2019 £1M from Harborne explains Farage's volte face late Oct "Feelings of Brexit fatigue have led some Leavers to welcome Johnson's deal as the best we are likely to get. That is understandable. But it is a mistake. The Prime Minister's deal is not a proper Brexit politicalemails.org/messages/47335

Farage had all the candidates in place in October 2019 and said they were standing until Nov 11 when he gave way to Boris Johnson so the Conservatives would win.

Ben Habib alleges that Nigel Farage & Boris Johnson were paid £1m each by Christopher Harborne to essentially rig the election in favour of Johnson. He also claims the undeclared £5m "gift" Farage received in 2024 from Harborne was payment to take over as party leader of Reform UK + stand in Clacton

“We have to be closer to Europe…not holding back, no half measures” Oh yeah? “Youth mobility scheme disagreement hampering reset of UK-EU relations. Deal was expected by end of month but talks hit buffers over cap on number of people entering UK & tuition fees” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“At some point, a Labour leader will have to be honest. Closer alignment helps, but deeper integration would help more. Re-joining…as a long-term direction…would boost growth, restore frictionless trade, and widen opportunity for younger voters.” #Brexit national.thelead.uk/p/next-labou...

3 weeks later Nigel Farage drops the idea of running in all seats so the country has a genuine choice "The Brexit Party will not contest the 317 seats the Conservatives won at the last election…what we will do is concentrate our total effort into all of the seats that are held by the Labour Party."

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

WTF are some of the PLP doing this without a single available credible & better candidate & w/o being clear what policies need to change? 👇e.g. #RipUpTheRedLines #TaxTheRich #TaxTheBanks #RaiseThePersonalTaxAllowance

From X: “In 1981 Thatcher didn't leave after losing 1193 council seats. In 1991 Major didn't resign after losing 1035 council seats. In 1999 Blair didn't resign after losing 1150 council seats. In 2023 Sunak didn't resign after losing 1063 council seats but Starmer must resign???”

A near-future EU comprised of: - Current EU countries - UK - Ukraine - EEA countries (?) Would be an immensely potent force by every conceivable measure, from economic to military. Such an expansion would create a world power able to credibly go toe to toe with the USA and China.

The Labour government must go further and faster, including rebuilding our relationship with our European neighbours, with whom we share interests and values, also vital for our economy

This country will not succeed with the current Brexit deal - it’s time to rip up the red lines, renegotiate and put our national interests first. Join the @labour4europe.bsky.social to back this call and find out how you can help our campaign.

No we don’t want a debate! We want a government with the guts to say how obviously & evidentially catastrophic Brexit is, pin it firmly on Farage, and say we should work towards rejoining. Lay out all the damage. The world has changed & the red lines are no longer appropriate (if they ever were).

I cannot believe anyone in the parliamentary Labour Party thinks Streeting is the answer to this debacle. Utterly bewildering.

Could Labour run in the next election on a Rejoin EU platform? It would be quite the turnround, but in a way it would also reflect the crucial learning since 2024 - that there is a limit to what barriers can be removed even a UK government that wants to do so. However --->

"I don’t think replacing Prime Ministers every five bloody minutes because Westminster has the emotional stability of a Labrador near fireworks is a healthy way to run a country." "..bad idea for us to get rid of him. But I absolutely understand why it’s happening" open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

🔴 Nigel Farage is facing questions about why he did not declare his use of a donor’s helicopter to travel around Britain for multiple Reform UK rallies over the past year. New on Democracy for Sale and @theguardian.com democracyforsale.substack.com/p/farage-fac...

“Our goal is not just to launch another social app. We are building a new European digital infrastructure for healthier public discourse, human verification, information integrity, and democratic resilience.” Join the wait list! wsocial.news

“Now is the moment for ambition, for believing in a future where we are able to trade freely with our closest neighbours, to cooperate with them fully on shared challenges, to enjoy freedom of movement and all the opportunities that it brings.” ….

Hard to be sure, but I don't share the certainty that some people have that it would refuse. In fact the legal position is that the opt outs on the single currency, Schengen and justice and home affairs law are still in protocols attached to the Treaties.

NHS England went out of its way to tell us (www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechn...) our data was safe. It wasn't. And we are right to worry. Palantir is deeply political. And highly unethical: it paid for a smear campaign against Good Law Project. Did they also access my medical records? My family's?

Brexit law EU likely to concede that UK can ban live animal exports in food standards negotiations www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

TLDL “We need a story not a spreadsheet” youtube.com/watch?v=9bdI...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan: UK should rejoin EU through an election, not a second referendum. “Inward investment is lower than it would be, trade is lower… In London our economy is about £30bn smaller than it would otherwise be, the average Londoner is about £3,400 poorer because of Brexit.”

