Paul Groenhuysen
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This latest piece of corrupt fuckery from Reform was tucked away on pages 1 & 4 of the Sunday Times. So, while media rightly rages about the murky Epstein network, it stays wrongly quiet on the murky money networks that are trashing our democracies right now. Do we wait until the fraud is in No10?
February 2, 2026 at 9:19 AM
This latest piece of corrupt fuckery from Reform was tucked away on pages 1 & 4 of the Sunday Times. So, while media rightly rages about the murky Epstein network, it stays wrongly quiet on the murky money networks that are trashing our democracies right now. Do we wait until the fraud is in No10?
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A reminder that Reform's candidate for Gorton and Denton, Matt Goodwin, has still not explained what he meant by this claim that developments in genetic science will make younger generations more right wing as they understand the "inherent differences" between different groups
February 2, 2026 at 9:53 AM
A reminder that Reform's candidate for Gorton and Denton, Matt Goodwin, has still not explained what he meant by this claim that developments in genetic science will make younger generations more right wing as they understand the "inherent differences" between different groups
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About time!!
BREAKING: Keir Starmer has urged House of Lords to urgently modernise disciplinary procedures so that Peter Mandelson can be stripped of his peerage and removed from upper chamber.
February 2, 2026 at 12:45 PM
About time!!
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✅ Clarkson is right, people aren’t voting Reform for policies 👉there aren’t any.
It’s a protest vote powered by nostalgia not a plan for future.
Reform use farming as a prop. Their real plan is USA trade deal, hormone-treated imports and they’ve appointed Ben Goldsmith
🔗 archive.ph/2026.01.31-0...
It’s a protest vote powered by nostalgia not a plan for future.
Reform use farming as a prop. Their real plan is USA trade deal, hormone-treated imports and they’ve appointed Ben Goldsmith
🔗 archive.ph/2026.01.31-0...
February 1, 2026 at 7:45 AM
✅ Clarkson is right, people aren’t voting Reform for policies 👉there aren’t any.
It’s a protest vote powered by nostalgia not a plan for future.
Reform use farming as a prop. Their real plan is USA trade deal, hormone-treated imports and they’ve appointed Ben Goldsmith
🔗 archive.ph/2026.01.31-0...
It’s a protest vote powered by nostalgia not a plan for future.
Reform use farming as a prop. Their real plan is USA trade deal, hormone-treated imports and they’ve appointed Ben Goldsmith
🔗 archive.ph/2026.01.31-0...
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Here’s the full story.. and it stinks.
How anyone can think Farage will do anything good for our country when we’re already trapped in the tedious, ruinous Brexit mess he’s made, god only knows. This nasty little gobshite will never fix any problems. He IS the problem.
How anyone can think Farage will do anything good for our country when we’re already trapped in the tedious, ruinous Brexit mess he’s made, god only knows. This nasty little gobshite will never fix any problems. He IS the problem.
![Reform's churchwarden riddle
Extract
A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for the family of a highly secretive, Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as the man behind £200,000 of donations to Reform UK.
John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old conveyancer whose parish website describes him as an "experienced" and
"dedicated" Anglican lay leader.
He is the owner of Interior
Architecture Landscape Limited, which made seven payments to Nigel Farage's party last summer. The firm, which was originally owned via a trust in the British Virgin Islands, is so small it does not have to file professionally audited accounts. It did not display any contact details until recently and was almost wound up by HMRC after a tax dispute last year.
Simpson, known locally as Bill, "does conveyancing, but is not a fully qualified solicitor", according to a Facebook post by a neighbour in the Hertfordshire town. There is no evidence he has any background in interior design. He has no known political affiliation or background in activism.
He would not discuss the source of the funds donated to Reform last week.
Simpson has long worked for Sasan and Yasmin Ghandehari, a married couple who a spokesman for the interior design company acknowledged were "clients".
Last month, the Ghandehari family office sponsored Farage's pass to Davos and a hotel in the Swiss resort for the World Economic Forum's annual gathering. They claimed to have retained the Reform leader as "an honorary and unpaid adviser" in an arrangement first reported by the Financial Times.
In response to inquiries, Farage's spokesman said: "[Sasan] Ghandehari has attended a Reform UK fundraising event and they are friends of the party." It is understood the event in question took place at Oswald's, a private members' club in Mavfair.
It is illegal for a foreign national or entity to donate directly to a party. Yet a trading British company is automatically eligible to donate.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreidrxmr4miirybjl5wb5p7wwb5fuznljlajjckoz5bamxiqfhr4txa@jpeg)
![Churchwarden with connection to Kazakh-born tycoon is behind £200k of donations to Reform
Extract:
They claimed to have retained the Reform leader as "an honorary and unpaid adviser", an arrangement first reported by the Financial Times.
