This is what happens to foreign companies that decide to move their manufacturing to the United States. They get raided and arrested.
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This is what happens to foreign companies that decide to move their manufacturing to the United States. They get raided and arrested.
This protest is larger than his inauguration. 🤣
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Some pretty grim fringe sponsors at Reform UK conference this weekend. Big tobacco, climate deniers and more. Oh and the Telegraph of course.
We’ve been banned from Reform Party events for two years now. Why does Nigel Farage lie to Congress about this? @bylinetimes.bsky.social @josiah.writes.news
The parliamentary register of interests shows that Farage has made nearly £400,000 from GB News since August 2024, for c190 hours’ work. This suggests he is being paid more than £2,000 an hour by the news channel. All paid to Thorn In The Side Ltd owned solely by Farage 25% tax rather than HR
Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.
Save this for the ICC JD Vance endorses murdering civilians: "I don't give a shit if you call the killing of civilians a war crime"
It's money laundering. A way of making it a "salary" rather than a political donation from the financiers behind the loss making GB News channel, like all the other ReFuk presenters.
This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It might be just Me, but the Dept of War, sounds rather aggressive Mango Mussolini is why we can’t have nice things
Second Weak Jobs Report Undercuts Trump’s Claims of a Booming Economy After a bad employment report in August, Trump fired the official in charge of the numbers. This month’s data was just as disappointing.
Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.” Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
1/ Never forget that this draft-dodger warmonger said having unprotected sex in the 80s was his “personal Vietnam” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
"A year into government, Labour partnering with private capital indicates abandoned principles and prioritisation of corporate interests... The scale of Labour’s transfer of public wealth into private hands has triggered fierce criticism not only from within the UK but also across the global left."
Morning. Bit early, I hope your day isn't too demanding.
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on £400,000 GB News earnings. Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses. Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven. Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.
Thames Water to do fewer improvements under lenders' rescue plan. More unplugged leaks, sewage in rivers. Plan wants more cash from customers. No commitment on what shareholders will pay. No end to dividends. Nationalisation is the only durable solution.
Because they listen to donors ahead of voters? It's hard to think of any other possible reason.
I suppose Rayner can now sell her posh flats in Glasgow, her Chelsea mews house and £19m London townhouse, plus her yacht, while she works out how to get the National Crime Agency to unfreeze £75m of her assets. My bad, that's Michelle Mone.
I come from South Australia and my family still live there. This is a catastrophe.
🔥🔥🔥 Here's Emily Maitlis crucifying Farage for both breaking the UK and stabbing it in the back. #FascistFarage
Maitlis on fire here!!!!! Well fricking said. Farage & his lies broke this shithole into pieces.
This is very accurate
Same. Apart from being born female & poor. And worst of all, being intelligent, articulate, and very good at what she does.
"He's more interested in the money America is going to give him - not the people here!" @maitlis.bsky.social asks the residents of Clacton if they've seen Nigel Farage since he became their MP...
I was quite shocked to hear this. I know she's dense enough to bend light, but I thought there were a few remaining shreds of humanity. Seems I was wrong. I believe you have to be quite evil to join Reflux.
My goodness, what a stunning lack of self-awareness by whoever penned that drivel. Or maybe they're just lying (talents on the right, is the clue?)
They got away with it during COVID. Don't let them get away with it for polio, measles, and everything else.
OMG! This is what should be on our news channels! 👏👏👏 @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
Thanks Sam. Not seen this - it cannot be shared widely enough. The US is clearly not completely broken. Well spoken this man.
Israeli military database indicates only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters
So much humbug about Angela Rayner in the right wing press. Literally hundreds, if not thousands, of MPs, Ministers (and journalists and newspaper owners) will have inadvertently filed a tax return with an error. Her actions are conceptually indistinguishable from theirs.
Crackdown on international students could hurt struggling UK cities. Billions lost to local economies. Education is a major export, being systematically harmed by xenophobic policies of successive govts. Students going elsewhere, loss of UK soft power. Exclude students from immigration total.
While Putin sat at China's military parade,Ukraine survived yet another massive Russian drone&missile attack.Air raid alerts sounded in almost all of 🇺🇦 Putin's declarations of wanting peace are lies.Russia attacked us with 526 air attack targets: ◾️502 drones; ◾️16 Kalibr; ◾️8 X-101 cruise missiles.
