance director given a £1,000,000 signing on bonus.

Water industry depravity hits an all time low. Their contempt for customers and the environment clearly knows no bounds.

When are govt going to intervene and put a stop to this? @andyburnham @angelaeagle

https://t.co/WB23sNU4hS

[Keith Burge @carryonkeith]

No, he was so busy that he had to be operated on whilst giving this speech. Didn’t even wince. What a guy!!

[Kate Degerdon @KDegerdon30481]

Think of the outcry over wind farms & solar for energy - why so little noise about the vast amounts of drinking water needed for data centres? No water, we die. Simples.

[Lexi Hector @HectorLexi]

@CllrScottC It's for bereaved parents.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

If you’re just waking up and haven’t caught the news yet…

Reform UK lost two council by-elections to Labour last night in Thurrock.

I know Zia Yusuf and Nigel Farage won’t be tweeting about this one, so just making sure you’re all aware 😂😂😂

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

Ofcom, Ofcom where art thou Ofcom.

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

This post on Farage, Cottrell and Nathan Gill us being suppressed by the X algorithm. It's popular, with 335 views, but it has only been allowed 3.5k views. That's strange given that social media algorithms are supposed to favour posts that get high engagement rates.

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

Not even I can find this post on my profile, I searched Alumina, I scrolled through every "post and reply" but clearly Irish Alumina is being suppressed, the only way I found my own tweet is because I forwarded it to @CaolanReports

This is crazy supression from @X

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

This is the Irish minister who has defended the russian refinery and was humiliated by me asking him why there were russian signs everywhere in his town. Now tweeting this about the refinery questions. Morally bankrupt

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Just 5 years after being fined £90 million for illegally dumping sewage of the Kent coast Southern Water have; just been fined £7m after illegally dumping sewage off Kent coast.

That's the 106 offence in the last 15 years. Time to put an end to the corruption.

https://t.co/WgKYaBPQX6

[Lexi Hector @HectorLexi]

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