Barry MacDonald

investment banking and general bampottery

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

In real terms, chief exec salaries are up 26% since 2008 and the rest of us are earning 2% less. It's not immigrants who are holding you back.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

@SuellaBraverman It was always unlawful, under the Highways Act 1980. But I don't suppose you'd know that, being a lawyer, MP and former Attorney General.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Coutts were right all along.

Farage was a huge reputational risk to the bank.

Up to his eyeballs in shady cash.

[Craig. @bambibristol]

Not quite an undeclared £5m gift from a crypto billionaire is it?

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Outrageous. The ones who put American lives – and the lives of countless others – at risk were Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Don’t blame the UK for your catastrophic blunder.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

If you can’t tax billionaires and trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity.

If it’s not real enough to tax, it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage.

This is why we say the system is rigged in favor of the super wealthy. Abolish billionaires, tax them out of existence, protect working people.

[Ginge @FiercePussyxx]

Turns out Hannah Spencer's blouse definitely isn't Gucci and didn't cost £2,000

Farage, on the other hand, definitely received 5 million and didn't declare it

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

@MrHarryCole With all due fondness, Harry, Vance can go fuck himself.
(Also: that is not how a civilisation dies.)

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

There's a new initiative in Makerfield to put signs up pointing at places where idiots live.

[John & Margaret @ukboomers]

Just blocked the AI datacentre that would've drained England's rivers dry. What a milestone. Off to a Las Vegas golf course tomorrow to celebrate. A miracle in the desert, green as Surrey. Worth a visit. 🇬🇧

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Gary Stevenson, This was the country that introduced the proportional income, the, the progressive income tax"

"Didn't exist. We did it here in this country, and look at what we did. Look at what we achieved"

"Listen, my grandmother was born here in this city in the 1920s, in the richest city, in the richest country in the history of the world, and three of her siblings died of tuberculosis"

"That is what happens when you don't deal with your inequality"

"Surrounded by desperate poverty. And in the course of her lifetime, just one lifetime, we moved from that kind of country where ordinary hardworking people see their kids die of poverty"

"To the world that my dad grew up in, where he worked for the post office for thirty-five years, bought a house, had a pension, had a retirement, had three kids, financial security, good quality education, good quality healthcare, good quality housing"

"We did that in the course of one woman's lifetime with no historical precedent of it ever happening before"

"So don't tell me it's impossible"

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

@blaiklockBP @TanDhesi I'm sure your ancestral village would be delighted to see you, Catherine – can only imagine how much they've been missing their idiot.

[John Roucker @Johnisnotjoker]

Has @Nigel_Farage personally sued Ben Habib yet?

Has @Nigel_Farage reported his "hacked" phone to the proper authorities yet?

Has @Nigel_Farage answered how his girlfriend afforded that house in Clacton yet?

Has @Nigel_Farage settled on a lie for that £5 million yet?

[Trevor McArdle @McardleTrevor]

Inflation “unexpectedly” fell by 0.5% to 2.8%

Growth was an “unexpected” 0.7% - the highest in the G7

Net immigration “unexpectedly” fell by 82%

NHS “unexpectedly” met it’s interim 18 week target

Our media have so deceived the public that all positive news is now “unexpected”

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

@RobertJenrick I’d never say Psalm Sunday.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Out of curiosity, why is there so much pressure on Starmer to resign

But no pressure on Nigel Farage who took a £5,000,000 gift from a foreign billionaire and coincidentally started calling for the very thing the foreign billionaire wants for the UK, crypto deregulation?

[Withnail Jones @withnailjones]

I’m hearing that Andy Burnham has purchased a meal deal at WH Smith in Euston station. Beth, Sam and Sophy are en route to ask the checkout assistant what flavour crisps he chose.

Meanwhile Nigel Farage trousered a £5m bung and didn’t declare it.

Back to the crisps story.

[DaddyNeedsCoffee 🇺🇦 🚴‍♂️ 🎨 🇪🇺 @DaddyCoffee73]

Labour didn’t lose council seats because of @Keir_Starmer’s leadership…
They lost seats because there’s a pernicious fascist cancer infecting public discourse and giving simplistic solutions to people that would never normally vote in local elections