Lorraine Smith ♿️

Reform’s 2024 manifesto promises to keep care “free at the point of use” but includes heavy use of private providers, 20% tax relief on private health insurance, and vouchers for private treatment if NHS waits are too long. That’s how it starts. facebook.com/share/v/18PsMw…

@TheMeldrew Actually rejected by the same council 2 years ago when (now Reform employee) Ben Bradley was in charge…..

Strange that the machine has been rejected by some councils, call me a cynic but could it be you are promoting this on the back of a £200K donation from J.C Bamford Excavators Ltd

Im sorry but I find @KemiBadenoch a GRADE 1 hypocrite. When Tory donor Frank Hester made his disgusting racist comments about Diane Abbott she dismissed them as 'trivial'. #BBCLauraK #BBCBreakfast #TrevorPhillips

Shocked and Horrified at my home town weekly RAG @AberChronicle founded in 1871 can show such BIAS How can anyone take paper seriously again ? Need to ask Liz Davies Editor how much Nigel Farage paid for this blatantly obvious piece improper campaigning @Ofcom Lead candidate for Reform in this area Laura Ann Jones an ex con assembly member who was actually suspended from Senedd for racial slur

Shame on all "progressive" politicians who continue to remain silent as lies and distortions about disability benefits have led to disabled people regularly being abused and harassed in the street for using a disabled parking space. Useless- all of them.

@MittensOff @docrussjackson Yet this is never condemned by the media, @TrevorPTweets @bbclaurak

@MittensOff But I thought that women & children didn't come by boat? It's only those fighting aged men, apparently.

@MittensOff So this is who some of us are nowadays. On learning of the deaths of two women, some are actually jubilant and celebrating their tragic and terrible passing. I can see perfectly how Auschwitz Birkenau did not just fall randomly from the sky..

At the time of posting there were 1008 laughing emojis. You can imagine what some of the comments say, these are human lives FFS. This is what people like Farage, Lowe, Tenconi, and Yaxley-Lennon have emboldened. RIP. #ReformUK #RestoreBritain #UKIP #TommyRobinson

The troop withdrawal is not a military decision. It is a political weapon. Trump is selling the cuts domestically as America finally stopping its subsidy of a country that refuses to pull its weight. Every German criticism of his Iran strategy becomes fresh ammunition for the next round of punishments. The loop is deliberate. The outrage is the policy. Merz is playing a harder game than he appears. Berlin signaled it saw the cuts coming, which was not an admission of weakness but a refusal to be blackmailed. Germany will not commit new forces to Hormuz. It will not validate Trump’s Iran strategy. It will rearm on its own terms, expand the Bundeswehr to 460,000 personnel, and wait Washington out. And if the pressure continues, Berlin has one card it has not yet played. Ramstein Air Base. The satellite relay that makes American drone operations possible across Africa and the Middle East. The command hub for 104 countries. Germany cannot be forced to keep it open. Opposition voices in the Bundestag are already asking why it should. Washington is disciplining Berlin with troop cuts. Berlin could answer with something Washington cannot replace. What Berlin fears most is not the troops leaving. It is being locked into a confrontation with both Russia and Iran that serves American geopolitical priorities and no one else’s. Germany has a domestic audience that is exhausted after Ukraine and Gaza and has no appetite for a third front. The deeper pattern is what European analysts are calling hybrid pressure. Troop cuts, public attacks on German leadership, open support for far-right parties across the continent, pressure on Greenland. The military dimension is one instrument among several, all pointed at the same target: a Europe disciplined enough to follow Washington’s lead on Iran, Russia and China without asking inconvenient questions. Berlin’s answer, so far, is to keep asking them. open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…

@leith1076 There's no unlimited, they have the benefit cap anyway!

Nobody gets "unlimited benefits" Disabled people don't "choose" not to work. Nobody gets benefits for "mild" mental health conditions The UK already has one of the least generous welfare systems in Europe The BBC won't tell you any of this though.

@Mark84852655 @jneill Yes as he was on the fisheries committee .. he could have proposed policies or raised objections to quotas .. but no instead he simply never showed up. I wouldn’t trust this fraud to bring fish fingers back to Grimsby let alone scampi.

@jneill Reform hoping everyone in the fishing industry has a short memory

@jneill @DeborahMeaden Nigel’s an expert on fishy business.

Oliver, can you remind how many years did Farage fail to attend the EU Fisheries Committee where he could have positively influenced policy. 🐟🇪🇺

@donmcgowan He’ll say ‘no point, I would have been constantly interrupted and asked about stuff nothing to do with the elections.’ He’s proved today that he couldn’t handle being PM if he’s too scared to debate the leader of what still is a fringe party.

@donmcgowan Can’t believe he pulled out of Laura at the last second. I bet Boris never did that.