Dave McClelland • Actor

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[Dave McClelland • Actor @McClellandDave]

My latest Jan 2022 #actor #showreel #teaser
@itvcorrie @emmerdale @DoctorsBBC
@LAProductionsUK @juliagoulding @ZoeHenry03 @shaunprend #SeanBean #Corrie #Gordon @SteveGarti - Thanks to my Brilliant #Agent @ciekabailey

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

Farage has said the £5m was unconditional. In light of the Guardian's latest story, it was highly conditional on him being an MP, and promoting crypto in return. A bribe, in other words.

[John Stealer @JohnStealer]

This is Priti Patel Tory MP & the most treacherous Israeli asset

Sir Alan Duncan described her in these terms when she had a series of secret meetings in Israel

“compromised,” “deceitful,” “morally corrupt,” “contemptible” and “quite despicable”

Whose interests does she serve?

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

🚩🚩 I was saying last year, after I got the deeds for the Clacton house & discovered it was a cash purchase by Farage's girlfriend, that I suspected money laundering, as outright purchase of expensive property is a major red flag. I didn't know where the money came from, but I think we do now. The press are now talking about money laundering.

[Sally Bourliakas 💙 @SallyBourliakas]

Why do we need to bring down Welfare Spending @andyburnham ?

The Welfare budget has been 11% of GDP for decades and is projected to to be around 11% of GDP till 2030

👀 At the figures
WELFARE SPEND IS NOT BALLOONING

Working Age Incapacity benfits due to be stable at 1% GDP till 2030

Total Welfare spend
Stable at 11% GDP
(& projected to stay at 11% till 2030)

Working Age
Economic Inactivity
Stable at 10M
& Has been for 30 years
1995-2024

& ⬇️ in last decade
2011 23.6%
2024 21.2%

Working Age (WA)
Economic Inactivity
as a percentage of Working Age people Down
⬇️in last decade

2011 23.6%

2024 21.2%

2025 20.8%

Don't you think you've worried enough disabled and retired people and people with terminal diseases and long term conditions enough?

PIP fraud
2024 0.0%
2025 0.4%

1.8M of 3.7M on #PIP are not new claims but adults over 16
migrated from DLA

The whole welfare or warfare debate has to ✋ stop

You are lying to the country about welfare ballooning

1.8M of the people on #PIP were migrated there from DLA when PIP was established in 2014:
Not New Claims

The dramatic UC increase
is 80% migration from legacy benefits too: not new claims!

The whole NEETS narrative breaks down when you look at the figures...

Just as the constant narrative of ballooning benefits in general is bogus so is this..
NEETS 16-17yr
2017 6%
2024 5.4%

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[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

“I’ll keep it really short”

Following no arrests of 48 people who have publicly declared support for Palestine Action through published videos, fourteen individuals made declarations outside New Scotland Yard.

“I’m a big fan of Palestine Action. I think they’re really cool” 😎

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Denmark has a new king, the King and Queen get approximately $500,000 from the Danish Government a year, and the whole family is worth $40m.

In the UK King Charles gets $180,000,000 a year and his family is worth $25bn.

We need to be more like Denmark.

[The Finance Guy @OneFinanceGuy]

Hey @IsabelOakeshott, your Isle of Wight flat has a personal secured loan from Simon Dolan, who has hosted George Cottrell and his friends several times in Mustique at the Mandalay property. You were with Cottrell when he was arrested. You are highly suspicious, to put politely

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Here I am in happier times with best buds Nathan Gill, now in jail for taking Russian bribes and George Cottrell, who went to prison for fraud then paid for my staff, security and social media and let me stay in his house near Buckingham Palace.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Before cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne gave £5m to @nigel_farage, he gave £1m to Boris Johnson. For what??

Today @nerve_news reveals new evidence that tracks Harborne's investments in defence firm QinetiQ...to key defence announcements from Boris Johnson.
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[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

The receipts 👇🏽🫏 handed to Farage by @thetimes

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

THE JOURNALIST WHO BROKE CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA WAS THANKED WITH A £1 MILLION LEGAL BILL

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla exposed one of the biggest political scandals in modern British history. Cambridge Analytica. Brexit dark money. Possible Russian influence in UK democracy. The kind of journalism that wins Pulitzer nominations and keeps people in power very nervous.

So what happened next?

Arron Banks the man who made the biggest single political donation in UK history at around £9 million to Brexit campaigns, sued her personally. Not The @observer , which published her work for years. Not @TEDTalks, which hosted her talk. Her. Individually. A freelance journalist.

