I'm just relieved nobody is talking about how I said I bought a house in Clacton, then admitted it was in the name of my girlfriend, Laure Ferrari, even though she couldn't afford £885,000, which conveniently meant I avoided £44,000 in tax.
Please don't share.
“Reform plagued by vetting issues”
Candidates found to have “grotesque” views.
Come on. It’s not the vetting, is it.
It’s the party. Whatever they do, they’ll always attract the racists, homophobes, misogynists and haters. Because that’s Farage. That’s Reform.
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When asked this week why he doesn't turn up to the Clacton business board or do other constituency work, his spokesperson said this week 'he makes personal donations to local charities and writes a column for the local paper'. THAT'S NOT WHAT HE IS PAID TO BE AN MP FOR.
"The photographer is real," say scrupulously honest Reform.
In which case, their supporters have 6 fingers, can perform levitation, and are campaigning to "Get Stuppence Out."
Stick to tax evasion, Tice. You're absolutely nailing that.
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Afternoon.
EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.
The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
Photo of researcher in hat talking to pensioner with baseball cap on… Dave Taylor (left) debates the local elections with John Doult, who says he will vote Reform at the upcoming local elections in Swindon (The Independent)
But on a visit to the former railway town last month, the outlook for Sir Keir and his party was bleak. "I'll be voting for Reform - it can't get any worse," said pensioner John Doult, until now a lifelong Labour voter who was among the thousands employed in the town's once-famous car industry. The 86-year-old bemoaned the "terrible" state of the town centre,
“I’ll be voting for Reform - it can’t get any worse”
Oh it really can.
You put a bunch of corrupt, racist, incompetent, lying Trumpists in charge and things will get very much worse.
Potholes and empty shops will feel unimportant compared to the loss of the NHS, social care and a torched economy.
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
He's an evil piece of shit, and after 10 years we're closing in on everyone seeing it
He's *dismissing* hundreds of raped kids—and I bet a lot of people who hear him do so will imagine that he's doing something so otherwise unthinkable because some of those kids were his victims
The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history
I don’t think this is enough.
In fact I think when politicians or other such people go on radio or TV and make grossly 8na curate statements like this they should have to appear again in the same programme and time slot to be publicly corrected…and cannot go on (BBC etc) until he or she complies.
Today has been an adventure to see thousands of very rare Pasque flowers!
Now found on only a handful of chalk & limestone grasslands in England, legend had it that Pasque flowers sprang from the blood of slain Vikings. In fact they grow on old tumuli because they’ve not been disturbed by ploughing
1) Scifi
The Matrix, LotR, Dark Star, Interstellar, Serenity
2) Other genres
Shaun of the Dead, Studio Ghibli - Spirited Away, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Ronin, Corpse Bride
Image of Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris), purple petals with yellow stamen filled centre. https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers/pasqueflower
Near Royston? This was from early May 2013.
Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.
I wonder how many other Men-of-the-People
had to exist on
"£970,000 from non-parliamentary work since he became an MP in 2024"
"on top of the £93,000 he earns as an MP"
"Latest MP declarations show Nigel Farage is earning an absolutely insane amount"
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use.
Lovely People.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
In recent media appearances to discuss UK economic prospects, I've made a point of starting by saying
"Economic forecasting is always, but it's a lot harder when the world's largest economy & military superpower is under the control of a deranged/senile megalomaniac"
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"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV
Image shows wind and solar generation has rapidly increased since 2013, becoming an ever larger slice of the electricity market.
A 2.9GW wind farm.
3.3 million homes powered.
Cables running through Norfolk to the national grid.
So why is the energy debate still stuck in the past for some political parties?
eastangliabylines.co.uk/energy/world...
UK elections still run on a one-day model set in 1872.
We say voting is accessible - But only if you’re free on a Thursday
A few areas are about to test something very different
And it could quietly change more than just when people vote
I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵
The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
France is switching from Microsoft to Linux
"We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."
If you were wondering what those bright flames were seen in this infrared view - those are RCS puffs to bring the capsule in an optimal landing orientation to reduce impact loading during splashdown #Artemis
