David @zero-4.bsky.social · 11h#BBCLauraK: “Well we chased up Kemi Badenoch’s team to see if they could say how many people are cheating the benefits system, as she promised. They didn’t not give us an overall figure but they said nearly £10bn is paid fraudulently or in error” 050
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 13h#BBCLauraK: “If you’re going to make an accusation that people are cheating the (benefits) system, roughly how many of those 10m people are you talking about?” Kemi Badenoch: "And that’s a number I’m sure we can send to you. My team have done the research” 8175
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 14hSo Badenoch doesn’t have the figures but is insistent that she’s completely right Her phenomenal arrogance blinds her to her overwhelming incompetence #bbclaurak 1347
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 14hKemi Badenoch suggesting someone earning £1m a year should be able to access free child care Insanity #bbclaurak 092
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Reform representatives currently going barmy about the early release scheme are the same ones insisting a man, released on bail who then went on to reoffend, shouldn’t be remanded into custody despite having no fixed abode #politicslive 0101
Reposted by DavidOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it. 1222643515
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s so weird when it’s suggested that (in times of difficulty) the rich should pay *fractionally* more in tax you have deeply obsequious journalists, like Alys Denby, arguing against them helping out just a little bit more #politicslive 041
Reposted by DavidSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Farage honks his mouth off about ongoing police investigations, when told not to. His Welsh leader is in prison for taking bribes from Russia. He whips up riots. He’s in bed with Trump, foreign money, crooks and crypto billionaires…. A massive problem with national security is Farage himself. 25659237
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“We do not support tax increases” says Tory MP Chris Philp who played a ministerial role in a government that saw tax levels reach their highest level in 70 years #bbclaurak 0183
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Why are people having to pay for successive governments failure? A sentence Kuenssberg never uttered under a 14 year Tory government, which consisted of 5 Prime Ministers and 3 General Elections #bbclaurak 26917
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Kuenssberg more interested in the prospect of a on-air exclusive than the content of Burnham’s social care announcement #bbclaurak 1101
Reposted by DavidSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026What’s your legacy Johnson? Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this. The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure. You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin. 1792134632
Reposted by DavidAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026You have to get a very long way through this BBC report before you learn which party runs the council which took the decision to close all these nurseries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukSouth Tyneside Council nursery closures decision 'devastating'Councillors confirm that all 10 Stanley's nurseries in South Tyneside will close by July 2027. 78903329
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ash Sarkar: “There are mobs of men styling themselves as paramilitaries & you’ve had more to say about refugees than racism…This is small penis behaviour. You guys are just saying well, it’s about the small boats - well maybe it’s about the racism & the thuggery” #bbcqt 0204
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“Politics is about choosing priorities” says Lord Jackson, who was a Tory MP when austerity was rolled out & Brexit was introduced #politicslive 040
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 20/09/2026For a country where food banks are still a thing, it’s a bit grim for #bbclaurak to push the tax complaints of a Monaco-based billionaire, concerns of high earners potentially being asked to pay slightly more tax & then asking a journalist from a neoliberal publication to back her up 1100
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Laura Kuenssberg, on a salary of £405,000 a year, seems deeply concerned about the very well paid potentially paying fractionally more tax #bbclaurak 1165
Reposted by DavidReform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire Donor bylinetimes.com/2026/09/18/r...bylinetimes.comRevealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire DonorBen Delo financed a failed defamation case brought by two writers, who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf, against a British Jewish artist who accused them… 25830
Reposted by DavidAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Legitimate concerns“ rhetoric & increasing restrictions on migrants’ rights have led directly to Piddlington & to RNLI staff being doxxed as traitors. There can be no more trying to pretend there’s a respectable anti-immigration position which is meaningfully distinguishable from far-right thuggerytheguardian.com‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretaryShabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites 1220578
Reposted by DavidSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Harborne: “My £36M is a philanthropic gift to the nation” Delo: “My £36M creates a level playing field for Reform” Farage: “I’ll slash CGT to save you £100M/yr” Reform: bought by millionaires to enrich millionaires. Reform voters… They. Are. Laughing. At. You. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...independent.co.ukReform to hand crypto investors hundreds of millions in tax breaksExclusive: Analysis seen by The Independent reveals the wealthiest crypto investors would get £100m a year in tax relief from Nigel Farage’s party 10623881023
Reposted by DavidSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026£72million can’t fix this. Nothing can fix this. This is Reform. A bunch of raging liabilities who shouldn’t ever be anywhere near public office. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukReform's Dan Thomas resigns as Wales leader after arrestThomas said he has done nothing wrong as Gwent Police confirms arrest on suspicion of assault. 621221369
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The front of former Tory MPs, like Gillian Keegan, to appear on national television and offer no contrition or honesty for their hand in sending this country into the doldrums whilst pontificating on what the current government is doing wrong #PoliticsLive 073
