Simon Greaves

Solicitor. Former Labour Politico.. Labour Leader Bassetlaw District Council (2012 - 2022). Grafting Realist.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Reform slowly recognising Nigel Farage has seriously messed up on this.

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

Reform UK’s ex-deputy leader Ben Habib tears into his former colleague, Nigel Farage.

Farage is “a fox, not a lion”, he says, “and that makes him dangerous for the country as a prime minister.”

@AdamBoultonTABB | @KaitBorsay

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

One reason Labour are becoming increasingly confident in Makerfield. Unlike Gorton their data is proving very solid. They've canvassed all households, and are now focusing on undecideds. And when they return they're finding genuine waverers, which shows their numbers are robust.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Henry Nowak’s family have lost their son and brother in the most appalling circumstances.

Nigel Farage is exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division.

It’s completely unforgivable.

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Keir Starmer to Nigel Farage: "His response has been to appeal for rage. Rage. That’s his response to a father who has lost his son and asked for this not to happen.

“To do it when the family are expressly saying please don’t is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is.”

https://t.co/6G6NcDr4vH

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

One thing to keep an eye on. Zia Yusuf has a lot of enemies inside Reform. If, as seems increasingly likely, they lose in Makerfield people will be looking for a scapegoat. And it won't be Nigel Farage.

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

"He did it after Southport, he's doing it again ..."

[Nick Cohen @NickCohen4]

This is the lying propaganda of race war. It's quite clear now that, under pressure from Lowe and Musk, Farage has decided to abandon his old red lines and move to the far right.

[Luke Charters MP @lukejcr]

Worst political interview in history.

On air next: Reform’s Vetting Process… Britain’s Greatest Unsolved Mystery! 📺

[Anna Turley MP @annaturley]

Farage could have been in Parliament today, doing his job, and ask any question he wanted of the Home Secretary about the tragic Henry Novak case.
Where was he?
Instead he hides behind pre-recorded rage-bait videos. Coward.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

The question people should be asking is why have Reform suddenly gone nuclear, and started lashing out at everyone and everything. I think the reason is they are seeing the same polling and canvassing data that all the other parties are seeing in Makerfield.

[Labour Press @labourpress]

Reports of hostile state activity are incredibly serious.

Nigel Farage and Reform have failed to confirm whether they've reported the suspicions they raised that Farage's phone was hacked by Russia to either the @NCSC or @metpoliceuk.

National security must always come first - today @annaturley has reported this for thorough independent investigation by the proper authorities.

[Simon Greaves @Simon__Greaves]

Naturally if this has actually happened Nigel Farage would want to report it? 🤔

[Anna Turley MP @annaturley]

Report ‘phone hack’ to police Nigel or I will do it for you.

https://t.co/QS7nbrE8GR

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

And here's another one. Reform's Makerfield candidate believes Russia were well within their rights to invade Crimea in 2014.

https://t.co/d6bjrj1A1w

[Simon Greaves @Simon__Greaves]

@CountBinface Is it actually?!? 😂😂

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Yep, the Russian government hasn't needed to hack Farage's devices traditionally. His team have just emailed the docs over..

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 UPDATE: Reform UK says Robert Kenyon did vote for Brexit despite him claiming he didn't in 2019

He wrote: "So anyone who thinks I love Trump, voted Brexit, read the Daily Mail, live in the 1950s, a Tory and 103 is wrong. I’m none of the above"

[Christopher Hope📝 @christopherhope]

Interesting public spat at the top of Reform UK over immigration. Most grown up political parties handle this sort of thing behind closed doors.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Just to add to the chaos I'm now being told by multiple sources from different parties that canvass returns for Makerfield show Restore significantly outperforming the 7% revealed in the Times poll. I suspect that's what's underpinning the current Reform meltdown.

[Simon Greaves @Simon__Greaves]

It’s all going well isn’t it gents..

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

Robert’s answer is not Reform policy.

As the person responsible for our deportation plan I want ensure people know where we stand:

If a foreign national lives in social housing at taxpayer expense, they automatically fail our economic test and will be deported.