A short thread on SARs and Farage. In simple terms, banks are required to monitor transactions for money laundering purposes and report any suspicious activity (SAR) to the National Crime Agency (NCA). Suspicious does not = criminal, just issues of concern, for example being unable to /1

To everyone who has ever said “Well it’s ok if Reform get elected, it’ll expose them to scrutiny”. No it won’t. It never does. It’s either someone else’s fault or someone else has broken the law.

Have said elsewhere that Farage has seriously underestimated how poorly "It's me or Count Binface" could go for him in a country that loves the absurd being memed into existence, and a national media that literally calls the summer "silly season"

Any Clacton residents who want to nominate your friendly neighbourhood intergalactic space warrior, ping me a line!

How long until all the Emergency Podcasts drop?

Fair play this is funny.

A serious comment then I am quitting Bsky again, hah hah. I'm LIVID about what this by-election will cost, and the focus it will take away, STILL, from real issues ignored for years. There are dozens, DOZENS, of people living in tents and doorways in Clacton right now.

Most local authorities in the UK don’t take payment in crypto or roubles

It happened, but not as he claimed. The 'mob' was a troupe of performers who were in a local pub. They were neither very loud nor violent nor attacked him, except verbally. There was no damage to the vehicle seen at the time and it's not been mentioned since, until now.

"The Establishment" (noun): elitist journalists who outrageously expose the leader of a political party for doing what all ordinary, honest working people do: cheating, grifting and hiding millions of pounds in donations from fraudsters and overseas billionaires.

Has Farage seriously called a presser just to recite the narcissist’s prayer?

Farage should easily win a by-election in Clacton, which he already won with a large majority in 2024 when polls were much less favourable for Reform than they are now. A complete waste of public money, designed solely to serve himself

The thing that makes me angriest is the obfuscation. “The establishment seem to have it in for you if you’re rich and successful”. No, Parliament, the public and (give them their dues) the media will ask questions about where your money comes from and what is expected in return for it.

Well... The "establishment" should either go hell for leather to prevent Nigel Farage's re-election to Clacton. OR Ignore it and ignore HIM completely. What a truly self-absorbed charlatan.

“Nobody in British politics has been subject to more harassment and violence than me”. What about the two MPs who were murdered you prick?

So what if Oxford is getting a third Gail’s? Get to thirty. Then we’ll talk.

In response to this. I've not been able to get ANY benefits and am still waiting for Access to work to get back to me from the application I submitted for support back in March. The autoresponse is said "We will contact you or your representative about your application within the next 37 weeks."

Someone pointed out that Belgium’s kit is contains the same colours as the Transgender Pride Flag. Even better. 🏳️‍⚧️

What we “need” Sheila, or Frank, or whoever you are… is a media that reports and informs, and most importantly, holds politicians to account for their lies, their failures, their racism and their rule-breaking. What we “need” is a crackdown on disinformation and corruption. Not your simplistic tripe

Vox pops on #r4today from Reform voters in Runcorn is not news. It’s fire-hosing the audience with the abject ignorance and cultish stupidity of a small minority, spouting their bullshit notions of why it’s ok for Farage to corrupt his arse off and lie to them. “We need Reform”. Do we hell.

Please don’t let this be real. If it is it’s the saddest thing I’ve ever seen.

Everything he touches turns to shit doesn’t it?

USA-less.

Delightful.

Well, we may have lost but at least we look like we cheated

I just want him to never speak anymore.

Today I am Belgian 🇧🇪

Been saying for a couple of years what they need to do is replace the wind turbines on the end of the pier at Blyth with a massive statue that dances in the wind and in so doing generates electricity. How mint would that be? Good for the environment and appropriate recognition of BDB. Colossal.

Heirbnb.

Morning workforce. Feeling productive this morning are we?

This is why I’ve boycotted the WC apart from England games. The integrity of the whole competition is in question.

Welcome to Newcastle. You can stand in a branch of Greggs, look out the window and see another Greggs. We used to have a beat-boxing Spider-Man but I’m not sure what’s happened to him. We invented lucozade.

#savethenhs #nyebevan

Brilliant stuff. I love the north.

As a Newcastle fan, I mercilessly hate sunlun, but the adult and rational part of my brain knows this is great news for the NE. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/tra...

If Taylor Swift really wanted a private wedding venue she should’ve considered the National Mall.

If we get to the mid terms and if the elections were to happen fairly, Trump is not going to do well.

Good for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: they seem like decent people and I wish them every happiness. But nobody should have a billion dollars, and the welfare of the rest of us should not depend on the whims of those who do.

Happy National Meadows Day🌻 Today we celebrate the UK's rare, species-rich grasslands and the incredible wildlife they support. 📍Wensleydale | #yorkshiredales #nationalmeadowsday Wayne Hutchinson

Didn’t post that many from my walk yesterday which took in High and Low Force. I definitely needed to get out and it did me the world of good. Walking is the tonic to a sometimes hectic and emotionally draining life and sometimes you do have to push yourself to get out there.

Okay. This morning I’ve mostly been trying to identify a bird I saw on a walk yesterday and reposting stuff about a cat. “Vicious, sneering odium that only those who see themselves as kinder humans dish out” Someone is a little jealous I think.

Can anyone help me identify this bird? It flew above me for an about half a mile when I was walking and just wouldn’t seem to leave me alone until at some point it just seemed to give up. I think it’s a lapwing but I’m not brilliant at identifying birds.

You perhaps?

Nottingham perhaps? Or maybe Southampton?

You wouldn’t believe this is England would you? Teesdale always feels a bit Icelandic to me, flat ground, shallow but fast flowing rivers, dispersed settlements and fells.

Single men from the North of England take note.

I’m shit at making and keeping friends and I had more people than this on my stag do.

“Ohh I don’t like football” I don’t like Love Island but when it’s on TV and other people are clearly enjoying it, I keep my views to myself because no one cares.

Allister Heath here, thinking that it’s 1745 and Bonnie Prince Andy and his army of bare-arsed socialists are marching on London.