And only, like, four of them are Reform UK councillors. 🤦♂️
Six more people charged with violent disorder in Southampton after protests over Henry Nowak's murder https://t.co/mryjbY0VLc
@zatzi Capitalism at its finest.
Record profits in the billions, data harvesting, but you comment on job losses so that shareholders can maintain their large dividends.
Tesco could easily reduce their profits by a couple of percent and still employ all the staff they are sacking
A few people not quite getting the point saying "but you recommeded Quotum". Of course I didn't, I don't do adverts. This was a fake news story by scammers (ie organised crime) pretending to report me saying something on the TV!
@MartinSLewis Many of the people taken in by these scammers are vulnerable. If all of us said in passing whenever Martin is mentioned (his ears must be constantly burning) that he never does adverts and explain his image is misused the message might get through.
A few weeks ago, our UK media and Nigel Farage were clamouring to 'Get Starmer Out'.
Remember that? They were using it as their slogan for Matt GPT's disastrous by-election campaign. They claimed that it was a 'referendum on Starmer's leadership'.
It didn't quite go to plan. Starmer outplayed them all on that occasion.
Here's something that we need to remember though, when JD Vance came to the UK in July of 2025, he held a series of meetings in the Cotswolds with some British politicians.
Nigel Farage.
Robert Jenrick [Tory then, Reform now].
Danny Kruger [Tory then, Reform now].
James Orr [Tory then, Reform now].
Donald Trump is a destabilising force, but I don't really think he knows why. 😵💫
JD Vance is far more malign. He is wrapped, head-to-toe, in the Christian Nationalism/Project 2025 movement that Farage et al. are desperately trying to bring to our shores.
Reform will lose the Makerfield by-election, they picked a lame, three-legged donkey to run the Grand National. But they started this campaign the same as the last 'Get Starmer Out', before suddenly dropping it as the realisation dawned.
OK, this has gone a bit higgledy-piggledy, so what I'm trying to get to, is that any intervention by JD Vance in UK politics, is likely at the behest of Nigel Farage.
Farage is desperate, clawing at the floor while the daemon of scrutiny drags him backwards to the pitch dark basement of obscurity.
His only possible hope of survival is an early General Election, and to have that happen, he needs Starmer on the ropes.
Cue, JD Vance with a targetted intervention about:
migrants ✅
elites ✅
inciting anger ✅
Henry Nowak ✅
death of our civilization [sic] ✅
A tirade worthy of only one man … Nigel Farage.
The man who has sought to weaponise this tragedy and incited rioting only five days ago. The man who has gone against Henry's father's own wish that the tragedy should not be used as a weapon of hatred.
Nigel Farage is a dangerous force with the backing of, probably, the next President of the USA. Both are trying to destabilise and turn our societies into fascist visions of the far-right.
Don't let them.
Have a lovely weekend. 😊
@donmcgowan My take is Farage is taking orders from the billionaire club, as is Vance. There appears to be an unelected order that uses people like Farage, Trump etc al to do their bidding.
Exactly the sort of inflammatory bullshit Henry's family said they didn't want...
ICE murdering peaceful protestors on your streets, ambushing Zelensky in the Oval Office on Putin's behalf, the most corrupt administration in US history. We'll take no lectures from you.
This is just one example of a massive uptick in vile, misogynistic, racist and threatening pile-ons against anyone challenging far right propaganda on X in the last week or so. I’ve experienced some of it too. A lot from Reform & Restore supporters. Elon tweaking the algorithm?
@premnsikka@RayASullivan We absolutely must.
It was the 1st question on QT last night - how would you change our politics?
Not one panellist said they would ban donations. Nor second jobs.
That should be step 1.