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

Dear Clacton, You do realise Farage is banking on you having so little self respect that you don’t mind an MP who so obviously doesn’t care about his responsibilities & instead campaigns to help his crypto friends, not you or your town. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on Clacton.

In Clacton, Monster Raving Loony Party should stand down, too; they are "establishment", after all. Give Count Bin Face a clear run at the seat! #ArrestFarage #FarageRiots

Once again, Farage seeking to do what he does best, inciting the mob for the mob to rule on his wrongdoing. Rather than face imminent Parliamentary scrutiny over his undeclared bungs he's going to the mob for a by-election judgement. No fucking way; it doesn't exist. #ArrestFarage #FarageRiots

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

Come on people of Clacton. It’s going to be Nigel Farage and Count Binface. You know what to do. #tacticalvoting

Please @ZackPolanski.bsky.social Stand down too & embarrass him

Resigning to show that Reform voters don't care about massive kickbacks to their MP. Apparently, this is the British culture they crave

For the love of humanity will the people of Clacton please kick him to the curb!

This!

This is the moment for a unity anti-Farage candidate to come forward. And everyone else to step aside.

Farage resigns his seat in Clacton forcing a by election which he ... er plans to stand in. Huge performative cost to the taxpayers to feather his ego. I hope it backfires spectacularly

If Farage is such a victim of harassment why does he want to stand in a by election triggered supposedly by his being harassed by the media ? He thinks everyone is stupid and unfortunately I reckon there will be a few journalists who will play along and treat the public like complete idiots!

Half-an-hour of whinge including repeating the lie that he's the most attacked MP ever (apparently being murdered doesn't count according to Nigel) and five seconds to say "I'm standing down, please vote for me in the by-election I'm causing despite not seeing me since GE 2024"

I can’t help but think that news organisations, particularly the BBC, should’ve waited to find out the content of Nigel Farage’s speech before choosing to broadcast this nonsense, using an official Reform UK live feed.

There has to be a rule against this! He must have something worse to hide by throwing this attention seeking curveball - trying to change the media conversation away from his own rule breaking grift. The press will be more concerned with the contest and forget about the stuff he has done wrong.

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

This is not a statement, it's a party political broadcast. Why is the BBC airing Farage lying, unchecked? Why put this out live when you don't know what lies he's going to tell? Why not wait until he's put it out, and then broadcast it with analysis that fact checks it... or not broadcasting it?

Has he resigned yet?

I’m 52/48

They took her rosary away from her. www.ms.now/news/ice-arr...

Christopher Harborne's £5m gift to Farage is now the subject of a parliamentary inquiry. But our latest story in #HarborneReceipts raises incredibly serious qs including...did Boris Johnson give Harborne classified defence info he then profited from? 2/ www.thenerve.news/p/boris-john...

NEW: Before cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne gave £5m to @nigel_farage, he gave £1m to Boris Johnson. For what?? Today @thenerve.news news reveals new evidence that tracks Harborne's investments in defence firm QinetiQ...to key defence announcements from Boris Johnson. 1/

It’s taken a long time for any of the big media platforms to get interested in this relationship. Pretty sure Cottrell was on the Farage scene during ukip days and a few journalists were asking questions then.

Nigel Farage to Sky News, "If you harass my family any more, there'll be serious consequences" Sky News, "Sky News has not contacted my Farage's family over the story"

Love the final bit of V/O: "Sky News has not contacted any members of Mr Farage's family about the story." Might as well say: "We have NO idea what he's on about, daft prick." A x

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La senadora paraguaya Celeste Amarilla protagonizó una fuerte polémica tras mencionar en sus redes a Mbappé diciendo que “en vez de leche materna chupaba cocos”. El jugador ha contestado y Emmanuel Macron le ha respaldado

Spent months of my life on this one and never did find out where the money came from, only that Lyndon Crosby was running it. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Not beating the er, bribery allegations

You gotta love it. Belgium restoring order to the universe.

Trump’s $2bn bonanza heralds the rise of political grifters across the west. Political office is the key to riches as power/influence traded. Nigel Farage using the Trump model in the UK. Personal riches whilst neglecting parliament duties. Must end political corruption for a better future.

For no particular reason, obviously, this weekend I found myself remembering all those allegations about mysterious dark money funding untraceable Facebook ads during the Brexit campaign.

And while I understand you get the op-eds for saying everything has changed, it hasn't really. Times and policies may change, but this is pretty much exactly the EU that the UK left. Still the same awkward compromise making machine. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At its core the EU is a permanent negotiation between members therefore its relations with neighbours must also be. Not sure why UK politics struggles so much to understand this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reminder that the Reform Party is claiming that this convicted fraudster's undeclared pre election donations to Farage have no political element

After a phone call between the White House and FIFA, US player Balogun's red card (& suspension) was rescinded, & can play the next #WorldCup game. Talk Sport's Matt Scott sums it up nicely:

All it takes for Reform to fail is the shadow tanker fleet of the BBC, right wing press, and nervous media oligarchs, to turn away from their current course, and actually report some rather inconvenient truths about political corruption around crypto and money laundering

We all have a moral responsibility to make damn sure this racist horrorshow never gets a whiff of power and that we boot Farage and all his dullwitted Reform brownshirts out of public life for good. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I would do this but my MP is Shabana Mahmood who doesn't appear to care what her constituents want or what is good and decent.

Whaaaaaaat? He was in a fancy FORRIN restaurant?

Spain approves punishment of up to two years in prison for fake conversion therapies for LGBTIQ+ people

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Literally changed what she claims she said within seconds 'aping' is very specifically implying he puts it on and therefore isn't from the North! Shameless.

Fox's "career" is one of the great mysteries of the age, along with the trajectories of her fellow erstwhile RCP members. What, exactly, was her peerage rewarding her for? It's time for me to post this again www.theguardian.com/education/20...

OMFG vile man

Irony is dead

This alone is enough for me to be clear I could never vote for the Tories. Miliband has been the most effective Minister - planning - focus - relying on expertise - delivering despite a £28bn budget shortfall. Meanwhile Badenoch goes Trump. Contemptible.

I don't have anything profound to say about the 10-year anniversary of the Brexit vote. Brexit was always going to be shit, was shit, and now continues to be shit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Alistair Campbell after the 2016 Brexit referendum, "Just shocked that we've made such a catastrophically stupid decision. And the world is looking on thinking: didn't you used to be a serious country?" "It's a catastrophe and we're only at the beginning of the consequences playing out"