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Elsewhere55 #FBPE@elsewhere55.bsky.social · 17h ago

'The longest ballot paper in British political history is costing four times as much to print than regular ballot papers... The list for the Clacton parliamentary by-election, which was prompted by the resignation of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, is 90cm (3ft) long.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Clacton by-election ballot list costing four times more

The list of 34 candidates standing in the Clacton by-election is nearly a metre long.

bbc.co.uk

Adam@adamf23.bsky.social · 2d ago

This also completely undermines any claim the Conservative party are standing robustly against antisemitism wherever it appears. Wrong of Badenoch but also a total own goal - Labour and even Reform will be able to use it to attack her.

Hugh Brechin@hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 2d ago

I did assume that this was a case of a local organisation having totally lost the plot, but Kemi Badenoch is now forcefully and explicitly defending the selection of a former neo-Nazi with a significant criminal history as a candidate. Crackers and terrifying.

Ren Zelen@renzelen.bsky.social · 2d ago

Why won’t the media ignore Farage’s idiotic ideas once they’re found unworkable and just a distraction or a gimmick. No, they keep banging on about a non-event. This isn’t journalism.

Mike D London@mikedlondon.bsky.social · 2d ago

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')

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David Russell@docfossil2.bsky.social · 4d ago

That Farage is a slime-mould is beyond argument. If people cannot see this then who ties their shoelaces & stirs their tea!

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."
Doug is ONLINE@dasmunch.eurosky.social · 4d ago

I suspect that whether or not Lowe actually would do any of this given the opportunity is moot, because his highest priority is sticking it to Nigel Farage for snubbing him in 2024. He will implode the entire right wing to ruin that man, will scorch the Earth entire. Spite is an incredible motivator

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

Rupert Lowe pitches a deal from Restore to Farage's Reform. His conditions are full adoption of Restore's policies on mass deportations" including "millions must go" slogan on legal migrants + his policies on Islam + a referendum on death penalty + the ditching of Rupert Jenrick & Suella Braverman

Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU@steven-hughes.bsky.social · 4d ago

UK government has invested nothing in AI gigafactories. The EU has set up a dedicated "European AI office" to further its AI goals. The UK has no equivalent, and Burnham dissolving the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) probably hasn't helped. We need to get off our arses.

EU aims for seven AI gigafactories with €10 billion plan in race with US, China

The European Union will fund seven artificial intelligence gigafactories across the bloc ​with €10 billion ($11.5 billion), the European Commission said ‌on Thursday, as the EU steps up efforts to clo...

reuters.com

Jo W@josally53.bsky.social · 4d ago

'Clacton-on-Sea contains Jaywick, named the most deprived neighbourhood in England for 4th time since 2010' ... I wonder how Farage has helped this neighbourhood in his constituency.

Anti-Reform@antireform.bsky.social · 4d ago

Nigel Farage's father was a very rich stockbroker; he's privately educated, billionaire funded, travels by private jet cares far more about his 5 homes & 13 jobs than helping constituents in Clacton which includes Jaywick, named the most deprived neighbourhood in England for 4th time since 2010

Thomas Penny@thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is absolutely insane. A Reform council leader has contacted the police to complain after he was criticised about one of his council's decisions... It's clearly not only Farage who hates being held to account. 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...

mirror.co.uk

Jules 🍺@julesbl.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 6d ago

Caroline Lucas: The shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see https://www.thenerve.news/p/caroline-lucas-greens-climate-reports-suppressed-food-security #climatechange #climatecrisis #uk #ukpolitics

Caroline Lucas: The shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see

The intelligence services now believe nature collapse is a security threat. For a cabinet determined to sacrifice the environment for growth, was that too uncomfortable a truth, asks the former Green party leader

thenerve.news

Justice For Victims@reinsoffire.bsky.social · last wk.

Reform UK Corruption. Why has this detail taken so long to make its way into the news? Shady Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before "her" donations to Reform, came from...her convicted felon son George, Farage's little fraud boy.

Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK

Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son

theguardian.com

Chris Rivers@chrisrivers50.bsky.social · last wk.

Burnham’s X-party invite for a social care meeting can’t be attended by Badenoch or Davey. Instead Burnham will be in a room with Tory Shadow Health Secretary Stuart Andrew and a laptop with Davey for half an hour. Predictably, Farage: “remarkable I was not invited”. He’s not even an MP, he resigned

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