Infosys - Sunak's wife
Fujitsu - Keegan's husband
The big story in modern politics is not ideology, or nationalism, but public contracts, which are rarely scrutinised and generally opaque.
@RobBurl
Suppression? She's rarely off the air?
IEA and other think tanks she represented are opaque-funded.
I never heard her introduced on UK TV as 'former spokesperson for Republicans Overseas'.
If BBC want to regain credibility, invite James to explain the Russian disinformation campaign, rather than a bunch of hacks who only realised the significance this morning.
Putin's sophisticated, well-funded plan to blow up politics in UK, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey.
Clearly it worked in each country and we know pretty much who the beneficiaries were.
#ReleaseTheRussianReport
Russian intelligence’s Project Charlemagne focused on France, Italy, the UK, Germany and Turkey with “a secret black budget of tens of millions of dollars”, earmarked for populist nationalist politicians opposed to the EU.
?
@Nigel_Farage
This is the saddest of days. I lost the best friend a man could ever ask for. Goodbye my darling Ellie. We will never forget you. Thank you for sharing your life with us. It was a privilege xxx
Outstanding stuff from
@DavidLammy
on
#Marr
. Calling out the far right, their alliance with Trump's white supremacist guru Steve Bannon and the BBC for normalizing them. Rare directness and bravery. A signpost, not a weathervane.
@cryptomanran
@Scaramucci
Using the word 'corrupt' about Trump's opponent, but not the 91-times indicted guy with a half-million fine for fraud, a secret Chinese bank account, who was previously fined for a fake university...is some mind-twisting logic.
An excellent thread. It is utterly terrifying that this stuff has been normalised. That people believe, repeat it. That many 'experts' still complacently blather on about 'both sides' and refuse to see the blindingly obvious.
Pre-2015, politics wasn't like this.
He was a sadistic, vengeful man long before he descended the elevator and talked about criminals and rapists coming from Mexico. Of course, as the vise tightens, he will incite more violence. How crazy is all this? I offer this thread. 1/20
DAILY: Rather than those 'left-behind', is a bored middle class to blame for today's decline of democracy?
Author of 'Our Own Worst Enemy'
@RadioFreeTom
tells
@SnellArthur
why unchecked narcissism is to blame for rising illiberalism we see today.
Listen:
Reasons to scrap the House of Lords
Lord Elliott - founder of Conservative Friends of Russia.
Lord Lebedev of Siberia
Baroness Michelle Mone of unusable PPE
Baroness Charlotte Owen - who knows why? (1/?)
Thinking about the tree house reminded me of when Tories, media and countless voters I encountered were FURIOUS to learn Gordon Brown had a Sky subscription at No.10 and paid his cleaner £10 per hour.
@peterjukes
@NafeezAhmed
Furthermore, Mercer's RenTech hedge fund was by far the most successful operating in Russia/ex-USSR.
A journalist, Scott Christianson, reported his $7BN tax dispute with the IRS. Then he fell down stairs at home and died.
As the evidence mounts that Russian interference goes deeper than we ever thought…
The indomitable
@johnsweeneyroar
investigates the full scale in a new movie.
Boris Johnson, dark Russian money, bunga bunga parties, blackmail & much more.
👉
So true. I realized at a young age that obsessively following snooker, politics, golf and devising complex in-play cricket betting strategies was EXACTLY what the ladies were looking for.
Something a lot of men don't like to admit:
All of your hobbies and ambitions are to attract women.
Nature doesn't care how much personal fulfillment you get from them. Those things are cool, but they're a coincidental positive externality to the prime objective:
To keep the
@ivanastradner
Because their 'nationalism' is a fake, insincere scam with the ultimate goal of destroying the rule of law. Because to do so would serve their transnational, criminal interests.
Today, the House will vote to impeach Donald Trump. Whatever happens from here (spoiler: we shall prevail), we must savor this victory over the seditious forces working to destroy our country.
Look at how far we’ve come.
