tom
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On the latter point though (and fair warning, this is dependent on both my maths and understanding of the EFL’s squad regulations) Chesterfield *should* still have one ‘squad list’ spot vacant if they do want to draft in a free agent defender between now and January. #Spireites
Farage fishes with immigration bait but what he reels in is Russian-style oligarchy for Britain. He diverts his earnings into a company called Thorn in the Side Ltd to cut his tax bill. But this is just a stopgap. If he succeeds in his bigger project, tearing up rights, leaving the ECHR, deregulating the economy, he won’t need clever accountants anymore. He and his allies will be free to re-engineer the whole tax system in their own favour. That’s the endgame: not immigration control, but oligarchy. Ordinary people pay more, elites like Farage pay nothing. It’s not “taking back control” it’s handing control to the very few, forever. 1. The “man of the people” is a tax avoiders 👉shovels £400k GB News earnings into “Thorn in the Side Ltd” 👉pockets expenses, owns investment properties through the company. 👉draws £94k MP’s salary whilst railing against “common enemy” tax avoiders like himself. 2. The double standards. 👉defended Rayner until he spotted political advantage then demanded her resignation. 👉avoided higher stamp duty by putting his Clacton house in his partner’s name, while attacking others for smaller slip-ups. 3. The political contradiction. 👉Reform UK voters, who think they are punishing the elite, are rallying around a man who behaves exactly like the elite using loopholes, offshore trusts, and media stardom to enrich himself. 👉Meanwhile, he embraces Trump, demonises migrants, and distracts his base with culture-war rhetoric. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…