Everyone other than 'manosphere' fantasist Martin Daubney realises they'd get precisely *zero* seats, meaning *zero* influence on "the balance of power".
Finally, nobody should be complacent: it's always worth knowing that in 2019 the Tories achieved an 80-seat majority despite the fact that just 29% of the UK electorate voted for them.
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Given Kemi Badenoch's well-documented history of gaslighting, performative cruelty, divisive rhetoric & questionable judgement - which includes the time she told the Covid Inquiry 'there's no cure for poverty' - here's a short thread of some of her 'best bits'... 😬
That time an irritated & condescending Kemi Badenoch told the Covid Inquiry that "we don't have a cure for poverty".
That time Kemi Badenoch was asked how she felt when she first heard about Tory donor Frank Hester saying looking at Diane Abbott made him “want to hate all Black women” & she “should be shot”, & replied: 'It didn't make me feel anything in particular'.
Most people are aware of influential 78-year-old British-Belizean billionaire 'Lord' Michael Ashcroft - but how much do people know about him, his multiple controversies, & his relentless interference in, & subversion of, Britain's democracy?
In France, donations to the small nationalist group, Reconquête, backed by Marine Le Pen’s niece & founded in 2021 by *far-right TV & radio personality* Éric Zemmour, totalled £4.7m in 2022 - raising more than President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party.
Zemmour first visited the UK in 2021. In January 2024 he came again & met with Kwasi Kwarteng, Nadhim Zahawi, & *far-right TV & radio personality*, Nigel Farage. In 2022 he was charged with hate speech for saying on TV that child migrants were “thieves, killers, they’re rapists.”
If divisive, hateful, unelected far-right extremist GB "News" presenter Nigel Farage appears on this week's @bbcquestiontime (36th time this century), it will be the final nail in the coffin of the @BBC's credibility as an "impartial" "public service" broadcaster.
#bbcqt
Like all sensible people, I want the @BBC to STOP platforming a highly disproportionate amount of unelected partisan billionaire-funded right-wing propagandists, & instead platform more of our tens of thousands of actual experts. 🇬🇧
My open letter to the @BBC now has well over a quarter of a million reads in over 144 countries. @BBCPolitics is controlled by extremists, who disproportionately platform billionaire-employed propagandists from #TuftonSt & the right-wing news media.
#bbcqt
Recent changes in election spending limits, combined with weakened checks & balances, means that more than ever, money is subverting British democracy.
Right-wing parties like Reform UK & the @Conservatives already have the support of the billionaire-owned 'news' media.
Unlike virtually all the billionaire-owned UK newspapers (including the i, Metro, Mail, Times, Sun, & Telegraph) and the billionaire-owned broadcast 'news' media (GB "News" TalkTV/Radio), @BylineTimes has at least tried to inform voters of these changes.
More money will be spent on #GE2024 than on any other election in UK history. The concentration of news media ownership in the hands of a handful of selfish billionaires, combined with the grotesque amount of money donated to the two main parties, undermines democracy.
#Leveson2
Graham King, an Essex businessman who has accumulated a £750 million fortune, partly through taxpayer-funded government contracts, has entered the Sunday Times Filthy Rich List.
Associate Prof, Melanie Griffiths, explains why this is a problem.
King’s business empire includes Clearsprings Ready Homes, which has provided asylum accommodation to the Home Office since 2000, & currently receives £3.5M/day for asylum housing & transportation, even though it's often accused of providing substandard & unsafe accommodation.
The Guardian reported in 2019 that hundreds of asylum seekers were crammed into Clearsprings accommodation which was overrun by cockroaches, rats and mice.
Lawyers described the sites as “depraved” and likely unfit for human habitation.