So yesterday, Nigel Farage discovered that hiding from scrutiny isn't actually a strategy. When you've lost even Julia Hartley-Brewer, you know you're in trouble. Did he really think everyone would forget the £5M question? Or does he think everyone has the memory of a goldfish?

A question every Reform supporter should ask about Nigel Farage's "unconditional gift" from Christopher Harborne: How many billionaires hand over huge sums of money for absolutely nothing in return? If your answer is "none", why would you believe Farage when he says this one did?

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

Well, there goes Keir Starmer. It’s never been clear exactly what he stood for, except for a fixation on cracking down on the protest rights he used to defend when he was a lawyer. We’re not sure what’s coming next – but we’ll be there to hold the government to account.

Nigel Farage, professional politician, demands an election because apparently he's against professional politicians. He’s got plenty of time to write essays but he never seems to have time to face the public. For a man who wants to lead the country, he seems remarkably allergic to public scrutiny.

No mandate!’ cries Zia Yusuf — the man who bought a front-row seat in Reform without ever facing the voters. The irony is doing heavy lifting.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

A decade after Brexit Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have plenty to celebrate. The pound never recovered, growth is lower, investment is down, wages have stagnated, and Britain suffered the weakest post-COVID recovery in the G7. Britain got poorer. Farage and Johnson got richer.

Richard Tice's excuse for Reform losing is that Reform voters voted for Andy Burnham!?🤨 At this point, Reform would rather rewrite the laws of political gravity than accept the simple fact that most people can't stand the party, and many can't stand Farage and Tice even more.🔥

The Reform vs Restore narrative is shut down. Restore's 3,111 votes & Reform's 15,696 wouldn't have been enough to win. Makerfield voters have spoken. They still believe in the change Labour promised but Starmer's government has yet to deliver. The election was the test. Now Burnham has to pass it.

Mamdani taxed $5M+ luxury homes sitting empty and helped balance the NY budget. The billionaires are still billionaires. So stop calling them wealth creators. They don't create wealth—they collect it. Nothing trickles down Extreme wealth is not capitalism's success story. It's a sign of its failure.

🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...

Mike Tapp MP asks Zack Polanski: “Do you support Palestine Action?” When answering a political question could risk arrest, that's not confidence in democracy. It's a power saying, "Know your place." That's not a healthy direction for any democratic society.

So a Reform campaigner saying they'd rather vote for Jimmy Savile than Labour. 🫣 Given the US voted for Trump, maybe I shouldn't be surprised. What I can't work out is how they square it in their heads: "protect women and children" on one hand, but "Jimmy Savile would be better" on the other.

Reform allies Makerfield message is very revealing: Vote Reform. Stop Burnham becoming PM?! Here is the❓: Is Burnham such a threat that Reform fear he'll revive Labour & win in 2029? If so, they have more faith in Burnham than they do in Farage. It's about what's best for Reform not the country.

Gwyneth Paltrow turned privilege into a lifestyle brand and convinced people to pay premium prices for candles inspired by her vagina, so that she's the face of a luxury housing development in Israel is not a surprise. When you're a person with no shame it's a pretty natural fit.

At #PMQ, Hannah Spencer said, "There's plenty of dirty grubbiness behind me." The look of shock from Lee Anderson and Sarah Pochin was priceless. After all the mud they've thrown at others, who could possibly have guessed they'd be so sensitive to a little splashback?

The sheer nerve of Farage. Exploiting workers battered by years of economic decline to support a party that opposed banning fire-and-rehire, opposed day-one sick pay, attacks trade unions, and says young workers are paid too much. Reform doesn't stand with workers. It preys on their frustration.

Kemi and Suella seem to be competing to see who can be better attacking principles that helped create opportunities for them. Kemi wants to scrap the Equality Duty. Suella's angry the Tories are pinching ideas from Reform. The Equality Duty isn't perfect, but without it things could be much worse.

Farage went missing when the £5m donation raised questions.The moment he spotted a chance to exploit Henry Nowak's murder for political gain,he was back pushing the same old "two-tier policing" myth,despite Henry's family pleading for his death not to be used to divide people. He feeds on division.

“I wonder what Tony Blair thinks?” - said nobody for 20 years. This is the man who took us into Iraq over WMDs that didn't exist. Now he's backing action against Iran!? Credibility isn’t exactly his strong suit. And “radical centre” sounds like a contradiction in terms.

This endorsement of Rob Kenyon in Makerfield is almost comedy gold. Almost. It’s so lazy and predictable. Still, when the messenger has nothing of value to offer, all that’s left is to throw out some generic rubbish and hope enough gullible people buy into it. 👇😅

27 Labour MPs report Reform UK over alleged Islamophobia. Lee Anderson and Suella Braverman rattled again this morning. Suella’s selective outrage and dog-whistle politics are transparent as ever. And Lee still can’t spell Islamophobia, so understanding it seems unlikely.

So Reform "fully back" Makfield candidate Robert Kenyon as the "comments were made before he was in politics". Of course - because becoming a politician is basically a factory reset for your entire personality. Incredible excuse. 🤨 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ahh — GB politics is already warped by misinformation, echo chambers, and algorithm-driven narratives. Politicians and journalists use it to gauge public opinion, but when genuine medical conditions are brushed off as excuses for a “long summer holiday,” that’s a whole different level of toxicity.

