Cathy 🌻😎

Lefty leaning walker & cyclist. Still furious about Brexit. Generally not short of opinions! X-ited to @triagain2.bsky.social

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

U.S. world-famous author Stephen King:

“Trump is a tumor in America’s veins. A tyrant who does not hesitate to set a country on fire for his narcissistic ego. No horror story I’ve written could be as terrifying as this man.”

[Sam @SamCKx]

A full timeline of Nigel Farage’s grift and corruption

1. 2001–2014: Rent-free office scandal
Farage used office space rent-free, failed to declare the benefit properly, and was fined by the Electoral Commission.

2. 2015–2016:
Whilst serving as an MEP, Farage’s EFDD group spent around €1.8 million of EU taxpayer funds improperly on his “Say No to EU” Brexit campaign activity, including paying for rallies in the UK, venue hire, banners etc

3. 2016–2019: Farage’s Brexit movement was heavily funded by Arron Banks. Questions over the source of funding were referred by the Electoral Commission to the National Crime Agency.

4. 2017–2018:
The European Parliament docked Farage’s MEP salary to recover around €40,000 after concluding parliamentary funds had been improperly claimed for staff costs.

5. 2018:
A European political party closely linked to UKIP and Farage’s parliamentary group was ordered to repay €1.1 million after investigators found EU grants had been improperly used for national political campaigning, including campaigns in the UK directly supporting UKIP.

6. 2019:
Channel 4 News and The Guardian reported that Banks gave Farage benefits worth around £450,000, including accommodation, transport and overseas travel.

7. 2019:
The Electoral Commission warned the Brexit Party’s online donation system was at “high and ongoing risk” of accepting impermissible donations and required stronger controls.

8. 2019:
Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne donated around £6.4 million to the Brexit Party, beginning a financial relationship that continues today.

9. 2021 onwards:
Farage earns £400,000 a year from GB News whilst serving as the leader of a UK political party.

10. 2023:
Farage received around £1.5 million for appearing on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here.

11. 2023:
Reform UK received £200,000 from First Corporate Consultants Ltd, linked to businessman Terence Mordaunt who lobbies against Climate Change policy and campaigned for Brexit.

12. 2024:
The Good Law Project alleged Farage failed to declare assistance from a US public relations firm during a US trip funded by Christopher Harborne.

13. 2024–2026:
Farage received a £5 million gift from Christopher Harborne around 1 month before entering Parliament. In 2026, Parliament’s standards watchdog opened an investigation into whether it should have been declared.

14. 2024–2026:
Since becoming MP for Clacton, Farage has declared more than £2 million in outside earnings from media, speaking engagements, commercial partnerships, including activity closely linked to lobbying for policies that benefit his private funders.

15. 2025:
A complaint alleged undeclared election spending during Farage’s 2024 campaign. Essex Police took no action because the statutory time limit had expired.

16. 2025–2026:
Farage failed to declare 17 separate payments, worth around £380,000, within the required parliamentary deadlines. The Standards Commissioner found the breaches were inadvertent.

17. 2026:
Farage declared £270,000 from Direct Bullion for promotional work while sitting in Parliament, equivalent to around £22,500 per hour.

18. 2026:
The Sunday Times alleged convicted former aide George Cottrell provided undeclared support including security, accommodation, staffing and media assistance.

A true public servant and man of the people.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Reform UK is the party of ordinary working people. The sort of ordinary working people who get £5 million gifts from billionaires and earn £22,500 an hour for promoting gold bullion.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Immigration is not the reason that you can’t get a hospital appointment, it’s the reason you can get one.

Please retweet for all the people who can’t seem to grasp that.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

THE REASON WE IN EUROPE DON'T HAVE AIR CONDITIONING IS THAT WE'VE NEVER NEEDED IT BEFORE ! THE REASON WE NEED IT NOW IS THAT IDIOTS LIKE YOUR BOSS KEEP ON IGNORING SCIENCE AND TELLING PEOPLE TO "DRILL, BABY, DRILL" !

@RepLisaMcClain

[Nick Cohen @NickCohen4]

For years these clowns have screamed that Labour hates left-behind Britain. So Labour chooses a leader from left-behind Britain, and at once, and without a blush of shame, they scream that Burnham hates the south. Honestly, a distracted toddler could produce better journalism

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.

