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Reform UK has uncovered the scandal of a “wasteful” £350m contract.

Small problem: it’s not a contract. Or £350m. Or a scandal.

Here’s how they got it completely wrong.
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Exposed: Reform UK doesn’t know how government spending works
Reform UK just confused a procurement framework with a spending scandal – and revealed they don’t understand government
eastangliabylines.co.uk
June 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Good morning all! 🇺🇦

Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
March 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
There is no special relationship. Hasn’t been for decades
February 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...
Ofcom, stop GB News broadcasting hate
*CW: Homophobia, hate speech GB News is no stranger to spouting hatred and toxic lies. They take pride in it, and pretend the rules don’t matter. But they do. And they must be enforced. On 22 January,...
action.goodlawproject.org
February 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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December 20, 2024 at 3:23 AM
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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917
December 16, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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December 14, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated.

We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.
December 13, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Why is the government not capable wiping the floor with Nigel Farage every single day like this? Alastair Campbell effortlessly destroys him over his Brexit legacy which by almost every economic and financial measure has been disastrous for the country
December 6, 2024 at 6:41 AM
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MS: It's Labour that wasted £710m by scrapping Rwanda.
KB: No, stop it. You couldn't send anyone there in 3 years.
MS: We were on the brink.
KB: Course you were.
MS: The planes were booked. There were migrants waiting in France for a Labour gov't.

Utterly ludicrous, gaslighting popinjay. ~AA
December 3, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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In addition to the private firms that, unforgivably, defrauded us at a time of national emergency, we need to get the billions back of the private firms that took Covid money and provided little or no service in return.
Covid corruption commissioner starts fraud probe

Well I hope he gets a lot of our money back after the Tories and their PPE corruption..

And I also hope some of the profiteering wrong 'uns go to jail

Let's see.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Covid corruption commissioner gets to work
Tom Hayhoe's first task will be reviewing the £8.7bn of pandemic PPE that had to be written off.
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:56 AM
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Turns out “Kemp-Welch, 88, who owns 5,000 acres of 'difficult hill farming land' in Perthshire where he and his children farm blackface sheep” is not the most complete description of a protester, held up as a victim by The Times.

Whoddathunkedit. ~AA
Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵
November 26, 2024 at 9:34 AM