Deepreddave

Some notes on my work ethic: -I last voted in Parliament on 18 March, so I haven’t done my job for ten weeks. -I’ve never held any face-to-face constituency surgeries, despite apparently having £5 million to spend on security. -I refuse to do interviews or face press scrutiny of any sort. -when I was in the European Parliament I had the 4th worst attendance record out of 748 MEPs. -although I did manage to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation. -I was on the Fisheries Committee but I only turned up to ONE out of 42 meetings. -but I will of course be taking my £73,000 EU pension. Vote Reform, get lazy, grifting, self-serving sacks of shit.

1/ It's 1985. I just did stand-up on David Letterman the night before. Five minutes. I'm 27 years old and I think I've made it. My agent calls me the next day and fires me.

That educated people won't vote for the far-right? Not quite the slam dunk you were hoping for, Dan.

By the time he was announced as Reform UK's candidate against Andy Burnham in the #Makerfield by-election, Robert Kenyon's previous Reform UK X account had been mysteriously suspended. We found the archive. 419 tweets. Here's what they reveal. 🧵 1/12 bylinetimes.com/2026/05/20/rea…

@likesretirement @SamaHoole @vjl2 If he'd taken advice a few years back and/or structured his business differently there'd have been no IHT bill at all. I understand the challenge for farmers but let's not forget they've made fortunes out of the rise in the value of land directly due to IHT avoidance.

@SamaHoole @vjl2 He doesn’t have to have £140k It’s payable over 10 years. A luxury not granted to other businesses or private investors. He wouldn’t need to sell 60 acres. Hypothetical situations like this aren’t helpful I’m afraid

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

@Leedsgeneration He's been great tbf but he's not a clinical finisher. Very lacklustre all round but can forgive them at this point!

@deepreddave You can see why DCL was left out of the World Cup squad. You wouldn't want to rely on him if you only had one chance in the game, would you?

And this is why Farke can't be Leeds manager next season; he's too reactive instead of proactive. #lufc

@marshyleeds Lacklustre performance after a great run of late. So difficult to watch Aaronsen create nothing and lose possession so often but stay on the pitch. Desperately need a better 10 for next season!

Very lame defending from Leeds to allow West Ham to open the scoring. Slack from a few of them in there! We’ll forgive you though, lads

One day, everyone will always have been against this.

Here’s just one detail from @thenerve_news #HarborneReceipts timeline. On the *exact same day* Christopher Harborne gives Reform £3m, Nigel Farage says Reform will lift cap on stablecoin ownership. Where does Christopher Harborne’s money come from, you ask? Stablecoins!

NEW: The Crypto Connection. @thenerve_news brings you…Part 1 of The Harbourne Receipts. A forensic examination of the cryptobillionaire’s donations & Nigel Farage’s crypto announcements. And guess what? There’s a pattern. Starting with the now infamous £5m gift. By @charlienotold & @LuciaOC_ 1/

Time to end private equity. Visionless, talentless vultures.

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit. Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends. And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

I just found this piece I wrote back in October last year when we first found out that Farage hadn't been declaring his income. The article in the Telegraph says that Farage pays £1M per year for security. Really? So how are we supposed to believe that the £5M from Harborne would fund his security 'for life' as he has now claimed on multiple occasions. An outright lie. I'd suggest that both are lies, and he's spinning like a top, trying to distract from his past falsehoods. PS. At that point, he had 'forgotten' to declare 17 different incomes. What happened? NOTHING.

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it. Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago. IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued. The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk. The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit. Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.”  Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million. The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out. This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president. Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues? nytimes.com/2026/05/19/adm…

I promised our analysis of the £5m gift to Nigel Farage would annoy everybody. The verdict? He probably doesn't owe any tax. Why? Because "campaigning for Brexit" isn't a taxable trade, and genuine gifts aren't income. But there are risks for him. Thread:

Nothing to see here.

Donald Trump lied to you. He said he’d fight for you. Instead, he’s building himself a $1 billion ballroom and handing his criminal cronies a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund. MAGA, wake up.

Uneducated voters are more dangerous than illegal immigrants.

FT Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. ft.trib.al/YIuowMb