[THREAD]
@ivanastradner
@NATO
Rare disagreement, Ivana. Wallace has done a great job and I agree UK is key to Euro security, but his party are up to their necks in Russian money. If Biden hadn't won, they would be in lockstep with Trump.
Don't ask me about betting today. I will restart writing tomorrow.
Today isn't just political, its personal. Cuts to the core of who I am. And that will soon be very, very drunk.
Feel free to bring it, Putinistas 😂😂
NEW: Donald Trump is considering a reduction in intelligence sharing with members of NATO, which depends on the U.S. for the type of information that has helped Ukraine fend off Russia, according to foreign officials informed of the plans.
My interview for
@SimonNott
's
#BettingPeople
series.
Discussing my 30 year career as a pro gambler, from teenage bookie to special focus on political betting during the madcap era of Brexit, Trump and Corbyn.
@SnookerJudge
@ABC
36% of Americans would excuse Trump if he wiped his arse with the flag. A 2016 poll showed 35% of Republican voters believed Hillary was 'literally a demon', as per Alex Jones.
#cultists
To this day, millions believe Assange is a lefty. Despite hanging out with white supremacists, Farage and actively conspiring with arch-fascist Putin to get Trump elected.
He is the ultimate symbol of gaslighting over the past decade.
"Thanks to Banks's extensive use of tax havens and shell companies, it has never been entirely clear where all of that money came from — or even whether all of it was really his."
Folks, I told you *BEFORE* Trump was even elected that Kilimnik was GRU and the likely RIS guy inside the Trump campaign due to his close, longstanding relationship with Manafort:
This is not news...I got a lot of trolling for this at the time.
@mattprescott
Brexit
'Project Fear' warned of this. The chemicals aren't available here.
Also, they have no fear of a govt imposing the law, as they would in the EU.
Very excited to start a new wide-ranging role today for
@betonline_ag
.
My main focus will be politics/current affairs around the world and I'm also helping build and trade cricket and snooker markets. Very busy couple of months ahead!
Daniel Hannan and Claire Fox have life peerages.
Wiggy has Covid-testing contracts. Friends of Vote Leave made billions from uncompetitive, inappropriate PPE contracts.
Of course, it was all about taking back control 😂
Two weeks on, as Britain becomes Plague Island, I could easily update this with the people who have had such an impact on the Brexit/Covid disaster, such as Andy Wigmore selling medical equipment from his ski chalet in Switzerland, or Julia Hartley-Brewer fleeing to the Caribbean
2 takeaways from
#Peterborough
1) No evidence that Brexit Party would fare any better than UKIP did in a General election.
2) By-election betting is mental.
Been far too busy to check notifications so, MAGA peeps, get deleting!
Maybe eat some humble pie 😘
Its OK, hardened gamblers know you can't win all the time and that the game is by nature, unpredictable.
I didn't expect to be settling this up before 9pm or without any stress!
Happy days! Gary Wilson wins at 150/1, taking my season's profit above 90 units.
My second big-priced winner of 2022 after Rob Milkins landed at 175/1.
Decided to have a couple of days off Twitter, to watch the election with alcohol and friends.
Obviously a great result on many levels! Betting-wise it was my best UK election ever. (1/?)
Apologies for the shameless self-publicity.
This article from March 2021 tips Liz Truss at 32.0 for Next PM, while laying Sunak at 3.6, Starmer at 5.4.
#Russia
's RT claimed that no one is rooting for Team USA at the
#Olympics
because America’s true patriots—the Capitol insurrectionists—are “still rotting in solitary confinement,” having been “jailed on patently political grounds.”
I just backed Boris Johnson Exit Date to be 2021, at 4.4 on Betfair.
Cracking trade. I think every chance he goes soon but even if not, speculation is highly likely to drive the odds shorter at some stage.
I've already laid after July 2022 at 1.7.
Fucking hell. This Putin rally in Moscow.
Nazi Germany merges with the USSR.
Is there really anyone in the free world who doesn't realise this is staged? That the people are smiling so enthusiastically because to not smile may have consequences?
