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Football, cricket and politics. Trying to be “the best version of myself” Put Farage in the bin 🗑️

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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And the interference continues thanks to Farage and his pals at Russia UK 🇷🇺 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham says it is clear Russia interfered in Brexit referendum
PM says he asked question upon entering No 10 but does not reveal who gave him ‘clear answer’ that Russia meddled
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Another arsehole called Tom Watson 🙄 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Investigate Reform's foreign funding now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
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Sign the petition to hold politicians to account
Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So a blatant attempt to blackmail the government on top of cheating at our national game. Don’t you just love the UAE? 👎 www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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UAE may halt UK investments after Manchester City guilty verdict
Premier League’s actions would ‘have an influence on the bilateral state relationship’, Emirati officials said
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This nasty piece of work tours the country stirring up hatred (when he’s not in prison) and has a string convictions including one under the Terrorism Act. Definitely not welcome in Shrewsbury (or anywhere else) come to that.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What with record donations to the RNLI, Fairford suspect turning out not to be terrorists, figures out showing small boat crossings way down, and Tommo not given bail - not a good week for the hate-spewing, far-right Reform UK & Restore Britain liars
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man City should be liquidated and made to start again in the Manchester & District Wheeltappers & Shunters League. Cheating doesn’t cover it 👎 www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Manchester City guilty over Premier League charges after £900m of ‘sham’ contracts
Manchester City breached Premier League financial rules by creating ‘sham’ contracts to help inflate revenue and reduce costs by more than £900m over a nine-year period, an independent commission foun...
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The very least that should happen is Sheikh Mansour should be banned from owning any football club for life and city should be expelled from the top four divisions. Every trophy they’ve won in recent years is permanently tainted. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Manchester City found guilty of breaking Premier League’s financial fair play rules
Manchester City face substantial sanctions from the Premier League after an independent panel found they had broken rules over financial fair play
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rodri also believes in Santa and the Tooth Fairy 🦷 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Rodri: Former Man City midfielder believes club are innocent of any financial wrongdoing
Former Manchester City midfielder Rodri believes the club are innocent of any financial wrongdoing and will trust them unless they are proved otherwise.
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Having (allegedly) filmed his (allegedly) idiotic and dangerous behaviour “Mr Thommo” is also effectively the chief prosecution witness in the case against himself. You couldn’t make it up 😂 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Daniel Thomas pleads not guilty after alleged dinghy slashing in Channel
Far-right activist who was filmed appearing to slash boat with blade is refused bail as he denies charges
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Idiot films himself breaking multiple laws (allegedly) 😂 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
First move should be a knock at the door of Mr Farage and his friends at Russia UK 🇷🇺 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN
PM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fair play to the Chairman for answering the letter from fans. To me he still sounds a little reluctant to be handing the club on and is in denial about the current budget. The sooner this deal gets over the line the better. www.shrewsburytown.com/news/2026/se...
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An open letter from the Chairman and board in response to recent questions from supporters. | Shrewsbury Town FC
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For a bloke who owns a football club, has billions in the bank and a nice pad in a tax haven this bloke isn’t half a whiny old fecker 😜 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Manchester United Muslim fans group calls on co-owner Jim Ratcliffe to quit
Supporters’ club says billionaire should stand down after ‘completely unacceptable’ comments on the UK and empire
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reform’s last leader in Wales turned out to be a Russian stooge. Now this … www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Leader of Reform UK in Wales stands down after arrest on suspicion of assault
Dan Thomas, elected in May, says he does not wish to be a ‘distraction’ on same day Reform MS defects to Plaid Cymru
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Will Mr Wycherley be declared Club President for life? Will lunch be prepared for him at the ground every day? Can he keep his parking spot for the Bentley? This deal could still collapse unless these important matters can be ironed out 😜 😉 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Shrewsbury Town: Scott Davidson's takeover includes Brad Friedel
Scott Davidson's proposed takeover of League Two club Shrewsbury Town is supported by fellow American Brad Friedel.
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So it looks like it’s finally happening but why did it take a letter signed by hundreds of fans to force the club to go public with this information and more importantly who are the buyers? 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Shrewsbury Town takeover by American consortium approved by EFL
Shrewsbury Town's long-running takeover saga is set to end after an American consortium is granted approval to buy the club.
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Cowards who won’t even show their faces.
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Dark days for our country when this is allowed to happen. I’m guessing a large number of these masked thugs already have criminal records. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s not just Iran that’s run by religious fanatics then 🙄 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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JD Vance says he’s doing ‘God’s work – and if that leads to the end times, OK’
Vice-president says on evangelical podcast he would feel ‘not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us’
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Richard Stupid Tice talking to everyone who agrees with him about net zero.
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Roland Wycherley may well have saved Salop once but his incompetence and lack of investment in recent years have pretty much bled the club dry. What a sad way to leave and what a terrible legacy to pass on 👎
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Off to receive his latest orders I’d imagine … CIA chief travels to Moscow for unannounced talks, US media reports www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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CIA chief travels to Moscow for unannounced talks, US media reports
Flight tracking data confirms an American military aircraft travelled to Russia from the US via Latvia on Tuesday.
