An episode of simultaneous untruthfulness not only from the Reform Party, but also from a RW pollster, a RW newspaper, and an RW academic says nothing good about the populist right in the UK
Colin
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Plant trees. Love language. Use numbers. Take photographs. Despise populists. Capable of fact-based rational thought. Still alive.
The polling company JL Partners is unwilling to follow the rules, so should not be in the polling council. Also the Telegraph appears to have lied about the provenance of the poll it published. Even if they didn't know that Reform commissioned it, it was dishonest to suggest it was a Telegraph poll.
Andy Brockman@andybrockman.bsky.social · 6h agoThe legwork, and the sting, which seems to have caught out James Orr, Nigel Farage and Reform-UK was carried out by Verbatim Investigations who have dropped their own take on the story.
"There is something profoundly strange about being a woman in America right now. We are watching rights we thought were settled become arguments again. Politicians discuss our bodies, our healthcare and our choices as though women are some abstract policy problem instead of half the population ..."
What It’s Like to Be a Woman in This America
Author: Anna Mercer
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Reform UK is funded by Russia, Restore bought and paid for by an American trillionaire, GB News owned by a hedge fund in Dubai. Daily Mail registered in Bermuda.
The utter hypocrisy of Kemi Badenoch here, after banning myself and the late great David Hencke from Conservative Party conference last year. Needless to say my application to attend this year on behalf of Byline Times has still not been approved
It’s been a long time coming and it’s appalling that those hypocritical charlatans are still scoring over 20%. ReformUK’s dirty financial dealings are a very deep and ugly can of worms that we’ve only had a peek into.
Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · 12h agoReform UK's popularity has fallen fast. 👏 From consistently scoring over 30% in polls a year ago, to now scoring just over 20%. ❌ Farage is toxic, and people are starting to see through his grifting.
Christmas Cracker motto for Reform UK's Party: "You can't blow a bubble twice."
Private equity owns 11 of England’s 20 biggest children’s care providers. Companies loaded with debt. Profiteering, high prices, profit shifting, tax abuse is rife. Paid £205m to shareholders/investors, leaving less for front line services. Public purse robbed. Must end privatisation
Private equity owns 11 of England’s 20 biggest children’s care providers, research finds
Investigation comes amid growing calls for an end to ‘obscene’ profit-making in care sector
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Nigel 'free speech' Farage's 'cancel culture' approach towards reputable journalists is a hypocrisy to behold.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Contrast. A very colourful male Pheasant in our garden, having escaped the guns.
The media bias in this framing is designed to make it appear that Bully Burnham is leading opinion when he is not. He is following it & he is doing nothing about undoing it; just Johnsonian cherry picking. I have always opposed Brexit AND I fundamentally disagree with everything Burnham represents.
The more often Farage says that "Britain is Broken", the more often he looks like a broken man himself. He is becoming a ridiculous one-shit wonder.
To even begin to understand the experiences of those less fortunate than you, you need to walk a Milo in someone else's shoes.
He's off to America again. He doesn't give a flying Farage about Clacton.
Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.
This is 'free speech' - Farage-style. Very Trump-like.
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · yesterdayReform UK has banned some journalists from its annual conference who have reported critically on the party and Nigel Farage. It includes the Guardian’s City editor, Anna Isaac, who uncovered the £5m gift. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
YET MORE VERY SAD NEWS: "Top Gear" is returning to the BBC, after a tragically short period of time off-air.
"I was once taught, early in my career: If you walk past a violation of standards, and allow it to exist, you have just created a brand new standard – and that standard is lower... Secretary Hegseth is diluting the standards of the military." Mark Hertling Lieutenant General (Retired) U.S. Army
Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors. Reportedly, favours a cap at £500k. How many people have £500k to buy influence? A game only the super-rich, big corporations/unions can play. Can't end political corruption without banning all political donations.
Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Only £5 million from the UK to help Nepal? That's only one Farage bribe. It feels mean. Don't ask me: "What did the Gurkhas ever do for us?" Ask History.
The prospect of Newsnight ending is not just about saving money. The BBC axed Dateline London and Hardtalk that were cheap as chips to produce. The BBC doesn't like in depth intelligent political programmes.
Donald Trump has an extensive Imaginary Library - full of fulsome biographies of Donald Trump and his imaginary achievements.
Despite all the Trump lies, here’s what everyone suspected.
CIA Chief’s Surprise Moscow Trip Was to Warn Russia Not to Attack NATO — The Wall Street Journal
Warning comes after new U.S. intelligence assessments indicated Russian president could launch a limited assault
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay Alt. Theme is #Yellow - on the bird or in the scene. And this Little Egret's feet are definitely yellow.
NEW: Who really pays for Tommy Robinson? Our new Data Desk report digs into the digital pivot, and the cracks opening up behind it: hopenothate.org.uk/tommy-robins...
Tommy Robinson's Digital Empire - Rise of a far-right superstar
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Dolly Parton - so energetic and warm and alive - leaves us with strong songs in our collective memory, regardless of our tastes in music. And 200 million books to support children's literacy. A star.