The East has not been wasting trillions on endless wars. The West is literally crumbling. Its infrastructure in ruins. Because Western countries no longer invest in their own countries and people. In fact, quite the opposite.
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
Who the hell is this guy? And what does he want as a return on his £millions invested in Reform? Because it sure as shit isn’t a fairer, more progressive, equal and prosperous UK with good public services and well-regulated consumer protections.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Trump is not a reliable nor trustworthy partner with anyone. It only lasts if & while you comply OR have "Epstein files" on him 😉.
You are dealing with a child's behaviour.
Starmer and other World leaders need to wake up to that and plan for a future without the US as an ally until he is gone.
A vote for Matt Goodwin/Reform in #GortonAndDenton is a vote for racism and misogyny. A vote to shame the constituency, to divide and fail it. It’s a vote that takes no responsibility for its consequences because it hasn’t thought about them and doesn’t care enough to do that.
Don’t be that voter.
Ed Milliband comes out and says he supports Keir Starmer - He added, He's like a brother to me 😵💫
In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage
Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Farage - a total hypocrite on the Mandelson appointment. And, besides, the Epstein files expose him too.
A grubby apologist to Trump. A useful idiot to Bannon. And a traitor to the UK.
open.substack.com/pub/adambien...
Interesting discussion on #skynews #trevorphillips today but only the ladies, Dorothy Byrne and Ayesha Hazarika seem prepared to call out the full extent of the Epstein scandal (powerful rich men's network of abuse of women, children and other forms of corruption & cover-up) in the UK and beyond.
Reform - Growing by the importation of Tory failure and stench of the past like rotting vegetables and fungi being rooted out by even-toed ungulates.
![Reform's churchwarden riddle
Extract
A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for the family of a highly secretive, Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as the man behind £200,000 of donations to Reform UK.
John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old conveyancer whose parish website describes him as an "experienced" and
"dedicated" Anglican lay leader.
He is the owner of Interior
Architecture Landscape Limited, which made seven payments to Nigel Farage's party last summer. The firm, which was originally owned via a trust in the British Virgin Islands, is so small it does not have to file professionally audited accounts. It did not display any contact details until recently and was almost wound up by HMRC after a tax dispute last year.
Simpson, known locally as Bill, "does conveyancing, but is not a fully qualified solicitor", according to a Facebook post by a neighbour in the Hertfordshire town. There is no evidence he has any background in interior design. He has no known political affiliation or background in activism.
He would not discuss the source of the funds donated to Reform last week.
Simpson has long worked for Sasan and Yasmin Ghandehari, a married couple who a spokesman for the interior design company acknowledged were "clients".
Last month, the Ghandehari family office sponsored Farage's pass to Davos and a hotel in the Swiss resort for the World Economic Forum's annual gathering. They claimed to have retained the Reform leader as "an honorary and unpaid adviser" in an arrangement first reported by the Financial Times.
In response to inquiries, Farage's spokesman said: "[Sasan] Ghandehari has attended a Reform UK fundraising event and they are friends of the party." It is understood the event in question took place at Oswald's, a private members' club in Mavfair.
