As there is always a tweet, it’s worth keeping this receipt too… Of course, as Reform morphs into the failed, corrupt, nasty and useless Tory party, Farage won’t need to do a deal at all. Voters will look from Tory to Reform and Reform to Tory; but it will be impossible to say which is which.

If this greedy and ridiculous man were to become Prime Minister, he'd be responsible for our security, safety, our NHS, our economy, and the welfare of our children. Meanwhile he can't be bothered to do even basic checks on the Cameos that rake in £141,000 for him metro.co.uk/2026/01/15/i...

www.theguardian.com/football/202... I will NOT be watching the World Cup this year. Sorry England - you'll have to manage without me. #worldcup

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Nigel Farage never owns anything. - 2010, his UKIP manifesto - disowns it It included a compulsory dress code for taxi drivers. Promised £90bn of tax cuts (where have you heard that?) - 2016, Brexit - disowns it Claims Brexit had failed due to the policies of successive Conservative governments.

Make a Bond movie Faragist “Goldfinger” You’ll see what I did there…. #bondmovie

Make a Bond movie political. “From Russia With L$ve” #bondmovie

@peterstefanovic.bsky.social I saw this coming. Archaic UK company law allows grifters to extract their cash and avoid debts with impunity. And if they wanted to they could do it all again tomorrow.

It’s tempting to look for any reason, especially the idea of foreign instructions, rather than simply acknowledging the glaring truth that ReformUK is institutionally racist. A majority of their supporters are racist bigots. See them for who they are.

Superb by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are stronger together and that’s why the likes of Trump, Putin and Farage want to see us divided.

@profaliceroberts.bsky.social Ruth would like to be an archaeologist if she wasn’t acting. Please do something with her. Ratings would be off the charts! www.instagram.com/reel/DQaDLJc...

On why Farage doesn’t apologise for his schoolboy racism: “if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ” Exactly. He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry. #NeverPM www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Impossible to exaggerate what a brilliant writer Henry is. Pisses me right off tbh.

Poor Clacton. Elected to change the lives of his constituents, what has he accomplished. What local campaigns has he driven, what businesses has he promoted, what housing needs has he addressed? The most deprived area in the country has been abandoned by the grifting bigot.

Sen. Mark Kelly demonstrates tremendous courage and tenacity as he speaks the truth about the illegitimate occupant in the Oval Office. 🔥🔥🔥 #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace

He's making it a talking point. A sensible place to begin.

Would love to be fly on the wall when Gullis tries to start a conversation about the chances of paid employment at Millbank House?

If you read one thing today, make it The Bear’s withering dismantling of Reform UK’s “budget” with the precision of someone who understands numbers… unlike the people who wrote it. A a masterclass in calm annihilation that's ruthlessly savage. 🔥 @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 26,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

We will struggle to explain to future generations how something so transparent and stupid was able to take place youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social Kruger’s @theguardian.com interview shows clearly how a Reform government would treat women. He won’t realise how much of the twisted thinking he spouted has given the game away. Even his “I cook more than my wife “ highlights his desire for control.

Perhaps the media could stop asking Reform “sensible” questions about unworkable “policies” written with crayons, and instead focus on why a party formed by a racist bigot, full of bigoted members who spout racism, is led/owned by an alleged racist bigot? BNP in all but name.

Utter disgrace

£41 million! That’s how much more the Post Office has just agreed to pay Fujitsu to keep using the faulty Horizon IT system. Join me and 280,000 others demanding Fujitsu is finally held to account. Sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ho...

Good. Slime bucket racist bigots should not be given the oxygen of publicity.

@aransome.bsky.social New Quiz - Who stopped the doctor? (Which book)

Anybody got archive copies of the Mail, Telegraph, Sun, Express, BBC and Sky News outrage about the 672 prisoners released in error between March 2013-March 2023 and the 115 in the Tories last year in office, they must be out there somewhere.

Absolutely what was planned. Everyone saying Brexit wasn’t done properly wants to return the workers to the Victorian era. No rights, no healthcare, no pensions, no votes, just do what your “betters” tell you.

There is - its the constant hot rhetoric of blaming 'other' people for everything that is currently besetting the country - lwhich are the effects of austerity, the political criminality of Johnson, the madness that is Brexit, and the lack of interest in taxing those with the broadest shoulders.

What she said…..

What he said: 💯 🎯

I bet that you did not know that President Lee just played the Orange Guy. I am sharing this so that you are clued in on the joke.

Saturday night Juke joint, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939 by US photographer Marion Post Wolcott #WomensArt

@aransome.bsky.social OK, while we’re on the animal theme what was the heron hunting for when seen from the train window? And which book?

Believe women before they die

I have only begun to destroy the world. DJT

Yeah, everyone knows that Musk would have taken the One Ring for himself right? A new Dark Lord of Mordor with batteries included.

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

Not even what it was nine years ago.

The challenge is the swathes of middle England who can’t recognise subliminal racism within themselves. They live in white British communities and the lack of diversity means that any issue of race creates a feeling of unease that Reform exploits. “I’m not racist but….”

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP. And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

Farage: epic grifter

Voters knew what to do to stop Reform. Unusually for a by-election, turnout surged to > 50% up from 44% in 2021. This is terrible for Labour though & smashes the campaign phrase that “Only Labour can stop Reform”. They now need 2 oppo votes to pass Senedd Bills.

We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution. This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Now, after a video leaked by the Guardian revealed what really happens on those Kent County calls, four councillors have been suspended. Don’t say we didn’t warn you! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...