'So we've heard the concerns of the Jewish community about standing a convicted neo-Nazi anti-semite as a local candidate and decided to give him a national job instead...'
Louise Crossley
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Part-time soothsayer, some time poet, full-time woke.
But they seemed like such nice, patriotic, community-minded chaps. (Except the ones currently facing murder, child abuse & assault charges, obviously.)
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d agoLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
The BBC hate us so much that they only had me on Question Time 38 times and have had Zia Yusuf on 8 times in less than two years, despite the fact that nobody even voted for him. Now that's what I call bias.
White House declassifies FBI investigation into whether Trump was working as Russian asset
White House declassifies FBI investigation into whether Trump was Russian asset
The FBI later dropped the investigation in 2019 around the conclusion of the Mueller probe
trib.al
"You did $500 billion of damage to my business interests." "Word? Which ones, dog?" "What?" "Which business interests? Name them. In detail. With receipts." "Um..."
Richard Tice appears to have used more than half a million pounds he received from the mother of Nigel Farage’s long-term aide George Cottrell to convert loans he had made to Reform UK into donations. ft.trib.al/YwfH2uZ
I’d recommend everyone watch this - it’s rather cheering to watch our media discover that an incompetent crank runs our national equality regulator
Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 9h agoEHRC chair challenged on how to enforce single-sex toilet rules www.channel4.com/news/ehrc-ch...
As a local cllr, I felt quite insulted by the suggestion that all we do is ‘deal with parking & sorting out the bins’, suggesting that because we’re so trivial it’s OK to put up a convicted anti-Semite as a prospective cllr.
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 15h agoHere are the stupidest things Kemi Badenoch has said so far today inews.co.uk/opinion/kemi...
This image has been widely shared on social media as a document of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Ceuta and an indictment of the EU's murderous border regime in the Mediterranean. The problem is: It's AI-generated. It has a SynthID watermark, as can be checked with OpenAI's Verify tool 1/
Badenoch's two biggest flaws are that she's nowhere near as smart as she thinks she is and is incapable of admitting error. Both well illustrated by this fiasco.
Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 13h agoJoshua Bonehill-Paine steps back from being a Conservative council candidate following backlash
JBP may well have apologised elsewhere and I haven’t seen it. And I have no reason to believe his conversion isn’t genuine. But I do think it’s interesting to have written a personal essay on what it was like to be an antisemite and not think to mention how the victims might be feeling
I have read Joshua Bonehill-Paine’s blogpost from April entitled “Inside the Mind of an Antisemite -and How I Escaped It”. It’s a fascinating account of being consumed by hateful, extremist ideology. You know what’s not in there? An apology. To Luciana Berger or the wider Jewish community
As UK opposition leader I vigorously defended the selection of a neo-Nazi and convicted antisemitic abuser as a local candidate, and when he withdrew, made him an adviser on party culture
They knew from the 60s, the heat we are experiencing, was coming. They paid politicians to not talk about it, created greenwashing campaigns, to guilt trip people, into believing drinking from a paper straw, would be a way to cool down the planet. The world is fucked, because humans are stupid
War on Want@waronwant.bsky.social · 2d agoBP's quarterly profits have more than doubled to £4.27bn as the Iran war sent oil prices soaring. Last week, Shell also reported profits twice as high as this time last year. As deadly heatwaves sweep across Europe, the companies driving climate breakdown are cashing in.
Unbelievable hypocrisy from Badenoch - she attacked Starmer for putting Louise Haigh in cabinet (conditional discharge and £100 fine) but defends Bonehill-Paine (five year prison sentence). Obviously the reliably hopeless Justin Webb failed to make this point to her on the Today programme…
I'm glad it's been declined. It's a sadly familiar routine perpetrators trying to use victims to launder their reputation. If someone genuinely wants to make amends they do so quietly and on the victim's terms. They don't trumpet their plans to meet in the media. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spot on ⬇️ "Reform UK remains almost entirely a party of grievance. Rather than offering a vision of a more prosperous, productive or communitarian Britain, it doubles down on punitive proposals." https://national.thelead.uk/p/nigel-farage-end-of-reform-as-we-know-it
It's the end of Reform as we know it
A bad few months for Nigel Farage's insurgent party has shown their true colours
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“I never have gaffes, or apologising for something that I said… I never have to clarify, because I think very carefully about what I say.” - Kemi Badenoch, September 2024
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i kid you not, this is the YouTube channel of the candidate Kemi's defending
“There’s a difference between being let back into society and being allowed to stand for public office." How has Kemi Badenoch found herself in the surreal position of defending a convicted Neo-Nazi standing as a Tory councillor?
I'm as shocked as you are, dear reader, that the leader of the Conservative Party would omit to mention or factor in the 11,651 prison places that were closed over the same period due to either prison closures or cell dilapidation.
Full Fact@fullfact.org · 16h agoAndy Burnham has claimed only 500 prison places were added between 2010 and 2024, but Kemi Badenoch says the Conservatives created 14,000 new places. Can these two claims add up? We’ve had a look at the figures 👇 fullfact.org/crime/how-ma...
Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage
Badenoch flailing around now on #r4today trying to defend this idiocy. Babbling incoherent nonsense. Truly woeful that this deeply unpleasant and thoroughly mediocre person is now Tory leader. And a better journalist than Justin Webb would have made that very clear. (Article from iPaper)
So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.
![Badenoch defends former neo-Nazi pick as council candidate
By Will Meakin-Durrant
Kemi Badenoch has said her party
"believes in second chances".
, after
the Conservatives selected a former neo-Nazi once jailed for harassing a Jewish former MP as a local election candidate.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine
posted on social media that he was "tremendously proud" that he has been chosen to stand for election to Somerset Coun-cil, in the Crewkerne South ward.
Bonehill-Paine (inset) was jailed in 2016 after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment.
He wrote several blog posts about the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Baroness Luciana Berger, labelling her "an evil money-grabber" with a "deep-rooted hatred of men".
He was previously jailed for producing an ad illustrated with a picture of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which promised "an absolute gas" at a rally in Golders Green, north London.
Badenoch said: "I want to be very clear - and I think people can look at me and know that I'm not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis.
"Josh is someone who actually has been certified by the Home Office to train police officers on antisemitism and on countering extremism.
"Yes, he [has] previously convicted but he has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously.
"And the Conservative Party believes in second chances."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreicb7ehutwjwq4iundbhvecrngv57va75dd54vru2qurb7gq2ve3xa)
I can’t believe ‘here’s your prison sentence, you will serve half, but your co-defendant who got a bit longer for something a bit worse will do two-thirds, but one of you can go home early on curfew and that one will now do a third and the other a half’ hasn’t worked out for us.