Ray Sullivan

Author of comedic, Sci Fi and thriller novels. Writer and editor for - handle Throngsman

[Profile Critics @BooksProfile]

@premnsikka @RayASullivan We absolutely must.

It was the 1st question on QT last night - how would you change our politics?

Not one panellist said they would ban donations. Nor second jobs.

That should be step 1.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

THEY ARE BASTARDS!

We just got an email sent to MSE. The spelling was awful, and it was quite tough to understand. Lower down, the writer later explained she was 78 and her disability had stopped her being able to spell. So perhaps it is a stroke, or something similar.

I've tidied it and summarised below, changing some identifying details. In a nutshell, it was this...

"I invested, Martin, with Quotum when you first announced it on TV. What an opportunity for me to buy my own flat. My manager there passed me through to a nice man who asked me for £350 more. He showed me it was growing. I did what he told me to do."

She then goes on to explain how she really wanted her flat and she gave more and more money. And she has nothing left to help with her disability.

I'm honestly in tears typing this. These types of scam ads have now been going on for a decade. I have spent my career trying to help people with their finances. It feels visceral to get this, and to feel that this reputation has been perverted by criminals to steal from someone who is clearly so vulnerable leaves me feeling nauseous.

So many people, both vulnerable and not, lose money and see their lives and wellbeing destroyed. It's now seven years since I sued Facebook. And yet still nothing is being done.

Big tech makes £3bn a year from these scammers. We have a law in place to make them responsible for these ads they're paid to publish, yet it isn't implemented. How many more of these do I have to receive - and far worse, how many more people have to go through this?

This is relentless. It is wrong. Government has to take action! I wrote to the PM just two weeks ago on this very issue. I've not heard back yet.

(We are, of course, going to try and point her in the right direction to get help, but that will be stressful for her too)

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

Apparently Kenyon announced Reform will ban knives.

[Ray Sullivan @RayASullivan]

@nw_nicholas If (massive if) he was successful it would make plumbing difficult

[Bruce McD @brucemcd23]

Talk about bending over backwards for Farage

First off Bruce questioned whether Farage had ever filmed a video saying up the IRA for £85 - a fact which should be well known to any political journalist

Then she was told in her ear he had

And subsequently she put out the Farage line he had been tricked

When the questioner was making the point about whether a man ( who accepted a secret gift of £5m from a crypto billionaire) could be trusted if he would say Up the IRA for £85…

The point is about judgement, integrity and trustworthiness

Farage demonstrated a lack of discriminating judgement. If he would do that in pursuit of £85 what would he say and do for £5m ? It’s a fair question

BBC displaying no backbone and letting Farage dictate the agenda . Again

[Ray Sullivan @RayASullivan]

@brucemcd23 Good point

[Profile Critics @BooksProfile]

@RobKenyonReform All the evidence is that where there is bias in policing it is against non-white people.

This weird myth that the police are trained to favour non-white people is just nonsense.

Read the actual training manuals. Do the work, don't just parrot some slogans.

[Chris Rennard 🔶💙🇺🇦 @LordRennard]

@roz_savage I first proposed that there should be a cap on donations to political parties during the passage of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act in 2000. I suggested then £50k per donor per year. I keep arguing for this in @UKHouseofLords

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

To an extent, it’s irrelevant how Rob Kenyon performed on Question Time last night. A massive chunk of Reform voters are only doing so to ‘upset the lefties.’ Rob could have answered every question with ‘Raaaaaaa I am the king of the potato people’ while jumping up and down on the desk and it wouldn’t have affected their vote share one iota.

[Profile Critics @BooksProfile]

@Sai_Ishaya_ @claudicant Agree.

The headline numbers gave me pause, but as soon as I heard that UKG funding would go on infrastructure- happy.

[NewsBiscuit ℹ️ @NewsBiscuit]

Escaped creature in Fukushima 'smarter than the av-er-age bear!'

https://t.co/37Q3AglQZB

[NewsBiscuit ℹ️ @NewsBiscuit]

Hampshire Police hold 'spot the victim' finger painting classes

https://t.co/vDKqX7iZ03

[NewsBiscuit ℹ️ @NewsBiscuit]

One from the archives

Charles saves planet by turning down corgi sauna 1.5 °C

https://t.co/NWu6dic9SC

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Foreign money funding Reform UK.

Another 7m from two overseas British crypto billionaires - £4m from Hong Kong-based billionaire, £3m from Thailand.

Tax exiles shaping UK politics. What have they been promised?

Must ban political donations.
https://t.co/UzYPsSxITL

[Chris S @chris_spencer04]

I don't know why this needs saying in 2026, but there are GOOD people and BAD people of every race, religion, age or demographic. Simple as

[NewsBiscuit ℹ️ @NewsBiscuit]

Mojtaba Khamenei - Starmer's biggest fan

https://t.co/neQ3kemwB2

[The Receipts UK ♿ @david_hollas]

https://t.co/RW2PaZPo27

[Tom Jamieson @jamiesont]

Nigel Farage interviewed on the Nigel Farage Show about why Nigel Farage is right on the Nigel Farage news channel

Maybe stop moaning Chris about labour ministers not coming on GB Farage News?

[Tom Jamieson @jamiesont]

Thought they were talking about Trump 🙄

[Profile Critics @BooksProfile]

@BenGrahamUK GFY