🧵 While we're talking about donations, in 2023, crypto weirdo Christopher Harborne, who is based in Thailand, holding Thai citizenship, & who appeared in the
#PanamaPapers
, gave Boris Johnson £1M (the biggest ever donation to an MP) & has given around £10M to Farage's Reform UK.
🔴Reform UK Limited: The Political Business Brought to You by Billionaires
Despite its wealthy backers and blanket media coverage, few have peered under the bonnet of Reform UK.
@docrussjackson
takes a look at its backers.
It's a shame that
#WhitePrivilege
is such a widely misunderstood concept.
It does NOT mean you're racist.
It does NOT mean your life has been easy.
It does NOT mean you don't face struggles too.
It means your life isnt made harder by the colour of your skin.
That's it.
Britain was a much more equal society before Thatcher than it has been at any time since.
In this short THREAD, I just want to try and quickly take stock of what forty years of increasingly deregulated free-market capitalism has actually achieved.
He's not a spy.
He's not perfect.
He's not a racist.
He's not Tony Blair.
He's not always right.
He's not the Messiah.
He's not the leader of a cult.
He's not a terrorist sympathiser.
He's the leader of
@UKLabour
& he wants to help millions of ordinary people have a better life.
I'm no royalist, but this is a fabulous photo & a massive 'fuck you' to all the miserable Little Englanders & all the xenophobic commentariat gobshites intimidated by a successful, progressive & beautiful woman marrying a decent man, whose mum was killed by people just like them.
In November 2022, 70.2% of
@elonmusk
's 115,988,332 followers were fake - that meant 81,423,809 fake accounts were amplifying his divisive dangerously irresponsible bigoted adolescent bullshit. Soon after this he blocked
@sparktoro
's ability to check for fake followers.
#BlockMusk
#THREAD
After last night's appalling episode of
#bbcqt
, today I've emailed
@BBCR4Feedback
to express my concerns about Fiona Bruce's inability to properly or fairly chair
@bbcquestiontime
panels, & about the disproportionate number of right-wing panellists.
Full email below:
Boris Johnson's £37BILLION Test & Trace service, run by Dido Harding & using private firms Serco & Deloitte, has lost track of 550 MILLION COVID tests & failed to reach nearly 100,000 people who had tested positive, failing to identify their contacts. 🤬
Businesswoman Bonnie Spofforth, who lives in a £1.5 million farmhouse in Cheshire, accused of being first to spread the fake rumours about the Southport killer which sparked nationwide riots. has been arrested.
#THREAD
Many UK citizens are curious about precisely who is pulling Liz Truss's strings & driving the
@Conservatives
' populist, deregulatory, antidemocratic policy agenda. Basically, it's US Libertarian billionaires & their global network of think tanks, here based on Tufton St.
A grotesque, infantile, dangerously irresponsible 1930s-Germany-style far-right shit-stirrer, intent on puking out divisive scaremongering misleading hateful antidemocratic culture war bullshit.
She reckons she "tells the truth". She's a delusional sociopathic lying dickhead. 👍
Tory MP Andrew Bowie claimed on
#bbcqt
that "from 2010 to 2023 there has been a 50% drop in recorded crime across the country".
The evidence does not support this claim.
Why are so many
@Conservatives
entirely comfortable with telling easily disprovable barefaced lies?
#bbcqt
"We are unashamedly British & we want to be Britain's news channel" - Angelos Frangopoulos, GB News's Australian CEO.
"It will be a more friendly approach to news" - Andrew Neil.
"GB News is Britain’s News Channel" - GB News.
'GB News is not a news channel' -
@ofcom
.
Laurence Fox must pay more than £36,000 in legal fees to three people he called ‘paedophiles’ on
@X
.
The shit-stirring dickheads’ legal costs for making the unsuccessful bid came to £116,314.55, which he'll also have to pay.