It is illegal for a foreign national or entity to donate directly to a party. Yet a trading British company is automatically eligible to donate.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreidrxmr4miirybjl5wb5p7wwb5fuznljlajjckoz5bamxiqfhr4txa@jpeg)
Reform's churchwarden riddle Extract A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for the family of a highly secretive, Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as the man behind £200,000 of donations to Reform UK. John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old conveyancer whose parish website describes him as an "experienced" and "dedicated" Anglican lay leader. He is the owner of Interior Architecture Landscape Limited, which made seven payments to Nigel Farage's party last summer. The firm, which was originally owned via a trust in the British Virgin Islands, is so small it does not have to file professionally audited accounts. It did not display any contact details until recently and was almost wound up by HMRC after a tax dispute last year. Simpson, known locally as Bill, "does conveyancing, but is not a fully qualified solicitor", according to a Facebook post by a neighbour in the Hertfordshire town. There is no evidence he has any background in interior design. He has no known political affiliation or background in activism. He would not discuss the source of the funds donated to Reform last week. Simpson has long worked for Sasan and Yasmin Ghandehari, a married couple who a spokesman for the interior design company acknowledged were "clients". Last month, the Ghandehari family office sponsored Farage's pass to Davos and a hotel in the Swiss resort for the World Economic Forum's annual gathering. They claimed to have retained the Reform leader as "an honorary and unpaid adviser" in an arrangement first reported by the Financial Times. In response to inquiries, Farage's spokesman said: "[Sasan] Ghandehari has attended a Reform UK fundraising event and they are friends of the party." It is understood the event in question took place at Oswald's, a private members' club in Mavfair. It is illegal for a foreign national or entity to donate directly to a party. Yet a trading British company is automatically eligible to donate.
![Churchwarden with connection to Kazakh-born tycoon is behind £200k of donations to Reform
Extract:
They claimed to have retained the Reform leader as "an honorary and unpaid adviser", an arrangement first reported by the Financial Times.
In response to inquiries,
Farage's spokesman said: "[Sasan]
Ghandehari has attended a Reform UK fundraising event and they are friends of the party." It is understood the event took place at Oswald's, a private members' club in Mayfair.
It is illegal for a foreign national or entity to donate directly to a party. Yet a trading British company is automatically eligible to donate. There is nothing to
stop a foreign investor or owner depositing funds in a UK company which in turn donates to a political party.
Sasan and Yasmin Ghandehari have been described as "Iranian-born" and
"British" in media reports but it is unclear whether they hold British citizenship.
Sasan gave his nationality as Iranian and his profession as "businessman" in a
Companies
House document dated
2002.
The Ghandeharis are prolific art collectors and sit on a fundraising committee for the Tate. They derive their wealth from Sasan's mother, Hourieh Peramaa, who was born in Kazakhstan and fled to Iran as a child before investing in property and becoming a billionaire.
Named by Chatham House as a "politi-
cally exposed" or
"high-risk"
person
from a post-Soviet state, she is so secretive that there is almost no verifiable information about her and it is not
known if she is still alive. She would be 97 if so.
The family faced controversy in 2008, when the former head of Kazakhstan's intelligence services claimed they had bought Royal Mansion, a £50 million home in The Bishops Avenue, London — known as "billionaires' row"
- for Nursultan Nazarbayev, then the dictator of the oil and gas-rich state.
Sasan Ghandehari denied this was the case. However, he acknowledged having a personal relationship with the ruler.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreigm4z3bim57cdqewaytq4af62njzxffjb7ay7joxtueuzgmp7xjou@jpeg)
Churchwarden with connection to Kazakh-born tycoon is behind £200k of donations to Reform Extract: They claimed to have retained the Reform leader as "an honorary and unpaid adviser", an arrangement first reported by the Financial Times. In response to inquiries, Farage's spokesman said: "[Sasan] Ghandehari has attended a Reform UK fundraising event and they are friends of the party." It is understood the event took place at Oswald's, a private members' club in Mayfair. It is illegal for a foreign national or entity to donate directly to a party. Yet a trading British company is automatically eligible to donate. There is nothing to stop a foreign investor or owner depositing funds in a UK company which in turn donates to a political party. Sasan and Yasmin Ghandehari have been described as "Iranian-born" and "British" in media reports but it is unclear whether they hold British citizenship. Sasan gave his nationality as Iranian and his profession as "businessman" in a Companies House document dated 2002. The Ghandeharis are prolific art collectors and sit on a fundraising committee for the Tate. They derive their wealth from Sasan's mother, Hourieh Peramaa, who was born in Kazakhstan and fled to Iran as a child before investing in property and becoming a billionaire. Named by Chatham House as a "politi- cally exposed" or "high-risk" person from a post-Soviet state, she is so secretive that there is almost no verifiable information about her and it is not known if she is still alive. She would be 97 if so. The family faced controversy in 2008, when the former head of Kazakhstan's intelligence services claimed they had bought Royal Mansion, a £50 million home in The Bishops Avenue, London — known as "billionaires' row" - for Nursultan Nazarbayev, then the dictator of the oil and gas-rich state. Sasan Ghandehari denied this was the case. However, he acknowledged having a personal relationship with the ruler.
