Lesley Anderson

Lefty. Ex-Labour.Loves cats (Lemmy, Fiver & Deepy), my Kindle & a surly biker called Jock. I have few working bodily parts but a fully functioning sarcasm gene.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

In today’s episode of Every Accusation Is A Confession:

Matt Tardio, Israel’s favorite Green Beret, the man who falsely accused whistleblower Tony Aguilar of being a wife beater last August, was caught on camera trying to kidnap a woman after she rejected his sexual advances. Thankfully she was able to get away from him before he was able to hurt her.

When Tardio was interviewed by police he denied knowing anything about the incident. When police told him the whole thing was caught on camera he changed his story and said that Antifa had drugged him with a laced joint.

When police pressed him on this, Tardio informed them that he was the one who brought the joint to the protest… and somehow Antifa got ahold of it and laced it… and then gave it back to him… 😐

Police recommended he be charged with kidnapping, sexual abuse and harassment but lucky for Tardio he was in Portland Oregon and was able to strike a deal with their soft on crime prosecutors. He lead “No Contest” to felony coercion and misdemeanor harassment charges and if he doesn’t screw up for 3 years it’ll all come off his record.

Unfreakingbelievable.

[Alice Haven @Alice_1971_]

On that group of mums who happened to be on the train with a group of 'very polite' men in balaclavas........

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I seem to have upset the @Nigel_Farage fan club - so let me be clear.

This man sows hate, lies and division.

He is a grifter and a conman.

He does not represent the vast majority of Britons.

RT if you agree

P.s. multiculturalism is great.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Just woke up from a nap in my hand towels and doesn’t know what year it is

[Mark Hirst @Documark]

The graves of my close family members (and other families) have been desecrated by @PersimmonHomes who have built a development right up against the wall of the Eastfield Cemetery in Dundee, leading to the collapse of the wall onto the graves, damaging the headstones.

5 close members of my family are buried here and to say I am angry about it is a serious understatement.

Perhaps time @scotgov established a housing developer regulator to control these rogue operators.

Please retweet.

@stephengethins

@DundeeCouncil @thecourieruk @STVNews @BBCScotlandNews @jimspencedundee

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Ha'aretz reports that Hamas, through Qatar, conveyed immediately on Oct. 7 that they were willing to return all the civilian hostages for nothing -- their only ask was for a mediator to arrange the exchange and establish a connection to then negotiate the further release of the soldiers. Israel refused to talk or hear about it.

So Qatar reached out to Antony Blinken to let him know that Hamas was willing to release all the civilian hostages.

Blinken told Qatar he didn't want to hear it because "Israel is still under attack, and there's no one to talk to."

Blinken had the opportunity to free every single civilian hostage and de-escalate the situation. Instead he wanted war.

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

Revenge served cold

[Yorkshire Victor Meldrew+his dog @TheMeldrew]

So two Reform councillors where involved in the assaults at the Reform conference

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

Funny how handing massive amounts of public data and operations over to a spyware firm run by psychos and fascist progeny is never considered a national security issue.

[Alex Nunns @alexnunns]

Yesterday morning I took my mum to the GP feeling unwell and they found a satsuma-sized lump.

She was given a referral for suspected gynaecological cancer and sent for an urgent blood test.

What happened next shocked me. This is what NHS privatisation means in practice👇1/🧵

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

The MoD recently gave a £10 million contract to an Israeli-owned arms firm which operates under the authority of minister Bezalel Smotrich -- who is subject to UK sanctions.

Is Andy Burnham going to do anything about that?
https://t.co/ykT7pLEIxP

[Jackie Walker - HRH, MP, MBE, ABC @Jackiew80333500]

Most funny exchange on British sanctions against Israel award winner

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

This cowardly anonymous far-right conspiracy-oriented account has posted in the last 48 hours that the @RNLI CEO should be arrested for treason and that the charity is facilitating an “invasion of rapists and murderers.”

RNLI crew and volunteers are the best of us. The evil broken bigot behind this account is the very worst of us.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK’s biggest private hospital firm Spire in £1.03bn takeover by hedge fund Toscafund known as “the Rottweiler”

Value driven by NHS contracts. Spire has 45% gross profit margin

New owner will be aggressive.

Privatisation bleeds the NHS, money buys less.
https://t.co/6LKqS2qddx

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Danny Tommo is indeed a public school boy and in 2016 he was jailed for two years for attempted kidnapping, having entered a man’s home with two other men, armed with knives; the dispute arose after Thomas accused the homeowner of stealing £10,000 worth of drugs from him.

[Kate 🕊 @affleckquine]

Wondering who is funding the blackshirts?
Court records from a U.S. lawsuit revealed that the money he mentions here came from the Middle East Forum think tank.
The head of the MED is Greg Roman. former employee of the Israeli Ministry of Defence and the Israeli Foreign Ministry

[Doug Paulley @Doug_Paulley]

Failed Assistance -
@northernassist, having put me on the train at Leeds, failed to get me off at my destination Harrogate,
Then ignored the wheelchair space emergency alarm.
The train was departing and I had to stand up and pull the red emergency alarm to get off.

[Yorkshire Victor Meldrew+his dog @TheMeldrew]

If you live in the Portsmouth area and your children are not white I would avoid this business, confronts the RNLI about feeding migrants and is proud of it then when called out doubles down, people feel enabled to post these vile views on social media

[Samuel K @SamuelKOfficial]

The Dover protest to 'defend Britain' was funded by foreign American cash and its organiser is a convicted kidnapper.

Sums up the British far-right in 2026.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

🚨 Posts on @X & Telegram have circulated names, photos, and at least one address of @RNLI crew from a recent Portsmouth rescue, leading to reports of intimidation and family distress.

Defective, radicalised, far-right men openly refer to these brave RNLI heroes as "traitors".

The X account below is run by Ryan Ferguson, a far-right shit-stirring "content creator" from the Liverpool area.

He uses TikTok and YouTube to spread his divisive hate, describes himself as a nationalist, and posts frequently about immigration, asylum hotels, and related protests.

Local reporting describes him as a former football hooligan with convictions including racially aggravated offences and wasting police time; he later became a visible figure at anti-migrant demonstrations in the North West.

These broken far-right men are already ruining lives: without urgent action, they are going to get someone killed.

It makes me fucking sick to see people like Zia Yusuf nodding along to what the organisers of these unlawful masked protests have got to say, while Rupert Lowe sings their praises.

What a fucking country we've become where senior political figures can normalise racism, use dangerously irresponsible dehumanising bigoted rhetoric almost daily, and praise intimidating masked vigilantes wearing militaristic uniforms reminiscent of Oswald Mosley's fascist blackshirts.

Did they learn nothing from history? Or are they themselves just bigoted, radicalised extremists who have far more in common with the actual Nazis than any of us want to believe?

Maybe Rupert Lowe, Zia Yusuf, Danny Tammo, Tommy Robinson and all the British far-right masked men blocking roads genuinely don’t know that in WWII, many British people and foreign-born allies died fighting against a regime which:

- embraced the ideology of ethnic nationalism
- treated migration as an existential threat
- pushed a story of national decline caused by 'outsiders' and a disloyal indigenous 'elite'
- claimed their own culture was superior to others
- treated ideological opponents as "traitors"
- scapegoated a visible out-group
- deployed street mobilisation to intimidate fellow citizens and force the state’s hand
- had a stated preference for authoritarian order and expulsion over liberal democracy and individual rights
- embraced conspiracy thinking around race 'replacement' and who is 'really' opening the borders.

Sound familiar?