Thread 49 Starmer - Cóż to jest 5 milionów funtów między przyjaciółmi

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Interesting reply to James O'Brien's post on it

https://bsky.app/profile/cornishskipper.bsky.social/post/3mmlmacebdc2c

Farage claims Russian hack! Doesn’t make the donation legal or declared.
”ask him about his connections to Russia & the consequences of Brexit, he'll put a stop to the conversation.”
“Brexit was the best thing to happen for Russia...”👇
Where is the UK?
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2017-05/nigel-farage-brexit-ukip-russia-contacts

Unsurprisingly. He has at least five million reasons to be rattled.

Another donation from Harborne, from The Nerve

Here’s just one detail from @thenerve.news #HarborneReceipts timeline.

On the "exact same day" Christopher Harborne gives Reform £3m, Nigel Farage says Reform will lift cap on stablecoin ownership.

Where does Christopher Harborne’s money come from, you ask?

Stablecoins!
https://bsky.app/profile/carolecadwalla.bsky.social/post/3mmlkagwioc2k

Oh, eight million reasons to be rattled - how many more will there be?

Farage never takes responsibility for any of his adverse actions. Although he'll happily big himself up for, checks notes, Brexit.

The Independent has an article on Kenyon's views on abortion.

Any women cheerleading Reform should give their head a wobble.

There’s another £9 million you can add to that - fairly sure Harborne has given Reform £12 million in total.

edit typo

The Observer has summarised some of Kenyon’s posts -

In a series of now-deleted tweets from one account, Kenyon made anti-abortion comments. Responding to a post by the comedian John Cleese, Kenyon said: “Don’t dole out the ‘what if someone is raped by their brother’ arguement [sic]. Life begins at conception. Abortion is the cowardly act of murdering a defenceless baby and not having to face up to it cause a Dr did it. They don’t want babies? Use contreception! [sic]”

Fits with James Orr’s views on abortion?

In other posts he also claimed that people advocating the right to choose were “usually the lefty crowd”, adding: “Because the left are actually evil.”

Meanwhile, his Facebook connections suggest Kenyon has had links with senior figures on the far right, including Gary Raikes, leader of the New British Union. He was also Facebook friends with former BNP members Alex Eversfield and Robert Baggs.

Posts on Twitter show Kenyon calling the Australian approach to the Covid lockdown “full Nazi” and suggesting the vaccine was “gene therapy”.

He repeatedly made derogatory, sometimes sexual, remarks about high-profile women, including the Labour MP Emily Thornberry and television presenter Carol Vorderman; called Labour “the party for trannys”; and used homophobic comments about male rugby players

It will all be brushed off by the anti-Labour lot.

It was the Observer not the Independent, thanks for correcting

Also fits with Kruger’s views.

Miss. The dog ate my morals.

In the first poll on the by-election, Restore is on 7% and they are cnavassing hard in the area. Very worrying

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8der86r6n0o

Nigel will never be a peer or get a knighthood.

Burnham is the bookies favourite by a considerable margin.

There will be a long voting paper, I expect.

Hopefully restore will take some of the reform vote.

Rejoin EU announce candidate for Makerfield by-election - BBC News share.google/6RmaiyW8DL84DgghP

Farage under mounting pressure to prove Russian hack claim
Reform UK leader claims ‘counter-espionage experts’ suggest state-sponsored hackers are behind disclosure of £5m gift

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/24/farage-mounting-pressure-prove-russian-hack-claim

Jeez - Trumpton distraction porkies now - wonder who ‘advised’ him to say this?

Still actually want to know about it whether Russians hacked in or little green men from Mars.

It seems Musk is backing Restore for Makerfield now. Farage is incandescent. 😂

Excellent!

Perhaps the £5m will be Farage's undoing. Let's hope so.

Musk was always going to back restore from when Lowe left Reform. It will be interesting to see what (foreign) cash can do and how Farage handles it! Personally, just hope votes are now split between them from here till those parties die.

So we have Russian money buying reform and African/American money buying restore.

But the unions...

Yes definitely. It means that Burnham will surely win the seat now. But surely Rupert Lowe must realise that this is the most likely result of his party splitting the vote? And Musk too?

It’s why he’s doing it. He’s at loggerheads with Farage, they hate each other.

Just as well they do hate each other. At least it means that neither party will win this seat of any other seat where they compete against each other

Exactly. Stupid men playing silly games with the country.