Helena Poldervaart

[Helena Poldervaart @HelenaPolderva1]

@markaizatt Hugely disappointing, no sense at all of just how bad this looks. I'm embarrassed for the Party.

[Helena Poldervaart @HelenaPolderva1]

@Nigel_Farage Smacks of desperation. Are you by any chance trying to deflect attention from the £5m ?

[Helena Poldervaart @HelenaPolderva1]

Leaf blowers, the curse of the city. Before 8am a fantastically noisy machine, operated by a man without ear defenders, is filling the air with petrol fumes to pointlessly move a very few leaves around. #Shrewsbury

[Joe Ware @wareisjoe]

Heathrow third runway GDP yield may be 90% less than original estimate

Department for Transport analysis suggests 0.05% boost will be offset by overall negative trade-off
https://t.co/rABEfUzncv

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Reform UK leader Farage used private meeting at Bank of England to urge governor to drop plans for state-run cryptocurrency.

Farage serving the interest of his foreign donors.

I didn't like cryptocurrency. But what else has Farage promised to donors?
https://t.co/jnCfz7diz6

[Helena Poldervaart @HelenaPolderva1]

@IainDale @ShelaghFogarty Never mind upsetting migrants, they upsetting ME! They're not harmless flags, sadly, since they've been taken over by the far right.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Tories launch disability benefits review to cut welfare bill by £23bn.

The Party that gave us the longest ever queue for the NHS, privatised water, energy, social care, is gunning for the disabled.

Silence on corporate welfare, tax abuse, compassion.
https://t.co/G3idwoz3cw

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Reform UK’s #Makerfield candidate Rob Kenyon is being paid £14,822 per year now he’s a Wigan Councillor.

He’s not even turned up to sign in, not attended a council meeting and hasn’t even bothered to post a single thing advocating for his ward.

Voted for Rob Kenyon as councillor? He conned you.

[Helena Poldervaart @HelenaPolderva1]

@patrickwintour I completely agree. It's a proper grown-up discussion programme where people actually listen to each other. I don't understand why it's been picked out, so many rubbish programmes which could be binned

[C20 Society @C20Society]

NEWS: The UK's oldest Indian restaurant is taking the Crown Estate to court this month, as it fights eviction from its historic Regent Street home after more than a century.

Veeraswamy opened in April 1926 and has served guests including Winston Churchill, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Laurence Olivier, Charlie Chaplin and Queen Elizabeth II. It is even claimed that the habit of having a pint with a curry in England began at the restaurant, which now has a Michelin star.

The restaurant is located at first floor level within Sir Reginald Blomfield's grandiose rebuilding of John Nash's Regent Street Quadrant; a Grade II listed neo-Baroque set piece, designed c.1910 and completed 1920-23. The entrance is on Swallow Street, behind a rusticated semicircular arched bridge with open, giant, 3 storey Doric columned loggia.

The building is part of the vast land and property portfolio of the Crown Estate, which generates money for the Treasury and the royal family. They declined to renew the restaurant’s £205,000-a-year lease last year, saying it wants to carry out a “comprehensive refurbishment” of the offices on the building’s upper floors, which have been empty since 2023. This would involve reconfiguration of the entrance to Veeraswamy to create a larger reception area for office tenants, which would allow the estate to “materially increase” the rents it can charge.

The Guardian reported that Veeraswamy has proposed sharing the larger entrance with the office space, and also offered to match the increased rents the Crown Estate believes it could get from new office tenants. However, the estate declined.

The restaurant founder Edward Palmer was born in India in 1860, great grandson of General William and the Moghul Princess Faisan Nissa Begum. He came to England in 1880 and established "E.P. Veerasawmy & Company - purveyors of aromatic Indian spices and produce". Palmer achieved considerable success with his spice business and his profile grew after a presence at the 1924 Wembley Exhibition in London, with Veerasawmy's Indian Restaurant opening in Regent Street two years later.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: Nigel Farage has been trying to block Bank of England cryptocurrency plan that could be costly for billionaire bankrolling his party.

Reform UK leader has said Christopher Harborne wants nothing in exchange for millions donated to party and undeclared £5m personal gift to Farage revealed by Guardian.

But Farage used private meeting at Bank to urge governor to drop plans for state-run alternative to digital currency that has made his Thailand-based benefactor one of richest people in world.

Cracking tale from @tomburgis

https://t.co/o4ljHGx8fZ

[Helena Poldervaart @HelenaPolderva1]

@JuliaHB1 Keep checking, you'll get there eventually.

[Helena Poldervaart @HelenaPolderva1]

@darrengrimes So those disgusting social media posts count for nothing?

[Helena Poldervaart @HelenaPolderva1]

@Nigel_Farage Maybe that drink will give you the courage to answer questions about the £5m

[Helena Poldervaart @HelenaPolderva1]

@BBCNews @BBCPolitics What a loss #theworldtonight will be. A grown up, non aggressive discussion and news programme which is hugely informative.

[Helena Poldervaart @HelenaPolderva1]

@TiceRichard Arrivals down by 40%. By Labour.

[Helena Poldervaart @HelenaPolderva1]

@Nigel_Farage Running away from tricky questions about the £5m more like

[Helena Poldervaart @HelenaPolderva1]

@MAGAVoice You must have missed the collective rolling of the eyes as Mr Huge Ego walked in.

[Helena Poldervaart @HelenaPolderva1]

@AmericaPapaBear Yuk, using the cross for your nasty, racist ends. Hypocrites.

[Helena Poldervaart @HelenaPolderva1]

@RobKenyonReform @juneslater17 I just don’t seem to be able to get past your disgusting social media posts, for which you haven’t properly apologised and seem to think that as you wrote them before you got all political they don’t somehow count.