Labour didn’t need to cut welfare or further freeze personal tax allowances. PTA should be >£15k by now. Labour could have done so much more if Reeves had taxed differently. I “made 7 policy decisions, reducing fiscal shortfall by £45.5bn” www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says that on Brexit Nigel Farage said “we’d be stronger, we’d be richer, we’d have lots of money for the NHS, immigration would come down and it all proved to be false”

“there are two factors at play here: a lack of coverage from the media and poor communication from the government…lack of clever comms feeds into a lack of attention from the press who would rather focus on Westminster psychodrama & Reform publicity stunts” www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/more-la...

So why don’t people know this? Why don’t they know what ReFUK will do to our NHS? How badly they are running councils. Dreadful comms. Set up No10 press briefings! Get on all social media & tell the story!

This! 👇loads of speculation about who should be leader instead (NOTA) but nothing about why Labour has lost their progressive vote base and yet are failing to appeal with policies which try to out FUK ReFUK. #TaxTheRich #TaxTheBanks #WindfallTax #PR #RaiseTheBasicTaxAllowance #RaiseCGT #Rejoin etc.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Neither of these lightweights will cut it. Who in their right minds would vote for Streeting - who is accelerating the Palantir’s control over or NHS .

“The EU might also ask Britain to swap the pound for the euro - although it has not insisted that six member states including Poland and Sweden adopt the single currency.” #Brexit www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

“More important…will be that the UK is enthusiastic to come back to the EU. That requires charismatic leaders who can make the case for membership…But the threat from Putin and Trump should ​help them rise to the occasion.” #Brexit www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

Ahead of Starmer's speech on UK-EU relations, my long read on why the PM is absolutely right to seek a much deeper relationship in response to geopolitical and economic challenges, but why his cakeist approach won't work open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...

So we understand the substance of UK-EU relations now - any substantive change requires pounds, people, and positivity in Brussels. Rather, today's Starmer speech will instead be greeted by Brussels as the latest of many cries for help from a lost UK PM.

#PR now!

🚨BREAKING - Today HSBC announced that in just the first three months of 2026 it made £6,960,000,000 in profits 🤯 That's money coming directly from the higher rates mortgage-holders and other borrowers are paying, all because of the BoE's rate hikes. We deserve better economic policy than this.

“This is a hugely popular policy which would go a long way towards showing frustrated voters that the government is willing to put their interests above those of big corporations like banks.” We stand with @tuc.org.uk in calling for a windfall tax on banks👇 morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unio...

"If the government wants to take action on borrowing costs, it should recoup payouts to banks with a windfall tax on the record profits they have made without lifting a finger." The UK's big 4 banks have already made £13.8 billion in profit this year. Time to #TaxTheBanks.

And thank you to everyone who's backed this action so far; a number of MPs have responded positively already! 👏 The more of us who take action, the stronger our collective voice will be. stopfundinghate.info/get-involved/take-action-on-ofcom/

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🚨 BREAKING: the Communication Workers’ Union just voted to back Proportional Representation at its annual conference in Bournemouth @cwunews.bsky.social 📈 Trade unions representing three quarters of Labour affiliates now back PR 🎯 We need a National Commission on Electoral Reform

In South Hampstead, 29.2% of the vote was enough to secure 100% of the seats. In nearby Belsize - under the same electoral system, on the same council, on the same day - the exact same vote share, 29.2%, left the second-placed party without a single councillor. Make this make sense.

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Reform UK's leader of Kent County Council, Linden Kemkaran, humiliates herself trying to find flaws in The Green LK, "How much have you taken off your long term debt in the last year?" Rachel Millward, "We're actually not in debt"

This is the end result of Shabana Mahmood’s nasty immigration policies… more votes for Reform and so, more racism scaring and dividing our communities. Not sure how Labour can justify this, politically or morally. It’s so far from what we’d all hoped. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I could do with the US not triggering another pandemic - maybe actively working to undermine peace and prosperity is enough

Not one poll, survey or opinion piece shows Brexit to be anything other than a complete disaster for this country and not just economically. It is a spreading decay at our heart. Open your eyes Mr Starmer or close the door on your way out. www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

“When you [ReFUK] don’t have a moral underpinning to what you are trying to do, your entire raison d’etre is winning. That is why so many Tories have defected to Reform, because it is seen as a vehicle for winning power.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

6. Get rid of Mahmood and her sick 'policies'. 7. Stop trying to attract xeno 'hero voters', who will vote for The Real Thing rather than a Labour simulacrum.