James Chidgey

A reminder that #Farage's undeclared £5,000,000 is his 18th such offence since becoming an MP. And 8 such offences when he was an MEP. Anybody else would be in jail by now.

💰 “Follow the money” is exactly right. Reform UK presents as grassroots movement, but actually it is an elite-funded politics dressed up as populism. And while the noise focuses on migrants or culture wars, the real consequences land elsewhere: 👉 weaker food standards 👉 more imports 👉 less support for domestic production

The Nigel Farage Guide to Being a Working-Class Hero Step 1: Be born to a City stockbroker. Step 2: Attend Dulwich College, fees currently £53,000 a year. Step 3: Skip university. Become a City commodities trader instead. Step 4: Run one of your metal broking firms into insolvency. Step 5: Get elected to the European Parliament. Spend the next 21 years drawing a salary from the institution you're paid to dismantle. Step 6: Claim £15,500 a year in expenses for an office your party was given rent-free. Step 7: Put your wife on the EU parliamentary payroll. Take her off only when the rules force you to. Step 8: Get investigated by the EU's anti-fraud office. Eventually have half your MEP salary docked to repay misused public funds. Step 9: Throw a Brexit victory party at the Ritz. Decry the "professional political class" to a room of millionaires. Step 10: Take £450,000 in personal gifts from Arron Banks. House. Car. Lifestyle. Step 11: Take £5 million, undisclosed, from a Bangkok-based crypto billionaire. Days later, announce you're standing for parliament after all. Step 12: Win Clacton. Take the £93,904 MP salary. Add £1.2 million a year from GB News at £2,300 an hour. Become the highest-earning MP in the House of Commons. Step 13: Speak in parliament fewer times than any other party leader. Fly to America at least nine times in your first year. Refuse to hold in-person constituency surgeries. Holiday in France while parliament is sitting. Step 14: Tell the working class you're one of them. Tell them to vote against their own interests, over and over again. Pint, mate?

I know there is a lot of news around but can someone at the Beeb explain to me how a man they keep telling us might be the next PM getting an undisclosed donation of FIVE MILLION POUNDS from a Thai based crypto dealer (with a BS explanation about it being for lifelong security) is not even a news story when the man he wants to replace led the news for days over some glasses and Arsenal tickets?

The Conservatives and Reform backed Trump’s idiotic war in Iran. Since then, it’s dragged down the economy, driven up inflation, and now the US is openly questioning British sovereignty over the Falklands. This is what sucking up to Donald Trump gets you.

@DrHelenFry The Funeral of Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig, Earl Haig, 1928, former Commander in Chief of the British Army in World War 1.

What can you tell me about this photograph? If you can locate it, or provide correct details about it, I'll be seriously impressed!

🚨Sunday Times investigation today: Richard Tice’s companies appear to have failed to pay £100,000+ in corporation tax on profits, while funnelling over £1 million in donations to Reform UK. Tice calls it a “technicality” but critics say it looks like aggressive tax avoidance benefiting both him personally and his party. The party that campaigns hardest against the establishment and tax avoidance now finds itself accused of exactly that.

No, moron, people voted to not be in the club anymore, so you can’t now use the facilities from which all the club’s active members benefit. It’s not a punishment, it a natural consequence.

Exit Brexit

On 23 June 2026, Britain marks ten years since the Brexit referendum. We were promised £350 million a week for the NHS. We were promised the easiest trade deals in history. We were promised sunlit uplands. Research now shows the economy is 6-8% smaller, business investment fell 18% and 63% of us would vote to rejoin.

The paper that cheered for: - Brexit - Johnson - Truss - Farage - Reform Now cheering for Trump. Thereby remaining reliably, catastrophically wrong about pretty much everything… #DailyFail

Congratulations to all Americans who dared to take to the streets today and publicly expressed their stance and disagreement with the actions and policies of their president. #WeSayNoKings 👍👍👍

No idea why anyone thinks this sneering, self-satisfied, contemptible, divisive, and deeply unserious self-publicist would be fit to run even a fairground ride, let alone a G7 economy. He’s just a tedious pantomime baddie in a suit. Idiotic and shallow.

Eddie Marsan: "I don't want Reform anywhere near govt... as I grew up in the east end when we had the NF & BNP walking down Bethnal Green road... terrorising our Black & Asian neighbours... & it's a load of old crap." #bbclaurak: & you think that's where we are? EM: 100%

You want the NATO allies to join you in a war you started without ever consulting these allies about the war or explaining your war aims. We’re meant just to meekly fall in line. You recently supported a US invasion of a NATO ally (Denmark/Greenland) but now you want these same allies to join your war. Your president disparaged and misrepresented the role of NATO allies in Afghanistan. But now you want them to join with you again in a war of your making. You went to war with Iran without a thought of how to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and without involving your allies in the matter. But now you want the NATO allies to bail you out, even though there’s still no plan for Hormuz. You want the NATO allies to join you in a war in which you still cannot articulate the endgame. Or what victory would look like. You went to war thinking the Iranian regime would quickly topple, that Tehran would not attack the Gulf States or close Hormuz. Why would we align with such Epic Stupidity? You and other know-nothing blowhards started this war all on your own. You can finish it on your own. If you’re able to …

✅️ HANDSTANDS will run in the Ultima Handicap Chase, says Ben Pauling.

❌ A big one - MARINE NATIONALE has been ruled out of the 2026 Champion Chase, per @RacingPost.

@ProperPuntin @GingerJoeRacing Me too at nice odds a while back, along with Irish Panther, lightly raced and who could turn out to be the Unexpected Star of the Show!

@GingerJoeRacing I agree completely Joe, chucked a few quid on ew at a price few weeks back If he doesn’t make one of his customary mistakes early on, I can see him coming and ploughing up the hill

🟠⚫️Really starting to warm to Kappa Jy Pyke for the Arkle He is the one to capitalize on any mistakes, and when he sticks his neck out, he does dig deep and find. He also beat Jacob’s Ladder, who went on to win at the DRF and the G3 at Navan this week

🐎 FEET OF A DANCER 👣 of a 💃 If anyone hears that Paul Nolan has confirmed she’s going to the Handicap Cup, can you let me know please! 📞 I’ve got the bank manager on hold 144…. ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR! The only question is….how far?