6) The truth will out. The question is whether, when it does, there is anything left of our democracy, economy to save. Whether they've silenced anybody who dares to expose it. That is how Putin's Russia works, and nobody seriously expects change.
As the evidence mounts that Russian interference goes deeper than we ever thought…
The indomitable
@johnsweeneyroar
investigates the full scale in a new movie.
Boris Johnson, dark Russian money, bunga bunga parties, blackmail & much more.
👉
True. Not hyperbole.
Read/watch the Leveson evidence then wonder why Leveson2 got cancelled.
Listen to
@UntoldMurder
then tell me we have a free press that isn't beyond the law
Story now big in the Mail Online too
I saw this every day during the phone hacking trial. The British press is the mafia. We won’t just go for you. We’ll go for your kids. We’ll for your parents. We’ll go for anyone you’ve ever loved.
Obey. Or suffer.
Far be it from me to comment on Flack, whom I'd never heard of, but listening to Jane Moore (another Sun journalist) spreading blame to everyone except the scumbag tabloid media is truly nauseating.
Having read the report, Johnson said there was "Absolutely no evidence that I've ever seen of Russian interference in UK democratic processes" and he saw no reason to publish it before the general election.
#RussiaReport
#JohnsonLies
#RussianReport
Video courtesy of
@guardian
Absolute peak
#UKSR
that Jeremy Hunt can make cheap gags about Rayner selling her council house. Safe in knowledge that nobody will remind that a Tory donor gave him a discount on seven luxury properties, which Jeremy 'forgot' to declare.
#Budget2024
There is no greater example of Putin's Horseshoe than Tucker Carlson and Russell Brand. Once impossible to imagine as allies but now almost joined at the hip.
I feel I need to emphasize the Kremlin-backed radicalization pipeline embodied by accused rapist Russell Brand & unemployed racist Tucker Carlson is leading to unadulterated Nazism. Nothing “neo” about it.
Tucker is being funded by Peter Thiel patron Robert Mercer to spread
Please don't tell me the media that has been fawning over Boris having a sixth child, after leaving his cancer-stricken wife, is now about to have a morality meltdown over a scientist they'd never heard of until last month?
In case anyone doubted UK politics and media was a cosy little Tory party club.
I guess the govt would have appointed her husband James Forsyth too but he's busy at The Spectator and The Sun
New: ITV News National Editor Allegra Stratton is leaving to work for Chancellor Rishi Sunak as Director of Strategic Communications at the Treasury, ITV News staff have been told in an email.
Back to Banks v
@carolecadwalla
. The full judgment is really worth a read for any journalist. Justice Steyn has really forensically nailed down the riot of meetings between Leave EU in the Russian Embassy in 2016-17.
@sjwrenlewis
@BBeever
Exactly. Even the most honest media, with no intent to mislead, would hugely influence people. Simply because they determine which issues, perspectives and talking points are newsworthy.
To understand what’s happening in Afghanistan now, we need to look at Trump’s deal with the Taliban in 2020. 7 minutes on what’s in it and why it matters. Produced
@TomBrada1991
.
@peterjukes
@rcolvile
@nytimes
It is constantly striking how they are either in denial, or intent on lying, about their ideology.
Do they disown Simon Heffer - Powell's biographer? Or Thatcher, for whom Powell was a hero? Or the ex-UKIP/BNP voters who formed a key part of their 2019 base?
@PaulORourke_LFC
@ericgarland
I get little pleasure from the vindication. It was always blindingly obvious to anybody who bothered to research. But Team Bullshit remain prolific, moving from one gaslight to the next.
Rudy Giuliani's former assistant, Noelle Dunphy, who accused the former NY mayor of sexual abuse, harassment and wage theft, has filed a series of transcripts of audio files and ... wow.
I've been following corruption, party donors, offshore tax havens, bank secrecy, intensely, for 20 years.
There will be a wall of silence about Panorama's revelations. There always is, leaving the principled few shouting into space.
The global alliance of right wing autocrats "is much deeper than most people realize," says Francis Fukuyama.
