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Ben Habib is singing like a canary. He’s claiming that Christopher Harborne gave £1M each to Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage to help Boris get elected & persuade Nigel to stand down in 2019. He’s also claiming that he gave £14M to the Brexit Party & tried to break electoral law.

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Extremist Lucy Connolly has deleted a post calling Keir Starmer a “child rapist” Not that he covered up for a child rapist or defended a child rapist But that HE is a child rapist. With zero evidence. I suspect she may be in breach of her bail conditions @NorthantsPolice

So, I thought Starmer was doing a fairly good job. Reversing some of the horrendous Tory decisions around workers rights, gradually getting the UK closer to Europe, etc. But, the extreme RW media and their billionaire benefactors don’t want this. Hence a proverbial witch-hunt.

Zack Polanski. Incorrect council tax, paid. Fair enough. He's agreed to pay the money owed. Keir Starmer strung up like a kipper. Nigel Farage. Dodges taxes, gets a £5 Mn gift - barely a whisper from the media. The hypocrisy is truly outrageous. #BBCBreakfast #r4today #SkyNews

The fact that there’s more noise about Zack Polanski not paying some council tax on a narrow boat, than there is about Nigel Farage taking a £5m bribe to run as an MP….confirms that it’s pretty fucking impossible to have functioning democracy AND a billionaire owned ‘free’ press

I don’t feel let down by Keir Starmer. However, I do feel massively let down by our media. There seem to be very few journalists who are reporting without fear or favour or in the best interests of the public. They are a braying toxic mob intent on destruction Why? #Starmer

I personally don't think it's a good idea for the future of the country's government to be determined by the likes of Sam Coates, Laura Kuenssbeg, and Dan Hodges.

This might seem like a game to you. My daughter has leukemia. She is absolutely dependent on the NHS. 'Journalists' paving the way for a Reform government, whilst this Labour government is committed to preserving it, stops me sleeping at night.

🚨BREAKING🚨 Keir Starmer once reclined his seat on a short-haul flight. In other news Nigel Farage has received a £5m gift, a house, helicopter flights, a Maldives trip and been accused of throwing an election for £1m. Here's Sam Coates with more on the reclined seat scandal.

This is getting wild now 👀 So I started looking at the ballroom after digging into the Reflecting Pool yesterday. I’m starting to see some patterns. The playbook works like this. Pick your contractor personally. Invoke “Unusual and Compelling Urgency” to skip competition. Use the 250th anniversary as the justification. Inflate the price. Don’t disclose who’s actually doing the work. Repeat. Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. $13.1M. No bid. No competition. Justification: “Unusual and Compelling Urgency” 250th anniversary. Contractor: Atlantic Industrial. Zero prior federal contracts. No pool or monument experience. The subcontractor doing the actual work doesn’t appear anywhere in the justification documents. Now the ballroom. Trump personally selected Clark Construction to build his $400M White House ballroom. Clark is already on site with people and equipment. Then NPS quietly awards Clark a separate $17.4M no-bid contract to fix two fountains in Lafayette Park directly across the street. Never posted publicly. Never competitively bid. The justification? Clark was already nearby. That’s it. The original estimate for those fountains in 2022 was $3.3M. The consultant who wrote that estimate said the administration literally took his cover page and added millions with no itemization. Final price: $17.4M. Same urgency exemption. Same 250th anniversary justification. Both contracts bypassed competitive bidding. Both used the same urgency exemption. Both cited the same 250th anniversary. Both awarded to contractors with direct Trump connections. The Lafayette Park contract was never posted in public federal spending databases. The Reflecting Pool contract was posted but the subcontractor doing the primary work appears nowhere in the paperwork. Combined taxpayer bill: over $30 million. Combined competitive bids received: zero. This urgency exemption has been used in less than 1% of NPS contracts over the past decade. They used it twice in the same year. For birthday decorations. Senator Blumenthal is already demanding answers on the Lafayette Park contract by May 15th. The Reflecting Pool has a Cabinet secretary photographed on site and a subcontractor with an expired federal registration that isn’t mentioned anywhere in the contract documents. This isn’t two separate stories. This is one story. The 250th anniversary isn’t just a celebration. It’s a billing mechanism. And taxpayers are footing the bill with zero say in who got the work or why..

Interesting: a very clear majority of people getting in touch on my @LBC show tonight think Keir Starmer should stay as PM at least for now.

This talk of a leadership election is mad. There are 2 wars going on, the gilt markets remain high & incredibly sensitive, people's #1 concern is still prices/rents/bills, then the boats - last weeks elections didn't top expectations for either the Greens or Reform either. Chill.

Sick to death of client journalists in this country. They brought us Brexit and Johnson. Now want to usher in Farage. Press regulation required.

I am 77 years old and a Labour Party member I have voted Labour all my life if Labour MP's vote to get Keir Starmer out I will never vote Labour again!

"You boy - are the media still pretending it's OK that someone who wants to be Prime Minister covered up a £5 million gift?"

One thing I’ve not heard much of in the debate about who should be Prime Minister of our country is the human being at the centre of this, & his family, & the effect of this on them all. The vitriol is off the scale. Show some humanity. People we disagree with are not enemies

They said he couldn’t win an election. He did. Now he is Prime Minister, I am backing him to prove that serious leadership beats cynical politics every time. 👇🏽

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