Happy birthday
@LozzaFox
🤣
Britain is miserable because we have a cruel, dysfunctional, divisive, racist, corrupt, extremist & authoritarian Govt which has broken everything & scapegoats the fuck out of people, propped up by a divisive billionaire-owned 'news' media populated by shit-stirring throbbers. 🇬🇧
Number of times Fiona Bruce interrupted each panelist:
Thangam Debbonaire (Lab) 13
David TC Davies (Tory) 8
Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru) 7
Rakie Ayola (Actress) 1
Anita Boateng (paid lobbyist, ex-SPAD to 3 Tory Cabinet Ministers, & former political producer of
#bbcqt
) 0
A Sheffield man sobbed in court as he was refused bail after being charged in relation to the riots in South Yorkshire.
Curtis Coulson, 30, wiped away tears & denied affray.
Unchallenged, delusional far-right sociopathic ghoul Suella Braverman falsely claims on GB "News" that "children were mutilated in our schools" & "leaving the ECHR would have stopped boats".
Both claims are dangerously irresponsible barefaced lies.
Are you still there
@Ofcom
?
Hi
@BBC
.
I have a question: Why is Richard Tice, who has his own show on GB "News", & leads a party with ZERO MPs, being platformed on a flagship
@BBCPolitics
show (
#bbcaq
) AGAIN?
He's been on
#bbcqt
FIVE times, & his partner Isabel Oakeshott, 15 times.
WHO CHOOSES THE GUESTS?
We need to understand the *real* Boris Johnson. He's not the bumbling clown act we're presented with, which has been cultivated to hide his grotesque incompetence, sociopathic lying, fragile ego & bullying arrogance.
Sonia Purnell: the truth about Boris.
If extremely rich people's kids had to share schools with non-very rich people's kids, Britain wouldn't be in the absolute shit we're now in, & the Government might actually give a fuck about non-very rich people.
Anyone behaving like this, in any other workplace, would be referred to HR, to occupational health for a psychiatric evaluation, or sacked on the spot. Yet these spoilt twats, who we fucking pay for, can act like pissed up adolescents. How far Britain has fallen, so quickly. 🇬🇧😭
If my account is suspended, so be it.
FUCK THE TORIES!
AND FUCK REFORM UK PLC!
Anyone who votes for either of these corrupt lying self-serving shit-stirring billionaire-funded parties must really fucking hate themselves , OUR
#NHS
& the British people. 🇬🇧
Roll on 4th July! 👊
#THREAD
Since 1970, Rupert Murdoch's toxic Sun had published images of topless 'glamour models' on Page 3.
In 1983, Sam Fox became the youngest Page 3 model in The Sun, when aged just 16 she first featured topless with the headline 'Sam, 16, Quits A-Levels for Ooh-Levels'.
'We're sending in the gunboats - big, beautiful gunboats - to protect our British fish. Many, many, many fish. I probably know more about fish than anyone. Person. Fish. Woman. Gunboat. Man. Fish. Camera. Cripes. TV. No more questions.'
THREAD
Hitler won mass support because a major economic crisis had driven Germany into a deep depression: Banks crashed, businesses folded, & millions lost their jobs.
Hitler offered voters a vision of a better future - 'sunlit uplands', you might say.
#THREAD
Let’s take a closer look at some of the foundational ideological positions that the
@Conservatives
publicly claim to support, & how their actions & policies all too often run in complete & total contradiction to them.
Am I the only person to think it's wrong that the leader of a UK Political Party has been given his own show on a national UK TV channel? Effectively, Rupert Murdoch is facilitating a regular & extended Party Political broadcast. I don't recall this ever happening before.
@Ofcom
Hard man Iain Dale - who in 2013 accepted a police caution for assaulting a pensioner - spends his entire life accusing anyone Left of Boris Johnson of being a deluded "snowflake", then today, like a MASSIVE SNOWFLAKE MAN-BABY, he walks off
@GMB
!
A primary school teacher & foxhunter from near Melton Mowbray who punched & kicked a horse was found not guilty.
A factory worker & football fan from Newcastle who punched a police horse received a 12 month jail sentence & a six year football ban.
What fucking century is it? 🇬🇧
#IStandWithJeremyCorbyn
not because he's The Messiah or got everything right, but because he represented by far the best opportunity in my lifetime to make Britain much fairer, greener & less divided, & the entire establishment had to pool resources & work like dogs to stop him.
THREAD
For all those denying any
#BBCBias
on
@BBCNews
&
@BBCPolitics
shows, here's some of the formal 'corrections & clarifications' to "mistakes" made by the
@BBC
in 2019, which all *completely coincidentally* helped the Tories by damaging
@UKLabour
's reputation.
