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Ooh, hang on

October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM

kc1karl.bsky.social

@kc1karl.bsky.social

Arron Banks you dozy twunt. If you cared at all, you'd know how Banks lied and broke the law throughout, leading the Electoral Commission to state 'We are concerned about the apparent weakness in the law, highlighted by this investigation outcome, which allows overseas funds into UK politics.'

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/national-crime-agency-finds-no-evidence-of-crimes-committed-by-arron-bankss-brexit-campaign/

Responding to the NCA’s statement, an Electoral Commission spokesperson said: “We are concerned about the apparent weakness in the law, highlighted by this investigation outcome, which allows overseas funds into UK politics. We have made recommendations that would tighten the rules on campaign funding and deter breaches. We urge the UK’s governments to act on those recommendations to support voter confidence.”

The NCA’s finding does not affect a previous Electoral Commission decision to fine Banks and Leave.EU for a number of breaches of electoral law, including overspending. It also does not affect a separate ruling by the Information Commissioner that Leave.EU and Banks’s insurance firm Eldon breached data protection laws, for which they were fined a total of £120,000 earlier this year.

openDemocracy has previously reported that Arron Banks misled parliament about political work carried out by staff at his insurance company, and misled both parliament and the UK Information Commissioner about his contact with the controversial Trump-linked firm, Cambridge Analytica.

October 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM

kc1karl.bsky.social

@kc1karl.bsky.social

Indeed

October 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM

kc1karl.bsky.social

@kc1karl.bsky.social

True, what Einstein wrote in 1949 wasn't a prediction...

...under existing conditions, capitalists control the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is, in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to make intelligent use of his political rights.

Einstein wrote an essay titled "Why Socialism?" for the first issue of the independent socialist magazine "Monthly Review." Published in May 1949, the piece included the following paragraph that said (sentences bolded for emphasis):

Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.

The bolded quotes in the paragraph above do amount to the same thing as the various paraphrases we found on social media — that it would be difficult for people to make informed, objective decisions because sources of information would be controlled by private capitalists.

Crucially, however, Einstein was not writing about something that would happen in the future, but what was happening in 1949. That's a key detail the various paraphrases were wrong about.

October 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM

kc1karl.bsky.social

@kc1karl.bsky.social

Yeah, amazing source of wealth, could never have guessed tbh.

Well done Anne, if only we'd all thought of this!

Princess Anne owns stuff she got for free, huzzah.

September 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM

kc1karl.bsky.social

@kc1karl.bsky.social

The chancer can join him in his calls to scrap the Online Safety Act, the one that she introduced.

I'm sure he'll value her support...

Farage tweet from 5th Feb 2022 - 'I had the misfortune of watching and listening to Nadine Dorries this morning. If she is the PM's defence then he really is a goner.'

September 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM

kc1karl.bsky.social

@kc1karl.bsky.social

You need to catch up Jim, America imports more food than it exports nowadays...

August 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM

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@kc1karl.bsky.social

July 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM

kc1karl.bsky.social

@kc1karl.bsky.social

Your emoji game is fucking dreadful, you brain-dead tory melt. Bye.

July 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM

kc1karl.bsky.social

@kc1karl.bsky.social

"Those rich fucks! This whole fucking thing... I did not watch my buddies try Tomasina's duck so that this fucking strumpet..."

'I did not watch my buddies die face down in the muck' Walter Sobchek, The Big Lebowski

July 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM

kc1karl.bsky.social

@kc1karl.bsky.social

One key difference here though, is this from the International Atomic Energy Agency on 9th June (not that the IAEA support these attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities, far from it)...

www.iaea.org/newscenter/s...