A newly opened overseas payments account, unexplained transfers and £500,000 eventually reaching Reform UK have raised serious questions.
Are Britain’s political donation rules strong enough?
Some Tory and tabloid hypocrites keep banging on about Angela Rayner's one-off severance payment of £17,000 last year.
Maybe they should focus on the scandal of loopy Liz Truss receiving a PM's pension of £115,000 a year for life - after just seven disastrous weeks in office.
A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.
B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf
We hear more and more about the costs of Brexit that Johnson, Farage & co never told us about, but this revelation from health professionals’ magazine Nursing Times is perhaps the worst:
Loss of EU nurses after Brexit responsible for over 3,700 deaths
https://t.co/yO56FiCHHo
Sen. @maziehirono: What is your message to our Republican colleagues? We only need 1 Republican to vote no on Blanche's confirmation.
Epstein survivor: We are victims of a crime. We are over 1,000 girls and young women who were sexually exploited. If victims of crime cannot count on the Justice Department, what do we have?
A reporter asks Marco Rubio whether he will ask Foreign Minister Lavrov about Russia helping Iran target U.S. troops. Another reporter asks Lavrov when will Russia stop attacking Ukraine. A staffer then removes the press from the room.
Farage is now actively interfering with an ongoing Court case and investigation and needs to be arrested for contempt
‘Ann Widdecombe died defending me - there is more to come out about her death’ https://t.co/lvjhAAjwz6
The revelation that Sunak has paid £1M in tax in the last 3 years 0.13% of his £720m wealth.
While the average person has paid about £45k or 14%, 100x as much.
Should open your eyes to just how much and how blatantly the rich dodge tax
Thames Water lenders offer 'golden share' to head off nationalisation.
Govt has golden share in Royal Mail. It delivered high prices, poor service, exec bonuses.
With golden share TW will still pay dividends, hike bills, dump sewage.
Must nationalise.
https://t.co/mwyxN4nIQb
Mitch McConnell's team reached out to me earlier today — through an intermediary, of course — asking me to take this down.
I won't. I don't bend the knee.
And if they don't like having their name and face attached to it, maybe they should ask themselves why that is.
Anyone who has accused me of making Ireland look bad for the refinery scandal should read this. This is a sitting minister yawning at questions about russian links. It’s Irish politicians who are destroying the reputation of Ireland, not me 🤷
The one thing I can't do is mention that small boat crossings are down by 44% this year, because scare mongering about this is the central pillar of my whole grift.
A man won £1.7 MILLION playing blackjack online at 1am. The casino called the next morning to congratulate him. Then called back two days later to say there was a software glitch and they were keeping the money. They offered him £60,000 to stay quiet and sign a document promising never to talk about it. He said no.
– Andrew Green was a 54 year old from a small village in Lincolnshire England.
– Just after midnight on January 26 2018 he opened the Betfred app and started playing a blackjack game called Frankie Dettori's Magic Seven.
– He played for five and a half hours straight.
– When he finally stopped the screen showed £1,722,500.24 in winnings.
– He called Betfred. They congratulated him. Told him to call back after 9:30am to arrange collection.
– He went out that night and celebrated with his family. Spent £2,500 on dinner. He was already a millionaire in his head.
– Monday morning he called back. They said the win was so large it needed to be sent to the game provider Playtech for verification. Standard procedure they said.
– Wednesday Betfred called again. Playtech had found a software glitch. The win was void and he would not be paid.
– Their offer was £60,000 but on one condition. He had to sign a non-disclosure agreement promising never to discuss what had happened.
– He said no.
– He sued and the case went to the High Court in London.
– The judge ruled Betfred's terms and conditions were not transparent and not fair. They could not rely on them to withhold payment.
– Three years after he won the money the court ordered Betfred to pay the full £1.7 MILLION plus interest.
– Standing outside the High Court he said "The last three years have felt like hell on earth. I think Betfred have treated me abysmally."
– Betfred apologised for the delay.
– They never explained how many other players hit the same glitch and quietly accepted the £60,000.
A man won £1.7 MILLION at 1am, spent £2,500 celebrating before the money arrived, then spent three years in court to collect what was already his.