Mark Johnson
@braunton-mark.bsky.social
Retired tech founder who wants a more equal world and for Bristol Bears to win the Premiership Rugby final.
Not too much to ask is it ?
Not too much to ask is it ?
Now here’s an idea.
What about if we have a national appeal to raise money for Clacton, raise millions and tell voters there that we will release the funds to spend on the town the day after they vote him out at the next GE ?
What about if we have a national appeal to raise money for Clacton, raise millions and tell voters there that we will release the funds to spend on the town the day after they vote him out at the next GE ?
December 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Now here’s an idea.
What about if we have a national appeal to raise money for Clacton, raise millions and tell voters there that we will release the funds to spend on the town the day after they vote him out at the next GE ?
What about if we have a national appeal to raise money for Clacton, raise millions and tell voters there that we will release the funds to spend on the town the day after they vote him out at the next GE ?
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#PoliticsLive so today’s balanced panel is a Tory peer, a former Tory turned Brexit Party candidate and Stella Creasy, oh, and Chris Mason, speaking on behalf of Robbie Gibb.
Where is the balance that the BBC is supposed to provide in a time of a massive Labour majority and LD’s with 70 odd seats
Where is the balance that the BBC is supposed to provide in a time of a massive Labour majority and LD’s with 70 odd seats
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#PoliticsLive so today’s balanced panel is a Tory peer, a former Tory turned Brexit Party candidate and Stella Creasy, oh, and Chris Mason, speaking on behalf of Robbie Gibb.
Where is the balance that the BBC is supposed to provide in a time of a massive Labour majority and LD’s with 70 odd seats
Where is the balance that the BBC is supposed to provide in a time of a massive Labour majority and LD’s with 70 odd seats
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'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
#BBCNews your headline tonight is not reporting the News, it’s a constructed political argument being delivered by Chris Mason no doubt at the behest of your politically appointed Board members.
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
#BBCNews your headline tonight is not reporting the News, it’s a constructed political argument being delivered by Chris Mason no doubt at the behest of your politically appointed Board members.
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🇷🇺 From 2019 - isn't that odd?!?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/10/brexit-party-meps-vote-against-measure-to-combat-russian-propaganda
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/10/brexit-party-meps-vote-against-measure-to-combat-russian-propaganda
Brexit party MEPs vote against plans to tackle Russian propaganda
Resolution seeking upgrade of EU counter-disinformation unit nevertheless passes easily
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
🇷🇺 From 2019 - isn't that odd?!?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/10/brexit-party-meps-vote-against-measure-to-combat-russian-propaganda
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/10/brexit-party-meps-vote-against-measure-to-combat-russian-propaganda
31,000 and rising
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
31,000 and rising
#SkyNews really impressed by Matt Barbett holding Danny Kruger & Reform UK to account this morning.Perhaps you can get him to do a training course for other presenters as they seem incapable of asking the obvious difficult questions of a party full of racist,over privileged grifters.
October 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
#SkyNews really impressed by Matt Barbett holding Danny Kruger & Reform UK to account this morning.Perhaps you can get him to do a training course for other presenters as they seem incapable of asking the obvious difficult questions of a party full of racist,over privileged grifters.
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GB Energy: Expanded solar rollout to save NHS trusts estimated £65m
More of this please: "Solar scheme's latest phase to enable tens of millions of pounds to be reinvested in frontline services at more than 70 NHS sites, government says"
www.businessgreen.com/news/4520876...
More of this please: "Solar scheme's latest phase to enable tens of millions of pounds to be reinvested in frontline services at more than 70 NHS sites, government says"
www.businessgreen.com/news/4520876...
GB Energy: Expanded solar rollout to save NHS trusts estimated £65m
Solar scheme's latest phase to enable tens of millions of pounds to be reinvested in frontline services at more than 70 NHS sites, government says
www.businessgreen.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
GB Energy: Expanded solar rollout to save NHS trusts estimated £65m
More of this please: "Solar scheme's latest phase to enable tens of millions of pounds to be reinvested in frontline services at more than 70 NHS sites, government says"
www.businessgreen.com/news/4520876...
