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Within hours of five men being arrested near RAF Fairford, three of Reform's most prominent figures had pointed the public towards small boats. None of them offered a single fact about the suspects, because there are none in the public domain. Police have said nothing about their nationality or how they came to be in the UK. Reports say investigators are examining a possible Iran link, but that is a line of inquiry, with nothing yet confirmed about these five men. Nigel Farage went first, reminding followers that he has spent months warning about Iranian agents arriving on small boats, and demanding "the truth" about the suspects' identities. That warning began in April with a single unnamed source in the Iranian diaspora. In July the Telegraph did report that Iran was exploiting Channel crossings, but the same reporting quoted sources saying the greater threat came from radicalised Iranians already living in Britain, from people who entered legally, and from established proxy networks. In suspected Iran-linked cases in the UK this year, those arrested have included British nationals. Whatever the truth about Fairford turns out to be, a months-old claim is not evidence about five men arrested on Sunday morning. Robert Jenrick followed, suggesting "we may now be seeing the consequences" of Home Office complacency, in a post now approaching 200,000 views. His grievance deserves context. As reported by the Telegraph, the "threat" he describes was a letter from the then Permanent Secretary cautioning him against further disclosure of classified material from his time as a minister. His original claim about terror suspects crossing the Channel concerned the year before he became immigration minister, under a Conservative government. He then held that job himself, under Rishi Sunak, from October 2022 to December 2023. Small boat crossings reached a record of nearly 46,000 in 2022, on his party's watch, and Jenrick has admitted that "the last Government unquestionably did not do enough to fix this." He joined Reform in January, hours after Kemi Badenoch sacked him from the shadow cabinet. Changing parties does not change his record in office. Richard Tice then demanded that the government reveal the suspects' "identities, arrival times and provenance and residence status." Neither the government nor the police routinely release that information about people who have been arrested but not charged. Once someone is arrested, criminal proceedings are active, and putting those details into circulation risks prejudicing any trial. It is a demand no responsible government would meet at this stage. That may be the point: an unanswerable question lets the insinuation stand. After Southport, we saw what happens when false claims about a suspect's background spread faster than the facts: mosques and asylum hotels were attacked. Senior politicians, one of them a former immigration minister with access to sensitive security information, should know better than to point the public at a group of people before the police have.
When I revealed terrorists were using the small boats to enter the UK, the Home Office - with the support of Yvette Cooper - threatened me. They sought to cover up a national security emergency. We may now be seeing the consequences of their unforgivable complacency.
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37 more wounded troops. Added quietly. No explanation. Here's the No B.S. truth: when anyone (a vendor, a CEO, a government) revises the numbers without telling you why, the silence IS the message. 861 wounded. Their families deserve the full story.
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NEW: NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 🔗below 1/
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Danny Tommo tries to look well 'ard but always ends up looking like Frank Spencer. A deep dive into the comically hapless Tommo, his "Christian Army", the endless crowdfunding and the gaggle of bells supporting him. Spoiler: This is FULL of pisstaking. piped.video/K5-56mveR9s
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Non-stop, all over Kyiv, Russians now targeting homes, schools, shopping areas, just indiscriminate mass murder, showing the world what Russians truly are.
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We wouldn't be in this situation if only we'd had someone like Chis Philp in government for fourteen years, including being Minister for Immigration.
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Video shows Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece and former fiancee of Trump Jr. meeting privately with the leaders of Romania's Social Democratic Party on March 31st, in a Bucharest hotel. Just 6 Days later, the Social Democrats allied with the pro-Russian extremists from AUR and filled the motion that collapsed the Romanian government led by PM Bolojan, which strongly opposed purchasing US gas at above market prices. In a WSJ article yesterday, sources present at a meeting between a Greek minister and Guilfoyle stated she bragged about having collapsed the RO government for its refusal to buy US gas, warning the US can do the same in Greece.
US Ambassador to Greece and former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, admitted in an interview for a Greek publication that the US was behind the collapse of the Romanian government because of its refusal to purchase US gas at above-market prices.
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Wow! 🤬
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Is there a single member of the Trump regime who isn’t using their position to enrich themselves?
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Donald Trump is the stupidest, dumbest man ever to be elected president of the United States. Just listen to his awful grammar, the incoherent way he talks, and the gestures me makes like an uneducated, ignorant fool. He's an embarrassment to America on the world stage.
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Today at 4 AM, Russia attacked Kharkiv. The strike fell on the 2nd floor of an apartment building, destroying the 2nd and 3rd floors. ​As of now, the number of injured has reached 20 people, including 8 children. ​A 12-year-old and an 8-year-old boys have been hospitalized.
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BREAKINGNEWS Trumps ambassador to China admits Trump ask President Xi Jinping if they would be interested in US Arms agreement. So China buys US Military equipment and gives it to Iran. Seems like a stupid idea. 🚨
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RT @SadiqKhan: The case for rejoining the EU has never been stronger. It’s now the only path for securing our long-term prosperity. And…
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Russia Is a Terrorist State.
Russia killed seven people in Kyiv today. Moving around the city has turned into a deadly game of hiding from drones. You drive, walk, go to work and suddenly you’re running for cover. I know this won’t be heard, but I want to leave it here anyway.
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General Election Nowcast - 27/09/26: LAB: 280 (-131) | 26.2% (46 Short) CON: 110 (-11) | 20.0% RFM: 96 (+91) | 23.1% LDM: 69 (-3) | 10.0% SNP: 44 (+35) | 2.8% GRN: 9 (+5) | 10.0% PLC: 9 (+5) | 1.1% RES: 1 (+1) | 3.7% Oth: 13 (+8) | 3.1% electionmaps.uk/nowcast
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Kinda seems like a story 🇺🇸 media should be covering
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I really hope the PM is serious about fixing care, and he can show it by getting on with the cross-party talks we started in July. This can’t just be a series of No10 headlines with no real action. I’ll do everything I can to put family carers at the heart of any solution.
BREAKING: Andy Burnham says he is going to "rip the plaster off" to fix broken social care system. New system will be universal, free at the point of use, and funded by everybody, he says, and Labour will fight next general election on delivering it. PM says annual cost is "not as high" as the £18bn a year that has been suggested - and that he will take his time to work out how it will be paid for. "The challenge in public finances is real so it has to be done carefully to avoid putting pressure on the public purse," he tells @bbclaurak
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Agreed
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