Master Chief

be reyt. All views my own. #WAWAW

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Pls spread word. Three digits can help protect you from scams: 159. If you're suspicious of a 'call from your bank', politely hang up and dial 159. It connects you to a switchboard that puts you through to your bank's real number. Watch the video for why its extra protection

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

A reminder that the Brexit party, which later became Reform UK, didn’t stand candidates in the 2019 General Election, so Boris Johnson could win. Farage was leader of the party at the time and made the decision.

So when Reform spokespeople are touring television studios today to shout about cowardice and democracy, remind them of this.

[Aydin Paladin🍸👑🇺🇸🇬🇬✝️📊 @AydinPaladin]

Farage got 46% in Clacton in 2024. He is only opposed now by Count Binface, meaning anyone who dislikes Farage or votes for any other party is represented by Binface. Given that Binface is a joke candidate - much as Trump was perceived of before the GOP primaries in 2016 - and that they just voted for him 2 years ago, it's possible that voting burnout and perceptions of him running unopposed may stymie Reform voter participation. Meanwhile, everyone else - the other 54% - are motivated to vote only for Binface. I don't think he will win, but it is within the realm of plausibility, and that really is the funniest possible outcome. Therefore, I support Count Binface fully. This is the grandest demonstration of the nonseriousness of democratic politics in recent memory, particularly considering this is only happening as a bolster to Farage's ego. This backfiring on Farage so badly that he loses his seat to Count Binface is the funniest thing imaginable, and therefore, the best.
I also agree with him that the 99 Flake should never be more than 99p. That's just smart policy.

[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.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

If you have a spare 3 mins and 45 secs today, watch this fantastic grilling by Sally Nugent on BBC Breakfast.

The very first time I've seen Farage questioned properly about his £5M bung, and it's fair to say, he totally fluffed it.

There are points when you can see Farage tremble and even accuse the BBC of putting him in danger. 🤦‍♂️

It was for security. It was for cars. Nobody cares. It's no one's business. He won't tell us. DANGER!

At one point, he let slip that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards may 'disagree' with him on the rules around donations.

He knows he's going to be found guilty on this one. He's in trouble, and his face gave it away gloriously.

Top hats off to Sally Nugent. Stellar work. 👏

[The Receipts UK ♿ @david_hollas]

Sally Nugent just did something almost nobody in British broadcast media has managed. She actually pressed Farage on the £5m from Christopher Harborne, and didn't let him wriggle off it.

His answers shifted as they went. It was for security. Then it was for cars. Then it was nobody's business. Then he questioned why it mattered at all. When Nugent kept pushing on how much he'd actually spent, he accused the BBC of putting him in danger by asking.

At one point he tried turning it back on her, asking what she does with her own salary. She didn't blink. "My salary is on the public record." His isn't, not the £5m anyway.

Then the line that mattered. He let slip that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards "may disagree" with him on the donation rules. That's not a denial. That's a man who knows which way this is going.

Farage has prior form here. The Commissioner already found he breached the rules once, failing to register 17 payments worth around £384,000 within the required 28 days. No action was taken that time, it was called an error. A second breach, on a £5m personal gift, is a different category of problem.

Three minutes and forty five seconds of someone actually doing the job. Worth the watch.

[Master Chief @craggleman]

@FBAwayDays Reminds me of itv showing "War of the monster trucks" after we won the league Cup in 91.

[Master Chief @craggleman]

@fc_mossman Who are sheffield??? Last time i checked there was Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United and Sheffield FC playing in the city.

[Master Chief @craggleman]

Oh, bless….

[The Lower Tiers @LowerTiers]

Most losses in a Playoff final ❌

How we feeling #BWFC & #StockportCounty fans? 😬

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

New Reform councillors off to a great start by refusing to vote on anything because they haven't a clue what anything means, how anything works or what the fuck they are doing. Vote Reform, get lazy, incompetent, ignorant morons.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

James O’Brien just went nuclear: “Farage is a massive coward.”

Says he’s banged on about free speech for 12 years but won’t come on LBC, even tried pre-approved questions then still bottled it.

