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Ed Eldridge retweeted
Alastair Campbell calling himself a 'national treasurer' reminds me of this Margaret Thatcher quote:
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't"
As a benefits adviser, I watched countless cheats limp into my office and skip out telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Ed Eldridge retweeted
Exactly as many of us have been saying for a long time
Former BBC Panorama producer @philcraig says the Beeb has been taken over by a “radical generation” and that “all the mistakes” in its Gaza coverage “seem to be in the same direction.”
He points to the al-Ahli hospital blast, when the BBC rushed to blame Israel for what turned out to be a misfired Hamas rocket, and warns this kind of poor journalism has helped fan fires around the world — including literal fires at synagogues.
Gerald and I are proud to call Phil a friend and colleague. Thank you for the clarity and courage in calling out your former employer.
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Ed Eldridge retweeted
If the state pension is a benefit like labour say it is why aren’t pensioners among the ones getting reduced energy bills just like the workshy and scroungers @UKLabour
Ed Eldridge retweeted
"Who is bankrolling Nigel Farage's party?" asks Bridget Phillipson. "Labour will protect our democracy from foreign influence."
Right. Same question back.
Who is bankrolling Labour, and the machine around it?
Gary Lubner. South African. Former Autoglass chief. Millions.
Lord Alli. Buys the clothes, lends the flat.
George Soros. Money into Best for Britain and Fair Vote, routed through a London outpost, which is how a foreign fortune gets round a ban on foreign donations.
Pierre Omidyar. French-Iranian, eBay founder, funding the campaign groups.
Bill Gates. In for the photo call.
Swedish philanthropists. Bloomberg.
And Verbatim, which made the Channel 4 sting she is riding, is itself funded from abroad. So the watchdog on foreign money is on foreign money.
And those are off the top of my head. No research. Give me an afternoon and the list fills a page.
So the party promising to protect democracy from foreign influence is up to its neck in it, legally, through the same door, and has proposed no cap that would inconvenience a single person in the room. They held a drinks party for them in Downing Street.
The question is not who is bankrolling Farage. It is why Labour thinks the answer changes depending on whose name is on the cheque.
"Protect our democracy from foreign influence." They would not know where to start.
Who is bankrolling Nigel Farage's party?
What interests are they seeking to advance?
Are they acting in Britain's best interests?
Reform UK are engulfed in sleaze and scandal. Labour will protect our democracy from foreign influence.
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Ed Eldridge retweeted
Africans selling other Africans into slavery for profit was a great crime against humanity.
Yet they're not ashamed of themselves - on the contrary, they're demanding "reparations" from Britain for buying slaves off them.
"You bought the slaves we sold, now pay us reparations!"
Google attacks UK over ‘unlawful’ AI plans telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
BBC managers ‘gaslit’ Jewish staff over anti-Semitism telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Ed Eldridge retweeted
The Government receives ten times as much from a pint of beer as the pub landlord.
How is that fair?
How is that sustainable?
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@andyburnham | @Sacha_Lord
Ed Eldridge retweeted
This is becoming absolutely ridiculous.
Just a quick update on the case, I’ve received a phone call from the Metropolitan Police informing me that the case has been dropped with no further action.
I’ve been arrested seven times simply for expressing my views, yet I’ve never been charged. Just endless stress, anxiety, and nights spent in a cell.
Ed Eldridge retweeted
What people like Miriam Cates, the pensioner hater, need to know are these facts:
In the 1960s, most pension schemes legally barred married women and part time workers from joining a private pension scheme.
In the 1970s, private pension provision was largely restricted to public sector jobs.
During these decades, many women opted for or were put on the reduced national insurance stamp meaning they'd get a smaller state pension than their husbands. Women didn't routinely have access to financial advice like they do now. They trusted the government and their husbands to take care of them.
You may not like this. You may think it's unfair or women were daft to accept this. But that's how it was. Back then. Equality didn't exist. And you can't change attitudes and history. So no. Women couldn't have made better provision for their old age.
Ed Eldridge retweeted
@RobertJenrick "Ask Labour, John Healey THREE questions (Labour Budget)
1 Does it cut your taxes this year?
2 Does it cut borrowing this year?
3 Does it get Britain building, hiring, growing this year?"
Vote/Support Reform UK @Nigel_Farage
