Fiona Swainston

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.

They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.

Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Last week: @thenerve_news.

This week: the FT View.

We forensically tracked cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne’s donations against Nigel Farage’s crypto policy statements.

Yesterday the FT pulled out this same point in its main editorial & notes the similarity to Trump.
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[Fiona Swainston @FionaS2010]

@RoyalMail Can’t seem to find a way of contacting u,so trying X. RM tried 2 deliver but we were out, but said would automatically try next day (you didn’t), so I thought the day after maybe (no again) and a no for today too. Instead I’ve had to organise it myself. 🤷‍♀️

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

GP practices are patient data protectors

The new Health Bill will remove the GP & move the data controller (protector) role to the Secretary of State for Health

Your sharing data ‘opt-out’ may not be protected in the same way

I have ‘opted out’ but doesn’t stop sharing data

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

You spend millions every year so well paid MP's and Lord's can get subsidised alcohol at work.

There are 27 alcohol serving taxpayer subsidised bars and restaurants in the UK.

ALL of them in Westminster.

It's time to make it 0.

Like/RT if you agree.

[TheBossRoss 🇪🇺 🧶 ❄ 📷 6x💉 @BettinaSRoss1]

So what happens when Reform take over your local council?

This.

#KentCountyCouncil

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.

Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.

And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

[Fiona Swainston @FionaS2010]

@wesstreeting A self-serving move methinks….it doesn’t put you in a good light. At a time when stability is needed, you’re just looking out for yourself. NOT the qualities of a leader.

[Ben Bloch @realBenBloch]

The Guardian has released a statement after Nigel Farage posted a photo of one of their photographers' press passes, implying that a photojournalist threatened his safety:

"The Guardian is concerned by the recent publication on Nigel Farage’s social media pages of the professional credentials of a photographer working on behalf of the Guardian while he was working lawfully in a public space. Holding public figures to account is the role of a free press.

"As part of the Guardian’s journalism covering Nigel Farage’s purchase of a £1.4m property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift, a photographer took pictures from a public path and showed his press card when asked to identify himself."

https://t.co/6iyeYmJAvd

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

So listen.

@thenerve_news has the receipts.

A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.

Please read & share.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Right now, a Trump mega-donor is trying to take control of Thames Water

We can't let him

Email your MP and ask them to sign our open letter rejecting the deal - https://t.co/oZG1FWHNgK

Thames Water should be in special administration, not in the hands of polluting US hedge funds

[Fiona Swainston @FionaS2010]

@CarolineLucas @MarinaPurkiss The majority of the country has seen the damage that Brexit has caused and want to re-join Europe. We are a poorer society and have suffered financially because of it. For any MP to fail to follow the wishes of the majority of people is wrong; it is not what they were elected for

[Fiona Swainston @FionaS2010]

@wesstreeting So you are privatising bits then. Do you think we’re stupid?!

[The Rejoin EU Party @RejoinP]

Lisa Nandy: “I don't think anyone in this country wants to reopen the Brexit debate.”
Let prove her wrong and help this post go viral.
#ExitBrexit

[. @jdpoc]

A reminder that #Farage's undeclared £5,000,000 is his 18th such offence since becoming an MP.

And 8 such offences when he was an MEP.

Anybody else would be in jail by now.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Repost!🙌🏼

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

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

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

HALF A MILLION PEOPLE WERE DEFRAUDED

Imagine you are behind on your store card payments. You are already struggling. Then the bank quietly adds an extra charge on top of what you owe. Not because it costs them that much. Just because .. they can. And because they think nobody is watching.

Someone was watching.

Nicholas Wilson was a debt recovery lawyer. He goes by Mr Ethical @nw_nicholas on X. His old boss meant it as an insult. In 2003 he noticed that @HSBC subsidiary HFC Bank was adding an illegal 16.4% charge onto the debts of people who were already in financial trouble.

Store cards from John Lewis, Currys, B&Q, Dixons, PC World. Ordinary people. Struggling people. Being quietly robbed.

He told his boss it was illegal. His boss started calling him "Mr Ethical" as a joke. Then they sacked him.

He reported it to the regulators. @TheFCA ignored him for years.

When a researcher separately wrote to both HSBC and the FCA asking about the fraud...

... both wrote back with responses in the exact same wording, same punctuation, same paragraphs. The bank and the regulator were sharing the same script.

FCA's own independent Complaints Commissioner eventually investigated. He called it the worst case of regulatory failure he had ever dealt with.

FCA's response was to appoint Ruth Kelly, an HSBC director, and Baroness Hogg from John Lewis, onto its own board. The two people they were supposed to be investigating were now sitting inside the regulator.

You actually cannot make this up.

After 13 years of Wilson refusing to go away, HSBC quietly agreed to pay some money back. FCA announced 6,700 victims.

Wilson says the real number is closer to 500,000. HSBC has now set aside £223 million for repayments. No fine. No criminal charges. No one went to prison. No one was even publicly named.

Wilson has spent the last 20 years unemployable. Blacklisted. Living on state benefits. Fighting to keep his home. Someone even anonymously reported him to the DWP for benefit fraud while the actual billion pound fraud went unpunished.

The bank that robbed half a million people kept its licence.

The man who caught them lost everything.

Source: @guardian | @BBC | @PrivateEyeNews | @SundayMirror | @realmediauk | nicholaswilson com | @nw_nicholas and others.

[Fiona Swainston @FionaS2010]

Gorgeous 💕

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Yes. It's perfectly normal for someone to receive a 'no-strings-attached' donation of 5 million pounds from a powerful crypto billionaire - right before they become an MP, and leader of a political party. Nothing to see here.