Fartycat

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

Remember in 2023 when right-wingers lost their minds because #Lineker mixed sport and politics? Now they’re celebrating #Ipswich Town hosting #Farage with lunch, six personalised shirts and a dressing-room shoot. Now Sport and politics mix just fine when it’s their guy

Please can you post this policy @bbcquestiontime so we can see it? Including when it was written and last approved - and who approved it within the organisation?

@bbcquestiontime We don't believe you 12/3/26 Manchester. Lucy Powell Man Central 2/10/25 Belfast. John Finucane Belfast North 23/1/25 Manchester Lucy Powell Man Central 19/9/24 Man Central Lucy Powell Manchester Central 29/2/24 London David Lammy Tottenham 1/11/2018 Clacton Giles Watling Clacton

There is a longstanding policy on Question Time not to invite MPs on in their local constituencies unless it’s for a single-issue special programme. This is why Mike Tapp MP appeared on the panel in his constituency for the immigration special in Dover.

More details have emerged of Nigel Farage's visit to Ipswich Town. 👉An associate of CEO Mark Ashton sent an invite to Nigel Farage 👉Farage was met by Marcus Nash, director of media and communications 👉Ashton and COO Luke Werhun had lunch with Farage 👉The club gifted Farage SIX 'Farage 10' shirts 👉 Employees outside a select few were unaware of the stunt 👉Members of staff have made complaints This is despite the club claiming they were 'apolitical' in a statement made on Wednesday. (Via: @TheAthleticFC)

Who exactly is he appealing too with this. What parent wants their child to start fucking smoking? Reform are tone deaf morons.

Reform UK have joined the public health debate on the side of cancer.

Nigel Farage and all the Reform MPs have walked out of PMQs in a strop

Reform UK are going to have to seriously curtail their continual press conferences and endless rallies with this news. Christopher Harborne has donated over £23 million alone to Reform — from his home in Thailand. And we still don't know who sent them donations in crypto.

Don’t worry @TiceRichard, we haven’t forgotten.

“…. and there’s been a goal at Portman Road”

I’ve been told that Nigel Farage’s presence was denied at nearly all PL clubs. His visit to Ipswich Town was ‘OK’d’ with higher powers within the club - who support Reform UK policy and it wasn’t just a stadium tour, but a ‘VIP all access’ A PR disaster for #ITFC

It’s never a good look when a football team aligns itself with any political party. It’s a bloody terrible look when a football club aligns itself with hatred xenophobia, islamophobia, and homophobia.

Blow smoke in kids faces like we did in the 70s, make Britain great again!

🙌 Fantastic to have so many local activists and community leaders join us at the Henry Brown Centre in West Howe this weekend to announce the £20m Pride in Place funding.

Woeful judgement from @IpswichTown. It looked bad yesterday when it was just a ‘conference room booking’. This is PR suicide for a family club #itfc

If Labour or even the Tories had said they were going to allow 14 year olds to smoke and there was a backlash Farage would have been out within minutes promising to raise smoking age to 21 or 25. He looks for the latest grievance or bandwagon to jump on.

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

5 minutes before Trump’s announcement: * $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. * $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold. More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close. Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!

Reform is a Scam 👇

Lush taking the lead