Again, the minority that are killing this country come in chauffeur driven limos, helicopters and private jets, not dinghies.
On This Morning, Rylan repeated far right conspiracies. None of it is true. In this video I check his claims one by one. Rylan was wrong. Here are the facts… Show this to your reform voting uncle. youtu.be/MgeRPFkod5g?...
My latest article focuses on a huge pollution scandal in Wales, a direct result of massive deregulation, Brexit, and councils ignoring FOI requests. My article is free to read, but please consider a subscription or donation. ko-fi.com/europeanpowell 💚 open.substack.com/pub/european...
At least 15 Reform councillors have been suspended, expelled, or have quit since being elected earlier this year, with at least three facing criminal investigations, Byline Times can report. bylinetimes.com/2025/09/02/s...
I can think of a few local hills in Derbyshire where we could do with one of these!
@pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of B4B: “In 30 pages, the Good Friday Agreement cites the ECHR seven times as an essential safeguard and so these claims look like a wilful misinterpretation of a treaty that ended decades of bloodshed in the UK and Ireland." https://bit.ly/461k8cf
Zoe shouldn't be alone in countering the nonsense from Ferrari and the rest of the right wing chatterarti. Where is Labour?
💯 I can imagine it must feel exhausting, Zoe. But I'm extremely proud of you - and I know I'm not alone. Keep speaking up - but look after yourself too.
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It’s just “ weather “ …….
Wrote this about flags and patriotism in 2021 (in The Decade In Tory). Stand by every word now.
Russia has lost its mind a long time ago.Today,#Ukraine is the only country actively&directly fighting against Putin.Ukraine is successfully resisting&shielding Europe Ukraine is fighting a monster.Russia planned to defeat Ukraine in 3days, yet more than three years have passed
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
My Week: Nigel Farage* www.thetimes.com/article/c16e...
Yes, and yes again. I make lots of my own bread. It's not that I hate the stuff from shops - it just doesn't like me. And I use a lot of spelt, that I really love.
Thank you, Kat! Big hotel, not our usual haunt as hardened Gîte-botherers / independent travellers. But we needed something easy after a tiring summer. Hire car Tuesday, off to see everything we can.
I hope you had / are having a good flight, Nina.
A flag outside your door in 2025 marks you as a member of the MAGAt cult to everyone who sees it. No thanks. I can’t think of anything that would be worse. 🤮
If I was a concerned parent and I loved my kids we’d be spending the last weekend of the school holidays enjoying ourselves. Certainly wouldn’t be out waving a little flag and rioting.
I always love your window onto the Thames, Patricia (thank you). All good, just arrived in Jerez, Spain, for a much needed break. I hope you and yours are well too.
When this time is over (& it will be) & somebody asks me to describe its nature & spirit, I shall play this clip. It embodies the whole cruelty, nastiness, sneer, indifference, cockiness, glee, inhumanity, & evil. It proves they knew what they did was illegal, but they did it happily, voluntarily.
Seriously? It was a lot worse than clumsy. Details coming out about some of the dodgy company Rylan's been keeping, too. I'd quite liked the guy until I heard him spout these tired, far-right lies that punch down on vulnerable refugees.
Please don't forget Ukraine.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-lu... If anyone would like to support the Stop Luton Airport Expansion group S.L.A.E there is a link to the crowdfunder below. The judicial review has been set for November in the Strand. The flight path goes straight through the Chiltern AONB causing pollution & 🧵
Please watch and share this. Thank you, @eddavey.libdems.org.uk, for calling out the hateful rhetoric spouted by Reform - and others - so unambiguously
As Congress returns, so does the Epstein scandal www.latimes.com/politics/new...
Most doctors, most of the time, draw on their years (decades, in my case) of medical training & expertise to do the best we can for you. What distinguishes us from snake oil salesmen - persuasive grifters who prey on human fears to line their pockets - is our expertise & our integrity. Trust… 1/n
Absolutely appalling. State terrorism.
A word on immigration. Don't prejudge this, just listen to the data, and then consider what the solution is. The UK has a falling birth rate. This means that - unless things change - each generation will be 25% smaller than the one before.
