Julie

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Farage and Reform UK are in deep trouble. However, after 3 days, @Verbatim_Media's 37 minute video of their extraordinary year-long undercover investigation into Reform UK's illegal foreign donations has only got 161k views. It should have several million.

So please repost this and then share the video.
https://t.co/aUHQimmSm6

[Bexxy @Bexxy__19]

UPDATE ON GERALD AND THE CROW SITUATION:

Things have escalated.

I repeat.

THINGS HAVE FUCKING ESCALATED.

For those of you just joining us, yesterday I accidentally entered into diplomatic relations with a gang of crows after Gerald stole my good spoon.

Well.

This morning I walked outside and Gerald was waiting for me.

Alone.

Standing directly in the middle of my driveway.

No screaming.

No hopping around.

Just staring at me like a tiny feathered loan shark who had come to collect.

I said, “Morning, Gerald.”

He tilted his head.

I gave him a walnut.

He did not eat it.

Instead, this motherfucker picked it up, walked three steps to the left, PUT IT DOWN, and stared at me again.

Message received.

The offering was insufficient.

So I went back inside and got more walnuts.

When I returned…

THERE WERE NINE CROWS.

Nine.

Yesterday there were seven.

Gerald is fucking recruiting.

And they were arranged in a SEMICIRCLE.

This isn’t a bird friendship anymore.

I’m funding organized crime.

I distributed the walnuts because apparently I pay protection money now.

Everything seemed fine until one of the smaller crows tried taking two.

Gerald immediately screamed at him.

The little one dropped the second walnut.

I have accidentally created an economy.

Gerald controls distribution.

There’s a hierarchy.

There are consequences.

I’m pretty sure I witnessed a disciplinary hearing before breakfast.

Then Gerald flew away.

I thought we were done.

WE WERE NOT DONE.

Twenty minutes later I looked outside and there was something sitting where Gerald had been standing.

A bottle cap.

A shiny rock.

And…

MY FUCKING SPOON.

HE RETURNED THE SPOON.

Ladies and gentlemen.

I believe we have successfully negotiated a trade agreement.

Unfortunately, there is now a crow sitting on my mailbox.

So I still cannot get my fucking mail.

I tried approaching.

He puffed up.

I backed away.

That mailbox belongs to the organization now.

At this point I’m just a tenant.

Anyway, Gerald has officially been promoted to General Gerald, Commander of the Driveway, First of His Name, Keeper of the Good Spoon, Lord of the Power Line, Collector of Walnuts, and Regional Manager of Whatever The Fuck Is Happening Here.

I’ll keep everyone updated.

But if I suddenly stop posting…

Gerald found out I told you.

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Nature and the environment, this time.
You can only pick one.
So ... which one?

(Please would you favourite/share this post, even if you don’t reply, or the algorithm will bury it) 🙏

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

I relaunched my online workshops last night after my breakdown but no takers yet. They used to be the majority of my income so it is scary tbh.
I've taught creative & mental health classes on BBC Countryfile, @V_and_A, the Bronte Parsonage & even Highgrove. I've been advised to go on PIP (my autism,ADHD & PMDD together are disabling & my breakdown means my income's a quarter of what it was) but I really don't want to do that.
If you'd like to learn to draw plants & how creative activity alters our brain biochemistry to improve mental health my 29th August class is here👇
A RT would really really help, thankyou🌿: https://t.co/UFgNLxO8ey

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

I think the algorithm’s decreased my reach again bc I didn’t manage as much posting on here over the weekend (due to not so well autistic shutdown brain). To keep up with what it requires to maintain visibility here risks burnout, but I’m already in severe burnout so it’s v tricky. Am trying to focus on the fact that people have loved my previous find the owl & other photos & not lose confidence in what I post on here. Not super easy to do that tho tbh 🌿

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Three national newspapers covered the same story on the same morning: the Mail and Metro, both controlled by Jonathan Harmsworth's DMGT, and the Telegraph, now owned by RedBird IMI, a consortium bankrolled substantially by Abu Dhabi state capital.

Different mastheads, different proprietors, but read side by side, they're instructive.

"Objective" news framing turns out to be a set of deliberate choices, and lined up together, a shared ideological lineage emerges.

The Mail frames a support payment as a "bribe," presupposing that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice rather than a status many are forced into. The Telegraph frames a social care funding measure as a tax "imposed" on "workers," reproducing the Thatcherite tax-as-burden frame over the alternative: tax as how a society funds what it has decided to do together. Metro's version is milder, but its transactional framing ("£4k if you let your children learn a trade") still treats support as a conditional favour rather than a policy with its own rationale.

None of these headlines needs to name "the Left" to do right-wing ideological work; the frames carry that lineage themselves, which is exactly what you'd expect given who owns the presses beneath them.

The Mail is the clearest case. "Bribe" is the load-bearing word, printed in scare quotes, giving the paper deniability ("we're just quoting critics"), but it's the biggest word on the page, doing the interpretive work before the reader reaches a line of copy.

A payment offsetting lost benefits could as easily be called "compensation" or "an incentive"; "bribe" imports corruption and vote-buying into a story about apprenticeship funding.

The personalisation matters too: "Burnham benefits 'bribe'" rather than "Government unveils apprenticeship bursary" fuses the policy to one man, turning it into a referendum on his judgment rather than the policy's merits.

