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.
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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Shit-stirring hypocritical bigoted playground bullies were once shunned by society, but now they can become MPs.
Is Reform UK's Lee Anderson, who exploits ordinary people with his infantile divisive populism, the thickest & most hypocritical bigot ever to become an MP?
#30pLee is on his third party in six years.
He was elected as a Labour councillor in 2015 & suspended by the local branch of the Labour Party in 2018 after receiving a community-protection warning by the council for using boulders to block members of the Traveller community.
#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.
The Chairman of the West Midlands Police Federation, Richard Cooke, has been suspended after he branded racism allegations as "nonsense" on social media after a former chief inspector alleged racism & homophobia were rife within the force.
Policing is hard. The Police Federation of England and Wales is the statutory staff association for police constables, sergeants, inspectors, chief inspectors & special constables in the 43 territorial police forces in England & Wales. Cooke is Chair of the West Midlands branch.
Under UK labour law, the police are prohibited from joining ordinary trade unions to defend pay and working conditions, by the Police Act 1996, because of the view that a police strike would pose an exceptional public safety risk.
🧵Trump has assigned Musk a chilling task: To dismantle & destroy large parts of the federal government. Musk wants us to call this project by a humorous & innocent-sounding name: the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE).
First, Musk's project is not an official Dept, so it's not factual to call it one.
Second, the goal of Musk's project is destruction, not "efficiency." Efficiency is when you make something work better. Musk clearly seeks to eliminate, not improve, large parts of government.
Finally, Musk has named his project after a meme, DOGE, a crypto scam named for a Shiba Inu dog. He's treating it all as a joke. But the destruction of government is deadly serious, and there's no reason why everyone should automatically participate in Musk's juvenile antics.
I've lost count of all the ultrarich privately educated 'anti-elites' in Reform UK!
Dubai World Trade Centre & Nick Candy's Candy Capital have a partnership to develop a “super-prime” real estate development in Dubai - where co-owner of GB "News", Legatum, is based! 🤑
Candy joined the Tory party in 2009 & has donated at least £290,000 to it.
In February he gave an interview saying it was “probably time for a change” & that Keir Starmer was “a decent man with good values and good morals”.
Nick Candy is to become Reform UK's new treasurer!
He hopes to raise more than £40M for Reform UK: "This morning, I’ve had millions of pounds worth of donations from people that have never donated to a political party in this country. But it’s not just about getting rich donors & billionaire people or whatever."
My 2023 Open Letter about @BBCQuestiontime, read by 300,000 people in 144 countries, was widely reported in the media & informed questions asked of @BBC DG Tim Davie at a Parliamentary Select Committee.
Here's my 🧵 analysis of the recent episode of #bbcqt, featuring:
My main criticisms of #bbcqt were: poor & biased chairing, including a tolerance of panellists who continually interrupt; ambiguity about the audience political demographic; & the well-evidenced bias toward platforming panellists from right-leaning media.
The @BBC's desire to drive engagement means #bbcqt is now overly dependent on platforming guests known for generating division, soundbites, & polarising controversy, rather than engaging in nuanced, respectful debate, which compromises its duty to 'INFORM & EDUCATE' the public.
Farage has defended Reform UK MP James McMurdock, who was jailed for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend, & said 'he should be forgiven'.
In 2014, Farage dismissed a Polish MEP's comment that beating women "helps bring wives back to Earth", insisting it was "just a joke".
Back in 2014, the Board of Deputies of British Jews criticised Farage - then UKIP Leader - for striking a deal with far-right Polish party Congress of the New Right, whose leader has a history of #Holocaust denial and racist and misogynistic comments.
In October 2014, UKIP, led by Farage, struck a deal with Polish MEP Robert Iwaszkiewicz - whose far-right party leader casually uses racial slurs and questions the Holocaust - following UKIP's fears that its grouping in Europe would lose millions of pounds in taxpayers’ funds.