Derek O'Neill

I know conservatives don’t like Reform. I know Labour voters don’t like Reform. I know the Green Party does not like Reform. I know Your Party does not like Reform. I know the Lib Dems don’t like Reform. I know people who support independent politicians don’t like Reform. I know Advance UK doesn’t like Reform. Vote tactically on 7 May. Keep Farage out of your neighbourhood There’s more of us than that are of them Act like it. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☕️🫖

Rupert Lowe keeps getting humiliated. "An investigation by a KC concluded that there was ‘credible evidence’ that he had mistreated 2 female members in a way that ‘seemed to amount to harassment’. I don’t want to hear anything from him about violence against women & girls."

It was never clear how Nigel Farage had a spare £215,000 (!) to invest in Kwasi Kwarteng’s crypto company. But if he had been personally given £5m by a Thai crypto king, then it’s clearer. My story from March: thetimes.com/article/605d83…

I resigned as U.S. Ambassador Ukraine when Trump kept siding with Putin over our democratic partner. Now, my successor is doing the same. I knew I had to speak out and run for office because siding with dictators is just not who we are.

Also: gifts aren’t taxable. So £5m tax-free personal “gift” to Farage will be the the biggest single sum accepted by any UK politician in democratic history. Reform is lobbying for crypto tax cuts, forcing BoE to hold crypto etc. A scandal hiding in plain sight.

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Nigel Farage has been referred to the Standards Commissioner after @Annaisaac revealed that he received a £5million gift from cypto billionaire Christopher Harborne before he was elected in 2024 Farage said that he used the money to fund his private security. But the Commons rules state that new members are required to register any benefits - including gifts - that they received in the 12 months prior to their election The Tories have now referred Farage to the Standards Commissioner, saying that Farage must 'come clean'

The Office That Made The World. And The Man Who Mistook It For A Mirror. Franklin Roosevelt took a phone call on a Sunday afternoon in December 1941 and understood, before he had hung up, that the next four years of his life belonged entirely to something larger than himself. He was partly paralyzed. He got to work. Dwight Eisenhower had commanded the largest military operation in human history, had the ego to match, and spent his presidency warning Americans about the military-industrial complex he could have exploited for personal glory. He left quietly. He left the country better than he found it. John Kennedy stood ninety miles from Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba and chose, when every military instinct around him screamed otherwise, to find a way out that did not end civilization. He was thirty-nine days from his own assassination. He held his nerve. Lyndon Johnson, a man of considerable personal ugliness, looked at the American South and signed the Civil Rights Act knowing, in his own words, that he had just handed the Democratic Party to its opponents for a generation. He did it anyway. Because the office required it. Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and demanded that a wall come down. He meant it. The wall came down. Every one of these men, at the moment that mattered, understood something essential: that the presidency of the United States was not given to them. It was lent to them, by 240 years of accumulated sacrifice and institutional construction, on the strict condition that they return it intact. The job has a size. You grow into it or it destroys you. There is no third option. In January 2025, the United States handed that office to a 78-year-old man who responded by posting AI-generated images of himself holding assault rifles in front of burning buildings, renaming geographic features after himself, putting his face on the passport, and selling dinner with the presidency through a cryptocurrency leaderboard. He did not grow into the office. He put his name on it and listed it on the market. The men who built this country would not recognize what he has done to it. More precisely, they would recognize it immediately, because they had seen it before, in the monarchies and despotisms they had sailed across an ocean to escape. They wrote the Constitution in direct response to this specific personality type. They designed every institution, every check, every balance, with one eye on the man who would one day believe himself larger than the republic. America produced Roosevelt and Eisenhower and Marshall and King. It built the institutions that held the line for eighty years. It created the thing that the rest of the world, quietly and sometimes reluctantly, organized itself around. And then it handed all of that to someone whose primary foreign policy communication tool is an action figure fantasy, whose sons are running financial platforms out of the White House. The greatest democracy in human history is being run by a teenager in an old man’s body. And the tragedy is not that it happened. Democracies make mistakes. The tragedy is that it required this, the gold coins, the renamed seas, the gun selfies, the sold dinners, the laughing European presidents, the 57 out of 100 on the democracy index, the allies quietly building escape routes from the American umbrella, all of it, before enough people began to understand what had actually been lost. Roosevelt is not coming back. Neither is the America he built. What comes next depends entirely on whether Americans decide that what they had was worth keeping. The current evidence is not encouraging. If you like what you read, follow Gandalv on X: @Microinteracti1

I grew up with @BBCr4today when it was probing but fair. Listening to @bbcnickrobinson interviewing @bphillipsonMP earlier I was horrified at the level of contemptuous sneering she had to endure. The BBC cannot be trusted with political journalism. Robinson is unfit for post.

So are @ZiaYusufUK and Reform going to "carpet bomb" the constituencies of Farage and Jenrick because they didn't vote at all in yesterday's debate?

Obama: Married to 1 woman. No affairs. 8 years as POTUS. No scandals Never demanded anything named after himself. Never sold pardons. Oversaw the capture and killing of Bin Laden. Worked to bring down our debt. Not DOUBLE it. Won a NOBLE w/out whining and crying publicly for it. Never took an award he didn't earn himself. Demonstrated dignity & respect to all. TRUMP WILL NEVER MEASURE UP. EVER!

Putin is scared. His "fortress" is cracking and half his decrees are now secret — so Russians can't see how badly the regime is failing. Here's what he's hiding 👇 [1/11]

Nigel Farage asked on BBC news this morning if he'd debate with me. Says he's too busy with the local elections & it will just be a "big row." I've been asking him for months. Someone's running scared? Vote Green.

Three Lions cufflinks from the bloke who boycotted England’s Euro 2020 campaign. 🤣 Incredible stuff.

Farage is protected by the news media. Remember the relentless attacks on Corbyn by the right-wing media, and imagine what would have happened if he had had Farage's Russian connections and financial scandals, if he had had a convicted fraudster and criminal money-laundering expert as a close associate. The news media's double standards are blatant, and they are helping fascism and Russia.

The Pentagon is blocking $400 million in Ukraine aid that Congress approved in the Budget Committee, according to Republican Senator McConnell, speaking to the Washington Post. Republican majorities in both Armed Services Committees approved $400 million for the Ukraine security initiative for the next two years. The Budget Committee approved the funds for fiscal year 2026 by an overwhelming majority. But the Pentagon never released the money. The funds are being blocked by Deputy Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby. But Trump is likely aware of the blockade.

EXCL: Nigel Farage was given an undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in general election @Annaisaac reveals theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

I thank His Majesty King Charles III @RoyalFamily, the United Kingdom, and all valiant American hearts for this clarion call for unity in support of Ukraine across the Atlantic. This is exactly what is needed to bring dignified and lasting peace to Ukraine and all of Europe. The people of Ukraine deeply appreciate all the support provided by the United Kingdom and the United States. Thank you.

Somebody remind me, how long did the media go on about some suits, pairs of glasses and concert tickets? Bought & owned by a man who doesnt live in Uk - Christopher Harbone previously funded Farage’s attendance at Donald Trump’s second inauguration, donated more than £13 million to the Brexit. He is also a key investor in the crypto. ....£5million is enough to secure you for life!!!! Will @Nigel_Farage resign? This is outrageous

We live in a world where Trump can post this, but James Comey apparently gets indicted for laying out some seashells saying 8647 and then apologizing and deleting the image.