Two Reform council stories in one week: 1. Newly elected councillors can’t understand the constitution, so naturally the entire council must stop functioning. 2. In Kent, wastewater treatment can wait — there are urgent priorities like the Lord’s Prayer and the National Anthem. 🤷‍♀️

I’m fascinated to see what Reform’s “political” message for the Makerfield by-election will be. In Gordon and Denton, and in the local elections, it was basically: “Vote Reform, get Starmer out.” So what now? “Vote Reform… so Starmer can stay?” 🤨

To open the Brexit debate, or not to open it — that is the question. 🤨 Though the realm must speak of Brexit’s ruin, this hour feels less of truth than of cunning; more to shake Burnham than to serve the public good. Thus, my answer is no.

"He’ll stand anywhere. He’ll say anything.” That from Robert Jenrick,the man who signed off a scheme a day early that would’ve handed Richard Desmond £45m while ripping the same money from local councils, At least we know exactly where Jenrick stands. For now.

Since we learned about Farage’s £5m gift many “ordinary people” leap to defend a millionaire taking millions. If Starmer’s freebies outraged you, Rayner’s HMRC probe had you raging, and Polanski wanting to tax the super-rich made you furious, but Farage £5m gets a shrug my friend, you’re in a cult.

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Keir Starmer's political failure comes down to one issue above all others: his unwillingness to put the public interest ahead of the demands of the oligarchs, corporations and foreign governments who lobby him. Whoever replaces him had better be prepared to stand up for us, or Labour's finished.

Nigel Farage says finding a Guardian journalist’s ID at his property proves he “needs security.” So the threat was... journalism? Tough questions? And in response, he publicly posts the journalist’s ID, exposing him to harassment & intimidation. Apparently privacy only matters when it’s Farage’s.

Funny how Nigel Farage’s £5m “security” gift has suddenly become a “reward for Brexit” — right after it emerged he bought a £1.4m property in cash shortly after getting the money from a billionaire donor. Looks like the security story wasn’t going to survive contact with the facts.

Nigel Farage a week ago: “£5m was so I could feel safe for the rest of my life.” Nigel now: “Actually it was a reward for Brexit.” Of course. Easy mistake. We’ve all forgotten whether £5m was for personal safety or for spending 27 years shouting at Europe on television.

Zack Polanski: Labour needs to move away from the status quo and Wes Streeting isn’t the answer. Piers Morgan’s response: “Tax-dodging liar living in a £2m house.” You mean the house share he doesn’t even own? Also, what exactly does that have to do with his point about Wes Streeting? Peak Piers👇

Right-wing commentators are having a full-scale meltdown because Angela Rayner was cleared by HMRC, with Julia Hartley-Brewer leading the grief parade. Apparently HMRC is only “corrupt” when it clears someone they hate. Funny how the tax outrage disappears entirely when it comes to Farage and Tice.

Andrew Lewin MP says replacing Starmer is a trap & would mean for 6 weeks "Labour turning inwards not to the country” The problem is the country already switched off. Starmer is disliked across the board and nothing Labour does cuts through. So what’s worse: short-term pain, or managed decline?

The media is veeeeery excited about investigating Zack Polanski over council tax while living on a boat. If only they applied even half that Olympic-level scrutiny to the £5 million Nigel Farage took from a crypto billionaire, I might be remotely interested in this story.

The Starmer drama alarm is sounding, with one challenger approaching from the West, two from the North, and Wes Streeting from Palantir

The ridicule about the "Humpty Dumpty" man appearance missed the point for me. What I found sad was watching someone clearly unhealthy shovel down processed meat, barely chewing, while acting morally superior for “owning” vegans. It wasn’t funny it was bleak.

Did people watch the U.S. turn politics into a circus and think, Cute. Now stand back and let the UK show you what a real collapse looks like? 😞 #ElectionResult2026

A rare moment of honesty: this is what Reform’s biggest fans — and the right-wing media — actually want for the NHS. This was Julia Hartley-Brewer’s response to me when I questioned NHS safety under Nigel Farage. 👇

Zack Polanski puffed up his hypnotherapy credentials—stop the presses.The media’s really scraping the barrel. Meanwhile, absolutely no interest in the 5M reasons Farage should be kept away from the NHS funny that. If you’re buying this,you probably shouldn’t be making decisions for the rest of us.

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

It’s pathetic—scraping the bottom of the barrel to smear Zack Polanski: his teeth, his past job, whatever nonsense they can dredge up. Anything—literally anything—to avoid talking about Reform’s own failures. Ask yourself—does any of that affect your life? No. Meanwhile, the real issues get buried.

It’s wall-to-wall front pages and talk shows, with Trevor Phillips leading it, all aimed at Zack Polanski over his comments on the Golders Green arrest. The backlash feels wildly disproportionate,especially when the same media barely touched Farage’s £5M donations or held him to any real scrutiny.👇

When you see the relentless attacks from other parties on the Greens across the media remember this: They hate our plan to end Rip Off Britain. They don't want a wealth tax. They don't want public ownership & lower bills. They're trying everything in their power to stop us.

Mr Mosbacher thinks buying a tumble dryer is sticking it to Brussels and Ed Miliband. Yes, because nothing says “resistance” like a higher electricity bill. If that’s the hill you’re choosing to die on, it says more about you than it does about anyone else.👇🙄

Nigel Farage was all set for #bbclaurak until he wasn’t. He’s got about 5M reasons to be elsewhere. Strange how scrutiny never quite makes the itinerary. Much safer to stick with a crowd that values vibes over questions &identity over logic. Why risk a room where people might actually challenge you?