Sorry to hear this. However, I've read a fair bit of feminist literature, but I don't recall any feminists recommending that women embark on four year affairs with damaged sexist bigoted married emotionally stunted serial liars, who are then sacked for lying about the affair...
The Daily Mail’s parent company has successfully invoked the Human Rights Act to stop other media outlets naming Mail journalists in a phone hacking court case - DESPITE using its editorials to campaign AGAINST the Human Rights Act for several decades!
"Ed Miliband treated Jacob Rees-Mogg as if he was a halfwit. Most people do these days. Long gone are the times when MPs were impressed by his faux politeness & smug self-confidence, squeezed into an oversized undertaker’s suit. Now people see him for the needy fraud that he is."
Seven minutes into
@bbcquestiontime
& Piers Morgan has spoken uninterrupted, Nadhim Zahawi has spoken uninterrupted, but the moment Lisa Nandy opens her mouth, both Morgan & Zahawi instantly, loudly, & persistently interrupt her, & useless Fiona Bruce does fucking nothing.
#bbcqt
#THREAD
By the end of her time as Secretary of State for Justice & Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss had lost the confidence of the entire legal profession & the judiciary. The Lord Chief Justice told the House of Lords Constitution Committee she was “constitutionally absolutely wrong”.
#THREAD
Andrew Neil, who has never been shy about offering his opinion on FUCKING EVERYTHING, now has "nothing to say" about the
#DanWoottonScandal
, because, he claims, he "doesn't know anything about him". 🤥
Really?
Well Dan Wootton has shared his opinion of Andrew Neil...
Can we crowdfund an island for Piers Morgan, Katie Hopkins, Hartley Brewer, Tommy Robinson, Morrissey, Farage, Nadine Dorries, John Humphreys, Rees Mogg, & all the other small minded, backward looking bigots so they can all try & out-offend each other rather than the rest of us?
The attacks on the welfare state in the 1980s were based on views that saw poverty as the result of individual moral failings, rather than structural inequality. This narrative has become so dominant, it is now unusual to hear the Govt attach the prefix 'structural' to any issue.
Liz Truss knows fuck-all about free speech, & even less about UK law. She hopes rich libertarian dickheads will employ her, but she's a useless, delusional, sociopathic, emotionally dead shit-stirring global embarrassment, and - in a crowded field - the worst UK PM in history. 🇬🇧
#THREAD
By the end of her time as Secretary of State for Justice & Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss had lost the confidence of the entire legal profession & the judiciary. The Lord Chief Justice told the House of Lords Constitution Committee she was “constitutionally absolutely wrong”.
#THREAD
Rumour has it, the character leading Nigel Farage away is George Cottrell, an interesting chap, who may give some insight into Farage's 'anti-elite' Reform UK team.
(Btw, I don't agree with chucking drinks over anyone).
So who is George Cottrell?
When a tax-avoiding non-dom billionaire-owned newspaper, which always represents its owner's interests & relentlessly demonises anyone making calls for progressive taxation or improved working conditions, offers a competition to prevent readers dying, you're living in a dystopia.
"Sloppy"? Fuck off.
Dave Atherton & many other shit-stirring far-right propagandists (including Reform MPs Tice, Anderson & Farage, along with Wootton, Fox & Tommy Robinson) should be on fucking trial for encouraging racism and/or encouraging, celebrating, or condoning violence.
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
JRM quotes Iago, one of Shakespeare's most sinister villains, who uses his reputation as an honest man to deceive & manipulate people to satisfy his needs.
When his treachery is revealed, before being arrested he kills in a fit of rage, remaining reticent to give an explanation.
Our PM is a populist nationalist liar, a corrupt opportunist charlatan, a bigoted antidemocratic cheat & a regressive global embarrassment who serves the interests of a cabal of rich disaster capitalists & has overseen 140,000 mostly completely avoidable deaths - so far.
#COP26
Does nobody study 1930s European history?
Has everyone forgotten WWII?
Has everyone forgotten about Oswald Mosley, Enoch Powell, the BNP & the National Front?
WTAF happened to
#NeverForget
&
#NeverAgain
?