Here’s the full story.. and it stinks.
How anyone can think Farage will do anything good for our country when we’re already trapped in the tedious, ruinous Brexit mess he’s made, god only knows. This nasty little gobshite will never fix any problems. He IS the problem.
This is what’s known as dodgy as fuck…
Farage is in hock to murky foreign billionaires, taking their money to prioritise their interests if they buy him power. He’s exploiting people’s racism and anger to pretend he’s on their side. But he’s already sold them out.
www.thetimes.com/article/660a...
Amazing - Honest Bob Jenrick lists his former party's legacy of failure governing this country and then! asks us to turn to the absolute dregs of that party plus Farage for the solution.
Un-fecking-believable...
You really couldn't create or even imagine a marriage more corrupt than Trump and FIFA could you...
#FIFA
@johncaudwell.bsky.social it's not ok for working people to have their salary "made up" with UC. Underpaying employers should not be subsidised by tax revenues.
Also, it's not possible to claim JSA and UC. It's one or the other since UC replaced it.
She is gaslighting us with the chronic misconception that "irregular immigration" is the cause of division in this country. It's not. If she stops the boats tomorrow, Farage will just whip up the hatred against the next group to blame to deflect tackling the real socioeconomic problems of inequality
#Zia_Yousuf - utter hypocrisy this morning over Starmer's comments. There are countless examples of Farage and Reform using the rhetoric of "stochastic terrorism" to incite hatred and possible violence towards their targets.
When it walks like a duck...
It's all well and good to point out the hypocrisy, dishonesty, inconsistency, incompetence, and downright appalling nature of a political party and its leaders.
However, when the party's voters simply do not care and indeed find it all rather appealing, it may be time to deploy different tactics.
#skynews Unbelievably, Liz Truss is still trying to extricate herself from the national loss of £40M (with a little assistance from Wilfred).
Hopefully, her Prince Andrew moment.
Meanwhile, what about Angel Rayner?
Can Beth sort that one out for us??
What is getting harder is Trump giving up slices of Ukraine to Putin in return for drilling/digging rights of Ukranian natural resources and US civilians on the ground providing Trump's idea of the US security guarantee.
If Ukraine is hoping for US security guarantees to make a peace deal, don't expect it to be more than US civilians, in Ukraine, digging up rare earth metals and other valuable resources for Trump 😉
Do you think Trump is going to turn round to one of these sychophants and say "You're fired"?
Or stick to-
It's all going very well....
@darrenpjones.bsky.social Stop claiming Trump's lower tariffs on the UK compared to the EU as a Brexit benefit.
We have a trade deficit with the US whereas the EU has a large surplus. Had Trump applied the same rules, the tariffs facing the UK would be negative!
We've been hit harder
Wake up...
Mel Stride: #skynews complaining that UK energy prices are too high and ignoring the fact that the Conservative governments of the last 14 years created the very conditions for that reality.
Tory gaslighting of the highest order as usual 🤬
Unbelievable - Kemi Badenoch blaming Tory failures in government on what "Labour failed to do in 14 years of opposition".
The abandonment of Ukraine’s defense is in violation of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum-
An agreement and a promise from the United States established to defend Ukraine's territory.
In exchange, they relinquished their nuclear weapons.
Abandoning them is
abhorrent and in violation of the treaty.
#bbcnewsnight who is that idiot republican as your 2nd guest tonight. I've never heard of him. Where did you find him?
Trump's minerals deal for peace does not only display a surrender to Putin, it's evidence that he's become a partner in the invasion.
