Dave Toomer

Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, journalist, trades unionist, exiled Geordie and economic migrant. Retweets are not necessarily endorsements.

[Dave Toomer @Dave_Toomer]

@thecarolemalone You must know the folly of hastily sharing posts and you now know the full context of what you've shared. Do the decent thing - delete it and apologise.

[Dave Toomer @Dave_Toomer]

@VicGrundy @lee_ryder To be fair to Lee, I don't think he calls it a "bombshell" in the story and I doubt whether he has much to do with the headline or how it is promoted on social media. This nonsense is down to Reach Plc's business model - to get as many clicks as possible to sell to advertisers.

[Des Freedman @lazebnic]

Never forget the fantastic journalism of Robert Fisk. The Iranians killed by American bombers that are refuelled at UK airbases are not just 'collateral damage'...Fisk wrote about this so powerfully back in 2003 when Blair and Bush were 'liberating' Iraqis at the barrel of a gun

[Tez @tezilyas]

Reform were robbed 😤

[Dave Toomer @Dave_Toomer]

@LozzaFox I thought you lot were all Christians now. Don't you say grace before meals?

[Dave Toomer @Dave_Toomer]

@SetSpeed @angelazhay @owenjonesjourno The toxic rhetoric, lies and blatant racism around hotels accommodating asylum seekers in Hale and Altrincham, and the Tories contribution to this rhetoric, has been a major factor in this result I suspect.

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

The Clacton House Chronology
Farage can’t get his story straight.

It’s now “We” is it @Nigel_Farage?

Nigel Farage has now said he “paid a lot of money to make sure we have done everything right".

Why has *he* paid a lot of money to make sure *we* have done everything right.

Let’s trace this back…

8th November 2024: he angrily responded to Sky News questioning about why he doesn’t live in Clacton stating *he* “just exchanged contracts on the house. I've bought a house in Clacton… what more can I do?”: https://t.co/lxOcSdj0a1

5th September 2025: he states that *he* didn’t buy it, that his girlfriend Laure Ferrari had:
https://t.co/fWWnJ5neMr

Farage states: “She comes from a very successful French family and she can afford it herself. It’s convenient, it works, and she loves it there.”

11th September 2025: BBC research shows her parents don’t have the means to have given her the money: https://t.co/5kaq8Dtaqx

12th September 2025: Nigel Farage says he “paid a lot of money to make sure we have done everything right": https://t.co/vd2pvURM1F

He already has a property worth about £1m in the village of Downe in Kent, as well as two houses in Lydd-on Sea in the same county, which are owned through his company, Thorn in the Side. He also has property in Tandridge in Surrey.

As Farage already owns other properties, the purchase of another residential property in his name would have resulted in a higher rate of stamp duty being charged.

The duty would have been 10% rather than the 5% rate.

There's also the fact Nigel's done tax avoidance schemes before:
https://t.co/0dqTpqqxF8

And this one revealed last week:
https://t.co/9gFpTkvRru

Nigel Farage needs to get his story straight, because it’s quite obvious he’s lied multiple times already.

#FishyFarage #FarageTax #FarageOut

[Des Freedman @lazebnic]

For a so-called “business genius”, Rupert Murdoch has paid out more than £1bn to phone hacking victims, $800m to Dominion Voting & now $3.3bn to remove his pesky kids from the company. All just collateral damage for capitalism’s greatest advocate https://t.co/mD7E13kEY7

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

I’ve successfully prosecuted 1000s of rapists
There are 35m+ “unvetted” men in UK
This is a sexist/misogynistic culture
1/4 of women are raped/abused
Millions of UK men rape/abuse women & girls

If you’re ONLY talking about the minority that are black/brown, then you’re a racist

[The Meteor 🍉 @mcrmeteor]

Protesters and counter-protesters gather outside a hotel housing refugees in Fallowfield. The fash are outnumbered roughly 2 to 1 in both numbers and volume #RefugeesAreWelcomeHere

[Dave Toomer @Dave_Toomer]

@Plettigoal @SkySports_Keith This is very odd. The stuff I've been reading today says the final decision will be left with the player.

[Dave Toomer @Dave_Toomer]

@AllisonPearson Are you really a member of the Socialist Workers Party who has infiltrated the Daily Telegraph to discredit it?

[Dave Toomer @Dave_Toomer]

@AllisonPearson Have I somehow stumbled across a parody account?

[Jade @JadeEckhaus]

Violent fascists in Edinburgh just attacked a woman. Protectors of women? Nazi scum off our streets.

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Reform UK’s @darrengrimes got sent a bit of a wake up call by Stanley Town Council this evening.

The public there complained about his social media comments and Councillors pointed out that he never attends their meetings.

He of course wasn’t there…

Maybe it’s time for him to stop talking, and start thinking (and doing his role as a councillor).

[Dave Toomer @Dave_Toomer]

@reformexposed @taylortravelltd They're all far right

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Media workers from UK and Ireland at the NUJ Meeting in Blackpool call on Israel to stop killing our Palestinian colleagues. More than 200 have been killed in Gaza in 18 months, many directly targeted Pix courtesy @garyrobertsphotographer and @kath_grant

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

We revealed Nigel Farage’s voting record to his constituents in Clacton.

They weren’t happy.

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Not a single @reformparty_uk MP has commented on the evil Glasgow paedophile gang.

[Dave Toomer @Dave_Toomer]

@reformexposed I'm guessing they didn't say much about this either