This lot were furious when people were jailed for threatening death to refugees during the riots. Remember the childminder Lucy Connolly was called a “political prisoner” when she was jailed for posting that hotels containing asylum seekers should be set on fire.

Michael Gove today "Mistakes were made in the procurement of PPE, but it's important to stress these were honest errors" They should all be on trial every one of them. Their bank account history searched, every penny they have received in the last 6 years accounted for Straight to jail if they did

Nicole Wallace ☠️☠️☠️ "Riddle me this: when Obama ran intelligence, the election was secure and Donald Trump won in 2016… But when Donald Trump and all of his boobs were running US national security, it got all effed up. Is that the theory?"

“The current trend towards dinosaur fossils being marketed and sold like rare artworks at vast prices by auction houses is very concerning, as is the idea of buying dinosaur fossils as a status symbol or a commodity." (Prof Richard Butler, University of Birmingham). 1/3

🚨 Trump is reportedly preparing to declare two sitting Democratic senators illegitimate and fraudulently elected. That's the Thursday speech. A deteriorating authoritarian is about to attempt to nullify opposition senators by decree. This is the part where the fucking alarm goes off.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

The FBI never interviewed Epstein’s lawyer, his accountant, or the primary financier of his sex trafficking. Our investigation uncovered major gaps, and new allegations have come to light. Trump’s DOJ cannot bury this. It must reopen the investigation and follow every lead.

Seemingly Cottrell's mum has donated £1.5m to Refuk / Refuk-linked entities. Which seems a lot for a 'retired stylist' whose deceased husband left her a £1.5m estate. Reminds me of how Farage's gf could fund that Clacton house... There is no suggestion of any wrong-doing though. Or right-doing.

Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...

Should Nigel Farage be re-elected as MP for Clacton? According to the public: ❌ 52% say no ✅ 27% say yes

There may be some clues here, who knows? “Fiona Cottrell’s son… had offered money-laundering services on the dark web and subsequently wrote a book called How to Launder Money” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

He fell asleep in a meeting with Turkish President Erdogan, referred to Iran as the "Islamic Republic of Japan", TikTok as "Tic Tac", President Zelensky as "President Putin" & once again demanded the U.S. be given control of Greenland. He's much less dangerous while sleeping than when he's awake. 💤

Mr Jenrick's wife, as I understand it, does not have British citizenship

Anyone wondering what might happen if Count Binface wins Clacton may find the election of H'Angus the Monkey as Hartlepool Mayor in 2002 instructive. After the election, H'Angus revealed himself as Stuart Drummond and became Mayor. He was reelected twice.

🤩 🤩 🤩 Count Binface odds slashed from 50:1 to 5:1 overnight and Daily Mail poll has him in the lead for #ClactonElection @countbinface.bsky.social Vote here 🔗 www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Number crunching: “Reform is now the party of workers” From the new Private Eye, out now.

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket. Never before has a politician gloried in having enriched themselves by breaking the rules, and then demanded a mandate to continue doing so indefinitely

This is pretty good. If it sticks it really would be a big change.

Reform are absolutely drowning in corruption…. It’s a shame it’s taken 10 years, the radicalisation of many and the absolute destruction of sensible politics for us to get here. Here’s hoping Jenrick ends up in a court, there will be no cartoons on the wall for him to paint over in his local HMP.

Man spent five hours filling his bucket with fish, until he woke up to find every single one gone. On May 20th, a man was fishing off a dock when he started having one of the best days he’d had in weeks. Dock camera showed his Dog was feeding a Dolphin 🐬

As a limited company, Reform UK faces frozen bank accounts, unlimited fines, and corporate prosecution under UK law IF the NCA uncovers money laundering. 📊🚨👇

You don’t get to play guilty or innocent via the electorate & the political system. Imagine if every MP resigned in order to ask the public to exonerate their dodgy dealings… we’d be at the ballot box on a daily basis. Justice isn’t a popularity contest!

Passing this most excellent image on

He’s updated it for Clacton. 😂

Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

NEW - Greens won’t stand in Clacton. So it is Nigel Farage versus Count Binface.

The question for Nigel Farage now is whether it's less embarrassing to un-resign and claim that was an establishment stitchup, or to spend a month competing with a bin. Neither is exactly a *great* option. Neither solves his ongoing scandals. And it's a mess entirely of his own making.

Ben Habib on Nigel Farage, "You don't resign if you are innocent. You resign when you're guilty" "This isn't a legitimate by-election, it's one that been called in order to short circuit parliamentary standards"

This could turn into something really beautiful

Donald Trump has again said he would like to take control of Greenland and warned he could pull all American troops out of Europe as he arrived in Turkey for a summit with NATO leaders. - We Europeans need to be able to defend ourselves without the ‘help’ of Trump’s America!

On my way, Clacton.

I’m sure this is well-meant, but if I had just called a by-election after facing allegations of financial impropriety, I’m not absolutely sure the first thing I’d do would be… offering the returning officer thousands of pounds in cash.

It's a good job Nigel Farage didn't fail to declare a ten quid Universal Credit overpayment, because he'd really be in trouble then

Strange. I rarely hear the news talking about fascism or kleptocracy, the real threats we’re currently facing.

Kylian Mbappé #WorldCup

Interesting to understand the real-world evidence around wealth taxes. But if all we're going to do with that knowledge is name limits on what we can do to protect society, democracy + the environment from the ravages of extreme material excess, then one way or another things are going to get ugly.

Interesting to understand the real-world evidence around wealth taxes. But if all we're going to do with that knowledge is name limits on what we can do to protect society, democracy + the environment from the ravages of extreme material excess, then one way or another things are going to get ugly.

We have the solutions but they won't be implemented while corrupt politicians funded by fossil fuel billionaires make corrupt decisions via Fact Nova

I don't think most people understand the insanity of the top half of this post, the part posted by Trump in an attempt to make always cool Obama look bad against Trump's "military look". Donald was sent to the military academy because he was an asshole child. And he is still an asshole child.

This is a Refugee Tax. It was originally proposed by the Tories, and the only reason asylum seekers could be claimed to 'owe' any money is because they are banned from working. Another cruel Labour policy - that must be reversed on day one by Andy Burnham. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is what imperialists always do. They claim to love their country. They feed its people into the machine.

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Happy 250th birthday, America! Hope you like Nazi crap! - Donald J. Trump

Apparently the incoming Burnham government is looking for "big ideas". Here are 10 of them:

🚨 NEW: The Reform UK donor who gifted Nigel Farage £5m has registered to vote in the UK after the Government announced a £100,000 cap on foreign donations Christopher Harborne: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”

Poor Matt Damon has to sit in that thing until the movie comes out.

As a Brit in the EU, so someone with "skin in the game", I cannot imagine how horrifying it must be to find out you have done everything right, committed to the country by becoming a resident, only to find out, it means nothing as the Govt may break up your family to appease frothing xenophobes.

€1.8m in EU budget money. Brexit campaign materials bearing the UKIP logo. A barrister saying "you can't have foreign money coming into our domestic politics." Transparency International calling for an investigation. Ten years on, the questions keep coming.