Vanda Greenwood
@vandag1997.bsky.social
Retired Labour Councillor from Bratfud! Blade #SUFC ⚔️ Coach for #WYCC.🏏 Unison & Co-op party member. Soon to be an EU citizen again 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇪🇺#Italiandualcitizen
But they seemed like such nice, patriotic, community-minded chaps. (Except the ones currently facing murder, child abuse & assault charges, obviously.)
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d agoLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated Glenn Gibbins (Sunderland) is now an Independent
One thing is for sure in Manchester: Nigel Farage abandoned Sian Astley. He told everyone to campaign for him in Clacton, because that’s what Reform UK is all about. Him first, the country second (if that).
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has called for employers to stop conducting interviews on Zoom or Teams and using AI to filter through CVs "How does a young person shine in that situation? How do you get over some of your personality, your passion?"
Important piece from @andyburnham.bsky.social @thetimes.com Business across #North need both graduate talent & better vocational system to prepare their future workers. It’s not an either / or & the changes to education up to 16 & beyond been a long time coming www.thetimes.com/article/510c...
Andy Burnham: We’ll value the hard hat as much as the graduation cap
What is holding back our teenagers isn’t lack of ambition but the skills and experience to make the most of it, the prime minister writes
thetimes.com
Net migration has fallen from 944,000 to 171,000. Yet that headline conceals major movements in both directions – including substantial emigration by British and EU+ nationals. So, asks Jonathan Portes, what exactly is the problem people want politicians to solve?
Reducing net migration was never the real issue
Our immigration statistics have served to legimise racism. Reduced net migration was not what people wanted
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Opinion | The first major achievement of his premiership is the successful establishment of both working class credentials and approachability. This may well prove to be the key to seeing off the threat posed by Nigel Farage 🖋️ @mrjamesob: trib.al/hleOY6l
This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1
Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 2w agoElaine in this article "can't remember the last time she used her oven" but also spends £200 a month on petrol (so driving probably ~50 miles a day?) (she's also a professional old person; she was on Good Morning Britain last year, and then also at the Nov budget, and the year before lmao)
Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated Karl Perks (Worcestershire CC) has defected to the Conservatives. Joe Garner (North Northants) is now an independent. Bella Simon (Walsall) is now an independent.
Council leader dodges questions on 'sexually explicit' posts, moon landing www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-n...
Council leader dodges questions on 'sexually explicit' posts, moon landing
Reform UK councillor Stephen Place dismisses criticism as 'puerile playground antics'
examinerlive.co.uk
Cheers Donald. Now sit and watch as they win the trophy in your own tournament
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTrump: "Spain is a wasted cause. We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore, by the way. I'd like to cut it off. Spain is a terrible partner in NATO. Cut off all trade with Spain, please. Including visits. We don't want anything to do. They're hopeless. Bad people."
A very warm welcome to Downing Street, Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
Who new campaigning could be so much fun, great weather, committed campaigners, top candidate @bevcraig.bsky.social and a ride on the battle bus around greater Manchester. What’s not to like ❤️🌹
Labour are now level with Reform, according to the latest national Survation poll
🚨BURNHAM ELECTED LEADER🚨 "And if we don't have sufficient public control over the cost of the essentials, how can we have control over inflation, public spending and the rest of the economy?" "The right use the phrase take back control, but they are the ones who gave it away in the first place."
"I will fight for Clacton and stand on my record of what I have achieved for the town! Things like... er... and, ah... hmmm... what about, er... that umm... well... I'm pretty sure I visited once"
Breaking: The Metropolitan Police has launched a criminal investigation into at least £500,000 of donations made to Reform UK by the mother of the convicted fraudster who secretly bankrolled Nigel Farage. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Police investigate Reform donations by mother of fraudster who bankrolled Farage
Fiona Cottrell, mother of George Cottrell, who has been funding the Reform UK leader’s operations, gave £500,000 to the party before the last general election
thetimes.com
One from the archives: "A video of Nigel Farage shows him saying that as an MEP he could earn as much as a Goldman Sachs banker through claiming expenses and employing his wife" (which he did) When Farage talks about how much he's supposedly sacrificed financially by going into politics...
Nigel Farage claims in video MEPs can earn like a Goldman Sachs banker
In footage from 1999 or 2000, the Ukip leader is heard criticising the MEP expense system as 'wrong' and 'monstrous'
theguardian.com
Nigel Farage: Why Reform UK leader's by-election 'stunt' won't get him off the hook
Why Nigel Farage's by-election 'stunt' won't get him off the hook
Mr Farage resigned as MP for Clacton in a shock move as he faced a string of claims over his financial links
standard.co.uk
Richard Gere helping Asylum Seekers, RT if he is a billion times the man Nigel Farage is.
I trust the people of Clacton to judge me on my record. Apart from the record that shows I have visited American more times than Clacton, have never held a constituency surgery and rarely bother to drag my arse into Parliament to do my actual job.
Nigel Farage keeps saying his expenses are zero. Yet another lie.
