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For the latest, go to Reform councillor resignation tracker "R U still there?" 'KEEPING TRACK OF THE REFORM UK EXITS 12 CROSSED OFF SO FAR' [in just 8 days!] via Jane West refukked.lovable.app?utm_id=97757...

First Farrago needed £5million to protect him from milkshakes. Now apparently it was a reward for getting Brexit done. I wonder if any of our tv news shows could employ some investigative journalists to ...investigate? BBC, CH4, ITV ? Just an idea... ##reformcorruption #corruptfarage #farage

🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...

You all know why Elon Musk is back in the picture again right? He’s going to rig the midterms just like he did the 2024 election.

Nigel Farage was paid to let Boris Johnson win. Now the same donor is paying Nigel Farage to win, and Nigel Farage's cabinet is filled with people from Boris Johnson's cabinet. It's the same old shit reheated and fed back to you.

Sadiq Khan: "When President Trump got elected in 2016, there was a 2000% increase in the racist hate I received." Full Byline Times interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Gn...

Congratulations, Andy Burnham, Wes Streeting, et al. All the news about Farage's money dealings has completely disappeared off the BBC main Web page. Personal ambitions above party - I hope you receive your reward!

Now it looks like @andyburnham.bsky.social could well return to Parliament, it’s worth revisiting this interview with @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social from the Byline Festival last year The Next Leader Of The Labour Party? | Andy Burnham youtu.be/IPMTcLcWwlc?... via @bylinetv.bsky.social

I’ll take “Why is Britain skint and public services crumbling” for 10 points. Now imagine how many people just like him (and worse) are out there. It’s not poor people screwing the country…

⬇️ Economy down £240bn. ⬇️ Investment down 18%. ⬇️ 4000 fewer doctors in the NHS. ⬇️ £90bn less in tax revenue. 💰 All so he could pocket a few quid. He doesn't care about the working class, he is taking the country for a mug.

Further to yesterday's closeup of Fingal's Cave, here's one from farther out, on the water. The rock formations (columnar basalt) are incredible. #landscape #photography

continuing with my kingfisher drawing 💠✍🏻

Farage has now admitted it is a political donation with that sentence ‘reward for campaigning for Brexit’. The Standards Committee should now suspend him and call a by-election.

Nigel Farage claims the details of a £5m donation “shouldn’t even be public” and states it was an unconditional “reward for campaigning for Brexit”. Previously Reform UK have said the donation was to cover Mr Farage’s security costs for life

Every year now, the pre-monsoon heat (the hottest time of year in South Asia with temperatures well over 40°C) starts earlier & lasts longer - due to human-induced climate change - exposing 1billion people to deadly heat. @wwattribution.bsky.social www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

NEW: Trump is going to give himself $1.7B from the treasury to pay his allies who were prosecuted under the Biden administration- including pardoned insurrectionists. This is a “settlement” deal in his $10B suit against the IRS. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

Keir Starmer is on his way out. Andy Burnham's on his way back. Reform can't vet a candidate to save its life. Just another totally normal week in British politics.

If you want to paint more loosely, use a bigger brush.

"However, 3 German states—North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, and Bavaria—use Palantir’s Gotham which contains personal data incl. addresses, fines, criminal records + social media. The tech provides police officers with a comprehensive profile of any person in seconds." cybernews.com/tech/germany...

We won every seat on Richmond upon Thames Council last week. But that doesn’t mean we’ve changed our mind on electoral reform. It’s time the Government stopped defending a broken system out of self-interest and backed proportional representation.

British Gas to pay a £20m into Ofgem’s Voluntary Redress Fund to settle force-fitting of prepayment meters probe. Will write off up to £70m of vulnerable customers' energy debt. Will BG pass the cost to customers in higher bills? Execs got bonuses for boosting profits, but not fined.

Farage has many questions to answer, for a man who's been on bbc question time 44 times. Perhaps they could ask him one next time he's there. They certainly jumped quickly enough to tell us,about Polanski's £70 fine for council tax non payment. #corruptfarage #reformcorruption

I rarely say “major breaking” and rarely put out these video hits, but this is pretty major.

Me explaining what the £5 million was for.

Fears of ‘postal deserts’ as private equity owner of former WH Smith stores puts counters under threat. Post Office is state-owned. It sold buildings and outsourced. Another failed business model Swathes of villages and town centres would have no bank branch or a post office.

OTD 5 yrs ago, I hiked out to Fagradalsfjall at 2am. Just after sunrise, the last few people left. I was completely alone, face-to-face with the erupting volcano, its warmth on my skin. Unquestionably the most surreal experience I've had. I never felt more connected to...everything. #Photography

Hedge fund proposes £1bn buyout of Spire Healthcare, UK’s biggest private hospital operator. Your taxes boost value of Spire, make shareholders richer. Third of Spire’s revenues comes from NHS contracts - hip, knee, cataract surgery. Average profit margin estimated, up to 32%.

A national embarrassment.

"Night City View" - my oil painting

The rush to silence Black voters ahead of the 2026 election is stone cold racism. It's Jim Crow 2.0.

New painting! Northern Sunset 12x12 acrylic on canvas monicamorrillart.etsy.com

Farage did say Brexit would make us richer… We should have known that by us, he meant him £5,000,000 richer.

The damn dog who adopted me just came to my door freaking out like someone was chasing him with an axe. I jump up, run to the door and yank it open, just for him to run inside and stop dead in front of my dryer. The big emergency? ...he wanted a cookie 😑 I'm the architect of my own destruction.

Morning #devon

Farage says £5m gift was a reward for Brexit campaigning. Billionaire living in Thailand bought Brexit. Previously, Farage said £5m was for his security. What next? After receiving £5m, Farage bought £1.4m property in cash, one of the four he owns through a company. Partner has another one.

The Green Hairstreak (Callophrys rubi). Found across Europe, Asia, and Africa...opportunistic nectar feeders. While their underside is colorful, the dorsal side is dull brown...fuzz on the thorax & abdomen provides thermoregulation. #nature #butterfly #wildlife #photo #biology

The Opal Coast (Côte d'Opale) in northern France

Evening in the Julian Alps

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Farage says in a free Op-Ed in Murdoch's Scum 'newspaper' today that "Britain is broken on every level". It isn't but Farage & his companies Thorn In The Side Ltd, Reform2025 Ltd & employees have done their best to break it. Farage is a traitor to the UK. He should be treated as such by Parliament

Tonight's sunset.....I hope everyone had a great day!! 🌞☀️

We’ve had so many hummingbird moths at the nursery and I’m loving it. Such amazing insects. #moth #insects

It’s ironic that Farage says he was given a £5m gift for Brexit. Because for the rest of us it’s cost us a fortune.

This always amazes me. In a very reprehensible way...how these men went from making these statements to complicit enablers. They could have and should have been better.

Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, (along Maligne Lake Road)🇨🇦 nationalpost.com/video/d2114a...

Good Law Project has become the first organisation, so far as we are aware, to use the Online Safety Act provisions to force Meta to reverse a decision to take down content. Free speech on these platforms matters.

McGovern: I think Trump is seriously ill. He needs medical attention. There needs to be an intervention from his family or someone in his cabinet—I would say some of the Republicans here, but they don’t have the balls to confront him on anything.

El Niño is coming faster than expected and chances are rising that it will be historically strong www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/w...