🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk
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- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk5m agoretooted JorisBohnsonPM🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸
“More Reform UK transactions worth millions reported to National Crime Agency’
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#uk #ukpol #ukpolitics #clacton #essex #farage #nigelfarage #reform #reformuk #corruption #dishonesty #crime #nca #police #westminster #parliament #byelection #election #politics #democracy #ukraine #binface #countbinface #grift #grifter #grifting
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk6m agoretooted Pablo Martini (Geezer)
Report to National Crime Agency of £5m Farage gift is ‘deeply serious’
Labour party chair says Reform UK leader must cooperate with authorities instead of trying to distract public with a byelection
Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns
The revelation that a £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers concerned it may have been laundered money has been described as “astonishing and deeply serious”. - 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk3h agoretooted Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)
Carbon Capture was always the 'and then a miracle happens' part of the process. It allowed us to keep on using fossil fuels as much as we wanted, because CCS would clean everything up - or so the fossil fuels lobby says.
Sadly, it is not remotely true. BUT it does give them a quarter of a Trillion budget to sort things out.
Short term costs £21Bn. Now what could the government do with £21Bn?
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk3h agoretooted Steph (toothless version)
So. If you are not following the Nigel Farage vs. Count Binface showdown in British politics then I recommend you start doing so.
The short version: Nigel Farage, MP and leader of the far-right Reform Party, resigns from his seat to halt investigation into his dodgy finances. Then announces he will stand in the ensuing by-election, essentially because if he wins his (safe) seat again it proves the people don’t care about his finances.
As this is obviously a bullshit stunt, every single other major party refuses to put up a candidate for the by-election.
This means Farage is now running against one other candidate only: Count Binface, a man with a bin on his head.
Clacton-on-Sea now have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk3h agoretooted Steven Heywood
FWIW a few musings on the Clacton by-election. I'm no expert, I just know what I've read, which is probably less than what you have, but here we go.
First point: Farage hates being an MP. He knew he was going to hate it and tried to avoid it. As an MEP he had a platform for grandstanding and no pressing responsibilities. As an MP he doesn't, he's just another backbench MP in charge of a handful of backbench MPs and he is expected to serve his constituency, which is a bit of a drag for a jet-setting idle gobshite. The one time before 2024 there was a real risk he might become an MP he stood down his troops and told them to vote Tory. In 2024 several factors made it put up or shut up time so he had to stand for election and he had to win and become an MP, much to his undisguised disgust — "Do I want to spend every Friday for the next five years in Clacton?"
1/n
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk4h agoretooted sheislaurence
I think #countbinface needs an exit strategy as he could totally win the #clacton byelection against #NigelFarage. I have no doubt he'd do better than most, he certainly has the wits to do so if you go by his interviews, but does he want to? H'Angus the Monkey became mayor of Hartlepool in 2002, the man behind it Stuart Drummond was reelected several times totally a tenure of 10 years.
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk10h agoretooted Bebadefabo
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk10h agoretooted batkaren (a/k/a kt roth)
The year is 2276, the US quinquennial.
AI Mitch McConnell enters the Senate and votes in accordance with his programming.
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk10h agoretooted AnarchoNinaWrites
I think Judith Levine is my favorite Guardian writer by quite a bit.
This is perfect and accurate; literally a "no notes" share.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/07/supreme-courts-trans-ruling-bodily-autonomy
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk10h agoretooted AnarchoNinaWrites
Naw man, I encourage you folks to like, actually look up what the 1st and 2nd Red Scares were about. The reality is that the US right has been associating "communism" with its program to maintain white supremacy the entire time. Black people having rights, women having rights, queer people just existing, Jewish people just existing, Unions beating off Pinkertons to win labor rights - THIS is what these crackers mean by communism. It was ALWAYS Klan shit mate. Always. Trump ain't no different.
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk10h agoretooted Beardy Star Stuff 🌹🏴🇵🇸
Minneapolis Stopped ICE - Now the State is Coming After The Anarchists (Emmett Doyle Interview)
Interview with anarchist, musician, and political organizer Emmett Doyle about Operation Metro Surge, how Minneapolis crippled ICE, and how the state is trying to punish the organizers that helped win the fight against ICE.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HVcGaZMihkY
https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk19h agoretooted MiaK 🏴 🇵🇸
Staff at London's South Bank University have declared no confidence in the Vice-Chancellor after notices to fire and rehire on worse contracts were issued.
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk19h agoretooted ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ
Droning seaside puppet show escapee and self-obsessed xenophobe-of-convenience forces by-election so he can stand against himself.
#UKPolitics
#TooStupidForMontyPython
#BrownEnvelopes #politics - 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk19h ago
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk19h agoretooted The Tattooed Nonna 🧙♀️
Farages By Election Move Could Backfire #UKPolitics
Posting on X, Count Binface dubbed the contest “Binface vs Binfire”, and added: “Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton.
“I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house. Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it. Leave him to me.”
A dream come true. 😍
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk19h agoretooted ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ
If only billionaires used their money to do nice things instead of paying treasonous wankers to initiate an endless stream of anti-democratic petitions.
#wankers #UKPolitics - 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk19h agoretooted Dan Wentzel 🏳️🌈
Count Binface for Clacton MP
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk19h agoretooted JdeBP
I thought about it, and here are some serious reasons why #CarolVorderman should hold back in the first #ClactonOnSea by-election and let @CountBinface have the first go.
Yes: 1st by-election. Per ¶40 of the Protocol approved by the House of Commons, #NigelFarage winning the 1st by-election allows the standards commissioner's investigation to be un-suspended, and could result in a *second* by-election should the Committee on Standards then so decide.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmcode/1084/1084.pdf#page=12
- 🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk19h agoretooted Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
From what I see, resigning as an MP doesn't make the CRIMINAL investigation go away, does it?
#UKpol #UKPolitics #NigelFarage #Farage #FiveMillShill #UKCrime #UKCA #ReformUK #ChristopherHarborne