Paul Jones

FCISI | Chartered Financial Planner | CFP | Coach Ramsbottom Utd Juniors |

[Paul Jones @thisonepj]

Everyone of these ‘donations’ is explained away by saying it’s for security Met police investigating Reform over election donations - reports https://t.co/tFwnxdAtgR

[Paul Jones @thisonepj]

Looks like we are going home

[Tancredi Palmeri @tancredipalmeri]

Only Congo fan in the mid of gigantic Colombian fans sea is singing his anthem.

Colombian fans respectfully stay quiet and at the end celebrates with him.

This makes you feel better and better as more as you watch it

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

It's frankly insulting for the multi-millionaire Jeremy Hunt to want to end the triple lock when he "forgot" he bought 7 luxury apartments, has a ministerial and an MP pension plus a hefty severance payment for losing the election.

Tories have no shame.

[Paul Jones @thisonepj]

@malmondjones @BoltonLondoners @OfficialBWFC Looks really good. We will be gretting 2 kits & 1 shirt ( different ages) in our house. reminds me of mid 90’s third kit - Get in there #bwfc

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[Paul Jones @thisonepj]

How many tickets have Stockport sold ??? #BWFC

[Ryan Murphy @ryan7507]

Big shout out to the @premierleague & @EFL for bringing the kick off forward for L1 play off final to 1pm, limiting options on the train for 2 sets of northern fans. Class that 👍

#StockportCounty
#BoltonWanderers

[Paul Jones @thisonepj]

@Mykul0rr @MarcIles This is not about weakness and indecision, it is keeping possession of the ball, recycling play. Don’t agree with your view of Cissoko or Erhohan

[JBL @johninsouthfla]

If, like me, you are sick of the BBC covering up for Reform UK's shortcomings and corruption, please repost. The BBC are NOT impartial!!!

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

Beth Rigby finally grilling Farage about the £5million
(After local elections I've noticed! Not one had the spine to do so before)
And yet NOT ONE journalist has asked "will you resign Mr Farage? You failed to declare the £5million, we don't know how your gf found a million quid the same time to buy YOU a house and you've LOBBIED for deregulation of restrictions concerning cryptocurrency since"

A simple question "WILL YOU NOW RESIGN?"

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

It would be pretty embarrassing for reform if we kept sharing this, so probs best not

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Last weekend, I had broken a story about Reform UK 'fixing' a competition for one of their long term supporters to win.

Byline Times scooped it. Jeremy Vine covered it. The Trawl featured it.

Last night, Have I Got News for You also included it.

A decent week really! 😊

The original story is here: https://t.co/bzzULuGEA6

HUGE H/T to @linfitlass as well for dropping the original photo to me.

[Paul Jones @thisonepj]

@financial_shaw Guide

[Trevor McArdle @McardleTrevor]

Starmer:

Not mentioned once in the Epstein Papers

Bad judgement call over Mandelson

Press - Go!

Farage:

Mentioned over 40 times

Bad judgement call over Nathan Gill

Reform “treasurer” Nick Candy linked professionally to Epstein

Bannon was Farage advisor

Press - Drive on!

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

This is Matt Goodwin.

In response to the tragic LNER attack he blamed 'mass unctrolled migration' before any information had been released.

Then when it turned out the attacker was British and the hero was a migrant, he claimed that the attacker wasn't British because he was black.

Matt wants to represent a 40% non-white community in Gorton and Denton for racist Reform UK.

[Burnden Aces @BurndenAces]

Bolton have completed the free signing of former Oxford United midfielder Ruben Rodrigues from Brazilian side EC Vitoria.

Rodrigues has signed an 18-month contract with Wanderers, with the club having the option of a further year.

#BWFC

[Vince. #NeverBurnham @Vinc_Ev_]

Friday vibes. Slowly but surely the decline of 14 years of Tory rule are being reversed. Mainly thanks to the determination of this genuinely decent man. Ignore media slurs, ignore far left agitators, ignore doom mongers. Keir Starmer and his brilliant team are #FixingBritain

[Paul Jones @thisonepj]

@MarcIles Great value I will be renewing our season tickets 🎫
I will be looking forward to going to games whatever league we are in

Hopefully championship - onwards and upwards