Pathetic little man. Helps fuel race riots to take the heat off the limited media probing into his crypto financing. Avoids anything but tame interviews which allow him to spout his slogans. Takes sides with a fascist South African tech bro also whipping up racial hatred against the elected PM of UK, the country he claims to love and wants to lead. Demands apologies for word slips on the BBC (which made him). Yet to apologise for the Brexit which has made British people financially worse off (not him though)
The press are all over Nicola Sturgeon, who was investigated and released without charge. So glad all I did was take £5 million to become an MP, £1m to throw an election, make a couple of dodgy house purchases and lie about Russia hacking my phone.
@JeremyVineOn5 Farage as PM would be a nightmare. Trump UK. Just look at the mess across the Atlantic! As it is he is never there for votes in parliament or in his constituency (much the same work ethic as when he was in the European parliament) and he wouldn't know the truth if it bit him!
I deeply resent the implication that I would fiddle my finances. Just because I had to repay €173,000 after being caught funnelling EU funds into my general election campaign, then had my salary docked to recoup €40,000 in misspent EU funds, doesn't mean I'm dishonest.
‘English women just walk around with their fat bellies and odd shapes pushing a pram at 16’
So says @RobKenyonReform
English law defines a woman as a female who has reached the age of 18.
It defines a 16 year old as a girl.
Anything you want to tell us Rob? 🤷♀️
Whatever world Tony Blair inhabits appears to be one without climate change & where UK temperature record for May hasn’t just been smashed by over 2C. How else to explain his extraordinary dismissal of net zero & erroneous claim that fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables? 🙄
Election wins May 7th / 8th were his last public media appearances.
Since then
- video interview with Harry Cole
- popped in for Kings Speech
- video making in Makerfield
Otherwise missing
- event cancelled in Sunderland
- events cancelled in Makerfield
No public comment on
- David Bull sackng
- ongoing issues of the £5million
- ongoing issues of house purchase for £1.4million
- ongoing threat to sue Habib
- the public disagreements in his Party on immigration
- the abysmal vetting of the Makerfield candidate and very public disclosure of accounts
- the 'overtime policy'
- the issues with Lowe
Only comments very limited on social media or not at all
Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks...
HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless.
Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it
So where's the wall-to-wall coverage?
Tell me this isn't a rigged game.
A rabbit’s tea party by Beatrix Potter, circa 1893.
Before becoming famous with her books, Beatrix designed #illustrations for cards, such as this one.
#FolkloreSunday#FairyTaleTuesday
We sent a right of reply to David Barker, Reform's top polling councillor in Sunderland, last night.
Companies House lists him as director under two different names at the same address on the same company incorporated on the same day.
We're waiting for his response. Deadline 6pm today.
https://t.co/IwQSsXVKsZ
Reform Latest
2 councillors died before election
Several now suspended for various bits of bigotry
At least 1 doesn’t exist
Others want to stand down cos they didn’t know it’s unpaid
1 thought he would be in Parliament
They don’t need a Whip, they need a Missing Persons Officer
Our party has suffered a historic defeat.
Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more.
What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance.
The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people.
We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it.
Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits.
Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them.
Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that.
In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.
We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people.
The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.
Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government.
For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics.
But we have the chance to fix this.
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@nazirafzal@Gypsypup13 Let’s be honest - the media has had a huge part to play in this. When BBC literally has one reporter who does nothing else than stand at the shore in Dover watching for migrant boats, Daily Mail lying on a daily basis about welfare, etc., it’s hardly surprising they are misled.
The Tax Avoiding Rich Leaders of Reform have convinced the poorest people in Britain that it’s other poor people -the young, the sick, the disabled, those on welfare & migrants -who are responsible for why they’re not as Rich as the Tax Avoiding Leaders of Reform
#LocalElection
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Days and weeks of intense debate, scrutiny and condemnation - much of it justified - of Starmer accepting £18,485 worth of clothes and spectacles.
The value was 1/271th of Farage's £5,000,000 from a Thai-based crypto tycoon yet the Reform UK wannabe PM's largely received a free pass.
That's wrong.