Hugh Gorton
@hughie-go.bsky.social
LibDem Councillor for Ingatestone, Fryerning & Mountnessing
Refugee from Twitter
Proud Remainer and now Rejoiner
#FBPE
Refugee from Twitter
Proud Remainer and now Rejoiner
#FBPE
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A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
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A £9m donation from a cryptocurrency "investor" who lives in Thailand comes with so many red flags it should be an advert for political finance reform in the UK. Instead, it'll be forgotten about and the media will soon be back to talking about Farage as the champion of the common people.
Crypto investor donates record £9m to Reform UK
The sum from Christopher Harborne is the largest ever single donation by a living person to a British political party.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A £9m donation from a cryptocurrency "investor" who lives in Thailand comes with so many red flags it should be an advert for political finance reform in the UK. Instead, it'll be forgotten about and the media will soon be back to talking about Farage as the champion of the common people.
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Spoilt for choice, Conspiracy Kemi grabs wrong end of every stick | John Crace
https://www.europesays.com/uk/610305/
On days like this, Kemi Badenoch increasingly gives the impression of an over-excitable puppy with a low IQ.…
https://www.europesays.com/uk/610305/
On days like this, Kemi Badenoch increasingly gives the impression of an over-excitable puppy with a low IQ.…
Spoilt for choice, Conspiracy Kemi grabs wrong end of every stick | John Crace - United Kingdom
On days like this, Kemi Badenoch increasingly gives the impression of an over-excitable puppy with a low IQ. Overwhelmed by all the different smells she can
www.europesays.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Spoilt for choice, Conspiracy Kemi grabs wrong end of every stick | John Crace
https://www.europesays.com/uk/610305/
On days like this, Kemi Badenoch increasingly gives the impression of an over-excitable puppy with a low IQ.…
https://www.europesays.com/uk/610305/
On days like this, Kemi Badenoch increasingly gives the impression of an over-excitable puppy with a low IQ.…
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LIB DEMS SET FIVE TESTS FOR SEVENOAKS LOCAL PLAN
Conservative Council proposes 17,000 new homes. Consultation ends 11 December 2025.
Liberal Democrats say: before this plan goes ahead, it must pass OUR FIVE TESTS:
Conservative Council proposes 17,000 new homes. Consultation ends 11 December 2025.
Liberal Democrats say: before this plan goes ahead, it must pass OUR FIVE TESTS:
December 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
LIB DEMS SET FIVE TESTS FOR SEVENOAKS LOCAL PLAN
Conservative Council proposes 17,000 new homes. Consultation ends 11 December 2025.
Liberal Democrats say: before this plan goes ahead, it must pass OUR FIVE TESTS:
Conservative Council proposes 17,000 new homes. Consultation ends 11 December 2025.
Liberal Democrats say: before this plan goes ahead, it must pass OUR FIVE TESTS:
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Never mind - there's always the welfare budget supporting disabled people to transfer ...
"The UK Government’s plan for mandatory digital ID will cost £1.8 billion over the next three years – but is currently 'unfunded', according to the budget watchdog"
via The National Newspaper
"The UK Government’s plan for mandatory digital ID will cost £1.8 billion over the next three years – but is currently 'unfunded', according to the budget watchdog"
via The National Newspaper
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Never mind - there's always the welfare budget supporting disabled people to transfer ...
"The UK Government’s plan for mandatory digital ID will cost £1.8 billion over the next three years – but is currently 'unfunded', according to the budget watchdog"
via The National Newspaper
"The UK Government’s plan for mandatory digital ID will cost £1.8 billion over the next three years – but is currently 'unfunded', according to the budget watchdog"
via The National Newspaper
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"Pro-Kremlin posts attacked BBC after Panorama scandal"
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November 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"Pro-Kremlin posts attacked BBC after Panorama scandal"
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No 'Your Party' MP will be allowed to be its leader under rules voted for by members at its Liverpool conference on Sunday
The party membership has approved 'collective leadership', which rules out both Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana leading it, reports @siennarodgers.bsky.social
The party membership has approved 'collective leadership', which rules out both Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana leading it, reports @siennarodgers.bsky.social
Corbyn And Sultana Barred From Leading 'Your Party' As Members Will Front It Themselves
Members of 'Your Party' have stopped a potential leadership contest between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana after voting in favour of a 'collective...
www.politicshome.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
No 'Your Party' MP will be allowed to be its leader under rules voted for by members at its Liverpool conference on Sunday
The party membership has approved 'collective leadership', which rules out both Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana leading it, reports @siennarodgers.bsky.social
The party membership has approved 'collective leadership', which rules out both Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana leading it, reports @siennarodgers.bsky.social
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A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine
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The economic benefits from scrapping two child limit can outweigh the initial costs. Some estimate the wider economic burden of child poverty at £39bn a year – lifting 10 per cent of children out of poverty will help alleviate this.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The economic benefits from scrapping two child limit can outweigh the initial costs. Some estimate the wider economic burden of child poverty at £39bn a year – lifting 10 per cent of children out of poverty will help alleviate this.
