Adapting David Nolan's BLACK MOSS & Justin Robertson's The Tangle for TV for Free@Last TV
Host of 3 Movies That Changed Your Life Podcast for @britflicks
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New flash fiction project... 3 pages of A5 stream of consciousness in response to 1 photo from the book OUR WORLD NOW & summarised/rationalised into a tweetable length flash fiction story #ideation#AIcantdothis
@JohnPReade@but_cyclists Whipps Cross roundabout before it was made people safe was my worst crash = in so much that the car drove onto the roundabout I was already like I wasn't there. surprising until I spoke to drive afterwards and he said "he didn't see me"
Honestly tired of grown adults calling the climate crisis a hoax. This is not a debate, the science has been settled for decades. Your ignorance is not just embarrassing, it is actively destroying the planet and every living thing on it.
If you are worried about
Benefit Fraud £0.5bn but not Government Corruption £219bn.
Immigration £2bn but not Tax Havens £150bn.
Junior Doctors pay rises £1.3bn but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn.
You‘re buying their lies.
10 years ago a £350 million lie was plastered all over a big red bus.
Watch the man behind the campaign squirm as he’s asked to confirm it was all nonsense.
That day UK politicians realised they could lie with impunity, and they’ve done so ever since.
The more I dig, the more I realise that Nigel Farage is literally done for. It's over for him. The £5 million bung is big enough to take the entire Reform movement down and possibly land Nigel in jail.
1) The fact the donation was made BEFORE Nigel was MP is absolutely irrelevant. Parliamentary Code of Conduct requires all receipts for the full 12 months before election. Nigel receiving his bung just a few days before he announced his candidacy makes it so much worse, not better.
2) "Category 5: Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK - THRESHOLD FOR REGISTRATION Section 39. Members must register, subject to the paragraphs below, any gifts or benefits with a value of over £300 which they receive from a source outside the UK."
Nigel argues this was 'purely personal' but the Code refers to partners or families when it comes to personal gifts... this takes us to the next issue...
3) Christopher Harborne has a long track record of making SUBSTANTIAL political contributions to Nigel's parties, first to The Brexit Party, and later to Reform. He is a POLITICAL DONOR - any "gift" he made to Farage CANNOT be argued as personal or without political context due to this track record.
4) Using his platform as an MP, Nigel went on to promote 2 companies in which Christopher Harborne holds $ billions in stock - Nigel NEVER publicly endorsed or mentioned these companies prior to the "gift". Nigel also began actively pushing for policy that would directly interest Christopher Harborne and his business affairs. These were not interests that any could argue could possibly be of interest to his constituents - deregulation of crypto, and lowering of taxes on crypto gains. Nigel spent a substantial amount of time and effort pushing these policies.
It is beyond a doubt that this is the biggest breach of Parliamentary Code of Conduct rules in relation to donations in parliamentary history.
But even more concerning for Nigel will be that if it can be proven he was secretly incentivised to use his public office to push for policies to support a wealthy donor, then he should very likely face a criminal probe for corruption and bribery. I suspect Harborne might also be exposed to this. The United Kingdom and Thailand have a bilateral extradition treaty. Maximum prison sentences of up to 10 years for the offence.
This is not going to go away.
Why did @Nigel_Farage try to block plans that might leave his billionaire crypto mate out of pocket after he handed him £5 million?
Labour Chair @annaturley has asked the Financial Conduct Authority to investigate 👇
Kemi lost her head at PMQs - and afterwards too.
It's not the first time. She's compared me to a Gestapo officer.
I wonder what it is about a working class woman driving record investment in state schools by ending private schools' tax breaks that the Tories hate so much.
@WaronSpeech@RogerHallamCS21@grok Links to sales of renewal energy? None!!! You're disappointed, right? He's just an informed activist relying on the charity of likeminded folk to try and change the world for the better before it's too late... Why not ask @grok the same question about each fossil fuel industry?