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"Who is bankrolling Nigel Farage's party?" asks Bridget Phillipson. "Labour will protect our democracy from foreign influence."
Right. Same question back.
Who is bankrolling Labour, and the machine around it?
Gary Lubner. South African. Former Autoglass chief. Millions.
Lord Alli. Buys the clothes, lends the flat.
George Soros. Money into Best for Britain and Fair Vote, routed through a London outpost, which is how a foreign fortune gets round a ban on foreign donations.
Pierre Omidyar. French-Iranian, eBay founder, funding the campaign groups.
Bill Gates. In for the photo call.
Swedish philanthropists. Bloomberg.
And Verbatim, which made the Channel 4 sting she is riding, is itself funded from abroad. So the watchdog on foreign money is on foreign money.
And those are off the top of my head. No research. Give me an afternoon and the list fills a page.
So the party promising to protect democracy from foreign influence is up to its neck in it, legally, through the same door, and has proposed no cap that would inconvenience a single person in the room. They held a drinks party for them in Downing Street.
The question is not who is bankrolling Farage. It is why Labour thinks the answer changes depending on whose name is on the cheque.
"Protect our democracy from foreign influence." They would not know where to start.
Who is bankrolling Nigel Farage's party?
What interests are they seeking to advance?
Are they acting in Britain's best interests?
Reform UK are engulfed in sleaze and scandal. Labour will protect our democracy from foreign influence.
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Everybody, please watch ‘The Thick of It’ again and you will roar with laughter imagining Reynolds being given the brief in the morning ‘oh, you’re fucking joking’ 🤣🤣🤣
😂 Nick Ferrari bursts out laughing as Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds is forced to sell the latest government gimmick live on @LBC
Reynolds looked thoroughly embarrassed as he tried to sell the plan to scrap import tariffs on a list of “everyday essentials”.
When Ferrari asked him which products were included and what the actual savings would be, Reynolds immediately started dampening expectations, sheepishly admitting these were “not huge reductions” before reeling off the list: baked beans, chocolate, gherkins…
That’s as far as he got. Ferrari could not contain himself and burst out laughing. 😭
Nick then pointed out that the Conservatives have called the projected saving of £21 per year “derisory”.
You could see Reynolds was mortified reading it out. Imagine the brief he opened this morning and realised he had to go on air and sell this to the public. 😬
What a farce. Even on the government’s own figures, this works out at roughly 40p a week for the average household. Forty pence a week. You lucky people.
Another pointless gimmick that will have zero material impact on people’s lives.
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Just so you know, none of this is off the cuff.
There were discussions about what clothes to wear.
There were discussions about what drinks and snacks should be on the table, and the order/manner in which they should be eaten.
There were definitely discussions about what TV to watch.
This is the cringiest PR exercise ever, and it took prep time to get that embarrassing.
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@andyburnham is halving trolley costs to 50p from £1 to help hard working families
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🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham announces a £200 million scheme to ensure the bin bag comes out of the kitchen bin without taking the entire bin with it.
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To help with traffic congestion Burnham will announce that the width of white lines on our roads will be reduced by 50% thus creating more room for everyone
🤖 Made with AI
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BREAKING 🚨
I understand that the First Lord of the Treasury, Prime Minister The Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, is calling an emergency national press conference to be broadcast tomorrow at 8pm on all channels
Setting out his top 10 tips for cleaning hacks and household chores
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⚠️ An 82 year old Grandma from Leeds has declared WAR on corporate greed by setting up a stall outside her local Morrisons selling her collection of second hand carrier bags, after being enraged at the supermarket charging an extortionate 60p per bag! 😲
"I've been hoarding these bloody things for 30 years!" she explained. "I've got hundreds under the kitchen sink, cupboards full of them and thousands piled up in the garden shed!"
The pensioner pocketed a whopping £13.40 on her first day and insists she'll be back tomorrow, claiming she's got enough bags at home to keep her in business until 2029.
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Andy Burnham has admitted that the £200m Labour promised for Grangemouth has never been paid. When pressed by STV's Colin Mackay, Burnham said it was "still being discussed".
They'd never any intention of saving the refinery jobs or paying £200m to help the local area.
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Here is Andy Burnham discussing his meeting with Zelensky. @russell_kane absolutely nails it once again.
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you can see why Ange might not be keen on an investigation into the £55 MILLION in taxpayer funded housing loans, approved by Andy’s Greater Manchester authority, for companies linked to Manchester City’s billionaire owner.
453 homes were built but er … not ONE affordable home.
Awkward 🤡
