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Ian Fisher

@CrusaderIan

True Conservative with views to match. Cllr & Group Leader @ Ipswich Borough Council.

Ipswich, England Katılım Nisan 2012
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Ian Fisher
Ian Fisher@CrusaderIan·
@AllisonPearson You really do post inane nonsense. Do reform pay you to literally parrot all they say? The whole 2-party line is false, you know it, yet post it anyway. Do you care that you have zero credibility,
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Allison Pearson
Allison Pearson@AllisonPearson·
I’m told the Conservatives are expected to hold one seat in Wales. 1. The death throes of Labour on 7 May are known but what of the Tories’ pending losses? Essex, Norfolk, East Sussex, West Sussex, maybe Suffolk, even Hampshire. Incredible. The two-party system is over.
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Ian Fisher
Ian Fisher@CrusaderIan·
@ukJ0N That's a rather unique analysis of the result. Reform were 7 points down on last time. That's why you lost Everyone else can see it, apart from you
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Don McGowan
Don McGowan@donmcgowan·
🗼WELL I NEVER🗼 Would you believe that Ray and June, who won the Reform UK energy bills prize, go back all the way to the Brexit Party with Farage? Here they are with Farage, Widdecombe and Bull [a truly awful supernatural detective thriller]. What a coincidence [increasingly unlikely] h/t, and thanks to @linfitlass for pointing this out to me. These images are from a Brexit Party rally in Fylde on the 4th May 2019. [credit Getty Images I believe, but Google for me].
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Ian Fisher
Ian Fisher@CrusaderIan·
@ehannah0 The poll showed general election polling intention, nothing to do with the local election.
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The Receipts UK ♿
The Receipts UK ♿@david_hollas·
Let's take a look at George Cottrell. George Cottrell — "Posh George" — has no official role in Reform UK. He's described as an unpaid volunteer. Nigel Farage calls him "like a son to me." He is flanked by Farage at virtually every public and private event. He paid £15,000 for Farage's trip to Florida in 2024. This is what that volunteer looks like on the public record. In 2016, Cottrell was arrested by FBI agents at Chicago O'Hare airport on his way home from the Republican National Convention — where he had been accompanying Farage. He was federally indicted on 21 counts including conspiracy to commit money laundering, wire fraud, blackmail and extortion. He had offered to launder criminal proceeds on a dark web site, meeting undercover federal agents in Las Vegas who he believed to be drug traffickers. He pleaded guilty to a single count of wire fraud and served eight months in a US prison. Since his release he has remained at Farage's side. His mother, Fiona Watson, donated £750,000 to Reform UK in September 2024. Cottrell himself, living in Montenegro, cannot donate directly under electoral law. So in February 2025, he incorporated Geostrategy International Unlimited — a political strategy and polling firm. As an unlimited company it will never have to file financial accounts. But it can make political donations. This is on Companies House. Company number 16233555. Spotlight on Corruption — a leading anti-corruption campaign group — has warned that unlimited companies "can easily be abused" and urged the Electoral Commission to ensure Geostrategy does not become "a backdoor for illegal donations." The Electoral Commission is understood to be aware of the loophole but lacks powers to close it. There is more. The Good Law Project investigated Geostrategy's polling output and found it published only Reform-friendly data — rising support for Farage, immigration concerns, pro-Trump analysis. It does not publish client names. It is not registered with the British Polling Council. When asked for evidence it is a legitimate polling organisation, it read the emails and did not respond. Now the Russia thread. In August 2016, the day after Cottrell appeared in court in Phoenix, Arizona, Leave.EU executive Andy Wigmore forwarded FBI indictment documents relating to Cottrell's arrest to Sergey Fedichkin — a political officer at the Russian embassy in London. Subject line: "Fwd Cottrell docs — Eyes Only." Message: "Have fun with this." When asked by the House of Commons DCMS Select Committee whether he had discussed Cottrell's arrest with the Russian embassy, Wigmore said: "It never came up." The emails proving he had were subsequently published by The Observer. The committee concluded Banks and Wigmore appeared to have misled parliament. Cottrell's online profile at the time showed an interest in Moldindconbank — a Moldovan bank described by US Treasury as a primary money laundering concern linked to Russian crime networks — and FBME, a bank with offices in Cyprus and Russia. He also listed VTB and Alfa Bank, both under FBI investigation for links to the Trump organisation. This is the man Farage chose as his closest aide. This is the family bankrolling Reform. This is the unlimited company that will never show its books. None of this is secret — it's on Companies House, the Electoral Commission, court records and parliamentary committee reports. The receipts exist. They just haven't been read together before. Sources: Companies House 16233555 / Electoral Commission / The Observer / The Guardian / The Daily Beast / CNN / House of Commons DCMS Select Committee Report / openDemocracy / Good Law Project. Every claim is public record.
