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Mar 15 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Oh my god. @RhonddaBryant has just called for Arron Banks to be sanctioned! Quotes Isabel Oakeshott calling him "an agent of influence for the Russian state".
[exploding head emoji]
It was actually SECOND mention of Arron Banks in parliament today. @CatherineBelton told Foreign Affairs committee that NCA had been unable to properly investigate the true source of his donation
So much going in parliament today. Years worth of progress in days. The Intelligence & Security Committee also brought up the can of worms that is the troubling troubling case of the Russia Report & the govt’s failure to act on it
Blimey. And now @itvnews has gone & clipped it.
And don’t forget @guyverhofstadt calling about Farage earlier today
Here, @Nigel_Farage responds. He denies receiving money from RT.

What’s curious is that he says Russia ‘had nothing to do with Brexit’. How can he know? There has never been any UK investigation. The FBI *did* investigate these issues in America & Farage is named in that report
Adding @CarolineLucas’s important intervention to this thread regarding Johnson & Lebedev. We desperately need scrutiny of his actions in all of this

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Mar 17
I have hugely mixed feelings this morning. It is tremendous news that the UK govt is going to crack down on SLAPP lawsuits.

I also feel angry & sad & helpless that I was put through this ordeal. Am still going through this ordeal.

news.sky.com/story/crackdow…
It is a huge milestone for the people who have done so much to campaign for this, organisations such as @RSF_en & @IndexCensorship & people like @skcoughtrie & @rebecca_vincent.

And it will hopefully bring to an end this era of legalised harassment

theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/1…
It was the cases against @CatherineBelton & @tomburgis, the leadership of @liambyrnemp & @DavidDavisMP & evidence session of @CommonsForeign led by @TomTugendhat that made this happen.

It was such a clear-cut wrong. Madness to allow Putin's cronies to use UK courts in this way. Image
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Mar 16
I don’t think the people who have cheerleaded this man, who have repeated his talking points & helped his political objectives should have a way back from this.

He’s just called for a ‘self-purification’ of Russia. We know where we’ve heard that before.

Maybe there’s a way back from it. But it’s not this. Farage voted in favour of Kremlin’s foreign policy for years. This claim about ‘Russia hoax’ is actually obscene.

It’s Putin’s line. Delivered with less than zero evidence. From a man who actually appears in Mueller Report
Fox TV’s Tucker Carlson is Putin’s boy. Russian TV has actually been commanded to show more Carlson. And these clips from Dec 2016 with Farage - when the details of Russian hacking op first began to emerge - show how clearly in lockstep they’ve been.
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Mar 15
Here’s what most people don’t know. Arron Banks didn’t just sue me for defamation. He sued the Electoral Commission. It’s a taxpayer-funded body, a libel trial costs circa £2m & it settled. Part of that settlement involved deleting info about the NCA referral from the internet
What’s ironic is that if Banks had sued @guardian it would have settled too. Everyone settles. Harper Collins fought but settled. Only reason I didn’t is because 30,000 people - 30,000! - crowdfunded me. And when Banks conflicted out my lawyer, I was too broken to deal with it
Compare & contrast.

This is what’s on the internet now: a dead link to a blank page

And here’s what @ElectoralCommUK said re NCA before it was silenced by a SLAPP suit:

‘We are concerned about the apparent weakness in the law..which allows overseas funds into UK politics’ ImageImage
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Mar 15
This is 3-part podcast @peterjukes & I made in 2018 ti#o explain how FBI’s investigation into Russia’s attack on US clearly involved UK too.

So weird listening now. It was 4 YEARS ago. I was exhausted then. And we still haven’t had SINGLE investigation

We only did 3 eps because it was all such an uphill struggle. But if we’re finally going to reckon with this, it’s not enough to sanction a few Russians. We have to take a long hard look at the problem within our own borders. And that means Farage.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mee…
The podcast was a plucky underdog shoestring DIY affair made in @peterjukes’s flat because BBC & others ignoring. When I wrote it up, I did it for a US outlet (thank you @NYRDaily)

And Farage - who went on to be named in Mueller Report - always central

nybooks.com/daily/2018/11/…
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Mar 15
Powerful evidence from @CatherineBelton right now on how she was forced to remove lines about Roman Abramovich from her book & @tomburgis on the intimidation techniques used against investigative journalists.
Excellent from @liambyrne bringing up your insane legal case @ScottMStedman
Kudos to @CatherineBelton for raising the injustice of the situation that former MP @CharlotteLeslie is facing without any of the protections of journalism. And for @skcoughtrie for raising some of lesser known cases esp those affecting foreign journalists
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Mar 14
Now that everyone's paying attention, can we please revisit Conservatives' 2013 summer fundraiser? Special guests include Putin's Judo partner & @guardian published helpful seating plan to check off against that sanctions list.

This was Johnson's table:
theguardian.com/politics/ng-in… Image
Any sign of Andrei Borodin on that list? He owns a massive pile in Johnson's former Henley constituency. So interesting who manages to get "political asylum" in the UK & who doesn't. Image
And here's the 'Russians' table hosted by David Burnside, the PR man who does Dmytro Firtash's London business. (Wanted by the FBI over dealings with Russian mob.) No surprises that John Whittingdale's on this particular table. He & Firtash go way back. Image
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