@Pietros1 @PatrickChristys @Stan_Angel_Eyes 'Idiots' who bother to read beyond the headline on stories like this, yes.
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@InfernalBore
Nice but boring. I drink because #ReadingFC
Tír Eoghain/London Katılım Nisan 2011
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@PatrickChristys @Stan_Angel_Eyes And idiots want to rejoin that corrupt cesspit?
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‘Sorry, you voted to leave the European Union so we’re not going to let you prosecute a suspected child-murdering paedophile.’
Politics Global@PolitlcsGlobal
🚨🇩🇪 NEW: The German government says Christian Brueckner cannot be extradited to the UK to face trial for the murder of Madeline McCann due to Brexit [@telegraph]
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@russellquirk Did you make this up for the attention, or because you genuinely thought you wouldn't get caught in the lie?
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I’m sat in my first Essex County Council meeting on Monday morning, listening to a councillor induction presentation.
‘Any questions?’ asks an officer.
A hand goes up.
‘Yes’ says a recently elected Labour member.
‘Do I get a pension as a councillor?’.
His first question was about how much money he gets. Not procedure, or meeting dates or where the loos are… but how much cash he can grab.
Same old Labour.
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Only watched it to see how low-key and obviously grudging Olise's involvement would be.
Was not disappointed.
#readingfc
Transfer News Live@DeadlineDayLive
🚨 This is how France have announced their 26-man World Cup squad. 🇫🇷⭐️⭐️ Absolute cinema. 🎦 (🎥 @equipedefrance)
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@DeadlineDayLive @equipedefrance Only watched it to see how low-key and obviously begrudging Olise's involvement would be.
Was not disappointed.
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🚨 This is how France have announced their 26-man World Cup squad. 🇫🇷⭐️⭐️
Absolute cinema. 🎦
(🎥 @equipedefrance)
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@5haronl @Nigel_Farage "I don't care where the politicians i like got his money, or what the person who gave it to him wants in return. He says things i like."
"Good" politicians don't tend to take personal donations from private business people to advance their interests. That is not patriotism.
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I don’t care what donations @Nigel_Farage received or how he spent it.
All I care about is whether he’s is a good politician & a patriot & what he will do for the country.
He’s our best politician, a great patriot and he has our best interests at heart. That’s all we need.
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@Bwdreyer @LisaMarieBoothe Using the death of a man in his 80s to try and make this point might be one of the stupidest things i've ever seen.
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@LisaMarieBoothe My buddy Bob (on the right, related via marriage), passed during the plandemic fiasco.
My family never got vaxed, his did.
According to Biden un-vaxed were the problem.
As far as I know there was no funeral, he was a Navy Commander, WWII vet that just disappeared.
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One of the worst parts of COVID was watching Americans surrender their God-given freedoms to bureaucrats who were wrong about everything.
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@Lewy_B_2013 @LOS_Fisher @lukerobertblack So I'm clear on what you're saying, the £5m gift was a reward for Farage campaigning for the political movement that was Brexit, and specifically to pay for Farage's security as a political figure, while also being nothing to do with politics and therefore not declarable?
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@Lewy_B_2013 @LOS_Fisher @lukerobertblack How can giving someone £5m influence them?
Gawd, let me think...
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👀 Farage is now claiming the £5mn gift from Harborne was a “reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years”
Quite the shift from saying it was to fund his personal security...
Also seems to undermine he previous claim that the cash “wasn’t political in any sense at all”
Harry Cole@MrHarryCole
EXC: “He who pays the piper picks the tune?” “Hang on a second. Hang on a second. I can't be bought by anybody.” Nigel Farage responds to £5m donor investigation insisting “I'm not and never have been” a crook Now claims it was “reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years”
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@donmcgowan Not a single explanation Nigel Farage has given for the £5m he received from a Thai-based Crypto billionaire stands up for it not being declarable.
He keeps parroting "unconditional basis" because he thinks that'll save him from the rules. But it won't.
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A) Unconditional personal gift.
B) Gift to pay for personal security.
C) Reward for Brexit.
Three excuses in less than two weeks for Farage's Five Million.
It doesn't take Miss Marple to work out that he's a liar and knows what's about to come.
Houses coming out of every orifice, all paid for in cash. Crypto donations STILL undeclared.
The house of cards that Reform UK is built upon may just be about to topple.
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@adamlangleben It's literally the only leg he has to stand on for it not to have been declarable. And it's a ridiculously flimsy one at that.
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@adamlangleben If I had to guess, Farage keeps saying "unconditional basis" because the wording of the MP's code of conduct is *very* specific about what would need to be declared, and he's trying to get around the idea of payment for influence.
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I dont understand why he keeps saying the gift was on an unconditional basis... on every interview... my understanding is all political donations or gifts (never normally personal gifts, and almost always for staffing) are or should be unconditional. Or is he implying otherwise?
Harry Cole@MrHarryCole
EXC: “He who pays the piper picks the tune?” “Hang on a second. Hang on a second. I can't be bought by anybody.” Nigel Farage responds to £5m donor investigation insisting “I'm not and never have been” a crook Now claims it was “reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years”
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@donmcgowan So within 3hrs of Nigel Farage, presumably inadvertently, giving a contradictory explanation for why he got £5m from a Thai-based crypto billionaire, he tries to make it look like he's suffering press intrusion to get people back on the security explanation again?
Laughable.
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Excuses coming thick and fast now, Nige.
You know what's coming down the tracks.
The whistle of a Parliamentary ten-day suspension.
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage
My security team just found this journalist from The Guardian at my property. This is exactly why I need security. Completely unacceptable.
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@Lewy_B_2013 @LOS_Fisher @lukerobertblack "...any financial interest which might reasonably by thought by others to influence a Members actions, speeches and votes in parliament."
Speaking as one of many "others" who have had exactly that thought, nice to meet you.
I know you'd like it to stop. But it won't.
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@InfernalBore @LOS_Fisher @lukerobertblack Actions, speeches and votes in parliament = political purpose.
Can you stop now?
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@Lewy_B_2013 @LOS_Fisher @lukerobertblack If only this wasn't quite so in character. Maybe people would be less suspicious...
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Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare around £380,000 in outside interests (approx 4x MPs annual salary) incl payments for promoting gold, presenting on GB News and from his friend George Cottrell, within 28 days. Reform UK leader apologised for what he described as administrative errors by his team.
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@Lewy_B_2013 @LOS_Fisher @lukerobertblack Link to the code of conduct for MPs (publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmco…) which, surprisingly, says nothing about "political purposes".
The 'gift' is subject to means and relevance as to whether it's declarable and, given that it seemingly influenced Farage's decision to be an MP...🤷♂️
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@Lewy_B_2013 @LOS_Fisher @lukerobertblack The two versions don't align.
£5m for security = The money can/will ONLY be spent on security.
£5m reward for years of hard work = The money be spent on whatever he wants (convenient, now that there is strong case for the idea he might have bought house using the money).
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@InfernalBore @LOS_Fisher @lukerobertblack Jesus Christ.
One of them is reason for giving the money. The other is the purpose it is given for and must be used for.
Please tell me you can understand this.
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@Lewy_B_2013 @LOS_Fisher @lukerobertblack Then - "I was given £5m specifically for my personal security."
Now - "I was given £5m specifically as a reward for my long years of hard work on Brexit."
They're not the same thing.
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@InfernalBore @LOS_Fisher @lukerobertblack You were given £100 by your gran specifically to buy a suit for a job interview because you are her most excellent grandson.
This is so fucking basic.
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