The presupposition is doing quiet work of its own: "if their children choose job over living on welfare" assumes staying on benefits is a choice teenagers make, not a status many end up in for lack of alternatives: it's smuggled in as background rather than asserted as a claim you could contest.

And the "authority" is vague on both sides: unnamed "critics" call the system "mad," unnamed "government sources" insist otherwise. Neither is attributed; the clash of quotes is manufactured balance.

None of it is accidental placement, either: stacking the story against "Hannah's NHS surgeon beau gets a Hollywood makeover" flattens the register, so "the welfare system is mad" lands at the same emotional pitch as gossip, priming the reader for outrage rather than scrutiny.

The Telegraph runs the same ideological framing: emphasise the out-group's cost to "us," minimise the benefit, but on a different target: "Workers face new tax to fund social care" makes taxpayers, not claimants, the aggrieved party.

Note the nominalisation doing the opposite job: "levy," "contributions," and "the fund would pay for" delete the agent until the headline itself reintroduces one, but only in the direction of cost.

Metro is the control case. "£4k if you let your children learn a trade" is milder than "bribe," but "if you let" still frames the payment as conditional permission rather than support, and still centres the £4k over any account of what the reform is meant to fix. Even the least tendentious of the three isn't neutral, it's just softer.

The pattern is three outlets, three explicit targets, one shared method: cover a policy launch through "who loses" rather than through its stated aims or evidence.

That convergence says far more about UK press ownership and agenda-setting than any single outlet could on its own.

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

Irrespective of any leadership bid it is now crystal clear the UK tabloids pursed Angela Rayner irresponsibility and vindictively, forced her from office, danced on her political grave. Surely any fair onlooker will contrast this with their blind backing of Nigel Farage and inability to investigate his £5m gift from a Thai-based backer who appears to have at least two names.

[Luke Charters MP @lukejcr]

So there we have it. Reform UK want to repeal the Equality Act.

This is the law that:

Stops your boss sacking you for being pregnant.

Protects disabled workers who need adjustments to do their job.

Backs up equal pay for women.

Stops people from being harassed at work because they’re LGBT+.

Makes it illegal to refuse someone a job or a service because of their race or religion.

And THIS is what they’ve decided is the problem in Britain?

Not the cost of living.
Not NHS waits.
Not wages. (They said they’d actually them CUT for young people)

But YOUR rights.

THEIR culture wars would TEAR UP protections that millions of hardworking Brits rely on every day.

NO THANKS ❌

[Mister Tedious @MisterTedious]

@PippaCrerar Will Boris be investigated for the 80 million quid MOD contract he gave Harborne after Harborne gave him a million quid?

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Crazy scenes on the streets outside Nigel Farage's £850k house in Clacton-on-Sea as the press fall over each other to ask him about:
Who owns the house, and who paid for it.
His £5m personal gift from a billionaire and other millions in party donations.
His alleged pact with the same billionaire to fix an election that saw him and Johnson trouser £1m.
Okay there's no one there, they're all prancing up and down Downing Street, doing what they are paid to do by other dodgy billionaires.
#Farage #ReformUK

[sue#NHSLove💙💙💙#FBNHS suesuezep.bsky.social @SueSuezep]

If Ben Habib is right that Farage and Boris Johnson took bribes to rig an election, this isn’t politics anymore — it’s national betrayal - treason. The public deserves evidence, investigations, and answers immediately. Britain cannot shrug off allegations this explosive.

[Patrina Finch #FBPE @Siege_Perilous]

Totally this👇👇👇👇👇👇👇every word. "A manufactured mood" is what the media has created.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Lord Rothermere Daily Mail Owner (French immigrant), and Rupert Murdoch Sun owner (Australian immigrant).

These are the immigrants destroying the UK.

[Bruce McD @brucemcd23]

@peterjukes is entirely right. Farage’s case against Coutts is worth another look in the light of the £5m gift from Harborne and the incendiary allegations made today by Ben Habib

Farage confronted Coutts with his usual combination of bluster and legal threats

It worked

It’s time it stopped working . Sunlight is the disinfectant to drive out the blight of Farage using public office for self enrichment

[Julie Street 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Juliest101]

The only people who need to resign today are the political journalists and editors at @BBCNews and @SkyNews

I've never seen such a downright sinister plot to remove a democratically elected sitting PM.

Our media is absolutely fucking toxic.

[Tony Kerridge @KerridgeTony]

How media covers left and right wing news:

Polanski's failure to pay council tax on a houseboat was 2nd item on BBC lunchtime news, after Starmer

These allegations from insider Ben Habib alleging serious criminal election fraud by Farage, Boris Johnson & Harbonne - not a whiff.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

The British media is doing everything it can to make this mendacious, corrupt, incompetent, lazy, security risk the PM. Ask yourselves why? Why do they want that so badly, who benefits? It's not going to be the British people.

Follow the money, always follow the money.

[calculus @calculus52]

Hey @BBCNews , got a story for you!

About 11 reform new councillors have stepped down or been expelled already!

It will cost a lot to elect new ones. How about running that as a story, just for a smidgen of impartiality?

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Stores you’re unlikely to see leading any news bulletin any time ever

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

The real story shouldn't be Starmer it’s this. Ben Habib casually dropping an allegation that Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson were each handed £1m by Christopher Harborne to fix an election. Truly astonishing claims but sure, let’s all pretend the headline issue is Starmer. The £5m bung is the tip of the iceberg, our press should be camped outside Farage's girlfriends house not 10 Downing Street waiting for the police to arrive #ReformUK #Farage