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Ian Fisher
Ian Fisher@CrusaderIan·
@DaveKent101 Is that your years of experience in national polling, or maybe all the canvassing of public opinion that you've done that had helped you deduce this?
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Ian Fisher
Ian Fisher@CrusaderIan·
@SBarrettBar How you have fallen with yet another nonsense post. I see or hear no begging
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Ian Fisher@CrusaderIan·
@T80GME @PDRNHPUK And your explanation probably explains my original point better. Given that we don't have a single document, changes are far more difficult to make. I was pointing out that Reform are all slogan and no detail. Potential changes to the constitution highlights that
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Gareth@T80GME·
@CrusaderIan @PDRNHPUK I was going to say something mean, but you are a colleague so instead… we do have a constitution, it’s not a single document but a series of documents, conventions and precedents stretching back to the Witan.
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Paul Rimmer
Paul Rimmer@PDRNHPUK·
Reform have a brilliant agenda regarding immigration, the Constitution & a balanced budget, but we need Britain behind us. Starts on May 7th. Every Patriot must back Reform wherever they can.
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Ian Fisher@CrusaderIan·
@T80GME @PDRNHPUK Conventions and precedents there may be, but we do not have a constitution, in a form recognised anywhere else in the world. Great use of Google though. It's caused legal issues in the past by not having a single written document
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Ian Fisher
Ian Fisher@CrusaderIan·
@FreeNationTalk Oh dear Reform supporters constantly post lies and misinformation. Farage himself often gets caught lying, never apologises, never retracts What you're describing is reforms main tactic. We see you 👀👀👀👀
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Andrew James
Andrew James@FreeNationTalk·
What we are witnessing is an unprecedented and relentless campaign of smears lies and misinformation online against Nigel Farage and Reform Party UK. A coordinated campaign from not only the left of politics but also the Tories and other right wing political groups. This risks undermining the foundations of our democracy. Lies, smears, and misinformation, deliberately false or misleading claims spread online about a politician or political party, undermine core pillars of democracy. Democracy functions best when voters can evaluate candidates and parties based on accurate information about their records, policies, and character. When falsehoods flood the information ecosystem (amplified rapidly by social media algorithms, echo chambers, and coordinated campaigns), they distort this process in several interconnected ways. In short, when lies and smears about politicians or parties go unchecked online, they don’t just harm individuals, they corrode the mechanisms that make democracy work. That is informed consent, institutional legitimacy, and collective problem-solving. Restoring resilience requires media literacy, platform accountability, fact-checking, and a cultural emphasis on truth-seeking, but the damage to public discourse can linger for years.
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Ian Fisher@CrusaderIan·
@peanut_astro Please could you try and fit more complete made-up nonsense in your next tweet. It will be tough, but I'm sure you can do it 😅😅😅
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AstroPeanut. Question Everything.
🚨🚨🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 I’m just so sick of this gaslighting by the 3 party cabal in Westminster. LibLabCon-Trick These clowns had a poll of who’s the most popular celebrity in Westminster. It’s a circus. Not the Strongest. Not the most intelligent. Not the person who has stood up for the British taxpayer. No the LibLabCon-Trick had a popularity contest. The Conservatives thinks this is what the down trodden British People crave. A nice person. We want a Leader I DO NOT WANT A POPULAR PM. I WANT A STRONG. TOUGH. STRAIGHT TALKING. FORWARD THINKING PM WHO’s GOING TO STOP THE ROT AND PUT BRITAIN FIRST. These clowns in Westminster now think that they are celebrities not public servants. It’s pathetic. Stick your most popular club member where the “Sun don’t shine” I’m done with this charade. I don’t care who hates Farage. I don’t want a likeable wimp as PM……………………I want change to the current cabal.
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Ian Fisher@CrusaderIan·
I don't often agree with this guy, but it's great to see him sticking it to a typical keyboard warrior
Ben Leo@Benleo

