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A thread 🧵 on the debacle that is Bournemouth's vigilante group Safeguard Force and how it launched.

Urgent message.

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…

What the media aren’t covering… Net migration down 48% Immigration down 20% Emigration down 6% Asylum applications down 12% Returns and deportations up 7% Arrivals by small boat down 41% - 1st Jan - 20th May

Turns out I have a £9,400 County Court judgement against me for an unpaid debt, which I didn't even know about. But please put me in charge of the country's finances and the whole of the UK economy.

A summary: • previously overseas voters can only be registered for 15 years. • Harborne has lived in Thailand at least 25 years. He has been making political donations since 2001. • some of them must be illegal • the 15 years rule was abolished (under Johnson, another Harborne donee [thanks @chris_spencer04]) in January 2024. • unless Harborne registered after Jan 2024 he was an impermissible donor • Farage argues he wasn't an MP at the time. That doesn't wash with Parliament, but he's not worried about Parliament & its limited powers, he's worried about Electoral Commission. • EC can take an interest if the money was for political campaigning etc, which is why Farage is at pains, via various versions, to say it had nothing to do politics. Conclusion - an illegal foreign donation laundered through two properties, maybe more.

Bloke that was sacked at the 11th hour by the Tories because he sent dick pics to councillors. Standing next to the woman who gets angry when she sees black people on TV. Standing next to the bloke who posted a whole host of creepy misogyny, homophobia and hate on his deleted and suspended accounts. Reform UK is a circus.

Ian is absolutely right. If journalists were doing their job properly it would not be possible for the public to be under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration.

@NeilForPoole Solidarity Neil and I hope all your staff are not too badly shaken up. Poole should be proud to have you as an MP who tirelessly campaigns against injustice and for the town. I know I am.

Net migration has fallen by 82% since its peak. Some are claiming that emigration is the reason - but it isn't.

Exclusive: Nigel Farage has court judgment for debt of almost £10K channel4.com/news/exclusive…

ROB THE PERV Reform UK’s candidate for #Makerfield plumbs new depths. #RobbThePerv

BREAKING: The number of asylum seekers being housed temporarily in UK hotels stood at a low of 20,885 to the end of March 2026. This is down 35% year-on-year, Home Office figures show Politics latest: trib.al/gI5Ojjr 📺 Sky 501 and YT

This should destroy Nigel Farage’s entire political argument. Net migration has collapsed from 944,000 to around 204,000, yet voters still think it’s rising because Reform and Farage have spent years feeding Britain hysteria instead of facts. Asylum seekers are only about 9% of immigration, not the “invasion” constantly screamed about. The NHS was broken by underfunding. Housing was broken by austerity. Wages were crushed by corporate greed. Migrants were the distraction. Not the cause.

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate, Rob Kenyon, had a SECOND deleted social media account, and the archived posts are damning. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/21/ref…

Imagine if a candidate of any other party was found to have deleted an account with so many disgustingly offensive posts. I suspect we will hear very little of this as the Double Standards Squad continue to ply their trade to the benefit of the 5 million pound man

Shoutout to my Dad who after 26 (!!!) years of volunteering service, last night was his last game as crowd doctor for AFCB! Won’t get any recognition from the club but deserves it after countless hours put in and people helped along the way. Well done Dad! ❤️🍒 #afcb

Too often, outsourcing comes at the expense of our services and the workers who keep them going. If you want public services to work for people, not just profit, sign the Record of Support for Labour’s insourcing pledge: megaphone.org.uk/petitions/offi… via @megaphoneuk

One of the most effective bits of political communication on the left I’ve seen in a long time. A message and a powerful messenger.

@RobertJenrick Hypocrite

If Burnham wins, a million low skilled migrants will be allowed to stay and get British citizenship in the next few years. And he won’t stop the boats. Instead he will put them in bedsits on your street. To pay for it all? He’ll have to hike your taxes.

The relationship between @BorisJohnson, @Nigel_Farage and Christopher Harborne is worth exploring, especially after the £1m/each statement by @benhabib6. A leaked letter from Boris Johnson calls Harborne a personal friend, seemingly endorsing him in the context of Ukraine war.