Here’s a funny thing. I’ve just found a tweet from Jan 2020 asking what quid pro quo was for these peerages? In Part 2 of our series #HarborneReceipts Rupert Lowe alleges Tories offered them to Farage as part of a deal. Farage said he turned the deal down. But did he?

Watching the game 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The King and Queen: from The Lewis Chessmen, 12th Century, walrus ivory figures from a group unearthed at Uig Bay on the Scottish Isle of Lewis in 1831; part of 11 figures which remain in Scotland. 82 other pieces are on display in The British Museum. National Museum Scotland

We won’t watch the BBC Brexit: Ten Years On documentary. We don’t want to listen to anymore mediocre men justify why they ripped our country apart. The only benefit Brexit has given this country is the wonderful and dedicated Remain/Rejoin movement. We’re still here because Brexit is still crap.

Difficult to express the visceral disgust I feel at Musk, his fascism, his hideous and cruel abuse of power with cuts to aid that are responsible for death and suffering worldwide, his support for the repulsive Lowe and the way he’s shit-stirring in our country’s democracy and wellbeing.

Has anyone noticed that Elon Musk the renowned entrepreneur and newly-formed trillionaire who seems to be revered by much of the media bears an uncanny resemblance to Elon Musk the fascist and white nationalist who seeks the violent overthrow of western democracies? Could they be related?

It's up! I didn't even know this account was a thing, and now I've gotta follow it! bsky.app/profile/adri...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... interesting but to be a pedant, shouldn’t Western Reef Heron be capitalised rather than western reef heron?

All together now! ... "But Nige did take five million quid, and Nige would take five million more!" 💥💥💥 #RefUKkers

Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

I mean, the UK government barred me from speaking to a conference that they literally invited me to speak at and tried to ruin my career because I retweeted SuperTanskii, called Nadine Dorries a car crash, and called Rees Mogg a haunted pencil. Bit nobody can ban Farage from inciting violence?

Trump (right before the market opened): Iran really wants to make a deal Iran: actually we’re suspending all communications

Not sure if it counts as hack/leak if there is nothing reprehensible about the £5m. If there is nothing wrong with the £5m then "leaking" it won't be a problem for Farage. If it is crooked, then not sure Farage would have grounds to complain

The petition is currently on 79,700 🚀

Politicians endlessly blame immigration for their own failures. So, when immigration is reduced, their ‘success’ isn’t recognised. No one’s life has particularly improved. Because no one’s life was ever going to improve by reducing immigration. Because our problems were never caused by immigration.

It’s going to be so fucking stupid when he dies, it’s going to come out that he rigged shit, he faked shit, that he was a raging psychopath that raped children, that he’s stolen all the money, and every single fucker that’s supported him will deny having ever supported the cunt.

The Rejoin petition jumped from 70K to 75K yesterday. It needs to hit 100K by June 8th when the petition closes in order to get a debate in Parliament. The 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote is June 23rd.

You misspelled “Brexit” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

I was just remembering that Farage didn't hold any surgeries in Clacton for months (I mean, does he now?) citing the fact that he was very vulnerable because gov't had not given him enough public money to keep safe. But it now turns out that he had already pocketed £5m for security. Hmm. 🤔

We’re only ‘not allowed’ to go over the Brexit debates because the Brexiters were wrong on approximately 95% of them.

I didn’t realised that @ledbydonkeys.org actually had to build their own advan for the (dis)unite the UK gathering because no one else would take it on. That’s where you come in.. Don’t think “What I can afford to contribute is too little” Think “MY little bit helps to gives them courage”

How to change this debate. " Being outside the EU costs every UK household an average of £8,300 every year. But being inside again would only cost each UK household £38 every year. Do you still think we should stay out? "

They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something

Why exactly would a Thailand-based economic migrant secretly give Nigel Farage £5 million as a 'reward' for delivering Brexit? I won't get to ask either of them this question but every single journalist & broadcaster granted access could...

So finally we know what “Brexit benefit” actually means.. A £5million payment to Farage. Our country is now deeply divided, poorer, unhappier, less influential, less secure, less welcoming and less democratic… But Farage is a multimillionaire. What a fucking disgrace.

As politicians they pretend to be in it for the ordinary (white) man on the street. As grifters, they couldn’t give a shit about him. Just their own bank accounts, as they rake it in and take the piss out of us, our country and our democracy.

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

What's this? Accusations of payments (bribes?) being taken by Johnson and Farage to 'rig' elections? Sounds VERY serious. Can we move on from gossip to look at this REALLY serious story and ensure EVERY LAST DETAIL is fully examined to find out the full truth?

Brexit ‘no mates’ Britain still sitting in a sulk outside the room because yet another prime minister doesn’t have the courage to say how geopolitically insane and economically illiterate this is. Or admit the lies they’ve all told about immigration and freedom of movement. What failure.

So if Brexit has made us weaker & poorer, with less money to spend on the NHS & the usual suspects complaining just as loudly about immigration as they did before we left, the obvious solution is … ? Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.

The winning metaphor is that the White House Correspondents Association hired a magician instead of a comedian. Sleight of hand over speaking truth to power.

If not for Trump, what's the emoluments clause for? What's impeachment for? What's the 25th Amendment for? What's section 3 of the 14th Amendment for? What are checks and balances for? The baddies are cherrypicking the Constitution the same way they do the bible: for their own benefit.

I hope whoever wrote this headline (click to see) took the rest of the week off www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I went and watched the segment on iPlayer. This is absolutely wild. It’s basically doing a free micro political broadcast for Reform during BBC Breakfast.

It’s all so very Trumpian, politicians promoting stuff they have a stake in. No surprise really since Farage has already mimicked Trump in so many ways - his obsessions with DOGE and ICE being two good examples. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've had this sense of split screen for the past few weeks. It's not that Wall Street is always right. But how are they so wrong?

In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money. Their "patriotism" is always a con.

“Brexit betrayal” - oh for god’s sake.. Every day, we’re paying to be poorer. We’re paying to be second class citizens on our own continent. We’re paying to queue. We’re paying for more red tape. We’re paying to be less secure and less trusted. Brexit IS the betrayal. And so is defending it.

There it is: A full year of days spent playing golf in just over five years as president. www.pbump.net/outofoffice

Translation: “I don’t want to help the UK by paying tax”. I am really growing very tired of hearing advice from super-wealthy people who so obviously put themselves first but pretend otherwise.

"Matthew Goodwin has been paid a salary of up to €10,000 a month [from Hungary's state-funded MCC], according to leaked documents obtained by Hungarian investigative journalists Direkt36 and reported by the Good Law Project" That could all end if Orbán loses... open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

So weird that all his deadlines expire right before the markets open on a Monday. This is the third one in as many weeks.

The cold chilling of America.

This has to be so he can destroy the Epstein files, his taxes, and anything else he wants, not to mention actual presidential records. Republicans can burn in hell on earth for eternity. Worthless pieces of shite. I'm disgusted by every one of them.

Finally catching up, are we? So can we dispense with Palantir now? Or paying higher prices for US pharmaceuticals? Or anything else that makes a deal with EU more complicated? As for allowing US bombers to take off from UK soil, enough already! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Oh, just a puff piece in The Times applauding the black shirt wearing, grandson of a fascist, Louis Mosley for rescuing the NHS Test and Trace programme, the same programme that cost £22bn and made no measurable difference.

So who is talking to that he thinks is Iran? The voices in his head? Actual humans?