All quiet on the UK’s lies industry front.
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Many European politicians and journalists are essentially on Russia's payroll.

Helping an enemy attack your own continent should result in a prison sentence.

We are currently failing at enforcement, and our security is paying the price

Is the Green Party actually a green party any more? Or is it just Respect with nicer-sounding people and better PR?

Should I know who he is?

I thought this was a spoof but it looks like it’s real.

Don’t know how far they’ve got towards actually doing what’s depicted here but the potential looks amazing.

www.aerospacetestinginternational.com/news/emrod-d...

EMROD | Power Anywhere EMROD is pioneering commercially viable long-range wireless power transfer technology. Our system transmits large amounts of energy safely and without wires.

The company website looks real enough. emrod.energy

There was a time when the president inspired pride instead of exhaustion. I miss that more than I can say.

It doesn't take a forensic accountant to work out whose interests Nigel Farage really serves

Imagine thinking this is funny, two days before Christmas, then posting it.

James Bembridge is a Reform UK candidate in Westminster.

Graph showing Farage's income and Stack BTC investments.

Impressive (observer.co.uk/news/nationa...)

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

Someone do a British one, with Farage on the end.

What should have happened: the REIT paid no tax but the Tice companies holding shares in the REIT paid £98k tax on the dividends they received. What actually happened: none of the companies paid any tax.

Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions

A 🧵 with the evidence:

Some strange alliances these days.

It feels like they decide on outcomes and attach policies to them. I also want many of these outcomes, indeed this country needs some radicalism. But there's no internal coherence. Universal fuel subsidy, no oil drilling, tax the rich (but fund their fuel bills). It's frustrating.

I do wonder if the Greens have thought through what the impact of their 1:10 pay ratio thing would be on their other key policy of 'the rich will pay for everything'

James Bembridge is very much the true face of Reform. It is a party run by and for louche poshos. They carry the likes of Lee Anderson around to appeal to working class voters but really, it’s the party of the rich.

archives.battleofideas.org.uk/2021/speaker...

Didn’t understand this bit:

“The car doesn't punish double yellow line offences.”

Why not?

Side point; but one of the worst decisions made by the last Govt (and yes, there were many) was banning ANPR and cameras for parking enforcement.

The Govt should reintroduce it and allow Councils to enforce parking restrictions again in a effective way

We should be learning from other countries...

I don’t expect either @eddavey.libdems.org.uk or @zackpolanski.bsky.social to reply, but it’d be a very Bluesky nice thing to happen if they did.

Now, Suffolk County Council elections.

Why should I vote for your candidate in Suffolk in the best way to get shot of the Tory-turned-Reform incumbent?

If Reform canvassers knock on your door tell them, “We were turning the corner until your guy started a war.”

Reform is a Trump franchise operation. Farage is the branch manager.

One doctor to another.

Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

Now Orban has fallen, expect a lot more stuff like this to come out.

goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

As Hungary votes, would recommend this piece about how Viktor Orban has used public money to bankroll an international ultraconservative network - including Roger Scruton cafes and €10k a month for failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage Just thanked Viktor Orban at the end of the Hungarian Presidency for being our secret weapon and helping us bring down the EU project. Jul 5, 2011

Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage Keep going Viktor Orbán in your battle against EU migrant quotas and taking on George Soros. Mar 5, 2018

Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage Viktor Orbán is the strongest leader in Europe and the EU's biggest nightmare. Apr 9, 2018

Nigel Farage tweet Apr 4, 2022 A big win against the globalists and a big win for the conservative movement whether you like Orbán or not. GBN LIVE HUNGARY VOTES ORBAN means a headache for the EU Nigel Farage Apr 4, 2022 Congratulations to Viktor Orbán!

Nigel Farage has been a big Orbán fan for a while

Orban had conceded.

It’s a bad day for populism.

Farage, Goodwin and Orr were all knee deep.

Just thanked Viktor Orban at the end of the Hungarian Presidency for being our secret weapon and helping us bring down the EU project

Bad night for Nige

and the pub is called "The Rat Inn"

Pub landlady blasts 'tight-fisted' Labour MP for only ordering starter Karen Errington, the chef-owner of the Rat Inn in the hamlet of Anick, near the Northumbrian town of Hexham, didn't name the allegedly parsimonious politician.

Labour MP gets dragged publicly by a pub landlady for having the audacity to go into her pub, order food and spend money. Honestly no wonder decent people don’t want to go into public life. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...