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You're a voter in Clacton. Your MP triggered a by-election to delay an investigation into his financial affairs. The other parties refuse to pander to his self-indulgent vanity project. The only opposition he has is a man dressed as a bin, because this is not a serious election.
Squirming Farage knows this is now a scandal that could end his chances of being PM.
Everyone, including his own supporters, knows his failure to declare a secret £5m bung from a Thailand-based crypto tycoon absolutely STINKS.
The real two-tier scandal in the UK is the relentless double standard approach of a media which lets one party leader get away with financial dodgery that would drive them into a frenzy if it involved someone their billionaire owners didn’t want in power because they believed in things like fairness and equality
A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.
His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.
He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.
In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.
The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.
Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.
Some notes on my work ethic:
-I last voted in Parliament on 18 March, so I haven’t done my job for ten weeks.
-I’ve never held any face-to-face constituency surgeries, despite apparently having £5 million to spend on security.
-I refuse to do interviews or face press scrutiny of any sort.
-when I was in the European Parliament I had the 4th worst attendance record out of 748 MEPs.
-although I did manage to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
-I was on the Fisheries Committee but I only turned up to ONE out of 42 meetings.
-but I will of course be taking my £73,000 EU pension.
Vote Reform, get lazy, grifting, self-serving sacks of shit.
Thomas Tuchel presents Frank Lampard with the Sir Alex Ferguson Trophy LMA Manager of the Year. Lampard finished ahead of Keith Andrews, Mikel Arteta, Unai Emery, Pep Guardiola, Andoni Iraola, Michael Skubala and Andy Woodman. Lampard… Tuchel’s successor one day? #LMAawards.
This is a brilliant investigative piece on Farage, the dark millions behind him and the double standards of so much British journalism. Read and retweet! Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power https://t.co/zHuVfDV8dh
It’s gone under the radar but this season was @coventry_city ‘s 100th season in the @EFL . What a way to celebrate! It’s also 90th anniversary of City’s first promotion, from Division 3 South under Harry Storer.
Piers Morgan, "If we discovered last week that Keir Starmer has taken £5,000,000 without declaring it from a crypto billionaire in Thailand, Reform UK would have gone absolutely berserk" @piersmorgan 👏
Robert Jenrick, "We're talking about a gift even before Nigel Farage was a member of parliament"
Fiona Bruce, "But you know you have to declare it in the 12 months before you become an MP"
Why didn’t Farage just declare the £5m personal gift from Harborne which, a few months before becoming an MP in 2024?
The rules state new MPs "must register all their current financial interests, and any registrable benefits (other than earnings) received in the 12 months before their election within one month of their election".
The rules also say "both the possible motive of the giver and the use to which the gift is to be put should be considered", adding "if there is any doubt, the benefit should be registered".
Farage insists it was a purely personal gift and that he didn’t need to declare it
I see Farage has been referred to the standards watchdog over his £5m grift. It would be a shame if everyone was talking about just before Thursday’s elections.