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David Ferguson retweeted
Soon all the people who still remember the horror of life for working class people before the creation of the NHS will be dead... and their testimony will become hearsay to those who would strive to capitalise on ill health.
Harry Leslie Smith reminds us:
David Ferguson retweeted
Cat check: see for yourself all the companies that Farage accepts money from
members.parliament.uk/member…
David Ferguson retweeted
Nigel Farage has kindly asked we stop sharing this video of him talking about why we should privatise the NHS 💙
You know what to do!
David Ferguson retweeted
Beyond shameless
The two old parties made housing unaffordable.
Reform is now the home for aspirational young people.
Simon has the real world experience to break the cycle of broken promises.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Robert Jenrick was the Housing Secretary for more than two years in the previous Conservative government.
gov.uk/government/peo…
David Ferguson retweeted
In years past, this sort of behavior would have been unimaginable from a president of the United States. Unimaginable. There are other words to describe this, but you can simply watch it and feel it yourself. This is being done in public.The press is being attacked in public and private. Having a free press is critical to our democracy. Having a president that knows how to answer questions with class, professionalism, and intelligence is critical to our culture and society.
David Ferguson retweeted
You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.
Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.
And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇
Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water have nearly 200 criminal convictions between them.
On 6 August 2024, Ofwat fined them £47m and £17m for sewage dumping.
Fines not paid, will not be paid. Firms claim to have invested. No penalty for abusing laws
leftfootforward.org/2026/01/…
David Ferguson retweeted
Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe has declared that British people owe a "great vote of thanks and gratitude to Elon Musk."
The register of MPs' interests reveal Lowe has been paid tens of thousands of dollars by Musk for posting on this site. You can see for yourself here:
members.parliament.uk/member…
David Ferguson retweeted
FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris warned Americans that Trump would send the military after them. She was mocked at the time by right-wing media and pundits. She was right. They owe her an apology.
David Ferguson retweeted
When will the by-election be @Nigel_Farage and @RobertJenrick?
David Ferguson retweeted
When I remembered that Robert Jenrick ordered cartoon murals to be painted over in case they made migrant children feel welcome, I knew he was definitely a big enough twat to join Reform.
David Ferguson retweeted
67% of Reform MPs have previously been elected as representatives of the Conservative Party. They broke the country last time; do you trust them to fix it?
David Ferguson retweeted
Tories are currently talking up 'Labour UTurns'. (Apparently 17 since coming to power, it's actually 11)
Here's a useful summary for you to use, of the Tory UTurns: 366 in total.
(Context : I ran a Thread for the entire period of the last Tory Parliament. With sources.)
David Ferguson retweeted
What kind of person endures 14 yrs of Tory incompetence & corruption, votes to oust them, & is then hoodwinked by a master grifter to vote the very worst of them back in again for more of the same.
It’d be lunacy on a grand scale.
Turquoise Tories.
Careful what you wish for.
David Ferguson retweeted
Another sensitive topic for Farage would be whether Jenrick should hold a by-election.
His test (pre-Kruger) was a moral one: that it's "dishonourable" to switch allegiance without seeking a fresh mandate from voters.
David Ferguson retweeted
Robert Jenrick says: "I don’t trust the Conservatives on immigration”
Robert Jenrick was the Immigration Minister under the Conservatives.
#Goodbye
David Ferguson retweeted
Strange business politics. Farage calls press conference to complain about cancelled council elections, then announces a star defector who says that, er, he won't be holding a by-election.
David Ferguson retweeted
'Please, you don't have to have your hand on me'
Watch the moment ITV News' @PeterAdamSmith was grabbed by a Reform UK staffer after being told to move on from his line of questioning while interviewing the party's new Scottish leader, Malcolm Offord