Yeah I suddenly walked into a TV presenting job with the click of a finger… I worked in Sainsbury’s, for EDF Energy, the water board, call centres, all from age 17, just to get money. I didn’t care what job I did, I just needed to support myself. I said yes to everything, trusting that I’d one day get there and everything would work itself out. I didn’t turn down jobs because it wasn’t my field or what I wanted or dreamed of right that minute or think I was above anything or anyone. I had no money. I never went to uni. I saved hard for a £5,000 journalism course, I then worked like a dog at local newspapers (still on minimum wage) and at a bookmaker at the same time doing 20 hour days for years just to keep grinding. I spent more hard years commuting to London and back, doing graveyard shifts at papers then waiting at Blackfriars station at 3 in the morning to get home to Sussex and start my other job at 9am. It nearly killed me. For years. 16 years it took me to get here. And you know what? I loved it all. I loved the journey, I loved the dark moments asking myself if it was all worth it. I loved the wins. I loved the hard lessons. And I love what I’m doing now. Yes I have the best job in the world (for me) and I’m incredibly grateful. And I’m still grinding. I’ve just done 14 days straight, travelling to Texas, Florida, then DC. Doing a three hour show every night. But I recognise how fortunate I am. I always have, even when I was stacking shelves. I didn’t just turn up at a studio and start presenting. Most importantly I never played the victim.

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Matt Johnson
Matt Johnson@LocalHistorian_·
Living in Kent under a Reform led council has been a noticeable improvement. Residents in Kent saw crazy money being thrown at a very dubious climate emergency, whilst the actual illegal migration crisis was not being addressed. @LeaderofKCC has rightly reoriented the council's focus towards where people want it to be. There is also the sense of national pride and belonging that we enjoy, as we see our flags still flying proud on many streets across Kent. In Medway, the Labour run council felt it was appropriate to spend over £11k ripping down all the flags. They see our national identity as divisive and something to be ashamed of.
Linden Kemkaran@LeaderofKCC

I really enjoyed speaking to @timothy_stanley @DailTPodcast about becoming leader of KCC last May and making history @reformparty_uk - here are the two parts of the interview in full.

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Ian Fisher
Ian Fisher@CrusaderIan·
@AllForProgress_ That's just a queue of traffic you dullard And I'd love to be paying those prices!!!
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Maxi
Maxi@AllForProgress_·
You drive past a petrol station in Bristol or Hull or Swansea or Basildon and there are fifty cars queued out onto the road. Fifty. People arguing with the attendants because the £30 limit means she can't fill her tank enough to get to her parents' for Easter. This is Britain in April 2026. We import nearly half our oil, despite sitting on considerable untapped reserves. We have no meaningful strategic reserve to speak of. The Strait of Hormuz closes and within five weeks we're rationing fuel at the forecourt like it's 1973 again. Every government since the nineties knew this dependency was a vulnerability. Every single one decided it was a problem for the next lot. Well, there is no next lot any more. There's just us, in the queue, watching the price tick up. Britain could have the cheapest energy in the developed world within a decade. And in fact it's not so much a nice ambition as it is a geopolitical and autarchic necessity. Without it, we are at the mercy of every war we didn't start and every dictator we can't control. That's not sovereignty. That's a country on a leash.
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Crewkerne Man
Crewkerne Man@CrewkerneMan·
Yeovil was once a thriving West Country market town. Under Somerset’s Liberal Democrats, millions have gone on tearing parts of it down, leaving grass, empty space and another park where shops, trade and town life once stood. This is what Lib Dems do.
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