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Removing the two-child limit accounts for less than 1 per cent of social security bill. To remove 450,000 children out of poverty, that's pretty good return on investment.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Removing the two-child limit accounts for less than 1 per cent of social security bill. To remove 450,000 children out of poverty, that's pretty good return on investment.
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70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
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Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission".
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission".
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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And here's David Coburn again in the European Parliament accusing the EU of "unwarranted imperialism in the Ukraine"
Coburn denies taking any money from Russia to make these statements www.youtube.com/watch?v=52W7...
Coburn denies taking any money from Russia to make these statements www.youtube.com/watch?v=52W7...
EU edges us closer to war with Russia while dictating to the Greek people - UKIP MEP David Coburn
YouTube video by UKIP MEPs
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
And here's David Coburn again in the European Parliament accusing the EU of "unwarranted imperialism in the Ukraine"
Coburn denies taking any money from Russia to make these statements www.youtube.com/watch?v=52W7...
Coburn denies taking any money from Russia to make these statements www.youtube.com/watch?v=52W7...
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And Here's David Coburn on Russian state television accusing the EU of "interfering in the Russian sphere of influence" on Ukraine www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJS...
Russia today - David Coburn on Russia/Ukraine, March 2014
YouTube video by Liberty media
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
And Here's David Coburn on Russian state television accusing the EU of "interfering in the Russian sphere of influence" on Ukraine www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJS...
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Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU
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To all the newly-arrived Twitter refugees, I've created a starter pack of UK political journalists, experts, commentators and politicos to follow here
go.bsky.app/2CwmVfN
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October 17, 2024 at 1:34 PM
To all the newly-arrived Twitter refugees, I've created a starter pack of UK political journalists, experts, commentators and politicos to follow here
go.bsky.app/2CwmVfN
go.bsky.app/2CwmVfN
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Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!
Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules
Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!
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“It sounded as if he was suggesting that songs about gassing Jews, Asians and Black people amount to no more than “banter”. That’s not schoolboy Farage talking, but the Farage of 2025.”
Yes. Same racism. Now weaponised by the wealth and power of the far right.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes. Same racism. Now weaponised by the wealth and power of the far right.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Antisemitism allegations against the teenage Farage matter – look at what he went on to do | Jonathan Freedland
Farage has cosied up to US figures who espoused conspiracy theories about Jews. That kind of talk is becoming alarmingly mainstream on the Maga right, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“It sounded as if he was suggesting that songs about gassing Jews, Asians and Black people amount to no more than “banter”. That’s not schoolboy Farage talking, but the Farage of 2025.”
Yes. Same racism. Now weaponised by the wealth and power of the far right.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes. Same racism. Now weaponised by the wealth and power of the far right.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Kemi Badenoch thinks that raising taxes to pay for welfare is un-Christian?
Do Tories have their own version of the Bible?
Blithely ignoring how society snd government is supposed to work.
Do Tories have their own version of the Bible?
Blithely ignoring how society snd government is supposed to work.
November 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Kemi Badenoch thinks that raising taxes to pay for welfare is un-Christian?
Do Tories have their own version of the Bible?
Blithely ignoring how society snd government is supposed to work.
Do Tories have their own version of the Bible?
Blithely ignoring how society snd government is supposed to work.
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Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
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Liberal Democrats a clear SECOND in winning Council By-Elections so far this year. The LibDems have won more than the Tories, Labour and Greens put together in real elections.
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Aggregate Result of the 170 Council By-Elections (for 173 Seats) since the 2025 Local Elections:
RFM: 59 (+51)
LDM: 50 (+18)
CON: 18 (-20)
LAB: 14 (-40)
GRN: 14 (+2)
Ind: 9 (-5)
Local: 4 (-6)
SNP: 3 (=)
PLC: 2 (=)
Explore: electionmaps.uk/byelections-...
RFM: 59 (+51)
LDM: 50 (+18)
CON: 18 (-20)
LAB: 14 (-40)
GRN: 14 (+2)
Ind: 9 (-5)
Local: 4 (-6)
SNP: 3 (=)
PLC: 2 (=)
Explore: electionmaps.uk/byelections-...
November 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Liberal Democrats a clear SECOND in winning Council By-Elections so far this year. The LibDems have won more than the Tories, Labour and Greens put together in real elections.
@libdems.org.uk
@libdems.org.uk
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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As Jesus once put it: "what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and then have to pay the mansion tax?"
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
As Jesus once put it: "what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and then have to pay the mansion tax?"
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Carney: We know that this decades-long process of our ever-closer economic relationship between Canada and the US has ended. And as a consequence of that, many of our strengths have become our vulnerabilities, particularly in those industries that are most tightly integrated with the US….
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Carney: We know that this decades-long process of our ever-closer economic relationship between Canada and the US has ended. And as a consequence of that, many of our strengths have become our vulnerabilities, particularly in those industries that are most tightly integrated with the US….