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[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

A Party That Banked Chinese Money Has No Business Preaching About Foreign Influence

Darren Jones says foreign money has been warping British elections and sowing division for its own vested interests. He says donors will now have to prove their money is legitimate. It is a fine sentiment, delivered by a minister whose own party has already answered the question of what illegitimate foreign money looks like, and did not much like the answer.

Christine Lee gave around £700,000 to Labour Party recipients before it emerged she had acted on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department. The security services are reported to have known of the concern and are said to have failed to warn Labour in good time. This was not a company routing cash through a revenue loophole, the kind of proxy arrangement the government's current bill is meant to address. It was money that reached the party directly, tied to a foreign state, discovered only after the fact. If Jones wants a case study in what his rhetoric describes, his own party's accounts already contain one.

That context makes the substance of his own bill harder to defend, not easier. The Representation of the People Bill tests corporate donations against revenue rather than profit. The Electoral Commission has warned this would not reduce the risk of foreign money entering politics through companies, since a firm can generate large revenue while making little profit of its own. The independent Rycroft review reached the same conclusion in March, recommending a profit-based test tied to tax paid on genuine UK earnings. The regulator built to enforce this law and the reviewer commissioned to assess it both concluded the government's preferred mechanism falls short. Labour wrote the safeguard anyway.

There is also the small matter of who funds the party doing the lecturing. Trade unions still supply a significant share of Labour's income, with Unite, the GMB and Unison each contributing roughly £1m a year. Union money is domestic, not foreign, and nothing here suggests otherwise. But a party that depends so heavily on a narrow set of institutional backers, and then legislates on matters directly affecting those backers' interests, such as strike law and workplace rights, is in no position to present itself as the guardian of a democracy free from vested interests. The complaint about foreign money only works if it does not also apply, in spirit, closer to home.

None of this is helped by the state of Labour's own finances. The party recorded a deficit of £3.76 million in 2024, its net assets down to their lowest level in over a decade, and needs several million more just to contest the 2026 elections. A party in that position has every incentive to wave through donations quickly and ask fewer questions than its own rhetoric demands. Urgency and rigour rarely travel together.

Jones may be entirely sincere. Foreign interference in British politics is real and worth taking seriously. But sincerity is not the same as credibility, and Labour has forfeited a good deal of the latter. A party that took Chinese-linked money without adequate warning, that wrote a corporate donations test its own regulator says will not work, and that leans on union funding while regulating union power, is not well placed to warn the country about money buying its democracy. It has already sold a seat at the table once. The invoice just took longer than usual to arrive.

"Christine Lee gave around £700,000 to Labour Party recipients before it emerged she had acted on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department."

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

It wasn’t kindness. It was cowardice. No one, other than a minuscule minority of deluded, actually believed the gender mantras.
The Ed Daveys of politics have never believed a woman can have a penis. They merely pretended they did out of a combination of cowardice and (what they thought was, but turned out not to be) opportunism.
They lied about something absolutely basic and fundamental. We know therefore that they will lie about anything.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

"So you're just being a cunt again for no reason whatsoever. Go eat shit, Janet."

"So... you know... fuck off?"

"Janet is a misogynist."

"Did it take months to cyberstalk a trans woman's social media accounts?"

"British journalists are now just hunting down individual people to harass and defame and ruin the lives of trans people."

These are some of the responses to my Mail on Sunday investigation into Girlguiding.

An investigation that raised questions about the appointment of a male volunteer with publicly accessible, highly sexualised online content to an influential role advising on the future of the organisation.

To be absolutely clear, I have never suggested this individual has done anything wrong.

But any volunteer who works with children - regardless of their sex or identity - who publicly posts highly sexualised content raises legitimate safeguarding questions about boundaries and judgment.

Safeguarding is about preventing harm, not waiting for it to happen.

You might imagine that a female journalist spending months investigating potential safeguarding concerns in an organisation responsible for girls and young women would be thanked for doing so.