More of this please: "Solar scheme's latest phase to enable tens of millions of pounds to be reinvested in frontline services at more than 70 NHS sites, government says"
www.businessgreen.com/news/4520876...
Badenoch’s ability to own goal spectacularly never disappoints.
It’s like shouting “look it was us, look how shit we were” 🤣🤣
Key China spy case witness removed 'enemy' from evidence under Tories www.bbc.com/news/article...
It’s like shouting “look it was us, look how shit we were” 🤣🤣
Key China spy case witness removed 'enemy' from evidence under Tories www.bbc.com/news/article...
China spy case witness removed 'enemy' from evidence under Tories
Security adviser Matthew Collins says the term "enemy" was removed from a draft statement in 2023.
www.bbc.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Badenoch’s ability to own goal spectacularly never disappoints.
It’s like shouting “look it was us, look how shit we were” 🤣🤣
Key China spy case witness removed 'enemy' from evidence under Tories www.bbc.com/news/article...
It’s like shouting “look it was us, look how shit we were” 🤣🤣
Key China spy case witness removed 'enemy' from evidence under Tories www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Nathan Gill who went from UKIP ⏩ Brexit Party ⏩ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements?
Photo collage
➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill
Photo collage
➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill
October 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Nathan Gill who went from UKIP ⏩ Brexit Party ⏩ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements?
Photo collage
➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill
Photo collage
➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill
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🔴UPDATE 🔴
'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
Insiders have told @bylinetimes.bsky.social it is ‘inconceivable’ the Reform Leader did not know about Gill’s pro-Russian statements
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...
'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
Insiders have told @bylinetimes.bsky.social it is ‘inconceivable’ the Reform Leader did not know about Gill’s pro-Russian statements
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...
'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about Gill's pro Russian statements
bylinetimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
🔴UPDATE 🔴
'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
Insiders have told @bylinetimes.bsky.social it is ‘inconceivable’ the Reform Leader did not know about Gill’s pro-Russian statements
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...
'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
Insiders have told @bylinetimes.bsky.social it is ‘inconceivable’ the Reform Leader did not know about Gill’s pro-Russian statements
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...
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This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
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Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
October 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
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We now have two v prominent advocates of Reform - both Matthew Goodwin and Isabel Oakeshott - arguing that Shabana Mahmood (so Rishi Sunak and Paul Ince) can't be English.
That was a settled question long before this match in 1998. This kind of radicalisation by online racists would harm Reform
That was a settled question long before this match in 1998. This kind of radicalisation by online racists would harm Reform
October 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
We now have two v prominent advocates of Reform - both Matthew Goodwin and Isabel Oakeshott - arguing that Shabana Mahmood (so Rishi Sunak and Paul Ince) can't be English.
That was a settled question long before this match in 1998. This kind of radicalisation by online racists would harm Reform
That was a settled question long before this match in 1998. This kind of radicalisation by online racists would harm Reform
Politics Live idea of an essential contribution to debate is to have a landlord who named his pub,The George Orwell,to talk on Digital ID. The landlord then has to be shut up by the presenter before he moves onto 15 minute cities and reveals he is a conspiracy loon.
How far has the BBC fallen 😢
How far has the BBC fallen 😢
October 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Politics Live idea of an essential contribution to debate is to have a landlord who named his pub,The George Orwell,to talk on Digital ID. The landlord then has to be shut up by the presenter before he moves onto 15 minute cities and reveals he is a conspiracy loon.
