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Just *fuck* these moronic, divisive, shit-stirring populist nationalist anti-humanity charlatans.

They've already spent years trying to turn Britain into a polarised hateful shithole on behalf of a right-libertarian billionaire elite who do not give a shit about British people. Image
Thankfully, not many people have heard of Dominique Taegon (now Dominique Samuels).

She was "a young influencer" for the dangerously irresponsible hard-right propaganda outfit Turning Point UK, which was supported by the likes of Paul Joseph Watson, Nigel Farage, & Priti Patel.
Here she is with Charlie Kirk, who launched TPUK, who has falsely claimed humans have no significant effect on global climate change & promotes the antisemitic conspiracy theory of Cultural Marxism which inspired far-right terrorist Anders Breivik, & conspiracy nut Candace Owens.
Dominique has been on #PoliticsLive, & is a regular on GB "News", which is paid for by Dubai-based hedge-funders & its main owner, foreign billionaire Christopher Chandler, named in Parliament as a suspected Russian agent, who also funds the dodgy free-market think tank Legatum.
Dominique also somehow starred in 'We Are Black & British', in which she dutifully parroted every hard-right crank in Britain, every far-right politician, & every Tufton St think tank, by making the absurd & demonstrably false claim that "systemic racism doesn’t exist" in the UK.
In 2019, footage revealed Farage had privately sought money & help for his Brexit Party from fringe right-wingers, including QAnon millionaire Putin cheerleader John Mappin, at an event at The Ritz organised by backers of TPUK, when Dominique was on board.
buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/fa…
The video recordings were posted by pro-Kremlin cheerleader & QAnon conspiracy theorist, John Mappin, who has spread far-right videos & memes about George Soros, claiming the Jewish financier controls the media, banks & US politicians. Mappin funds DGB Group which employs Farage.
Mappin funds Dutch Green Business (DGB) Group, which says it aims to offset carbon dioxide emissions by planting trees, & announced its appointment of Farage a year ago as the first member of its advisory board - Farage’s first commercial role outside frontline politics.
Mappin, a Scientologist, was quoted by the Mail on Sunday as saying “being friends with Putin is very smart. We love him.”

He also questioned the UK Government’s account of the Salisbury Novichok attack, echoing a Kremlin talking point.
Mappin has also said that Putin “should be commended for his noble deeds”, commented that the Russian leader has “the sort of qualities we want to see in world leaders”, & invited him to a hotel he owns in Cornwall. He also awarded Trump 'an honorary Camelot Castle knighthood'
One of the event hosts was Amanda Eliasch, an artist & another “influencer” who was present at the TPUK launch in December 2019. In a series of posts online, Eliasch endorsed Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech & claimed “ethnic diversity is a huge problem” in Britain.
Eliasch spread conspiracy theory videos, posting 54 David Icke videos on Twitter since 2011, including “Reptilians, Obama & the New World Order” in which Icke claims “there is a political system orchestrated, created & controlled to this day by the Rothschilds called Zionism.”
According to Mappin, the other host of the event was Ferzana “Fizzy” Barclay, the wife of Telegraph Media Group chairman Aidan Barclay, publisher of the Daily Telegraph.

You'll not be surprised to hear which other colorful characters were present at the Ritz event.
Also present were Isabel Oakshotte's other half & Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice, Brexit Party chief digital strategist Steve Edginton, TPUK CEO Oli Anisfeld, Oli's dad, hard-right crank Lance Forman, &, somewhat inevitably, Spectator commentator Toby Young.
Lance Forman has claimed in tweets that Jeremy Corbyn is a Nazi, that Islamophobia in the Conservative party is "made up by the left", & that the "British taxpayer has paid for a nice fleet" of Mercedes for MEPs in Brussels (while posting a picture of what was actually a Skoda).
Forman, like every single one of these divisive cranks & like every Tufton St think tank, is in favour of "reducing the size of the state" & removing "red tape" which he considers harmful to businesses: red tape that could have eg prevented #GrenfellTower or the 2008 crash?

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According to the UK Electoral Commission website, in June & July 2024 alone, more than £1.7M flooded into Reform UK. Since 2019, more than £16M (73%) of its funding is linked to just nine companies & individuals with offshore interests.

goodlawproject.org/the-offshore-b…
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In 2013, the Office of the Children’s Commissioner published the final report of its two-year Inquiry into child sexual exploitation in gangs & groups - the biggest investigation into the scale & nature of child sexual abuse in England ever published.

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Anyone wanting to read “If only someone had listened”, Office of the Children’s Commissioner’s Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and Groups, Final Report', published November 2013, by Sue Berelowitz et al, it's here:

assets.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/wpuploads/2017…
This report is 'The OCC Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and Groups: One year on (2015).'

I suggest that everyone reads it so they can offer opinions informed by evidence, rather than by racists, billionaires, & opportunistic politicians.

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This is the very definiton of 'dystopian', & draws parallels with the warnings outlined in Orwell's 1984, which Musk often alludes to. But it's not fiction - it's real.

While we all know about Musk, far fewer people know much about the second richest man on earth, Larry Ellison. Image
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desmog.com/2024/12/19/nig…
Reform UK is 'anti-Net Zero'.

In a press release announcing its new UK-EU branch, based in London, Heartland boasted that it is “the world’s most prominent think tank supporting skepticism about man-made climate change”.

👏FFS.👏Join.👏The.👏Dots.👏

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#30pLee is on his third party in six years.

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#30pLee resigned from Labour in 2018 & was elected as a Tory councillor on Mansfield District Council in 2019. He was selected as the Conservative candidate for Ashfield in 2019, and was elected as a Tory MP.

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