In response to inquiries,
Farage's spokesman said: "[Sasan]
Ghandehari has attended a Reform UK fundraising event and they are friends of the party." It is understood the event took place at Oswald's, a private members' club in Mayfair.
It is illegal for a foreign national or entity to donate directly to a party. Yet a trading British company is automatically eligible to donate. There is nothing to
stop a foreign investor or owner depositing funds in a UK company which in turn donates to a political party.
Sasan and Yasmin Ghandehari have been described as "Iranian-born" and
"British" in media reports but it is unclear whether they hold British citizenship.
Sasan gave his nationality as Iranian and his profession as "businessman" in a
Companies
House document dated
2002.
The Ghandeharis are prolific art collectors and sit on a fundraising committee for the Tate. They derive their wealth from Sasan's mother, Hourieh Peramaa, who was born in Kazakhstan and fled to Iran as a child before investing in property and becoming a billionaire.
Named by Chatham House as a "politi-
cally exposed" or
"high-risk"
person
from a post-Soviet state, she is so secretive that there is almost no verifiable information about her and it is not
known if she is still alive. She would be 97 if so.
The family faced controversy in 2008, when the former head of Kazakhstan's intelligence services claimed they had bought Royal Mansion, a £50 million home in The Bishops Avenue, London — known as "billionaires' row"
- for Nursultan Nazarbayev, then the dictator of the oil and gas-rich state.
Sasan Ghandehari denied this was the case. However, he acknowledged having a personal relationship with the ruler.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreigm4z3bim57cdqewaytq4af62njzxffjb7ay7joxtueuzgmp7xjou@jpeg)
February 1, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Here’s the full story.. and it stinks.
How anyone can think Farage will do anything good for our country when we’re already trapped in the tedious, ruinous Brexit mess he’s made, god only knows. This nasty little gobshite will never fix any problems. He IS the problem.
How anyone can think Farage will do anything good for our country when we’re already trapped in the tedious, ruinous Brexit mess he’s made, god only knows. This nasty little gobshite will never fix any problems. He IS the problem.
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This is what’s known as dodgy as fuck…
Farage is in hock to murky foreign billionaires, taking their money to prioritise their interests if they buy him power. He’s exploiting people’s racism and anger to pretend he’s on their side. But he’s already sold them out.
www.thetimes.com/article/660a...
Farage is in hock to murky foreign billionaires, taking their money to prioritise their interests if they buy him power. He’s exploiting people’s racism and anger to pretend he’s on their side. But he’s already sold them out.
www.thetimes.com/article/660a...
Churchwarden linked to foreign-born billionaire is behind £200k Reform gift
The man whose firm made the donations will not discuss where the money came from, nor his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not hold citizenship
www.thetimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:20 AM
This is what’s known as dodgy as fuck…
Farage is in hock to murky foreign billionaires, taking their money to prioritise their interests if they buy him power. He’s exploiting people’s racism and anger to pretend he’s on their side. But he’s already sold them out.
www.thetimes.com/article/660a...
Farage is in hock to murky foreign billionaires, taking their money to prioritise their interests if they buy him power. He’s exploiting people’s racism and anger to pretend he’s on their side. But he’s already sold them out.
www.thetimes.com/article/660a...
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And these rich, powerful white men have the audacity to say that brown men are the pedophiles.
Took about don’t look up?!!
Took about don’t look up?!!
February 1, 2026 at 5:23 PM
And these rich, powerful white men have the audacity to say that brown men are the pedophiles.
Took about don’t look up?!!
Took about don’t look up?!!
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You can’t just ‘dismantle NATO, from within’??
These NATO countries and their personnel have worked together for decades.
Polanski is an amateur.
These NATO countries and their personnel have worked together for decades.
Polanski is an amateur.
February 1, 2026 at 9:34 PM
You can’t just ‘dismantle NATO, from within’??
These NATO countries and their personnel have worked together for decades.
Polanski is an amateur.
These NATO countries and their personnel have worked together for decades.
Polanski is an amateur.
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Hoping Matt Goodwin loses Gorton and Denton for many reasons, not least because we can deploy the headline, and resulting nickname, Matt Badloss
January 31, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Hoping Matt Goodwin loses Gorton and Denton for many reasons, not least because we can deploy the headline, and resulting nickname, Matt Badloss
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Why Kemi Badenoch’s woeful response to those calling for her to shift the Conservative party back to the centre ground tells you everything you need to know about her leadership
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...
