Full-time shit-stirring gobshite, GB "News" presenter, Rishi Sunak's Tory Party Deputy Chairman & part-time crap MP, #30pLee, thinks ageing far-right Nazi-supporting arseholes are “real salt of the Earth people”. He'll fit Right in at GB "News"!
People on @Twitter have known all about #30pLee's far-right tendencies for quite some time, as have the @Conservatives - but I understand this is the first time a national newspaper has brought it to a wider public.
Not that anyone would be remotely surprised.
#30pLee was sent for #antisemitism awareness training after being an active member of a FB group in which other members supported Tommy Robinson & promoted Soros conspiracy theories. He also signed a letter using the antisemitic conspiracy theory of "cultural Marxism".
#30pLee described Nazi-supporting members of the Skegby Scooter Club as “real salt of the Earth people” who “make me feel proud to be Ashfield born & bred”. Nathan Bratby, a club regular who has been snapped with GB "News" presenter #30pLee, supports white supremacist punk bands.
Paul Reeson, seen here with a trophy & shaking hands with #30pLee, published a social media post telling British Muslims: “This is England, my England. If you don’t like me, or my fellow English men & women, leave our shores... or feel the wrath of the steel in my hand.” 🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️
Facebook photos of Bratby show him in shirts with the logos of neo-Nazi bands Skrewdriver & Whitelaw.
Skrewdriver’s songs include White Power & lyrics praising Adolf Hitler. Whitelaw’s tracks include Fetch the Noose & a song referencing Hitler.
#30pLee has spoken particularly warmly of Martin Dudley, AKA Martin Fluke, who was named on a leaked list of BNP members, & who last week attended a protest staged by Mansfield Against Illegal Migrants - twenty people at a hotel housing asylum seekers, chanting “Out! Out! Out!”
In September, #30pLee's buddy Martin Dudley, attended an annual Scooter rally in a T-shirt bearing an Odin’s Cross & the phrase “No remorse, white pride”. The cross, also tattooed on Mr Dudley’s calf, is an often-used white supremacist symbol.
In one photo with #30pLee, Dudley wears a dark, yellow-trimmed Fred Perry polo shirt – withdrawn in 2020 after it was adopted by the far-right Proud Boys.
“It is unconceivable that Lee Anderson did not know about his past. He needs to distance himself from this odious man.”
David Hennigan, a local councillor said: “It just goes to show how far the @Conservatives have sunk under Rishi Sunak. Lee Anderson is a divisive figure. He has upset foodbank users, nurses, teachers, anyone with decency. I didn’t think the Conservatives could sink any lower.”
The shit-stirring hypocritical gobshite #30pLee has strongly criticised fellow MPs for having second jobs: “I don’t have a second job, I love the job I have already,” he previously posted on Facebook.
Grotesque far-right arse #30pLee also publicly denounced ex-Cabinet minister Owen Paterson as he faced a row over his second job: “We are paid handsomely for the job we do & if you need an extra £100,000 a year on top then you should really be looking for another job”.
If only!
The massive neanderthal hypocrite #30pLee also criticised Labour’s Jess Phillips after she made a one-off appearance on Have I Got News For You.
“I am sure Jess will donate this huge sum of money to a good cause in her constituency during these difficult times,” he wrote.
Life was demonstrably worse in the 1979 than it is today.
Zymunt Bauman calls this yearning for an imagined past, ‘retrotopia’, in which the ‘Volk’ (the ‘simple folk’, who Reform UK claim to represent) are constructed as homogenous, Christian, white, & ‘indigenous’.
Life was demonstrably inferior in the 1970s compared to today for almost everyone in England.
Life expectancy in the UK in 1980 was 71 for men and 77 for women. By 2019, life expectancy at birth in England had increased to 79 years for men & 83.5 for women.
1. Economic Hardship
In 1979, the UK economy was struggling with high inflation, unemployment, and a budget deficit. This eroded purchasing power, making essentials like food, clothing, and housing more expensive relative to wages. "Stagflation" was a significant problem.
'Anti-elite man of the people' Nigel Farage, educated at one of the most expensive private schools on earth, is now the highest paid MP in the UK. His basic annual MP salary is £91,346 plus expenses.
The UK National Living Wage for people aged 21+ is just £12.21/hour.
Let's take a look at some of Nigel Farage's additional earnings that he's legally obliged to declare in the MPs Register of interests - and which contains a few surprises - starting with GB "News".
Between 16th July 2024 and 15th January 2025, Farage decalred earnings of £264,790 for his work as a presenter on Reform UK Ltd's 24/7 propaganda channel, GB "News", co-owned by Islamophobic billionaire hedge-funder, Paul Marshall.
The front-page article, published in the Daily Telegraph, claiming “London is home to as many as 585,000 illegal migrants, equivalent to one in 12 of the city’s population” was covered across the media and widely discussed by politicians and others.
The claim that “One in 12 in London is illegal immigrant” is based on this report, commissioned by Thames Water, conducted by the research company Edge Analytics in February 2023, which the Telegraph says it obtained “under freedom of information-style laws for the environment”.
The EDL is an Islamophobic protest movement aimed at preserving UK identity and culture in the face of a perceived Islamization of the UK and Europe.
So is Reform UK.
The EDL reinforce the notion of the “nationalist subject” - a fallacious conception of citizenship - that wrongly assumes members of the majoritarian culture are possessed of certain core values, beliefs, and traits that embody the true essence of the nation.
🧵 Quite a few politically & historically illiterate brainwashed Trump-supporters replied or quote-tweeted the tweet below to tell me lifelong democratic socialist George Orwell was not in fact a democratic socialist. Truly Orwellian. So I asked Oligarch Musk's Grok about it...
In the preface to her newly reissued book, 'Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan - 30th Anniversary Edition', historian @NancyMacLean5 reflects on the resurgence of white power nationalism and political violence in contemporary America.
MaClean is known for her prescient best-selling 2017 book about the post–WWII conservative thinkers and policymakers who shaped the hyper-neoliberal #Project2025, 'Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America',
Evidence of why her prize-winning book has aged well and why @OxUniPress decided to republish it is obvious: numerous instructors continue to assign it, countless historians cite it, and the best Klan scholars have given it well-deserved praise.