“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”

What is this if not foreign interference in UK democracy? There's an Elections Bill going through parliament. Time for an amendment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Farage, man... we don't believe what you say!" (Sing along here...) #wato #ukpolitics youtu.be/Fus19krQcKc

If you have #dementia, you will forget your wealth. #R4Today

Farage on Sky News - Hell hath no fury like a grifter losing their sources of income.

A little friendly disagreement. Thatcher left office 36 years ago. Thatcherism didn't. Those are different things. Politicians leave. Political settlements can last for generations. I think we're still living inside the one she created.

Direct foreign interference in British politics - we have rules against foreign governments funding parliamentary groups, but this is fine?? Seriously?? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If you had to guess which skunks were involved in some right wing skulduggery pushing #Brexit... ...these two Tory creeps would be near the top of the list. #ToryCorruption #ToryRussianMoney #ToryBrexitDisaster #Newsnight #r4today #ukpolitics

Farage on Sky trying to rain on Andy Burnham's parade. Farage cuts an increasingly pathetic figure. He's irrelevant and doesn't like it.

Ooh.

"Reform UK platformed and celebrated a woman who publicly called for hotels full of asylum seekers to be set on fire. Yet the moment Nigel Farage is on the receiving end of hostile language, we're suddenly told words matter after all." via Truth Against Hate

I give up - Liz Truss just made parody accounts redundant.

Camilla Parknride

If Burnham appoints her, all that goodwill is flushed away. She shouldn’t be anywhere near government.

'People in Essex deserve better than this' "Reform U.K. led @Essex_CC an utter shambles. Playing with tax payer’s cash to enforce their ideology rather than serving residents. This appears to be the national blueprint." via Essex politics, planning and local democracy news

Andrew Lansley had six years as Shadow Health Secretary and then came in and blew up the NHS, creating an internal market. The Tories failed the country because they didn't understand it. #r4today

Govt asks private equity bosses why they are not listing UK companies in London. Not asked to explain devouring of town centres, water, energy vets, care homes, NHS, supermarkets Invited to discuss tax perks, deregulation, boost City commissions Poor not asked to discuss poverty. archive.ph/S2VHC

My healthcare's free... except for the dentist... but I don't know about yours. The democracy's fake, though, and the potholes do need filling in... (depending on which holes you mean).

Oh... "Queen"? I think they mean the Old Imperial Concubine, Camilla. #r4today #endmonarchy #NationalAnthemDirge #wato

Good point. We serfs and peasants like to service the rich until the day we die, and beyond. We know our place... #r4today #inequalty #socialcare #wato

Water companies reclassify bonus as retention payments, circumvent rules. Anglian Water CEO gets £1.3m retention pay. AW won't meet its regulatory targets. 44% rise in customer bills, sewage in rivers, 182m litres a day lost to leaks, criminal convictions. Govt/Ofwat do nothing. archive.ph/kmZz8

Reform are absolutely shitting themselves now as they know Farage is going to lose in Clacton. What a summer!

Sadly, the battle against that is being lost. Improvements in prevention of ill health are disproportionately taken up by those who are better off. I work in the #NHS and while more preventative work is being done, those less well off don’t listen as much. But I keep trying.

Eric Pickles getting rid of the Audit Commission and allowing councils to hire their own external audit companies was an early example of the ideological mindset. Many councils are now effectively bankrupt with poor services and impossible budgets. #r4today

Nick now puzzled by the failure of Trump and Blair’s Board of Peace. Jeremy has to point out to him that it was never going to work and that the clue’s in the title - Trump’s bored of it. #r4today

The Farage show is tediously self-pitying. Even if his idiotic by-election stunt distracts temporarily from scrutiny of his dodgy finances, his inability to accept and make amends for the significant role he himself plays in the toxification of our politics will not. (Letters in The Times)

Why are the BBC running their reporting on the US/Iran war from Israel (a country imposing military censorship on foreign reporters), whilst completely ignoring Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza? #r4today

Oh sod orf yer majesty! #R4today

Sorry #r4today but I don’t get being all patriotic celebrating that woman’s birthday.

“Nick, did you have a favourite childhood book?” “Yes, the Doctor Seuss books” There it is. Nick Robinson was shaped from infancy by incoherent ramblings from the USA. That lack of patriotism has endured ever since. #R4Today #Complicity

Well, that was a bit bloody weird and I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard it before in my many years of listening to #r4today. “Today is the birthday of Her Majesty the Queen,” says the presenter, referring to Camilla. Then we have a wordless verse of the national anthem. Then the pips and the news.

Good point. We serfs and peasants like to service the rich until the day we die, and beyond. We know our place... #r4today #inequalty #socialcare #wato

Oh... "Queen"? I think they mean the Old Imperial Concubine, Camilla. #r4today #endmonarchy #NationalAnthemDirge #wato

This is what fighting fascism looks like.

Cartoon by @danboriscreates.bsky.social.

Kipper Williams.

“A group who fraudulently claimed to be able to provide PPE during the pandemic but instead spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on house renovations and luxury cars have been convicted after a NCA investigation.” #ToryCorruption #ToryCovidCatastrophe www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/fraudst...

We remember what Elon Musk's daughter said about him. Very relevant.

Politico on Starmer's new peers: "Throwing 16 new Labour peers into the Lords and bringing his Lord-birthing total to around 150 (66 of them Labour) — far more than the 92 hereditaries he managed to delete — was not the line when Labour was elected promising proper Lords reform & possible abolition"

If only Daily Telegraph readers would give some kind of clue as to what it is about Sadiq Kkahn that they find so upsetting.

The Reform leader had an eight-person protection team and two vehicles trib.al/BwoYnLY

Farage is in trouble – polls show voters think he’s a danger to Britain

Thing is we knew at the time that Gove Hancock & Sunak were doing it but we have to wait till Hallet says so before the Met start investigations off at all ,same applies to Grenfell Hillsboro Contaminated blood & Post office + others Many with the same culprits

Threatening to murder an MP...or indeed anyone online should be an arrestable offence. But as always, Nigel Farage does have a history of inciting violence. Remember this from 2017?

The UK is increasing the Pension age to 68. Poland has lowered theirs to 60 for women and 65 for men. Their pension provides a better standard of living too. (Oh and in case you are wondering how it can be afforded the Polish Government privatised very little.)

President Zelenskyy has gifted Keir Starmer the Ukrainian 'Order of Freedom' - the highest award for a foreign person - during his final visit as PM Starmer says he will "treasure it forever"👏

Please, please, please let this story make the print edition…

In August 2024 Rodri and Álvaro Morata were rightly banned for one match for singing “Gibraltar is Spain”. Now the Argentine players who celebrated with the “Falklands are Argentine” banner must be barred from the final.

"FIFA has high and mighty, lofty ideals, and yet when the rubber hits the road, it turns a blind eye and closes its ears to all evil and wrongdoing." How should football's governing body react to Argentina's rule-breaking stunt after beating England 2-1? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/will...

Scottish National Party chief executive Peter Murrell went to jail for 5 years for £400,000 of fraud. There was £10,000,000,000 of fraud in PPE, but it was an 'honest mistake'. So instead of 125,000 years in jail, there won't even be an investigation.