Elaine McLaughlin

[CrémantCommunarde #GreenTransitionNow💚 @0Calamity]

Hahahahah! Just seen this on FB:
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Have you found yourself in the hideous position of having a Reform councillor?
Here’s how you can help your brand new councillor settle into local government properly: email them this week with an actual council problem to solve.
Got rubbish piling up? Email them.
Bus vanished from existence? Email them.
Streetlights dead? Email them.
Care package delayed? Email them.
Pavement like the Somme? Email them.
Send them in by the hundred. Make sure they’re made very clear on what their job is.
Being a councillor is not standing in front of the Union flag shouting about dinghies on GB News. It’s reading committee papers at midnight, attending meetings nobody enjoys, holding surgeries in church halls, and dealing with the endlessly glamorous world of drains, social care budgets and recycling disputes.
Welcome to local government.
The boats are in Kent. The bins are in your ward.
The email address for your ward councillor can be found on your local council website as soon as it’s updated.
Feel free to copy and paste to share wider.

[. @jdpoc]

Posted elsewhere, posted here for info.

The map of Reform Councils in the UK. So much for 'WE'VE TAKEN OVER THE NATION !!!"

[JmRoyle #LFC #YNWA #BLM #RejoinEU @MyArrse]

1 bit the dust already:

Reform UK paper candidate who was elected in Bradford, Daniel Devaney, has resigned already saying he doesn't want to be a councillor and has gone away on holiday.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

BBC and the UK print media covering this any moment now . . . . . Any moment.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Good for the Obsever for leading on this.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage earns over a million pounds a year.

Still claims £160,900 in expenses (benefits)

Moans about people abusing benefits.

But not himself, of course.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Cathy Newman "Thailand-based Chris Harborne has given you and your party £17 million.. Interfering in democracy"

Nigel Farage runs away

[kieron murphy @kieronmurphy5]

Hey @BBCNews I’ve just watched your 10pm show..lots of gossip from @ChrisMasonBBC about @UKLabour but nothing about the £5m bribe Farage illegally concealed or Tice’s tax dodging or Jenrick’s illegal funding…why are you protecting @reformparty_uk ?

[Stephen Elénìyàn ✊🏾 @dadaostephen]

Hi @SuellaBraverman ,

48 hours ago I asked you to substantiate or withdraw your claim that “250,000 foreign students took £4bn in UK loans.” That time has now passed. You have provided no evidence, no clarification, and no correction.

I have taken the time to examine the data myself.

I have reviewed materials from the Student Loans Company, the Department for Education, the House of Commons Library, the UK Statistics Authority, and reporting from Times Higher Education. Across these sources, one thing is clear. Your statement is presented in a way that gives the public a deeply misleading impression.

Let’s deal with this carefully.

The £4bn figure you reference relates to the total value of student loans issued to non UK nationals. It is not a direct cost to the taxpayer. These are loans. They are repaid over time based on income. Presenting that figure as if it were money handed out or lost is not an accurate reflection of how the system works.

Then there is your use of the phrase “foreign students.”

This is where the distortion becomes more serious.

The fact (which you know quite well) is those eligible for UK student finance are not newly arrived international students. They are people with settled status, indefinite leave to remain, refugee status, or long term lawful residence in the UK. They live here. They work here. They pay into the system. And under the law, they are entitled to access student finance.

Standard international students on student visas are generally not eligible for these loans.

By leaving out that distinction, you create a very different picture in the minds of the public. One where large numbers of people are arriving from abroad and immediately accessing public funds. That is not what the data shows.

You also cited a figure of 250,000 without pointing to a clearly published dataset or transparent methodology. Numbers like this carry weight. They should be used with care, not as loose estimates in politically charged statements.

I am not interested in party politics. But I am concerned about what this kind of messaging is doing to the country.

When lending is presented as spending, and long term residents are presented as outsiders, it fuels resentment. It deepens division. It creates tension where clarity is needed. And ordinary people end up carrying the consequences of that confusion. Like I was being racially attacked and profiled in my initial response to you in X by supporters of your party who were obviously misled and triggered by your misinformation.

