Call me old-fashioned, but I just think that if you are announcing £10bn of spending, then if the Shadow Treasury team and the leader's office are doing their jobs properly, the leader should have clearer answers to these questions:
"I'm not a defence expert."
Even by Kemi Badenoch's lamentable standards, this is agonising. Just give thanks she will never, ever be Prime Minister. 🙏
#politicslive
Hi @westmidlandspolice.bsky.social,
A physical assault was committed yesterday at the NEC Birmingham at the Reform party conference. Perhaps someone in your force should find this perpetrator?
Content warning:
Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
“Every time [Farage] tries to persuade the country he’s running a serious party and that it isn’t a one-man band, something seems to happen to make it look like a dodgy, third-rate clown show.”
What an u̶n̶l̶u̶c̶k̶y̶ ̶c̶o̶i̶n̶c̶i̶d̶e̶n̶c̶e̶/nailed-on inevitability…
Ffs enough now.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“Reform.... present themselves as the anti-establishment insurgents, but banning independent journalists like me from party conference isn’t anti-establishment. It’s the establishment playbook.”
Am taking being barred from Reform conference as badge of honour!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage’s £5m gift, the Cottrell family’s links and donations, and Richard Tice’s business dealings form part of an increasingly clear nexus of relationships. - They are in it for the money!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
🔴 NEW - Farage claims he didn’t have to register the gifts from Harborne and Cottrell because, before June 2024, he was an “influencer and broadcaster” not a politician.
Yet that claim is disproven by Farage’s own parliamentary filings…
Reform's Zia Yusuf had claimed the state was "providing no protection whatsoever" to the party's MPs.
In fact, Nigel Farage had been offered a package that would have given him the same level of protection as Kemi Badenoch - but he turned it down.
Who doesn’t rent their spare room back to themselves to offset tax, keeping it £1 less than the amount which would trigger a required to declaration according to Parliament's reporting standards.
Working class hero.
A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white Trump supremacists prepare to march on the streets of D.C.
Look how proud she is to show her face while they are all too ashamed to show theirs.
She’s a hero, they are all cowards….
For the third by-election in a row Reform UK offered voters the politics of rage and for the third time in a row they have been roundly rejected as a result.
How Andy Burnham's massive victory in Makerfield shows the wheels are now coming off of the Nigel Farage project
Farage vows to ban foreign nationals from social housing as byelection looms
What about banning foreign nationals buying Farage another house?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK’s #Makerfield Candidate Rob Kenyon can’t answer a simple question.
This isn’t new politics, it’s dodging any fair scrutiny.
Share far and wide!
When he was an MEP, Farage excused his absences on basis that it was an illegitimate government and that sovereignty should reside in Westminster.
He's now an MP in Westminster
And he's been absent for 77 Parliament votes in a row.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...
Reform UK is facing mockery as MP Danny Kruger refuses to say if Nigel Farage will share evidence of his alleged "Russian hack". Critics say hiding behind unverified conspiracy theories is a cheap attempt to dodge scrutiny over a hidden £5m gift. 🏛️🔍 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Turns out I have a £9,400 County Court judgement against me for an unpaid debt, which I didn't even know about.
But please put me in charge of the country's finances and the whole of the UK economy.
Interesting that Reform announced their Makerfield candidate today via press release and not a press conference. Almost like there is something that Nigel Farage would quite like to avoid answering questions about.
Why the biggest lie in British politics is the claim that Nigel Farage, who has received more corporate bungs than any politician in our history, "cannot be bought"
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-cameo-...
Is Farage the only person in Britain that gained from Brexit - he might be.
This secret £5m bung, which was first claimed as security money - is now described as a reward for Brexit, the economic Tsunami that stripped £150 billion from our economy and cost all us over £2k every single year since.
And here’s a convicted criminal paying for Farage’s security long after he secretly accepted £5 million from Christopher Harborne supposedly to pay for his security.
NEW: On the £5mn Harborne gift (which Farage says he didn’t have to declare because it was to cover his security before he became an MP)
Farage did declare a donation from George Cottrell in mid-April 2024, which covered his accommodation and travel and “security provision”.
BREAKING:
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.
Was that £5m crypto billionaire gift to Farage given to him:
a) unconditionally
b) to pay for security
c) as a reward for 27 years pushing for Brexit
You decide - because Nigel 'I'm not a crook' Farage can't.
Oh what a tangled web they weave...
Farage now admits he bought the Clacton house, having told everyone last year that his partner Laure Ferrari bought the house.
Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks...
HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless.
Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it
So where's the wall-to-wall coverage?
Tell me this isn't a rigged game.
Reform is a protest party. A protest against decency, integrity, kindness, expertise, and progress. It's a party of pettiness and hate, and it is made up of petty and hateful people from the grassroots to the very top.
What it doesn't have is competence. So good luck with the bins and potholes.
So today, £5million-giftboy, Farage bins his planned appearance on #bbclaurak
But as soon as he wants scrutiny-free attention, he’ll be back.
How dare he use the media when it suits him and shun it when it doesn’t. No one wanting power should have that kind of control over their own accountability.
It's mad that a £5 million donation to Fag Ash Farage has raised less eyebrows than Keir Stamer getting a new suit.
Or, Richard Tice actively avoiding paying £200k in tax compared to Angela Rayner making an honest mistake on her stamp duty.
It's never been more clear that our media is against us
Their outrage misses a fundamental truth that too few people grasped at the time: when we were in the EU, we actually had a far better handle on migration than we do now.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/did-...