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Their brand of politics is catnip for weirdos, cranks, bullies, charlatans & complete wrong’uns. It’s emboldened the racist pub bore to now think they have the ability to make important decisions at local (and national) governmental level - only to find themselves way of out their depth 2365
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This desperation to conflate donations from unions (representing the interests (conditions, terms, wages, etc) of their members) and two very, very wealthy individuals (only representing the interests of *themselves*) is beyond ridiculous #politicslive 1178
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is exactly why Anderson is frequently kept away from TV as he’s not only an absolute clown but also a deeply unpleasant individual #politicslive 080
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Lee Anderson claiming care workers are all voting for Reform. The same Reform who have no spokesperson for social care & only ever discuss it pejoratively #politicslive 091
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Lee Anderson attempting to conflate union funding of the Labour Party as just as sinister as the funding of Reform by two previously foreign-based, crypto billionaires It’d be laughable if it wasn’t so immeasurably disingenuous #politicslive 0135
Reposted by DavidOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026No evidence at all of crime in Essex being driven by asylum seekers. This Reform use of taxpayers money is all about driving hate and fear against migrants. 113910324
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Political donations by unions is possibly the most transparent form of political funding. It is in no way comparable to entirely opaque donations from crypto billionaires #bbclaurak 291
Reposted by DavidParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Ironically, having £72 million will mean I can spend more money promoting the idea that I'm a man of the people and not just a rich, entitled tosser. 712708663
Reposted by DavidRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power 431410562
Reposted by DavidSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What an arrogantly vile man Harborne is. How patronising to describe his entitled buying up of our democracy as ‘philanthropy’. Get over yourself and go and build some hospitals, fund children out of poverty, eradicate disease… Sticking your grubby wealth in Farage’s pockets can only do us harm. 15584115
Reposted by DavidJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/09/2026This is the most shamefully soft-soaped coverage of these thugs that you could possibly imagine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAnti-migrant activists like Danny Tommo are changing tacticsPatriot Platform wants to build a group of working-class voters to influence political parties on the right. 41665207
Reposted by DavidAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Reform UK's record-breaking donor was accused of running “in effect a money laundering platform”. Prosecutors accused Delo of being the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who knew that his Bitmex platform had become a “magnet for money laundering and criminal activity”.adambienkov.co.ukReform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto IndustryAs criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders 861368637
Reposted by DavidAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne has now matched Ben Delo's record-breaking £36m donation to Reform, months after Nigel Farage's party promised to slash crypto sales taxes in half Reform UK is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the crypto industry www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-uk-...adambienkov.co.ukReform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto IndustryAs criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders 51729274
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If two billionaires can throw tens of millions of pounds at a political party and not want anything in return then we aren’t taxing billionaires enough 0229
Reposted by DavidCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner. 8551041298
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 12/09/2026So two crypto-billionaires have now given a political party over £100m in donations but they definitely don’t want anything in return. Not a thing. Nope 0136
Reposted by DavidOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Britain is just looking on as a handful of tax hating billionaires buy our political future. 941356428
Reposted by DavidAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026They're now just targeting random groups of dark-skinned people. What's going to have to happen before the government starts taking this seriously? www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...portsmouth.co.ukProtestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotelMisinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel 47730228
Reposted by DavidTensegrityFan🐝🍯 @tensegrityfan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It’s Danny Tommo’s Blackshorts!! 12432145
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Kemi Badenoch seems completely comfortable with removing all welfare, leaving many destitute and instead using it for defence spending Wonder how many of those would feel passionate about defending a country that has just abandoned them #pmqs #politicslive 0120
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Kemi Badenoch attempting (for the second week in a row) to take the moral high ground on defence spending Her political amnesia is weapons grade #pmqs #politicslive 2192
Reposted by DavidMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’. 23743341491
Reposted by DavidCharles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now 5145121509
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is about the eighth time today I’ve heard someone insisting they simply don’t believe the figures provided by the government…but will take as gospel pretty much anything they hear on YouTube or read on Facebook #newsnight 0161
David @zero-4.bsky.social · 07/09/2026He funded the Tories when they were implementing austerity for years on end but balks at the thought of having to pay fractionally more tax on his immense wealth to help improve a country ruined by the same Tories he funded 0127
Reposted by DavidAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports 8743341048