Kemi Badenoch Tells Conservative Voters to ‘Get Out of the Way’
To repeat the Conservative Party's leader's favourite phrase, "this isn't serious"
www.adambienkov.co.uk
January 31, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Why Kemi Badenoch’s woeful response to those calling for her to shift the Conservative party back to the centre ground tells you everything you need to know about her leadership
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...
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The Sunday Times has revealed who is behind the funds for Farage. A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for the family of a highly secretive Iranian immigrant and oligarch, the Ghandeharis, has been revealed as the man behind £200,000 of donations to Reform UK.
February 1, 2026 at 9:04 AM
The Sunday Times has revealed who is behind the funds for Farage. A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for the family of a highly secretive Iranian immigrant and oligarch, the Ghandeharis, has been revealed as the man behind £200,000 of donations to Reform UK.
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Top photo: Jeffrey Epstein’s living room. Suddenly, it all makes sense.
January 31, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Top photo: Jeffrey Epstein’s living room. Suddenly, it all makes sense.
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Shout out to every other self employed ADHD dickhead stuck in TAX HELL by leaving self assessment until the 31st, because we need PERIL to motivate and can now see the clock ticking closer towards the deadline of doom. Every year I say I’ll do it immediately. Do I? Do I FUCK.
Time for coffee 7,876.
Time for coffee 7,876.
January 31, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Shout out to every other self employed ADHD dickhead stuck in TAX HELL by leaving self assessment until the 31st, because we need PERIL to motivate and can now see the clock ticking closer towards the deadline of doom. Every year I say I’ll do it immediately. Do I? Do I FUCK.
Time for coffee 7,876.
Time for coffee 7,876.
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Children raped and killed. American citizens shot in the street. Immigrants illegally shackled, tortured, killed. Journalists arrested.
While a $300 million ballroom is constructed and a trash documentary released.
While a $300 million ballroom is constructed and a trash documentary released.
January 31, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Children raped and killed. American citizens shot in the street. Immigrants illegally shackled, tortured, killed. Journalists arrested.
While a $300 million ballroom is constructed and a trash documentary released.
While a $300 million ballroom is constructed and a trash documentary released.
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Just the undiluted racism left now.
Everything else has fallen away… but the ugly core remains… and they’re peddling for all it’s worth… Got to keep their elitist über-wealthy donors and foreign backers happy.
Everything else has fallen away… but the ugly core remains… and they’re peddling for all it’s worth… Got to keep their elitist über-wealthy donors and foreign backers happy.
January 31, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Just the undiluted racism left now.
Everything else has fallen away… but the ugly core remains… and they’re peddling for all it’s worth… Got to keep their elitist über-wealthy donors and foreign backers happy.
Everything else has fallen away… but the ugly core remains… and they’re peddling for all it’s worth… Got to keep their elitist über-wealthy donors and foreign backers happy.
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Richard Littlejohn wrote about fly-tipping in yesterday’s Mail, today Boris Johnson turns his attention to a bus driver sacked for beating up a thief. Anything, literally *anything*, to avoid addressing the now utterly undeniable shame & humiliation of their pathetic cheerleading for Donald Trump…
January 31, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Richard Littlejohn wrote about fly-tipping in yesterday’s Mail, today Boris Johnson turns his attention to a bus driver sacked for beating up a thief. Anything, literally *anything*, to avoid addressing the now utterly undeniable shame & humiliation of their pathetic cheerleading for Donald Trump…
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@richardbranson.bsky.social
You’ve been implicated in the Epstein Files
Hand beck your Knighthood and disappear from public life.
You’ve been implicated in the Epstein Files
Hand beck your Knighthood and disappear from public life.
January 31, 2026 at 6:33 PM
@richardbranson.bsky.social
You’ve been implicated in the Epstein Files
Hand beck your Knighthood and disappear from public life.
You’ve been implicated in the Epstein Files
Hand beck your Knighthood and disappear from public life.
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So, Mr Manning, what first attracted you to the racist outfit - Reform?
Was it perhaps the lure of a racist leader promising mass deportations, an ICE-style border force and the removal of our human rights framework?
Seems the only possible explanation for why this keeps happening.
Was it perhaps the lure of a racist leader promising mass deportations, an ICE-style border force and the removal of our human rights framework?
Seems the only possible explanation for why this keeps happening.
EXCL
As reported on @lbc.co.uk with @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Nigel Farage urged to suspend Reform candidate over 'abhorrent' &'sickening' social media posts
Reform UK spox "As soon as we became aware of these posts, we immediately opened a disciplinary investigation"
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...