How far has the BBC fallen 😢
How far has the BBC fallen 😢
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I'm not in the hall listening. But reading this on the train heading back, this from Starmer calling out racism is ****ING excellent
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
September 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I'm not in the hall listening. But reading this on the train heading back, this from Starmer calling out racism is ****ING excellent
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer calls on the country to 'celebrate difference and oppose racism'
Delivering his speech to Labour conference, the PM warns: 'We can choose decency or division, renewal or decline'
Delivering his speech to Labour conference, the PM warns: 'We can choose decency or division, renewal or decline'
September 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Prime Minister Keir Starmer calls on the country to 'celebrate difference and oppose racism'
Delivering his speech to Labour conference, the PM warns: 'We can choose decency or division, renewal or decline'
Delivering his speech to Labour conference, the PM warns: 'We can choose decency or division, renewal or decline'
@skynewsrss.bsky.social Trevor Phillips is frankly ridiculous. His interview with Steve Reed doesn’t allow Reed to talk about any issue, but is now talking semantics on the meaning of “patriotic” and trying to define “treason”. We would like to hear real answers, not Trevor’s ridiculous questions.
September 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
@skynewsrss.bsky.social Trevor Phillips is frankly ridiculous. His interview with Steve Reed doesn’t allow Reed to talk about any issue, but is now talking semantics on the meaning of “patriotic” and trying to define “treason”. We would like to hear real answers, not Trevor’s ridiculous questions.
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Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Conservative Party chair is saying the 60,000 people in hotels would have been deported to Rwanda. The capacity of the scheme was 300 in year one
September 23, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The Conservative Party chair is saying the 60,000 people in hotels would have been deported to Rwanda. The capacity of the scheme was 300 in year one
@skynewsrss.bsky.social I have just watched you interview Farage about Starmer , why are you not asking him to reveal the real funder of his home in Clacton ?
September 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
@skynewsrss.bsky.social I have just watched you interview Farage about Starmer , why are you not asking him to reveal the real funder of his home in Clacton ?
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NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
September 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
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“I just exchanged contracts on a house that [sic] I’ll be living there.”
Repeats, “I’ve bought a house in Clacton.”
Farage clearly stated he has a beneficiary interest in the property. If he provided the purchase costs, then he is the deemed owner - _exactly_ as Rayner was - and owes stamp duty.
Repeats, “I’ve bought a house in Clacton.”
Farage clearly stated he has a beneficiary interest in the property. If he provided the purchase costs, then he is the deemed owner - _exactly_ as Rayner was - and owes stamp duty.
![HMRC guidance:
TSEM9610 - Ownership and income tax: implied trust: resulting trust - basic principle
A ‘resulting trust’ is one where the property ‘results’ (reverts, falls back) to the settlor. A resulting trust can occur where purchase costs are provided for property, or funds are provided for a bank account. The case of Pettit v Pettit [1970] AC 777 describes the ‘well known presumption of equity that a person who has contributed a share of the purchase price of a property is entitled to a corresponding proportionate beneficial interest in the property by way of implied or resulting trust’.
A resulting trust gives effect to the settlor’s presumed intention - the ‘presumption’. But see also TSEM9630 about counter-presumptions.
A resulting trust is relatively simple, in that it does not rely on the parties’ conduct. It arises by operation of the law.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dm52swetcttd6h7xvogf7x2w/bafkreibgcspymm4dfn7wynyudnx76iqteb7riewzu7jtuwcoj5ytkhu6pm@jpeg)
September 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
“I just exchanged contracts on a house that [sic] I’ll be living there.”
Repeats, “I’ve bought a house in Clacton.”
Farage clearly stated he has a beneficiary interest in the property. If he provided the purchase costs, then he is the deemed owner - _exactly_ as Rayner was - and owes stamp duty.
Repeats, “I’ve bought a house in Clacton.”
Farage clearly stated he has a beneficiary interest in the property. If he provided the purchase costs, then he is the deemed owner - _exactly_ as Rayner was - and owes stamp duty.
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When talking about the next election, it's important to remember that we are currently roughly half way between this tweet and when the next election will actually be held. Good luck predicting anything
September 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
When talking about the next election, it's important to remember that we are currently roughly half way between this tweet and when the next election will actually be held. Good luck predicting anything