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 · 10h ago

Andy 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...

Last time he tried to stand... This happened

And now Sarah Pochin… Investigate Reform MP Over Donation, Campaigners Demand

Investigate Reform MP Over Donation, Campaigners Demand

Sarah Pochin, Reform UK MP for Runcorn and Helsby, is facing pressure over a £5,000 donation from food industry millionaires that stand to benefit from her campaigning.  According to an investigation…

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On the other hand, I wish I could find Stuart Thompson on this platform. This is the kind of person I like to follow and so should all of us…

Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2d ago

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.

He’s utterly and completely Faraged himself

Peter Kay@theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 4d ago

Farage put himself in the frame from day 1: “Farage negotiated the pact with Richard Tice, then the leader, in March and April 2024. George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who had been secretly bankrolling Farage, supervised the discussions.” www.thetimes.com/article/9221...

Farage struck secret Reform comeback deal months before election

Farage struck secret Reform comeback deal months before election | LBC

Negotiations with Richard Tice were supervised by George Cottrell, raising fresh questions over Nigel Farage’s account of when he decided to return to politics.

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The full-blown meltdown here is wild in the context of the fact that from all reports the vast majority of the people have already returned to Morocco and they were never ever ever going to “reach the UK.”

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 4d ago

Achieved

By ‘eck it’s Grim ooop North for Reform UK Ltd … but at least the people of Manchester are much Brighter …. How long before Deform claim Rigging in the Frigging Election, and family or sectarian voting, even they lost by a Country Mile 🤡🤡🤡🤣😆😂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😎

Well, they're on their way back to Morocco actually, as they never had any way to reach mainland Spain, let alone the UK, but who needs facts when you're Bobby J the King of Bullshit.

Once again, I think we can all agree that the real story here is Kemi Badenoch’s miraculous resurrecting of Tory fortunes.

“Unabashed socialist” The Telegraph having a totally normal and not at all hysterical reaction to Bev Craig winning the Manchester Mayoral election. Not deranged at all.

The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 5d ago

The Greater Manchester mayoral results are in, and they tell a fascinating story. It isn't that Reform is dead and buried. It's that, for maybe the first time, a party that has thrived on an aura of inevitability has been measured against reality - and was found to be not that scary at all.

Just think of how sick, twisted and demented you have to be to post this as president knowing it is all a lie because you don’t want to admit you hired an unqualified pool guy - the act of typing this knowing that every word is false.

This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police after...

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'It's almost as if people think the rules should be different for them and their colleagues...' @mrjamesob.bsky.social believes there's now a 'two-tier approach' to acceptable language used by politicians.

JAW-DROPPING PLOT: Trump overruled his own administration to block the release of federal disaster aid to four Democratic-led states that did not vote for him in the 2024 election, according to a report.

Trump’s Jaw-Dropping Plot to Punish Blue States Exposed

The president is seemingly making potentially life-changing decisions based on whether states backed him in 2024.

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Fiona Cottrell transferred £1m to Richard Tice's company, Britain Means Business, which then donated £500K to Reform UK. Cottrell also made two separate £250,000 donations directly to the party. The Met Police is investigating these donations.

Police investigate payments to Reform UK first revealed by The Guardian

Scotland Yard is looking at two £250,000 donations to the party by Britain Means Business before the 2024 election

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"Fartage knows all the wrong people" 'Robert Bush of Hull , a former funeral director, is facing jail after admitting to 67 offences, including 30 counts of preventing the lawful burial of a body. Police found 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes at his premises...' via Allan Sharpe

How George Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs

How George Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs

Nigel Farage's criminal funder runs a Montenegro company whose corporate advisors work for a Belgrade Russian-arms dealer and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises

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"Free Lucy Connolly" and "jail Zack Polanski" are not remotely intellectually consistent as positions. Anyone who's said both – hi Zia! – can be dismissed as an insincere grifter. And that's even before you factor that Connolly's post was significantly worse *and* made during a time of riots.

They seem to forget who created this mess in the first place www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Tories urge Burnham to halt early release of dangerous prisoners

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“Harborne specifically re-registered as a UK resident to cast his vote for the Brexit referendum whilst declaring just a few months later in a UK company documents that he lived in Thailand.” www.channel4.com/news/how-a-c...

How a crypto billionaire used ‘gaping loopholes’ to bankroll Reform

Meet Christopher Harborne, the billionaire bankrolling Reform UK.

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As Nigel Farage expresses performative outrage over a cartoon on a t-shirt, I'm old enough to remember 2019 when Nigel Farage said he would "take the knife to civil servants" just five weeks after a civil servant was knifed in an attack outside the Home Office. #r4today

Well, you can’t accuse the Daily Fail of not recycling, they done the whole “PM wears expensive clothes” act with Starmer too.

Hopefully the tide is turning and having seen what Reform Councils do fewer and fewer people believe the lies they tell to get elected ... memes via Reform Are Not Your Friends

The fraudsters, rapists, spies and domestic violence abuser friends and supporters of 'man-of-the-people' Nigel Farage meme via We Demand UK

My @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation reveals a network of criminal complicity at heart of Reform UK rooted in identity fraud by George Cottrell - the criminal fraudster secretly funding Farage and Reform - in cahoots with a Reform treasurer and a casino owner 🧵 bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...

‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures

Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...

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Turns out Rob Kenyon failed to attend his second of 2 Wigan Council Full Council meetings yesterday. That’s 2/2 he’s missed. No “he’s standing to be an MP” excuses this time. Seems the plucky plumber has plucked off.

“Something fundamental has changed. Nigel Farage for the first time is looking vulnerable” Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on her latest deep dive into George Cottrell