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

Reform UK Makerfield candidate Rob Kenyon refuses to sign the paperwork to have a DBS check done.

What is he hiding?

[Chris S @chris_spencer04]

The Q1 2026 donations to Reform included 2 completely new & interesting donors.
- Paul Mackings, now the leader of Reform controlled South Tyneside Council, donated £111k
-A company called Castle building, donated £36k
-Coincidentally, Castle building are working on a major project for South Tyneside Council.
- One of the consultants originally involved in planning the project....... Paul Mackings!
https://t.co/bn87KzeTmm

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Three ways to improve high streets by *raising* business rates:

1. Higher rates on long-empty shops, to force realistic rents

2. End exemption for charity shops.

3. Make landlords pay when candy/vape shops vanish with unpaid rates. They'll ensure rates are paid up-front.

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

Ex-Prince Andrew & his family had 12 properties, owned by the Crown Estate or the Royal Household, acc to the National Audit Office

3 of those properties he sub-let - the report doesn’t say how much he got in rent, but Palace sources suggest he rented them to staff or retired staff & the amount was only enough to cover running costs.

Whatever the amount, it went to directly to Andrew rather than the Crown Estate, which would pay its profits back to the Treasury

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

Lee Anderson is the Chairman of Reform, the party that might form our next government. Let that sink in.

[JimmyTheGiant @jimthegiant]

BBC has been key in developing and sharing British culture & talent for decades

Blue Planet II cost £15m to make, generated £1bn+, BBC created The Office, Doctor Who, Blackadder

BBC helped discover & push Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant, Rowan Atkinson, Idris Elba, Louis Theroux, Ed Sheeran, Stephen Fry, Olivia Colman, Helen Mirren, Judi Dench

Due to it being publicly owned it has been able to be an incubator of talent and take risks in a way often private networks could never

BBC has problems, but if you can't see the sum of BBCs contribution to British culture then you are insane

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Being working class isn’t about manners or accent.

It’s about whether you depend on your wages to maintain your lifestyle, says British trade unionist @MickLynch4AGS.

“If you have to get up when the alarm clock rings and go out and do a job – and you depend on your earnings, rather than your assets – you are working class,” he explained.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

THE CO-OP THAT FORGOT WHAT CO-OP MEANS

OurCoop just handed its CEO Debbie Robinson a £1.5 million bonus on top of her salary. Total pay package: around £2.2 million. The company is called a mutual. It exists to serve its members.

Trading profit halved this year to £4.3 million. Underlying profit collapsed from £10.9 million to £1.2 million. Turnover fell. Net debt rose. The community dividend scheme was paused. Workers on the shop floor got a minimum wage raise to £12.40 an hour.

The CEO salary ratio to the average worker was 38:1 last year. Add the full bonus and it becomes roughly 80:1. The board decided the old policy of paying executives one-third to one-half of market rates was "inappropriate." So they fixed that. For themselves.

Other managers on the Management Incentive Scheme were quietly told there would be no bonuses this year because the profit target was missed. Those managers presumably did not sit on the Remuneration Committee.

OurCoop told members the bonuses reflect "individual and team contribution through a period of significant change." The period of significant change being the merger that Robinson oversaw as the person whose job it was to oversee the merger.

Over a million members. 13,000 colleagues. £844 million turnover. £1.2 million underlying profit. And the top three executives walked away with £2.7 million in bonuses between them.

The whole point of a co-operative is that it does not do this.

Sources: @guardian @coopnews

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

I’m just…. How can someone who became president, the highest achievement in the world, still be such a hollow self-loathing husk of a man?

I’d be incredibly sad if he wasnt destroying the country

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The gravy train continues.

Failed former CEO of Ofwat, David Black has reappeared at a consultancy company called BRG where he will "Advise firms and investors across regulated industries as they navigate shifting regulatory frameworks".

His boss? No less than former head of regulation at Thames Water one Colm Gibson.

As @PrivateEyeNews would say "Trebles all round". Well actually that's exactly what they did say. 👇👇👇

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Yet another glaring example of how utterly failed the water industry is. All it took was one hot weekend and not one but two water companies have been brought to their knees, incapable of doing the most basic job possible, supplying their customers with water.

And we tolerate this nonsense.

[LBC @LBC]

Why did Reform's Sarah Pochin delete a video of her helping a constituent?

It might have something to do with the woman’s reputation as ‘Britain’s biggest benefits cheat’...

Luckily, @HenryRiley1 has the receipts.

[UsdawUnion @UsdawUnion]

Imagine your most challenging day at work being filmed and posted online for thousands to see... 🎥📱

Filming retail workers is becoming an epidemic - we’re calling for an end to all recording in stores by the general public unless direct consent has been given 📵

Retail workers deserve respect, privacy and the right to do their jobs without fear of being publicly shamed, mocked or targeted online ❌

[Labour Heartlands @Labourheartland]

The head of Ofgem, who earns an annual salary of over £300,000. gives some helpful tips on how people can reduce their bills.

"Shop around, change your payment method and try to use less."

The head of Ofgem says customers "may" be able to save around £140 a year by switching the way they pay for energy.

Then comes the obvious question: what about the energy companies making enormous profits while households are being hammered?

His response is telling. Ofgem caps the profits of the suppliers it regulates through the price cap, he says.

But the really big profits are being made by the oil and gas companies extracting energy from the ground.

And dealing with those profits? That, apparently, is for government and the tax system.

So there we have it. The public are told to manage their direct debits and ration their energy use, while the companies making fortunes from a basic necessity, our country's own resources, are treated as a matter for somebody else.

The system is not broken. It is doing exactly what it was built to do: protect the market first and leave ordinary people to carry the cost.

#energyefficiency #Ofgem

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Ofgem’s so-called energy price cap is a total con. Bills are going up again

We need a real price cap that protects ordinary people, paid for through the profits of energy giants.

We need to replace expensive gas with cheaper renewables.

And energy back in public ownership!

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

This is quite delightful Karma, the homophobic tattooed thumb-like simpleton who Turning Point UK shared a video of, gets lifted. Then he's further arrested for possession of drugs and weapons.
🤣🤣🤣
https://t.co/OHJ5qK3gm1

[Dan Wyke 🦠➡️🧠🔥 @Dan_Wyke]

While arguing that Next can't afford to pay 16-24 year olds the minimum wage, CEO Lord Wolfson forgot to say that for the fiscal year ending January 2026, Next reported an operating profit of £1.236 billion, marking a 13.4% increase from the previous year. #r4today

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

I've seen a very dark side of this platform over the bank holiday weekend.

I wrote a post supporting teachers — thousands of replies telling me that they hate teachers.

Posts in which I called out Robert Kenyon's misogyny — thousands of replies telling me that he's 'proper bloke' and plenty of women saying they'll happily vote for him.

Allowing for the 𝕏 Bot Factor, I am really quite shocked by how many people are so entrenched in beliefs I thought we'd left behind in the 1980s.

Reform UK has dragged a sizeable proportion of this country back decades.

Racism.
Misogyny.
Anti-education.

A trifecta of bigotry being used to weaponise the far-right.

Very disturbing but, thankfully, in the UK, it's only around 23% of the population. Not enough for Reform to win a General Election.

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

This is what entitlement looks like! 🤬
There are nesting waterbirds on this pond on Hampstead Heath... there are also big 'No Swimming' signs, all being totally ignored! 🤬
Pure selfishness... 😒🤬🤬

(Shared from Instagr*m with permission from 'swansofhampsteadheath')