Dig deep! Reform frontbench promotes JCBs after £200,000 donation from firm

Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson and Robert Jenrick, among others, have sung the praises of the JCB PotHole Pro

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Farage’s attempt to get ahead of £5m gift story only raises more questions

Reform leader went public after approach from Guardian, but does his claim stack up that money was for his security?

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‘Nigel is mad to accept his money’: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery billionaire bankrolling Reform?

A crypto tycoon is giving record-breaking amounts to Farage’s party. But little is known about his motives

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Minister dismisses Labour rebels as ‘usual suspects’; Starmer prepares for final PMQs before recess – UK politics live

PM will face Kemi Badenoch and other MPs at final PMQs of the current parliamentary session

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Nigel Farage received £5m from donor before he became MP

The Reform leader says the gift was for his personal security - but opponents say he should have declared it.

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Police assess evidence on £40,000 donation to Robert Jenrick’s campaign

Exclusive: Some donations to 2024 Tory leadership campaign allegedly originated from US businessman in breach of electoral rules

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“Royal Mail investigating claims that postal worker ‘binned Reform UK election leaflets’”

‘Message on private Facebook group for staff said: ‘I dumped them all in a bin. They can sack me!’

…If they sack him/her - sign me up for the ‘go fund me’ site

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/26/royal-mail-investigating-claims-postal-worker-binned-reform-uk-election-leaflets

#reform #reformuk #rightwing #farright #extremeright #farage #nigelfarage #uk #ukpol #ukpolitics #bnp #nationalfront #edl #election #elections #democracy #fascist #fascists #fascism #greens #greenparty #greenpartyuk

Royal Mail investigating claims that postal worker ‘binned Reform UK election leaflets’

Message on private Facebook group for staff said: ‘I dumped them all in a bin. They can sack me!’

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Today in Labor History April 23, 1977: The Battle of Wood Green occurred in North London, when 3,000 antifascists, including future MP Jeremy Corbyn, fought off a 1200-member march of the fascist National Front. The fascist movement in the UK had been building in strength since the late 1960s, under the leadership of AK Chesterton, a veteran of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists. By the 1970s, the fascists were capitalizing on working-class anger over inflation, low wages, and austerity measures implemented by the Labour government. They had begun provocative and often violent marches through largely immigrant neighborhoods, smashing windows and attacking anyone who didn’t look white. From January, 1976 through August 1978, there were over two hundred such incidents, including two murders. In this context, organizers lobbied the police to ban the April 23 march. The police, of course, refused. So, they began organizing the community to fight back, which they did to great success. Groups participating including several sitting MPs, as well as trade unions, anarchists, socialists, immigrants’ rights groups, Rastafarians, local gangs, and Rock Against Racism. They repelled the fascists with smoke bombs, flares, bricks, bottles, road blocks, and ambushes. 81 people were arrested, the overwhelming majority of whom were antifascists.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #fascism #nazis #antifascism #nationalfront #immigration #racism #rockagainstracism

It’s irrational and pointless I know but I can’t help feeling angry with US for making it possible for someone like Trump, with a criminal record and a long history of proven dishonesty, to stand for President in the first place; and anger with the people who voted for him to be President for a second term, even after he’d been impeached, twice, during his first.

I also feel anger at those in this country who still support Reform when Farage and his “Party” are know to have links to Bannon, Trump, Putin and others. Are they blind? Don’t they remember the lies and illegality that preceded Brexit?

We owe it to the electorate, if we’re going to vote, to do some basic homework.

#Reform #Farage #Tice #Trump #Vance#NationalFront #Jenrick

@EUCommission My message to you:

#MAGA oligarch like Elon Musk will meddle in European #elections more than the Russians ever did!

We need to disconnect further from USA, and we need to do it quickly, or we might find ourselves in a Jan 6th situation, with #AfD or #NationalFront claiming elections were fraudulent, requesting military aid from the USA to help overturn the election ...

https://spectra.video/w/7x9A4cZD3QWtGFzfsQnrCY

#EU #security #sovereignty #electioninterference #USA #elonmusk

MAGA oligarchs will meddle in European politics more than Russian oligarchs ever did!

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