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Reform UK’s treasurer Nick Candy has claimed the party has “a number of billionaires” ready to donate to Nigel Farage’s party in addition to American tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. Mr Candy said the party would cause “political disruption like we have never seen before”, with the money set to be spent...
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6564981
Normal billionaire stuff.
Julian Assange - best court reporting from latest hearings
Reporting on Julian Assange’s extradition hearings has become a vocation that has now stretched over five years. From the very first hearing, when Justice Snow called Assange “a narcissist” before Julian had said anything whatsoever other than to confirm his name, to the last, when Judge Swift had s...
There were two days of hearings and the second day is covered here: Assange Final Appeal Day 2 – Your Man in the Public Gallery
Craig Murray, former UK ambassador and long time Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange supporter, has provided the best court reporting and hearing contextualisation that there is in the game. Needless to say, he is not with the mainstream media. The reporting does get a bit legal at times, as you'd expect, but there is a lot of commentary on the proceedings that is very interesting to read.
A lot can also be learned in terms of how The Establishment and the legal system are so interconnected in the UK.
Workers GB party
Hi everyone, hoping I've got this right as it's my first attempt at a post.
I was curious as to what assembled comrades make of the "Workers Party of Britain" or "Workers GB" as it's sometimes called? I know that it's basically George Galloway and the CPGBML, but they seem to be coalition building with the SLP on their "No2Nato" campaign. And more to my point they've had some proper alt right oddballs on that particular platform.
So... Politically, what is it? It's a group primarily composed of MLs, but its actual politics in itself seem to be... Different to that.
Any thoughts will be interesting.
Privatising the NHS does not depend on a Trade Deal with the US, It’s been happening for years
Privatisation of our NHS is bad for patients, bad for staff and completely flies in the face of the founding principles of our NHS but that’s never stopped successive governments before....
British women thought they'd found boyfriends who shared their beliefs. They were actually undercover police
This is actually so fucked imagine being lied to for 18 years