FFS Britain! 🇬🇧
The Yanks gave up their democracy & ability to think, & now a damaged selfish lonely adolescent sociopathic shit-stirring billionaire oligarch fills their heads full of mindless adolescent puerile shit.
Permanent jobs and decent pensions for the masses have become a thing of the past.
British manufacturing, once the envy of the world, has all but disappeared.
Around 10 million people are trapped in insecure, relatively low-paid work, with declining working conditions.
I'm blown away. 100,000 people have now read this thread, & not a single negative comment, which for
@Twitter
is nothing short of miraculous, & says everything. Thanks again to everyone reading & commenting. Let's 'take back control' of OUR country, & kick these sociopaths out.❤
Members of a 21-person "child sex abuse ring", who subjected seven victims aged under 13 to 'prolonged & sustained' abuse that left them "terribly psychologically damaged", have been jailed for 190 years.
I can't find a single news report referring to them as a "grooming gang".
FFS
@bbcquestiontime
, I've just timed how long Fiona Bruce allowed each panelist to speak on
#immigration
:
Ruth Wishart - 30 secs
Ian Hislop - 2 mins
Lionel Shriver - 2 mins
Stephen Kinnock - 3mins, 30 secs
Robert Jenrick - 10 mins (more than all other speakers COMBINED)
#bbcqt
For whatever reasons, Fiona Bruce is a TERRIBLE
#bbcqt
Chair.
I've just timed how long she allowed each panelist to speak on
#immigration
:
Ruth Wishart - 30 seconds
Ian Hislop - 2 mins
Lionel Shriver - 2 mins
Stephen Kinnock - 3mins, 30 seconds
Robert Jenrick - 10 minutes
So when the Right are asked to account for the above, all they've got is to scream "WOKE VIRTUE-SIGNALLING CANCEL CULTURE MARXISTS!" & hope this is enough to distract from the fact that while elites hoard unimaginable wealth, millions of decent people live in quiet desperation.
Ever noticed how right-wingers who claim they are ‘the victim of a political witch hunt’ are among the most horrible, cruel, selfish, deliberately offensive, pompous, condescending, divisive, bigoted, pig-ignorant attention-seeking ideologically extreme lying sociopaths on earth?
Since 2009, the wealth of the UK's 1,000 richest individuals has increased by £468 billion.
The UK's richest 1% now have as much wealth as 80% of the population.
"
#austerity
was a terrible mistake" says Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning economist.
Since the 2008 financial crash - caused by the reckless irresponsibility of a greedy & woefully under-regulated & deregulated financial sector - our once genuinely world-beating public services have been utterly decimated, with tragic consequences for millions of decent people.
Britain becomes more like 1930s Germany with every passing day.
If you can't see it, you're blind.
If you don't oppose it, you're complicit.
Our elders did NOT nearly lose everything & fight Nazis so people in organisations like 'Britain First' could act like Nazis.
Sociopathic MPs & the hysterical tabloid press frame unemployed people, carers, & disabled people as 'lazy work-shy scroungers' & an unproductive drain on resources, whose motives & ability to work must be assessed by corrupt organisations incentivised by cruelty.
#THREAD
If divisive, hateful, unelected far-right extremist GB "News" presenter Nigel Farage appears on this week's
@bbcquestiontime
(36th time this century), it will be the final nail in the coffin of the
@BBC
's credibility as an "impartial" "public service" broadcaster.
#bbcqt
Britain has shocking levels of deprivation: over 2,000 foodbanks, which nearly 4 million UK adults (1 in 14) have been forced to use; at least 2 million pensioners are living in poverty, as are 4 million children - footballers have to beg the Govt to not let children go hungry.
@NadineDorries
And WTAF would Nadine Dorries know about being "a reasonable person"?
She's tweeted a photo from 2019 purporting to be from lockdown, & lest we forget, in 2020 she shared a doctored video from a far-right source about Keir Starmer & Jimmy Savile, in an attempt to discredit him.
What a vile, crass, classless, embarrassing fucking horrible disrespectful hateful little subhuman shit Britain's Home Secretary
@SuellaBraverman
is. The shameless pig-ignorant pompous condescending
@Conservatives
have taken politics, & even basic common decency, into the gutter.