No President in History has ended the same war so many times.

Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.

No President has ever done this before.

And he is nowhere near finished ending it.

It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[Raptor Persecution UK @RaptorPersUK]

Another young satellite-tagged Golden Eagle from south Scotland translocation project found injured with 17 shotgun pellets embedded in wings & body.

Police Scotland press release + commentary from me ⬇️

https://t.co/IkEK14AQUv

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Ed Davey calls to rejoin the EU Single Market to grow our economy

And explains why Free Movement of People benefits Britons

Starmer could have done the same, instead he adopted his island of strangers nonsense along with his growth-stunting red lines

Well done @EdwardJDavey for explaining this clearly 👏 #RejoinEU

[Cathy 🌻😎 @TriAgain2]

Remember those memory tests you used to play at parties when you were a kid? This is the best one ever! Everyone in the aisle joined in to find stuff 😂
@sainsburys

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Thanks to all NHS workers from across the globe who keep the NHS going!

[Arj Singh @singharj]

🍺EXC: Voters would rather have a pint with Andy Burnham than Nigel Farage, new poll shows

Labour lead Reform with PM Burnham, who beats Farage on all personal head to heads

https://t.co/6rXLqA1kDq

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Another financial investigation in to Farage

Farage used around €1.8m in EU funds to bankroll his Brexit campaign, FT investigation reveals – and Transparency International is calling for an inquiry
https://t.co/FzL4OhM6yw

[Jon Burke 🌍 @jonburkeUK]

I would add, isn't it funny that London's various news outlets have spent half a decade telling you how unpopular LTNs are, only for the voters to consistently back them at the ballot box...🤔

Nice to see reality remains undefeated.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

In 2015, Royal Mail was privatised. In 2017, it missed delivery targets and has never met them since. Yet again we see 'the superior efficiency of the private sector' in action.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Fact check.

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Seeing some of the embarrassingly hateful reactions to Starmer's resignation today, I thought it was worth resharing this.

The level of personal hostility directed at Keir Starmer deserves scrutiny in its own right. Not because he should be immune from criticism, but because the tone and intensity of the attacks tell us something unhealthy about the state of democratic politics.

Starmer is a conventional political figure. Cautious, legalistic, incremental. He frustrates people precisely because he is managerial rather than messianic. Yet the reaction to him often goes far beyond disagreement, tipping into visceral hatred more commonly reserved for authoritarians or demagogues.

Much of this hostility is disconnected from concrete policy. It is not about specific votes, proposals or outcomes, but about projection. A belief that Starmer embodies betrayal, bad faith or hidden malice. That kind of politics runs on suspicion rather than evidence.

This matters because democracy depends on the assumption of good faith among opponents. You can think a leader is wrong, timid, or misguided without believing they are fundamentally illegitimate. Once politics becomes moralised to the point of demonisation, compromise is reframed as treachery and pluralism as weakness.

The pattern is familiar. In fragmented, polarised systems, anger concentrates not on extremists, whose intentions are clear, but on moderates, who disappoint maximalists on all sides. The centre becomes the lightning rod precisely because it resists totalising narratives.

There is also a media and online dynamic at work. Incentives reward outrage, not proportionality. Algorithms favour contempt over analysis. Over time, this creates a political culture in which relentless personal attack feels normal, even virtuous, rather than disgusting.

None of this is a defence of Starmer’s decisions, instincts or record. Those should be argued over robustly as you do in a democracy. The problem is the substitution of critique with hostility and the quiet erosion of democratic norms that follows when political opponents are treated as enemies rather than rivals.

A democracy cannot function if every election is framed as an existential struggle against internal evil. At some point, the target may change, but the damage to trust, restraint and culture remains.

[Adam Boulton @adamboultonTABB]

Burnham was an MP for 15 years and held 3 Cabinet posts in government as well as 3 terms as Greater Manchester’s Mayor. A rather more extensive political apprenticeship than Sir Keir.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

It's going to be forty fucking three degrees in my town in the fucking 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 of France on Tuesday ! and if you don't believe we've fucked up the climate, you're a fucking idiot !

Excuse my French 🤡

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"