Melanie Grant

Proud to champion vocational education. Trying out part time retirement and liking it. Francophile. Somerset blow in.

[Melanie Grant @MellyG29]

@LaindonFEMINIST Makes me feel nervous about what’s to come. I want to know what his global agenda will be. I’m more than willing to be proven wrong but I’m yet to be convinced.

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

This is Jane Goodall’s final message recorded in March that was only to be released upon her passing. What an amazing woman. It’s worth a listen.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

So we now know that Nathan Gill was paid by Russia. Fact.

We also know that Alex Phillips worked for Cambridge Analytica AND was media advisor to Nathan Gill. Fact.

Some names that I am aware of in the public domain that link Cambridge Analytica to Russia:

Christopher Wylie.
Aleksandr Kogan.
Lukoil.
Paul Manafort.
Konstantin Kilimnik.
Steve Bannon.
Alexander Nix.

I know this has all been done before, but it seems as though the Nathan Gill link is a thread worth pulling at. Stone-cold proof that a Reform/Brexit Party/UKIP employee was paid by Russia,

I'm not making any accusations, I am just asking questions.

There's something not quite right, though, is there? An awful lot of people linked to Reform/Brexit Party/UKIP and Nigel Farage, specifically, have ties to Russia, or Russia-adjacent people.

As I said, this isn't breaking news, it's almost common knowledge. So why are our news journalists not trying to connect the dots? Why can we see the ties, but they, steadfastly, refuse to mention it?

It comes back to the same old story — who owns our media, and why is everyone ignoring it?

There are serious forces manipulating our press, and by extension our people. The fact that immigration has leapt from a lowly eighth place in the list of the public's concerns, up to 1st, shows this clearly.

Very little has changed over the last three years on that front. Labour actually appears to be doing more on processing than the Tories ever achieved, but that's not the bit that makes headlines.

Nigel Farage says that immigrants are eating park based animals [Trump's lie]. HEADLINE.

Nigel Farage turned over in bed and knocked his pint over. HEADLINE and four TV appearances to check that he's OK.

Everything is about Reform and immigration because the owners of our media networks and newspapers have decided they'd like to see a Farage led government. No other reason.

This is the crux of the situation:

Reform have one policy, and it is a pile of hot bullshit.

They keep announcing the same thing in different guises, it then gets rubbished by credible people, they go off and think up a different name for it and announce their weekly press conference.

Either Farage or Yusuf stands up and chucks out ludicrous statements and even more nonsense numbers. It always comes back to one thing though — immigration.

Sky News, the BBC, LBC, Talk TV, the Telegraph, GB News all drop every other piece of news and broadcast the weekly Reform presser.

No wonder, immigration is suddenly at the forefront of everyone's mind. If you listen or watch the news at all, you'll be guaranteed to see Reform and hear about immigration.

Who is controlling the news?

Reform are. But who is controlling Farage and Reform?

We found out last week that Farage is lobbying the actual Bank of England for his donor's cryptocurrency. He also put out a cheeky advert on @LBC last week too.

That came from Thailand [see my Substack for more on that].

None of this is a revelation and has been widely covered in the past, but with the Nathan Gill bombshell being conveniently glossed over by, particularly, the outlets mentioned above, I thought it worth sticking it back out there.

Especially when I saw this tweet below from Phillips in 2021.

[Malcolm Tucker @gorbalsgoebbels]

Keir Starmer isn’t charismatic. Nor is he a brilliant orator.

What he is, is a decent bloke, a bit boring but intelligent and competent.

Yes he’s made blunders, all PMs do, it’s an impossible job.

After the 14 years of chaos we need reliable, dependable and boring.

[Heidi 🏖 🐬💙🍹🌊 @Brodiesmom68]

It is what it is. 🤷‍♀️
#TrumpisaNationalDisgrace

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Be more like this guy.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

“It’s nobody’s business” - Nigel Farage dismisses questions from Sky's Political Editor @bethrigby about publishing his personal tax returns.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

While we’re talking about politicians and tax, a reminder that Nigel Farage works for a company that exists to help rich people avoid tax.

[HUMAN WA$TE @Dplanet]

🚨🇬🇧 13 Examples of Elon Musk's Far-Right Amplification - Debunked.

Elon Musk is amplifying far-right propaganda about the UK on an hourly basis.

From hoaxes to conspiracy theories to open incitement, Musk has turned his 225M-follower account into a pipeline for racist lies and anti-democratic rhetoric. Let's have a closer look... 🧵👇

[Graham Lambert 💙 @100glitterstars]

Unfortunately, tweets like the one below don't rate highly in the Twitter algorithm matrix, with hate tweets doing much better, but it doesn't diminish the truth embedded in the message. 🇬🇧

[Melanie Grant @MellyG29]

@front_ukrainian Yes

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Zoe Gardener, "Ukrainians have a safe route to get here.. Nobody from Ukraine got on a small boat and had to be put up in hotels.. We provided them with housing, let them get jobs, have access to welfare"

Time Radio, "Regards to protests in Epping, do these people not have legitimate concerns?"

