This is absolutely extraordinary. It's hard to know where to start. The utter tone-deafness? The scorn towards local government? The high-handed dismissiveness towards people affected by racism and antisemitism? Badenoch is an X-brained crackpot.
This is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning
The Tory / Reform Uniparty will try to blame Labour for 14 yrs of Tory failure over prisons, creating yet another crisis for Labour to solve The Tories built just 500 additional places in 14 yrs - 36 per year - and Sunak had to free 10,000 prisoners early as a result. (In case they've 'forgotten')
2/4 Nature is not a luxury. Healthy ecosystems are the foundation of our food security, public health, economic resilience and national wellbeing. As climate and ecological crises deepen, protecting and restoring nature is essential to our collective future.
"[Byline] revealed that Cottrell entered corporate finance under a false Swiss identity, hired by the same City network that produced Reform UK’s own treasurer, Mehrtash A’zami. "Byline Times has since confirmed that this identity was stolen from a real person – Cottrell’s old school friend."
Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
bylinetimes.com
Now Tice is being investigated by the Parliamentary standards watchdog. Reform are rotten to the core. Let’s hope this presages their end.
Michael Gove moaning about Powell’s statement about education likely to “bring back stupid”. Good grief. Has he forgotten about his own proclamation about the nation having had enough of experts? If anything encouraged stupidity in recent times, it was that.
There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.
All true. Add to this their rampant self-interest and sense of entitlement. The leader of my newly Reformed council decided that the leader’s office was too small. So he spent our money on repurposing a meeting room, including adding frosted glass (so much for transparency) and a button to operate/1
Alasdair Swanson@alasdairswanson.bsky.social · 5d agoCommentary on Reform centres on their racism. Not enough is made of their mean-spiritedness, contempt for their voters and general incompetence. Most parties have some shades of these but Reform seems to view them as basic entry qualifications (plus racism)
For a company, whose political arm seems solely to exist to criticise others, they seem remarkably poor at taking criticism themselves.
HappyToast@happytoast.co.uk · 6d agoThis 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 UK... Jenrick, Tice, Farage, et al... are on the back foot with no answers in regard to potential money laundering investigation. #ReformUK #Jenrick #Tice #Farage #UKPolitics www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
While fires rage in large parts of Europe incl UK, farmers face crop failure and livestock loss, every RefUK or Tory politician on the news must be challenged on their "let's do away with costly net zero nonsense" stance, side-by-side with live images of the cost of inaction. Expose the charlatans.
Dunwich Heath burning. What a great time for the Reform-led Suffolk County Council to undeclared the climate emergency.
Down at the Muckrakers Arms, mischievous Pecksniff: - explores why Burnham is writing his own political story instead of responding to everyone else's. - peers behind the headlines at the real cabinet intrigue. - finds plenty to amuse him in Clacton's extraordinary by-election. Enjoy!
Pecksniff: Burnham wants to tell his own story in his own way
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
eastangliabylines.co.uk
The plot thickens... Now Farage's favourite convicted fraudster has written to the National Crime Agency posing as a "long-standing member" of top security think tank RUSI. RUSI's response? He isn't a member. You couldn't make it up - except apparently he can. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
George Cottrell falsely claimed think tank membership in banking complaint
The fraudster, who has donated to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, said he was a member of the Royal United Services Institute, which it denied
thetimes.com
Phil Brickell MP@philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 2w agoFake passports. A money laundering conviction. A mystery casino fortune in Montenegro... There's yet more revelations about who Farage chooses to surround himself with. Let’s start with George Cottrell. A man Farage describes as "like a son," and his former chief of staff 👇
Trump earlier today at the dignified transfer of U.S. Army service members killed in Jordan and Iraq. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Big, brave Nige shows face in public again with aimless speech to a few mega-fans www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Big, brave Nige shows face in public again with aimless speech to a few mega-fans | John Crace
Reform leader’s recycled moanathon included digs at Kemi, the media, immigrants and new PM. But no questions, of course
theguardian.com
This feels like it got buried amid all of the mounting allegations around Reform and Farage's funding. Farage leases property that he owns, to his own company, at exactly £10,000/year. That's a penny under the "over £10,000" rental-income declaration threshold. What is he trying to hide?
Nigel Farage paying himself £50,000 in rent for studio at own property
The arrangement, which could enable the Reform UK leader to lower his tax bill, falls outside parliamentary transparency rules
thetimes.com
Farage seems to have totally lost track of where all his money is coming from... He's got himself tangled in his own conflicting stories about donations. Very messy indeed. open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
Farage just lied about his ‘Posh George’ gifts
And I can prove it...
open.substack.com
Great news everyone. Our Reform-led county council has solved the problem.
Almost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded. The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts
Johnson government wasted ‘vast’ sums on PPE, Covid inquiry finds
Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report
theguardian.com
Guardian: "Analysis of 2,500 articles published in the UK’s nine main national daily publications about extreme heat between 18-28 June found a majority made no mention of global heating or the climate" 42% of 2,700 deaths so far this year are est. to be caused by global warming in England & Wales