Roger Ellens

This is the incredible thing. Restore are literally running the Reform playbook page by page. And Reform are acting like they've never seen it before.

Like every other SNP parliamentarian, I gave the party £250 per month from my personal income after tax. Adding my party membership fees (paid at an enhanced rate) , I think it came to £35,000 over ten years. The £250 sub was an obligation for all MPs and MSPs, but I was happy to pay, as I believed it was going to the cause - not to keep Sturgeon in Smythson handbags and Mountblanc pens (stolen goods she was pictured with in this @TheSun report 👇). I had a good salary. But what of all the decent working people - as @joannaccherry pointed out today - who could ill afford the £10 or £20 donations they made to @theSNP ? It’s disgusting, and requires an internal investigation. Or rather an independent investigation. Who was monitoring the spend within the SNP? How come the former volunteer treasurer and former volunteer officials who questioned the finances were slapped down by @NicolaSturgeon and her acolytes? There remain good people at the top of the party ( of which I remain a member BTW) and I hope they will now abandon their misplaced loyalty to the former leader whose position meant she signed off the accounts, as I understand it. Finally…..well done to @WingsScotland for triggering the investigation - pilloried from all sides but vindicated today.

Chair of the Labour Party, @annaturley, tells @WilfredFrost that a review into the sentencing of a rape case in which two teenage boys were spared jail is a "huge priority" for the attorney general.

There will be no early general election as a result of the Makerfield by-election. Labour has a 160 seat majority. All an early election would do is reduce that and possible result in Labour losing power. No Labour leader would do that. It’s not going to happen.

Did he really think he could just casually throw it out that Russia leaked his £5M bung without anyone asking for at least one tiny shred of evidence? He’s got so used to his lies being swallowed whole that he’s become complacent. Keep digging Nigel. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

Has Robert Kenyon, Reform’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election, done any media interviews yet? You’d think, with all the negative publicity about his now-deleted social media accounts, he’d want to get his side of the story across.

'Nigel Farage's Reform UK needs to ditch misogyny and show standards of decency' mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago (before Burnham had got a seat) for @NewStatesman. From my conversations the SCG was always planning to run a candidate - as they did in dep leadership - in order to push the main contenders from the left. But think there’s a clear awareness within the group that they’d never make it over 80 MP threshold. newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

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This isn’t really true. Theresa May correctly identified that she would never get Brexit sorted when she had a majority of 11, and the polls suggested she could win big. It wasn’t the decision to call an election that was the mistake, but the terrible campaign she ran.

Exclusive: Carol Vorderman demands apology from Reform by-election candidate Robert Kenyon over lewd comments. Ex-Deputy PM Angela Rayner also tells The Mirror: “It says all you need to know about Reform that they are allowing this repulsive misogynistic abuse to stand.” mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

i just can’t believe you can admit that you are a sexist and be allowed to run for elected office. so much for reform being the party “protecting women and girls”

No there will not be an early election. A man with 400 seats will not risk half of them three years early to satisfy columnists’ belief in mandate fairies.

This guy’s clearly a scumbag.

How would you know?

Vorderman demands apology from Reform election candidate over lewd comments mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

No they couldn’t, because they wouldn’t even remotely be able to get the numbers.

Find this odd really. If the candidate is from the SCG wing of the party they simply wouldn’t have the numbers…? No one from the soft left would stand against him so I don’t know why it’s being floated or why it’s being given air time?

‘Women can’t ref, drive or give directions’: Reform candidate sexism row deepens as more ‘degrading’ posts resurface trib.al/JALL4kf

🚨 NEW: Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate Robert Kenyon previously claimed women “can’t drive” and get abortions for “vanity purposes” to “shag anyone they want” He admitted: “I’m sexist, sorry but I am”