The suit was over one sentence in a 2019 TED Talk and a single tweet, in which she said Banks had lied about a secret relationship with the Russian government. Banks denied it. He had, however, admitted meeting Russian embassy officials multiple times more than he originally told a Parliamentary committee.

@guardian, her own publisher, declined to fund her defence.

She crowdfunded her legal costs from 29,000 members of the public.

She faced potential costs of up to £1 million. She eventually won on the main issues in the High Court in 2022, but lost on appeal on one narrow point.

She was ordered to pay Banks £35,000 in damages, issue an apology, and delete certain tweets. She was also hit with a costs order of over £1 million.

The woman who exposed how democracy gets bought had to beg the public for money to stay solvent while doing it.

Seventeen press freedom organisations called the case an attempt to intimidate and silence public interest journalism. The UK government eventually introduced anti-SLAPP legislation. Partly because of what happened to her.

In the UK, you can crowdfund a journalist's survival costs after she exposes the possible corruption of a referendum ..

.. Or you can fund the laws that protect journalists before they get financially destroyed.

We chose the first option.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Farage finally making the front pages for all the right reasons

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

EXCLUSIVE

Nigel Farage failed to declare that a criminal and crypto gambler paid for his staff, security, drivers, social media output in year before election

Reform leader has also received free accommodation in Westminster from George Cottrell as MP
https://t.co/fSKszEDnV1

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

The killing of a Palestinian footballer by Israeli forces on Monday has reignited calls for Fifa to ban Israel amid its ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Saleem al-Ashqar, 32, was cycling in search of a gas cylinder when Israeli soldiers shot him in the town of al-Qarara, just outside Khan Younis.

The Khadamat Khan Younis goalkeeper was taken to hospital but died of severe internal hemorrhaging and organ damage, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) said.

“Despite medical efforts, the hospital's severely limited capabilities – exacerbated by the collapse of Gaza's health sector due to the ongoing war of extermination – made it impossible to control the internal bleeding,” Dima Youssef told the New Arab. “Given the severity of his injuries, Al-Ashqar passed away about two hours after arriving at the hospital.”

The goalkeeper’s death brings the number of Palestinian athletes killed by Israel since October 2023 to 1,009, including at least 567 footballers.

In a tribute on X, Turkey’s minister of sports Osman Aşkın Bak compared the 567 Palestinians murdered by Israel to the 572 footballers playing in the World Cup.

Spanish-Moroccan sports journalist Leyla Hamed wrote that Fifa suspends football federations “almost every week” but repeatedly refused to issue a decision on Israel. “How much investigation does the most documented genocide in history need?” she asked.

In 2024, the PFA asked Fifa to expel the Israel Football Association amid its genocide in Gaza.

This March, Fifa finally announced it would not kick out Israel but fined its football authority $190,000 on charges relating to “discriminatory and racist abuse”.

Meanwhile, it suspended Russia from the World Cup days after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The body has been silent on the systematic targeting of Palestinian athletes since the start of the genocide in October 2023, drawing condemnation from advocacy groups including the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

At the Conservative Friends of Israel annual lunch, Tory MP Nick Timothy says “the war in Gaza is no genocide…”, to rapturous applause.

These people are despicable.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 ABSOLUTE BOMBSHELL: Prominent journalist Ben Swann completely destroys the mainstream media narrative.

He proves abused for years Gazan fighters with light weapons could never have melted engine blocks and incinerated hundreds of cars fleeing the Nova Music Festival!

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

You’re weekend reminder Nigel Farage wants to

- leave the ECHR

- repeal the Equality Act

- Strip back workers rights

- Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts

- repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes “no fault evictions”

PLEASE DON’T FALL FOR IT

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

The Nazis claimed putting Jews into camps was for their own protection ('Schutzhaft', meaning 'protective custody').
Now Israel is putting Palestinians into 'humanitarian shelters'.
Bur of course it's 'antisemitic' to compare the two things.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

So proof that Farage has been avoiding questions about a certain donor for at least 6 years and across two parties

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

1. The Holocaust was evil, as everyone knows
2. The Holocaust was NOT uniquely evil, as some claim
3. Throughout history there have been other genocides, often carried out by Europeans against indigenous people
4. The genocide in Gaza is not exactly the same as the Holocaust, obviously, but it is in the same moral category
5. The Nazis killed babies, children, women and men BECAUSE they were Jews. The Israelis kill babies, children, women and men BECAUSE they are Palestinian
6. Israel and its supporters weaponise and abuse the memory of the Holocaust, sometimes to close down argument and sometimes even to justify the genocide in Gaza