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Nadhim Zahawi just forgot to pay that 5 million tax and no one spray painted his house. Jeremy Hunt had like 20 houses and no one asked him how he managed to buy them.
September 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Camouflage innit
August 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Liking the grumpy tiger print. Pimty tare, full on
April 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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That is not the language of a solicitor, it's the boiler room of grunts who service soooooo many conveyances, the solicitor will waft in and sign off once everyone is in too deep. It sucks
March 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Arse. Buyers motivated? Give em some squeaky bum, the 'oooer, I love it here really'
March 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Wasn't just the FBI who were interested in Nigel Farage.
Jan 2018 report to US Congress on "Putin’s Asymmetric Assault On Democracy In Russia And Europe" refers to EU Ref / Brexit (p116-120) & mentions Nigel Farage, unsurprisingly.
Report link download: www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do... )
116 649 Rowena Mason, ‘‘Theresa May Accuses Russia of Interfering in Elections and Fake News,’’ The Guardian, Nov. 14, 2017. 650 Jeremy Kahn, ‘‘UK Proves Russian Social Media Influence in Brexit Vote, Bloomberg Politics, Nov. 2, 2017. 651Griff Witte et al., ‘‘In Stunning Decision, Britain Votes to Leave the E.U.,’’ The Washington Post, Jun. 24, 2016. 652 Neil Barnett, The Kremlin’s Trojan Horses: Russian Influence in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, The Atlantic Council, at 18 (2016). UNITED KINGDOM The Russian government has sought to influence democracy in the United Kingdom through disinformation, cyber hacking, and corruption. While a complete picture of the scope and nature of Kremlin interference in the UK’s June 2016 referendum is still emerging, Prime Minister Theresa May and the UK government have condemned the Kremlin’s active measures, and various UK government entities,649 including the Electoral Commission and parliamentarians, have launched investigations into different aspects of possible Russian government meddling.650 The UK government also worked to harden cyber defenses, particularly before the June 2017 election. The June 2016 referendum in which British voters opted for their country to leave the EU, famously dubbed ‘‘Brexit,’’ was a watershed moment for Western countries grappling with a resurgent wave of populism and nationalism in their political systems. Headlines the morning after the vote reflected the world’s—and many Britons’—shock. The Washington Post assessed it in stark terms: ‘‘British voters have defied the will of their leaders, foreign allies and much of the political establishment by opting to rupture this country’s primary connection to Europe in a stunning result that will radiate economic and political uncertainty across the globe.’’ 651 What was missing, however, in the morning-after news roundup was discussion of the Russian government and what role it may have played in helping to influence British voters’ decisions Indeed, the picture of potential Russian meddling in the June referendum vote has only begun to come into sharper focus as subsequent elections around the world revealed common elements— false or inflammatory stories circulated by bots and trolls, allegations of cyber hacking, stories in Russian state-sponsored media outlets playing up fears of migration and globalization, and allegations of corrupt foreign influence on political parties and candidates—that suggested a possible Russian hand. The Kremlin has long aimed to undermine European integration and the EU, in addition to its aims to sow confusion and undermine confidence in democratic processes themselves, making Brexit a potentially appealing target. The allegations that have emerged of Russian interference prior to the Brexit referendum are all the more stunning given the innate resilience within British society to the Kremlin’s anti-democratic agenda.652 A brief viewing of the lively sessions in Britain’s House of Commons is a reminder of the country’s traditions of popular representation, robust debate, and transparent governance. Nevertheless, analysts have cited pockets within the UK political system that are relatively more vulnerable to Russian influence. British campaign finance laws generally focus on restricting expenditures by political parties more than limiting donations, 649 Rowena Mason, ‘‘Theresa May Accuses Russia of Interfering in Elections and Fake News,’’ The Guardian, Nov. 14, 2017. 650 Jeremy Kahn, ‘‘UK Proves Russian Social Media Influence in Brexit Vote, Bloomberg Politics, Nov. 2, 2017. 651 Griff Witte et al., ‘‘In Stunning Decision, Britain Votes to Leave the E.U.,’’ The Washington Post, Jun. 24, 2016. 652 Neil Barnett, The Kremlin’s Trojan Horses: Russian Influence in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, The Atlantic Council, at 18 (2016). though foreign donors are not considered ‘‘permissible donors’’ under UK law. However, the beneficial owners of non-British companies that are incorporated in the EU and carry out business in the UK are immaterial under the law; this opacity may have enabled Russian-related money to be directed with insufficient scrutiny to various UK political actors. Investigative journalists have also raised questions about the sources of sudden and possibly illicit wealth that may have been directed to support the Brexit ‘‘Leave’’ campaign; the UK Electoral Commission has subsequently begun to investigate. Meanwhile, experts have pointed to the role of the far-right UK Independence Party (UKIP) and its leader, Nigel Farage, in fanning anti-EU sentiment, criticism of the European sanctions on Russia, and flattering assessments of Russian President Putin as well as far left wing views as conducive to alignment with Russia’s anti-EU and NATO-skeptic positions. More broadly, there are concerns about vulnerabilities to Russian government influence on various UK actors, including political parties, civil society, and think-tanks, through extensive Russian financial ties and possibly illicit financial activity.657 While unrecorded inflows of cash may not necessarily be illicit, market research done in 2015 by Deutsche Bank confirmed through balance of payments data ‘‘the popular belief that Russian money has flooded into the UK in recent years,’’ particularly into the real estate market, and that a ‘‘considerable chunk’’ of unrecorded inflows into the country are the result of Russian capital flight.658 In March 2015, UK Metropolitan Police noted that a total value of 180 million British pounds in properties in the UK had been put under investigation as possibly purchased with corrupt proceeds by secretive offshore companies, in arrangements akin to ‘‘putting money in a Swiss bank" https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/how-did-arron-banks-afford-brexit/ in February 2017 the head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Ciaran Martin, asserted that the Russian government had stepped up its online aggression against Western countries.662 He cited 188 major cyberattacks over a three-month period against the UK government, most of which were reportedly attributable to Russian and Chinese actors; the NCSC reportedly blocked 34,450 attacks over a six-month period against UK entities more broadly (although not all of these attacks are necessarily attributable to the Russian government). In a November 2017 public speech, he indicated that Russian interference over the past year ‘‘included attacks on the UK media, telecommunications and energy sectors.’’ 664 The Russian government has also apparently sought to seize on populist sentiments and economic frustrations, exploiting the UK’s generally open marketplace for free speech and political competition by introducing fake or misleading news. Officially, the Russian government asserted its neutrality on the question of the Brexit referendum, but its English-language media outlets RT and Sputnik covered the referendum campaign extensively and offered ‘’systematically one-sided coverage’’ supporting a British departure from the European Union and frequently broadcasted statements from UKIP head Farage.665 Reporting in November 2017 on cached material from Twitter accounts tied to the Internet Research Agency, the Russia-based troll farm that generated false stories around the 2016 U.S. elections, CNN alleged that numerous accounts had also blasted out proBrexit messages before the UK referendum.666 Two researchers from the University of Edinburgh ultimately asserted that more than 400 of the Internet Research Agency Twitter accounts that had been active in the U.S. election had also been actively posting about Brexit.667 662 https://archive.ph/FOL8M 664 https://archive.ph/Ld5V4 665 https://archive.ph/XV2Od 666 https://archive.ph/KHWcE 667 https://archive.ph/uP4vO
February 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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National Health....
December 30, 2024 at 7:40 PM