I did consider legal action. But the reality is that the law is not designed to deal easily with this kind of broad public misrepresentation. You know that, which is why ignoring a challenge like mine carries little immediate consequence.

That does not make it acceptable.

I will be submitting a formal complaint to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards regarding your use of misleading statistical claims in public communication.

The public deserves accuracy. Not selective framing. Not distortion. And certainly not narratives that risk turning people against each other on the basis of incomplete facts.

Stephen Dada.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Why have we seen nothing of this on the news ?

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Reform UK quotes in the banned Labour political broadcast.

It was banned by Ofcom, so please share far and wide!!! 👇👇👇

[Maria 💜 @mariachetcuti1]

80% of the British Media is owned by 5 non-domiciled billionaires. Not one of them live here or pay UK tax. Everything our vindictive opinion led MSM is now broadcasting is for their personal profit and dubious foreign political allegiances.
Our government needs to intervene NOW!

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

I am at a loss to understand why the government has done nothing to reform @ofcom which is not fit for purpose and has allowed Farage UK to have its own TV news channel; nothing to push back on the relentless bias and untruthfulness of most of our press; and nothing to respond to the capture of the BBC political coverage by the Gibb brigade.

[Merlijn The Trader @MerlijnTrader]

MASSIVE:

🇺🇸 The BBC just validated everything we've been saying.

A clear pattern of trades right before major Trump announcements.
Iran war. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts.

We tracked a whale for weeks.
0 losses. 11 wins. 100% win rate.

You would go to prison for trading on a tip from your cousin.
They front-run war decisions with billion dollar bets.

Now the BBC has the receipts.
Nobody will be investigated.
Nobody will be charged.

The game is rigged. And now the world knows it.

[Dittie @DittiePE]

$580,000,000 in oil futures moved 16 minutes before Trump announced a pause in Iran strikes.

Not after. Before.

The BBC just documented five separate instances of massive, suspiciously timed trades preceding Trump’s biggest market-moving announcements — oil futures, the tariff pause, Maduro’s capture, Iran ceasefire bets.

The platforms where anonymous accounts cashed in? Polymarket and Kalshi. Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket’s advisory board and is a strategic advisor to Kalshi.

There’s even a law against this. The STOCK Act (2012) explicitly covers executive branch officials. Zero prosecutions in 14 years.

Oh, and the DOJ unit created after Watergate to prosecute exactly this kind of corruption? Trump cut it from 36 lawyers to 2 and stripped its authority to file new cases.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage earns over a million pounds a year.

Still claims £160,900 in expenses (benefits)

Moans about people abusing benefits.

But not himself, of course.

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

No wonder Farage was gutted his mate Orbán lost power in Hungary.

Orbán’s think tank MCC pumped £512,000 into a foundation at the heart of British neo-nationalism. That’s over 90% of its total funding.

That foundation’s trustee? James Orr. Reform UK’s Head of Policy. The man writing their plan for government.

Matthew Goodwin, Reform candidate, ChatGPT plagiariser, GB News regular was an MCC fellow. Fellows get paid up to €10,000 a month. Reform won’t say what he received.

These aren’t coincidences. NatCon conferences. The Free Speech Union. Think tanks. Media. All roads lead back to Budapest.

Orbán lost on Sunday. His British network is still standing, still shilling against their own country.

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🔴 EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK

As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Britain’s hard right.

https://t.co/9IFdHy1zT1

[Jim Cornelius @Jim_Cornelius]

This is you, former Conservative MP, now sitting Reform MP, Andrew Rosindell, writing to former President of the United States, Joe Biden 6 years ago proposing the UK hands to Chagos islands to Mauritius and rents them back on a 99-year lease.

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

Farage has ensured any references to his buddy Victor Orban are erased from his X account.
So, I thought it would be useful to share these just as a reminder of how close they were.
‘Orban is the future of Europe’ is my personal favourite!’