Marcus Thomas

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[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

In response to the amusing if bewildering accusation I’m a Labour stooge, please do pass this on to the following comrades:

— Keir Starmer and Waheed Alli, whose gifts of suits and spectacles to the PM was a story I broke

— Jeremy Corbyn, who furiously denounced a book I cowrote as “tittle tattle”

— Matthew Doyle, whose association with a convicted paedophile I exposed

— Tulip Siddiq, whose housing deals I examined and formed part of the inquiry leading to her resignation

— Keir Starmer (again), who said the thesis of a second book I wrote was “bollocks”

— Morgan McSweeney, whose group’s £750,000 of unlawfully undeclared donations I exposed

— Labour Together, which paid a US lobbying firm tens of thousands to investigate my work

— Ann Limb, who had her Labour peerage deferred after I revealed she made up part of her CV

— Joe Docherty, who was suspended as a Labour peer after I revealed his workplace sexting

— Angela Rayner, whose trip to New York alongside her boyfriend I revealed was funded by Waheed Alli

I recall many Reform figures vigorously agreeing about the public interest in those stories. Some have even referred to them in order to highlight the wrongdoing of the left since yesterday.

But also, it isn’t “my” story, it’s the Sunday Times investigation team, Insight’s story. It could not, would not have happened, without the whole paper, especially @ManuMidolo @venetiamenzies @GeorgeGreenwood whose revelations were indispensable and who have not to my knowledge (yet) been accused of being Labour activists.

Moreover the Sunday Times isn’t a Labour paper, or paper which exists to serve anyone or any party other than its readers and, to the best of our abilities, the public interest.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

The contrast between the coverage of the Edinburgh attack and the Golders Green stabbings is extraordinary. It’s impossible to see any explanation other than very crude, simple racism.

[Marcus Thomas @gus_917]

@AaronBastani 3/ some of the blame for this on what we teach in schools. maybe civics needs to be taught. Help us understand the system.
I blame politicians & parties. They are insular & inward looking. Ive been a member of 2 political parties, 1 old established, 1 on the rise. Both the same.

[Marcus Thomas @gus_917]

@AaronBastani 2/ The recent Reform Cllrs 'not being prepared' or resigning highlight this.

People think councils 'do bins, potholes and parks'. That's it. No idea about social care or education.

'I pay my road tax, why are the road so bad'. People dont understand the tax they pay.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

There's a girl from Belfast who, along with her friend, is offering assistance to minority residents who are afraid to leave their homes to go to the shops or work because of the riots.

Bless them.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

The hospitality industry wants their VAT cut to 10%. It will cost £12bn

Who benefits?

❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Nope. 45% get nothing.
❌ Consumers? Nope - prices won't fall.
✅ Nearly half the cash goes straight to large chains. McDonald's gets £400m.

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[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

OK, this is significant. It appears the alleged Belfast attacker was actually fast-tracked through the asylum process by Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick.

I've just found the following letter from Jenrick to the UK statistical authority on 17 April, 2023

It says:

"We are taking urgent action to accelerate decision-making and speed up processing times. We are simplifying and modernising our system, including introducing shorter, more focused interviews; making guidance more accessible; dealing with cases more swiftly where they can be certified as manifestly unfounded; recruiting extra decision makers; and allocating dedicated resources for specific nationalities".

https://t.co/l04sTQMdHF

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

Almost ten years on from Jo’s murder this platform spits death threats at me on a regular basis.

Many of these will be bots and weirdos, but it’s the platform that is facilitating, inciting and enabling this.

The platform owner will not address it - so the Government must.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.

[LBC @LBC]

'No country is going to say: "we want the phones peadophiles can access children on".'

@JessPhillips and Andrew Marr think the government's 'world leading' online safety plan is akin to seatbelts in cars: once it's done, everyone will act like they always supported it.

[Marcus Thomas @gus_917]

While there are plenty of things I disagree with @JeremyClarkson on, I enjoy the farming show. I'm glad he has recovered well from his heart issues, and it does a good job of highlighting the challenges farmers face and how our food is produced.

[Marcus Thomas @gus_917]

@DanNeidle While I disagree with most of what they have proposed, we do need 2 reduce our consumption in a measured way. Our planet has finite resources & cant support infinite growth. A shorter work week could bring benefits: better mental health, more family time & lower commuting costs

[Marcus Thomas @gus_917]

What ever you think about @michaelgove he was entertaining on this. He was a good sport.

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Brand new episode hosted by David Tennant, with @ChloePetts and @michaelgove, tonight at 9pm on BBC One & iPlayer

[LBC @LBC]

“Race is at the forefront of most police officers' minds.”

Caller Brandon, a former Metropolitan Police officer of six years, tells Vanessa Feltz that, in his experience, the force is 'institutionally racist'.

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

There’s a link between the spread of Nigel Farage’s evidence-free rabble-rousing and Michael Grade’s calamitous time at OfCom. https://t.co/xcBIBOfDPJ

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Now Vance has joined in the US/MAGA disinformation campaign around British "two-tier policing", here's the EU DisinfoLab matrix of FIMI activities - I've highlighted every technique encountered from Farage, Robinson and their MAGA backers around the Southampton riot... 1/2

[LBC @LBC]

'You love your guns more than protecting the lives of innocent children.'

@AliMirajUK has a message from the heart for @JDVance, telling him to concentrate on issues in his own country rather than meddling in UK politics.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Hampshire Police, whose officers are 96.4% white, are being accused of anti-white racism.

The latest figures show that Hampshire Police were 5.1 times more likely to stop and search a Black person than a white person. Of the Black people arrested following stop and searches, 60% were released with no further action taken. The average disparity across England and Wales was 3.8 times.

Facts matter. Some people may feel that there are two-tier policing because they did not like seeing people arrested for taking part in riots, but the data does not support that claim.

I also find it incredible that some of the same people who oppose anti-racism training for police officers are now calling for mandatory antisemitism training for NHS staff.

I think anti-racism and antisemitism training courses are both good things.

[Marcus Thomas @gus_917]

Norice the difference

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

We must not allow the tragic murder of a young woman turn into attacks on men and attacks on the police.