As reported on @lbc.co.uk with @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Nigel Farage urged to suspend Reform candidate over 'abhorrent' &'sickening' social media posts
Reform UK spox "As soon as we became aware of these posts, we immediately opened a disciplinary investigation"
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...
Nigel Farage urged to suspend Reform candidate over 'abhorrent' and 'sickening' social media posts | LBC
Mike Manning is Reform UK's candidate in an upcoming by election on Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council.
www.lbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 6:06 PM
So, Mr Manning, what first attracted you to the racist outfit - Reform?
Was it perhaps the lure of a racist leader promising mass deportations, an ICE-style border force and the removal of our human rights framework?
Seems the only possible explanation for why this keeps happening.
Was it perhaps the lure of a racist leader promising mass deportations, an ICE-style border force and the removal of our human rights framework?
Seems the only possible explanation for why this keeps happening.
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the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
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Far right extremist Tommy Robinson endorses Matt Goodwin.
A vote for Reform is a vote for division, hate, and all that goes with it.
A vote for Reform is a vote for division, hate, and all that goes with it.
January 30, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Far right extremist Tommy Robinson endorses Matt Goodwin.
A vote for Reform is a vote for division, hate, and all that goes with it.
A vote for Reform is a vote for division, hate, and all that goes with it.
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“A proper Brexit”
What does that even mean?
The Express certainly can’t explain it. They haven’t got the first fucking clue. And the Brexiters who could explain it, won’t. Because people don’t want the ruinous, insecure, unsafe race to the bottom that it entails.
It’s a shitshow. Time to admit it.
What does that even mean?
The Express certainly can’t explain it. They haven’t got the first fucking clue. And the Brexiters who could explain it, won’t. Because people don’t want the ruinous, insecure, unsafe race to the bottom that it entails.
It’s a shitshow. Time to admit it.
January 30, 2026 at 10:54 PM
“A proper Brexit”
What does that even mean?
The Express certainly can’t explain it. They haven’t got the first fucking clue. And the Brexiters who could explain it, won’t. Because people don’t want the ruinous, insecure, unsafe race to the bottom that it entails.
It’s a shitshow. Time to admit it.
What does that even mean?
The Express certainly can’t explain it. They haven’t got the first fucking clue. And the Brexiters who could explain it, won’t. Because people don’t want the ruinous, insecure, unsafe race to the bottom that it entails.
It’s a shitshow. Time to admit it.
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Tragic really. 10 years on. Rocking back and forth in its pungent prejudice-and-nostalgia-soaked corner, begging the architects of their precious Brexit to make - whatever their impossible fantasy was - come true.
It’s truly pathetic.
It’s truly pathetic.
Daily Express: NOW YOU MUST GIVE BRITAIN A PROPER BREXIT #TomorrowsPapersToday
January 30, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Tragic really. 10 years on. Rocking back and forth in its pungent prejudice-and-nostalgia-soaked corner, begging the architects of their precious Brexit to make - whatever their impossible fantasy was - come true.
It’s truly pathetic.
It’s truly pathetic.
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The Express… and Farage… want Brexit to be even worse than this…
Even more cost. More losses. More red tape. More queues. More businesses failing. Less tax revenue. Less investment. Less protection. Fewer rights. Less security.
But more white.
Their racism ruins us.
bsky.app/profile/euro...
Even more cost. More losses. More red tape. More queues. More businesses failing. Less tax revenue. Less investment. Less protection. Fewer rights. Less security.
But more white.
Their racism ruins us.
bsky.app/profile/euro...
Where's the £350 million a year Brexiters claimed we'd gain...?
January 31, 2026 at 9:12 AM
The Express… and Farage… want Brexit to be even worse than this…
Even more cost. More losses. More red tape. More queues. More businesses failing. Less tax revenue. Less investment. Less protection. Fewer rights. Less security.
But more white.
Their racism ruins us.
bsky.app/profile/euro...
Even more cost. More losses. More red tape. More queues. More businesses failing. Less tax revenue. Less investment. Less protection. Fewer rights. Less security.
But more white.
Their racism ruins us.
bsky.app/profile/euro...
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On the anniversary of the UK leaving the EU, it is worth hearing once again the many benefits of Brexit, clearly articulated by those who voted for it.
January 31, 2026 at 5:33 PM
On the anniversary of the UK leaving the EU, it is worth hearing once again the many benefits of Brexit, clearly articulated by those who voted for it.
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This was posted in the new Epstein files release and removed about 20 mins later.
Wonder why that is.
Wonder why that is.
January 30, 2026 at 6:44 PM
This was posted in the new Epstein files release and removed about 20 mins later.
Wonder why that is.
Wonder why that is.