Instead, some people appear to be more outraged that the questions were asked than by the possibility that they might need asking.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

“This is the most authoritarian government we have seen in living memory.”

The last couple of days have reminded the Free Speech Union that the threat to free speech in this country has never been more acute.

But if we think things have been bad under Sir Keir Starmer, they are only set to get worse under Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

His close ally, Lisa Nandy, is spearheading plans to force social media companies to prioritise the promotion of what the Government deems to be “trustworthy” news sources.

When Josh Simons — the former MP for Makerfield who resigned to allow Burnham to return to Westminster — was head of Labour Together, he oversaw a project that targeted journalists who wrote critically about the think tank and his political master at the time, Keir Starmer.

Now, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Lucy Powell is calling for the effective censorship of social media platforms during election periods.

This is deeply authoritarian, and we must be alive to the threat it poses not only to free speech but also to our ability to have open political debate in this country.

Watch FSU External Affairs Officer @_ConnieShaw on @GBNEWS below 👇

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@GuineaPiginUK @zatzi Are you able to make a point without asking a question?

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

Labour hates scrutiny or transparency.

And is terrified of freedom of speech.

This is totalitarian. 😡

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@SBarrettBar Why are you feeding this?

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Desperate Labour stop at nothing to prevent Reform’s success.

Their hypocrisy is shameless having accepted £4 million from Cayman registered hedge fund and over £500,000 from 8 companies who then received almost £150 million in Government contracts.

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@arjunmmsk19 @Jacob_Rees_Mogg Lol

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@monkeygoing2 @TiceRichard Cock lol

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@TiceRichard You'd get better mileage out of making it financially unacceptable.

[Donna-Louise @NoLongerTheFuzz]

🚨 Full West Mids Broad Street clip of two tier policing
I spent 21 years in policing, much of it as a detective. I know what professional policing looks like – and this is not it.
Watch this. West Midlands Police officers behaving like a gang. The swearing. The aggression. No control, no standards.
I didn’t write about Henry Nowak because everyone else was. But I can’t stay silent any more. What I’m seeing week after week is a police service that treats you differently depending on who you are.
I’m writing the full story of two-tier policing in Britain. This footage is where it starts.

[Suella Braverman @SuellaBraverman]

My capital city, festooned in the flag that celebrates child mutilation, puberty blockers and blokes using womens’ loos.

How we have lost our way!

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

ARRESTED FOR BLASPHEMY!!!

I don't know this lad but he just spoke the truth about Islam and Muhammed.

And he was arrested for it.

The Police didn't like him saying Muhammed was a rapist (he was), and they didn't like him saying Muhammed was a killer (he was).

So he's been arrested for telling the truth.

Police are literally enacting sharia compliant blasphemy laws in the UK.

Disgraceful.

[Stephen Knight 🎙️ @GSpellchecker]

Police officer tells a man in Leeds he's being arrested “Because you called Muhammed a rapist and a killer”.

Agents of the British state deploying physical force in defence of Islamic blasphemy laws.

[Bernie Cee @BerCee54]

I’m a police Sgt & a custody officer from the ‘80’s … this is Sound advice ….in every encounter just say I’m not talking to you without a solicitor present….don’t even say ‘no comment’ ….don’t nod or shake your head to any questions …don’t smile …stay calm & polite. 👍

[Great British PAC 🇬🇧 @GreatBritishPAC]

Lady Justice wears a blindfold for a reason.
The law should not see race.
It should not see background.
It should not see identity.
It should see only the evidence.

The CPS must abandon plans that risk creating the perception of two-tier justice.

One law. One standard. Equal justice for all. ⚖️🇬🇧
We've written to Stephen Parkinson, the Director of Public Prosecutions. If you agree, write to him too and make your voice heard.
📧 [email protected]
#JusticeMustBeBlind #RuleOfLaw

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@theenglishbrief @Nigel_Farage @JDVance No one cares about your fabricated outrage dickhead

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@asianmomriot @Nigel_Farage @SandyofSuffolk @JDVance Silly cunt