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Nigel Farage mourning a friend and colleague = using it for propaganda.
Labour mourning Jo Cox = Fine.
Labour bringing up Jo Cox whenever a debate gets too heated for them = Fine.
Our expectations for the press were already low but even this is simply pathetic.
Nigel Farage accused of using Ann Widdecombe’s death as propaganda thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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All this Count Binface talk got me looking into who this guy really is.
Jonathan David Harvey — who earns his living making comedy shows for the BBC — is an Oxbridge liberal elitist who has screeds of anti-Brexit, anti-Trump, and anti-British rants on his Twitter going back over a decade.
He even thought Nigel Farage’s Brexit balloons “looked Russian.”
His “Talent Manager” Hollie Ebdon once wrote of Farage, “Oh f*ck off you horrible c*nt.”
Don’t get me wrong, I think Binface is a hilarious character, and Harvey is clearly a talented satirist.
But pretending he’s just some random bloke in a suit having a laugh is nonsense.
He’s an establishment luvvie sent to try to undermine the aspirations of people who vote for right wing candidates or parties.
Reminds me of when Al Murray ran against Farage in 2015 and got 300-odd votes.
Mocking people to their faces is only funny for so long.
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Factual error and extra context needed.
Jon doesn't work for the BBC. He has written, produced and appeared in TV shows across broadcasters / production companies. He has also produced several radio shows and podcasts.
He has been standing in elections since 2017.
standard.co.uk/news/politics/…
jondharvey.com/television
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I love this extract from @thequentinletts column on the Nigel Farage press conference
“Along the way we learned that he had not claimed a penny in personal expenses from Parliament. No wonder other MPs hate him.”
Defiance with a whiff of martyr - then came Farage's anger: LETTS mol.im/a/15959839 via @DailyMail`,
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The @BBC's coverage of Khamenei’s funeral has been so reverential, you'd think a respected statesman had died, not a monster who killed 40,000 of his own citizens, hanged gay men and blinded girls who defied his dress code. Our national broadcaster has lost its moral compass.
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A by-election will cost under £300,000 - the cost of which Reform has offered to cover.
And by the way, a Labour MP literally just triggered a by-election to parachute the “King of the North” into Downing Street.
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UK-EU "reset" latest... 🤔
"Universities at risk of going bust if EU students given cut-price fees"
Analysis by the Russell Group had previously found that discounted EU fees would cost universities £580m.
But what the EU wants, the EU gets? 🙄
inews.co.uk/news/education/u…
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🇬🇧 THEY TOLD YOU A STORY. 🇬🇧
Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors. And you were supposed to feel ashamed.
Not for what you done... But for WHO YOU ARE. 🇬🇧
So we tested it. Britain wrote everything down, so we opened the books. 📖
Turns out fewer than 1 man in 10 could vote in the year Britain banned the slave trade. No woman could. Your ancestors could hang for stealing a sheep, get shipped across the world for petty theft, or go down a mine at 8 years old. In Manchester, the average age of death in a labouring family was 17.
They weren't running the slave trade. They were underneath it too.
Which is what makes what happened next worth knowing.
In 1772 an enslaved man named James Somerset walked free from an English court, because English law couldn't hold a slave.
In 1791, 300,000 families just stopped buying slave sugar. No march, no riot, just a decision made at 300,000 kitchen tables.
In 1792, 519 petitions carrying 390,000 names hit Parliament, most signed by people who couldn't vote themselves.
In 1807, Britain banned the trade.
Then the slave owners sent Britain a bill for the 800,000 people they still held. 💷 £20 million. About 40% of the entire government budget at the time.
The Treasury says it wasn't paid off until 2015. So if your family paid British tax before then, they helped buy 800,000 people their freedom.
From 1808 the Royal Navy spent 60 years hunting slave ships at sea: 1,600 stopped, 150,000 people freed, and 1,600 British sailors dead, mostly of disease, buried thousands of miles from home. ⚓
In 1816 they ended two centuries of Barbary corsairs enslaving Europeans.
In 1896 a war that lasted 38 minutes ended slavery in Zanzibar. 🇹🇿
Almost every country on Earth outlaws slavery today.
That fight was paid for largely at British expense, by British hands.🇬🇧
So why haven't you heard any of this?
Because within living memory, someone rewrote the story. You got taught the crime. Not the cure.
