So today, not for the first time, Reform UK have been moaning about our electricity imports from Europe suggesting that it risks our energy security and is the fault of Renewables So let’s add some facts and a huge dose of reality to this populist nonsense 🧵

Yes, Hitler and Mussolini both famously came to the negotiating table at the 11th hour, came to their senses and settled things in a thoroughly gentlemanly manner. Oh no, wait - Hitler shot himself in a bunker and Mussolini ended up strung up by his ankles in a petrol station.

Reform UK’s Darren Grimes a Durham County Council Councillor making an overtly racist post last night. Here he affords his brother ‘blurring’ in this video, but not the victims of his racist post to his nearly 500k followers here. He has posted a video sent to him by his brother of

So. The below has evolved somewhat - it’s now gone from “people on benefits are better off than a household earning £100k” to “well, when you include all the INDIRECT benefits and PIP they’re better off despite either having a severe illness or disability or caring for someone

Nigel Farage wants to get rid of the NHS and replace it with US style insurance. Can you afford $50,000 for a broken leg, $500,000 for a new heart, or $2,000,000 for cancer. Or are you dying?

theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Another great example of how Brexit made Britain much more attractive to illegal migrants - as a direct consequence of having left the bloc.

The Farage ‘plan’ depends on 1 despotic regimes voluntarily taking people back 2 a deal with eg Afghanistan 3 persuading communities to take 12-24,000-people detention centres 4 Ascension Island 5 an ADDITIONAL £10bn It makes mockery of a serious problem.

Letter from today’s Times

Farage says trust in politicians never been lower, so his answer is to remove the protection you have from Governments abusing your rights. The Human Rights Act protects everyone. Including you. He wrecked your economy with brexit, don't let him wreck your freedoms with this.

I didn’t exactly have “Reform floating the idea of handing cash to the Taliban to take back people who fled the Taliban” on my 2025 Batshittery Bingo Card, but alas, here we are.

7 dictator-esque Nigel Farage plans backing torture, jailing kids and paying jihadis mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

Come on Darren Grimes?! This is hideous. Is this not just inciting racism and hate? How have we got to a world where an elected representative can post stuff like this unchallenged by his own party leadership or by journalists? This is not how Britain thinks. 🇬🇧

Instead of having a quiet cuppa and reading my book on the patio this afternoon, I ended up dissecting Reform UK’s shiny new “immigration masterplan.” It went about as well as you'd expect. bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/reforms-big-…

Dominic Casciani: How deliverable is Reform's plan on migration? - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

This is absolutely spot on 💯. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Remember when it was £4,279? Who was in government then?

Chief Superintendent Nicola Russell said: "We are aware of misinformation being shared on social media in relation to an incident where a Bulgarian couple were approached by youths in St Ann Lane, Dundee, on Saturday, 23 August 2025. More: orlo.uk/mCC6B

Making it up as they go along.

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