At last, some proper British vandalism. (source - www.facebook.com/share/p/1MeV...)
Yep. The same media angrytainment strategy that landed the US in it's current catastrophe. "Look over there, small boats" to distract from the super-rich hoovering up all the wealth. Will ordinary folk please ever wake up and see what's going on?
The Media want to encourage racism, they want to encourage violence, they want to spread hate Anything to distract from the real problem, their billionaire owners They are not your friends, they don't provide news, they don't even provide entertainment. It's a lie machine.
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Fabulous view - those clouds 😍 That would draw me like a magnet to walk to the top.
Farage owns four homes: Family home (£1M, retained after his divorce) Two beachside homes in Kent (via his comp. Thorn In The Side Ltd) One investment property in Surrey (rented out) Radio silence from media about this but uproar about Angela Rayner’s two homes & ministerial home #NigelFarage
This is the future for the UK that Farage wants.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Agreed.
Yes,and parent & child. I noticed that Meadowhall (Sheffield) requires people to register to use those spaces.
I just signed this. Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join me and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent. @friends_earth 👇 foe.uk/ksojs
The data says that the media is more "neutral", but i would beg to differ, there's a difference between omitting certain viewpoints, i.e. left wing views. and platforming right-wingers pretending to be "neutral". It's rubbish, we have RW bias overwhelmingly... pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
The Home Office has the power to block the overseas bands from entering the UK, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Join us and email the Home Office now: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/176528/...
❗The biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade is coming to Great Yarmouth and we need your help to stop it. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn
We had a fortnight there in 1990. Loved it. Travelled round much of the island (except the far Eastern bit). Very memorable holiday.
Pet hate of mine is that as engines have become more efficient, manufacturers have compensated by designing less efficient vehicles to fit them into. So instead of a less polluting 'national fleet', we have roads full of bloated vehicles. The only beneficiaries are the fossil fuel pushers.
Sadly I suspect there are still brand new car parks being created based on the width of 1970s cars. It makes them super-inconvienent, because it's a struggle to get in and out of vehicles and there's a risk of damage.
Most parking spaces are dimensioned based on the cars of yesteryear - which were far narrower than today's cars. I can only think of one car park that has bothered to redefine all its spaces to reflect this. It's reduced the overall capacity, but it's a much easier, safer place to use as a result.
It's a chaotic mess': UK firms warn over US small parcel tax. Ultra nationalism does creates uncertainty as policies are made on hoof. US Congress slumbers whilst people will pay hidden taxes, with consequences for importers and exporters Depending on Trump's moods, it may all change tomorrow.
The Resignation Letter Of Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis Of The Centers For Disease Control open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
Oh, you're in Crete, Kerry? My jealousy knows no bounds! Fabulous island, not been for ages 😥😭
Frankly, not difficult.
Thank you. Never been - but your lovely photo reminds me that I really should plan a trip to Whitby.
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What a lovely view😍 Is this Whitby?
Trump wants Soros prosecuted. Never foreign the campaign against Soros has its centre in Moscow because Putin fears and loathes Soros for his work building democracy in Eastern Europe. Needless to say, traitor Farage joined in Putin's anti-Soros campaign.
Because he's had so much practice?
🤣 this pedophile sounds weak and stupid like stephen miller or putin. Truly pathetic even for a child molester. Thank you for your attention to the Epstein files!!!
This lying tweet is a reminder that Farage and Arron Banks' Leave.EU campaign was pro-Russian. Brexit was the result of a successful Russian influence operation. Daesh (ISIS) was defeated not by Russia, but by the FSA, Kurds, and USA. And Russia continued to kill Syrians until last year.
It is so nuts seeing the exact phraseology of Australia's worst, most vicious xenophobes in the early 2010s now being used in normal headlines in the UK
Definitely don't repost the research that anti-wind groups are trying to bury using lawsuits www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/services-1 drive.google.com/file/d/1TAZw...
Fossil fuel extractors fight tooth and nail to prevent market forces from operating. They demand the equivalent of the royal monopolies once granted by the Crown, excluding competitors, enabling old technologies to fend off newer ones. Trump answers the call. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Aug 26, 1965 - “Climatic Change appears to be underway” – the commencement speech that should have rocked the world Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee; "CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely” allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...