Zoe Gardener, "The asylum seekers have no say over where they are housed"

"There was a vicar arrested for sexual assaults and abuses yesterday, we haven't seen any protests outside churches"

"Why? Because we recognise that one individual white christian is not a representative of an entire parish of white christian people"

"So we don't go outside a church full of worshipers and shout racist abuse when a white vicar is arrested on sexual offence charges"

"To go to a place where an asylum seeker is accommodated through no fault of their own because another asylum seeker is suspected of having committed an offence is racist"

"If you have a problem with the way the government is managing the dispersal of asylum seekers then your target of protest is the government"

"It is not innocent people who happen to be asylums seekers, who happen to share the ethnicity of somebody you think may have done something wrong"

[Melanie Grant @MellyG29]

@RevRichardColes Great photo!

[Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin]

Donald Trump's nemesis: A straight putt and a windmill.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Bob Geldof, "It enrages me to a point beyond comprehension when I see the images of starving Palestinians in Gaza"

Trevor Philips, "Israeli view is there is no famine caused by Israel, its been engineered by Hamas"

Bob Geldof, "The Israeli authorities are lying"

Trevor Philips, "They're lying you say?"

Bob Geldof, "They're lying. Netanyahu is a lying. the IDF are lying"

"They're dangling food in front of starving, exhausted mothers.. They're shooting Palestinians trying to get food from GHF"

"So far a thousand people have died of starvation"

"When you target infants and children, when their wounds are no longer capable of healing, when breast feeding mothers can not longer do this"

"This criminality must stop immediately"

"As an instrument of war, famine is a crime"

Trevor Philips, "The Israelis would say there are 700 trucks sitting inside Gaza waiting for the UN to collect them.. And say its the UN's incompetence"

Bob Geldof, "They're lying. It's propaganda"

"I know this stuff back to front. Band Aid deals with this sort of people all the time, they're lying"

"And if the news and social feeds weren't censored in Israel, I imagine the Israeli people would not permit what is being done in their name"

Trevor Philips, "Isn't it unfair to blame all Israelis for this?"

Bob Geldof, "No, they're at war, their government is at war in their name"

"October 7th was inhumane, disgusting, disgraceful, but we're way past that now. And if the Israeli people are aware of what is being done in their name"

"And you've had on Sky News Dr Maynard reporting where Palestinians have been targeted when queuing for food. They're bing used as target practice. One day targeted in their abdomens. The next day young men targeted in their testicles"

"Trevor please, anyone watching this, we're way beyond.. This Israeli government is stacked with extremists and Netanyahu has gone beyond anything he proposed as his war aim"

"I don't want to hear from Hamas, from Netaynahu, stop this by any means right now"

Trevor Philips, "The IDF would contest your description of what is happening"

Bob Geldof, "Of course they do, show me an army behaving like they do who doesn't"

Trevor Philips, "We can see demonstrations weekly by Israelis"

Bob Geldof, "Not enough"

Trevor Philips, "Isn't it unfair to say this is the Israelis as a whole?"

Bob Geldof, "No, stop it. Stop it Trevor"

"What's unfair is what's happening to these babies"

"What's unfair is that one hour from the hunger Israelis are sitting down to their dinners to watch their Netflix soap"

"If Israelis want to protest, get in your cars, stuff your car full of food and drive through the border"

"You guys (journalists), stop it (making excuses for Israelis), shame on you"

Trevor Philips, "An Israeli would say to you now, even before Oct 7th, they would say they were people under constant attack, they do have reason to be fearful, don't they"

Bob Geldof, "They do indeed, I entirely support the state of Israel"

"This is about Israel using infants as instruments of war"

"Trevor, there are very few people watching this program, have held, or seen, or heard, babies dying of hunger - just stop (making excuses for Israels actions), just stop"

[Charlton Athletic FC @CAFCofficial]

THE. ADDICKS. ARE. BACK. 😎

#cafc

[☕️Carol Hedges 💙💛(also at @caroljhedges) @riotgrandma72]

🩷😁🩷😁🩷😁🩷😁🩷😁
From me to you!
##internationalwomensday

[Bob Morgan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 💙 @Bbmorg]

Tax isn’t theft - it’s roads and hospitals and safety and security.

[David Challen @David_Challen]

"It's time that the macho, patriarchal society that trivialises rape changes,"

"It's time we changed the way we look at rape."
- Gisèle Pelicot

These words Gisèle ends her time on the stand with carry the voices of countless women who have endured lifetimes of a rape culture in a society that routinely subjugates women and erodes their strength. Yet, women in this fight cannot be the only ones to dismantle these abusive patriarchal structures that men built. Men must join too.

Whether you help build or perpetuate it, we are all collectively responsible to help tackle these structures. They exist in our homes, our social lives, working lives, the institutions charged with protecting us and delivering justice... there are opportunities everywhere to support women and tackle abusive men.

Ordinary men in society commit acts of violence against women, and ordinary men watch on. Ordinary men make sexist miosgynistic comments, and ordinary men think that's as far it goes.

It is not. If anything, this case should teach you that.

Behind closed doors, behind the frontages of many ordinary looking men in society there are abusers, perpetrators of violent emotional, coercive, financial and physical acts against women. It's time to stop pretending the prevalence of male violence is small and stop saying good men are not part of the problem. If you're not part of solution, you're watching on. And what good is there in that?

I challenge every man to think about Gisèle's words from this case, and that of many other women's stories, and recognise there is a need to act and to do something in your lives. Don't make the mistake in thinking you don't have power, you do, you just don't realise it.

[Reverend&TheMakers @Reverend_Makers]

To be clear @JohnLewisRetail I love you

It’s not too late to make this the actual advert . We all make mistakes in life. You wernt to know I’m a genius 🤣🤣

And it is for the @samaritans eh

https://t.co/Yisml3bg5Y