The "star" of the Home Office's grotesque immigration propaganda video is failed UKIPper Steven Woolfe, who nearly succeeded Farage as UKIP leader, until he was in a punch up in Strasbourg with a fellow kipper. He's also featured in #TuftonStreet's abysmal 'New Culture Forum'. 😬
Woolfe's English father was mixed race, born to a British Jewish mother & a Black American father, who abandoned Woolfe as a small child.
His first role as an Employed Barrister was acting as General Counsel for a stockbroking firm Merchant Securities Limited.
Woolfe moved to the Union Bank of Switzerland, London office in the legal & compliance department, & then went onto work for several investment banks such as Credit Suisse, Barclays Capital and Standard Bank as well as Aviva.
He spent several years as general counsel for hedge fund managers, then co-founded the Hedge Fund lawyers Association & was its chair for 2010 to 2102. Since 2019 he has also acted as a legal & regulatory consultant to financial institutions.
Woolfe was introduced to UKIP by Lord Pearson of Rannoch & made his debut speech at UKIP's 2010 annual conference. In 2010, Nigel Farage declared his intention to stand in the UKIP leadership, he appointed Woolfe, who was not a member of UKIP, to his team of senior spokespeople.
Woolfe stood as a UKIP candidate for the City & East for the Greater London Authority in May 2012.
In November 2012, Woolfe won UKIP's nomination to contest the Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner elections. Woolfe's campaign message was one of being tough on crime.
Woolfe was selected as number 3 on UKIP's regional party list in the 2014 European Parliament election in North West England. He was one of three candidates from the party to be elected as MEP in the region.
In 2014 Woolfe became Spokesman for & shaped UKIP migration policy, then from July 2014 until May 2015, Woolfe's was responsible for macro policy & taxation % City of London spokesman. Predictably, he advocated a simplified & lower tax regime for all.
On 4 September 2014, Woolfe was chosen as UKIP's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Stockport. Woolfe came third at the 2015 general election with 13% of the vote.
In July 2016, Woolfe launched his bid to become leader of UKIP following the resignation of Nigel Farage.
In 2017, Woolfe produced a report for Brextremists Leave Means Leave, detailing a visa system they wanted the Govt to implement post-Brexit, with the aim of bringing net immigration down to 50,000 people. He claimed large-scale immigration caused wage depression & job shortages.
Woolfe gained the support of the leaders of UKIP in Wales, Scotland & London. His running-mate was Welsh UKIP leader Nathan Gill, who during the #GE2015 campaign, denied human involvement in climate change. He resigned from UKIP & was briefly Leader of Reform UK Wales in 2021.
Woolfe promised to 'ruthlessly' go after Labour seats in Northern England & the Midlands, claiming UKIP had "won the argument" for managed immigration.
But on 31 July 2016, he was blocked by the party's National Executive Committee because his application was 17 minutes late.
On 5 October 2016, Woolfe was reported saying he was considering joining the @Conservatives Party - but didn't.
On 6th October, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Woolfe was in a fight with fellow UKIP MEP Mike Hookem, which ended up with Woolfe in hospital.
Hookem told the @BBC that Woolfe objected to comments he had made & asked him to "take it outside of the room... 'mano a mano'."
Hookem claims he forced to defend himself after his fellow MEP Woolfe "came at me".
Sources reported that Mr Woolfe was punched in the face.
After only 2 years as a UKIP MEP, Woolfe resigned & spent 3 years as an Independent & never joined a political party after that.
Woolfe became the director of legal affairs & main (only?) shareholder of the 'think tank' The Centre For Migration & Economic Prosperity in 2019.
He is also the editor & head of communications of 'Libertatio' - a "platform that promotes writers, campaigners & freethinkers who challenge elites & champion liberty" - which sounds suspiciously like a platform for right-libertarian "freethinkers" & assorted right-wing cranks.
And now Woolfe has popped up as the star turn in the Govt's grotesque "How the Government plans to stop the small boats" #propaganda video, as spokesman for The Centre For Migration & Economic Prosperity, a 'think tank' which appears to comprise just 3 people, including Woolfe.
Details are thin on the ground, but according to Companies House, Woolfe is the only person associated with the Private Limited Company, the accounts are overdue, & there is an "Active proposal to strike off" the company.
The companies website says "CMEP believes that immigration if managed & controlled by governments who think about their people, nation first can develop policies that listen and are accepted by the community."
Imho, a proof-reader would be a sensible investment for Mr Woolfe.
The website claim that "This in turn will reduce the negative language & concerns that uncontrolled migration brings & will lead to a beneficial system where immigration is no longer seen as major burden or concern."
"REDUCE THE NEGATIVE LANGUAGE"!
