David 'Simba' Hurley
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@SociallyTruth @PolitlcsUK They made Reform look much more based than than they actually are. They made Reform look like Restore.
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Give him a Follow he's really good and worth listening to!
Jack Dart@JackWDart
Nigel Farage took £585,000 from GB News. His MPs declared another £770,000. Four billionaires have spent £170 million building the media machine putting Reform in your living room every night. Today the Guardian exposed them and what they expect in return. This is a political project funded from the top. #ReformUK #NigelFarage #GBNews
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Only @reformparty_uk can be trusted to cut your bills
Lower fuel duty
Lower energy costs by scrapping Net Stupid Zero
Reform are on the side of workers digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/2370/read…
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@HumanityChad She parked so far away from the side of the road I’m surprised they didn’t order a taxi.
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@kirallafond @dennisbhooper “Hey Kira, your Fanny is pissing in the garden again!”
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@dennisbhooper We had a dog named “Fanny” and my daughter who now lives in England has to remind me not to speak of her in public LOL
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🏝️A Chagos Islands Deal Mini Explainer🏝️
Since Trump lobbed one of his defective disinformation grenades into the previously settled argument around this deal, I thought it might be worth a little factual background to counteract the nonsense.
The Chagos Archipelago is a group of seven atolls in the Indian Ocean. Discovered in the first instance by Portuguese explorers in the 16th century, it remained uninhabited until France settled it in 1715 after their colonisation of Mauritius.
The very first recorded claim to the islands was by King Hassan IX of the Maldives in 1561.
After some toing and froing between France and Great Britain and a defeat of Napoleon, the entire region became part of the British Empire, including Mauritius and the Maldives.
As with most of colonial Britain, we treated the islanders and native people terribly, enslaving them and forcing them to work on plantations and coconut groves.
Fast-forward to the 1960s.
At this point, we had struck a deal with the US to lease Diego Garcia to them for a proposed military base. The deal would run for 50 years, with carve outs for automatic extensions in perpetuity.
In order to achieve this, the UK forcibly removed the entire Chagossian population — around 1,500–2,000 people were deported to Mauritius and the Seychelles.
This is widely considered to be an act of ethnic cleansing and one for which the UK should hang its head in shame.
Before this horrific act took place, the UK had agreed a deal to give Mauritius its Independence and offered £3 million in compensation. A take it or leave it offer that brought further shame to the British side.
The base in Diego Garcia was completed in the 1970s and has been pivotal for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, among others.
There has been ongoing legal disputes since the early 2000s with Chagossians claiming their legal rights to the land from which they were expelled — in 2016, the British government asserted that this would never happen.
In 2019, a UN resolution was unanimously passed to force Britain to return the islands to Mauritius … within six months.
We did not.
Even after a UN tribunal hearing in 2021, the UK still refused to grant sovereignty to the Chagossians and return the islands to their original ownership.
It wasn't until 2022 that then Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, announced that he was starting negotiations with Mauritius and intended to allow the resettlement of the Chagossians.
When Cleverly left government a year later, his successor, David Cameron, backtracked and cancelled the resettlement of the islanders.
After Labour came into power, in October of 2024, they finalised the deal started under the Conservatives but held off on ratification until the new president, Trump, had taken office and had a chance to look across the proposal.
On 27th February 2025, Trump agreed to support the deal which ensured long term [read permanent] military presence in Diego Garcia, and signed off on the deal officially in April.
Whilst the deal is still subject to challenges by the islanders and some in Mauritius, there has been widespread misreporting of the details.
One of the well-known tropes is that we are giving our territory to a foreign nation and paying them for the privilege. If you've read the paragraphs above, then you will perhaps begin to understand why the UK has to cede control of this island group.
We are no longer hold an Empire or are colonialists — it is the correct thing to do.
The costs involved are wildly misreported up to the eye-watering sum of £35 billion pounds, but this is wrong.
The most recent figures are that we will lease the land for $101 million per year for 99 years — a grand total of £3.4 billion over that period.
The right-wing media will have you believe that we are paying for nothing but, in reality, this is a modest outlay for a hugely strategic military presence and … the US pays for the base on Diego Garcia.
The US avoids any legal or colonial ramifications but pays for the base.
The UK pays for legitimacy.
The US pays for capability.
Secondary claims about the Chinese involvement are limited and don't really hold much water. China does have trade agreements with Mauritius but absolutely nothing militarily. The same as the UK does.
That holds no water at all in the arguments.
That's my mini explainer on where we stand, I hope it is helpful. But before I sign off, there is one more thing I have to point out … à la Columbo.
About 98% of this deal and all the legal wranglings took place under the Conservative government. Ask yourself why we are all just hearing about it now.
Why was this not across our media ecosphere when James Cleverly and David Cameron made the actual deal?
Why, since Labour took power and finalised the deal the Tories made, are the media up in arms about it? I think we all know that answers to that little quandary.
Trump's latest interjection means nothing. He won't renege on the deal he signed. All he wants to do is sow chaos and uncertainty.
As I wrote yesterday, it's just noise and distraction from the President, nothing more, but our small-minded press lap it up and spread their lies to belittle the Prime Minister.
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@TheJFreakinC People need to learn how to comply. Their life would be so much easier.
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🚨BREAKING: ICE agents are now pulling people out of restrooms, refusing ID, and taking them without identifying who they are.
In Clearwater, Minnesota, a video shows a group of agents waiting outside a men’s restroom inside a truck repair shop.
Seconds later, you hear a man yelling, panic and fear in his voice. Then about five agents rush toward the restroom.
An agent says, “Let’s go.” Agents pull a man out of the restroom, handcuffed.
The man pleads, “I’ll give you my ID!”
An agent responds, “Right, right, right…” as they push him out the door and take him away without verifying who he is or checking his ID.
Everything about this video is alarming…
Law enforcement is not allowed to detain people arbitrarily. ICE agents must have legal authority to seize someone, and restrooms, inside private businesses, are non-public spaces.
Entering or removing someone from that space generally requires a judicial warrant or consent, absent an actual emergency.
Ignoring an offer to provide identification while forcibly detaining someone raises serious due process and Fourth Amendment concerns.
This isn’t about immigration status.
This is about the government ignoring the constitution, racially profiling, and grabbing anyone who doesn’t immediately comply with their illegal demands.
When federal agents can drag someone out of a restroom without verifying who the person is, and without accountability, no one’s rights are safe.
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