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I feel sorry for the Salop fans who’ve made the journey to Fleetwood to watch this absolute rubbish. Our club is in total free fall now and has become a total laughing stock 👎
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It appears that the full extent of links with Putin’s regime has yet to be exposed. They don’t call Reform Russia UK for nothing. 🇷🇺
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Musk’s paid puppet doing his master’s bidding. What a pathetic and craven little man 👎 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Rupert Lowe set to be paid as much for divisive posts on Elon Musk’s X as for being MP
Restore Britain leader paid up to £1,476 an hour by platform, which critics say is financially incentivising inflammatory content
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
So why would anybody want to hide the true source of large donations to Russia UK 🇷🇺 🤔
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We shouldn’t really be surprised that a man who spends a lot of his time living in oil-rich Dubai isn’t really bothered about climate change and seems to want to turn the UK into a desert 🤡 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat
Deputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to halt global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think people who take £5m from foreign based crypto billionaires should be the ones sent to clean our streets. 🧹 👍 www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Jenrick says Reform would make long-term benefits claimants clean up high streets – UK politics live
Party’s ‘welfare to work’ policy would force long-term claimants to do community work or face losing benefits
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Rather fitting that in this total farce of a by-election that the joke candidate managed to win it 🤡 👍 www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Clacton byelection: Farage beats Count Binface but skips result announcement – UK politics live
Reform UK leader says result ‘speaks for itself’ after refusing to attend vote count in byelection he tried to frame as the ‘people versus the establishment’
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Absolutely heroic stuff ✈️ 🗑️ 👍 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Pilot pulls off Count Binface stunt for Clacton byelection
Plane spends 30 minutes off the Essex coast marking out shape of a bin in apparent tribute to Nigel Farage’s rival
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Just one of the brilliant saves from Will Brook which helped Salop knock Salford out of the League Cup on pens this afternoon. Superb. 🙌🏿
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Always good to win a game on penalties. Arkell Jude-Boyd netting the decisive pen in a nervy shoot out in which Will Brook was the hero 👍
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Using Rupert Lowe’s preferred definition King Charles isn’t British because his father was born in Greece. Incidentally neither was Winston Churchill whose mother was an American. They haven’t thought this through have they?
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
So Badenoch has decided that the way to make this story go away is to **promote** the former neo-Nazi. Keir Starmer levels of poitical skill on show here. She’s got to go. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Badenoch gives former neo-Nazi advisory role after he withdraws as Tory candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, who was convicted of harassing Jewish MP, says Badenoch has asked him to work with party’s culture and integration commission
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
But Badenoch knows better apparently. What a hill to die on 🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ex-MP urges Tories to drop candidate jailed for campaign of antisemitic abuse against her
Luciana Berger says Joshua Bonehill-Paine should have no role in public life because of ‘his racism and his view of women’
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Badenoch has unexpectedly developed a very liberal attitude to the rehabilitation of offenders - shame it only appears to apply to former neo-Nazis who happen to be running for office in her increasingly extremist party. She’s not fit to lead 👎 www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – UK politics live
Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
So the Royal Navy aren’t keen on Farage’s plan to use them to commit crimes against humanity and potentially start a war with France. Funny that 🙄
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yikes! 😟 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
He’s got no standards. There - saved them a job 👍 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Standards watchdog investigating Reform UK’s Richard Tice
Party’s deputy leader accused of a possible failure to declare an interest, commissioner says ⁠on ​its website
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
From Shrewsbury to Shea Stadium. They also wrote ‘From Me To You’ on a coach from York to a gig at the Granada in Shrewsbury in Feb ‘63.
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Scrap the Hundred! www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricke...
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It's time for the ECB to admit they have got The Hundred horribly wrong
With crowds at venues up and down the country dwindling from previous seasons, The Hundred has come under fresh scrutiny as the height of summer passes without any international cricket
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This looks to me like it’s game over for Reform 👍 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Reform UK accused of hypocrisy over Polanski controversy after failing to take action against deputy leader in Lancashire
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Reform UK accused of hypocrisy over Polanski controversy after failing to take action against deputy leader in Lancashire
This Wednesday edition draws parallels between the behaviour of the Green leader nationally and the Reform UK deputy leader in Lancashire. A comparison neither will embrace.
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Drove from Manchester to Birmingham on the M6 last night. It was quiet and there was no sign of major roadworks but 50mph limits were in place for long stretches. Is this the beginning of fuel conservation measures I wonder? 🤔
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Defence looks ok but Salop’s goalkeeping and striking options look poor and midfield lacks creativity. I’m also not convinced by Cowan at all and the ownership question and lack of investment mean the bookies have us among the favourites to go down again. Tough season incoming by the look of it 😬
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Lack of experience and quality on the pitch, financial problems and questions about ownership off it. If we manage to stay up I’ll be happy. The bookies again have us among the likely candidates for the drop 😬 www.shrewsburytown.com/news/2026/ju...
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Match Report | Shrewsbury 1-4 West Brom | Shrewsbury Town FC
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Every flood starts with a trickle …
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Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The financial web that is Reform UK’s finances is now unravelling at pace. The cryptocurrency, the foreign donations, the gold bullion. All of it fails the smell test and potentially the legal test and it looks like there’s more to come. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Police investigate donations by Richard Tice company to Reform UK
Britain Means Business, owned by the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice, made two donations of £250,000 in the run-up to the 2024 general election.
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