Israeli forces have killed over 20,000 children & injured 44,000 more since 7 Oct. 2023, Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the @UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel, told reporters today. #HRC62
More on their new report ➡️ https://t.co/gK2KhtlgFb
On the same day of record heat across Europe, and the UN warns of a climate "catastrophe", Kemi Bay-denoch attends a far-right, climate change denying conference funded by US fossil fuel companies.
This moron must never be Prime Minister.
@KemiBadenoch@Conservatives
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.
@AndyBurnhamGM In your shoes I would spend some of the weekend contemplating on how you can stem the tide of Labour Party resignations from the members ….you know the ones who actually contribute to the Party coffers…..because you are losing a significant number.
@Nigel_Farage Brexit made you £5 million richer ….and that’s just what you’ve actually owned up to…..meanwhile the rest of the country is significantly poorer.
You are a TRAITOR.
Ladies and gentlemen I give you Nigel Farage - the only person in the UK to have benefited from Brexit - er in his case to the tune of £5million. Since 2020 the rest of you are £11,400 worse off than you would have been had we stayed in (based on OBR figs)
Ladies and gentlemen I give you Nigel Farage - the only person in the UK to have benefited from Brexit - er in his case to the tune of £5million. Since 2020 the rest of you are £11,400 worse off than you would have been had we stayed in (based on OBR figs)
@Jugru58156528@bmay The sad thing is I‘ve long been a supporter in the past and voted for him twice when he previously stood to become Leader… but this blatant Machiavellian political skullduggery has infuriated me.
A case of believing your own publicity and consequently thinking you’re untouchable
She has let her Party and herself down today.
Very often MPs disagree with each other. However I have never witnessed such graceless personal abusive attacks as we saw during PMQs from The Leader of The Opposition who is not worthy of her title Right Honourable.
#PMQs#LibDems
Excellent investigative journalism by BBC Panorama, showing Russian involvement not just in arson attacks on Starmer’s house but also in anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim attacks. https://t.co/kGQ3uLDV1Z