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Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk · 9h ago

Marking the 6th anniversary of our launch, this is the first of a series of articles running throughout the week on the future viewed through the eyes of the young. VERY young, in this first article! Lauris, 10, and Sylvie, 7, share their views of what the future might look like in 50 Years' time

Happy birthday Sussex Bylines – but what does the future hold?

On the sixth anniversary of Sussex Bylines, two young people write about how they imagine the future

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Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4d ago

It just keeps on coming… Farage struck deal to return as leader long before Sunak called surprise 2024 vote, so his claim that he wasn’t involved in politics when he got his £5million “gift” is, of course, another grubby lie. The man is garbage. Grifting, lying, cheating garbage. (Sunday Times)

Farage struck deal to return as leader long before election Reform chief had insisted he was not involved in politics until Sunak called surprise 2024 vote Extracts; Nigel Farage struck a secret deal to return as Reform UK leader months before the general election. 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. Under the terms of the deal, Reform agreed to repay or write off more than £1 million in outstand ing loans it had taken from Tice's company upon Farage becoming leader. The deal was first presented by Farage and Cottrell to the party's treasurer in mid-May. Its existence undermines the Reform leader's claim that he had no intention until June 2024 of returning to politics. Farage has used this to defend his failure to declare donations made to him in the year before he was elected as an MP, which triggered two parliamentary investigations. Last night, Reform sources acknowledged the existence of the deal but insisted it had been drafted for if, not when, Farage became leader. Asked why he would have signed such an agreement if he had no intention of returning as leader, they said it kept his options open. They said Farage had assumed he would focus his energies on campaigning for Donald Trump in that year's US presidential election. Farage has claimed repeatedly that he did not need to declare a £5 million gift from the crypto--billionaire Christopher Harborne or in-kind benefits from Cottrell, as he was a media personality at the time. MPs must declare any benefit in any way connected to their "political activities" received in the 12 months before their election. He told the "anti-woke" Trigger-nometry podcast last month: "At that period of my life, from 2021 to the third of June 2024, I was a broadcaster… I was somebody that promoted financial market products, I was an influencer, I wasn't in politics."
Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk · 3d ago

August 4th marks our 6th anniversary and to mark it we're publishing a series of articles from young writers on how they see the future. The message from the young is - "listen to us, stop messing up our future, and stop destroying the planet!" Read what they have to say throughout the week.

CarolBN10@carolbn10.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've been banging the drum for rainwater harvesting to be installed on all new builds for the last 10 years, but no one has listened. It won't have cured the problem, but it might have helped.