Gavin Draper

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

The famous “10 foot” graffiti artist has a local rival now in east London called “9 inch” who leaves their tag everywhere 10-foot has left theirs. I’m looking forward to seeing how this develops. 😂 (unless it is the same person developing their trade of course)!

NEW: The big new Aaron Sorkin film The Social Reckoning opens tomorrow with a plot centred on Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen....but we need to talk about *another* Facebook whistleblower, Sarah Wynn-Williams. And why Zuck is gunning for her.. 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?is=NP3...

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You have to get a very long way through this BBC report before you learn which party runs the council which took the decision to close all these nurseries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@bearlypolitics.co.uk Congratulations on your promotion to a NY Times puzzle!

So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is outrageous, but can only make it to - get this - page 41 of today’s Times! (Archived story without paywall here archive.ph/Kn8sR)

Last chance to sign our petition against the nondom billionaire media: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.

As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...

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Quite apart from the questions about how he might fund it, or whether he would even follow through and do it, why aren’t journalists asking if this promise is BREAKING THE LAW? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think my iPhone autocorrect is set to English (Northern). It always autocorrects “Don’t” to “Do t”!

I am sick and tired of Reform spokespeople showing up on media channels or far right protest hot spots complaining about small boats without so much as a single journalist linking their protest target to the Brexit that caused the boats and these spokespeople’s support for it! Pin this on them ffs!

It is the resigned, passive tolerance of Brexit initiated generic foreigner hatred that is so depressing about this Labour administration to date. They do nothing about the online hate and now it is in the steets they just hope it fades away. Their inaction on all fronts only encourages more of it.

And here he is… Make him “famous” please…. 😒🤮

There are in fact two big stories in this story. One: the alleged intentional swerve of electoral law for newsworthy favourable polling, and Two: Farage was filmed on Clacton soil! (but only when surrounded by champagne and wealth) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Quando una #politica aggressiva contro l’inquinamento funziona davvero. #london #uk #pollution

Pretty sure my Alexa is having a strop. Asked it if the Jubilee line was running today and at the speed of light it replied “Sorry, I couldn’t find anything”. It obviously didn’t even look! I’ll ask it for the weather tomorrow and I’m half expecting to be told to look out the window!

This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...

And then I thought to myself, why the fuck should I try any longer? The undeniable truth is that thick people gave us Brexit, Trump, Johnson, Truss, Trump again and climate change. And they're now trying to give us Farage. I know they can't help being born dumb fuckers, but enough is enough!

The Conservatives and Nigel Farage helped create the small boats crisis with their botched Brexit deal. Now they want you to blame everyone else. Only Lib Dems have a real plan: work with our European neighbours to tackle it.

Ed Davey, "The small boats crisis has been caused by Reform UK and the Conservatives, and their Brexit support" "Before we left the EU we could return people and now we can't" "But if we join the EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact, we could return every single person who came over on a small boat"

What are the odds now that Farage will not take the MP swearing-in oath, Sinn Fein style, so as to swerve the resumption of the standards commission investigation, and thus another by-election that he’ll now likely lose.

I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.

Just had to share this. Thx #Reformemes

Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"

There is always a Tweet! #FarageBoats

Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

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This dog must have an amazing sense of humor. Original post

Reform UK donor and Farage ally George Cottrell carried a fake Swiss passport under the name ‘Oscar Drewitt’. Cottrell was hired under the name by the future Reform treasurer Mehrtash A’zami. A’zami later vetted Cottrell’s mother's donations to Reform, now the subject of a police investigation

The story here is “Starmer’s loyalists axed”. I think the news will be that, in the spirit of “revenge is a dish best served cold”, they largely declined to serve. I think Starmer may have stitched Burnham up leaving him bereft of senior cabinet experience to achieve his bold claims.

Piers Morgan, "Front page of the Mirror today: Farage aide faces 20 years for blackmail drug plot. This guy worked pretty closely with you" "George Cottrell, 22, arrested when you were in America" Nigel Farage, "Listen, I can't be responsible for what everyone around me does"

OMG This is hilarious! God I hope he wins. 😂😂 youtube.com/watch?v=MMYn...

It has occurred to me that if Farage claims he is the anti establishment candidate while being as much “establishment” as anyone has ever been, then @countbinface.bsky.social is the antidisestablishmentarianismist candidate and he should ask the media to credit him as being so. #makeyourvotecount.

For those complaining that the main parties aren’t standing against Reform in Clacton, let’s remind you of Farage’s pact with the “establishment” in 2019 standing Brexit party candidates down.

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

Exactly what I just said when I heard this news. When it's time to take out the trash, Binface is the man you need.

EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...