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Monday: Richard Tice. Tuesday: Nigel Farage. #R4Today doing its bit to give Reform a helping hand now it is plummeting in the polls.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

£100 billion a year lost to Brexit. None of Richard Tice’s cuts would come anywhere near the boost to the economy that EU membership would bring. #R4Today

Oh here we go: Fantasy Politics and Me, starring Richard Tice on #R4Today

A pretty shitty word choice today. No me gusta. #Wordle Wordle 1,953 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Looks like the next Trump catastrophe is gearing up: The CIA has released a Spanish-language guide advising Cubans seeking "positive change" on how to contact the agency securely.

But Justin Webb shows no bias whatsoever and truly has his finger on the pulse of the political sphere 🙃. #R4Today

As admirable as Dame Judy is, what’s this long form interview doing on the prime time national news and current affairs programme? #R4Today

6,000 jobs at Nissan's Washington plant (& 30k supply-chain roles) rely on 🇬🇧 joining the EU's 'Made in Europe' scheme, notes this Sunderland Echo ✉️. "Get Brexit Done" was a misnomer. To stop North East industry being collateral damage, we must #RejoinEU! 🇪🇺👇 #Sunderland #UKPolitics

Nick Robinson has been giving cover to racists for years with their “legitimate concerns” and now finds abuse of RNLI volunteers “deeply shocking”. #R4Today

Eventually, LBC publish the story (no mention of Gove or her media links), as does the BBC (likewise). And then the LBC story ALSO vanishes!! 🤷‍♀️😱 The BBC story remains up - as a local Oxfordshire story... You have to know to look for it.

Did Robert Jenrick just say he abhors racism? Hahahaha! Ffs. #R4Today

How does the saying go, Robert Jenrick? One bad apple … *spoils the whole bunch*. #R4Today

Trump on Iran: "Their leaders are gone. That's one of the problems. I might have gotten too far. I don't know who the hell to deal with ... I probably went a little too far. I'm sorry."

Wow! Aaron Banks and his financing of Farage’s Brexit campaign actually mentioned on #R4Today

Extremely scant reporting right across the media on #R4Today regular, Michael Gove’s (recent) ex-girlfriend’s trial for possessing indecent child images. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW | On disappearing stories… MICHAEL GOVE, LOLA SALEM, AND A SUDDEN SILENCE Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...

As Mic notes, the Streisand effect is particularly strong when articles are removed wholesale without explanation brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...

As Nigel Farage calls Andy Burnham a liar for confirming that there was Russian interference in our elections and the Brexit referendum …

Eight years ago

Ffs Justin Webb. #R4Today sounds like he’s putting up a defence on behalf of Putin over Brexit.

Justin Webb on #R4Today is actually using the words “rounding up” in his questioning. And he’s not talking about livestock. Zia Yusuf having a Trumpian rant.

Reform’s ridiculous Monday morning announces are transparent attempts to lead the week’s news narrative, no matter how skewed, and #R4Today happily allow Zia Yusuf to draw a correlation between seeking asylum and the lack of UK public services. Unchallenged.

Kemi Badenoch going for Trump tactics thinking they will cut the mustard in her Tory Party Conference speech. Tell everyone to be really scared of impending threat and doom and paint herself as the only person capable of fixing all the damage (that the Tories caused).

There are still people who think this man is not only sane, but also that he is a great president.

Some stripey fat cucumbers and some glossy dark aubergines. I’m always moved by the quality of the vegetables in Italian markets. They just don’t accept poor quality food.

Rather notable that on the day that a planned violent attack on Nigel Farage is uncovered, Nigel Farage is notably absent from the airwaves and Richard Tice, sent as the Reform spokesperson, is uncharacteristically moderate in his response. #R4Today

This week we watched the remarkable Esther Rantzen celebrate the humanity of Nicholas Winton and his Kindertransport which saved the lives of 669 Jewish children. But we now live in a country where there are many who’d rather let refugee children drown than allow them to survive in safety.

Omfg! Michael Gove #R4Today ? Surely he is a discredited source of information and opinion since the Brexit debacle?

Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC

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Great to see latest Democracy for Sale and lighthouse reports investigation, into Tony Blair Institute, in @financialtimes.com with @pickardje.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/1ca9...

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I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

Billionaire, Brexit backing, tax-avoiding, Monaco resident, Jim Ratcliffe demonstrating what’s wrong with this country. Wring the shit out of your country and leave. #R4Today

It’s mind blowing that after 2.8 million years of the development of the human genus, we are consciously developing technology that makes us redundant and potentially destroys us. #R4Today

Reform UK and Christopher Harborne say the mega-donor crypto billionaire is living in the UK (so the overseas donor cap supposedly won't affect him). Since when? A claim form filed by Harborne in the High Court only this June lists his address as (still) in Bangkok...

The government should be running daily TV and social media adds on the decline in numbers and the real conditions refugees face in the UK. At the moment they have completely lost the narrative.

Caller to Any Answers #BBCR4 #BBCaq says he wouldn’t care if Reform received their donations from Al Qaeda as long as he wouldn’t have to “pay for room service for immigrants.”

Farage was - once again - lying when he said counter terrorism police had delayed his speech because of threats. West Midlands police confirm they gave no such advice.

Farage is claiming “loose talk”, even though he was sitting at the same table, scoffing oysters and thanking a journalist “businessman” for spending £30,000 on Reform’s polling.

Farage getting massively heckled during his speech. #ReformConference

Farage says they have made huge strides in Wales. Including having their leader banged up for 10 years for treason.

Apparently it’s because this popped up behind Tice on a timer while he was speaking. So, now they are checking for other protests.

Oh my oh my.

The Channel 4 sting demonstrated quite clearly that Reform had angled for, and accepted secret foreign donations to pay for their polling. It was a done deal. Tice just said that no donations had been accepted. #R4Today

Richard Tice is trying his hardest to shoot the piano player. #R4Today

Just two weeks ago, what happened to the last Cambridge professor forced into the media spotlight?

Fkksake, Aaron Banks. Ask him why he broke Britain #R4Today

Cambridge Professor, Jason Arday died only two weeks ago after a relentless media hounding. #R4Today