Martin Murphy

[Sam Sheffer @samsheffer]

bro this angle is EVERYTHING

[The Rt Hon Lady Matildamog @Jc62Matildamog]

Head of failing Royal Mail sees his pay rise from 2.1 million to 6.9 million. That’ll go unnoticed by most, but when train drivers get a pay rise people are up in arms. What a pathetic country this is.

[Anne Lindsay @AnneLindsay7]

Please shut up about VAT on private school fees. The VAT on £10,000 is £2,000, on £20,000 it is £4,000. You all spend more than that on a holiday. And please no "I lived in a cardboard box to pay school fees", you all sound pathetic. Pay up and shut up.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The biggest benefit recipients in the UK are Amazon, Apple, Google, BP, Tesco, The Royal Family.

They receive 3x as much as ALL Disability Benefits.

I don't know why we tolerate these billionaire scroungers.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

THIS is the moment on #BBCQT tonight!
Gentleman in white ERUPTS:

“It’s pathetic what’s going on with Farage… people should not even contemplate having Farage in charge of the country!”

Pure fire. Zero filter. The anger is palpable.

Fiona Bruce tried to push back with “plenty in the audience support him” but this man just said what millions of us are thinking.
#QuestionTime #Farage #BBCQT

[Ashley Cowburn @ashcowburn]

Bridget Phillipson on Radio 4: "Next time you see me Nick, I'll be wearing a t-shirt saying spiteful class warrior because if being a spiteful class warrior means lifting half a million children out of poverty, then I'll be wearing that t-shirt with pride."

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

I'm seeing a pattern. HSBC was protected by every regulator & establishment body when I exposed massive fraud. Farage is being protected. If action isn't taken soon, I'll take it.

[Sam @SamCKx]

The more I dig, the more I realise that Nigel Farage is literally done for. It's over for him. The £5 million bung is big enough to take the entire Reform movement down and possibly land Nigel in jail.

1) The fact the donation was made BEFORE Nigel was MP is absolutely irrelevant. Parliamentary Code of Conduct requires all receipts for the full 12 months before election. Nigel receiving his bung just a few days before he announced his candidacy makes it so much worse, not better.

2) "Category 5: Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK - THRESHOLD FOR REGISTRATION Section 39. Members must register, subject to the paragraphs below, any gifts or benefits with a value of over £300 which they receive from a source outside the UK."

Nigel argues this was 'purely personal' but the Code refers to partners or families when it comes to personal gifts... this takes us to the next issue...

3) Christopher Harborne has a long track record of making SUBSTANTIAL political contributions to Nigel's parties, first to The Brexit Party, and later to Reform. He is a POLITICAL DONOR - any "gift" he made to Farage CANNOT be argued as personal or without political context due to this track record.

4) Using his platform as an MP, Nigel went on to promote 2 companies in which Christopher Harborne holds $ billions in stock - Nigel NEVER publicly endorsed or mentioned these companies prior to the "gift". Nigel also began actively pushing for policy that would directly interest Christopher Harborne and his business affairs. These were not interests that any could argue could possibly be of interest to his constituents - deregulation of crypto, and lowering of taxes on crypto gains. Nigel spent a substantial amount of time and effort pushing these policies.

It is beyond a doubt that this is the biggest breach of Parliamentary Code of Conduct rules in relation to donations in parliamentary history.

But even more concerning for Nigel will be that if it can be proven he was secretly incentivised to use his public office to push for policies to support a wealthy donor, then he should very likely face a criminal probe for corruption and bribery. I suspect Harborne might also be exposed to this. The United Kingdom and Thailand have a bilateral extradition treaty. Maximum prison sentences of up to 10 years for the offence.

This is not going to go away.

[Thomas King @TomK_Brit1993]

Some of you dislike Keir Starmer so much that you have convinced yourselves he has achieved absolutely nothing as Prime Minister. It is a pathetic and lazy cope, frankly.

NHS waiting lists have come down from their post election peak.

Net migration has fallen from its previous highs.

Immigration enforcement and returns have increased.

Planning reform has been pushed to speed up housebuilding.

Investment has been secured in clean energy, ports and battery projects.

Workers’ rights have been strengthened.

Skills, apprenticeships and technical education have been given more focus.

You do not have to like him. I do not. But some of you really do need to stop pretending he has achieved nothing, because the facts make perfectly clear that it simply is not true.

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

If @HoCStandards don't reach a decision on Farage soon I might crowdfund for a private criminal prosecution of Farage.

[Anna Turley MP @annaturley]

Note to all the pearl-clutching Tories out in force today…

You don’t HAVE to send your kids to private school. We have universal education provision in this country.

If you *choose* to do so, the rest of us shouldn’t pay for you to have a tax break for the privilege.

[Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP]

Kemi lost her head at PMQs - and afterwards too.

It's not the first time. She's compared me to a Gestapo officer.

I wonder what it is about a working class woman driving record investment in state schools by ending private schools' tax breaks that the Tories hate so much.

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

I'm not sure why Farage is being protected by @ElectoralCommUK but they will have to investigate the £5m sooner or later.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Tulip Siddiq made a point of order in the House of Commons after Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch attacked Bridget Phillipson, again,

"Kemi Badenoch called the Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson a spiteful class warrior"

"And previously she's compared Bridget Phillipson to a gestapo officer"

"Madame Deputy Speaker, I started out working in parliament as a teenager, and for 25 years of being involved in politics I have never seen the atmosphere here in parliament and outside quite so hostile and intimidatory, especially towards female elected representatives"

"Madame Deputy Speaker, words matters and inflammatory language contribute to this hostility towards politicians, especially women"

"Could I ask your advice whether the language that was used by the leader of the opposition today, towards the Secretary of State for Education, who is a woman who grew up in poverty, on a council estate, raised by a single mother, on free school meals, and worked her way up to Cabinet, is appropriate language to be used in the chamber"

"Not only does this language contribute to hostility, it also puts off women, from coming into this very important profession"

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BenInRushcliffe]

Huge huge respect for Keir passionately defending ministers against attacks by Badenoch at PMQs. Despite some treating him like shit. Like I say, we will regret this week happened!!

[Dannyoh @dannyoh337]

If Angela Rayner had to resign over 40k undeclared, there’s no reason Nigel farage should still be an MP with £5M undeclared. Resign now.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

BREAKING: I've secured a parliamentary debate next week on banning all MPs' second jobs.

Farage has pocketed over £1 MILLION from outside "work" since the General Election

Being an MP is a full-time job. No MP should be out chasing lucrative second jobs.

Let's end this racket!

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

I'm confident nobody will share this.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

The chamber erupts in comotion after Ed Davey scolds Kemi Badenoch for her nonchalant attacks on Keir Starmer,

"Can I also recognise how difficult it was for the Prime Minister to make his resignation statement on Monday"

"It's an important reminder that while we debate issues robustly in this house that we are all human"

"And it's something that everyone should remember"

[Martin Cymbal💚 @cymbal_martin]

Precisely............