Whose language is that then?
Website 'commentary' articles by Woolfe includes "13 ways to stop the channel migrant crisis", which states "If the boat doesn’t get you there People Traffickers Holidays will call the RNLI emergency lines who will collect you for free. It’s cheaper than Uber & more reliable." 😬
The 'Centre For Migration & Economic Prosperity' @Twitter account has gained just 197 followers since it launched in June 2020, & follows #TuftonStreet's 'Migration Watch' (led by Lord Green of Deddington,& Chaired by Alp Mehmet), & the extremely dodgy "Active Patriot" account.🙋♂️
Within hours of the grotesque Home Office #propaganda video launching, Home Office officials altered a @Twitter post about the illegal migration bill to remove an image of the newsreader Huw Edwards after complaints from the @BBC.
The Govt #propaganda video still features @thehuwedwards at the start, in a @BBCNews clip, followed by another news reader from @channel5_tv. Given the recent furore over Gary Lineker & Govt pressure on the @BBC, this signals the Tories are out of control.
A handful of selfish sociopathic billionaires and the populist politicians and media they fund have deliberately divided and radicalised millions of people across the world, solely to protect their wealth and power.
They claim to want to help “save children” while spreading distrust of experts, reputable journalism, climate science, and vaccines — which have saved over 100 million children since 1974.
By dividing the public, they protect their wealth and power.
Rather than justify how their wealth was earned, these elites cultivate scepticism of their critics and of expertise itself.
This deliberate erosion of trust shields their interests while undermining the science that saves lives and protects our planet.
Robert Jenrick closed his Conference speech with: “Let’s build this NEW ORDER. Let’s TAKE our country back.” Hitler's “New Order” was a vision for an Aryan-led Europe which involved exterminating or enslaving “undesirable” minorities.
In Britain, a group of prominent MPs—including Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Rupert Lowe, Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman—are normalising far-right discourse through three recurring frames/themes: invasion, scapegoating for cultural destruction, and demographic replacement.
Let's talk about chainsaw enthusiast, Musk buddy, and darling of the global free-market right, Javier Milei.
Let’s look at which UK politicians and news media have been most effusive in their praise for him, and at whats happened to Argentina since he was elected in 2023.
Milei’s election as President of Argentina in November 2023 was met with enthusiasm from right-wing news media and populist politicians who praised his libertarian, anti-establishment platform as a model for radical economic reform.
Support was often framed in the context of Thatcherite principles, with Milei seen as a disruptor against "socialism".
1. Kemi Badenoch celebrated Milei as a "template" for her own potential Government, aspiring to be "Britain’s version of Javier Milei".
A global evangelical Christian ARMY linked to TPUSA/TPUK, "fighting for the Britain whose church missioned & colonised the dark, demonic, heathen world with light, truth & salvation", founded by a former British boy band member addicted to cocaine until he found God?
WTAF!🤯
'The King's Army' is a non-denominational Christian evangelism and discipleship movement launched in the UK mid-2024 - a "spiritual army" of believers enlisted to combat sin, cultural decay, and "darkness" through aggressive street outreach, prayer marches and public protests. 🤪
Drawing on biblical military metaphors, it emphasises "virtue and valor" among Christians, urging them to "stop living like civilians and start fighting like soldiers!"
It targets young men for recruitment, standing against issues like secularism and "immoral culture"!
Two people have died and three are in a serious condition following a suspected terror attack on a Manchester synagogue. Muslim leaders have condemned the attack. The suspect was shot dead by Police.
Some @X accounts are blaming Starmer. What's this got to do with @elonmusk?
Since Musk bought Twitter in October 2022 and rebranded it as @X, the platform has transformed from a space for news and debate into a megaphone for hate, disinformation, and extremist ideology.
The consequences are now spilling into the streets.
Musk’s first act as owner was to gut @X’s safety and moderation teams, firing around 80% of staff responsible for enforcing hate-speech and misinformation policies.
Ellison (~$390bn), Musk (~£385bn), and Zuckerberg (~$260): the three richest men on earth.
Ellison is buying TikTok. He controls nearly 50% of Paramount Skydance and wants Warner Bros Discovery. Carrie Symonds's dad is a director of his Foundation.
For more than a century, some of the richest people on earth have bought up various media in order to shape politics and public opinion in a way that protects their wealth and power from democracy.
Musk, Zuckerberg and Ellison are doing precisely this on steroids.
These billionaires are reshaping the world into a dystopia that makes The Handmaids Tale look quaint.
Ellison owns 98% of one of the largest Hawaiian Islands, rolls out his total global surveillance system called 'The Oracle' to ensure 'good behaviour'.