Hear it for yourself 👇Cc: @politixintheuk
@Nigel_Farage

[. @jdpoc]

Posted elsewhere, posted here for info.

The map of Reform Councils in the UK. So much for 'WE'VE TAKEN OVER THE NATION !!!"

[The Left Bible @theleftbible]

Nigel Farage wants this story to go away.

So keep RT’ing this 👇👀

[Master Chief @craggleman]

@MattF1867 Small club syndrome strikes again. They can’t get us out of there head.

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

Happy Bank Holiday! Here's a tongue-in-cheek parody song about @Nigel_Farage accepting a massive gift from a cryptocurrency billionaire and then hiding from a BBC interview - to the iconic tune of the legendary @The_Proclaimers. We're calling it: "Five Million Quid" 💰🤑💰🤑💰🎶

[Jamie Kay @TheRealJamieKay]

Brexit Reality.

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

The Nigel Farage Guide to Being a Working-Class Hero

Step 1: Be born to a City stockbroker.

Step 2: Attend Dulwich College, fees currently £53,000 a year.

Step 3: Skip university. Become a City commodities trader instead.

Step 4: Run one of your metal broking firms into insolvency.

Step 5: Get elected to the European Parliament. Spend the next 21 years drawing a salary from the institution you're paid to dismantle.

Step 6: Claim £15,500 a year in expenses for an office your party was given rent-free.

Step 7: Put your wife on the EU parliamentary payroll. Take her off only when the rules force you to.

Step 8: Get investigated by the EU's anti-fraud office. Eventually have half your MEP salary docked to repay misused public funds.

Step 9: Throw a Brexit victory party at the Ritz. Decry the "professional political class" to a room of millionaires.

Step 10: Take £450,000 in personal gifts from Arron Banks. House. Car. Lifestyle.

Step 11: Take £5 million, undisclosed, from a Bangkok-based crypto billionaire. Days later, announce you're standing for parliament after all.

Step 12: Win Clacton. Take the £93,904 MP salary. Add £1.2 million a year from GB News at £2,300 an hour. Become the highest-earning MP in the House of Commons.

Step 13: Speak in parliament fewer times than any other party leader. Fly to America at least nine times in your first year. Refuse to hold in-person constituency surgeries. Holiday in France while parliament is sitting.

Step 14: Tell the working class you're one of them. Tell them to vote against their own interests, over and over again.

Pint, mate?

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. They are coming for your pockets and they’re coming for your human rights. They don’t give a shit about you. They’ve been proven over and over again they think you’re stupid. That is the only thing I am starting to agree with them on.

Vote Reform for a terrible life. Vote Reform to lose your human rights and your workers’ rights. Vote Reform to get poorer.
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[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Richard Tice. Tax dodger.
Nadhim Zahawi. Tax dodger.
Nigel Farage. Tax dodger.
Robert Jenrick. Claimed dodgy expenses for third home. Sacked by Boris Johnson.
Nathan Gill. Currently residing at HM prison.

Yep. Reform UK. A political party for working people.

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

Reform UK’s war on tax dodging and fraud is led by people who are experts at tax dodging and fraud.
Let’s meet the team.

Nigel Farage - Leader. Caught hiding £384,000 in earnings from the parliamentary register. Breached MPs’ code of conduct 17 times.

Richard Tice - Deputy Leader. Avoided £600,000 in corporation tax through offshore structures. His company then allegedly failed to withhold £120,000 in tax legally owed to HMRC. Dodged paying a further £100,000 in corporation tax in 2022. Under investigation. Reform’s own manifesto pledged to “Stop the Offshore Taxpayer Rip Off.”

Nadhim Zahawi - Senior figure. Paid nearly £5 million to HMRC to settle a tax dispute including penalties for “careless” errors. Also claimed £5,822 to heat his stables on parliamentary expenses.

George Cottrell - Farage’s right-hand man. Convicted of wire fraud in the US. Under HMRC investigation for his tax affairs.

The party itself - Forced to return £193,000 in illegal donations. More unlawful donations than every other major party combined. Eleven came from people in Monaco, Jersey and Germany.

“No one pays more tax than they have to.” - said Nigel Farage, defending his deputy.