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.

There are phrases that if used by any voter should automatically ban them from voting.

This is one of them.

Not so much “bets” as race-fixing

“16 bets made $100,000 each accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 Feb. Later, a single user would make over $550,000 after betting that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would topple, just moments before his assassination by Israeli forces“

“Never trust a Tory”❗️
Nigel Farage Head of Reform 2026

‘Nough said🤷🏼‍♂️

Human rights groups raise alarm over fate of Salvadorans deported from U.S. Migrants deported from the U.S. routinely disappear into El Salvador's prisons the moment they land or in the weeks that follow. Many remain incommunicado from family and lawyers for years.

Migrants deported from the United States by Trump "routinely disappear into El Salvador's prisons the moment they land or in the weeks that follow. Many are held incommunicado, cut off from family and lawyers for months, even years."

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

My father survived a year with pancreatic cancer but it was a year of terrible suffering. This is very encouraging news.

www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...

Yikes! Always something…

We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI.

📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.

Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸

Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in.

This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale.

Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar

It isn’t that these polls are well designed. They aren’t.

But we know they are doing them to try and get a particular result to justify their bad Brexit takes.

So it is fighting back against that.

You know that Daily Mail EU poll that people have been voting on, just to flex our rejoin muscles and say “NO. We aren’t going to lie down an accept all our losses”… It isn’t that thee Mail reset it to zero ….it is that they engaged in bar chart trickery to make 84% look more like 50%‼️🤣🤣🤣🤣

Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic

is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?

for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.

Trump DOJ loses again, now 0 for 5 on voter roll cases, as court rejects Rhode Island lawsuit U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy, a Trump appointee, called the DOJ’s widespread voter roll demands a “fishing expedition.”

A win! The Trump DOJ is now 0 for 5 on voter roll cases. A federal court just rejected their lawsuit against Rhode Island, the latest in a string of losses as they try to force states to purge voter rolls.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Turkey to race ahead of EU on battery storage amid fossil fuel crisis More than 33GW of battery capacity approved for Turkish grid since 2022 compared with 12-13GW in Germany

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Reform boss 'owes £98k in tax' after demanding Rayner sack over smaller mix-up Reform's deputy leader Richard Tice reportedly owes tens of thousands in unpaid tax, after claiming Angela Rayner should be sacked for owing less than half of what he allegedly owes

Richard Tice apparently does not think that Richard Tice should resign over the incredible amount of tax found to be owed, despite calling for Angela Raynor to do just that over something objectively much, much smaller if she had "any moral decency"...

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Another sun-soaked spot , taken up by today's #FoxOfTheDay from Clare Prowse !

Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...

DeSmog: Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources
www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

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

Tice ‘happy to put things right’ after ‘he failed to pay £100k in corporation tax’ Mr Tice said last year Angela Rayner would resign if she had “any moral decency” after admitting to underpaying stamp duty

Richard Tice deputy leader of Reform ran four shell companies which did not pay any tax on profits between 2020 and 2022.

He's now offering to "put things right".

Go on then Richard - resign.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Labour warned against ‘ill-thought-out’ welfare cuts to boost defence budget The suggestion has been branded ‘extremely concerning’

Wes Streeting supports welfare cuts to fund defence.

He lets private equity make billions from outsourcing NHS, social care.

Silence on corporate welfare spending.

Since 2010 HMRC failed to collect £500bn in taxes. Capital gains and dividends taxed at lower rates than wages.

EU’s energy crisis response is broader than expected: remote work mandates, heat pump subsidies, EV leasing schemes — plus electrification targets and new laws to tax electricity below fossil fuels.

Video of Muslim women calling for Brighton beach to be dog-free is AI – Full Fact A fake video that appears to show two women wearing niqabs saying “the UK has too many dogs” has been viewed over 1.7 million times, with many people seemingly thinking it is genuine.

A video viewed over 1.7 million times appears to show an interview with two Muslim women saying people shouldn’t bring dogs to the beach.

It’s generated a huge amount of negative engagement and comments, but it’s fake. It’s been created with AI.

The total tax Tice's companies are known to have avoided through onshore and offshore entities, or failed to pay, in relation to Quidnet now amounts to almost £800,000. Photo of Tice in House of Commons Richard Tice is the MP for Boston & Skegness HOUSE OF COMMONS/PA

How the company that donates to Reform benefited from the non-payment of tax QUIDNET REIT Dividends paid but not taxed into TISUN 1,2,3 and 4 Arrows flow from each down into £98000 Corporation tax not paid by Tisun 1-4, leaving more cash for their parent company Arrows join and flow into Tisun Investments Ltd REFORM UK Arrow to TIL paid loans, later converted to gifts, to Reform UK Graphic by The Times and The Sunday Times

Reform is corrupt.
Tice is a tax dodging cheat.
They want power to make money for themselves.
The foreign bribes, the crypto donations, the bitcoin investments, Farage and Kwarteng’s cosy little deals…

They’ll treat the UK and the NHS as their own fire sale.
We must never give it to them.

Farage and dark money ⚠️ alert ⚠️: the C4s are attacking. 501(c)(4) are US “social welfare” political advocacy nonprofits. Farage declared last Monday £28k "speaking engagement" (donation) from "The Club for Growth", an anti-regulation 🇺🇸 C4 vehicle with undisclosed funders.

In case you’re confused - the £100k of tax Richard Tice failed to pay here is totally different to the
- £92k of tax not properly withheld on dividends
- the £600k side-stepped via highly aggressive tax avoidance
Industrial scale grifting revealed by @danneidle.bsky.social and Gabriel Pogrund

C4s are known tools for dark money to go into US politics. Below an example from the Epstein Files where it is detailed how Epstein used C4s to covertly fund some US campaigns. Farage's involvement with this type of structure is deeply concerning.

💥 Looks like Farage and Reform might have committed more breaches, this time linked to fundraising trips to UAE 😬
Impermissible donor? Missing register of interests? Covert fundraiser by GB News?
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🔗https://onefinanceguy.substack.com/p/dubai-on-thames

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.

First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

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