His description of this got very interesting. It's a Putinist internationale, as we've seen very vividly here at home.
Ivanka's testimony today confirmed that Deutsche Bank gave Trump loan terms that were unavailable anywhere else based on DJT personal guarantee and financial statements showing minimum 2-3B. Trump Ord therefore NAILED on NYAG's main case: DJT's financial statements mattered AND
Alex. Stop tweeting Guido and answer the question. You worked on the corrupt Cambridge Analytica Kenya campaign. A senior official was murdered. The result annulled. What are you doing standing as an MEP without explaining this?
Ian Hislop “The Conservative Party is almost entirely funded by foreign nationals abroad who don’t have our best interests at heart.”
It's a kind of inverted imperialism. The heart of the old empire is now effectively controlled by super-rich foreigners.
Now Brexit is done, please put differences aside and acknowledge that our population has been targeted with weapons grade infowar by the Kremlin, implicating various politicians, parties, media.
#ReleaseTheRussiaReport
and report
@johnsweeneyroar
whistleblower letter.
@rcolvile
@nytimes
You'll be telling us next that millions of Tory voters, for decades, didn't frequently claim 'Enoch was right', or were pushed to that ridiculous conclusion by Tory-supporting tabloid journalists.
100% agree. Murdoch tabloids started the rot, shaped our political culture, obliterated truth. Created the conditions for hostile takeover and to become the
#UKSR
or
#Bullshitland
.
The reason we're in such an appalling mess as a country is because we have such an abysmal newspaper industry, owned by tax-dodging, non-dom, mostly foreign billionaires.
They've trained huge swathes of the the British populace to do their bidding.
I just hope to be alive long enough to see the movies, the box sets, that reveal who and what Trump, Bannon, Cummngs, Johnson really are. What a ridiculous period in history this has been.
Then watch everyone deny ever supporting them
#Election2020
is two months from today. From now until November 3rd, I'll be writing a daily Twitter thread over at
@BetfairExchange
, covering all the big market moves, breaking news and analysing the state of the race.
Excellent long tweet on the sinister matter of mind control. Robert Mercer is the main money behind Trump, Brexit, Breitbart, Cambridge Analytica and the far-Right app Parler.
🚨A Brief History of Documented Mind Manipulation: MKUltra, Cambridge Analytica, and the Mercer Family.
The Mercer Family has shown a curious interest towards the malleability of the human mind.
The Mercer Family's wealth propelled the operations of Cambridge Analytica, a
In hospital having tests after getting chest pains last night. I'm told just a mixture of stress and extreme heat.
But I think it was the shock of seeing the media cover Farage's position on Russia.
Truly, once in a millennia stuff.
Whatever next? Trump? Cummings? Firtash?
During the most fraught political moment in living memory, the UK media's priority is to endlessly scrutinise the opposition leader's off-mic comments in search of fleeting, irrelevant controversy. Pathetic and indicative of why our politics is screwed up.
This resident of Russia reckons the media is pushing for war. Despite there already being a war and genocide. Many lefty fans won't even realise that 'Atlas' is a far-right, Ayn Rand-worshipping group who would throw lefties under the bus at first opportunity.
(1) Dan does have a point. Who can forget all those times the media quizzed Grant Shapps about his use of multiple names, including to do private business in Parliament?
This. Also remember major global criminal networks trade heavily in gold, and crypto.
This explains 25 years of relentless online bullshit about the Fed, fiat currencies etc.
6/We are literally re-litigating the New Deal here folks. It’s that simple. These folks want “gold” and hierarchy back in control so the “real” masters of society can assert themselves once and for all and regain their “rightful” position at the top.
After a frantic 24 hours, big changes in the
#Election2024
betting. Latest odds via
@BetOnline_ag
PRESIDENT
TRUMP -185
HARRIS +350
NEWSOM +1000
BIDEN +1100
OBAMA +1400
WHITMER +2000
DEMOCRAT NOMINEE
HARRIS -130
BIDEN +300