The powerful exploited the world. They exploited their own people first. It was those people who ended slavery. 🇬🇧
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History got rewritten once, in living memory, by no one who was ever named or held to account.
We are ordinary people doing what ordinary people have always done. Opening the books. Refusing to look away.
This is how we fight back. Fact by fact. Story by story. Name by name.
We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it.
If you can afford to support what we do: proudofus.co.uk/support
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
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🇩🇪 Tougher rules on sick pay.
🇩🇪 Lower taxes on middle earners.
🇩🇪 Cutting red tape.
🇩🇪 Digital de-regulation.
Funny how Labour and Lib Dem’s don’t want to harmonise this lesson from the EU’s largest economy.
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Presidents, prime ministers, even the Pope still use X. But Labour ministers seek to stigmatise it, presumably as a prelude to prohibition. Our government is terrified of a medium that destroys the MSM monopoly on information, and puts it - often messily - into the hands of all.
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Prosecutors are to be told they must consider their "unconscious bias" before charging ethnic minority suspects under a new 'two-tier' requirement in the Crown Prosecution Service code. dailysceptic.org/2026/07/02/…
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What we’ve seen today from Ben Stokes and @englandcricket is one of the most shameful, selfish and self-indulgent acts committed by any sporting team. They’ve insulted their opponents, their hosts at NCCC and the cricketing public.
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This is just delightful. But you have to watch it to the end.
This is funny - the next phase of the #hydration break in the #worldcup . Watch till the end #england
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This is the UN.
Look at the face of the UN special rapporteur who is meant to stand up for women but has refused, again and again, to speak up for Israeli women.
Look at her face when a former hostage challenges her.
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Never forget how the elites responded to Brexit. They called us racists, fascists, pig meat (gammon). They did everything in their power to overthrow our votes. It was one of the most sickening assaults on democracy in our history, says Brendan O’Neill
buff.ly/zUxWuGV
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We are in a very dark place. The football World Cup is on & this council has spent tax payers money going to court to make it illegal to fly Our flag on Our streets.
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Theresa May's abject "negotiation" with Barnier nearly brought down the British constitution, almost destroyed the Conservative Party, and certainly wrecked her own premiership.
But now it's just "friendship" and "respect". It's all just a game and we can all move on.
When you're asked why people don't trust the British governing class - well, here's an example of why.
Great to meet again this morning with @theresa_may at the House of Lords.
Ten years after the #Brexit nothing to celebrate except friendship, mutual respect and lessons drawn.
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19 seconds in Southport laying a wreath, no tears.
No tears for British farmers who committed suicide.
No tears for pensioners.
No tears for betrayed British veterans.
No tears for the victims of illegal migration.
No tears for Henry Nowak.
Tears for himself only.
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1. We're law enforcement
2. We've broken the law
3. We knew we'd broken the law
4. We're going to keep on breaking the law.
5. Because accountability doesn't exist.
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Well that's quite definitive.
So why exactly do you want back into the Single Market dear #FBPE types, if Single Market membership is a "gigantic economic non-event" for the UK?
Do you just like doing what you're told? Is that what it is?
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Protecting EU Suppliers, not UK Consumers
Adding a CBAM to imported products when there is no alternative domestic supplier, such as ammonia for fertiliser production, will necessarily increase agricultural production prices.
The UK produces less than 30% of the fertiliser it uses each year, but even this production relies on imported ingredients, most importantly, ammonia. CF Fertilisers’ Billingham plant ceased ammonia production in July 2023. This was the UK’s last major ammonia producer.
In 2024, the UK imported 3.22 million tonnes of the fertiliser products that will be covered by the UK’s proposed CBAM. Almost all of which will be charged for both CO2 and nitrous oxide emissions - making the CBAM doubly expensive. Increased costs for UK fertiliser mixers will be passed on to farmers, eventually raising the price of domestically produced food.
Most of the UK’s ammonia now comes from the US, but it is not cheaper due to differences in carbon taxes that a CBAM is meant to levelize. The price differential when the UK still made ammonia was due to the difference in natural gas prices between the US and the UK.
US natural gas prices are a third to a quarter of those in the UK.
Instead of adding a CBAM to imported fertiliser that the UK doesn’t make any more, the UK should encourage UK gas production and exploration in the North Sea; allow hydraulic fracturing for gas; and remove the additional 38% ‘Windfall’ tax on North Sea gas production, thereby lowering the cost of the UK’s domestic natural gas feedstock for fertiliser production.
